WO2006123613A1 - レーザ画像表示装置およびレーザ画像表示スクリーン - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to an image display device that is a device for displaying an image and an image display screen thereof.
- the present invention particularly relates to a laser image display device that forms an image using a laser light source as a light source, and a laser image display screen used in the laser image display device.
- a light source used in an image display device using this method is a lamp light source.
- the lamp light source has problems such as short lifetime, limited color reproduction region, and low light use efficiency.
- a laser light source As a light source for a projection display.
- an image display device that uses a laser light source as a light source is referred to as a laser image display device, and similarly, a laser light source is used as a light source and an image display screen is referred to as a laser image display screen.
- the laser light source of the laser image display device can easily improve the light utilization efficiency because of the strong directivity of the laser light, which has a longer life than the lamp light source.
- the laser light emitted from the laser light source is excellent in monochromaticity, and the color reproduction area can be expanded as compared with the lamp light source, thereby enabling a colorful image display.
- Speckle noise is noise caused by the high coherence of laser light used for image display. Such a problem has never existed in an image display device using a lamp light source. Laser light power with high coherence When scattered on the S-screen and reaches the viewer, the scattered laser beams interfere with each other, allowing the viewer to recognize minute uneven noise. To date, laser image display screens have been used to reduce speckle noise. Various techniques for screens and laser image display devices have been proposed.
- Patent Document 1 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 55-65940 discloses a method for removing speckle noise by vibrating a laser image display screen.
- Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 55-65940 discloses a method for removing speckle noise by vibrating a laser image display screen.
- this method is adopted for a large-sized laser image display screen, it is necessary to make the drive unit that vibrates and drives the laser image display screen large, so that the volume of the drive unit and the power consumption are reduced. The increase is a problem.
- Patent Document 2 Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2003-98601 discloses a rear image projector that projects an image from the back of a laser image display screen opposite to the viewer, and provides the viewer with the image using transmitted laser light. Disclosed is a laser image display screen that can be used in a laser image display device. The laser image display screen disclosed in Patent Document 2 reduces speckle noise by a configuration having two types of light diffusion plates.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a laser image display screen described in Patent Document 2.
- This laser image display screen has first and second diffusion plates 29a and 29b.
- the figure shows two laser beams 25 and 27 that enter the first diffuser plate 29a at the same angle, pass through, and reach one region on the retina that can be regarded as the same for the viewer V's recognition. It is a figure explaining the optical path length difference which a laser image display screen provides with respect to FIG.
- the laser light incident on the first light diffusion layer 29a is diffused by the first diffusion plate 29a and propagates in various directions. Then, at least part of the laser light emitted from the first light diffusion layer 29a is further incident on the second light diffusion layer 29b, diffused, emitted, and reaches the viewer V.
- This screen is a laser image display screen for a rear projection type laser image display device that aims to reduce speckle noise by using two diffusion plates 29a and 29b having different diffusion effects.
- laser beams 25 and 27 are incident on the first diffusion plate 29a at the same incident angle from the right side of the drawing. Due to the diffusion effect of the first diffusion plate 29a, the laser beam 25 is emitted from the first diffusion plate 29a at an angle of ⁇ with respect to the main surfaces of the diffusion plates 29a and 29b, and the second diffusion plate 29b Due to the diffusion effect of the second diffusion plate 29b, Return to the same direction as the angle of incidence on the first diffuser plate 29a and reach the viewer V's pupil.
- the laser beam 27 is incident on the first diffuser plate 29 at the same incident angle as the laser beam 25, and passes through the first and second diffuser plates 29a and 29b while maintaining the path when incident. , Go out and reach viewer V's eyes.
- the optical path length difference between the laser beam 25 and the laser beam 27 can be calculated by assuming that the distance between the first diffusion plate 29a and the second diffusion plate 29b is T.
- 0 may be referred to as the diffusion angle of the first diffusion layer 29a.
- 0 approaches zero, laser beams 25 and 27 interfere strongly with each other on viewer V's retina. At this time, the optical path length difference gradually approaches zero. Therefore, the speckle noise recognized by the viewer V is still strong.
- Patent Document 2 it is not possible to find a description regarding problems such as multiple reflection of laser light that are expected to occur in the two types of light diffusion plates.
- Patent Document 2 discloses a front projection type laser image display apparatus that projects an image on the same side as the viewer, that is, a front force image of the laser image display screen and provides the image to the viewer with reflected laser light. It is impossible to use a laser image display screen.
- Patent Document 1 can be applied to a front projection type laser image display device.
- the force described in Patent Document 1 is difficult to implement on a large laser image display screen that displays a large image as described above.
- Patent Document 1 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 55-65940
- Patent Document 2 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2003-98601
- the present invention can provide a viewer with an image having an arbitrary size as a high-quality and high-quality image by removing or at least reducing speckle noise.
- the problem to be solved is to provide a laser image display device and its laser image display screen. Means for solving the problem
- a laser image display screen that projects laser light, a reflective scatterer that scatters and reflects laser light, and a semitransparent diffusion layer that is disposed substantially parallel to the reflective scatterer.
- the semi-transmissive diffusion layer is a laser image display screen that reflects at least a part of the laser light, transmits the remaining laser light, diffuses and transmits the transmitted laser light.
- the distance force between the interface of the transflective diffusion layer opposite to the reflective scatterer and the reflective scatterer is preferably 50 micrometers or more and 2 millimeters or less.
- the transflective layer preferably includes a paper material.
- the present invention is a laser image display device having a laser light source that emits laser light and a laser image display screen that projects the laser light, wherein the laser image display screen emits laser light. It includes a reflective scatterer that scatters and reflects, and a semi-transmissive diffusion layer that is arranged substantially parallel to the reflective scatterer. This is a laser image display device that diffuses and emits laser light.
- a light deflection element that receives laser light and deflects the traveling direction to emit the laser light is further provided between the laser light source and the laser image display screen. preferable.
- the distance d between the interface of the transflective diffusion layer opposite to the reflective scatterer and the reflective scatterer, and the center wavelength ⁇ of the laser light emitted from the laser light source It is preferable that the relational force 2d X ⁇ > ⁇ 2 with the half width ⁇ of the laser beam is satisfied.
- the laser image display device and the laser image display screen according to the present invention are inexpensive, can support image display of any size, and have speckle noise removed or at least reduced. In addition, a colorful and high-quality image can be displayed.
- FIG. 1 Light imparted to laser light by a laser image display screen according to Patent Document 2 Diagram explaining the path length difference
- ⁇ 3 Schematic diagram of a partial cross section of a modification of the screen according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- ⁇ 4 Schematic diagram of the laser image display device and the image evaluation device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG.7A Plan view of rotating lenticular lens
- FIG. 7D Plan view of a modified example of a rotating lenticular lens
- FIG. 2A is a schematic partial cross-sectional view of the laser image display screen 10 according to the first embodiment.
- the laser image display screen 10 has a reflective scatterer 11 and a transflective layer 12.
- “Laser Image Table” The “display screen” is abbreviated as “screen”.
- the laser image display device forms an image by modulating laser light emitted from a laser light source.
- the laser light constituting the image is projected onto the screen 10 from the front surface of the screen 10, that is, from the viewer V side.
- the transflective layer 12 is for viewing at least part of the incident light L (laser light constituting the image).
- the remaining laser light that is transmitted is, for example, illustrated as diffused light L in FIG. 2A.
- the light is diffused through the transflective diffusion layer 12 during transmission.
- the reflective scatterer 11 scatter-reflects all or at least most of the laser light incident from the interface on the transflective layer 12 side.
- FIG. 2A shows laser light reflected at the semitransparent diffusion layer 12 side interface of the reflective scatterer 11 as internally scattered reflected light L.
- internal scattered reflected light L is not shown.
- the laser light source power and the optical path to the reflective scatterer 11 are omitted. Internally scattered reflected light L
- the RR again enters the transflective diffusion layer 12 and receives a diffusion effect while passing through the transflective diffusion layer 12.
- the diffused internally scattered reflected light L is defined as internally scattered reflected diffused light L.
- Diffuse reflection diffused light L diverges from the minute surface element S at the viewer V side interface of the transflective diffused layer 12.
- the light is emitted with a predetermined intensity distribution as one light.
- the scattering reflection of the laser light by the reflective scatterer 11 is not limited to the scattering reflection in the direction included in the drawing surface, and may include the scattering reflection in all directions including the direction of force toward the outside of the drawing surface. .
- a part of the laser light that has exited the laser light source (not shown) and reached the transflective layer 12 is scattered at the interface on the viewer's V side, such as the front scattered reflected light L, for example.
- the remaining laser light is incident on the semi-transmissive diffusion layer 12, diffused during transmission, reaches the reflective scatterer 11 and is scattered and reflected, enters the semi-transmissive diffusion layer 12 again, is diffused during transmission, Semi-transmissive diffusion layer 12 Viewer Emission from the V-side interface. Therefore, the screen 10 scatters and reflects the laser light constituting the image on at least two surfaces, that is, the reflective scatterer 11 and the semi-transmissive diffusion layer 12 viewer V side surface. In realizing the object of the present invention, laser light is used.
- the number of reflective surfaces is not limited to two.
- the present invention does not exclude a laser image display screen having a configuration in which laser light is reflected on three or more surfaces and the laser light reaches the pupil of the viewer V.
- the laser light scattered and reflected by the reflective scatterer 11 and directed toward the viewer V is directed toward the laser light source reflected scatterer 11 and the optical path (first half of the optical path) and the reflective scatterer 11 to the viewer V.
- the directional force optical path (second half of the optical path)
- it receives a diffusion effect by the semi-transmissive diffusion layer 12.
- the transflective diffusion layer 12 By providing the transflective diffusion layer 12 in the first half of the optical path, the laser light incident on the transflective diffusion layer 12 is diffused by the transflective diffusion layer 12 and compared with the case where the transflective diffusion layer 12 is omitted. Then, the light is incident on the transflective layer 12 side interface of the reflective scatterer 11 at various angles.
- the laser light modulated by an arbitrary unit (one pixel) of the minimum modulation unit (for example, a pixel included in the modulation device) for image formation by laser light is reflected on the reflective scatterer 11. Reach with various incident angles.
- the transflective layer 12 allows coherent laser light that is close in space to be incident on the reflective scatterer 11 at various angles, and the angle of reflection of the laser light by the reflective scatterer 11 increases the angle of reflection. In other words, it gives a higher degree of diversity, and makes the optical path length to the viewer V of scattered reflected light different. Therefore, interference on the retina of the viewer V between the scattered reflected light is prevented.
- the reflective scatterer 11 has an effect of greatly changing the direction in which the laser light is reflected by a slight difference in either or both of the position where the laser light is incident and the incident angle.
- the laser light modulated by an arbitrary modulation unit can reach the reflective scatterer 11 with various incident angles.
- the effect of the semi-transmission diffusion layer 12 can more reliably and effectively give the scattering effect of the reflective scatterer 11 to the laser light. Can do.
- the diffusion effect that the laser light receives from the transflective diffusion layer 12 in the latter half of the optical path is that the laser light (for example, the internally scattered reflected light L) scattered and reflected by the reflective scatterer 11 remains as it is.
- the internally scattered reflected light L is diffused by the transflective layer 12.
- Effective light source area affected eg, as shown in internally scattered reflected diffused light L
- the effective light source area here is the area of the light source image recognized by the viewer V.
- the coherence of light is reduced by increasing the light source area. Therefore, speckle noise can be reduced by expanding the effective light source area.
- the layer 12 changes the diffused light L to internally scattered reflected light having an effective light source area of the minute surface element S for the viewer V.
- speckle noise is generated when coherent light is scattered, enters a human pupil, reaches a point on the human retina via different optical paths, and interferes with each other.
- the screen 10 according to the present invention reduces speckle noise recognized by the viewer V by expanding the effective light source area for the viewer V of laser light and reducing the coherence of the laser light.
- the laser light emitted from a laser light source not shown
- the presence of the laser light that is reflected by the semi-transmissive diffusion layer 12 and reaches the viewer V also contributes to the reduction of the coherence of the laser light.
- the effective light source area for the viewer V has a larger area than the above-described minute surface element S, and the effect of reducing speckle noise is further enhanced.
- the screen 10 has the effect of removing speckle noise recognized by the viewer V.
- FIG. 2B is incident at a very close position on the reflective scatterer 11 at the same angle, is reflected, and reaches a region on the retina that can be regarded as the same in recognition of the viewer V.
- FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining the optical path length difference imparted by the reflective scatterer 11 of the screen 10 to the two laser beams 21 and 23.
- the transflective layer 12 included in the screen 10 is omitted in this figure for the sake of simplicity.
- speckle noise is generated when scattered light interferes on the viewer V's retina.
- the contrast of speckle noise changes due to the optical path length difference between the scattered light that interferes.
- the smaller the optical path length difference the stronger the contrast of the interference light, and the speckle noise recognized by the viewer V increases.
- the optical path length difference is large If this happens, the contrast of the interference light becomes extremely weak, and the viewer V recognizes the interference light as speckle noise.
- the laser beams 21 and 23 are incident on two different points of the reflective scatterer 11 having a concave-convex shape.
- the laser beam 21 connects the slope portion of the irregular shape (coupled wave shape) of the reflective scatterer 11, that is, the top and the adjacent top, and is inclined with respect to the main surface of the reflective scatterer 11 from a macroscopic viewpoint.
- the laser beam 23 has an inclination of zero and almost zero with respect to the top of the concavo-convex shape (coupled wave shape), that is, the principal surface of the reflective scatterer 11 at the macroscopic viewpoint. Incident part.
- the laser beam 21 enters the slope portion, is reflected at one point of the slope portion, is further reflected again at one point of the adjacent slope portion, and reaches the viewer V's pupil.
- the laser beam 23 is reflected at one point of the top incident on the top and reaches the pupil of the viewer V. Since the reflective scatterer 11 can give a sufficiently large optical path length difference between the laser beams 21 and 23 with respect to the wavelength of the light, the interference light intensity recognized by the viewer V is very small. It becomes.
- the screen 10 according to the present invention is a laser which is emitted from two adjacent points on the screen 10 by the reflective scatterer 11 and reaches the viewer V at substantially the same angle. Even with light, the reflection and scattering of the reflective scatterer 11 results in a laser beam with a large optical path length difference compared to the screen shown in FIG. In the scattering reflection of the reflective scatterer 11 (see FIG. 2B), laser light that is emitted from two adjacent points on the screen 10 at the same angle and reaches the viewer V's pupil passes through completely different optical paths. Therefore, such a large optical path length difference can be obtained. As described above, the reflective scatterer 11 not only reflects the incident laser light, but also has the effect of imparting a large optical path length difference, which cannot be obtained in the conventional example, to the laser light incident at the same angle. Have.
- the reflective scatterer 11 of the screen 10 that is useful in the present invention is provided with a concavo-convex shape pattern (coupled wave shape pattern) as shown in FIG. 2B for the purpose of causing scattered reflection. it can.
- the concavo-convex pattern of the reflective scatterer 11 has a pitch of 10 mm or less, more preferably a pitch of 1 mm or less, that is, a convex part adjacent to the apex force of the convex part (concave part) with respect to an arbitrary direction included in the plane. The distance to the top of the (concave portion).
- the protruding top of the concavo-convex shape (convex apex) and the protruding top (depressed) on the opposite side (
- the step between the concave vertices is 1 micrometer or more, preferably 10 micrometers or more, more preferably 50 micrometers or more.
- the uneven shape may be any shape that diffusely reflects incident light.
- the concavo-convex shape is at least one of a shape formed by synthesizing a plurality of waveforms and an intermittent shape, that is, a shape in which the slope portion has an inclination substantially perpendicular to the main surface of the reflective scatterer 11 at a macroscopic viewpoint. It is desirable to include
- the reflective scatterer 11 may include a material that scatters and reflects laser light.
- the reflective scatterer 11 may include, for example, a bead type “screen, mat type” screen used in a projector using a general lamp light source. Further, if the laser beam constituting the image is diffusely reflected, even a screen containing a material other than the above can be used. Therefore, the reflective scatterer 11 may include a material such as a paper material or a wall material, and may further include a rough surface including plastic, glass, metal, or the like.
- the transflective layer 12 of the screen 10 according to the present invention can obtain a wider viewing angle than the case where only the reflection scatterer 11 is provided due to the diffusion effect.
- the transflective diffusion layer 12 includes a material having a diffusion effect at both interface portions on the viewer V side and the reflective scatterer 11 side, and the viewer V side interface is at least a part of both interfaces. With a diffusing surface.
- the reflective scatterer 11 side interface of the transflective diffusion layer 12 also includes a diffusion surface.
- the transflective layer 12 has a ratio at which the laser light incident on one of the interfaces is emitted from the other, that is, a transmittance of 10% or more. If it is less than 10%, the laser beam does not reach the reflective scatterer 11 sufficiently, so that the brightness is lowered and the effect of reducing speckle noise is reduced, which is not desirable.
- the transmissivity of the transflective layer 12 is preferably 30% or more. Still more preferably, the transmissivity of the semi-transmissive diffusion layer 12 is 50% or more.
- the haze value (cloudiness value) of the semi-transmissive diffusion layer 12 is preferably 20% or more. More preferably, it is 40% or more, and still more preferably 60% or more.
- the reflectance of the transflective layer 12 is preferably 3% or more. More preferably 10% or more, more More preferably, it is 20% or more.
- the translucent diffusion layer 12 may also be formed with a uniform material force.
- the semi-transmissive diffusion layer 12 may have a multilayer structure including a plurality of diffusion surfaces.
- a material including diffusion surfaces on the front and back sides may be laminated with an adhesive and a resin film.
- the interface forming the mirror surface is effectively separated from the transmission diffusion layer 12 in order to prevent reflection of the laser light by the mirror surface. It is desirable to bond the reflective scatterer 11 with an adhesive having an equal refractive index.
- the semi-transmissive diffusion layer 12 has a multilayer structure, it is desirable to configure the multilayer structure using the same adhesive so as to prevent the configuration of the mirror surface between the respective layers.
- the translucent diffusion layer 12 includes a diffusion surface in at least a part of the interface. Thereby, the semi-transmissive diffusing layer 12 removes interference pattern noise of the multilayer structure caused by the surface reflected laser light and the reflected laser light from the reflective scatterer 11.
- the transflective diffusion layer 12 and the reflective scatterer 11 can be bonded with various adhesives.
- a resin film is interposed between the transflective layer 12 and the reflective scatterer 11 and adhered with an adhesive, thereby keeping the distance between the transflective layer 12 and the reflective scatterer 11 constant. Is also advantageous. Further, it is also possible to form the reflection scatterer 11 at the interface opposite to the viewer V of the transflective diffusion layer 12 to form the integral screen 10.
- a material including a smooth surface such as a resin film
- an adhesive having a refractive index substantially equal to the refractive index of the material having the smooth surface is used.
- the reflective scatterer 11 are preferably adhered to the resin film. In this way, even when a resin film or the like is used, interference pattern noise due to reflection on the surface can be prevented.
- the distance d between the V-side interface and the reflective scatterer is preferably 50 micrometers or more and 2 millimeters or less. If it is thinner than 50 micrometers, the transflective diffused layer 12 viewers
- the effective light source area at the V-side interface (the area corresponding to the micro-surface element S in Fig. 2A) is not sufficiently large, reducing speckle noise. This is not a desirable configuration. If it is thicker than 2 mm, the effective light source area is large. Too much. In this case, the resolution of the image is deteriorated and the image viewed by the viewer V may be blurred, which is not a desirable configuration.
- the greater the distance d the greater the effect of reducing speckle noise. The degradation of image quality cannot be avoided.
- the distance d is preferably 1 millimeter or less.
- the ratio occupied by the transflective diffusion layer 12 is preferably 5% or more, more preferably 20% or more. That is, the thickness of the semi-transmissive diffusion layer 12 is preferably 0.05 X d or more, more preferably 0.20 X d or more. Increasing the ratio of the semi-transmissive diffusion layer makes it easy for multiple scattering to occur and contributes to further speckle noise reduction.
- FIG. 3 shows a modification of the screen of the first embodiment.
- the screen 100 includes a transflective diffusion layer 120 having a laminated structure of translucent paper 12A and a resin film 12B, and a reflective scatterer 110 including a bead type 'screen 11A.
- the body 110 is bonded with an adhesive.
- the transflective diffusion layer 120 has a reflection effect and a diffusion effect on transmitted light
- the reflection scatterer 110 has a scattering reflection effect on incident light.
- a part of the incident light 31 is reflected by the transflective diffusion layer 120, and the transmitted light is diffused and reaches the reflection scatterer 110.
- the reflective scatterer 110 scatters and reflects the transmitted light, makes it incident on the semi-transmissive diffusion layer 120 again, and emits it from the minute surface element S as substantially divergent light.
- the light 33 U and 33 L exemplify light emitted from the minute surface element S in a substantially divergent manner.
- the semi-transmissive diffusion layer 120 includes at least the semi-transmissive paper 12A.
- the translucent paper 12A can obtain a front and back diffusing surface and an appropriate transmittance. Furthermore, it is very advantageous in terms of cost for producing special diffusion plates and lenses.
- As the translucent paper 12A paper materials such as Japanese paper and tracing paper can be used.
- FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the laser image display device and the visual camera 47 and the screen 100 used in this evaluation.
- Laser image display devices include red, green, and blue laser light sources 41R, 41G, 41B, and rod integration. It includes a light modulator 42, an illumination optical system 43, a spatial light modulator 44, a dichroic prism 45, and a projection lens.
- the visual camera 47 includes a pupil lens 47a, a magnifying lens 47b, and a CCD 47c.
- the screen 100 used in this evaluation uses a tracing paper as the translucent paper 12A and a polyester film as the resin film 12B.
- the distance d between the laser light incident surface of the transflective diffusion layer 120 and the reflective scatterer 110 is 200 micrometers (m).
- the laser beams emitted from the RGB three-color laser light sources 41 R, 41 G, and 41 B are guided to the rod integrator 42.
- the laser light repeats internal reflection in the rod integrator 42 and reaches the emission end.
- the illumination optical system 43 (relay lens, mirror 43a, field lens 43b, etc.)
- the light intensity distribution is uniform in the spatial light modulator 44. Projected as a light beam having a rectangular cross section.
- the spatial light modulator 44 modulates the light beam to form a two-dimensional image.
- the modulated RGB three-color laser beams are combined by the dichroic prism 45 and projected onto the screen 100 by the projection lens 46 as a full-color two-dimensional image.
- the visual camera 47 includes a pupil lens 47a corresponding to a human pupil and a magnifying lens 47b and a CCD 47c for enlarging an image (including speckle noise) generated on a virtual retina onto the CCD 47c. Using this visual camera 47, speckle noise contained in an image formed on a human retina is measured and evaluated based on the amount of light received by the CCD 43.
- the green laser light source 41G is capable of emitting green laser light, displaying a uniform image on the screen 100, and receiving light from the uniform image.
- the ratio of the value X to the standard deviation ⁇ of the intensity variation of the uniform image due to speckle noise, ⁇ ⁇ is used.
- a general bead type screen is used instead of the screen 100 is shown.
- the ⁇ ⁇ of the screen 100 of the first embodiment modification is reduced to less than half compared with ⁇ ⁇ of the comparative example, and it can be seen that the effect of removing speckle noise appears.
- the screen 100 has a wider viewing angle.
- the Clean 100 has a multi-layered structure. The interference pattern noise was not observed.
- the laser image display screen according to the present invention was found to have excellent speckle noise removal performance.
- the screens 10 and 100 according to the present invention do not require a drive unit for moving the screen. Therefore, it is advantageous that it can be used for a screen of any size that does not select an installation place and consumes electric power.
- the laser image display device using the laser image display screen according to the present invention can display an image with reduced speckle noise.
- FIG. 5 shows a schematic partial sectional view of a laser image display screen 101 according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
- the screen 101 is a laser image screen that is excellent in cost and easy to carry, particularly as a simple screen.
- the screen 101 includes a translucent paper 12C as a transflective layer and a general paper 111 as a reflective scatterer, and a resin film 13 is inserted between the transflective layer and the reflective scatterer.
- the resin film 13, the translucent paper 12C, and the general paper 111 are adhered with an adhesive so that surface reflection by the smooth surface of the resin film does not occur.
- the same material as the material used for the translucent diffusion layer described in the first embodiment can be used.
- the general paper 111 may be any general paper as long as it is a material having a scattering reflection effect with respect to laser light used for image display.
- the general paper 111 preferably does not contain a fluorescent agent in order to obtain a colorful image of the laser light source itself.
- the screen 101 can be manufactured in the same process as a so-called bonded paper, it is advantageous in terms of manufacturing cost.
- the material itself used for manufacturing includes only easily available materials, it can be manufactured at a very low cost, which is also advantageous in terms of cost. You can also write letters and figures on the screen with common writing instruments.
- the screen 101 is very light, it is convenient to carry.
- Tracing paper is used as the screen 101 used for evaluation measurement as translucent paper 12C.
- the polyester film having a thickness of 80 m was used as the resin film 13 and the drawing paper was used as the general paper 111.
- the transflective paper 12C has a reflection effect and a diffusion effect on transmitted light
- the general paper 111 has a scattering reflection effect on incident light. Part of the incident light 51 is reflected by the translucent paper 12C, and the transmitted light is diffused and reaches the general paper 111.
- the general paper 111 scatter-reflects the transmitted light, makes it incident on the semi-transmissive paper 12C again, and emits it from the minute surface element S as substantially divergent light.
- the light 53 U and 53 L exemplify light emitted from the minute surface element S in a substantially divergent manner.
- the distance d between the laser light incident surface of the transflective layer and the reflective scatterer was 150 micrometers.
- Second distance d comparison screen [0070] Second distance d comparison screen:
- the third embodiment according to the present invention is a laser image display device that can use the screen according to the previous embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 6 shows a schematic configuration diagram of a laser image display device according to the third embodiment.
- the same components as those in FIG. 4 are denoted by the same reference numerals as those in FIG.
- the laser image display apparatus includes a rotary lenticular lens between the light source 41R and the like and the rod integrator 42.
- Lights emitted from the RGB three-color laser light sources 41R, 41G, and 41B are deflected by the rotary lenticular lens 51 and guided to the rod integrator 42.
- the rotary lenticular lens 51 is an embodiment of an optical deflection element having a function of deflecting the outgoing direction of incident light.
- FIG. 7A is a plan view of the rotary lenticular lens 51.
- the rotary lenticular lens 51 includes a plurality of lenticular lens elements 71 in the circumferential direction, and each element 71 has a substantially uniform cross section in a direction parallel to the radial direction.
- FIG. 7B is a diagram showing the drive unit 53 connected to the rotary lenticular lens 51.
- the drive unit 53 drives the rotary shaft A to rotate, and the rotary lenticular lens 51 also rotates. By this rotation, the output angular force of the light incident on the mouth integrator 42 at the point P1 changes with time.
- the incident angle of light incident on any one pixel (cell) included in the spatial modulation element 44 is temporally changed.
- the incidence of light incident on one area corresponding to an arbitrary pixel on the screen 101 The angle also changes over time.
- the light reaching the viewer from the screen 101 of the third embodiment similarly changes with time because the incident angle on the screen 101 changes with time.
- the viewer integrates and recognizes the stimulus to the retina by light that repeats the change in time.
- the effective light source area of the screen is larger than when the angle does not change.
- the effective light source area can be further increased by using the screen 101 according to the present invention using the semi-transmissive diffusion layer and the reflective scatterer. As a result, speckle noise can be reduced to a level that the viewer cannot recognize at all.
- the amount of change in the angle of irradiation with consideration of the screen force is preferably NAO.001 or more. If it is less than NAO.001, the amount of change in angle is small and the speckle noise is not reduced. In order to reduce speckle noise to a level that cannot be recognized at all by the viewer, it is more preferable that the angle change amount is NAO.002 or higher.
- the laser image display device of the present invention has a screen 101 having a transflective diffusion layer and a reflective scatterer, and changes the incident angle of light incident on a region corresponding to one pixel on the screen 101 with time.
- speckle noise can be removed.
- the rotational speed of the rotary lenticular lens 51 may be set so that the viewer does not recognize speckle noise.
- the lower limit varies depending on the content of the displayed image.
- a configuration in which the rotational lenticular lenses 51 are arranged in series with respect to the laser light is also effective.
- the laser light is incident on the lenticular lens element 71 at point P1 and point ⁇ 2.
- the laser beam is deflected in the vertical direction in the drawing at point P1, and is deflected in the horizontal direction in the drawing at point ⁇ 2.
- the deflection direction changes with time.
- the incident angle of light incident on each pixel of the spatial light modulator 45 can be changed in a two-dimensionally complex manner.
- a lenticular lens element 71a may be used as a rotational lenticular lens modification 51a configured to form a predetermined angle ⁇ with respect to the radial direction. Is also advantageous.
- the direction in which the light deflection direction changes with time can be freely controlled by the angle a.
- the rotation lenticular lens 51 is used to control the incident angle of light incident on the screen 101 to change with time.
- Other elements can be used. Specifically, an element having a configuration for guiding laser light to an optical fiber and vibrating the fiber, or a configuration for moving a diffusion plate, a mirror, or the like can be used.
- the fourth embodiment according to the present invention is a laser light source that can be used in the laser image display device according to the present invention.
- FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of the red laser light source 81 according to the present embodiment.
- the red laser light source 81 includes an LD chip array 83 including a plurality of laser diode (LD) chips 811 to 8 18.
- Multi-mode fiber 87 Laser power to be emitted Introduced into the optical system of the laser image display device. This figure shows a red laser light source as an example, but it can also be applied to laser light sources for other colors.
- the wavelength ⁇ of the laser light output from the laser light source that outputs monochromatic light can be expressed using the center wavelength of the combined light when a plurality of LD chips 811 or 818 are used. Further, the half-value width ⁇ of the wavelength of the laser light is the half-value width indicated by the combined laser light. In the red laser light source 81, by using a plurality of LD chips 811 to 818, ⁇ can be made larger than when a single laser diode is used.
- FIG. 9B is a characteristic diagram of red laser light emitted from the red laser light source 81. Since multiple LD chips 811 to 818 are used, a broad peak with multiple peaks superimposed can be seen. This laser beam has a center wavelength of 634.8 nm, half-width ⁇ , 1.9 nm Has a meter.
- FIG. 9B is a characteristic diagram of green laser light emitted from a green laser light source that can be used in the laser image display apparatus according to the present invention.
- This green laser light source uses laser light emitted from a plurality of laser light sources as a fundamental wave, converts the wavelength of the fundamental wave using one or more wavelength conversion elements, and uses an appropriate optical system such as a multimode fiber. It is multiplexed on the same axis.
- This laser beam has a center wavelength of 540.2 nanometers, a half-value width of ⁇ , 1.2
- FIG. 9C is a characteristic diagram of blue laser light emitted from a blue laser light source that can be used in the laser image display apparatus according to the present invention.
- This blue laser light source has the same configuration as the red laser light source 81 of FIG. A laser diode that emits blue laser light is used.
- This laser beam has a central wavelength, 445.0 nanometers, a half-value width ⁇ , and 2.9 nanometers.
- ⁇ ⁇ is either ⁇ ⁇ R ⁇ ⁇ or ⁇ ⁇ .
- the laser image display device of the present invention that the relationship between the distance d and the wavelength and half-width of the laser light source of the light incident surface and the reflecting scatterers semitransparent diffusion layer 2d X ⁇ ⁇ > ⁇ 2 By spec Noise can be removed.
- the full width at half maximum of the wavelength of the laser light from the laser light source is expanded using the multilaser or multimode laser shown in FIG. ( ⁇ 0.5 nm) is preferable, and more preferably 1 nanometer or more ( ⁇ lnm).
- the half width is preferably less than 10 nanometers ( ⁇ lOnm).
- the power to use light sources of three or more colors of RGB should satisfy at least one type of color, more preferably all the types of colors satisfy the above relationship. That's fine.
- the half-width of light ⁇ is increased by using a plurality of LD chips as the laser light source, but ⁇ is also increased by using pulse oscillation or a multimode laser. Or the like. Even if ⁇ is small, d may be increased within the range where blurring of image quality is allowed to satisfy the above relationship.
- a semiconductor laser, a gas laser, a solid laser or the like that is a wavelength converted from a laser may be used as long as it is a light source using laser oscillation.
- integrator, illumination optical system, modulation element, and projection optical system of the laser image display apparatus of the present invention are not particularly limited, and optical elements for image display can be used as appropriate.
- the laser image display screen and laser image display device of the present invention can be used as a display and display device for moving images and still images.
- the laser image display device of the present invention has been described using three RGB colors, it may be a single color display device. It can also be used for a force one-dimensional modulation element described using a two-dimensional spatial modulation element and a laser image display device that forms an image by scanning laser light.
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