Patent ID: 6886943

Claim:
A display system comprising: a lamp providing a lamp output; a light integrator optically coupled to receive the lamp output from the lamp and for providing a homogenized light output; a beam splitter optically coupled to receive the homogenized light output from the light integrator and configured to provide a first light beam having a first polarization state and a second light beam having a second polarization state; a first imager optically coupled to receive the first light beam for producing a first modulated light beam, wherein the first imager is a first spatial light modulator; first projection optics optically coupled to receive the first modulated light beam and configured to expand the first modulated light beam to form a first display image portion; a second imager optically coupled to receive the second light beam and for producing a second modulated light beam, wherein the second imager is a second spatial light modulator; a second polarizing beam splitter disposed between the polarizing beam splitter and the first spatial light modulator; and a third polarizing beam splitter disposed between the polarizing beam splitter and the second spatial light modulator, and second projection optics optically coupled to the second light beam and configured to expand the second modulated light beam to form a second display image portion, wherein the first display image portion and the second image display portion are combined at a margin to form a display.