Laser Projector White Balance Control via Dynamic Output Adjustment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional laser light source projectors using multiple laser sources for colors face challenges in maintaining white balance due to aging deterioration or temperature changes, which cause fluctuations in light output characteristics, especially when some laser sources degrade, leading to luminance imbalances among color groups.
Innovation Solution
A laser light source projector that adjusts the light output of remaining laser sources within each color group to compensate for degraded sources, ensuring constant white balance by increasing or reducing light outputs as needed, and implementing feedback control to maintain target values and prevent saturation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If light output from remaining light sources is reduced to match the most deteriorated light source, then white balance is maintained, but overall luminance is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent adjusts the light output parameters of individual laser sources within each color group dynamically. When one or more laser sources deteriorate, the system changes the output parameters of remaining sources to compensate, maintaining overall luminance while preserving white balance through coordinated parameter adjustment across multiple light sources
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements dynamic control of light output characteristics. Rather than statically reducing all light sources to match the most deteriorated one, the system dynamically adjusts individual source outputs based on real-time performance monitoring, enabling adaptive compensation that maintains both luminance and white balance
2Illumination intensity
If light output from laser light sources is increased to compensate for degradation, then luminance is maintained, but temperature increase occurs leading to further degradation
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary adjustments by distributing increased light output demand across multiple remaining laser sources before any single source experiences excessive temperature rise. This proactive load distribution prevents temperature-related degradation by avoiding concentration of thermal stress on individual elements
Solution Approach 2:
The patent divides each color group into multiple laser light sources, allowing the system to segment the compensation task across several elements rather than overloading a single source. This segmentation enables better thermal management while maintaining required luminance levels through collective output from multiple sources
3Device complexity
If a single laser light source is used for each color, then device complexity is reduced, but white balance correction capability is lost when multiple colors are involved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments each color group into multiple laser light sources while maintaining a modular structure. This segmentation provides the flexibility needed for white balance correction across multiple colors, as each source within a color group can be independently adjusted to compensate for deterioration, enabling adaptability without excessive complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The system design allows each laser source to serve multiple functions: normal image projection and white balance compensation. By making the light source array multi-functional, the system achieves white balance correction capability across multiple colors while managing device complexity through unified control architecture that handles both standard projection and compensation operations
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This approach maintains consistent white balance by preventing luminance differences among color groups, allowing the projector to keep light output levels stable and recover from temporary degradations, thereby ensuring accurate image projection.
Implementation Method 1
a Peltier element unit for cooling the laser light source
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AI summary
A laser light source projector includes a plurality of light sources of color groups each including a plurality of laser light sources. The laser light source projector projects an image by driving the laser light sources in each of the color groups. In response to change of the light output characteristics of one or a plurality of laser light sources in an arbitrary color group, light output from a remaining laser light source in the arbitrary color group is adjusted, thereby keeping white balance constant.