Patent ID: 8029141

Claim:
An image display apparatus, comprising: a laser light source; a two-dimensional light modulation device for modulating the laser light emitted from the laser light source; a display surface for displaying the modulated light; an optical pixel aperture enlarging member for distributing the luminance of the laser light while introducing the laser light to apertures of pixels of the two-dimensional light modulation device; and a display pixel aperture enlarging portion for optically enlarging the modulated light by the apertures of the pixels of the two-dimensional light modulation device corresponding to pixels of an image to be displayed on the display surface, wherein the luminance of a partial area of each pixel of the image displayed on the display surface is controlled to be below the threefold of an average value of the luminance in the area of the entire pixel by the optical pixel aperture enlarging member and the display pixel aperture enlarging portion.