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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 30, 1996
Tomoyoshi Ikeya, Nakakoma-gun, JP;
Pioneer Electronic Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Pioneer Video Corporation, Yamanashi, JP;
Abstract
An optical apparatus including a luminous flux shaping filter for converting a shape of an incident beam without bending an optical path of the incident beam. A light beam emitted from a focusing laser source comprising a semiconductor laser is converted into a parallel light beam by a collimator lens, and then enters the luminous flux shaping filter. The luminous flux shaping filter is positioned on an optical path in the apparatus in the manner that a major axis of an oval light beam from the collimator lens is perpendicular to a longitudinal area in which the transmittance is the highest in the filter. As a result, the luminous flux shaping filter converts the oval light beam into a substantially circular light beam without bending an optical path of the light beam.