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Rear projection screen
Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corp
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Filing: 1988-07-19
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Granted: 1990-05-01
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Expires: 2008-07-19
Abstract
Abstract Provided is a rear projection screen of a certain configuration having an entrance surface receiving red, blue and green rays from projectors on a projecting side and formed therein entrance lenses and an exit surface allowing images synthesized or merged with the red, blue and green light rays to be observed on a viewing side and formed therein exit lenses corresponding respectively to the incident lenses, each of the entrance lenses are each of the exit lenses having optical axes and lens surfaces around the optical axes, respectively, with theoretical curvatures so that each entrance lens transmits red, blue and green light rays to the corresponding exit lens while the entrance lens converges the light rays into a certain converging area around the cross point between the lens surface of the corresponding exit lens and the optical axis if the configuration of the screen is theoretical, and each associated exit lens emits the converged light rays from the exit surface toward the viewing side over a predetermined viewing angle, wherein the curvature of each exit lens is made to be moderate more than the theoretical curvature of the exit lens, outside of the converging area around the cross point between the lens surface and the optical axis of the exit lens.
Inventors
- 👤 Akira Ito
- 👤 Mizuo Okada
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-01 19:47
CPC Classifications
G; G02; G02B; G02B27/00; G02B27/18; G03; G03B; G03B21/00; G03B21/54; G03B21/56; G03B21/60; G03B21/62; G03B21/625; G03B21/602
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 5
Claim 1
Independent Claim
271 words
A rear projection screen comprising a screen member having an entrance surface for receiving red, blue and green rays from projectors on a projection side and formed therein with entrance lenses, said entrance lenses being arranged at predetermined pitches, and an exit surface allowing images synthesized with the red, blue and green light rays to be observed on a viewing side and formed therein with exit lenses corresponding respectively to said entrance lenses, said exit lenses being arranged at predetermined pitches, each of said entrance lenses having a first optical axis and a lens surface in the vicinity of said first optical axis, and each of said exit lenses having a second optical axis and an outward convex surface with an optical curvature so that each entrance lens transmits red, blue and green light rays toward the corresponding exit lens while said entrance lens converge the light rays into a focused beam in the vicinity of a cross point between said outward convex lens surface and the second optical axis, and so that each of said exit lenses diverges the light rays from said focused beam and emits said light rays toward the viewing side over a predetermined viewing angle, wherein each of said outward convex lens surfaces has a flat center part having a width of 1% to 10% of said predetermined pitches of said entrance lenses, and a part outside of said center part having said optical curvature, whereby those of the light rays from said focused beam which are incident upon said part outside of said center part have incident angles smaller than a total reflection angle thereof.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
271 words
A rear projection screen comprising a screen member having an entrance surface for receiving red, blue and green rays from projectors on a projection side and formed therein with entrance lenses, said entrance lenses being arranged at predetermined pitches, and an exit surface allowing images synthesized with the red, blue and green light rays to be observed on a viewing side and formed therein with exit lenses corresponding respectively to said entrance lenses, said exit lenses being arranged at predetermined pitches, each of said entrance lenses having a first optical axis and a lens surface in the vicinity of said first optical axis, and each of said exit lenses having a second optical axis and an outward convex surface with an optical curvature so that each entrance lens transmits red, blue and green light rays toward the corresponding exit lens while said entrance lens converge the light rays into a focused beam in the vicinity of a cross point between said outward convex lens surface and the second optical axis, and so that each of said exit lenses diverges the light rays from said focused beam and emits said light rays toward the viewing side over a predetermined viewing angle, wherein each of said outward convex lens surfaces has a flat center part having a width of 1% to 10% of said predetermined pitches of said entrance lenses, and a part outside of said center part having said optical curvature, whereby those of the light rays from said focused beam which are incident upon said part outside of said center part have incident angles smaller than a total reflection angle thereof.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
31 words
A rear projection screen according to claim 1 wherein each of said exit lenses further has an outermost side part which is tangential to said part outside of said center part.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
242 words
A rear projection screen comprising a screen member having an entrance surface for receiving red, blue and green rays from projectors on a projecting side and formed therein with entrance lenses, and an exit surface allowing images synthesized with the red, blue and green light rays to be observed on a viewing side and formed therein with exit lenses corresponding respectively to said entrance lenses, each of said entrance lenses having a first optical axis and a lens surface in the vicinity of said first optical axis, and each of said exit lenses having a first optical axis and an outward convex surface with an optical curvature so that each entrance lens transmits red, blue and green light rays toward the corresponding exit lenses while said entrance lens converges the light rays into a focused beam in the vicinity of a cross point between said outward convex lens surface and the second optical axis, and each of said exit lenses diverges the light rays from said focused beam and emits said light rays toward the viewing side over a predetermined viewing angle, wherein said outward convex surfaces have a center part having said optical curvature in the vicinity of said second optical axis and a part outside of said center part with less curvature than said optical curvature to allow the light rays from said focused beam which are incident thereupon to have incident angles smaller than a total reflection angle thereof.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
242 words
A rear projection screen comprising a screen member having an entrance surface for receiving red, blue and green rays from projectors on a projecting side and formed therein with entrance lenses, and an exit surface allowing images synthesized with the red, blue and green light rays to be observed on a viewing side and formed therein with exit lenses corresponding respectively to said entrance lenses, each of said entrance lenses having a first optical axis and a lens surface in the vicinity of said first optical axis, and each of said exit lenses having a first optical axis and an outward convex surface with an optical curvature so that each entrance lens transmits red, blue and green light rays toward the corresponding exit lenses while said entrance lens converges the light rays into a focused beam in the vicinity of a cross point between said outward convex lens surface and the second optical axis, and each of said exit lenses diverges the light rays from said focused beam and emits said light rays toward the viewing side over a predetermined viewing angle, wherein said outward convex surfaces have a center part having said optical curvature in the vicinity of said second optical axis and a part outside of said center part with less curvature than said optical curvature to allow the light rays from said focused beam which are incident thereupon to have incident angles smaller than a total reflection angle thereof.
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