Lens optimization and color correction for image projection systems

Abstract

Method and apparatus for collimating light of projected images establishes limited few designs of Fresnel lenses to accommodate conventional image projection system having a wide range of sizes of viewing screens for the projected images. A multi-layer image-enhancing filter is disposed to receive substantially collimated image light exiting the Fresnel lens. A light-transmissive structure includes a substrate layer supporting a single layer of contiguously-arranged beads of light transmissive material disposed on an incident surface of the substrate layer. A Fresnel lens includes angularly-pitched segments on one surface and an array of a plurality of elongated lenses aligned in one direction on an opposite surface of the Fresnel lens for passing a projected light image therethough to the layer of beads on the substrate layer.

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