H04N9/3105

Light source apparatus and projector
11531206 · 2022-12-20 · ·

The present disclosure relates to a light source apparatus including a laser light source that outputs a laser beam and a collimator system that parallelizes the laser beam. The collimator system includes three lens groups. A first group includes a first anamorphic lens having negative power in a first direction. A second group includes a second anamorphic lens having positive power in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. A third group includes a third anamorphic lens having positive power in the first direction.

Laser projector capable of increasing efficiency

A laser projector includes a laser source, a first dichroic mirror, a wavelength conversion module, a second dichroic mirror, a first, a second and a third light valves and a beam combiner. The laser source is for providing a blue beam including a first portion and a second portion. The first dichroic mirror is for receiving and allowing the blue beam to penetrate. The wavelength conversion module is for receiving the first portion and emitting a yellow beam to the first dichroic mirror. The second dichroic mirror is for receiving and separating the yellow beam reflected by the first dichroic mirror into a green and a red beam. The first, second and third light valve are for receiving and modulating respectively the second portion of the blue beam, the green beam and the red beam. The beam combiner is for the beams to form a multi-color image.

OPTICAL SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROJECTION APPARATUS
20220397814 · 2022-12-15 ·

An optical system (300) includes an optical modulation element (103) to reflect an incident light (250) in a different direction, and an illumination optical system (301) through which light emitted from a light source (101) is emitted toward the optical modulation element (103). The illumination optical system (301) includes a lens array (14A, 14B), a lens (15) disposed in an order listed from an upstream side of an optical path, and a shielding part (50) disposed upstream from the lens (15) on the optical path. The shielding part (50) shields light incident on an effective diameter of the lens (15). In a direction perpendicular to an optical axis of the light emitted from the light source (101), the optical axis (101A) is shifted from a center position (15M) of the effective diameter of the lens (15) in an opposite direction with reference to the shielding part (50).

Dynamic Optical Projection With Wearable Multimedia Devices
20220400235 · 2022-12-15 ·

Systems, methods, devices and non-transitory, computer-readable storage mediums are disclosed for a wearable multimedia device and cloud computing platform with an application ecosystem for processing multimedia data captured by the wearable multimedia device. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method using the wearable multimedia device includes: determining a three-dimensional (3D) map of a projection surface based on sensor data of at least one sensor of the wearable multimedia device; in response to determining the 3D map of the projection surface, determining a distortion associated with a virtual object to be projected by an optical projection system on the projection surface; adjusting, based on the determined distortion, at least one of (i) one or more characteristics of the virtual object to be projected, or (ii) the optical projection system; and projecting, using the optical projection system and based on a result of the adjusting, the virtual object on the projection surface.

ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND PROJECTOR
20220382109 · 2022-12-01 · ·

In an electro-optical device, a first polarizing element, a first phase difference element, a transmissive liquid crystal panel, a second phase difference element, and a second polarizing element are sequentially arranged. Here, when a phase difference of the first phase difference element and the second phase difference element is λ/4, an influence of orientation disorder of liquid crystal molecules can be alleviated, but a contrast ratio is reduced. Therefore, when a wavelength of incident light is λ, a phase difference R of the first phase difference element and the second phase difference element satisfies the following condition that 0<R<λ/4, preferably λ/12<R<λ/6. For example, it is assumed that the phase difference R is λ/8.

Reflector and optical system of LCD projector

A reflector includes a reflective film and a substrate, wherein the reflective film is attached to the substrate. Also, an optical system of an LCD (liquid crystal display) projector includes a first reflector, a second reflector, an LED (light emitting diode) light source, a condenser, a collimating lens, an LCD light valve, a field lens and a projection lens, wherein the LED light source, the condenser, the first reflector, the collimating lens, the LCD light valve, the field lens, the second reflector and the projection lens are set in sequence according to a direction of light. The reflector is significantly improved in the reflection efficiency while maintaining the low cost, or the reflector is significantly reduced in the manufacturing cost while achieving the high reflection efficiency, so that the output brightness and the photoelectric efficiency of the projector including the reflector with low cost, which has a very positive effect.

Tiling screen and multi-projection system
11516446 · 2022-11-29 · ·

The tiling screen (screen) is provided with a plurality of projection areas, and includes an overlapping area where end parts of the projection areas overlap each other, wherein when setting a number of times of overlapping to one in the overlapping area, reflectance in the overlapping area where the number of times is one is configured to be lower than reflectance in an area where the projection areas fail to overlap each other, and when setting the number of times of overlapping to N (N≥2) in the overlapping area, the reflectance in the overlapping area where the number of times is N is configured to be lower than the reflectance in the overlapping area where the number of times of overlapping is a largest number of the numbers of times smaller than N.

PROJECTOR
20220373868 · 2022-11-24 ·

The projector includes an exterior chassis provided with a housing section, a light source unit which is housed in the exterior chassis, and is configured to emit light, an image forming unit which is housed in the exterior chassis, and is configured to generate image light from the light, a projection optical unit which is attached to the exterior chassis, and is configured to project the image light, and an imaging unit which is configured to image the image light projected, and is detachably attached, wherein the imaging unit is housed in the housing section.

Light emitting apparatus and projector
11508874 · 2022-11-22 · ·

A light emitting apparatus including a substrate, a first and a second light emitter, a first mirror that reflects light from first light emitter, a second mirror that reflects light from second light emitter, and a support member that has a first and second hole and supports the first and second mirror. The first and second light emitter each include a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer having conductivity type different from the conductivity type of first semiconductor layer, and a light emitting layer provided between the first and second semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer forms a plurality of columnar sections. The plurality of columnar sections of the first light emitter and the second light emitter are disposed in the first and second hole respectively. The first mirror and second mirror are provided at the side surface of support member that defines the first and second hole respectively.

PROJECTOR, COOLING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD
20230058869 · 2023-02-23 · ·

A projector includes an exterior enclosure having an intake port and a discharge port, a heat source, a fan that causes a cooling gas to flow to the heat source, a loudspeaker that is disposed between one of the two openings, and the fan in the channel of the cooling gas and outputs a sound wave according to a drive signal inputted to the loudspeaker, a characteristic data storage section that stores frequency characteristic data on the frequency characteristics of discrete frequency noise, broadband noise, and in-apparatus environmental noise, and a control section that generates the drive signal, and the control section includes a characteristic acquisition section that acquires the frequency characteristic data corresponding to the rotational speed of the fan per unit time, a waveform generation section that generates the waveform of an interference sound, and a signal output section that outputs the drive signal.