DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20120033307A1
• Filed: 03/07/2011
• Published: 02/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakamura, Hiroaki, Moriya, Akihisa
• Application Number:
  US13/041,571
• Publication Number:
  US 20120033307A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 359/632
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0187 slaved to motion of at least a part of the body of the user, e.g. head, eye
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/01 Head-up displays

Abstract

A display device includes a light flux generation unit 115 to generate light flux 112 containing image information, a reflection plate 163 to reflect the light flux toward one eye 105 of an occupant 100, a head detection unit 612 to detect a head 101 of the occupant 100 by utilizing at least two pairs of distance sensors, a control unit 620 to determine the position of the head 101 of the occupant 100 as receiving output from the head detection unit 612 and to control a direction or a position of the reflection plate 163, and a drive unit 164 to drive the reflection plate 163 as receiving output from the control unit 620.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a light flux generating unit to generate light flux containing image information;

a reflection plate to reflect the light flux generated by the light flux generation unit toward one eye of an occupant;

a head detection unit to detect a position of a head of the occupant;

a control unit to control a position of the reflection plate based on output from the head detection unit; and

a drive unit to drive the reflection plate on the basis of output from the control unit;

wherein

the head detection unit utilizes a first distance sensor pair including a distance sensor A and a distance sensor B and a second distance sensor pair including a distance sensor C and a distance sensor D to detect the position of the head of the occupant;

the control unit calculates a coefficient G from an output voltage difference of the first distance sensor pair and an output voltage difference of the second distance sensor pair when an output voltage of the distance sensor A and an output voltage of the distance sensor D become substantially equal to each other; and

the control unit controls a direction or a position of the reflection plate on the basis of the coefficient G and either the output voltage difference of the first distance sensor pair or the output voltage difference of the second distance sensor pair.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein

the control unit controls the direction or the position of the reflection plate on the basis of the output voltage difference of the first distance sensor pair and the coefficient G if the output voltage of the distance sensor A is equal to or higher than the output voltage of the distance sensor D, or controls the direction or the position of the reflection plate on the basis of the output voltage difference of the second distance sensor pair and the coefficient G if the output voltage of the distance sensor A is lower than the output voltage of the distance sensor D.

3. The display device according to claim 2, wherein

the light flux generation unit includes:

a light source;

a restriction portion to restrict a traveling direction of light flux from the light source;

a diffusion portion to diffuse the light flux;

an image unit to make image information contained in the light flux which is diffused by the diffusion portion;

a first lens to condense the light flux passing through the image unit;

an opening portion to control a divergence angle of the light flux passing through the first lens; and

a second lens to condense the light flux passing through the opening portion.