Abstract: A virtual image display apparatus is provided, which includes a case member housing an image element, a lens barrel housing a projection lens serving as an optical system configured to receive imaging light emitted from the image element, and an elastic sealing member that covers a space between the case member and the lens barrel. With the elastic sealing member, position adjustment between the case member and the lens barrel is performed.

Abstract: An image display device is a self-luminous type device including a light emitting portion, and a casing portion of a display device unit has a heat dissipating structure portion through which a part of the image display device is exposed for heat dissipation. In manufacturing the display device unit, when performing simple and reliable assembly while securing a high heat dissipation characteristic, for example, by using characteristics of a silicon substrate, high accurate positioning is performed in a display device positioning portion.

Abstract: A panel unit configured to, for imaging light, use different opening ratios depending on a wavelength band for displaying an image, a yellowing optical member that is disposed on an optical path of imaging light emitted from the panel unit, and turns yellow with age, a yellowing degree estimation unit configured to estimate, by prediction, a yellowing degree of the yellowing optical member with age, and a luminance adjustment unit configured to, depending on yellowing of the yellowing optical member, based on data of the yellowing degree estimation unit, adjust luminance of an image in the panel unit, are provided.

Abstract: In a correction optical member for an HMD, a first optical member and a second optical member are arranged side by side. The first optical member includes a first diffraction grating disposed on a first surface and a second diffraction grating disposed on a second surface that is opposite to the first surface so as to face away from the first diffraction grating. The second optical member includes a third diffraction grating disposed on a third surface that is arranged in an extending direction of the first surface, and a fourth diffraction grating disposed on a fourth surface that is arranged in an extending direction of the second surface.

Abstract: In a left and right pair of a first display device and a second display device that perform repositionable display, mutually different display contents can be visually recognized as a first video image and a second video image. Further, a display control portion controls the display content in accordance with at least one of the first video image and the second video image.

Abstract: A display element, and a light-guiding member including a plurality of reflection surfaces and configured to guide image light from the display element by reflecting the image light at an inner surface, and cause the image light and external light to be visually recognized in an overlapping manner are provided, wherein at a boundary between a first reflection surface and a second reflection surface adjacent to each other included in the plurality of reflection surfaces of the light-guiding member with at least one of the first reflection surface and the second reflection surface including a curved surface, an end of the first reflection surface and an end of the second reflection surface match when projected from a specific direction.

Abstract: A light-guiding device is configured to accept image light through a light incidence part, guide the image light through reflection, and emit, to outside through a light emission part, the image light that is guided, the light-guiding device includes a protective member having a sheet shape and configured to cover a body member in a region corresponding to an optical surface of a surface of the light-guiding device, and an adhesive layer is formed between the body member and the protective member.

Abstract: A head-mounted display includes an image display device including a panel unit serving as a display element configured to display an image, a colored optical member disposed on a light path of imaging light emitted from the panel unit and having a yellowness of a predetermined value or greater, and a coloring correction optical member configured to correct a degree of coloring of the imaging light of the entire light path in accordance with the yellowness of the colored optical member.

Abstract: An image display device is a self-luminous type device including a light emitting portion, and a casing portion of a display device unit has a heat dissipating structure portion through which a part of the image display device is exposed for heat dissipation. In manufacturing the display device unit, when performing simple and reliable assembly while securing a high heat dissipation characteristic, for example, by using characteristics of a silicon substrate, high accurate positioning is performed in a display device positioning portion.

Abstract: A head-mounted display includes a display device configured to display an image, a diopter adjustment device configured to adjust a diopter, and a correction processing circuit serving as an image correction device configured to correct a display image in accordance with a degree of diopter adjustment. In the adjustments made on a left side and a right side, respectively, after diopter adjustment, the display image is corrected in accordance with the degree of diopter adjustment.

Abstract: Provided is a virtual image display apparatus including a laser light source, a scanner configured to scan light from the laser light source and render an intermediate image, a diffusion element arranged at a position of the intermediate image formed by the scanner, and an exit pupil forming unit configured to cause light that has passed through the diffusion element to be incident on a position of an exit pupil. The diffusion element separates the light from the scanner into first emission light used as a reference, and second emission light having a separation angle greater than a capturing angle corresponding to an inclination of light toward a predetermined pupil radius relative to the first emission light at an emission position of the light from the diffusion element, and then emits the first emission light and the second emission light.

Abstract: A virtual image display apparatus includes a display element, an optical element configured to pass therethrough image light emitted from the display element, a reflecting mirror configured to reflect the image light emitted from the optical element, a see-through hologram mirror of a see-through type configured to reflect the image light, emitted from the reflecting mirror, to a pupil position, and a linear diffraction element of a transmissive type arranged on an optical path from the optical element to the hologram mirror. The optical element, the reflecting mirror, and the see-through hologram mirror are arranged to form an off-axis system, and the linear diffraction element compensates wavelength dispersion caused by the see-through hologram mirror at an off-axis surface of the off-axis system.

Abstract: A virtual image display apparatus includes a display element, a projection lens configured to converge image light emitted from the display element, a prism configured to cause the image light by an internal reflecting surface thereof and moreover emit the image light from an emission surface thereof while refracting the image light, and a see-through mirror configured to reflect the image light emitted from the prism toward a pupil position. The projection lens, the prism, and the see-through mirror are arranged to form an off-axis system. AT an off-axis surface of the off-axis system, an intermediate pupil is arranged between the projection lens and the internal reflecting surface, with the intermediate pupil being arranged to be farther to the incident surface sidfe of the prism than to the projection lens and the internal reflecting surface, and an intermediate image is formed between the prism and the see-through mirror.

Abstract: An image display device includes a plurality of display elements configured to emit image light corresponding to a plurality of separate areas, and an ocular optical system configured to emit, to a position corresponding to an eye of an observer, the image light emitted from the plurality of display elements. The ocular optical system causes images to overlap with each other in a blending area including a boundary between the plurality of areas. An overlapping angle width in a direction orthogonal to the boundary of the blending area on a central visual field side is smaller than an overlapping angle width in the direction orthogonal to the boundary of the blending area on a peripheral visual field side.

Abstract: In a head mounted display, an image is displayed with central resolution higher than peripheral resolution or the peripheral resolution is not necessarily high resolution, and a controller changes the display aspect of the image formed by an image formation apparatus in accordance with a change in the sightline detected with a sightline sensor.

Abstract: A head-mounted display includes a display device, a projection optical member, and a prism member. The prism member includes a first prism receiving image light from the projection optical member, and a second prism disposed at a position further toward an exit pupil than the first prism. The first prism includes an entrance surface, a first reflection surface, and a first joining surface, the second prism includes a second joining surface joined to the first joining surface via a semi-transmissive reflection surface, a second reflection surface, and a light collecting reflection surface, and the semi-transmissive reflection surface is configured to reflect the image light, reflected by the light collecting reflection surface and then totally reflected by the second reflection surface, to pass through the second reflection surface.

Abstract: An eyepiece optical system is configured to emit image light that is emitted from a plurality of display elements and corresponds to a plurality of areas being divided, to a position corresponding to an eye of an observer, wherein a first optical member of a complex type disposed at a position closest to an emitting side corresponding to at least two areas of the plurality of areas has a first optical surface on the emitting side, and the first optical surface is expressed by one curvature.

Abstract: A virtual image display device has a light guide device in which the half mirror layer (the semi-transmissive reflecting film) of the light guide member is formed on the partial area of the first junction surface, and the second junction surface of the light transmitting member is bonded to the first junction surface in at least the exceptional area. Therefore, it is possible to increase the bonding strength of the first junction surface and the second junction surface, namely the strength of the light guide device composed of the light guide member and the light transmitting member combined with each other even in the case in which the attachment force of the half mirror layer (the semi-transmissive reflecting film) with respect to the first junction surface is not sufficiently strong.

Abstract: A virtual image display apparatus is provided, which includes a case member housing an image element, a lens barrel housing a projection lens serving as an optical system configured to receive imaging light emitted from the image element, and an elastic sealing member that covers a space between the case member and the lens barrel. With the elastic sealing member, position adjustment between the case member and the lens barrel is performed.

Abstract: There are provided an image element configured to emit imaging light, a case member configured to house the image element, and a light shielding plate that is attached to a positioning portion provided on the case member and that defines an emission region for imaging light from the image element, thereby attaching the light shielding plate to the case member with high accuracy.