Image display device

• US 10,261,317 B2
• Filed: 05/29/2018
• Issued: 04/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Furuya, Hiroyuki, Kurozuka, Akira, Yamamoto, Yuta, Uragami, Susumu
• Primary Examiner(s): Dowling, William C.
• Application Number:
  US15/991,708
• Publication Number:
  US 20180356632A1
• Time in Patent Office: 322 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/011 comprising device for correcting geometrical aberrations, distortion
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0127 comprising devices increasing the depth of field
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0154 with movable elements
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0161 characterised by the relative positioning of the constitutive elements
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 26/10 Scanning systems
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0101 characterised by optical features G02B27/0172 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0149 characterised by mechanical features G02B27/0176 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/00 Projectors or projection-type viewers; Accessories therefor devices for changing pictures G03B23/00

Abstract

The image display device includes a light source, screens on which images are formed by being irradiated with light from the light source, a scanning unit that scans the screens by using the light from the light source, an optical system that generates a virtual image by using light from the screens, and a drive unit that includes a holder for integrally supporting the screens and moves the screens together with the holder The screens are aligned in a direction perpendicular to a movement direction of the holder caused by the drive unit, and are installed at positions that are shifted from each other by a certain distance in the movement direction.

Claims

1. An image display device comprising:

a light source;

a first screen on which an image is formed by being irradiated with light from the light source;

a second screen on which an image is formed by being irradiated with the light from the light source;

a scanning unit that scans the first screen and the second screen by using the light from the light source;

an optical system that generates a virtual image by using light from the first screen and the second screen; and

a drive unit that includes a holder for integrally supporting the first screen and the second screen and moves the first screen and the second screen together with the holder,

wherein the first screen and the second screen are aligned perpendicular to a movement direction of the holder caused by the drive unit, and are installed at positions that are shifted from each other by a certain distance in the movement direction.

2. The image display device according to claim 1, wherein

the holder includes a wall that closes a gap between an end of the first screen closer to the second screen and an end of the second screen closer to the first screen.

3. The image display device according to claim 1, further comprising

an image processor that displays on the first screen a depth image whose sight distance changes along a depth direction and displays on the second screen a fixed image whose sight distance is constant by the second screen,

wherein the first screen and the second screen are installed on the holder such that, when the first screen is positioned at an end of a movement range in which the first screen is moved to display the depth image, the second screen is positioned at a fixed position to display the fixed image.

4. The image display device according to claim 3, wherein

the first screen and the second screen are installed on the holder such that, when the first screen is positioned at an end of the movement range to have a shortest sight distance, the second screen is positioned at the fixed position.

5. The image display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a first light shield member that covers at least part of a periphery of the first screen; and

a second light shield member that covers at least part of a periphery of the second screen,

wherein

the holder includes a first protuberance and a second protuberance that respectively support a peripheral edge of the first screen and a peripheral edge of the second screen,

the first light shield member is installed on the holder such that an inner peripheral edge of the first light shield member overlaps an upper surface of the peripheral edge of the first screen supported by the first protuberance through a heat resistant member, and

the second light shield member is installed on the holder such that an inner peripheral edge of the second light shield member overlaps an upper surface of the peripheral edge of the second screen supported by the second protuberance through the heat resistant member.

6. The image display device according to claim 5, wherein

the first screen and the second screen each have a rectangular contour, and

the first protuberance and the second protuberance are respectively disposed along three sides of the rectangular contour of the first screen and three sides of the rectangular contour of the second screen.

7. The image display device according to claim 5, wherein

the first protuberance and the second protuberance are integrally formed with the holder.

8. An image display device comprising:

a light source;

a screen on which an image is formed by being irradiated with light from the light source;

an optical system that forms a virtual image by using the light from the screen;

a drive unit that includes a holder for supporting the screen and moves the screen together with the holder; and

a light shield member that covers a periphery of the screen,

wherein

the holder includes a protuberance that supports a peripheral edge of the screen, and

the light shield member is installed on the holder such that an inner a peripheral edge of the light shield member on an inner periphery side overlaps an upper surface of the peripheral edge of the screen supported by the protuberance through a heat resistant member.