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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2002
Naoto Shimada, Hachioji, JP;
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image display apparatus for displaying an image to a viewer, including: a back light for emitting a light for use in displaying; a polarization beam splitter for separating into two parts the emitted light from the back light and projecting one thereof as a polarized light in a specified direction toward a reflecting type LCD display device; the LCD display device for causing the incident light to be reflected at a reflecting film on the back surface thereof to emit a specified displaying light in a polarized condition; and a pixel shifting unit on which the polarized displaying light from the reflective LCD display device after passing through the polarization beam splitter is caused to be incident so that a high-resolution display can be obtained by performing 2-point or 4-point pixel shift.