Range finder and lens assembly for display thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12152908-B2
Application number	US-202318165965-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 8, 2023
Priority date	Apr 24, 2019
Publication date	Nov 26, 2024
Grant date	Nov 26, 2024

Abstract

A lens assembly for display includes a display, a lens assembly, and a prism assembly. The display emits a first light beam. The lens assembly includes a first, second, and third lenses. The prism assembly includes a first, second prisms, and an optical multilayer film, wherein the first prism includes a first, second, and third surfaces and the second prism includes a fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth surfaces. The lens assembly for display satisfies at least one of following conditions: 0.60≤D in /TTL≤0.75; 0.28≤D in /f 123 ≤0.35; 4.56 mm≤D in ≤5.02 mm; wherein D in is an effective optical diameter of the light incident surface, TTL is an interval from the light incident surface to the light emitting surface along the optical axis, and f 123 is an effective focal length of a combination of the first lens, the second lens, and the third lens.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A lens assembly for display comprising:
a display which emits a first light beam;
a lens assembly which comprises a light incident surface and a light emitting surface, both of which are arranged in order along an optical axis, wherein the first light beam enters the lens assembly through the light incident surface and exits the lens assembly by the light emitting surface; and
a prism assembly which comprises a first prism, a second prism, and an optical multilayer film, wherein the first prism comprises a first surface, a second surface, and a third surface; the second prism comprises a fourth surface, a fifth surface, a sixth surface, a seventh surface, and an eighth surface; the fifth surface faces the third surface; and the optical multilayer film is disposed between the third surface and the fifth surface;
wherein a second light beam enters the first prism through the first surface are totally reflected from the second surface to the optical multilayer film, the optical multilayer film reflects a part of the second light beam causing the part of the second light beam to exit the first prism by the second surface;
wherein the first light beam exits the lens assembly, and enters the second prism through the eighth surface, and exits the second prism by the fifth surface, and enters the first prism through the optical multilayer film, the optical multilayer film allows a part of the first light beam to pass through, finally, the part of the first light beam exits the first prism by the second surface, where the part of the second light beam and the part of the first light beam coincide on the second surface;
wherein the lens assembly for display satisfies at least one of following conditions:
0.60 ≤D in /TTL≤0.75;

4.56 mm≤ D in ≤5.02 mm;

wherein D in is an effective optical diameter of the light incident surface and TTL is an interval from the light incident surface to the light emitting surface along the optical axis.

2. The lens assembly for display as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
the second prism comprises a plurality of prism angles and at least one of the prism angles is more than or equal to 90 degrees and less than or equal to 135 degrees;
the optical multilayer film covers the third surface;
the first light beam enters the lens assembly through the first light incident surface of the first lens and exits the lens assembly by the third light emitting surface of the third lens; and
the lens assembly for display satisfies at least one of following conditions:
0.50 ≤D out /f 123 ≤0.57;

0.28 ≤D in /f 123 ≤0.35;

wherein D out is an effective optical diameter of the eighth surface, D in is the effective optical diameter of the light incident surface, and f 123 is an effective focal length of the lens assembly.

3. The lens assembly for display as claimed in claim 2 , wherein:
the prism angles are 90 degrees, 101.45 degrees, 101.05 degrees, 112.5 degrees, and 135 degrees, respectively;
the light emitting surface and the optical axis intersect at a second intersection point;
an outermost edge of the effective optical diameter of the light incident surface and the second intersection point form a first virtual edge;
the first virtual edge forms a first angle with the optical axis;
the light incident surface and the optical axis intersect at a first intersection point;
an outermost edge of the effective optical diameter of the light emitting surface and the first intersection point form a second virtual edge;
the second virtual edge forms a second angle with the optical axis; and
the first angle is more than or equal to 15 degrees and less than or equal to 17 degrees or the second angle is more than or equal to 28 degrees and less than or equal to 31 degrees.

4. The lens assembly for display as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the lens assembly for display satisfies at least one of following conditions:
0.96 degrees/mm≤ A 1 /f 123 ≤1.07 degrees/mm;

1.78 degrees/mm≤ A 2 /f 123 ≤2.04 degrees/mm;

wherein A 1 is an angle of the first angle, A 2 is an angle of the second angle, and f 123 is the effective focal length of the lens assembly.

5. The lens assembly for display as claimed in claim 2 , wherein:
the lens assembly further comprises a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens, all of which are arranged in order along the optical axis;
the second lens is disposed between the first lens and the third lens;
the first lens comprises a first light incident surface, and the first light incident surface is the light incident surface of the lens assembly;
the third lens comprises a third light emitting surface, and the third light emitting surface is the light emitting surface of the lens assembly;
the prism assembly further comprises a roof prism which comprises a ninth surface, a tenth surface, and a ridge surface, wherein the ninth surface faces the second surface;
a third light beam enters the first prism through the first surface is totally reflected from the second surface to the optical multilayer film, the optical multilayer film allows the third light beam to pass through and enters the second prism through the fifth surface, and exits the second prism by the seventh surface; and
the part of the first light beam exits the first prism by the second surface and enters the roof prism through the ninth surface.

6. The lens assembly for display as claimed in claim 1 , wherein;
the second prism comprises a plurality of prism angles and at least one of the prism angles is more than or equal to 90 degrees and less than or equal to 135 degrees;
the optical multilayer film covers the third surface; and
the lens assembly for display satisfies:
1.10 ≤D out /TTL≤1.25;

wherein D out is an effective optical diameter of the eighth surface and TTL is the interval from the light incident surface to the light emitting surface along the optical axis.

7. The lens assembly for display as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
the second prism comprises a plurality of prism angles and at least one of the prism angles is more than or equal to 90 degrees and less than or equal to 135 degrees;
the light emitting surface and the optical axis intersect at a second intersection point;
an outermost edge of the effective optical diameter of the light incident surface and the second intersection point form a first virtual edge;
the first virtual edge forms a first angle with the optical axis;
the light incident surface and the optical axis intersect at a first intersection point;
an outermost edge of the effective optical diameter of the light emitting surface and the first intersection point form a second virtual edge;
the second virtual edge forms a second angle with the optical axis; and
the first angle is more than or equal to 15 degrees and less than or equal to 17 degrees or the second angle is more than or equal to 28 degrees and less than or equal to 31 degrees.

8. The lens assembly for display as claimed in claim 7 , wherein:
the second prism comprises a plurality of prism angles and the prism angles are 90 degrees, 101.45 degrees, 101.05 degrees, 112.5 degrees, and 135 degrees, respectively; and
the lens assembly for display satisfies at least one of following conditions:
0.96 degrees/mm≤ A 1 /f 123 ≤1.07 degrees/mm;

1.78 degrees/mm≤ A 2 /f 123 ≤2.04 degrees/mm;

wherein A 1 is an angle of the first angle, A 2 is an angle of the second angle, and f 123 is an effective focal length of the lens assembly.

9. The lens assembly for display as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
the second prism comprises a plurality of prism angles and at least one of the prism angles is more than or equal to 90 d

Assignees

• Sintai Optical Shenzhen Co Ltd
• Asia Optical Co Inc

Inventors

• Ma fang-li
• Chen Yue-Ye
• Liu Bin
• Che Jun-Wei
• Lou We-Jie
• Liu Hua-Tang

Classifications

• G02B27/142

  Coating structures, e.g. thin films multilayers · CPC title

• G02B5/04 Primary

  Prisms · CPC title

• G02B27/126

  The splitting element being a prism or prismatic array, including systems based on total internal reflection · CPC title

• G02B27/1006

  for splitting or combining different wavelengths (G02B27/1086, G02B27/141 take precedence) · CPC title

• G01S7/51

  Display arrangements · CPC title