Head-up display

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10139620-B2
Application number	US-201615561952-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 14, 2016
Priority date	Mar 27, 2015
Publication date	Nov 27, 2018
Grant date	Nov 27, 2018

Abstract

Provided is a head-up display capable of displaying a plurality of virtual images presented at different distances while increasing the design flexibility in the display device for creating the virtual images. The head-up display comprises: a first display surface disposed to extend the light path of first image light emitted toward a viewer and a second display surface disposed to make the light path of second image light emitted shorter than that of the first image light; a first concave reflector for reflecting the first image light and the second image light; and a second concave reflector for reflecting the image light reflected from the first concave reflector. The first concave reflector is configured such that the first image light and the second image light intersect with each other in the vertical direction between the first concave reflector and the second concave reflector.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A head-up display of directing image light of a display image which is displayed on a display surface to a transmission reflection surface to thereby cause a viewer to visually recognize a virtual image of the display image,
the display surface having:
a first display surface to emit first image light, which is disposed so that an optical path length of the first image light leading up to the viewer is large; and
a second display surface to emit second image light, which is disposed so that an optical path length of the second image light leading up to the viewer is smaller than the optical path length of the first image light,
the head-up display comprising:
a first concave reflector to reflect the first image light and the second image light, having a concave reflection surface; and
a second concave reflector to reflect towards the transmission reflection surface the first image light and the second image light that have been reflected by the first concave reflector,
wherein the first concave reflector crosses the first image light and the second image light to each other in a vertical direction between the first concave reflector and the second concave reflector.

2. The head-up display according to claim 1 , wherein
the second display surface is disposed to be spaced more significantly than the first display surface from the optical path of a respective one of the first image light and the second image light that the first concave reflector reflects towards the second concave reflector.

3. The head-up display according to claim 2 , wherein
a virtual image which is produced by the second display surface is visually recognized at a lower side in the vertical direction more significantly than a virtual image which is produced by the first display surface.

4. The head-up display according to claim 2 , wherein
at least a part of the first display surface is disposed at the optical path side of a respective one of the first image light and the second image light that the first concave reflector reflects towards the second concave reflector more significantly than a line which connects an end part at the second display surface side in the first concave reflector and an end part at the second display surface side in the second concave reflector to each other.

5. The head-up display according to claim 1 , wherein
a virtual image which is produced by the second display surface is visually recognized at a lower side in the vertical direction more significantly than a virtual image which is produced by the first display surface.

6. The head-up display according to claim 5 , wherein
at least a part of the first display surface is disposed at the optical path side of a respective one of the first image light and the second image light that the first concave reflector reflects towards the second concave reflector more significantly than a line which connects an end part at the second display surface side in the first concave reflector and an end part at the second display surface side in the second concave reflector to each other.

7. The head-up display according to claim 1 , wherein
at least a part of the first display surface is disposed at the optical path side of a respective one of the first image light and the second image light that the first concave reflector reflects towards the second concave reflector more significantly than a line which connects an end part at the second display surface side in the first concave reflector and an end part at the second display surface side in the second concave reflector to each other.

Assignees

• Nippon Seiki Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yamazoe Takashi
• Hirokawa Takuro

Classifications

• G02B13/16

  for use in conjunction with image converters or intensifiers {, or for use with projectors, e.g. objectives for projection TV} · CPC title

• G02B27/14 Primary

  operating by reflection only · CPC title

• G09G5/00

  Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators (image data processing or generation, in general G06T) · CPC title

• G02B27/01 Primary

  Head-up displays · CPC title

• B60R2300/205

  using a head-up display · CPC title