Patent ID: 7136224

Claim:
A rear projection screen for use in a rear projection display apparatus, comprising: at least two lens sheets including a vertical lenticular lens sheet on the nearest side to a viewer, the vertical lenticular lens sheet comprising, a lenticular lens capable of vertically refracting the incident light on its incident surface, black stripes in a vicinity of a focus of the lenticular lens in portions where the incident light does not pass through, and a flat surface on a viewer side; a Fresnel lens sheet; and a horizontal lenticular lens sheet capable of horizontally refracting the incident light, wherein the Fresnel lens sheet, the horizontal lenticular lens, and the vertical lenticular lens sheet are in this order from the incident side of the incident light, and a lens center of the Fresnel lens sheet is arranged upward or downward with respect to a mechanical center of the screen, and, in relation to this arrangement, centers of the black stripes of the vertical lenticular lens sheet are shifted with respect to the focus of the vertical lenticular lens.