PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING PLURAL LIGHT SOURCES

• US 20110216321A1
• Filed: 02/22/2011
• Published: 09/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: KURATOMI, Kazuyuki
• Granted Patent: US 8,491,130 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 356/432
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/2013 Plural light sources
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/2053 Intensity control of illuminating light controlled by video signal processing H04N5/74 or H04N9/31
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/206 Control of light source other than position or intensity

Abstract

A projection display apparatus 100, 200 includes a plurality of light sources 3a, 3b, a plurality of light source power supplies 2a, 2b configured to supply electric power to the plurality of light sources, and a lighting controller 6 configured to control the plurality of light source power supplies so as to select and light at least one light source of the plurality of light sources in accordance with each lighting history of the plurality of light sources. The lighting controller 6 lights a predetermined light source continuously after the lighting history of one of the plurality of light sources reaches a predetermined value, and the lighting controller 6 lights a light source other than the predetermined light source after the lighting history of the predetermined light source reaches a predetermined lifetime value.

Claims

1. A projection display apparatus comprising:

a plurality of light sources;

a plurality of light source power supplies configured to supply electric power to the plurality of light sources; and

a lighting controller configured to control the plurality of light source power supplies so as to select and light at least one light source of the plurality of light sources in accordance with each lighting history of the plurality of light sources,

wherein the lighting controller lights a predetermined light source continuously after the lighting history of one of the plurality of light sources reaches a predetermined value, and

wherein the lighting controller lights a light source other than the predetermined light source after the lighting history of the predetermined light source reaches a predetermined lifetime value.

2. The projection display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the lighting controller performs a control so as to light the light source other than the predetermined light source when the predetermined light source does not light up even if a lighting command is outputted to the light source power supply which supplies the electric power to the predetermined light source.

3. The projection display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the lighting history is one of an accumulated lighting time and the number of lightings of each of the plurality of light sources.

4. The projection display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a light intensity measurement unit configured to measure a light intensity of each of the plurality of light sources,

wherein the lighting history is one of the light intensity and a change rate of the light intensity of each of the plurality of light sources.