Projection type display

• US 6,379,010 B1
• Filed: 03/29/1999
• Issued: 04/30/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hanger Solutions, LLC (IP Investments Group LLC)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Hamada, Tetsuya, Kobayashi, Tetsuya, Sugawara, Mari, Gotoh, Takeshi, Hayashi, Keiji, Suzuki, Toshihiro, Yamaguchi, Hisashi
• Primary Examiner(s): DOWLING, WILLIAM C
• Application Number:
  US09/280,444
• Time in Patent Office: 1,128 Days
• Field of Search: 353/20, 353/31, 353/33, 353/34, 353/37, 349/9, 349/8, 349/7, 349/18, 349/96, 349/97, 349/99, 349/102, 349/103, 349/117, 348/752
• US Class Current: 353/31
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/14 Details
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/2073 Polarisers in the lamp house peculiar to electronic spatial light modulators H04N9/3197
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/208 Homogenising, shaping of the illumination light
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 33/12 using beam-splitting or beam-combining systems, e.g. dichroic mirrors

Abstract

The present invention relates to a projection type display using a transmission type liquid crystal light valve, and its object is to supply a projection type display capable of exhibiting a high quality gradation display by preventing a leak current at a switching device. The projection type display comprises three liquid crystal light valves 21R, 21G, and 21B which have polarizing plates 20Rp, 20Gp, and 20Bp, modulate in intensity and emit each light of color components of red, green, and blue, and a dichroic prism to synthesize exiting lights from respective light valves. The projection type display is structured to arrange half-wave plates 20Ri, and 20Gi between the liquid crystal light valves 21R, and 21G for red and green, to set a polarizing direction of an exiting light of a blue component orthogonal to polarizing directions of the other two exiting lights.

Claims

1. A projection type display comprising:

a color separating optical system for separating an emitted light from a light source into respective lights of color components of red, green and blue, having a first dichroic mirror functioning as a low-pass filter to pass the red light and a second dichroic mirror functioning as a high-pass filter to pass the blue light;

three light valves having at least a polarizing plate on each light exiting side thereof, modulating the light of each color component of red, green, and blue; and

a color synthesizing optical system for synthesizing each exiting light from each light valve, having a first dichroic prism functioning as a low-pass filter to pass the red light and a second dichroic prism functioning as a low-pass filter to pass the red light and the green light.

2. A projection type display as set forth in claim 1, wherein a light reflected by at least one of the first and second dichroic prisms includes s-polarized light.

3. A projection type display as set forth in claim 1, wherein a light passing through at least one of the first and second dichroic prisms includes p-polarized light.

4. A projection type display as set forth in claim 1, wherein the light source emits polarized light.

5. A projection type display as set forth in claim 1, wherein a cut-off wavelength of transmission light of the first dichroic mirror is 560˜

590 nm, a cut-off wavelength of reflected light of the first dichroic prism being 590˜

620 nm, and a cut-off wavelength of transmission light of the first dichroic prism being shorter than the cut-off wavelength of the reflected light.

6. A projection type display as set forth in claim 1, wherein a cut-off wavelength of transmission light of the second dichroic mirror is 480˜

510 nm, a cut-off wavelength of reflected mirror of the second dichroic prism being 510˜

540 nm, and a cut-off wavelength of transmission light of the second dichroic prism being shorter than the cut-off wavelength of the reflected light.

7. A projection type display as set forth in claim 1, wherein the color separating optical system has a light reflection mirror;

and the color synthesizing optical system has a light reflection prism.

8. A projection type display as set forth in claim 7, further comprising a light absorber for absorbing the light passing through at least one of the light reflection mirror and the light reflection prism.