Patent ID: 7515337

Claim:
A screen that transmits a light according to an image signal, comprising: a flat surface; a plurality of light-guide portions arrayed on the flat surface, the plurality of light-guide portions each having an incident side upon which the light according to the image signal is incident and having an output side, each of the plurality of light-guide portions having a taper form such that a cross section of each of the plurality of light-guide portions gradually reduces from the incident side toward the output side thereof; and a plurality of lens elements provided on the incident side of the flat surface opposite the plurality of light-guide portions, the plurality of lens elements focusing the light according to the image signal, each of said plurality of lens elements focusing the light according to the image signal at a location in each of respective corresponding light-guide portions, the location being nearer to a respective lens element than a respective output surface of each of the respective light-guide portions.