Optics: image projectors – Composite projected image
Patent
1998-05-29
1999-05-11
Dowling, William C.
Optics: image projectors
Composite projected image
353 94, G03B21/14
Patent
active
059020300
ABSTRACT:
A projection display system is provided having a first off-axis projector, a second off-axis projector and a screen assembly including a display screen. The screen assembly has a center axis segmenting the assembly into two segments. The first off-axis projector produces a first image that is directed via a first image path onto the first segment of the screen assembly and the second off-axis projector produces a second image that is directed via a second image path onto the second segment of the screen assembly. The second image interfaces the first image at the center axis of the screen assembly, both images intersecting the center axis at a substantially normal angle. The screen assembly may further include a Fresnel lens positioned in the first and second image paths adjacent to the display screen for receiving and straightening the first and second images. The first and second images are tiled across the entirety of the rear face of the screen assembly. The configuration of adjacent first and second off-axis projectors enables near perfect optical alignment of the first and second images, with the seam at the interface of the first and second images virtually indistinguishable to the viewer. An alternate embodiment of the system employs four off-axis projectors tiling four images across the rear face of a screen assembly in a similar manner.
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Brown Rodney F.
Dowling William C.
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