Common color wheel speed system

摘要

A display system 100 in which light from source (102) is focused onto a spinning color wheel (104). The spinning color wheel (104) creates of beam of light that changes from one primary color to the next in rapid sequence. The primary colored beam of light impinges a spatial light modulator (106), in this case a DMD. A controller (108) receives an input video signal and sends image data to the spatial light modulator (106) in synchronization with the color wheel (104)-image data representing the red portions of the image is sent during the period in which the red color filter is passing through the beam of light. The modulated red beam of light is focused onto an image plane (110) by projection lens (112) to form a red image. The process repeats as the green and blue filters pass through the path of the light beam. The eye of the viewer integrates the three primary color images giving the perception of a single full-color image. The display system uses a single nominal color wheel speed to display input signals having various frame rates. The nominal color wheel speed is selected to allow the same color wheel rate to be used for a variety of input frame rates. The color wheel speed is selected to provide a sub-frame rate that is an integer multiple the frame rate of each potential input format.