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Optical system and image display apparatus

  • US 6,181,475 B1
  • Filed: 03/20/2000
  • Issued: 01/30/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/21/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An image display apparatus comprising an image display device for displaying an image, an ocular optical system for leading the image displayed by said image display device to an observer'"'"'s eyeball without forming an intermediate real image, and means for retaining both said image display device and said ocular optical system on an observer'"'"'s head or face,said ocular optical system including an optical member having a first surface disposed to face said image display device, a second surface disposed on an observer'"'"'s visual axis to face an observer'"'"'s pupil at a tilt to said observer'"'"'s visual axis, and a third surface disposed on said observer'"'"'s visual axis between said second surface and said observer'"'"'s pupil, said second surface being a reflecting surface, so that light rays emitted from said image display device enter said optical member through said first surface, and the light rays are reflected by said second surface and led to said observer'"'"'s eyeball through said third surface, said ocular optical system further including a correction optical element disposed at a position between said image display device and said observer'"'"'s pupil, said correction optical element producing aberrations which are opposite in sign to aberrations produced by the transmitting surfaces of said optical member.

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