Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080316606 | IMAGE OBSERVATION APPARATUS AND IMAGE OBSERVATION SYSTEM - The image observation apparatus includes a first image-forming element and a second image-forming element each of which forms an original image, and an optical system configured to introduce light fluxes from the first and second image-forming elements to an exit pupil position of the optical system where an eye of an observer is placed. The optical system includes an optical surface as a single surface that reflects the light flux from the first image-forming element and transmits the light flux from the second image-forming element. The first image-forming element and the second image-forming element respectively form a first original image and a second original image that correspond to different viewing fields from the exit pupil position. The apparatus combines plural original images to enable observation of one combined image and that can suppress generation of light scattering. | 12-25-2008 |
20090115842 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - The image display apparatus includes first and second display elements displaying partial images of a single image, and first and second optical elements each having first, second, and third surfaces. The first and second optical elements respectively allow light fluxes from the first and second display elements to enter the first and second optical elements through the first surface, and then respectively causing the light fluxes to be reflected by the second and third surfaces to emerge from the first and second optical elements through the second surface toward an exit pupil. The second surface of the second optical element has an overlap area facing or contacting the third surface of the first optical element. The second optical element causes the light flux from the second display element to emerge toward the exit pupil through a non-overlap area in the second surface. | 05-07-2009 |
20090153960 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display apparatus includes plural image forming devices and an observation optical system that includes at least a first optical system configured to fold in a first section a luminous flux from a first image forming device by using a plurality of reflective surfaces and to guide the luminous flux from the first image forming device to the exit pupil, and a second optical system configured to fold in a second section a luminous flux from a second image forming device by using a plurality of reflective surfaces and to guide the luminous flux from the second image forming device to the exit pupil, wherein the first section intersects the second section on an axis that directs from one point in the exit pupil to one point in the observation field. | 06-18-2009 |
20090290222 | IMAGE OBSERVATION APPARATUS AND IMAGE OBSERVATION SYSTEM - The image observation apparatus includes a first image-forming element and a second image-forming element each of which forms an original image, and an optical system configured to introduce light fluxes from the first and second image-forming elements to an exit pupil position of the optical system where an eye of an observer is placed. The optical system includes an optical surface as a single surface that reflects the light flux from the first image-forming element and transmits the light flux from the second image-forming element. The first image-forming element and the second image-forming element respectively form a first original image and a second original image that correspond to different viewing fields from the exit pupil position. The apparatus combines plural original images to enable observation of one combined image and that can suppress generation of light scattering. | 11-26-2009 |
20100109977 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - The image display apparatus forms first and second images in mutually different viewing angle areas to display a combined (joined) image. The apparatus includes first and second image-forming elements respectively forming first and second original images, a first optical system reflecting a first light flux from the first image-forming element at least twice to introduce the first light flux to an exit pupil, and a second optical system reflecting a second light flux from the second image-forming element at least twice to introduce the second light flux to the first optical system. The first optical system introduces the first light flux and the second light flux from the second optical system to the exit pupil such that the first and second images respectively corresponding to the first and second original images are formed in the mutually different viewing angle areas in a first cross section. | 05-06-2010 |
20100109980 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - The image display apparatus includes an observation optical system including first and second optical elements which respectively introducing first and second light fluxes from first and second image-forming elements to first and second exit pupils, and a relay optical system. The relay optical system causes third and fourth light fluxes from the second and first image-forming elements to form intermediate images and introducing them to the first and second optical elements. The observation optical system displays images corresponding to the first and second original images in mutually different viewing angle areas by introducing the first and third light fluxes to the first exit pupil through the first optical element, and displays images corresponding to the second and first original images in mutually different viewing angle areas by introducing the second and fourth light fluxes to the second exit pupil through the second optical element. | 05-06-2010 |
20100290124 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - The image display apparatus includes first and second display elements respectively displaying first and second original images, and an optical system presenting an enlarged combined image of the first and second original images with first and second light fluxes from the first and second display elements. The optical system includes at least one reflective surface. When a cross-section of the optical system on which optical paths of the first and second light fluxes are turned by reflections at the reflective surface is defined as a decentering cross-section, the first and second original images correspond to different view angles in the decentering cross-section. Light flux components respectively included in the first and second light fluxes and introduced to a same image point in the enlarged combined image are overlapped with each other on an exit pupil plane. | 11-18-2010 |
20100290125 | OBSERVATION OPTICAL SYSTEM AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - The observation optical system introduces light from a first display element and light from a second display element to an exit pupil to present an enlarged combined image of first and second original images. The optical system includes a first optical element allowing the light from the first display element to enter thereinto, a second optical element allowing the light from the second display element to enter thereinto, and a third optical element. The optical system introduces a first light component from a first display area in the second display element to the exit pupil through the second optical element and at least the first optical element, and introduces a second light component from a second display area in the second display element to the exit pupil through the second and third optical elements, not through the first optical element. | 11-18-2010 |
20110188127 | VARIABLE FOCUS LENS - The variable focus lens of the present invention changes the refractive power by changing each of the shapes of a first interface formed by a first liquid and a second liquid that have refractive indices that differ from each other and a second interface formed by the second liquid and a third liquid that have refractive indices that differ from each other. Thereby, this variable focus lens changes the first interface and the second interface such that the sign of the refractive power of the first interface and the sign of the refractive power of the second interface differ from each other. | 08-04-2011 |
20120154939 | VARIABLE FOCUS PRISM AND OPTICAL SYSTEM - A variable focus prism has a first transmissive solution body, a second transmissive solution body that has a different refractive index to that of the first transmissive solution body, and a reflective solution body. The variable focus prism varies the shape of the transmissive surface and the reflective surface by electrical control of the transmissive surface formed on the interface between the first transmissive solution body and the second transmissive solution body, and the reflective surface formed on the interface between the second transmissive solution body and the reflective solution body. | 06-21-2012 |
20140104569 | OPHTHALMIC APPARATUS AND WAVEFRONT ABERRATION CORRECTION METHOD THEREFOR - An ophthalmic apparatus which captures an image of a retina by illuminating the fundus of an eye to be examined with light from a light source through a measuring optical path is provided. The ophthalmic apparatus divides light from the light source into light propagating to the measuring optical path and light propagating to a reference optical path different from the measuring optical path, obtains interference light by composing return light returned along the reference optical path and return light from the measuring optical path, images interference fringes generated by the interference light composed at a position conjugate with the position of the pupil of the eye, and corrects a wavefront aberration of light passing through the measuring optical path by using correction data for correcting a wavefront aberration of the eye which is obtained from a captured image of interference fringes. | 04-17-2014 |
20150042950 | OPHTHALMOLOGIC APPARATUS - There is provided a fundus imaging apparatus which suppresses generation of a ghost image, and is capable of high-magnification/high-resolution fundus imaging (AO-SLO), and low-magnification/wide-angle fundus imaging for wide-angle monitoring by a compact optical system having high optical performance. In a fundus imaging apparatus which guides light emitted by a light source to an eye to be inspected, through a scanning unit for two-dimensionally scanning a fundus, and obtains a fundus image based on the light reflected by the eye to be inspected, an optical system between the scanning unit and the eye to be inspected is constituted by a plurality of reflecting surfaces. The first reflecting surface from the eye to be inspected is a rotationally asymmetrical aspherical surface. | 02-12-2015 |