SCANNING IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, GOGGLE-SHAPED HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY, AND AUTOMOBILE

• US 20110012874A1
• Filed: 04/28/2009
• Published: 01/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kurozuka, Akira
• Granted Patent: US 8,319,762 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/204
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/011 comprising device for correcting geometrical aberrations, distortion
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 26/105 with one or more pivoting mirrors or galvano-mirrors G02B26/101 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0172 characterised by optical features
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/3129 scanning a light beam on the display screen scanning a light beam on a screen in displays other than projection devices G09G3/02; scanning systems in general G02B26/10; projectors using laser light sources in general H04N9/3161

Abstract

A scanning image display apparatus (20) includes a light source (11) and a biaxial scanning mirror (12) two-dimensionally scans a scanning surface (23) with the laser beam. When seen from a side perpendicular to an incident plane (15) including a laser beam incident on the biaxial scanning mirror (12) and a laser beam scanned on the scanning surface (23) by the biaxial scanning mirror (12), with the biaxial scanning mirror (12) held at a rotation center position of the reflection surface, the light source (11) and the biaxial scanning mirror (12) are arranged to have a positional relationship where the laser beam is incident on the reflection surface obliquely at an initial angle of incidence α₀ either clockwise or counterclockwise with respect to a first normal line of the reflection surface, and the biaxial scanning mirror (12) and the scanning surface (23) are arranged to have a positional relationship where the laser beam is incident on the scanning surface (23) obliquely at an initial angle of incidence β₀ the other of clockwise or counterclockwise with respect to a second normal line of the scanning surface (23).

Claims

1. A scanning image display apparatus comprising:

a light source which emits a laser beam; and

a scanning unit configured to two-dimensionally scan a scanning surface with the laser beam by two-dimensionally rotating a reflection surface which reflects the laser beam emitted by said light source,

wherein, when seen from a side which is perpendicular to an incident plane including a laser beam incident on said scanning unit and a laser beam scanned on said scanning surface by said scanning unit, with said scanning unit held at a rotation center position of said reflection surface and,

said light source and said scanning unit are arranged to have a positional relationship where the laser beam emitted by said light source is incident on said reflection surface, the laser beam being incident on said reflection surface obliquely at an initial angle of incidence α

₀ either clockwise or counterclockwise with respect to a first normal line of said reflection surface at an incident position of the laser beam, and

said scanning unit and said scanning surface are arranged to have a positional relationship where the laser beam scanned by said scanning unit is incident on said scanning surface, the laser beam being incident on said scanning surface obliquely at an initial angle of incidence β

₀ the other of clockwise or counterclockwise with respect to a second normal line of said scanning surface at an incident position of the laser beam.

2. The scanning image display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein said scanning unit is configured to two-dimensionally scan said scanning surface with the laser beam emitted by said light source by rotating a first rotation axis which is perpendicular to the incident plane by an angular amplitude ±

θ

y and by rotating a second rotation axis which is perpendicular to both the first normal line and the first rotation axis by an angular amplitude ±

θ

x, and

a perpendicular scanning angle ω

(α

) which is an angle that the laser beam scanned by said scanning unit rotating the second rotation axis by +θ

x makes with the laser beam scanned by said scanning unit rotating the second rotation axis by −

θ

x satisfies Equation 1 as a function of an actual angle of incidence α

((α

₀−

θ

y)≦

α

≦

(α

₀+θ

y)) on said scanning unit.

[Math. 1]

3. The scanning image display apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the perpendicular scanning angle ω

(α

) further satisfies Equation 2.

[Math. 2]

4. The scanning image display apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein said scanning unit is arranged to have the first and second rotation axes being rotated at a predetermined angle in a predetermined rotation direction with respect to the first normal line, when said scanning surface is arranged to cross the incident plane at an acute angle.

5. The scanning image display apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the rotation direction is a direction for moving, closer to the incident plane, a farthest entering position from said scanning unit among the entering positions of the laser beam scanned by said scanning unit on said scanning surface.

6. A goggle-shaped head mounted display comprising:

a lens arranged in front of an eye of a user;

a temple, an end of which is connected to said lens and the other end of which is fixed on a temporal part of a head of the user; and

the scanning image display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein said light source and said scanning unit are held on said temple,

said scanning surface is arranged on a side of the lens facing the eye of the user and deflects the laser beam scanned by said scanning unit to a direction toward the eye of the user.

7. The goggle-shaped head mounted display according to claim 6,

wherein said temple further holds a reflector for changing a direction of the laser beam emitted by said light source to cause the laser beam to be incident on said scanning unit, and

said light source, the reflector, and said scanning unit are arranged to have a positional relationship such that a laser beam moving from said light source to the reflector moves from back to front when seen by the user, and a laser beam moving from the reflector to said scanning unit moves from front to back when seen by the user.

8. An automobile comprising:

a seat;

a dashboard arranged in front of said seat;

a windshield arranged above said dashboard; and

the scanning image display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein said light source and said scanning unit are held in said dashboard, and

said scanning surface is arranged on said windshield in a position facing said seat, and deflects the laser beam scanned by said scanning unit to a direction toward the eye of the user sitting in said seat.