Patent ID: 8416481

Claim:
A laser projector, comprising: a laser light source configured to emit laser light; a scanning section configured to scan a projection surface in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction with the laser light emitted from the laser light source, thereby forming an image on the projection surface; a generating section configured to generate a pulse signal; a driving section configured to reciprocate the scanning section in the horizontal direction in accordance with the pulse signal generated by the generating section; and an adjusting section configured to adjust a pulse pattern of the pulse signal generated by the generating section so as to change a scanning angle range of the scanning section in the horizontal direction, wherein a time period in which the scanning section scans the projection surface for forming one frame of the image includes: a projection section in which a scanning position of the scanning section is changed from a start point to an end point in the vertical direction while scanning the projection surface in the horizontal direction with the laser light, thereby forming the one frame of the image; and a non-projection section in which the scanning position of the scanning section is returned from the end point to the start point in the vertical direction, wherein the adjusting section controls the generating section to generate the pulse signal having a projection pulse pattern for changing the scanning angle range of the scanning section from a first scanning angle range to a second scanning angle range in the projection section and a non-projection pulse pattern for changing the scanning angle range of the scanning section from the second scanning angle range to the first scanning angle range in the non-projection section.