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Patent No.:

US 9341931 B1

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Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 25, 2014
Applicant:

Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Yoichi Shishido, Matsumoto, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 21/20 (2006.01); H04N 9/31 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 21/2013 (2013.01); G03B 21/208 (2013.01); G03B 21/2053 (2013.01); H04N 9/3152 (2013.01); H04N 9/3155 (2013.01); H04N 9/3164 (2013.01);
Abstract

A projector includes a plurality of light sources, an integrator lens and an overlapping lens, a light guide optical system, a light control device, a light modulation device, and a projection optical system, the light control device includes a pair of light-blocking members opposed to each other across a light path of the light emitted from the light sources in one direction in which the plurality of partial areas is arranged on the integrator lens, and a control device adapted to move the light-blocking members into and out of the light path, and the control device moves the pair of light-blocking members into and out of the light path so that the light entering the overlapping lens has a shape with a symmetric property in accordance with lighting and extinction states of the plurality of light sources.


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