A projection device, including an illumination light source, an electrochromic module, at least one light valve, and a projection lens, is provided. The illumination light source provides an illumination beam. The electrochromic module is disposed on a transmission path of the illumination beam. The electrochromic module includes at least one electrochromic element, and sequentially maintains or changes a wavelength of the illumination beam penetrating the at least one electrochromic element. The at least one light valve is disposed on the transmission path of the illumination beam transmitted by the electrochromic module to convert the illumination beam into an image beam. The projection lens is disposed on a transmission path of the image beam to project the image beam out of the projection device. The projection device and the use method thereof provided by the disclosure may change the color light output or the color space of a display image.

A color wheel phase detection method and system, and a projection device. The phase detection system comprises a color wheel (1), a color wheel motor (2) that drives the color wheel (1) to rotate, and a control circuit (3); the color wheel motor (2) is a three-phase motor, and the control circuit (3) comprises a three-phase driving circuit (31) for driving the color wheel motor (2) to operate. The phase detection system further comprises a phase detection device (4) for detecting the three-phase driving circuit (31); when detecting a preset phase, the phase detection device (4) sends a pulse signal to the control circuit (3) to implement color wheel phase detection. Therefore, the effects of low costs, high accuracy, and high reliability are achieved.

A fluorescent color wheel includes a substrate, a phosphor layer, and a fan blade structure. The substrate has a front surface, a rear surface opposite to the front surface, and a plurality of through holes communicating the front surface and the rear surface. The phosphor layer is disposed on the front surface. The fan blade structure includes a heat-dissipating plate and a plurality of first fan blades. The heat-dissipating plate has a first surface attached to the rear surface of the substrate. The first fan blades are disposed on the first surface and respectively pass through the through holes to protrude out from the front surface of the substrate.

Provided is an imaging device including: an imaging unit (130) that generates a one frame image by sequentially receiving each reflected light reflected by a subject by intermittently and sequentially irradiating the subject with each irradiation light having a different wavelength according to a position of the moving subject, temporarily and sequentially holding signal information based on the reflected light of each wavelength, and collectively reading the held signal information; and a combining unit (140) that generates a combined image by cutting a subject image corresponding to the reflected light of each wavelength from the one frame image and superimposing a plurality of the cut subject images.

A projection light source system includes a laser light source, a fluorescence wheel, a color wheel, and a light guide assembly. The fluorescence wheel includes a yellow fluorescence area, a green fluorescence area, and a blue fluorescence area. The yellow fluorescence area, the green fluorescence area, and the blue fluorescence area are configured to receive excitation light in time sharing, and generate fluorescence of different colors according to the excitation light. The yellow fluorescence area is configured to generate yellow fluorescence, the green fluorescence area is configured to generate green fluorescence, and the blue fluorescence area is configured to generate blue fluorescence. The color wheel is configured to receive the fluorescence and output red light, green light, and blue light in sequence to form light in three basic colors. The light guide assembly is located on a light path of the excitation light and the fluorescence.

A wavelength conversion module is configured to receive an excitation beam. The wavelength conversion module includes a substrate and a wavelength conversion material arranged on the substrate. The substrate includes a ring-shaped light irradiation region, and the wavelength conversion material is annularly arranged on at least part of the ring-shaped light irradiation region. A first color light obtained through conversion when the excitation beam is incident to the wavelength conversion material of the ring-shaped light irradiation region in a first time sequence has a first light intensity, the first color light obtained through conversion when the excitation beam is incident to the wavelength conversion material of the ring-shaped light irradiation region in a second time sequence has a second light intensity, and the first light intensity and the second light intensity are different. In addition, a projection device is also provided.

An illumination system, an illumination control method and a projection apparatus are provided. The illumination system includes a first laser light source providing a first laser beam, and a light splitting module. When the first laser beam is incident to the light splitting module, a first portion of the first laser beam penetrates through the light splitting module, a second portion is reflected by the light splitting module. In the first illumination mode, the first laser beam is incident to the first light splitting region to form a first proportion of the first portion and the second portion. In the second illumination mode, the first laser beam is incident to the first light splitting region to form a second proportion of the first portion and the second portion, wherein the first proportion and the second proportion are different.

An illumination system, an illumination control method and a projection apparatus are provided. The illumination system includes a first laser light source providing a first laser beam, and a light splitting module. When the first laser beam is incident to the light splitting module, a first portion of the first laser beam penetrates through the light splitting module, a second portion is reflected by the light splitting module. In the first illumination mode, the first laser beam is incident to the first light splitting region to form a first proportion of the first portion and the second portion. In the second illumination mode, the first laser beam is incident to the first light splitting region to form a second proportion of the first portion and the second portion, wherein the first proportion and the second proportion are different.

A light-source optical system includes a wavelength converter on which light of first color is incident, the wavelength converter converting at least a part of the light of first color into light of second color different from the light of first color, a first optical system disposed upstream from the wavelength converter on an optical path of the light of first color, the first optical system including optical elements, a reflection plane disposed downstream from the first optical system on the optical path, and a second optical system disposed downstream from the reflection plane on the optical path. The reflection plane reflects one of the light of first color and the light of second color, and a conditional expression “0<ΔL/D<0.2” is satisfied.

An optical device includes a phosphor wheel and two light sources. The phosphor wheel has two phosphor regions. The phosphor regions are located at different radial positions of the phosphor wheel and are not overlapped. Each of the phosphor regions has a plurality of color sections. The light sources emit two light beams so as to respectively provide two light spots on the phosphor wheel. During the rotation of the phosphor wheel, the light spots are located at the color sections having the same fluorescent characteristic respectively in the phosphor regions.