Image display device and display apparatus

• US 10,477,174 B2
• Filed: 02/03/2015
• Issued: 11/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Mukawa, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Li, Grace Q
• Application Number:
  US14/612,710
• Publication Number:
  US 20150229897A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,743 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0178 Eyeglass type eyeglass details G02C
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/36 using liquid crystals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/3144 Cooling systems cooling of liquid crystal cells in general G02F1/133382; cooling of projectors not peculiar to the presence of an electronic spatial light modulator G03B21/16
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/73 Colour balance circuits, e.g. white balance circuits or colour temperature control camera processing pipelines for colour balance H04N23/88

Abstract

An image display device includes an image forming unit, an optical unit, a temperature measuring unit, and a control unit. The optical unit is configured to input and output light that is output from the image forming unit. The temperature measuring unit is configured to measure a temperature of the image forming unit. The control unit is configured to control an operation of the image forming unit based on a result of a temperature measurement by the temperature measuring unit.

Claims

1. An image display device, comprising:

an image forming section comprising a light source configured to generate light, wherein the light source comprises a GaN-based semiconductor laser element;

an optical section configured to input and output light that is output from the image forming section, the optical section comprising;

a light guide plate configured to output light after input light is propagated inside the light guide plate by total reflection,

a first deflector configured to deflect at least part of the light input to the light guide plate, to totally reflect the light input to the light guide plate inside the light guide plate, and

a second deflector including a diffraction grating member configured to deflect the light propagated inside the light guide plate by total reflection, to output, from the light guide plate, the light propagated inside the light guide plate by total reflection;

a temperature measuring section configured to measure a temperature of the image forming section; and

control circuitry configured to modify;

based on a result of a temperature measurement by the temperature measurement section, a display position encoded in an image signal provided to the image forming section when the result of the temperature measurement is outside of a predetermined range; and

control a current supplied to the semiconductor laser element to thus control a wavelength of the semiconductor laser element based on the temperature measurement.

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

the semiconductor laser element is configured to emit one of green light and blue light.

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

the semiconductor laser element is configured to emit red light.

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

the first deflector comprises one of a reflecting mirror and a semi-transmissive mirror.

5. The image display device according to claim 1, wherein the diffraction grating member of the second deflector is formed of at least two diffraction grating layers formed of diffraction gratings.

6. The image display device according to claim 1, wherein the control circuitry is configured to modify the display position encoded in the image signal, based on the result of the temperature measurement by the temperature measuring section, by superimposing, on the image signal, a display position correction signal to change the display position by a number of pixels.

7. The image display device according to claim 1, wherein the control circuitry is configured to control a timing of a vertical or horizontal synchronization signal based on the result of the temperature measurement by the temperature measuring section.

8. A display apparatus, comprising:

a frame mounted onto a head of an observer; and

an image display device attached to the frame, the image display device including

an image forming section comprising a light source configured to generate light, wherein the light source comprises a GaN-based semiconductor laser element,

an optical section configured to input and output light that is output from the image forming section, the optical section comprising;

a light guide plate configured to output light after input light is propagated inside the light guide plate by total reflection,

a first deflector configured to deflect at least part of the light input to the light guide plate, to totally reflect the light input to the light guide plate inside the light guide plate, and

a second deflector including a diffraction grating member configured to deflect the light propagated inside the light guide plate by total reflection, to output, from the light guide plate, the light propagated inside the light guide plate by total reflection

a temperature measuring section configured to measure a temperature of the image forming section, and

control circuitry configured to modify;

based on a result of a temperature measurement by the temperature measurement section, a display position encoded in an image signal provided to the image forming section when the result of the temperature measurement is outside of a predetermined range; and

control a current supplied to the semiconductor laser element to thus control a wavelength of the semiconductor laser element based on the temperature measurement.

9. An image display device, comprising:

an image forming section including

a liquid crystal display section, and

a light source configured to generate light, wherein the light source comprises a GaN-based semiconductor laser element;

an optical section configured to input and output light that is output from the image forming section, the optical section comprising;

a light guide plate configured to output light after input light is propagated inside the light guide plate by total reflection,

a first deflector configured to deflect at least part of the light input to the light guide plate, to totally reflect the light input to the light guide plate inside the light guide plate, and

a second deflector including a diffraction grating member configured to deflect the light propagated inside the light guide plate by total reflection, to output, from the light guide plate, the light propagated inside the light guide plate by total reflection;

a temperature measuring section configured to measure a temperature of the light source; and

control circuitry configured to;

modify, based on a result of a temperature measurement by the temperature measurement section, a display position encoded in an image signal provided to the image forming when the result of the temperature measurement is outside of a predetermined range; and

control a current supplied to the semiconductor laser element to thus control a wavelength of the semiconductor laser element based on the temperature measurement.

10. The image display device according to claim 9, wherein

the first deflector comprises one of a reflecting mirror and a semi-transmissive mirror.

11. The image display device according to claim 9, wherein the diffraction grating member of the second deflector is formed of at least two diffraction grating layers formed of diffraction gratings.

12. The image display device according to claim 9, wherein the control circuitry is configured to modify the display position encoded in the image signal section, based on the result of the temperature measurement by the temperature measuring section, by superimposing, on the image signal, a display position correction signal to change the display position by a number of pixels.

13. The image display device according to claim 9, wherein the control circuitry is configured to control a timing of a vertical or horizontal synchronization signal based on the result of the temperature measurement by the temperature measuring section.

14. The image display device according to claim 9, wherein the diffraction grating member of the second deflector is formed of at least two diffraction grating layers formed of diffraction gratings.