Patent ID: 8693075
Filing Date: 2014-04-08
Classification: G02B,G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A scan type image display device which scans a screen with an optical beam and displays an image on the screen, comprising: an optical source which emits an optical beam; an optical source drive circuit which controls the intensity of the optical beam emitted by the optical source according to an image signal; a scan mirror which has a mirror surface on which the optical beam is incident in a substantially vertical direction, the scan mirror reflecting the incident optical beam in a substantially vertical direction; a scan mirror drive circuit which drives the mirror surface of the scan mirror such that the mirror surface repeatedly two-dimensionally rotates by a predetermined scan angle; a polarized beam splitter which causes the optical beam emitted by the optical source to be incident on the scan mirror through a quarter wave plate, the polarized beam splitter also outputting toward the screen the optical beam that has been reflected by the scan mirror and passed through the quarter wave plate; a scan angle expander which increases a scan angle of the optical beam output from the polarized beam splitter by N times, where N is a number greater than 1; and a speckle noise reduction device disposed on the side from which the optical beam enters the polarized beam splitter, the speckle noise reduction device reducing speckle noise in the optical beam caused by interference with a feed back beam from the side of the polarized beam splitter.