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6055109 Head-mounted display apparatus with a single image display device  
A head-mounted display apparatus includes an image display device for displaying images, a first flat reflection mirror for reflecting light from the image display device, a first and a second...
6045229 Method and apparatus for displaying real space and virtual space images  
A camera is arranged at a conjugate position to eyes of the observer. A distance from the observer to a pixel in the real space image located at the same position as a pixel in the virtual space...
6046857 Head mounted image display apparatus  
This invention relates to a head mounted image display apparatus to be mounted on a head portion of an observer. The apparatus is constructed by image generation means for displaying an image by...
6046720 Point source scanning apparatus and method  
A scanning display device directly scans a light source along at least one scanning path, rather than scanning a light beam emitted from such source along such scanning path. By scanning the light...
6046856 Image projector and illumination device used for the image projector  
In an illumination device used for a color image projector, indefinitely polarized light beams from a light source are separated by a polarization beam splitter into two linearly polarized light...
6043799 Virtual retinal display with scanner array for generating multiple exit pupils  
A scanned retinal display includes an optical scanning array to generate multiple exit pupils in conjunction with an eyepiece. The multiple exit pupils expand the effective exit pupil. As a user...
6043937 Head up display system using a diffusing image plane  
A head up display system having a diffusing image plane or diffuser. The light output of a relatively small image source is imaged on the diffuser by way of imaging optics. A mirror is used to...
6040946 Color superposition and mixing of light beams for a video display system  
Low-cost complex plastic optics allow biocular viewing of video images generated by a single electro-optic display device, such as in a head-mounted display (HMD) for commercial or medical viewing...
6040945 Head mount display device  
An optical unit 1 includes a liquid crystal panel 2, a back light 3, a reflecting mirror 4, a lens 5, and a casing 6 for accommodating these constituents therein. The optical unit 1 can be arranged...
6034653 Head-set display device  
The invention relates to a display head-set device that includes a support member and a display-optics interface pod coupled to one of a left handle portion and a right handle portion of the...
6028710 Method and apparatus for head-mounted optical magnification  
An optical device that can be either permanently or temporarily affixed to a headgear, such as a cap or a visor, is disclosed. The optical device comprises right and left barrels or lens holders,...
6023372 Light weight, compact remountable electronic display device for eyeglasses or other head-borne eyewear frames  
The present invention provides a compact, remountable display device for attachment to eyewear having a head-borne frame to provide an image from an image display superposed on the ambient image....
6014117 Ambient vision display apparatus and method  
A display system conveys vehicle guidance information in the peripheral field of view of the user by the movement of ambient symbology that is not representational of either symbols or physical...
6011653 Head-mounted display  
6008779 Night vision viewing systems  
A night vision viewing system (13a or 13b) suitable for mounting on an observer's headgear (11) wherein light rays from a forward scene pass to the observer's eye (E) via a path comprising a...
6008946 Ambient light display illumination for a head-mounted display  
A head mounted display in which ambient light is used to illuminate a display to at or near the brightness of the scene being viewed when both reach the user's eyes. A small supplemental light...
6008945 Display system using conjugate optics and accommodation features and method of displaying and viewing an image  
A display system including a retro-reflector, and optical means including a projection lens and an accommodation feature for directing light from an image source to the retro-reflector, light...
6008947 Optical system comprising a prism having a combined transmission and reflection action, and device therefor  
The invention provides an optical system which is well corrected in terms of both curvature of field and coma at a field angle of about 120° and a pupil diameter of about 15 mm and may be applied...
6008778 Visual display apparatus  
A head-mounted visual display apparatus which uses two or more two-dimensional display devices and which is compact, lightweight and enables an image which is clear as far as the periphery of the...
5999314 Optical display system having a Brewster's angle regulating film  
A head-up display system of an automotive vehicle, comprising outboard-side and inboard-side glass plates constituting a front windshield glass. An intermediate film is disposed between the...
5995290 Replacement heads-up display system  
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a replacement heads-up display system for a vehicle flat-screen display system. The flat-screen display system including flat-screen...
5991086 Inflatable optical housing  
An inflatable optical housing is adapted to provide a visual image and be used in connection with a separate computing device. The housing is sized by one or more bladders and at least one...
5991087 Non-orthogonal plate in a virtual reality or heads up display  
The present invention eliminates the relay lens systems found in conventional helmet mounted displays (HMDs) by removing field distortions and aberrations with a contoured fiber optic faceplate...
5991084 Compact compound magnified virtual image display with a reflective/transmissive optic  
A compact virtual image display system is provided which includes a microdisplay; a first magnification optic consisting of three surfaces: a display input surface; a reflective/transmissive...
5986803 Reconfigurable electronic imaging system with pop-up display  
A portable, electronic imaging system (100) includes a compact housing (102) extending across and beyond the eyes of the user, a wide field of view binocular viewfinder imaging subsystem (104)...
5984477 Helmet mounted display with improved SLM illumination  
The eyepiece of the helmet mounted display optics is formed by a beam splitter eyepiece cube and a spherical mirror to create a magnified virtual image of a rear projection screen mounted to the...
5986813 Head mounted type display apparatus capable of generating or detecting vibrations  
A head mounted type display composed of a display device for displaying an optical picture based on inputted picture signal, an ocular optical system for projecting the picture to an eye of the...
5982343 Visual display apparatus  
A visual display apparatus, for example, a head-mounted display apparatus, which enables an image to be observed at a wide field angle and high resolution. The apparatus includes a pair of...
5969698 Manually controllable cursor and control panel in a virtual image  
Portable communication equipment having a virtual display including display electronics and optics for providing a virtual image in the display, a virtual control panel image viewable in the...
5963369 Digital solid-state binoculars  
A hand-held 3-D imaging system which incorporates the stereoscopic imaging system within a pair of binoculars. Each telescope optical system has a first optical system, a second optical system, and...
5959780 Head-mounted display apparatus comprising a rotationally asymmetric surface  
A head-mounted image display apparatus capable of providing an observation image which is clear and has minimal distortion even at a wide field angle. The apparatus has an image display device (6),...
5956181 Two way mirror with dual functions of rear view mirror and video displayer  
The present invention discloses a two way, rear view mirror suitable for providing alternatively or simultaneously both a conventional reflected image and a video image. A preferred two way mirror...
5949582 Thermal imaging camera  
A facepiece assembly and a self-contained thermal imaging system comprises a facepiece that includes a front lens, an air inlet for receiving air under pressure, and an air outlet. The thermal...
5945199 Pane for vehicle, and polymeric material sheet used in this pane  
A pane formed of a substrate and a film of polymeric material. The film of polymeric material has a thickness that varies in at least one predetermined zone of the pane, with the result that the...
5936773 Image-forming optical apparatus having a decentered optical surface  
A compact image-forming optical apparatus which is free from moire fringes and capable of providing an aberration-free, clear image of minimal distortion even at a wide field angle. The...
5936774 Autostereoscopic display  
Apparatus and method for the display of autostereoscopic images, in which two or more perspective views are generated by a single transmissive display screen, is provided. A structured light source...
5933279 Optical apparatus  
An optical apparatus includes a display for displaying image information, a display optical system having a plurality of reflection surfaces for guiding a light beam from the display to an eyeball...
5926318 Biocular viewing system with intermediate image planes for an electronic display device  
Low-cost complex plastic optics allow biocular viewing of video images generated by a single electro-optic display device, such as in a head-mounted display (HMD) for commercial or medical viewing...
5926321 Ocular optical system and ocular image display apparatus  
An ocular optical system to be placed in front of a human eye forms a magnified virtual image of an original image displayed on a two-dimensional display element. The system has, in order from the...
5923476 Optical viewer with an aperture transformer  
An optical system for reflecting light from a display screen into an aperture which is typically the pupil of a person wearing a head-mounted display system in which the display screen is mounted...
5914816 Helmet mount for night vision goggle  
A flip-up helmet mount for a night vision device is disclosed. The flip-up helmet mount includes a position adjustment assembly for adjusting the position of the night vision device between a use...
5905477 Head-up display having installation mechanism  
A second supporting section installed detachably on a supporting surface is connected to a first supporting section installed detachably on a head-up display, such that the supporting sections can...
5905478 Twice folded compound magnified virtual image electronic display  
A compact virtual image electronic display system is provided which includes a microdisplay for producing a source object, one or more magnification optics, and a distance adjusting mechanism for...
5903397 Display with multi-surface eyepiece  
An augmented retinal scanning display device includes a multi-functional eyepiece. One function is to direct an image beam onto a viewer's eye. Another function is to correct the vision of the...
5903396 Intensified visual display  
The intensified visual display relates to visual displays which combine generated images with the view of the environment surrounding a user and transmit such combined visual information to the eye...
5896232 Highly efficient and compact frontlighting for polarization-based reflection light valves  
An optical device and a display are disclosed that include an illumination source which provides unpolarized light. An array of polarizing plates have an entrance surface, which receives the...
5886823 Optical visual apparatus  
The invention provides an optical visual apparatus which eliminates ghost light and is small in size and light in weight so that observation for a long time does not tire the eyes of a user and the...
5886822 Image combining system for eyeglasses and face masks  
An optical system combines a first image formed by a main lens with a second image provided by an electronic display, slide, or other image source. The image combining system includes one or more...
5883606 Flat virtual displays for virtual reality  
Disclosed is a virtual display (300) which provides a wide field-of-view that is lightweight and may be as thin as ordinary eyeglasses. One version of the invention includes a display (302), such...
5880888 Helmet mounted display system  
An apparatus for combining a display image with the field of view of a viewer. Light from either a night vision system (14) of a CRT (12) is directed into an eyepiece assembly (18). The eyepiece...