US Patent Issued to PANASONIC PROJECTOR & DISPLAY on Nov. 18 for "Light source device and projection image display device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,627, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to PANASONIC PROJECTOR & DISPLAY Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Light source device and projection image display device" was invented by Takanori Yogo (Kyoto, Japan) and Michihiro Okuda (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light source device includes: a first light source that emits light of first linear polarization; a half mirror that separates emitted light from the first light source into first light traveling to a first optical path and second light traveling to a second optical path; a polarized light combination mirror that combines the first light and the second light; an optical path c...