On-vehicle head up display device with optical means for correcting parallax in a vertical direction

• US 4,787,711 A
• Filed: 09/12/1986
• Issued: 11/29/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Iino, Tadashi, Suzuki, Yoshiyuki, Ohtsuka, Tatsumi, Tomiyama, Noriyasu, Kasahara, Akihisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Henry, Jon W.
• Application Number:
  US06/907,148
• Time in Patent Office: 809 Days
• Field of Search: 350/174, 350/173, 350/286
• US Class Current: 359/631
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/012 comprising devices for attenuating parasitic image effects
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0101 characterised by optical features G02B27/0172 takes precedence

Abstract

In an on-vehicle head up display device employing a catoptric system for a windshield glass of an automobile to project a display image onto an inner surface of the windshield glass, an optical system for letting a virtual image of the display image of a display means enter the windshield glass is adapted to make an angle formed by light beams of the virtual image entering the windshield glass less than a monocular resolving power. Further, an optical means for correcting parallax of the light beams of the virtual image is provided between the optical system and the windshield glass. Thus, a double image formation and binocular parallax may be eliminated.

Claims

1. An on-vehicle head-up display apparatus wherein a winshield glass having inner and outer surfaces of a vehicle is utilized as a catoptric system to reflect an image of various information on the vehicle from said inner surface of the windshield glass, comprising:

display means for indicating said information;

first optical means for forming a virtual image of said information displayed on said display means; and

second optical means positioned between said first optical means and said windshield glass, for correcting parallax of said virtual image reflected on said inner surface of said windshield glass, in a vertical direction.

2. The on-vehicle head up display apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein said second optical means comprises a prism.