On-vehicle head up display device with double images angularly separated less than a monocular resolving power

• US 4,892,386 A
• Filed: 06/02/1988
• Issued: 01/09/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Tomiyama, Noriyasu, Kasahara, Akihisa, Iino, Tadashi, Suzuki, Yoshiyuki, Ohtsuka, Tatsumi
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US07/201,411
• Time in Patent Office: 586 Days
• Field of Search: 350/174, 350/173, 350/286
• US Class Current: 359/630
• 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 catopric 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 windshield glass having inner and outer surfaces of a vehicle is utilized as a catoptric system to reflect an image of various information in the vehicle from said inner and outer surfaces of said windshield glass, comprising:

display means for indicating said information; and

an optical system positioned between said windshield glass and said display means for forming an indication image of said indicated information having an object point therein, light beams from said object point impinging upon said inner and outer surfaces of the windshield glass to be reflected to form a virtual image in a doubled state at a finite distance outside the windshield glass, and said optical system forming said indication image beyond said display means to form an angle defined by said reflected light beams reflecting from said inner and outer surfaces thereof, which is smaller than a monocular resolving power.

2. The on-vehicle head up display apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein said monocular resolving power is substantially equal to five minutes of arc.

3. The on-vehicle head up display apparatus as defined in claim 1, further comprising a secondary catoptric system provided on a light axis between said display means and said optical system for reflecting said indication image of said display means to enable said indication image to enter said optical system.

4. An on-vehicle head up display apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein said optical system forms said virtual image of said display image of said display means at a distance of at least 3 meters from said windshield glass.

5. An on-vehicle head up display apparatus as defined in claim 1, further comprising an optical means for correcting parallax of light beams of said virtual image reflected on said windshield glass, said optical means forming an angle between said light beams incident upon said windshield glass less than a monocular resolving power.