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US 9,933,627 · App. 14/768,628 · Granted Apr 3, 2018

Optical system, optical member, micromirror array, display device, and image- capturing device

Inventor: Toru Iwane (Yokohama, JP)
Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
G02B27/26G02B5/3016G02B5/3083G02B17/002G02B27/285G02B27/286G02F1/13362G03B35/24H04N13/0228H04N13/0404
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Patent No.
US 9,933,627
App. No.
14/768,628
Granted
Apr 3, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

An optical system includes: a first optical member having a concave surface that reflects a light having a first circularly polarized light component and transmits a light having a second circularly polarized light component a rotation direction of which is opposite to a rotation direction of the first circularly polarized light component; and a second optical member that transforms the light having the first circularly polarized light component reflected from the first optical member into the light having the second circularly polarized light component to be reflected so as to be incident on the first optical member.

Claims (57)

1. A display device, comprising:

a display unit having a plurality of pixels;

a first optical member that transforms a first polarized light among lights from the plurality of pixels of the display unit into a second polarized light;

a second optical member having a plurality of concave surfaces that reflect the second polarized light having been transformed by the first optical member to be incident on the first optical member, wherein:

the first optical member transforms the second polarized light having been reflected by the plurality of concave surfaces of the second optical member into a third polarized light and reflects the third polarized light to be incident on the second optical member; and

the plurality of concave surfaces of the second optical member transmit the third polarized light having been reflected by the first optical member.

2. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein:

the first optical member includes a third optical member and a fourth optical member;

the third optical member transforms the first polarized light among lights from the plurality of pixels of the display unit into the second polarized light to be incident on the second optical member, transforms the second polarized light having been reflected by the plurality of concave surfaces of the second optical member into a fourth polarized light to be incident on the fourth optical member, and transforms the fourth polarized light having been reflected by the fourth optical member into the third polarized light to be incident on the second optical member; and

the fourth optical member is provided between the third optical member and the display unit, transmits the first polarized light among lights from the plurality of pixels of the display unit to be incident on the third optical member, and reflects the fourth polarized light having been transformed by the third optical member to be incident on the third optical member.

3. The display device according to claim 2 , wherein:

the third optical member includes a wave plate; and

the fourth optical member includes a polarizer plate.

4. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein:

the plurality of concave surfaces of the second optical member orient to the first optical member.

5. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein:

the display unit is arranged around a focus position of the plurality of concave surfaces.

6. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein:

the first optical member includes a fifth optical member that is capable of transforming a polarized light;

the first optical member switches between a state in which the first polarized light among lights from the plurality of pixels of the display unit is transformed into the second polarized light to be incident on the second optical member and a state in which the first polarized light among lights from the plurality of pixels of the display unit is transformed into the third polarized light to be incident on the second optical member, by making the fifth optical member transform a polarized light or not.

7. The display device according to claim 6 , wherein:

the fifth optical member is provided between the third optical member and the fourth optical member; and

the fifth optical member switches between a state in which the first polarized light having transmitted through the fourth optical member among lights from the plurality of pixels of the display unit is not transformed and is transformed into the second polarized light by the third optical member to be incident on the second optical member, and a state in which the first polarized light having transmitted through the fourth optical member among lights from the plurality of pixels of the display unit is transformed into the fourth polarized light and the fourth polarized light having been transformed is transformed into the second polarized light by the third optical member to be incident on the second optical member.

8. The display device according to claim 7 , wherein:

the fifth optical member includes a liquid crystal plate; and

a state in which a polarized light is transformed and a state in which a polarized light is not transformed are switched by an applied voltage to the liquid crystal plate.

9. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein:

there is provided a member that reflects the second polarized light and transmits the third polarized light at the plurality of concave surfaces of the second optical member.

10. The display device according to claim 9 , wherein:

the member that reflects the second polarized light and transmits the third polarized light includes a liquid crystal.

11. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein:

a light from partial pixels of the plurality of pixels of the display unit that has been transformed into the second polarized light by the first optical member is reflected at a concave surface of the second optical member.

12. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein:

the first polarized light corresponds to a first linearly polarized light;

the second polarized light corresponds to a first circularly polarized light;

the third polarized light corresponds to a second circularly polarized light; and

the fourth polarized light corresponds to a second linearly polarized light.

13. The display device according to claim 12 , wherein:

the first circularly polarized light has a polarization direction that is opposite to a polarization direction of the second circularly polarized light; and

the first linearly polarized light has a polarization direction that is orthogonal to a polarization direction of the second linearly polarized light.

14. The display device according to claim 13 , wherein:

the first circularly polarized light corresponds to a right circularly polarized light;

the second circularly polarized light corresponds to a left circularly polarized light;

the first linearly polarized light corresponds to a P-polarized light; and

the second linearly polarized light corresponds to a S-polarized light.

15. The display device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a sixth optical member, wherein:

the sixth optical member transforms a circularly polarized light, which is incident on the second optical member via the sixth optical member and is reflected, into a linearly polarized light, and shields the linearly polarized light having been transformed.

16. The display device according to claim 15 , wherein:

the sixth optical member includes a polarizer plate and a wave plate;

the polarizer plate absorbs the first linearly polarized light and transmits the second linearly polarized light to be incident on the wave plate;

the wave plate transforms the second linearly polarized light having transmitted through the polarizer plate into a first circularly polarized light to be incident on the second optical member, and transforms the first circularly polarized light having been reflected at the plurality of concave surfaces of the second optical member into the first linearly polarized light to be incident on the polarized plate.

17. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein:

the first polarized light among lights from the plurality of pixels of the display unit is transformed into the second polarized light by the first optical member to be incident on the second optical member;

the second polarized light having been transformed by the first optical member is reflected by the plurality of concave surfaces of the second optical member to be incident on the first optical member;

the second polarized light having been reflected by the plurality of concave surfaces of the second optical member is transformed into the third polarized light by the first optical member into the third polarized light and is reflected to be incident on the second optical member; and

the third polarized light transmits through the plurality of concave surfaces of the second optical member.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 11, 2017
From: IWANE, TORU
To: NIKON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 041969/0628 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2013-034585 · Feb 25, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
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