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Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2011

Filed:

Sep. 11, 2008
Applicant:

Hideaki Inoue, Musashimurayama, JP;

Inventor:

Hideaki Inoue, Musashimurayama, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 21/00 (2006.01); G03B 21/14 (2006.01); G03B 3/00 (2006.01); H04N 3/26 (2006.01); H04N 3/23 (2006.01); H04N 3/223 (2006.01); H04N 3/227 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Disclosed is a projection apparatus including: a video display control sectionto project and display a video according to input video data; and a projection distance obtainment sectionto irradiate to a projection plane where the video is projected with a laser and displayed by the video display control section, and to obtain a projection distance to the projection plane, wherein when the projection distance is obtained by the projection distance obtainment section, the video display control sectionadjusts a display status of at least a first video areacorresponding to a laser ranging pointwhich is an area where the laser is irradiated to a display status for obtaining the projection distance so that the distance from the projection apparatus to the projection plane can be measured fast and with high accuracy.


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