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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2004
Applicant:
Tsutou Asakura, Odawara, JP;
Inventor:
Tsutou Asakura, Odawara, JP;
Assignee:
Victor Company of Japan, Limited, Yokohama, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G20F 103 ; G03B 2100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Removal of unnecessary reflected light in an image display apparatus employing reflective spatial light modulators to enable display of a high-quality image, having good contrast and no occurrence of the ghosting phenomena. Modulated light of each color synthesized by a fourth modulated light beam splitteris injected into a projection lensas circularly polarized light by a λ/4 plate, reflected light (R', G′, B′) reflected from the projection lensdoes not return to the respective spatial light modulating elementsandfor each color.