Omron Corporation

Gouo Kurata

Masayuki Shinohara

Norikazu Kitamura

Yuto Mori

Yasuhiro Tanoue

Tsuyoshi Arai

Kazuhide Hirota

Koichi Takemura

Masao Mishina

Yoshihiko Takagi

Kenji Sakurai

Jun Kishimoto

Hiroyuki Miyamoto

Morihisa Ota

Yutaka Okayasu

Hayato Yoshida

Shigeru Aoyama

Yoshihiro Ueno

Akihiro Funamoto

Takako Ishikawa

Makoto Ohhira

Takuma Iwase

Yukihiro Takahashi

Takashi Sato

Yasuhiro Kawabata

Yasuhito Uetsuji

Mitsuru Okuda

Kazuyuki Okada

Osamu Nishizaki

Masanori Mori

Tomofusa Shibata

Yoshihisa Yamanaka

Masayuki Kojima

Takahiro Morichi

Tetsuo Hayashi

Akira Nagao

Ken Watanuki

Keiji Kobayashi

Toru Ashida

A display system includes an image display part displaying an image indicating a mode selected in a driving device of a vehicle having a plurality of modes. The image display part displays all images indicating each of the plurality of modes, and displays the image indicating the selected mode to be different in at least one of color, brightness, character format, and size from an image indicating a non-selected mode.

Display system

A display switching device () includes: a lens array (); a display part (), comprising pixel regions () disposed to include regions in which light in which respective light emitted from light sources () is condensed by respective lenses () of the lens array () passes through. A transmittance of each pixel region () is set corresponding to a predetermined stationary pattern. Display of the display part () performed through irradiation of the light of the light sources () exhibits directivity, and a first averaged oriented direction (D) averaging, among the light sources (), oriented directions as directions of the directivity is inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to a normal direction of a display surface () of the display part ().

Display switching device, vehicle display system and automobile

A display switching device according to one or more embodiments may display images by switching light illumination from multiple light source positions. The device may include a lens array including multiple lenses that allow passage of light from the light source positions, a display layer including pixel regions that allow passage of light collected on the lenses included in the lens array, and a diffusion layer located opposite to the light source positions with the lens array in between to diffuse passing light. The diffusion layer optically adheres to a layer adjacent to a surface of the diffusion layer nearer the light source positions, or the diffusion layer and the layer adjacent the surface of the diffusion layer nearer the light source positions include the same material.

Display switching device, button device for game machine, and switch

A display switching device according to one or more embodiments may include a lens array including an array of a plurality of lenses and a display unit. Light from each of the plurality of light source positions transmits through a different position on the display unit and is focused by a corresponding lens. A transmittance on the display unit through which the light transmits differs depending on a position on the display unit. The transmittance at a position of a plurality of positions on the display unit is a transmittance of one of three or more types.

Display switching device, information display device, display device for game machine, and switch

A lens array included in a display switching device according to one or more embodiments may include a portion having a greater average of curvature radii of microlenses at a greater distance from a predetermined lens reference position on a surface of the lens array including the microlenses.

Display switching device

An optical device includes: a light guide plate having a group of optical-path deflectors configured to change the optical path of light from a first light source to form an image in the space within a first angle range, and change the optical path of light from a second light source to form an image in the space within a second angle range, wherein the first angle range and the second angle range are separated from each other or adjoining each other.

Light guide plate, vehicle lamp

A display switching device () is provided, which switches a display image (P) by switching irradiation of lights from positions of a plurality of light sources (). The display switching device includes: a lens array () in which a plurality of lenses are arranged; and a display part () including a plurality of pixel regions () arranged to include a region through which a light, which is formed by condensing each of the lights emitted from the positions of the plurality of light sources () with each of the lenses of the lens array (), passes. A transmittance in each of the pixel regions () is set corresponding to a predetermined stationary pattern. A total area of the pixel regions () in the display part () is 60% or less of a total area of a sum of the pixel regions () and the pixel surrounding regions ().

Display switching device and switch

In order to achieve an image display unit having excellent degree of freedom in designing the position of a display image, an image display unit (A) is provided with: an imaging unit () configured to capture an image of a space to be viewed; an image display device () configured to display an image captured by the imaging unit () in a display area in real time; and an image forming unit configured to form an image in a space where there is no screen by projecting the image displayed by the image display device ().

Image display unit

To make a displayed image clear. A display device emits image light reflected by a plurality of prisms () provided in a light guide plate () from a light exit surface (). The prism () has a reflective surface () that reflects and emits the image light. The reflective surface () is formed in a curved shape in a thickness direction of the light guide plate ().

Display device

An optical device includes a light guide plate configured to guide light entering therein, and cause said light to exit from an emission surface thereof and thereby form an image in a space; a group of narrow-view optical-path deflectors configured to form an image in a space within a narrow view direction taken as greater than or equal to 0&#xb0; and less than a first angle relative to a reference plane that is orthogonal to the emission surface and parallel to a side surface of the light guide plate; and a group of wide-view optical-path deflectors configured to form an image in a space within a wide view direction taken as greater than or equal to the first angle and less than 90&#xb0; relative to the reference plane. The group of narrow-view optical-path deflectors and the group of wide-view optical-path deflectors have different image forming conditions.

Optical device for presenting a stereoscopic image

An optical device includes a planar-image forming unit configured to emit light that forms a planar image of a predetermined shape in a space, and an outline-image forming unit configured to emit light that forms an outline image with a light intensity different from the light intensity of the planar image at the outer-edge region of the planar image.

Optical device and method of three-dimensional display

A light guide element includes: an incidence surface wherefrom light enters from a light source; a first reflection surface configured to totally reflect at least a portion of the light entering from the incidence surface; a second reflection surface configured to totally reflect at least a portion of the light totally reflected by the first reflection surface as parallel light; and an emission surface configured to emit the parallel light totally reflected by the second reflection surface.

Light guide element, light guide unit and illumination device

An optical structure, a light guide, and a display device can reduce an influence of diffraction and improve optical performance more than conventionally possible. A reflective pattern (A) is an optical structure that changes a traveling direction of light and emits the light, the optical structure including: a reflective surface () formed of a flat surface and configured to change a traveling direction of light; and a both-end curved surface () formed adjacent to the reflective surface () and having a surface in a curved shape corresponding to a side surface of a cylinder.

Optical structure, light guide, and a display device

Provided is a display device that prevents generation of stray light and has excellent visibility. In a display device () that makes an image light ray enter from an end face of a light guide plate () and emits the image light ray, reflected or refracted by each of a plurality of emission structures (prisms) provided on the light guide plate, from a light exit surface () of the light guide plate, a light reflection layer or a light absorption layer is formed on at least one optical surface among optical surfaces provided on the emission structure (the prism) except for an optical surface that reflects or refracts the image light ray.

A display device configured for use as a backlight for a display panel that effects presentation via liquid crystals that produce a monochrome image. The display device includes a light guide plate; and a first and a second light source arranged at an edge of the light guide plate. The light guide plate includes: an emission surface; a cluster of first reflective structures configured to reflect light incident thereon from the first light source thereby changing the optical path of the light and causing the light to exit from the emission surface to serve as the backlight; and a cluster of second reflective structures configured to reflect light incident thereon from a second light source thereby changing the optical path of the light and causing the light to exit from the emission surface to effect a predetermined display.

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Kyoto, Japan

Gouo Kurata