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Abstract

An image display apparatus includes an arc lamp as a white-light source, an ellipsoidal mirror for collecting a light beam from the arc lamp, a color filter for producing sequentially three primary colors of light from the white-light beam, a condenser lens for transmitting a light beam transmitted through the color filter, and a single spherical mirror or non-spherical mirror for reflecting the light beam transmitted through the condenser lens. The image display apparatus further includes a digital micromirror device. This device receives the light beam reflected from the reflecting mirror and produces on and off states by varying the tilt of a micromirror of each of a number of two-dimensionally arrayed pixels to vary the angle of reflection of the light beam reflected therefrom. From there, a projection lens enlarges and projects the light beam reflected from a pixel. The spherical mirror or non-spherical mirror is arranged such that the normal of the mirror at an intersection where the optical axis of an optical illumination module including the arc lamp, the ellipsoidal mirror and the condenser lens intersects the mirror, is inclined by a predetermined angle.

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