ELECTRONIC APPARATUS

• US 20170090518A1
• Filed: 03/17/2015
• Published: 03/30/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: FUKUMA, YOHEI, ONO, HIROYUKI, NAKAO, ISAMU, KANEDA, KAZUMASA
• Application Number:
  US15/127,841
• Publication Number:
  US 20170090518A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/36 using refractive optical elements, e.g. prisms, in the optical path between the images and the observer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1639 the display being based on projection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04108 Touchless 2D- digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface without distance measurement in the Z direction
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/01 Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer G06F3/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/042 by opto-electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/002 to project the image of a two-dimensional display, such as an array of light emitting or modulating elements or a CRT
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/66 Transforming electric information into light information scanning details H04N3/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/74 Projection arrangements for image reproduction, e.g. using eidophor

Abstract

An electronic apparatus includes a first display section (10) and a second display section (20) that are disposed in proximity to each other beneath a principal surface (50A) of a housing (50). The first display section generates a first image (image 100, image light L1) on the principal surface, and the second display section generates a picture imaged in the air as a second image (image 200, image light L2).

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a first display section and a second display section that are disposed in proximity to each other beneath a principal surface of a housing, wherein

the first display section generates a first image on the principal surface, and

the second display section generates a picture imaged in air as a second image, the second display section has;

an optical plate in which a plurality of optical elements are provided in a matrix pattern, each of the optical elements performing regular reflection of an incident light ray in a Z-axis directional component and performing recursive reflection of an incident light ray in an X-Y-axis directional component for a substrate in which a Z-axis direction is a normal line; and

a display panel that emits image light corresponding to the second image to the optical plate, and

the housing has an inclined surface on a side surface, and

the optical plate is disposed beneath the inclined surface in parallel with the inclined surface.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second display section generates, as the second image, the picture that is imaged in the air using a light ray with a divergence angle narrower than a viewing angle of the first display section.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the optical plate is disposed beneath the principal surface in parallel with the principal surface.

4. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a first display section and a second display section that are disposed in proximity to each other beneath a principal surface of a housing, wherein

the first display section generates a first image on the principal surface, and

the second display section generates a picture imaged in air as a second image, and

the electronic apparatus further includes a non-contact input section that uses a space region including a display region of the second image as a detection region, and

the non-contact input section is disposed at a location beneath the principal surface of the housing and in proximity to the second display section.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the second display section generates, as the second image, the picture that is imaged in the air using a light ray with a divergence angle narrower than a viewing angle of the first display section.

6. The electronic apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the second display section has:

an optical plate in which a plurality of optical elements are provided in a matrix pattern, each of the optical elements performing regular reflection of an incident light ray in a Z-axis directional component and performing recursive reflection of an incident light ray in an X-Y-axis directional component for a substrate in which a Z-axis direction is a normal line; and

a display panel that emits image light corresponding to the second image to the optical plate.

7. The electronic apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the optical plate is disposed beneath the principal surface in parallel with the principal surface.

8. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a first display section and a second display section that are disposed in proximity to each other beneath a principal surface of a housing, wherein

the first display section generates a first image on the principal surface, and

the second display section generates a picture imaged in air as a second image, and

the electronic apparatus further includes a non-contact input section that uses a space region including a display region of the second image as a detection region, and

the non-contact input section accepts a non-contact input by detecting light returned back after transmission through the optical plate.

9. The electronic apparatus according to claim 8, wherein

the non-contact input section accepts a non-contact input by outputting invisible light and detecting return light of the outgoing invisible light, and

the second display section has the built-in non-contact input section.

10. The electronic apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the second display section generates, as the second image, the picture that is imaged in the air using a light ray with a divergence angle narrower than a viewing angle of the first display section.

11. The electronic apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the second display section has:

an optical plate in which a plurality of optical elements are provided in a matrix pattern, each of the optical elements performing regular reflection of an incident light ray in a Z-axis directional component and performing recursive reflection of an incident light ray in an X-Y-axis directional component for a substrate in which a Z-axis direction is a normal line; and

a display panel that emits image light corresponding to the second image to the optical plate.

12. The electronic apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the optical plate is disposed beneath the principal surface in parallel with the principal surface.