Convergence displacement correcting device for projection-type image display apparatus and method thereof

• US 5,473,391 A
• Filed: 04/26/1994
• Issued: 12/05/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Usui, Masahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Groody, James J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): HSIA, SHERRIE Y
• Application Number:
  US08/233,527
• Time in Patent Office: 588 Days
• Field of Search: 348/744, 348/746, 348/747, 348/778, 348/806, 348/807, 358/60, 315/368.24, 315/368.18, 315/371
• US Class Current: 348/746
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 3/233 using active elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/28 Arrangements for convergence or focusing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/31 Projection devices for colour picture display , e.g. using electronic spatial light modulators [ESLM]

Abstract

A projection-type image display apparatus, in which a correction raster shape correction circuit is supplied with a sawtoothed-shaped voltage changing in level in accordance with a static convergence regulation voltage for correcting respective raster shapes displayed on the respective picture planes of a plurality of cathode-ray tubes, so that the convergence is not displaced at the peripheral portions of the picture screen at the time of regulating the static convergence.

Claims

1. A projection-type image display apparatus comprising:

a screen;

a plurality of cathode-ray tubes in juxtaposition each including a picture plane for forming an image of a different monochromatic color, said image being projected on said screen;

a sawtoothed-shaped voltage correction circuit supplied with a regulation voltage for adjusting a static convergence of said image on said screen and a sawtoothed-shaped voltage for correcting a raster shape displayed on the picture plane of one cathode-ray tube in accordance with a projection angle to said screen of said cathode-ray tubes, and outputting a correction sawtoothed-shaped voltage changing in voltage level in accordance with said regulation voltage inputted thereto; and

a raster shape correction circuit supplied with said correction sawtoothed-shaped voltage for correcting the raster shape displayed on said picture plane in accordance with said sawtoothed-shaped voltage in such a manner that the raster shape of said one cathode-ray tube projected on said screen is identical to raster shapes of the other cathode-ray tubes.

3. A projection-type image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said sawtoothed-shaped voltage is in a horizontal period.

4. A projection-type image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said sawtoothed-shaped voltage correction circuit includes a multiplier supplied with said regulation voltage and said sawtoothed-shaped voltage as two inputs thereto.

5. A projection-type image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said sawtoothed-shaped voltage correction circuit includes an amplifier supplied with said sawtoothed-shaped voltage as one input thereto and a variable resistor inserted between the other input and the output of said amplifier for determining a resistance value of said variable resistor in accordance with said regulation voltage.

6. A projection-type image display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said sawtoothed-shaped voltage correction circuit is supplied with a parabolic voltage for regulating a horizontal linearity of a raster displayed on the picture plane of one cathode-ray tube, and outputting a correction parabolic voltage changing in voltage level in accordance with said regulation voltage, and

said raster shape correction circuit is supplied with the correction parabolic voltage outputted from said sawtoothed-shaped voltage correction circuit for correcting the shape of the raster displayed on said picture plane in accordance with said parabolic voltage in such a manner that the horizontal linearity of the raster of said one cathode-ray tube projected on the screen is identical to the horizontal linearity of the raster of the other cathode-ray tubes.

2. A projection-type image display apparatus comprising:

a screen;

three cathode-ray tubes each including a picture plane for forming an image thereon, said cathode-ray tubes being juxtaposed in such a manner that a different three-color monochromatic image is formed on each picture plane and projected on said screen;

a plurality of sawtoothed-shaped voltage correction circuits each supplied with a regulation voltage for adjusting a static convergence against said screen of said image and a sawtoothed-shaped voltage for correcting a raster shape displayed on each picture plane of the cathode-ray tubes on sides in accordance with a projection angle of said cathode-ray tubes to said screen, and outputting a correction sawtoothed-shaped voltage changing in voltage level in accordance with said regulation voltage; and

a plurality of raster shape correction circuits each supplied with said correction sawtoothed-shaped voltage correspondingly for correcting the raster shape displayed on each picture plane in accordance with said sawtoothed-shaped voltage in such a manner that the raster shape of the cathode-ray tubes projected on said screen on the sides is identical to the raster shape of a central cathode-ray tube.

7. A method for correcting a convergence displacement in a projection-type image display apparatus including a plurality of cathode-ray tubes in juxtaposition for projecting an image on a screen, each cathode-ray tube having a picture plane for forming the image of a different monochromatic color, comprising the steps of:

(a) applying a regular voltage to a voltage correction circuit for adjusting a static convergence of said image on said screen;

(b) applying a sawtoothed-shaped voltage to said voltage correction circuit for correcting a raster shape displayed on the picture plane of at least one of the cathode-ray tubes in accordance with a projection angle to said screen of the cathode-ray tubes in accordance with said regular voltage;

(c) generating a correction sawtoothed-shaped voltage from said voltage correction circuit changing in voltage level in accordance with said regulation voltage inputted thereto; and

(d) applying said correction sawtoothed-shaped voltage to a raster shape correction circuit for correcting said raster shape displayed on said picture plane of said at least one of the cathode-ray tubes in accordance with said sawtoothed-shaped voltage such that the raster shape of said at least one of the cathode-ray tubes projected on said screen matches raster shapes of the other cathode ray tubes.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising the steps of:

(e) applying a parabolic voltage to said voltage correction circuit for regulating a horizontal linearity of a raster displayed on the picture plane of said at least one of the cathode-ray tubes,

(f) generating a correction parabolic voltage changing in voltage level in accordance with said regulation voltage;

(g) applying said correction parabolic voltage to said raster shape correction circuit for correcting the shape of the raster displayed on said picture plane of said at least one of the cathode-ray tubes in accordance with said parabolic voltage such that the horizontal linearity of the raster of said at least one of the cathode-ray tubes projected on said screen matches the horizontal linearity of the raster of the other cathode-ray tubes.