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.

Abstract: An imaging light emitting device, and an optical unit configured to guide imaging light emitted from the imaging light emitting device are included, and the imaging light emitting device emits the imaging light at different densities according to a distortion generated in an optical system constituting the optical unit and an image position.

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 display module of the present disclosure includes a display module main body and a housing. The display module main body includes a first, a second display element, and a prism. The housing includes a first, and a second frame. The first frame holds the first display element in a state in which the prism is positioned between a first and a second plate portion, and in which a third plate portion is in contact with the first display element and faces a first surface, and the second frame holds the second display element in a state in which the prism is positioned between a fourth and a fifth plate portion, and in which a sixth plate portion is in contact with the second display element and faces a second surface.

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 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 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: A half mirror 21 provided in an optical path bends the optical path, and a semi-transmissive polarizing plate 23 increases the transmittance of image light GL in a direction along alignment of the eyes of an observer while the virtual image display device has a wide angle of view and is downsized, thus reducing luminance unevenness between the central region and the peripheral region in the image in the direction and allowing the observer to view a high quality image.

Abstract: A virtual image display device includes a display light guiding unit, and an image forming unit that emits image light to the display light guiding unit, the display light guiding unit includes a first light guiding unit that guides image light corresponding to a first angle of view, and a second light guiding unit that guides image light corresponding to a second angle of view, among angles of view of image light emitted from the image forming unit, and the first light guiding unit and the second light guiding unit respectively include incident side diffraction elements that take the image light beams into the inside, and emission side diffraction elements that emit the image light beams to the outside.

Abstract: A rechargeable battery protection circuit protects a rechargeable battery, using two NMOS transistors inserted in series in a current path between a battery cathode and a positive terminal connected to load or power terminal of a charger. The protection circuit includes a booster circuit that generates a control voltage, using input capacitances of the NMOS transistors having gates connected to charge and discharge control terminals, respectively. A driving circuit sets the output state of the control terminals to a high level, by supplying the control voltage to the control terminals, a detection circuit detects a battery state and outputs a detection state, and a control circuit operates the driving circuit based on the detection state, so that the output state of the control terminals is selected by the driving circuit to at least one of three states including a high level, a low level, and a high-impedance state.

Abstract: A see-through display apparatus includes an image display apparatus configured to emit a video light, a light guide apparatus configured to guide the video light and to output the video light in a first direction, and a light control shade disposed opposite to the first direction with respect to the light guide apparatus. The light control shade is configured to control a transmittance of an outside light based on a luminance of the outside light. A first response time of the light control shade when the outside light changes from a lower luminance to a higher luminance is slower than a second response time of the light control shade when the outside light changes from the higher luminance to the lower luminance.

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 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: A virtual image display device includes an image light generation device, a projection optical system configured to project image light emitted from the image light generation device, a folding mirror configured to reflect the image light from the projection optical system, a semi-transmissive mirror configured to reflect part of the image light from the folding mirror, and a concave surface mirror configured to reflect, the image light reflected by the semi-transmissive mirror to form an exit pupil, wherein an optical axis of the projection optical system is arranged in a direction intersecting a reference plane including an optical axis extending from the folding mirror to the semi-transmissive mirror and an optical axis extending from the concave surface mirror to the exit pupil, and a display region of the image light generation device is arranged inclined in accordance with inclinations of the folding mirror and the semi-transmissive mirror that are arranged.

Abstract: A virtual image display apparatus includes an image light generation device, a projection optical system configured to project image light emitted from the image light generation device, a folding mirror configured to reflect the image light from the projection optical system in an intersection direction, a semi-transmissive mirror configured to reflect a part of the image light from the folding mirror, and a concave mirror configured to reflect the image light from the semi-transmissive mirror forming an exit pupil, in which the folding mirror is disposed between the semi-transmissive mirror and the concave mirror when viewed in a first direction, provided that the first direction is a direction from an intersection point between a projection optical axis that is an optical axis of the projection optical system and the folding mirror toward an emission optical axis that is an optical axis from the concave mirror toward the exit pupil.

Abstract: A virtual image display device includes: an image light generating device; a projection optical system configured to project image light emitted from the image light generating device; a folding mirror configured to reflect, in an intersecting direction, the image light from the projection optical system; a semi-transmissive mirror configured to reflect a portion of the image light from the folding mirror; and a concave surface mirror configured to reflect, toward the semi-transmissive mirror, the image light reflected at the semi-transmissive mirror to form an exit pupil, in which an optical axis of the image light extending from the image light generating device to the folding mirror is disposed between a first virtual extension plane obtained by imaginarily extending the semi-transmissive mirror and a second virtual extension plane obtained by imaginarily extending the concave surface mirror.

Abstract: A virtual image display device is provided. Included in the virtual image display device are: an image light generating device; a projection optical system configured to project image light emitted from the image light generating device; a folding mirror configured to reflect, in an intersecting direction, the image light from the projection optical system; a semi-transmissive mirror configured to reflect a portion of the image light from the folding mirror; a concave surface mirror configured to reflect, toward the semi-transmissive mirror, the image light reflected at the semi-transmissive mirror to form an exit pupil, in which an entrance pupil is formed between the projection optical system and the semi-transmissive mirror.

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: 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.

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.