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US 9,268,138 · App. 13/334,460 · Granted Feb 23, 2016

Head-mounted display

Inventors: Masayuki Shimizu (Kanagawa, JP); Tatsuya Narahara (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
G02B27/0172G02B27/017G02B2027/0123G02B2027/0127G02B2027/0134
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Patent No.
US 9,268,138
App. No.
13/334,460
Granted
Feb 23, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A head-mounted display includes a left-eye display panel that displays a left-eye image, a left-eye optical system that has an angle of view from 45 to 55 degrees and forms a virtual image of the left-eye image, a right-eye display panel that displays a right-eye image, a right-eye optical system that has an angle of view from 45 to 55 degrees and forms a virtual image of the right-eye image, and a display control unit that controls the screen display of the left-eye display panel and the right-eye display panel.

Claims (24)

1. A head-mounted display, comprising:

a left-eye display panel that displays a left-eye image;

a left-eye optical system that has a horizontal angle of view from 45 to 55 degrees and forms a virtual image of the left-eye image;

a right-eye display panel that displays a right-eye image;

a right-eye optical system that has a horizontal angle of view from 45 to 55 degrees and forms a virtual image of the right-eye image; and

a display control unit that controls the screen display of the left-eye display panel and the right-eye display panel.

2. The head-mounted display according to claim 1 , wherein

the left-eye optical system forms a magnified virtual image of the left-eye image 10 meters or more away from a left eye, and

the right-eye optical system forms a magnified virtual image of the right-eye image 10 meters or more away from a right eye.

3. The head-mounted display according to claim 1 , wherein each of the left-eye optical system and the right-eye optical system has even resolving power in a range of displacement with respect to corresponding eyeballs.

4. The head-mounted display according to claim 1 , wherein

the left-eye display panel is disposed in a location displaced by a predetermined convergence horizontal offset from the position of a left eyeball, and

the right-eye display panel is disposed in a location displaced by the predetermined convergence horizontal offset from the position of a right eyeball.

5. The head-mounted display according to claim 4 , wherein the predetermined convergence horizontal offset is set on the basis of a maximum interpupillary distance and the ratio of the size of the left-eye display panel and the right-eye display panel to the size of a surface on which the virtual image is focused.

6. The head-mounted display according to claim 5 , wherein the left-eye display panel is disposed in the location displaced by the predetermined convergence horizontal offset and the right-eye display panel is disposed in the location displaced by the predetermined convergence horizontal offset with a positional accuracy of several microns or less.

7. A head-mounted display, comprising:

a left-eye display panel that displays a left-eye image;

a left-eye optical system that has an angle of view from 45 to 55 degrees and forms a virtual image of the left-eye image;

a right-eye display panel that displays a right-eye image;

a right-eye optical system that has an angle of view from 45 to 55 degrees and forms a virtual image of the right-eye image; and

a display control unit that controls the screen display of the left-eye display panel and the right-eye display panel,

wherein the left-eye display panel is disposed in a location displaced by a predetermined convergence horizontal offset from the position of a left eyeball, and the right-eye display panel is disposed in a location displaced by the predetermined convergence horizontal offset from the position of a right eyeball,

and wherein the predetermined convergence horizontal offset is set on the basis of a maximum interpupillary distance and the ratio of the size of the left-eye display panel and the right-eye display panel to the size of a surface on which the virtual image is focused.

8. The head-mounted display according to claim 7 , wherein the left-eye display panel is disposed in the location displaced by the predetermined convergence horizontal offset and the right-eye display panel is disposed in the location displaced by the predetermined convergence horizontal offset with a positional accuracy of several microns or less.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 22, 2011
From: SHIMIZU, MASAYUKI; NARAHARA, TATSUYA
To: SONY CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (1)
JP P2010-294455 · Dec 29, 2010 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20120169725A1 · Jul 5, 2012