Patent ID: 7361878

Claim:
An image display apparatus that displays an image on a scanned position, comprising: a light source unit emitting a light beam optically modulated based on image/video information; a scanning unit scanning the light beam emitted from said light source unit two-dimensionally; an optical system that guides the light beam scanned by said scanning unit to said scanned position; a control unit controlling operations of said light source unit and said scanning unit in synchronization with each other to form said image on said scanned position; and a light beam dividing unit dividing the light beam scanned by said scanning unit two-dimensionally into a plurality of light beams and emitting them; wherein said light beam dividing unit is disposed in an optical path between said scanning unit and said scanned position, and wherein said light beam dividing unit divides a light beam to be incident on an edge portion of an image on said scanned position in a direction nearly perpendicular to a scanning line drawn on said scanned position, and the intensity of first and second light beams among light beams resulting from said division is higher than twice the intensity of the light beam having the highest intensity among the other light beams.