Image display device

• US 20100177114A1
• Filed: 01/11/2010
• Published: 07/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Nakashima, Kazuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,159,417 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/589
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0118 comprising devices for improving the contrast of the display / brillance control visibility
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/014 comprising information/image processing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted

Abstract

An image display device includes: a display part, a measuring instrument, a determination unit, a detection unit, a decision unit, and a notification processing unit. The display part allows a user to visually recognize a display image by projecting an image light corresponding to the display image on an eye of the user in a state where some ambient light reaches at least either one of eyes of the user. The measuring instrument measures brightness of the ambient light. The determination unit determines brightness of the display image. The detection unit detects the difference between the brightness of the ambient light and the brightness of the display image. The decision unit decides timing of temporarily stopping the use of the display part. The notification processing unit performs notification which prompts the user to stop the use of the display part at the timing.

Claims

1. An image display device comprising:

a display part which is configured to allow a user to visually recognize a display image by projecting an image light corresponding to the display image on an eye of the user in a state where some ambient light reaches at least either one of eyes of the user;

a measuring instrument which is configured to measure brightness of the ambient light;

a determination unit which is configured to determine brightness of the display image;

a detection unit which is configured to detect the difference between the brightness of the ambient light and the brightness of the display image;

a decision unit which is configured to decide stop timing where the use of the display part by the user is temporarily stopped based on a detection result of the detection unit after the use of the display part is started by the user; and

a notification processing unit which is configured to perform stopping-of-use notification which prompts the user to stop the use of the display part at the stop timing decided by the decision unit.

2. An image display device according to claim 1, wherein the decision unit is configured to accumulate for every unit time an allocated value allocated corresponding to the detection result of the detection unit, and is configured to decide timing where an accumulated allocated value becomes a predetermined threshold value or more as the stop timing.

3. An image display device according to claim 2, wherein the decision unit is configured to change the allocated value corresponding to the brightness of the ambient light.

4. An image display device according to claim 3, further comprising a memory part which is configured to store a table in which an allocated value which is allocated corresponding to the detection result of the detection unit is set corresponding to the brightness of the ambient light, wherein

the decision unit is configured to decide the allocated value based on the table stored in the memory part.

5. An image display device according to claim 2, further comprising a count unit which is configured to count the number of times that the display part is used by the user, wherein

the decision unit is configured to set a value corresponding to a result of counting by the count unit as the predetermined threshold value.

6. An image display device according to claim 5, further comprising a time measuring unit which is configured to measure a time during which the use of the display part by the user is stopped, wherein

the decision unit is configured to correct the result of counting by the count unit based on a time measurement result by the time measuring unit, and to set a value corresponding to the result of counting corrected by the decision unit as the predetermined threshold value.

7. An image display device according to claim 1, wherein the detection unit is configured to obtain an average value of the brightnesses of pixels of the display image based on data of the display image and to set the average value as the brightness of the display image.

8. An image display device according to claim 1, further comprising an adjustment part which is configured to adjust a set value of the brightness of the display image displayed by the display part, wherein

the detection unit is configured to detect the set value adjusted by the adjustment part and to set the set value as the brightness of the display image.

9. An image display device according to claim 1, wherein the notification processing unit is configured to project an image light corresponding to an image which prompts the user to stop the use of the display part to the eye of the user.

10. An image display device according to claim 1, further comprising an earphone which outputs a voice, wherein the notification processing unit is configured to output a voice which prompts the user to stop the use of the display part from the earphone.

11. An image display device according to claim 1, further comprising a mounting portion which is configured to mount the display part on a head of the user.