Head-mounted display device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9921410-B2
Application number	US-201514752017-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 26, 2015
Priority date	Dec 28, 2012
Publication date	Mar 20, 2018
Grant date	Mar 20, 2018

Abstract

A head-mounted display device includes an eyeglass frame, including a rim, for fixing the head-mounted display device onto a wearer's head, a display that displays an image, and an eyepiece optical unit that guides light of an image displayed on the display into at least one of the wearer's eyes to display the image as an enlarged virtual image. The display and the eyepiece optical unit are attached to the rim, an optical axis of incident light that is image light incident on the eyepiece optical unit from the display and an optical axis of exiting light that is image light exiting from the eyepiece optical unit towards the wearer's eye are not coplanar, and the angle between an incident light vector formed by the incident light and an exiting light vector formed by the exiting light is greater than 90°.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A head-mounted display device comprising:
an eyeglass frame, including a rim, for fixing onto a wearer's head;
a display configured to display an image; and
an eyepiece optical unit configured to guide light of an image displayed on the display into at least one of the wearer's eyes to display the image as an enlarged virtual image, wherein
the display and the eyepiece optical unit are attached to the rim, and
an optical axis of incident light that is image light incident on the eyepiece optical unit from the display and an optical axis of exiting light that is image light exiting from the eyepiece optical unit towards the wearer's eye are not coplanar, and an angle between an incident light vector formed by the incident light and an exiting light vector formed by the exiting light is greater than 90°.

2. The head-mounted display device of claim 1 , wherein the angle between the incident light vector formed by the incident light and the exiting light vector formed by the exiting light is 95° or greater and 120° or less.

3. The head-mounted display device of claim 1 , wherein the eyepiece optical unit comprises:
a first reflecting surface that deflects the image light from the display in a forward direction with respect to the wearer;
a second reflecting surface that deflects image light from the first reflecting surface in a downward direction with respect to the wearer; and
a third reflecting surface that deflects image light from the second reflecting surface toward the wearer's eye.

4. The head-mounted display device of claim 3 , wherein an exit optical axis of image light reflected by the third reflecting surface is inclined with respect to an image optical axis of image light reflected by the first reflecting surface.

5. The head-mounted display device of claim 1 , wherein
the rim comprises at least one slide guide,
the display and the eyepiece optical unit are attached to the at least one slide guide, and
the optical axis of incident light and a slide direction of the at least one slide guide are parallel.

6. The head-mounted display device of claim 5 , wherein the display and the eyepiece optical unit are slidable independently of each other along the at least one slide guide.

7. The head-mounted display device of claim 5 , wherein at least one of the display and the eyepiece optical unit is detachable from the at least one slide guide.

8. The head-mounted display device of claim 1 , wherein the display is shaped along an extending direction of an apex of the rim.

9. The head-mounted display device of claim 3 , wherein the eyepiece optical unit comprises:
a deflecting prism including the first reflecting surface; and
an eyepiece prism including the second reflecting surface and the third reflecting surface.

10. The head-mounted display device of claim 9 , wherein an angle between an eyepiece prism incident light vector formed by eyepiece prism incident light that is image light incident on the eyepiece prism from the deflecting prism and an eyepiece prism exiting light vector formed by eyepiece prism exiting light that is image light exiting from the eyepiece prism towards the wearer's eye is 165° or greater.

11. A head-mounted display device comprising:
an eyeglass frame, including a rim, for fixing onto a wearer's head;
a display configured to display an image; and
an eyepiece optical unit configured to guide light of an image displayed on the display into at least one of the wearer's eyes to display the image as an enlarged virtual image, wherein
the display and the eyepiece optical unit are separate units positioned at different locations on the rim, and
an optical axis of incident light that is image light incident on the eyepiece optical unit from the display and an optical axis of exiting light that is image light exiting from the eyepiece optical unit towards the wearer's eye are not coplanar, and an angle between an incident light vector formed by the incident light and an exiting light vector formed by the exiting light is greater than 90°.

Assignees

• Olympus Corp

Inventors

• Sugihara Ryohei
• Tatsuta Seiji
• Tomita Teruo

Classifications

• G02B27/0176

  characterised by mechanical features · CPC title

• G02B27/0172 Primary

  characterised by optical features · CPC title

• G02B2027/0178

  Eyeglass type (eyeglass details G02C) · CPC title

• G02B2027/0123

  comprising devices increasing the field of view · CPC title

• G02B2027/0161

  characterised by the relative positioning of the constitutive elements · CPC title