Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image projector
- Patent Title (中): 图像投影仪
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Application No.: US12056564Application Date: 2008-03-27
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Publication No.: US08218216B2Publication Date: 2012-07-10
- Inventor: Kenji Konno , Kenji Mizumoto
- Applicant: Kenji Konno , Kenji Mizumoto
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Cozen O'Connor
- Priority: JP2007-087702 20070329
- Main IPC: G02B26/10
- IPC: G02B26/10

Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide an image projector capable of projecting a high-quality image while realizing small size. In the image projector, a light flux is deflected two-dimensionally by turning a reflector for reflecting a light flux emitted from a light source around a second axis almost orthogonal to a first axis as a center by resonant drive while turning the reflector around the first axis as a center by non-resonant drive. Shape of one or more optical surfaces of a projection optical system for projecting an image onto a projection plane by guiding light onto the projection plane includes a shape for performing a correction for maintaining scanning speed of the light flux along one scan direction on the projection plane almost constant and a shape for performing a correction for suppressing a distortion in an image along the other scan direction almost orthogonal to the one scan direction on the projection plane. By controlling turn of the reflector, at least one of a correction for maintaining scanning speed of the light flux along the other scan direction on the projection plane almost constant and a correction for suppressing a distortion in an image along the one scan direction on the projection plane is performed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080239252A1 IMAGE PROJECTOR Public/Granted day:2008-10-02
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