Head-mounted image display apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2022326730-A1
Application number	US-202017764624-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 28, 2020
Priority date	Oct 7, 2019
Publication date	Oct 13, 2022
Grant date	—

Abstract

To provide an HMD that provides a wearing comfort and a high degree of detachability regardless of the size of the head of a user. A head-mounted image display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a display-section body, a holding section, and a weight section. The display-section body displays an image in front of eyes of a user. The holding section is mounted on a head of the user, and includes a first arm that movably holds the display-section body. The weight section includes a weight, and a second arm that is provided to the holding section and movably holds the weight; and is balanced with the display-section body in the holding section.

First claim

1 . A head-mounted image display apparatus, comprising:
a display-section body that displays an image in front of eyes of a user; a holding section that is mounted on a head of the user, and includes a first arm that movably holds the display-section body; and a weight section that includes a weight, and a second arm that is provided to the holding section and movably holds the weight, the weight section being balanced with the display-section body in the holding section.

2 . The head-mounted image display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the holding section includes a holding-section body that includes a first groove and a second groove that are respectively used to accommodate the first arm and the second arm, and the first arm and the second arm are respectively movable within and along the first groove and the second groove.

3 . The head-mounted image display apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
the first arm and the second arm form an arc shape, and the first groove and the second groove form an arc shape.

4 . The head-mounted image display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the display-section body includes a barrel that holds an optical element and a display element, and the barrel is movable in the display-section body in a direction of a line of sight of the user.

5 . The head-mounted image display apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein
the holding section further includes a first joint that enables the display-section body to be rotated about a single axis with respect to the first arm.

6 . The head-mounted image display apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
the first arm is movable such that the display-section body is moved up to a first back-away position at which the display-section body is in contact with, or is situated near the holding-section body.

7 . The head-mounted image display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the holding section further includes sandwiching arms between which the head of the user is sandwiched from two sides of the head.

8 . The head-mounted image display apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein
the holding section further includes a side-of-head contact portion that is provided to a tip of the sandwiching arm and covers a corresponding one of two ears of the user.

9 . The head-mounted image display apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
the second arm is movable such that the weight is moved up to a second back-away position at which the weight is in contact with, or is situated near the holding-section body.

10 . The head-mounted image display apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
each of the first groove and the second groove includes an uneven portion on two side faces of the corresponding groove, and each of the first arm and the second arm includes a tip that includes an elastically deformable protrusion that is engaged with the corresponding uneven portion.

11 . The head-mounted image display apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
the first arm includes a sliding portion that is slidable along the first groove, with specified friction being caused between the sliding portion of the first arm and the first groove, and the second arm includes a sliding portion that is slidable along the second groove, with specified friction being caused between the sliding portion of the second arm and the second groove.

12 . The head-mounted image display apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein
the holding section further includes a weight drive section that moves the weight from the second back-away position to a specified position.

13 . The head-mounted image display apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein
the weight drive section includes
an actuator that moves the weight from the second back-away position to the specified position, and
a biasing member that biases the weight toward the second back-away position from the specified position.

14 . The head-mounted image display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the holding section further includes a second joint that enables the weight section to be rotated about a single axis.

Assignees

• Sony Group Corp

Inventors

• Ashida Yuichiro

Classifications

• G06F3/011

  Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality (blind teaching G09B21/00) · CPC title

• G06F1/163 Primary

  Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt · CPC title

• G02B27/02

  Viewing or reading apparatus (stereoscopic systems G02B30/00) · CPC title

• H04N5/64

  Constructional details of receivers, e.g. cabinets or dust covers (furniture aspects {of television cabinets} A47B81/06) · CPC title

• G09F9/00

  Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements (in which the variable information is permanently attached to a movable support G09F11/00; abacus G06C1/00; slide-rules G06G1/00) · CPC title