Patent ID: 8596795

Claim:
A projector comprising: an illumination device including plural solid-state light sources, plural collimator lenses that are provided to correspond to the plural solid-state light sources and substantially parallelize lights generated in the plural solid-state light sources, respectively, a focusing system that focuses the lights from the collimator lenses on a predetermined focusing position, and a diverging light generation part that is located near the focusing position and generates diverging light in an incident region where the light from the focusing system enters; a light modulation device that modulates the light from the illumination device in response to image information in a light modulation region; and a projection system that projects the light from the light modulation device, wherein an area of the incident region in the diverging light generation part is equal to or less than 1/102th of an area of the light modulation region in the light modulation device.