Image display performing color reproduction using color filters

Abstract

In an image display which reproduces a color image by using lights color-separated into four or more colors through color filters, the objects of the invention are to effectively utilize the energy of light from a light source and to reduce the effect that a slight shift of the spectral transmittance characteristics of the color filters exerts on the spectral distributions of the lights after color separated. In an image display having a light source and four or more kinds of color filters and for color-separating light emitted from the light source into four or more colors through the four or more kinds of color filters and reproducing a color image by using the color-separated lights, the spectral transmittance characteristics of the color filters are set so that the cutoff wavelengths of the four or more kinds of color filters exist in a wavelength region in which the spectral distributions obtained by multiplying the spectral emissivity characteristic of the light emitted from the light source by the color matching functions are smaller than the values obtained by multiplying the average values of the spectral distributions in the wavelength region from 380 to 780 nm by an integer.

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