Patent ID: 8876300

Claim:
An image projecting apparatus for projecting an image, the image projecting apparatus comprising: a light source for outputting light to form the image; a light emitting port; an emitting unit for causing the light emitted from the light source to be emitted from the light emitting port in such a manner that an emission direction of the light emitted from the light emitting port is variable; and a control unit for controlling the light source and the emitting unit to switch between a first projection mode in which the emission direction of the light emitted from the light emitting port, when the image projecting apparatus is placed on a horizontal plane, is a front direction of the light emitting port or obliquely upward with respect to the horizontal plane and a second projection mode in which the emission direction of the light emitted from the light emitting port, when the image projecting apparatus is placed on the horizontal plane, is obliquely downward with respect to the horizontal plane, wherein, in the second projection mode, the image is projected, by the light coming directly from the light emitting port, on the horizontal plane or on a plane under the horizontal plane.