Patent ID: 8042950

Claim:
A projection apparatus characterized by comprising: a light source section individually and independently emitting a plurality of color lights having different wavelengths; an optical path switching section electrically switching optical paths of individual color lights emitted from the light source section, at predetermined time intervals; a diffusion forming section converting individual color lights outputted from the optical path switching section into diffused lights having different optical axis directions; a parallel light making section making individual color lights diffusion-formed by the diffusion forming section into parallel lights on a per color light basis; a color image light generating section having a microlens array where a plurality of microlenses are arranged in a matrix at incident regions of individual color lights made into parallel lights by the parallel light making section, and having a pixel section where dots whose number is equal to the number of colors of color lights emitted from the light source section are arranged oppositely to the individual microlenses, and generating color image lights by using individual color lights transmitted through the individual dots; and a projection section enlarging and projecting color image lights generated by the color image light generating section.