Adjustable head-mount type display device

• US 7,786,954 B2
• Filed: 09/15/2006
• Issued: 08/31/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Abe, Kensaku, Mizuuchi, Takayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Chanh
• Assistant Examiner(s): PHAM, LONG D
• Application Number:
  US11/521,457
• Publication Number:
  US 20070057867A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,446 Days
• Field of Search: 345 11- 9, 351 41-178, 359/465, 359/443
• US Class Current: 345/8
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0176 characterised by mechanical features
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 7/12 Adjusting pupillary distance of binocular pairs

Abstract

A head-mount type display device has a first display unit for left eye, a second display unit for right eye, a guide that guides the first and second display units to slide them in a longitudinal way, and an adjustment mechanism that adjust a distance between the first and second display units. The adjustment mechanism includes a revolving member having a shaft, a left-side arm having a first end that rotatively connects the first display unit and a second end that rotatively connects the revolving member, and a right-side arm having a third end that rotatively connects the second display unit and a fourth end that rotatively connects the revolving member. When the revolving member revolves around the shaft, the first and second display units slide by a same distance from the shaft in the longitudinal way along the guide.

Claims

1. A head-mount type display device that mounts on a head of a person to operate, said device comprising:

a first display unit configured to irradiate an enlarged image to a left eye of the person;

a second display unit configured to irradiate the enlarged image to a right eye of the person;

a guide that guides the first and second display units to slide the first and second display units in a longitudinal direction of the display device; and

an adjustment mechanism that adjusts a distance between the first and second display units,

wherein the adjustment mechanism includes;

a revolving member which includes a shaft, which is positioned between the first and second display units, and which is rotatably mounted to the display device such that the revolving member revolves around the shaft;

a left-side arm having a first end that rotatively connects to the first display unit at a first pivot point and a second end that rotatively connects to the revolving member at a second pivot point located at a first position that is offset from the shaft by a predetermined distance; and

a right-side arm having a third end that rotatively connects to the second display unit at a third pivot point and a fourth end that rotatively connects to the revolving member at a fourth pivot point located at a second position that is offset from the shaft by the predetermined distance, said second position facing the first position across the shaft; and

wherein when the revolving member revolves around the shaft, the left-side arm pivots about the first and second pivot points, the right-side arm pivots about the third and fourth pivot points, and the first and second display units each slide along the guide in the longitudinal direction by a same distance relative to the shaft.

2. The head-mount type display device according to claim 1,

wherein the left-side arm includes a first left-side sub-arm and a second left-side sub-arm, the first left-side sub-arm extending in the longitudinal direction and having the first end that is fixed to the first display unit and a fifth end, the second left-side sub-arm having the second end that rotatively connects to the revolving member at the first position therein and a sixth end, and the fifth end of the first left-side sub-arm rotatively connecting to the sixth end of the second left-side sub-arm;

and

wherein the right-side arm includes a first right-side sub-arm and a second right-side sub-arm, the first right-side sub-arm extending in the longitudinal direction and having the third end that is fixed to the second display unit and a seventh end, the second right-side sub-arm having the fourth end that rotatively connects to the revolving member at the second position therein and a eighth end, and the seventh end of the first right-side sub-arm connecting to the eighth end of the second right-side sub-arm.

3. The head-mount type display device according to claim 1, wherein the revolving member has any one of a circular shape and an equilateral polygonal shape.