US Patent 10502938 Light outputting apparatus and image display system

A light outputting apparatus includes a light outputting section that outputs light, and the light outputting section includes a light source that emits light, a collimator lens for parallelizing the light emitted from the light source, and an optical element including a plurality of lenslets that widen the light having passed through the collimator lens in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis of the light source and corresponding to a first direction that is one of first and second directions perpendicular to each other.