Abstract: A wearable device includes a left optical stack having a left eyepiece configured to receive left virtual image light, a left accommodating lens, and a left compensating lens. The wearable device also includes a right optical stack having a right eyepiece configured to receive right virtual image light, a right accommodating lens, and a right compensating lens. An optical power of the left accommodating lens is equal in magnitude to an optical power of the left compensating lens, an optical power of the right accommodating lens is equal in magnitude to an optical power of the right compensating lens, and the optical power of the left accommodating lens and the optical power of the right accommodating lens differ by an offset amount.

Abstract: A display apparatus for displaying a virtual image (VIMG1) includes a rotating expander device (EPE1) to form light beams (B3P0,R,B3P1,R) of output light (OUT1) by expanding light beams (B0P0,R,B0P1,R) of input light (IN1), the expander device (EPE1) includes: a waveguide plate (SUB1), an in-coupling element (DOE1) to form first guided light (B1a) and second guided light (B1c) by coupling input light (IN1) into the waveguide plate (SUB1), a first out-coupling element (DOE3a) to form output light (OUT1) by coupling the first guided light (B1a) out of the waveguide plate (SUB1), and a second out-coupling element (DOE3c) to form output light (OUT1) by coupling the second guided light (B1c) out of the waveguide plate (SUB1). The in-coupling element (DOE1) has a first input grating vector (V1a) and a second input grating vector (V1c), and an angle (?1ac) between the first and second input grating vectors is between 60° and 120°.

Abstract: A head-up display system and a display apparatus are provided in this disclosure, which relates to a technical field of displaying. The head-up display system includes a display unit; a light splitting unit provided on a light emitting side of the display unit and configured to transmit a first linearly polarized light and block a second linearly polarized light, light emitted by the display unit being converted into the first linearly polarized light after passing through the light splitting unit; a light-transmitting substrate; a first imaging unit provided on an optical path from the light splitting unit to the light-transmitting substrate and configured to be able to transmit and reflect the first linearly polarized light; and a second imaging unit provided on a side of the light-transmitting substrate away from the first imaging unit, and configured to reflect the first linearly polarized light transmitted through the light-transmitting substrate.

Abstract: A display device includes an optical combiner including a first surface; a second surface disposed at a first side of the first surface; and a third surface disposed at a second side of the first surface; a diffractive optical element disposed on the first surface of the optical combiner; a first display panel disposed on the second surface of the optical combiner and displaying a first color image; and a second display panel disposed on the third surface of the optical combiner and displaying a second color image.

Abstract: A picture generation apparatus includes: a light source substrate on which a light source is mounted; an optical member through which light emitted from the light source is transmitted; a display device configured to form, by the light transmitted through the optical member, light for generating a predetermined picture; a heat sink configured to dissipate heat generated from the light source substrate; and a lens holder configured to hold the optical member. The lens holder includes first engagement portions, and the heat sink includes second engagement portions. Each of the first engagement portions and a respective one of the second engagement portions are fixed to each other, so that the light source substrate is positioned and fixed in a state of being interposed between the lens holder and the heat sink.

Abstract: This display system which is provided in a vehicle comprises: a road surface drawing device that is configured so as to emit a light pattern (L1) toward a road surface outside the vehicle; an HUD that is located inside the vehicle and configured so as to display HUD information to an occupant of the vehicle such that the HUD information is overlaid on real space outside the vehicle; and a display control unit that is configured so as to control the road surface drawing device. The display control unit is configured so as to control the emission of the light pattern (L1) in accordance with an input operation by the occupant in an HUD display area (D1) where the HUD information can be displayed.

Abstract: A display device includes: a display; an optical element including a first surface and a second surface; and a reflective member provided on the second surface. The first surface is a convex cylindrical surface whose axial direction is a first direction (parallel to the X axis), allows light emitted from the display to enter, and allows the light reflected by the reflective member to exit. The second surface is a convex cylindrical surface whose axial direction is a second direction (parallel to the Y axis) orthogonal to the first direction. The reflective member includes a reflective surface that reflects the light that has entered from the first surface toward the first surface. The reflective surface is a concave cylindrical surface whose axial direction is the second direction.

Abstract: A display device or optical module includes a display element that emits image light, an imaging optical system as a light guide optical device that has non-axial symmetry in a predetermined direction and forms an exit pupil by light guiding of the image light from the display element, and a light-shielding member disposed between the display element and the imaging optical system, wherein the light-shielding member has a light-shielding part disposed to overlap an unused region in which an image is not displayed in a display region of the display element.

Abstract: A rear adapter module for a finite conjugate optical assembly and camera is configured to couple with a core zoom module. A lens assembly of the rear adapter module includes three or more lens elements and has a positive focal length. The lens assembly exhibits a pupil size of between 16 and 25 mm and a pupil depth greater than 50 mm.

Abstract: A head-up display device is provided which can suppress error in the attachment position of a fixed mirror. This head-up display device is provided with a display which emits display light, a first mirror which reflects display light from the display, a second mirror which is provided rotatably about a rotation axis and which reflects towards a window shield the display light reflected by the first mirror, a mirror support unit which supports the first mirror, a holding case unit which holds the second mirror and which is formed integrally with the mirror support unit, and plate springs which fix the first mirror to the mirror support unit by pressing the first mirror towards the mirror support unit.

Abstract: An image display device includes a light source unit, a display panel configured to display an image, and a light guide panel configured to guide light emitted from the light source unit to the display panel. The light guide panel has an incident surface facing the light source unit, an output surface facing the display panel, and a bottom surface facing the output surface on a side opposite to the display panel. The incident surface is a side surface of the light guide panel located between the output surface and the bottom surface. The incident surface has a concave portion in which a part of the incident surface is recessed from remaining portions when viewed from a direction perpendicular to a light guide direction of light in the incident surface and an emission direction of light in the output surface.

Abstract: Display systems are described including augmented 1-dimensional pixel arrays and scanning mirrors. In one example, a pixel array includes first and second columns of pixels, relay optics configured to receive incident light and to output the incident light to a viewer, and a scanning mirror disposed to receive the light from the first and second columns of pixels and to reflect the received light toward the relay optics. The scanning mirror may move between a plurality of positions while the first and second columns emit light in temporally spaced pulses so as to form a perceived image at the relay optics having a higher resolution relative to the pixel pitch of the individual columns. Foveated rendering may provide for more efficient use of power and processing resources.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image apparatus that is capable of minimizing loss of optical energy and improving quality of a stereoscopic image is disclosed. The stereoscopic image apparatus includes a polarizing beam splitter to reflect or transmit incident light based on polarization components of the light to split the light in at least three different directions, a reflective member to reflect the light reflected by the polarizing beam splitter to a screen, at least one modulator to modulate the light reflected by the reflective member and the light transmitted through the polarizing beam splitter, and a refractive member disposed in an advancing direction of light to be incident upon the polarizing beam splitter to refract the light to be incident upon the polarizing beam splitter.

Abstract: A heads up display (HUD) includes a display source for emitting an emitted image, a windshield and an absorbing polarizer. For substantially normally incident light, the absorbing polarizer substantially transmits the incident light polarized along a pass direction, and substantially absorbs the incident light polarized along a block direction. The emitted image includes at least one image ray that is received and transmitted by the absorbing polarizer toward the windshield at a first location of the absorbing polarizer. The transmitted image ray is received and reflected by the windshield at a second location of the windshield. A first normal line of the absorbing polarizer at the first location is substantially parallel to a projection of the transmitted image ray onto the windshield. Further, the pass direction of the absorbing polarizer at the first location is substantially parallel to a second normal line of the windshield at the second location.

Abstract: A display unit including an optical system configured to emit imaging light toward a pupil position, and a frame configured to support the optical system, an exterior member configured to accommodate the optical system of the display unit in an internal space and partially exposes the frame, and a sheet-shaped sealing member having flexibility configured to seal the internal space of the exterior member are included, wherein the sealing member includes an outer first sealing portion configured to perform sealing between the sealing member and the exterior member, and an inner second sealing portion configured to perform sealing between the sealing member and the frame.

Abstract: Disclosed is a near eye display apparatus, comprising a display screen and an imaging system. The imaging system comprises a biconvex lens, a transflective plane mirror and a transflective curved mirror. The biconvex lens is configured to magnify a display image of the display screen; the transflective plane mirror is configured to receive imaging light from the biconvex lens and reflect same to the transflective curved mirror; and the transflective curved mirror is configured to converge the imaging light and reflect same to the position(s) where human eyes are located.

Abstract: A virtual image display device includes a polarization adjustment member that includes a polarizing plate and a support plate. The polarizing plate has a property of blocking a light which is oscillated in an axial direction of a block axis while the polarizing plate is in a state where a residual stress, a degree of which is maximized in a first residual stress direction along a plane of the polarizing plate, is left in the polarizing plate. The support plate supports the polarizing plate while the support plate is in a state where a residual stress, a degree of which is maximized in a second residual stress direction along a plane of the support plate, is left in the support plate. The polarizing plate and the support plate are bonded together such that the first residual stress direction is along the second residual stress direction.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixel regions and displaying a picture; and a light path controlling member located on a front surface of the display panel and transmitting the picture output from the display panel, wherein the light path controlling member includes a plurality of separation walls and a plurality of light path portions between the plurality of separation walls, and wherein a period of the light path portion is different from a period of the pixel region.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display area, a light control element, a projection surface and at least one of one or more mirrors or one or more lenses. The display area includes subpixels, and includes a first area containing first subpixels in the subpixels and a second area containing second subpixels in the subpixels. The light control element is overlapped with the first area. The projection surface projects an image displayed in the display area. A virtual image perceived by a user who views the projection surface includes a first virtual image corresponding to the first area and perceived as a stereoscopic virtual image, and a second virtual image corresponding to the second area and perceived as a planar virtual image.

Abstract: An optical system, a display apparatus, and smart glasses are provided. The optical system includes a transflective element, a reflective element and a plurality of microstructures. The transflective element is configured to reflect collimated incident light to the reflective element. The reflective element is configured to reflect the collimated incident light back to a light incident surface of the transflective element, so as to adjust an angle at which the collimated incident light exits. The transflective element is further configured to transmit the reflected-back collimated incident light to a target region. The plurality of microstructures are configured to adjust angles at which ambient stray light incident on surfaces thereof exits, and to scatter the ambient stray light out of the target region.