Laser beam color image display apparatus

• US 5,255,082 A
• Filed: 11/21/1991
• Issued: 10/19/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Tamada, Sakuya
• Primary Examiner(s): Oberley, Alvin E.
• Assistant Examiner(s): STOLL, KARA FARNANDEZ
• Application Number:
  US07/795,847
• Time in Patent Office: 698 Days
• Field of Search: 358/60, 358/61, 358/62, 358/63, 340/795, 340/755, 340/702, 359/216, 359/217, 359/214, 359/212, 359/64, 359/68, 359/498, 359/278, 353/31, 353/34, 353/30
• US Class Current: 348/750
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/3129 scanning a light beam on the display screen scanning a light beam on a screen in displays other than projection devices G09G3/02; scanning systems in general G02B26/10; projectors using laser light sources in general H04N9/3161

Abstract

A laser beam color image display apparatus includes a single laser beam source for emitting a laser beam from which a plurality of blue, green, and red laser beams are separated, or a plurality of laser beam sources for emitting respective blue, green, and red laser beams. The red laser beam is generated by adding a laser beam having a wavelength of 568.2 nm and a laser beam having a wavelength of 647.1 nm by way of active mixture. The laser beams are modulated in intensity with color signal components, and then deflected by a light scanner, composed of a polygon mirror and a galvanometer mirror to scan a display screen for thereby displaying a color image thereon. The laser beam having the wavelength of 568.2 nm and the laser beam having the wavelength of 647.1 nm are added at an output power ratio of 1:20, with the resultant red laser beam having a wavelength of 612 nm. The single laser beam source may comprise an argon-krypton mixed gas laser, or the laser beam source for emitting the red laser beam may comprise a krypton gas laser.

Claims

1. A laser beam color image display apparatus comprising:

first laser beam generating means for generating a blue laser beam;

second laser beam generating means for generating a green laser beam;

third laser beam generating means for generating a red laser beam;

said third laser beam generating means comprising mixing means for adding a laser beam having a wavelength of 568.2 nm and a laser beam having a wavelength of 647.1 nm by way of active mixture, thereby generating the red laser beam; and

scanning means for scanning a display screen with said blue laser beam, said green laser beam, and said red laser beam to display a color image on the display screen;

said third laser beam generating means further comprising first modulating means for modulating the intensity of said laser beam having the wavelength of 568.2 nm with a red signal component of a video signal and second modulating means for modulating the intensity of said laser beam having the wavelength of 647.1 nm with said red signal component.

2. A laser beam color image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said mixing means comprises means for adding the laser beam having the wavelength of 568.2 nm and the laser beam having the wavelength of 647.1 nm at an output power ratio of 1:

20.

3. A laser beam color image display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said red laser beam generated by said third laser beam generating means has a wavelength of 612 nm.

4. A laser beam color image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said third laser beam generating means comprises an argon-krypton mixed gas laser beam source.

5. A laser beam color image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said third laser beam generating means comprises a krypton gas laser beam source.

6. A laser beam color image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said first, second, and third laser beam generating means comprise a common laser beam source for emitting a laser beam, and respective dichroic mirrors for separating the last-mentioned laser beam into said blue laser beam, said green laser beam, and said laser beam having the wavelength of 568.2 nm and said laser beam having the wavelength of 647.1 nm.

7. A laser beam color image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said first and second laser beam generating means comprise respective laser beam sources for emitting said blue laser beam and said green laser beam, respectively, and wherein said third laser beam generating means comprises a laser beam source for emitting a laser beam and a dichroic mirror for separating the last-mentioned laser beam into said laser beam having the wavelength of 568.2 nm and said laser beam having the wavelength of 647.1 nm.

8. A laser beam color image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said first and second laser beam generating means comprise a common laser beam source for emitting a laser beam and a dichroic mirror for separating the last-mentioned laser beam into said blue laser beam and said green laser beam, respectively, and wherein said third laser beam generating means comprises a laser beam source for emitting a laser beam and a dichroic mirror for separating the last-mentioned laser beam into said laser beam having the wavelength of 568.2 nm and said laser beam having the wavelength of 647.1 nm.

9. A laser beam color image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said first laser beam generating means comprise a laser beam source for emitting said blue laser beam, and wherein said second and third laser beam generating means comprises a common laser beam source for emitting a laser beam and first dichroic mirrors for separating the last-mentioned laser beam into said green laser beam, said laser beam having the wavelength of 568.2 nm and said laser beam having the wavelength of 647.1 nm.