Reflective polarization valve engine and projection display using the same

• US 20050024591A1
• Filed: 10/08/2003
• Published: 02/03/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Delta Electronics Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Delta Electronics Incorporated
• Inventors: Huang, June-Jei, Lian, Jan-Tian
• Application Number:
  US10/680,193
• Publication Number:
  US 20050024591A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 353/20
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/3058 comprising electrically conductive elements, e.g. wire grids, conductive particles
• 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: H04N 9/3105 for displaying all colours simultaneously, e.g. by using two or more electronic spatial light modulators simultaneous projection in colour photography G03B33/10; beam splitting or combining systems per se G02B27/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/315 Modulator illumination systems general applications of lighting devices F21V; general optical systems G02B; lamp houses for projectors not peculiar to the presence of an electronic spatial light modulator G03B21/20

Abstract

Reflective polarization valve engine and projection display are disclosed. Instead of prism PBS, the projector applies wire-grid polarizers with advantages of higher heat-resistance, no limitation of the incident angle and no birefringence effects, to provide excellent contrast luminance. The light source in the projector utilizes an elliptical lamp under a telecentric optical system to achieve higher efficiency and avoid color gradient. In addition, the light paths are in special arrangement. The original beam is first splitted into RGB, and then proceeding with color-recombining right after being polarized via wire-grid polarizers and analyzed by reflective polarization valves. Hence, the analyzed beams finally are recombined images with superior performances.

Claims

1. A light projector using reflective polarization valve, the light projector comprising:

a light source providing a polarized white beam;

at least a dichroic mirror splitting the white beam into a plurality of color beams with different colors;

at least a reflective polarization valve receiving the polarized color beams and selectively reflecting the color beams;

at least a wire-grid polarizer located between the dichroic mirror and the reflective polarization valve, the wire-grid polarizer allowing the polarized color beams of one specific polarity to pass through and reflecting the polarized color beams of another specific polarity, the polarized color beams reflected from the reflective polarization valve under light state being reflected via the wire-grid polarizer for color recombining; and

a color-recombining unit combining the color beams reflected from the wire-grid polarizer.

2. The light projector of claim 1, wherein the reflective polarization valve is LCOS.

3. The light projector of claim 1, wherein the white beams is S-polarized.

4. The light projector of claim 1, wherein each of the color beams enters the color-recombining unit after pass through a polarizer respectively, thereby to ensure the color beams under light state while entering the color-recombining unit to achieve a high color contrast.

5. The light projector of claim 4, wherein the polarizer is also the wire-grid polarizer.

6. The light projector of claim 1, further comprising a focusing lens located in front of the reflective polarization valve to focus the color beams thereon.

7. The light projector of claim 1, wherein the light source is a telecentric optical system.

8. The light projector of claim 1, wherein the light source comprises a white lamp, a divergent lens, at least a lens array and a P/S Converter.

9. The light projector e of claim 1, wherein the white beam generated from the white lamp first pass through the divergent lens, and then the lens array and the P/S Converter to provide the S-polarized parallel white beam.

10. The light projector of claim 8, further comprising a half-wavelength lens located in front of the color-recombining unit respectively in a red light path and a blue light path, a blue beam and a red beam entering the color-recombining unit under S-polarized state, a green beam entering the color-recombining unit under P-polarized state.

11. The light projector of claim 8, wherein the white lamp is an elliptical lamp.

12. A projection display using reflective polarization valve, the projection display comprising:

a light source providing a polarized white beam;

at least a dichroic mirror splitting the white beam into a plurality of color beams with different colors;

at least a reflective polarization valve receiving the polarized color beams and selectively reflecting the color beams;

at least a wire-grid polarizer located between the dichroic mirror and the reflective polarization valve, the wire-grid polarizer allowing the polarized color beams of one specific polarity to pass through and reflecting the polarized color beams of another specific polarity, the polarized color beams reflected from the reflective polarization valve under light state being reflected via the wire-grid polarizer for color recombining;

a color-recombining unit combining the color beams reflected from the wire-grid polarizer; and

a projecting unit projecting the combined color beams to form images.

13. The projection display of claim 12, wherein the reflective polarization valve is LCOS.

14. The projection display of claim 12, wherein the white beams is S-polarized.

15. The projection display of claim 12, wherein each of the color beams enters the color-recombining unit after pass through a polarizer respectively, thereby to ensure the color beams under light state while entering the color-recombining unit to achieve a high color contrast.

16. The projection display of claim 15, wherein the polarizer is also the wire-grid polarizer.

17. The projection display of claim 12, further comprising a focusing lens located in front of the reflective polarization valve to focus the color beams thereon.

18. The projection display of claim 12, wherein the light source is a telecentric optical system.

19. The projection display of claim 12, wherein the light source comprises a white lamp, a divergent lens, at least a lens array and a P/S Converter.

20. The projection display of claim 12, further comprising a half-wavelength lens located in front of the color-recombining unit respectively in a red light path and a blue light path, a blue beam and a red beam entering the color-recombining unit under S-polarized state, a green beam entering the color-recombining unit under P-polarized state.

21. The projection display of claim 19, wherein the white lamp is an elliptical lamp.