Patent ID: 7081928

Claim:
A full color video projector system comprising: a. a light source, producing a full spectrum beam in a first direction; b. a splayed array of red, green, and blue dichroic reflector color filters, said splayed array being located downstream from said light source and being arranged so as to split said beam into red, green, and blue beam components and re-direct them in a second direction; c. a lenticular lens array, said array being transverse to said beam components traveling in said second direction, said lens array comprised of a plurality of elongated cylindrical lenses, said cylindrical lenses being arranged in parallel, co-planar relation, each of said lenses outputting a red, green, and blue color stripe illumination pattern at a lens array focal plane; d. a relay optic downstream from said lens array focal plane in said second direction, redirecting an incident composite of said red, green, and blue illumination pattern in a third direction; e. a reflective micro-mirror light valve downstream from said relay optic in said third direction, said light valve including three sub-pixels for every full-color screen pixel in a full color video image, said screen pixels being arranged in parallel stripes which correspond to the size and configuration of said color stripe illumination pattern outputted by said lenticular lens array, each of said sub-pixels having an actuated state in which at least a portion of said color stripe illumination pattern is reflected in a fourth direction, and an unactuated state in which at least a portion of said color stripe illumination pattern is reflected in a fifth direction; f. a projection lens, said projection lens having an input port directed toward said light valve, and an output port directed toward and focused upon a projection screen; and, g. light valve address circuitry interconnected to each of said sub-pixels, said address circuitry actuating appropriate sub-pixels to redirect corresponding portions of said color stripe illumination pattern in said fourth direction and upon said input port of said projection lens, in accordance with corresponding video image information.