Patent ID: 7665851

Claim:
A projector comprising: a light source which emits light; a filter unit which includes: (i) a plurality of primary color filters for dividing the light from said light source into a plurality of primary color lights, and (ii) a plurality of intermediate color filters, each of which is arranged between adjacent ones of the primary color filters, and each of which is colored by an intermediate color between adjacent ones of the primary colors, wherein the filter unit sequentially emits lights of the primary colors and the intermediate colors after the light from the light source is projected through the primary color filters and the intermediate color filters; a spatial light modulator which is driven to project the colored lights from said filter unit to a screening member to project images; and a display driver, to which a plurality of primary color signals for generating said images to be projected onto said screening member are supplied, which supplies the primary color signals to said spatial light modulator so that the primary color lights from the filter unit respectively correspond to the primary color signals supplied to the display driver, while controlling the spatial light modulator by selecting one of a plurality of different display control methods of supplying signals to the spatial light modulator when the lights from the filter unit are mixed colors of one of the primary colors and one of the intermediate colors, and supplying the signals to the spatial light modulator in accordance with the selected display control method; wherein the color filters on the filter unit are arranged in order of red, yellow, green, cyan, blue and magenta.