Ocular optical system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10317668-B2
Application number	US-201615348904-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 10, 2016
Priority date	Sep 29, 2016
Publication date	Jun 11, 2019
Grant date	Jun 11, 2019

Abstract

An ocular optical system includes a first lens element and a second lens element from an eye-side to a display-side in order along an optical axis. The first lens element and the second lens element each include an eye-side surface and a display-side surface. The eye-side surface of the first lens element has a convex portion in a vicinity of the optical axis. The second lens element has negative refracting power. The ocular optical system satisfies 1.5≤|f2/f1| and 250 millimeters/EFL≤10, wherein f2 is the focal length of the second lens element, f1 is the focal length of the first lens element, and EFL is the effective focal length of the ocular optical system.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An ocular optical system, for imaging of imaging rays entering an eye of an observer via the ocular optical system from a display screen, a side facing towards the eye being an eye-side, a side facing towards the display screen being a display-side, the ocular optical system comprising:
a first lens element and a second lens element from the eye-side to the display-side in order along an optical axis, the first lens element and the second lens element each comprising an eye-side surface and a display-side surface;
the eye-side surface of the first lens element having a convex portion in a vicinity of the optical axis;
the second lens element having negative refracting power;
wherein lens elements of the ocular optical system having refractive power are only the first lens element and second lens element, and the ocular optical system satisfies:
1.5≤| f 2/ f 1|;

250 millimeters/EFL≤10; and

G 2 D/T 2≤16,

wherein f2 is a focal length of the second lens element, f1 is a focal length of the first lens element, EFL is an effective focal length of the ocular optical system, G2D is a distance from the second lens element to the display screen along the optical axis, and T2 is a thickness of the second lens element along the optical axis.

2. The ocular optical system according to claim 1 , wherein one of the eye-side surface and the display-side surface of the first lens element and the eye-side surface and the display-side surface of the second lens element is a Fresnel surface.

3. The ocular optical system according to claim 2 , wherein the display-side surface of the first lens element is the Fresnel surface.

4. The ocular optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the ocular optical system further satisfies: 40°≤ω, wherein ω is a half apparent field of view of the eye of the observer.

5. The ocular optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the ocular optical system further satisfies: 2.5≤T1/T2, wherein T1 is a thickness of the first lens element along the optical axis.

6. The ocular optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the ocular optical system further satisfies: 9≤T1/G12, wherein T1 is a thickness of the first lens element along the optical axis, and G12 is an air gap from the first lens element to the second lens element along the optical axis.

7. The ocular optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the ocular optical system further satisfies: 2≤T2/G12, wherein G12 is an air gap from the first lens element to the second lens element along the optical axis.

8. The ocular optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the ocular optical system further satisfies: 2≤G2D/ER, wherein ER is a distance from a pupil of the eye of the observer to the first lens element along the optical axis.

9. The ocular optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the ocular optical system further satisfies: 2≤G2D/T1, wherein T1 is a thickness of the first lens element along the optical axis.

10. The ocular optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the ocular optical system further satisfies: 20≤G2D/G12, wherein G12 is an air gap from the first lens element to the second lens element along the optical axis.

11. The ocular optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the ocular optical system further satisfies: ER/T1≤5.5, wherein ER is a distance from a pupil of the eye of the observer to the first lens element along the optical axis, and T1 is a thickness of the first lens element along the optical axis.

12. The ocular optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the ocular optical system further satisfies: ER/T2≤8, wherein ER is a distance from a pupil of the eye of the observer to the first lens element along the optical axis.

13. The ocular optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the ocular optical system further satisfies: ER/G12≤20, wherein ER is a distance from a pupil of the eye of the observer to the first lens element along the optical axis, and G12 is an air gap from the first lens element to the second lens element along the optical axis.

14. The ocular optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the ocular optical system further satisfies: 1.5≤(0.5×DLD)/ER, wherein DLD is a diagonal length of the display screen corresponding to one single pupil of the observer, and ER is a distance from a pupil of the eye of the observer to the first lens element along the optical axis.

15. The ocular optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the ocular optical system further satisfies: 2≤EFL/ER, wherein ER is a distance from a pupil of the eye of the observer to the first lens element along the optical axis.

16. The ocular optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the ocular optical system further satisfies: EFL/(0.5×DLD)≤1.4, wherein DLD is a diagonal length of the display screen corresponding to one single pupil of the observer.

17. The ocular optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the ocular optical system further satisfies: 1≤DLD/D2, wherein DLD is a diagonal length of the display screen corresponding to one single pupil of the observer, and D2 is a diameter of a clear aperture of the eye-side surface of the second lens element.

18. The ocular optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the ocular optical system further satisfies: 2.2≤G2D/ALT, wherein ALT is a sum of thicknesses of the first lens element and the second lens element along the optical axis.

19. The ocular optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the ocular optical system further satisfies: SL/T1≤7.6, wherein SL is a distance from a pupil of the eye of the observer to the display screen along the optical axis, and T1 is a thickness of the first lens element along the optical axis.

20. The ocular optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the eye-side surface of the first lens element has a convex portion in a vicinity of a periphery of the first lens element, and the display-side surface of the second lens element has a concave portion in a vicinity of a periphery of the second lens element.

Assignees

• Genius Electronic Optical Co Ltd

Inventors

• Jhang Jia-Sin
• Chen Baina
• Xie Zhen-Feng

Classifications

• G02B27/0172

  characterised by optical features · CPC title

• G02B2027/011

  comprising device for correcting geometrical aberrations, distortion · CPC title

• G02B2027/0123

  comprising devices increasing the field of view · CPC title

• G02B27/0101 Primary

  characterised by optical features (G02B27/0172 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G02B25/001 Primary

  Eyepieces · CPC title