US 7,370,980 B2
Projection type video display
Yoshichika Hirao, Osaka (Japan); and Naoki Kaise, Osaka (Japan)
Assigned to Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka (Japan)
Filed on Jul. 15, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/890,988.
Claims priority of application No. 2003-276044 (JP), filed on Jul. 17, 2003; and application No. 2003-276045 (JP), filed on Jul. 17, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2005/0012908 A1, Jan. 20, 2005
Int. Cl. G03B 21/14 (2006.01); H04N 3/22 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 353—101  [353/69; 348/745] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
3. A projection type video display that optically modulates light emitted from a light source by a light valve and projects an enlarged video by a projection lens, comprising:
a sensor comprising image pick-up means for picking up a projection video;
means for making focusing adjustment on the basis of an output of the sensor; and
means for making trapezoidal distortion correction on the basis of the output of the sensor, and wherein
the sensor is arranged at a position in the vicinity of the projection lens.