Patent ID: 8177371

Claim:
A method for positioning a light modulation element of a projector comprising: providing the projector including a first light modulation element unit having a first light modulation element for modulating a first color light and forming a first image, a second light modulation element for modulating a second color light and forming a second image, a third light modulation element for modulating a third color light and forming a third image, and a first combining system for combining the respective color lights modulated by the first through third light modulation elements and supplies first image light, a second light modulation element unit having a fourth light modulation element for modulating the first color light and forming a fourth image, a fifth light modulation element for modulating the second color light and forming a fifth image, a sixth light modulation element for modulating the third color light and forming a sixth image, and a second combining system for combining the respective color lights modulated by the fourth through sixth light modulation elements and supplies second image light, and a combining system for combining the first image light supplied from the first light modulation element unit and the second image light supplied from the second light modulation element unit and supplying combined light; positioning pixels of the first through third images such that the pixels of the first image agree with the corresponding pixels of the second image and that the pixels of the first image and the second image shift from the corresponding pixels of the third image by a predetermined amount in a predetermined direction; positioning pixels of the fourth through sixth images such that the pixels of the fourth image agree with the corresponding pixels of the fifth image and that the pixels of the sixth image shift from the corresponding pixels of the fourth image and the fifth image by a predetermined amount in a predetermined direction; and obtaining the color lights from the first light modulation element and the second light modulation element of the first light modulation element unit, and the color light from the sixth light modulation element of the second light modulation element unit, and positioning the first light modulation element unit and the second light modulation element unit such that the color of combined light of the color lights obtained from the first light modulation element, the second light modulation element, and the sixth light modulation element and combined by the combining system becomes a predetermined color.