Display module and head mounted display device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10746995-B2
Application number	US-201715627492-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 20, 2017
Priority date	Sep 9, 2016
Publication date	Aug 18, 2020
Grant date	Aug 18, 2020

Abstract

Provided is a head mounted display device including a housing for providing a darkroom space, a display module in the housing and to display an image, and an optical lens for expanding the image to provide the image to a user. The display module includes a destructive interference structure which removes the image reflected from the optical lens without reflecting the image again.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A head mounted display device comprising:
a housing providing a darkroom space;
a display module in the housing, the display module to display an image; and
an optical lens to expand the image to provide the image to eyeballs of a user,
wherein the display module includes:
a first electrode on a base layer;
a second electrode closer to the optical lens than the first electrode;
a light-emitting element layer including a light-emitting layer between the first and second electrodes;
a reflection preventing layer on the second electrode; and
a phase control layer between the second electrode and the reflection preventing layer, the phase control layer configured to adjust an optical distance between the second electrode and the reflection preventing layer to generate destructive interference between a first light beam, which is a portion of incident light that has been reflected by the optical lens and then by the second electrode, and a second light beam, which is another portion of the incident light that has been reflected by the optical lens and then by the reflection preventing layer.

2. The head mounted display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the reflection preventing layer includes at least one of chromium (Cr), molybdenum (Mo), titanium (Ti), cobalt (Co), nickel (Ni), aluminum (Al), tungsten (W), manganese (Mn), tellurium (Te), Ni, P, CrN, TiN x , TiAlN, MoO, and CuO x .

3. The head mounted display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the reflection preventing layer includes a material having a refractive index and an extinction ratio such that the product of the refractive index and the extinction ratio is greater than about 1 and less than about 6.

4. The head mounted display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the second electrode includes one or more of silver (Ag), aluminum (Al), ytterbium (Yb), titanium (Ti), magnesium (Mg), nickel (Ni), lithium (Li), calcium (Ca), copper (Cu), LiF/Ca, LiF/AI, MgAg and CaAg.

5. The head mounted display device as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising an encapsulating substrate spaced apart from the reflection preventing layer, the encapsulating substrate to encapsulate the light-emitting element layer.

6. The head mounted display device as claimed in claim 5 , further comprising a phase compensating layer on the phase control layer,
wherein a refractive index of the phase compensating layer is less than that of the reflection preventing layer and is greater than that of a medium between the phase compensating layer and the encapsulating substrate.

7. The head mounted display device as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the medium is air or a sealing material.

8. The head mounted display device as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the refractive index of the phase compensating layer is greater than about 1.0 and smaller than about 2.0.

9. The head mounted display device as claimed in claim 5 , further comprising:
a hybrid layer including first refractive index layers and second refractive index layers having different refractive indexes and alternately disposed with the first refractive index layers,
wherein the encapsulating substrate includes a lower surface and an upper surface closer to the optical lens than the lower surface, and
wherein the hybrid layer is on the lower surface of the encapsulating substrate.

10. The head mounted display device as claimed in claim 9 , wherein:
each of the first refractive index layers includes one of a silicon oxide layer, a silicon oxynitride layer, and a silicon nitride layer, and
each of the second refractive index layers includes one different from the one of a silicon oxide layer, a silicon oxynitride layer, and a silicon nitride layer.

11. The head mounted display device as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a thin film encapsulating layer on the reflection preventing layer to encapsulate the light-emitting element layer.

12. The head mounted display device as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the thin film encapsulating layer includes:
an organic layer;
at least one lower inorganic layer between the reflection preventing layer and the organic layer and having a refractive index greater than the organic layer; and
at least one upper inorganic layer on the organic layer and having a refractive index greater than the organic layer.

13. The head mounted display device as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the lower inorganic layer includes:
a first lower inorganic layer between the reflection preventing layer and the organic layer and having a first refractive index; and
a second lower inorganic layer between the first lower inorganic layer and the organic layer and having a second refractive index less than the first refractive index.

14. The head mounted display device as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the upper inorganic layer includes:
a first upper inorganic layer on the organic layer and having a first refractive index; and
a second upper inorganic layer between the first upper inorganic layer and the organic layer and having a second refractive index less than the first refractive index.

15. The head mounted display device as claimed in claim 14 , wherein the upper inorganic layer further includes a third upper inorganic layer on the first upper inorganic layer and including the same material as the second upper inorganic layer.

16. The head mounted display device as claimed in claim 14 , wherein the second lower inorganic layer includes more oxygen atoms in a same volume than the first lower inorganic layer, and
the second upper inorganic layer includes more oxygen atoms in a same volume than the first upper inorganic layer.

17. The head mounted display device as claimed in claim 14 , wherein the second lower inorganic layer is thinner than the first lower inorganic layer, and the second upper inorganic layer is thinner than the first upper inorganic layer.

18. The head mounted display device as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a color compensating layer directly on the reflection preventing layer,
wherein the color compensating layer includes silicon nitride.

19. The head mounted display device as claimed in claim 18 , wherein the thickness of the color compensating layer is about 400 angstrom to about 800 angstrom.

20. The head mounted display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the phase control layer includes at least one of SiN x , SiO 2 , SiCN, LiF, MgF 2 , CaF 2 , SiON, Ta x O y , and TiO x .

21. The head mounted display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the phase control layer is configured such that a phase difference between the first light beam and the second light beam is about 160° to about 200°.

22. The head mounted display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the housing includes:
a body part;
a partitioning wall coupled to the body part and to partition the darkroom space into a first darkroom space and a second darkroom space; and
a first sight window and a second sight window which are coupled to the body part and provides the image to the user.

23. The head mounted display device as claimed in claim 22 , wherein the display module includes:
a first display module in the first darkroom space and to provide a first image to a first eyeball of the user; and
a second display module in the second darkroom space and to provide a second image to a second eyeball of the user.

24. A display module comprising:
a light-emitting element layer including
a

Assignees

• Samsung Display Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Soyoung
• Jung Sunyoung
• Kim Hyunho
• Choi Chungsock
• Cho Sang-Hwan
• Jang Cheol

Classifications

• H10K59/879

  comprising refractive means, e.g. lenses · CPC title

• G02B27/017 Primary

  Head mounted · CPC title

• G02B26/06

  for controlling the phase of light (G02B26/08 takes precedence {, measuring optical phase difference G01J9/00}) · CPC title

• G02B6/0015

  provided on the surface of the light guide or in the bulk of it · CPC title

• G02B1/113

  using inorganic layer materials only · CPC title