Image projector and method of operating same

Details Image projector and method of operating same Image projector and method of operating same

2005-12-27

2005-12-27

Tran, Thuy V. (Department: 2821)

Optics: image projectors

Additional illumination of or near projected image

C315S308000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06979085

ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to an image projector with a High-Intensity-Discharge HID lamp (112) and a method of operating it. Such lamps have the disadvantage that their voltaic arc jumps back and forth between different positions at unforeseeable times during operation. This so-called arc jumping has the effect of changing the brightness, i.e. the overall brightness and/or the brightness distribution of the light emitted by the HID lamp (112). For the viewer of an image projected with such a projector, this effect appears as a jolt of this projected image. To avoid such effects for the viewer, it is first proposed according to the invention that changes in the brightness of the light in the image projector's beam path are detected. As soon as a change in brightness caused by an arc jump has been detected, this brightness is reset to a brightness detected at a moment t-2before the arc jump, in order subsequently to convert it during a predetermined time interval T to the brightness resulting from the arc jump. This resetting must occur so soon after the arc jump, and the conversion so slowly, that the changes in the brightness of the light incident on a picture screen device (118) resulting from the arc jump, the reset, and the conversion are not perceptible to the human eye.

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