Patent ID: 6898020

Claim:
An image display device comprising a light source, a reflecting image display element to form an optical image according to an image signal output from the light emitted from said light source, an optical element to equalize the strength distribution of the light from said light source, a color separator which separates the light emitted from said light source into a plurality of light colors, a rotating multisurface element input with a plurality of light colors emitted by said color separator which changes the respective optical axis direction and beaming said plurality of light colors onto different locations on said reflecting image display element while scrolling the light beam in one direction, and a projection lens which projects light emitted from said reflecting image display element as a color image light, an optical path change element which inputs light from said rotating multisurface element to said reflecting image display element and projecting said color image light which is reflecting light from said reflecting image display element to said projection lens.