Patent ID: 7978387

Claim:
A laser projector, comprising: a laser light source to project a laser beam; a scan unit to scan the laser beam in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction to form an image on a projection surface with a trajectory of the laser beam scanned in the horizontal direction being lined up in the vertical direction; a scan signal generation unit to generate a pulse signal causing the scan unit to scan the laser beam in the horizontal direction; a drive unit to drive the scan unit back and forth so that the laser beam is scanned in the horizontal direction in response to the pulse signal; and a pulse pattern adjustment unit to adjust a pulse pattern of the pulse signal in order to change a swing amount of the scan unit to scan the laser beam in the horizontal direction; wherein the pulse pattern adjustment unit adjusts the pulse pattern to a first pulse pattern for projection for adjusting the swing amount from a first swing amount to a second swing amount in a projection interval where a scan position in the vertical direction is shifted from a starting position to an ending position with the scan unit scanning the laser beam in the horizontal direction to form the image on the projection surface, adjusts the pulse pattern to a second pulse pattern for adjusting the swing amount from the second swing amount back to the first swing amount in a first-stage interval in a non-projection interval where the scan position in the vertical direction is shifted from the ending position back to the starting position, and adjusts the pulse pattern to a third pulse pattern for keeping the swing amount at the first swing amount in a second-stage interval in the non-projection interval until the scan position returns to the starting position in the projection interval.