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US 11,657,482 · App. 17/513,909 · Granted May 23, 2023

Optical module and virtual image display device

Inventors: Masayuki Takagi (Azumino, JP); Nobuhiko Yokoo (Shiojiri, JP)
Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
G06T5/006G02B17/008G02B27/0172G09G3/001G02B2027/014G02B2027/0178G09G3/3208G09G2300/0439
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Patent No.
US 11,657,482
App. No.
17/513,909
Granted
May 23, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

An optical module according to the present disclosure includes: a first display panel that emits a first image light, a first virtual image optical system that forms a first exit pupil of the first image light, and a control unit corrects a video image signal to a first correction video signal based on distortion generated in the first optical system, an aspect ratio of the video image signal being smaller than an aspect ratio of the first display panel, wherein the control unit causes the first display panel to emit the first image light from the first display panel based on the first correction video image signal.

Claims (20)

1. An optical module comprising:

a first display panel;

a first optical system that forms an exit pupil; and

a control unit that corrects an input image to a first image based on distortion generated in the first optical system, an aspect ratio of the input image being smaller than an aspect ratio of the first display panel, wherein

the control unit causes the first display panel to display the first image,

wherein, in a vertical direction of the first display panel, a pitch between pixels on one side of the first display panel is larger than a pitch between pixels on another side of the first display panel.

2. The optical module according to claim 1 , wherein a resolution of the input image is equal to a resolution of the first display panel.

3. The optical module according to claim 1 , wherein in the vertical direction of the first display panel, a pixel size of a pixel on the one side of the first display panel is larger than a pixel size of a pixel on the another side of the first display.

4. The optical module according to claim 3 , wherein

PY=−2.565e−9×v3+1.850e−5×v2−4.635e−2×v+66 . . .  (1)

where the pixel size is PY and a coordinate of the pixel in the vertical direction of the first display panel is v.

5. The optical module according to claim 1 , wherein an aspect ratio of the first image is equal to the aspect ratio of the first display panel.

6. The optical module according to claim 1 further comprising:

a second display panel; and

a second optical system that forms a second exit pupil, wherein

the control unit corrects an input image to a second image based on distortion generated in the second optical system, the aspect ratio of the input image being smaller than an aspect ratio of the second display panel, and

the control unit causes the second display panel to display the second image.

7. The optical module according to claim 1 , wherein the optical module is non-axisymmetric in the vertical direction.

8. A virtual image display device comprising the optical module according to claim 1 .

9. The virtual image display device according to claim 8 , wherein the virtual image display device is a head-mounted display device.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 1, 2021
From: TAKAGI, MASAYUKI; YOKOO, NOBUHIKO
To: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 057972/0715 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2020-182872 · Oct 30, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
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