Patents by Inventor Mitsutaka Ide

Mitsutaka Ide 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: 20220328795
    Abstract: A display device of the present disclosure includes a substrate, a lens layer including a lens, a light-transmitting layer that contacts a lens surface of the lens, and has translucency, a pixel electrode disposed between the substrate and the lens layer, and a color filter disposed between the pixel electrode and the lens layer. The lens is disposed so as to correspond to the pixel electrode. A refractive index of a constituent material for the lens is lower than a refractive index of a constituent material for the light-transmitting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu YOKOYAMA, Takeshi KOSHIHARA, Mitsutaka IDE
  • Publication number: 20220317452
    Abstract: An optical module includes a display element that emits image light of P-polarized light, an optical member including an incident portion on which the image light emitted is incident and an emission portion that emits the image light, a first wavelength plate that is disposed on the optical path between the display element and the optical member and that makes the image light of the P-polarized light into image light of circular polarized light, a second wavelength plate that is flat, that disposed between the incident portion and the emission portion of the optical member, and that makes the image light of the circular polarized light into image light of S-polarized light and make the image light of the S-polarized light into image light of P-polarized light, and a combiner that reflects the image light emitted from the optical member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsutaka IDE
  • Patent number: 11415804
    Abstract: A virtual image display apparatus includes an imaging light emitting unit configured to emit imaging light, and a light-guiding unit configured to guide the imaging light. The light-guiding unit is configured by arranging a first, a second, a third, and a fourth optical system in the stated order in a travel direction of the imaging light. The first optical system forms a first intermediate image of the imaging light. The second optical system includes a first diffraction element forming a pupil between the second and the fourth optical system. The third optical system forms a second intermediate image. The fourth optical system includes a second diffraction element forming an exit pupil by diffracting the imaging light. At the exit pupil, luminance of pixels at a central position of the imaging light and luminance of pixels at end positions of the imaging light differ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsutaka Ide, Masatoshi Yonekubo
  • Patent number: 11411205
    Abstract: A display device of the present disclosure includes a substrate, a lens layer including a lens, a light-transmitting layer that contacts a lens surface of the lens, and has translucency, a pixel electrode disposed between the substrate and the lens layer, and a color filter disposed between the pixel electrode and the lens layer. The lens is disposed so as to correspond to the pixel electrode. A refractive index of a constituent material for the lens is lower than a refractive index of a constituent material for the light-transmitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Yokoyama, Takeshi Koshihara, Mitsutaka Ide
  • Publication number: 20220172667
    Abstract: A display module includes a display element, a light-guiding optical device, and a control unit configured to perform distortion correction including correction of a chromatic aberration of magnification. The light-guiding optical device is constituted of an optical system having non-axisymmetry in an up-and-down direction with respect to the imaging light entering the light-guiding optical device, and includes a first optical member having positive refractivity, a second optical member having positive refractivity, and a first reflection surface configured to reflect the imaging light toward a pupil position. The refractivity of the first optical member is greater than the refractivity of the second optical member. An abbe number of a constituent material of the first optical member is greater than an abbe number of a constituent material of the second optical member. The control unit performs distortion correction by a different distortion correction amount for each color light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki TAKAGI, Mitsutaka IDE, Tokito YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220171196
    Abstract: A display device includes a projection lens that transmits an image light, a prism mirror that receives the image light emitted from the projection lens through a light incident surface, reflects the image light with an inner reflection surface, and emits the image light from a light emission surface, and a see-through mirror that reflects a part of the image light emitted from the prism mirror toward a pupil position, wherein an intermediate image is formed between the inner reflection surface and the see-through mirror, and the light emission surface has a first region and a second region that is higher a refractive power than the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsutaka Ide
  • Patent number: 11333889
    Abstract: A display device of the present disclosure includes, along an optical path of image light emitted from an image light generating device, a first optical unit having positive power, a second optical unit that includes a first diffraction element and has positive power, a third optical unit having positive power, and a fourth optical unit that includes a second diffraction element and has positive power. A first diffraction angle of the image light at the first diffraction element is different from a second diffraction angle of the image light at the second diffraction element. A correction optical system that corrects an incident angle of the image light with respect to the second diffraction element is provided between the first optical unit and the fourth optical unit on the optical path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsutaka Ide, Masatoshi Yonekubo
  • Publication number: 20220137413
    Abstract: A display module includes a display element, a light-guiding optical system forming an exit pupil, and an optical member including a light incidence surface and a light emission surface. The light-guiding optical system is an eccentric optical system, and includes first and second incidence areas on which the image light emitted from the light emission surface is incident. The optical member is disposed, correcting an inclination of the light emission surface with respect to the light-guiding optical system such that an variation amount in an incidence angle of the image light with respect to the first incidence area, before and after the light emission surface is inclined, is greater than an variation amount in an incidence angle of the image light with respect to the second incidence area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsutaka IDE
  • Publication number: 20220137406
    Abstract: An optical unit includes a projection lens, a prism configured to guide the image light from the projection lens, and a mirror member configured to reflect, toward a pupil position, the image light from the prism, wherein the prism includes a first surface where the image light from the projection lens is incident while being transmitted, a second surface at which the image light that passed through the first surface is reflected, and a third surface at which the image light that passed through the second surface is reflected toward the second surface, and the image light reflected at the third surface is emitted while being transmitted through the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tokito YAMAGUCHI, Mitsutaka IDE
  • Publication number: 20220137412
    Abstract: A virtual image display device includes a display element, a light-guiding system configured to guide imaging light that exits the display element, and a mirror member having a first surface where the imaging light that exits the light-guiding system is incident while being refracted and a second surface that reflects the imaging light that passes through the first surface and causes the imaging light to exit the mirror member through the first surface where the imaging light is refracted. In the mirror member, the curvature of the first surface differs from the curvature of the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tokito Yamaguchi, Mitsutaka Ide
  • Patent number: 11281007
    Abstract: A display device according to the present invention includes, along an optical path of image light emitted from an image light generating device, a first optical unit having positive power, a second optical unit having positive power and including a first diffraction element of a reflective type, a third optical unit having positive power, and a fourth optical unit having positive power and including a second diffraction element of a reflective type. The second optical unit includes a first light-transmitting member having optical power and provided at a first surface of the first diffraction element, and a light shielding member provided at a second surface of the first diffraction element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsutaka Ide, Toshiyuki Noguchi
  • Patent number: 11275251
    Abstract: An image display device of the present disclosure includes an image light generating device, a first, a second, a third, and a fourth optical unit. A first intermediate image is formed between the first and the third optical unit. A pupil is formed between the second and the fourth optical unit. A second intermediate image is formed between the third and the fourth optical unit. An exit pupil is formed at an opposite side of the fourth optical unit from the third optical unit. The image light generating device includes a first, a second, a third light emitting panel, and a color synthesis element. The color synthesis element is constituted of a cross dichroic prism including a first and a second dichroic film that intersect with each other. Each of the first and the second dichroic film does not have a polarization separation characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio Fukase, Mitsutaka Ide, Toshiyuki Noguchi
  • Patent number: 11269189
    Abstract: An image display device includes an image light generation device configured to generate image light, and a deflection member configured to deflect the image light to form an exit pupil, in which the image light generation device includes a first light source unit configured to emit first light, a second light source unit configured to emit second light within a same frequency band as the first light and having a wavelength band different from a wavelength band of the first light, and a combining optical member configured to at least partially superimpose the first light and the second light, the deflection member includes a first diffraction member corresponding to the wavelength band of the first light and a second diffraction member corresponding to the wavelength band of the second light, and the first diffraction member and the second diffraction member overlap when viewed from the exit pupil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsutaka Ide, Masatoshi Yonekubo
  • Patent number: 11249311
    Abstract: Image formation is performed by using a synthesis optical system, and in a first dichroic film and a second dichroic film that are the synthesis surfaces in the synthesis optical system, a direction in which the cross axis that is the intersecting axis extends corresponds to a direction of alignment of eyes of an observer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Takeda, Mitsutaka Ide, Akira Komatsu, Masayuki Takagi, Toshiaki Miyao, Tokito Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20220011589
    Abstract: A display device of the present disclosure includes, along an optical path of imaging light emitted from an imaging light generation device, a first optical portion having a positive power, a second optical portion including a first diffraction element and having a positive power, a third optical portion having a positive power, and a fourth optical portion including a second diffraction element and having a positive power. In the optical path, the first diffraction element and the second diffraction element diffract the imaging light at least along a primary diffraction plane and a secondary diffraction plane orthogonal to the primary diffraction plane, and a deflection force of the imaging light in the primary diffraction plane is greater than a deflection force of the imaging light in the secondary diffraction plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsutaka IDE
  • Patent number: 11163174
    Abstract: A display device of the present disclosure includes, along an optical path of imaging light emitted from an imaging light generation device, a first optical portion having a positive power, a second optical portion including a first diffraction element and having a positive power, a third optical portion having a positive power, and a fourth optical portion including a second diffraction element and having a positive power. In the optical path, the first diffraction element and the second diffraction element diffract the imaging light at least along a primary diffraction plane and a secondary diffraction plane orthogonal to the primary diffraction plane, and a deflection force of the imaging light in the primary diffraction plane is greater than a deflection force of the imaging light in the secondary diffraction plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsutaka Ide
  • Publication number: 20210239987
    Abstract: A display module includes an image light generation device, a light-guiding member, a first reflection surface configured to reflect the imaging light incident via the light-guiding member, a first diffraction element configured to diffract the imaging light, and a second diffraction element configured to diffract the image light and form an exit pupil. The image light is sequentially incident on a first deflection surface, a second deflection surface, a second reflection surface, a third reflection surface, a fourth reflection surface, and a third deflection surface inside the light-guiding member, and a distance from a reference position where an optical axis of the exit pupil and an emission surface intersect to the second deflection surface is longer than a distance from the reference position to the first deflection surface and longer than a distance from the reference position to the second reflection surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatoshi YONEKUBO, Mitsutaka IDE, Takashi TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20210239990
    Abstract: A display module includes an image light generation device configured to generate image light, a first reflection section configured to reflect the image light from the image light generation device, a first diffraction element configured to diffract the image light entering a first incident surface, a second reflection section configured to reflect the image light from the first diffraction element, and a second diffraction element configured to diffract the image light entering a second incident surface, thereby forming an exit pupil. When viewed from a normal line direction of a virtual plane including a normal line of the first incident surface and a normal line of the second incident surface, an optical axis of the image light from the image light generation device toward the first reflection section and an optical axis of the image light from the first diffraction element toward the second reflection section intersect each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatoshi YONEKUBO, Takashi TAKEDA, Mitsutaka IDE
  • Publication number: 20210239986
    Abstract: A display module includes an image light generation device configured to generate image light, a first diffraction element including a first surface and a second surface and configured to diffract the image light, a first reflection section configured to reflect the image light, and a second diffraction element including a third surface and configured to diffract the image light. The first diffraction element is configured to transmit the image light incident on the first surface and emit the image light toward the first reflection section, the first reflection section is configured to reflect the image light toward the second surface, the first diffraction element is configured to diffract the image light incident on the second surface and emit the image light toward the second diffraction element, and the second diffraction element is configured to diffract the image light, emit the image light, and form an exit pupil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatoshi YONEKUBO, Mitsutaka IDE
  • Publication number: 20210239989
    Abstract: An image light generation module includes a first display element configured to emit first image light, a second display element configured to emit second image light, a third display element configured to emit third image light, a combining prism configured to emit combined image light combined from the first image light, the second image light, and the third image light, and a first gap defining member that defines a first gap between the first display element and the combining prism, a second gap defining member that defines a second gap between the second display element and the combining prism, and a third gap defining member that defines a third gap between the third display element and the combining prism, in which at least one of the first gap, the second gap, and the third gap is different in size from another of the gaps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsutaka IDE, Masatoshi YONEKUBO