Patent ID: 8162488

Claim:
A projection display apparatus comprising: a light valve; a light source for producing light directed to said light valve; an integrator lens disposed in an optical path extending from said light source to said light valve and including a first lens array and a second lens array both for rendering even an illuminance distribution of light directed from said light source; and a light amount adjustment mechanism disposed in the optical path between said first lens array and said second lens array and for adjusting the amount of light directed to said light valve, said light amount adjusting mechanism including a pair of light shielding elements pivoting in the form of a pair of double doors, said pair of light shielding elements having an opening formed in a region of tip portions thereof which corresponds to lens cells in contact with the optical axis of said second lens array, wherein a region of said opening corresponding to one lens cell in contact with the optical axis of said second lens array is of a triangular configuration, wherein said triangular configuration of the opening of said pair of light shielding elements has a base which is a side of said lens cell of said second lens array in contact with an x-axis and a vertex positioned farther from the optical axis than the middle of a side of said lens cell opposed to said base, when said pair of light shielding elements are placed between a first position and a second position, said first position being the position of a light incident surface of said second lens array, said second position being an intermediate position between a light exiting surface of said first lens array and the light incident surface of said second lens array, said x-axis being a long axis of said lens cell and perpendicular to said optical axis.