Data-display glasses comprising an anti-glare screen

• US 9,897,809 B2
• Filed: 09/23/2014
• Issued: 02/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Valeo Vision (Valeo SE)
• Original Assignee: Valeo Vision (Valeo SE)
• Inventors: Hue, David, Fleury, Benoist
• Primary Examiner(s): Caschera, Antonio A
• Application Number:
  US14/913,783
• Publication Number:
  US 20160223816A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,246 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0118 comprising devices for improving the contrast of the display / brillance control visibility
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0178 Eyeglass type eyeglass details G02C
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0172 characterised by optical features
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/30 Polarising elements light-modulating devices with active elements G02F1/00
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 7/101 having an electro-optical light valve electro-optical elements per se G02F
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 7/12 Polarisers
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13306 Circuit arrangements or driving methods for the control of single liquid crystal cells G02F1/132, G02F1/133382 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133528 Polarisers
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133531 characterised by the arrangement of polariser or analyser axes

Abstract

A pair of spectacles equipped with at least one lens and intended to be worn by a user, the spectacles comprising displaying means allowing data to be projected into a field of view of the user, and an anti-glare screen provided with a variable transmission coefficient allowing the intensity of incident light intended to pass through the lens toward the user to be attenuated, the spectacles being configured to adapt the transmission coefficient of the anti-glare screen depending on the intensity of the incident light.

Claims

1. A pair of spectacles equipped with at least one lens and intended to be worn by a user, said spectacles comprising displaying means allowing data to be projected into a field of view of said user, and an anti-glare screen provided with a variable transmission coefficient allowing an intensity of incident light intended to pass through said at least one lens toward said user to be attenuated, said spectacles being configured to adapt said transmission coefficient of said anti-glare screen depending on said intensity of incident light;

wherein said displaying means is external to said at least one lens and said anti-glare screen so that rays emitted by said displaying means avoid and do not pass through said anti-glare screen and are displayed external of said anti-glare screen, said anti-glare screen facing said user and being placed on or incorporated in said at least one lens;

wherein said spectacles simultaneously allow said transmission coefficient of said anti-glare screen to be adapted in response to an intensity of said incident light and a light intensity of said data displayed in said field of view is adapted in response to said transmission coefficient of said anti-glare screen when said data is displayed in said field of view.

2. The spectacles as claimed in claim 1, in which said anti-glare screen and said displaying means are positioned one relative to the other so that rays emitted by said displaying means, in order to display said data, avoid said anti-glare screen.

3. The spectacles as claimed in claim 2, in which said displaying means are coupled to said anti-glare screen so that a light intensity of said data is adapted to said transmission coefficient.

4. The spectacles as claimed in claim 2, in which said transmission coefficient is determined by pulse width modulation with a variable duty cycle and a fixed frequency.

5. The spectacles as claimed in claim 2, in which a light intensity of said data is determined by pulse width modulation with a variable duty cycle and a fixed frequency.

6. The spectacles as claimed in claim 1, in which said displaying means are coupled to said anti-glare screen so that a light intensity of said displayed data is adapted to said transmission coefficient.

7. The spectacles as claimed in claim 6, in which the coupling is produced by controlling said light intensity of said displayed data depending on said transmission coefficient of said anti-glare screen, said light intensity of said displayed data being modified inversely proportionally to said transmission coefficient.

8. The spectacles as claimed in claim 6, in which said transmission coefficient is determined by pulse width modulation with a variable duty cycle and a fixed frequency.

9. The spectacles as claimed in claim 1, in which said transmission coefficient is determined by pulse width modulation with a variable duty cycle and a fixed frequency.

10. The spectacles as claimed in claim 9, in which a light intensity and said transmission coefficient are in phase and have the same duty cycle.

11. The spectacles as claimed in claim 9, in which said spectacles comprise means for controlling said variable duty cycle.

12. The spectacles as claimed in claim 1, in which a light intensity of said data is determined by pulse width modulation with a variable duty cycle and a fixed frequency.

13. The spectacles as claimed in claim 12, in which said light intensity and said transmission coefficient are in phase and have the same duty cycle.

14. The spectacles as claimed claim 1, in which said anti-glare screen is situated on by said at least one lens.

15. The spectacles as claimed in claim 1, in which said anti-glare screen is placed on a first side of said at least one lens, said incident light being intended to pass through said at least one lens from a second side of said at least one lens to said first side.

16. The spectacles as claimed in claim 15, in which said anti-glare screen is provided with a liquid-crystal layer arranged between two polarization layers.

17. The spectacles as claimed in claim 1, in which said anti-glare screen is provided with a vertical polarization layer and a horizontal polarization layer, which are placed on said at least one lens.

18. The spectacles as claimed in claim 1, in which said means for displaying data comprise a transmitting substrate so as to guide light, in particular rays, by internal reflection in said at least one lens.

19. The spectacles as claimed in claim 18, in which said means for displaying data comprise a light source able to emit said rays into said at least one lens.

20. A device for assisting with driving, especially at night, an automotive vehicle, comprising spectacles as claimed in claim 1.