Patents by Inventor Miho NISHIYAMA

Miho NISHIYAMA has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230408831
    Abstract: An optical apparatus 100 includes: a display 110 that outputs image light 50 for forming an image; an optical system 300 that magnifies the image, the optical system having a filter 320 (a reflective polarizing plate 321) and a lens 310 (a half mirror surface 311) that are arranged on an eye point side and a display side, respectively, on an optical axis L of the display 110, each of the lens and the filter transmitting or reflecting at least a part of the image light; and a moving device 410 that moves the filter along the optical axis with respect to the lens, the moving device including a first holder 440, a second holder 420, a cover 433, thereby making it possible to adjust a position of a magnified virtual image according to a diopter of a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Miho NISHIYAMA, Yuta DOGEN
  • Publication number: 20220350121
    Abstract: An optical apparatus includes a display that displays an image, and an optical system that includes a filter (a reflective polarizing plate) and a lens (a half mirror surface) arranged on a downstream side and an upstream side, respectively, on an optical axis L of a display and magnifies the image by at least the lens (half mirror surface). The optical apparatus drives the lens along the optical axis L with respect to the filter by a mobile device, or changes the surface shape or the lens power of the lens having a variable surface shape or variable lens power. Thus, the optical path is folded back twice between the filter and the lens of the optical system, and the image is magnified by the lens (the half mirror surface), so that the position of the magnified virtual image can be adjusted according to the diopter of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Miho NISHIYAMA, Yuta WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11086127
    Abstract: Optical apparatuses used for so-called immersive virtual reality (VR), as it is, can not be used for augmented reality (AR) that overlays external light and images. An optical apparatus to overlay image light on external light and guide resultant light in a downstream side, including: an image optical system including an optical element having lens power with respect to at least the image light; and a reflecting element to overlay, by reflecting at least part of the image light, the at least part of the image light and the at least part of the external light, wherein the image optical system has a GPH element having inverse dispersibility that is inverse to the wavelength dispersibility of the optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: ColorLink Japan, Ltd.
    Inventors: Miho Nishiyama, Takuya Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20190018248
    Abstract: Optical apparatuses used for so-called immersive virtual reality (VR), as it is, can not be used for augmented reality (AR) that overlays external light and images. An optical apparatus to overlay image light on external light and guide resultant light in a downstream side, including: an image optical system including an optical element having lens power with respect to at least the image light; and a reflecting element to overlay, by reflecting at least part of the image light, the at least part of the image light and the at least part of the external light, wherein the image optical system has a GPH element having inverse dispersibility that is inverse to the wavelength dispersibility of the optical element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Miho NISHIYAMA, Takuya KOMATSU