Patent ID: 7643048

Claim:
An image transfer apparatus comprising: a transmission type image display device for forming a display image on an image display screen thereof by transmitted light that has transmitted through said image display screen; a light source that is provided on an opposite side of the image display screen of the image display device and irradiates light substantially perpendicularly on said image display screen in order to obtain said transmitted light; a parallel rays generating element that is provided between said light source and said image display device and makes the light irradiated from said light source into substantially parallel rays; and a moving device for moving said parallel rays generating element and said image display device relatively while said display image displayed on the image display screen is being transferred onto a photosensitive recording medium by exposing the photosensitive recording medium using said transmitted light that has transmitted through said image display device, wherein said parallel rays generating element is a porous plate provided with a plurality of through-holes formed in a substantially perpendicular direction with respect to said image display screen of the image display device.