Display device having a display module and an eyepiece lens

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10473940-B2
Application number	US-201815955473-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 17, 2018
Priority date	Apr 18, 2017
Publication date	Nov 12, 2019
Grant date	Nov 12, 2019

Abstract

A display device including a display module and an eyepiece lens is provided. A user can view an image realized by the display module through the eyepiece lens. In the display play according to the present disclosure, a path of a light moving from the display module to the eyepiece lens may be increased by a half-mirror and a reflective polarizing plate which are located between the display module and the eyepiece lens. Thus, in the display device according to the present disclosure, the overall thickness may be decreased without degrading the quality of the image realized by the display module.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A display device, comprising:
a display module;
an eyepiece lens on the display module;
a half-mirror between the display module and the eyepiece lens;
a reflective polarizing plate between the half-mirror and the eyepiece lens; and
a rear quarter-wave plate between the reflective polarizing plate and the eyepiece lens,
wherein the reflective polarizing plate includes a cholesteric liquid crystal.

2. The display device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a body including a first surface coupled to the eyepiece lens; and
a mounting element extending outwardly from the first surface of the body,
wherein the display module, the half-mirror and the reflective polarizing plate are accommodated in the body.

3. The display device according to claim 2 , wherein the display module is located close to a second surface opposite to the first surface of the body.

4. The display device according to claim 1 , further comprising a rear liner polarizing plate between the rear quarter-wave plate and the eyepiece lens.

5. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein a distance between the display module and the half-mirror is smaller than a distance between the half-mirror and the reflective polarizing plate.

6. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the half-mirror is a meniscus shape protruding toward the display module.

7. The display device according to claim 6 , wherein the eyepiece lens is a flat shape.

8. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein a polarization direction of a light reflected by the reflective polarizing plate is determined by a helical structure of the cholesteric liquid crystal.

9. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein a light reflected by the half-mirror is phase-reversed by the half-mirror.

10. A display device, comprising:
a display module;
an eyepiece lens on the display module;
a half-mirror between the display module and the eyepiece lens,
wherein the reflective polarizing plate includes a cholesteric liquid crystal, and
wherein the display module includes a display panel, a module quarter-wave plate between the display panel and the half-mirror and a panel polarizer between the display panel and the module quarter-wave plate.

11. The display device according to claim 10 , wherein the display panel includes a lower substrate, a lower light-emitting electrode, a light-emitting layer, an upper light-emitting electrode and an upper substrate, which are sequentially stacked.

12. The display device according to claim 11 , wherein the panel polarizer is in direct contact with the upper substrate and the module quarter-wave plate.

13. The display device according to claim 10 wherein a distance between the display module and the half-mirror is smaller than a distance between the half-mirror and the reflective polarizing plate.

14. The display device according to claim 10 wherein a light reflected by the half-mirror is phase-reversed by the half-mirror.

15. A display device, comprising:
a display module;
a half-mirror on a surface of the display module;
a front quarter-wave plate between the display module and the half-mirror;
a reflective polarizing plate on the half-mirror; and
an eyepiece lens on the reflective polarizing plate,
wherein the reflective polarizing plate reflects a light circularly polarized in a first direction, and transmits a light circularly polarized in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and
wherein the display module includes a display panel and a panel polarizer between the display panel and the front quarter-wave plate.

16. The display device according to claim 15 , wherein a distance between the half-mirror and the reflective polarizing plate is larger than a distance between the reflective polarizing plate and the eyepiece lens.

17. The display device according to claim 15 ,
wherein the panel polarizer is in direct contact with the display panel.

18. The display device according to claim 17 , wherein the display module further includes a back-light unit, and
wherein the display panel is disposed between the back-light unit and the panel polarizer.

19. The display device according to claim 15 , wherein a polarization direction of a light reflected by the reflective polarizing plate is determined by a helical structure of the cholesteric liquid crystal.

20. The display device according to claim 15 , wherein a light reflected by the half-mirror is phase-reversed by the half-mirror.

Assignees

• Lg Display Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Keong-Jin
• Son Hyeon-Ho
• Jung Sung-Min

Classifications

• G02B27/28

  for polarising (used in stereoscopes G02B30/25) · CPC title

• G02F1/133603

  with LEDs · CPC title

• G02B2027/0123

  comprising devices increasing the field of view · CPC title

• G02F1/133615

  Edge-illuminating devices, i.e. illuminating from the side · CPC title

• G02B27/0172 Primary

  characterised by optical features · CPC title