Head-up display system

• US 7,990,620 B2
• Filed: 10/18/2007
• Issued: 08/02/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aurise Investment Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Opus Microsystems Corporation
• Inventors: Lin, Ta-wei, Yeh, Feng-chun, Hung, Chang-li
• Primary Examiner(s): Mack; Ricky
• Assistant Examiner(s): PATEL, VIPIN
• Application Number:
  US11/874,592
• Publication Number:
  US 20090034087A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,384 Days
• Field of Search: 359630-634, 340/961, 340/980, 345/7
• US Class Current: 359/630
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0118 comprising devices for improving the contrast of the display / brillance control visibility
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0123 comprising devices increasing the field of view
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0127 comprising devices increasing the depth of field
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0101 characterised by optical features G02B27/0172 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/02 Diffusing elements; Afocal elements
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/0284 used in reflection
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/30 Polarising elements light-modulating devices with active elements G02F1/00

Abstract

A head-up display system is described. The head-up display system includes an image projection device, a diffusion unit, and a frame demonstration medium. The image projection device emits the visible light, containing text or image information, for generating a real image on the diffusion unit. The frame demonstration medium receives the visible light reflected from the diffusion unit. By adjusting the received visible light reflected from the diffusion unit, the frame demonstration medium generates a virtual image corresponding to the real image. The distance between the real image corresponding to the diffusion unit and the frame demonstration medium is preferably equal to the distance between the virtual image and the frame demonstration medium. Alternatively, the visible light is projected to the frame demonstration medium and then reflected to the diffusion unit. The frame demonstration medium again reflected visible light from the diffusion unit to generate a virtual image corresponding to the real image.

Claims

1. A head-up display system, comprising:

an image projection device, emitting visible light;

a frame demonstration medium coupled to the image projection device, receiving the visible light emitted from the image projection device to reflect the received visible light; and

a diffusion unit coupled to the frame demonstration medium, receiving the reflected visible light from the frame demonstration medium, a real image being formed on the diffusion unit based on the received visible light, the diffusion unit reflecting the real image back to the frame demonstration medium;

wherein the real image is then reflected by the frame demonstration medium and a virtual image is formed corresponding to the real image; and

wherein the frame demonstration medium is an optical film, having high reflectivity within a predetermined range of wave length.

2. The head-up display system of claim 1, wherein the diffusion unit is a diffusion film for diffusing the visible light and the real image is formed on the diffusion film.

3. The head-up display system of claim 1, wherein the visible light from the image projection device is a laser beam.

4. The head-up display system of claim 1, wherein the wave length has a range from 400 nm to 700 nm.

5. The head-up display system of claim 1, wherein the visible light has a predetermined polarization direction.

6. The head-up display system of claim 5, wherein the frame demonstration medium is a polarization film and is able to adjust the reflection ratio of the visible light.

7. The head-up display system of claim 1, wherein the real image is formed on one side of the frame demonstration medium and the virtual image is formed on the other side of the frame demonstration medium.