WO2012037290A3 - Eyepiece with uniformly illuminated reflective display - Google Patents

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WO2012037290A3
WO2012037290A3 PCT/US2011/051650 US2011051650W WO2012037290A3 WO 2012037290 A3 WO2012037290 A3 WO 2012037290A3 US 2011051650 W US2011051650 W US 2011051650W WO 2012037290 A3 WO2012037290 A3 WO 2012037290A3
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eyepiece
reflective display
light
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Ralph F. Osterhout
John D. Haddick
Robert Michael Lohse
John N. Border
Gregory D. Miller
Ross W. Stovall
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Osterhout Group, Inc.
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B27/00—Optical systems or apparatus not provided for by any of the groups G02B1/00 - G02B26/00, G02B30/00
    • G02B27/01—Head-up displays
    • G02B27/017—Head mounted
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02C—SPECTACLES; SUNGLASSES OR GOGGLES INSOFAR AS THEY HAVE THE SAME FEATURES AS SPECTACLES; CONTACT LENSES
    • G02C7/00—Optical parts
    • G02C7/02—Lenses; Lens systems ; Methods of designing lenses
    • G02C7/08—Auxiliary lenses; Arrangements for varying focal length
    • G02C7/086—Auxiliary lenses located directly on a main spectacle lens or in the immediate vicinity of main spectacles
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B27/00—Optical systems or apparatus not provided for by any of the groups G02B1/00 - G02B26/00, G02B30/00
    • G02B27/01—Head-up displays
    • G02B27/017—Head mounted
    • G02B2027/0178—Eyeglass type
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/0001—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings specially adapted for lighting devices or systems
    • G02B6/0011—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings specially adapted for lighting devices or systems the light guides being planar or of plate-like form

Abstract

An eyepiece includes a mechanical frame adapted to secure a lens and an image source facility above the lens. The image source facility includes a LED, a planar illumination facility and a reflective display. The planar illumination facility converts a light beam from the LED received on a side of the planar illumination facility into a top emitting planar light source, uniformly illuminates the reflective display, and is substantially transmissive to allow reflected light to pass through towards a beam splitter. The beam splitter is positioned to receive the image light and to reflect a portion onto a mirrored surface. The mirrored surface is positioned and shaped to reflect the image light into an eye of a user of the eyepiece thereby providing an image within a field of view, the mirrored surface further adapted to be partially transmissive within an area of image reflectance.
PCT/US2011/051650 2010-09-14 2011-09-14 Eyepiece with uniformly illuminated reflective display WO2012037290A2 (en)

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US38257810P 2010-09-14 2010-09-14
US61/382,578 2010-09-14
US13/037,355 US20110275923A1 (en) 2010-02-26 2011-02-28 Goldmann applanation tonometer, biomicroscopy device and related methods
US13/037,324 US20110214082A1 (en) 2010-02-28 2011-02-28 Projection triggering through an external marker in an augmented reality eyepiece
US13/037,324 2011-02-28
US13/037,355 2011-02-28
US201161472491P 2011-04-06 2011-04-06
US61/472,491 2011-04-06
US201161483400P 2011-05-06 2011-05-06
US61/483,400 2011-05-06
US201161487371P 2011-05-18 2011-05-18
US61/487,371 2011-05-18
US201161504513P 2011-07-05 2011-07-05
US61/504,513 2011-07-05

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