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Projector and method of correcting image distortion

US6877864B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateFeb 27, 2004
Grant dateApr 12, 2005
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Expiry dateFeb 27, 2024

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG09G2320/02
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Projector has projection optical system for projecting an image onto a projection surface and optical zoom mechanism for actuating projection optical system to enlarge and reduce the image projected onto the projection surface. Projector also has distortion correcting circuit for correcting distorted quadrilateral projected images, which are projected onto the projection surface along an optical axis that is oblique vertically and horizontally to the projection surface, into respective square corrected images, zoom setting detector for detecting a zoom setting of optical zoom mechanism, and CPU for generating corrective data to be set in distortion correcting circuit based on the zoom setting detected by zoom setting detector.

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