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: 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: 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: 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: Provided are an imaging element configured to display an image, a projection optical system configured to project an image from the imaging element, and a two-stage structural diaphragm including a first diaphragm forming a first aperture portion in the projection optical system, and a second diaphragm forming a second aperture portion in the projection optical system, in which inclinations of a principal ray, relative to an image plane of an imaging element, of imaging light emitted from a peripheral portion of the image plane differ between in a first direction and in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction among in-plane directions of the image plane, in which the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm in the two-stage structural diaphragm are provided at different positions corresponding to differences between the inclinations of the principal ray in the first direction and in the second direction.

Abstract: A virtual image display device includes a video image element that displays an image, and a light-guiding member that guides video image light from the video image element by reflection and transmission at a plurality of light-guiding surfaces. Among the plurality of light-guiding surfaces, with respect to an incident-side light-guiding surface and an emission-side light-guiding surface that are adjacent to each other, and an opposing light-guiding surface that faces the incident-side light-guiding surface and the emission-side light-guiding surface, a thickness from the incident-side light-guiding surface to the opposing light-guiding surface is caused to be smaller than a thickness from the emission-side light-guiding surface to the opposing light-guiding 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: First display elements and first ocular optical systems perform display in a first display region on a front side with respect to an observer, whereas second display elements and second ocular optical systems perform display in second display regions on peripheral sides with respect to the observer. Thus, a superimposed region of the display regions is provided in a position outside a central side of a person's visual field having an excellent information receiving capacity, and a wide angle of view is achieved while preventing the boundary from being visually identified. Further, the whole device is reduced in size and thickness by providing the plurality of display elements.

Abstract: A light-guiding device includes a pair of light-guiding portions, a pair of light-incident portions that causes image light to be incident on the pair of light-guiding portions respectively, and a pair of light-emitting portions that emit image light, guided by the pair of light-guiding portions, to outside respectively, in which a pair of optical members including the pair of light-guiding portions are coupled by a central member having light transmissivity, and separate overcoat layers are provided at the optical member on one side and at the optical member on another side with respect to an approximate center of the central member.

Abstract: A light-guiding device includes a pair of light-guiding portions, a pair of light-incident portions that causes image light to be incident on the respective pair of light-guiding portions, and a pair of light-emitting portion that causes image light guided by the respective pair of light-guiding portions to exit outside, in which a pair of optical members including the pair of light-guiding portions are coupled by a central member having light transmissivity, and in which the central member includes a light-guide blocking structure that suppresses light from being incident from one end to another end of the central member by absorbing the light.

Abstract: An eyepiece optical system is configured to form a non-telecentric optical system together with an image display unit serving as an image element, and to include the pixels in which a pixel in a peripheral region and the like on an image display has a larger size than a pixel in a central region on the image display. Accordingly, the central region that supports a wide angle of view and is of the image display on the image element having an effective field of view with a good performance of information capacity, makes it possible to retain image formation with high resolution, and to prevent an image from being degraded in the peripheral region, thus making it possible to ensure high-quality visibility.

Abstract: A first lens and a second lens are bonded to each other and configured to be short in an optical axis direction. Further, by providing a half mirror in a bonding portion between a convex surface and a concave surface, power is given when folding an optical path, and additionally, by setting a refractive index of the first lens larger than a refractive index of the second lens, an image with a wide angle of view can be formed.

Abstract: A first lens and a second lens are bonded, and each of a light emitting plane and a light incident plane is a flat surface to shorten a configuration in an optical axis direction, and simultaneously, various optical elements such as a transmission/reflection selection member and the like can be mounted on a flat surface portion. Further, by providing a half mirror in a bonding portion between a convex surface and a concave surface to give power in folding an optical path, an image with a wide angle of view can be formed.

Abstract: A virtual image display apparatus includes a display device serving as an image forming unit, an image optical system including a first mirror member serving as an outer mirror member and receiving imaging light from the display device, and a partially reflecting type mirror portion reflecting imaging light emitted from the image optical system toward a position of an exit pupil. The first mirror member serving as the outer mirror member and the partially reflecting type mirror portion are integrated.

Abstract: A virtual image display device includes an image element configured to display an image, a first lens disposed in an extraction position of image light and including at the image element side thereof a convex surface, a second lens disposed further toward the image element side than the first lens and including a concave surface bonded to the convex surface of the first lens, a half mirror provided in a bonding portion for bonding together the convex surface and the concave surface, a transmission/reflection selection member provided at a light emitting side of the first lens and configured to selectively perform transmission or reflection of the light depending on a polarization state of the light, and a light-guiding portion keeping close contact between the image element and the second lens and configured to guide the image light.

Abstract: A virtual image display device includes an image element configured to display an image, a first optical unit disposed at a position where image light is extracted, a second optical unit disposed at the image element side with respect to the first optical unit, a half mirror provided on a serrated surface formed at a bonding portion between the first optical unit and the second optical unit, and a transmission/reflection selection member that is provided at a light emitting side of the first optical unit and that is configured to selectively transmit or reflect light depending on a polarization state of the light.

Abstract: A virtual image display apparatus includes a display device (image forming unit), a lens configured to refract imaging light from the display device, a first mirror member configured to reflect imaging light that passed through the lens, a second mirror member configured to reflect the imaging light reflected by the first mirror member, and a third mirror member of a transmissive type configured to reflect the imaging light reflected by the second mirror member toward a position of an exit pupil. The lens is asymmetric with respect to an optical axis in a first direction corresponding to an eccentric direction defined by the first mirror member and the second mirror member, and is symmetric, across the optical axis, with respect to a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.

Abstract: A virtual image display apparatus includes a display device (image forming unit), a first mirror member configured to reflect imaging light from the display device, a second mirror member configured to reflect imaging light reflected by the first mirror member, and a third mirror member of a transmissive type configured to reflect imaging light reflected by the second mirror member toward a position of an exit pupil. One of the first mirror member and the second mirror member is a refractive reflective optical member that includes a refractive member including a refractive surface, and a mirror surface formed at a non-refractive surface of the refractive member.

Abstract: A virtual image display apparatus includes a display device (image forming unit), a lens configured to refract imaging light from the display device, a first mirror member configured to reflect imaging light that passed through the lens, a second mirror member being a refractive reflective optical member configured to reflect the imaging light reflected by the first mirror member, and a third mirror member of a transmissive type configured to reflect the imaging light reflected by the second mirror member toward a position of an exit pupil. The refractive reflective optical member includes, across a refractive member, a refractive surface and a mirror surface. The lens and the refractive reflective optical member are integrated as a composite member.