Patent ID: 6956551

Claim:
Device for displaying images on a projection screen of the type comprising: a light source emitting a beam B S of generally white polychromatic light, means for deconstructing this polychromatic light beam into complementary light beams B B , B G and B R , whose wavelength ranges are different and correspond to the three conventional primary colors blue B, green G and red R, respectively, in the path of each of the complementary light beams B B , B G and B R , matrices M B , M G and M R of reflecting elements which are electrically driveable according to the images to be displayed, reflecting complementary beams B′ B , B′ G and B′ R , these matrices M B , M G and M R being arranged so that the plane of their reflecting surfaces intersect along parallel straight lines, the optical axis of each incident complementary beam B B , B G and B R making a non-zero angle of incidence α with the direction normal to the corresponding matrix M B , M G and M R , and the optical axis of each reflected complementary beam B′ B , B′ G and B′ R making the opposite angle −α with the direction normal to the corresponding matrix M B , M G and M R , means for reconstructing the reflected complementary beams B′ B , B′ G and B′ R into a single modulated polychromatic beam B P , and an optical system for projecting onto a screen the images of the reflecting matrices M B , M G and M R after the reconstruction of the beams, wherein one of the deconstructing means and reconstructing means comprise two dichroic filters with a gradient arranged so that the optical axis of at least one of the incident beam, the beam to be deconstructed and the beam to be reconstructed forms, with these filters and at a midpoint of incidence O, an angle of incidence approximately equal to a predetermined angle of incidence β 1 , β 2 , β′ 1 , β′ 2 corresponding to a cutoff wavelength matched to deconstruct or reconstruct at least one incident beam, the cutoff wavelength of each filter being approximately constant for all the rays of the same beam whose points of incidence on the filter are aligned in the direction HOG, H′OG′ of the gradient, wherein, for at least one of these filters, the direction of the gradient makes a non-zero angle of inclination of gradient δ, δ′ with a plane orthogonal to the reflecting surfaces of the matrices M B , M G and M R .