Augmented reality head-up display apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11360301-B2
Application number	US-202017024985-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 18, 2020
Priority date	Dec 12, 2019
Publication date	Jun 14, 2022
Grant date	Jun 14, 2022

Abstract

An augmented reality head-up display (AR HUD) apparatus is provided. A backlight unit (BLU) for an AR HUD includes a light emitting diode (LED) array including a plurality of LEDs, a primary lens array configured to primarily concentrate light output by the plurality of LEDs, a secondary lens array configured to secondarily concentrate light incident through the primary lens array, and a side reflector configured to reflect light traveling toward a side surface above the secondary lens array among light incident through the secondary lens array.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A backlight unit (BLU) for an augmented reality head-up display (AR HUD), the BLU comprising:
a light emitting diode (LED) array comprising a plurality of LEDs;
a primary lens array disposed above the LED array and configured to concentrate light output by the plurality of LEDs;
a secondary lens array disposed above the primary lens array and configured to concentrate light incident through the primary lens array;
a side reflector disposed on a side surface above the secondary lens array and configured to reflect light traveling toward the side surface among light incident through the secondary lens array; and
a polarizing diffuser plate disposed above the side reflector.

2. The BLU of claim 1 , wherein a light emitting angle of each of lenses included in the secondary lens array is equal to or less than a field of view (FOV) of the BLU.

3. The BLU of claim 1 , wherein a curvature of each of lenses included in the secondary lens array is less than a curvature of each of lenses included in the primary lens array.

4. The BLU of claim 1 , wherein the secondary lens array includes an aspheric lens.

5. The BLU of claim 1 , wherein lenses include in the secondary lens array are configured such that rays corresponding to light passing through the secondary lens array are not parallel to each other.

6. The BLU of claim 1 , wherein
the primary lens array corresponds to a cap lens, and
the secondary lens array corresponds to a fly-eye lens.

7. The BLU of claim 1 , further comprising:
a diffuser disposed between the secondary lens array and the side reflector and configured to diffuse the light incident through the secondary lens array.

8. The BLU of claim 1 , wherein a number of the plurality of LEDs included in the LED array, a number of a plurality of lenses included in the primary lens array, and a number of a plurality of lenses included in the secondary lens array are the same.

9. An augmented reality head-up display (AR HUD) apparatus, the AR HUD apparatus comprising:
a light emitting diode (LED) array comprising a plurality of LEDs;
a primary lens array disposed above the LED array and configured to concentrate light output by the plurality of LEDs;
a secondary lens array disposed above the primary lens array and configured to concentrate light incident through the primary lens array;
a diffuser disposed above the secondary lens array and configured to diffuse the light incident through the secondary lens array;
a side reflector disposed on a side surface above the diffuser and configured to reflect light traveling toward the side surface among light incident through the diffuser;
a polarizing diffuser plate disposed above the side reflector;
a display panel disposed above the polarizing diffuser plate; and
a housing configured to support the LED array, the primary lens array, the secondary lens array, the diffuser, the side reflector, the polarizing diffuser plate and the display panel.

10. The AR HUD apparatus of claim 9 , wherein a light emitting angle of each of lenses included in the secondary lens array is equal to or less than a field of view (FOV) of a backlight unit (BLU).

11. The AR HUD apparatus of claim 9 , wherein each of lenses included in the secondary lens array corresponds to an aspheric lens.

12. The AR HUD apparatus of claim 9 , wherein lenses include in the secondary lens array are configured such that rays corresponding to light passing through the secondary lens array are not parallel to each other.

13. The AR HUD apparatus of claim 9 , wherein
the primary lens array corresponds to a cap lens, and
the secondary lens array corresponds to a fly-eye lens.

14. A backlight unit (BLU) for an augmented reality head-up display (AR HUD), the BLU comprising:
a light emitting diode (LED) array comprising a plurality of LEDs;
a primary lens array disposed above the LED array and configured to concentrate light output by the plurality of LEDs;
a secondary lens array disposed above the primary lens array and configured to concentrate light incident through the primary lens array;
a side reflector disposed on a side surface above the secondary lens array and configured to reflect light traveling toward the side surface among light incident through the secondary lens array; and
a housing configured to support the LED array, the primary lens array, the secondary lens array, and the side reflector,
wherein the side reflector is applied to at least two inner surfaces facing each other among inner surfaces of the housing.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
• Glotec Corp

Inventors

• Lee Jinho
• Lee Ki Gwon
• Lee Ho Seok
• Choi Yoonsun
• Nam Dong Kyung
• Yoo Seong Won

Classifications

• B60K37/00

  Dashboards (as road-vehicle superstructure sub-units B62D25/14) · CPC title

• B60K35/235

  with means for detecting the driver's gaze direction or eye points · CPC title

• G02B27/0101 Primary

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

• G06T19/006

  Mixed reality (object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00) · CPC title

• G02B3/02

  with non-spherical faces (G02B3/10 takes precedence) · CPC title