Patent ID: 7327520

Claim:
An image display apparatus, comprising: a light source having an electrode wire, which is provided on a lamp electrode; an image display element for forming an optical image thereon, with light emitted from said light source, responding to an image signal; a projection lens for projecting light from said image display element; a first array lens having a plural number of first rectangular cells, at least one of which has a belt type shadow of said electrode wire cast across the cell, and for forming a plural number of secondary light source images, respectively, through condensing the light from said light source by means of said plural number of first cells; and a second array lens having a plural number of second rectangular cells, being disposed close to where said plural number of secondary light source images are formed, for forming images of said plural number of secondary light source images upon said image display element, wherein at least one of a diagonal size, a vertical size, and a horizontal size of the one lens cell on said first array lens is equal to 1/4.5 or more than that, in a ratio to any one of a diagonal size, a vertical size, and a horizontal size of said image display element.