Denso Corporation

Kazuhisa Onda

Hiroshi Ando

Teiyuu Kimura

Makoto Sakai

Noriyuki Ozaki

Shinji Kashiwada

Kenichi Yanai

Mitsuhiro Kiyono

Fumiaki Mizuno

Kazuyuki Ishihara

Takashi Takazawa

Yujiro Mizobuchi

Taizo Miyato

Hiroshi Andoh

An optical detector is configured to project a projection beam toward a measurement area and detect a return beam from the measurement area. The optical detector includes: a projecting optical system that forms a projection optical axis to project the projection beam; a receiving optical system that forms a receiving optical axis to receive the return beam, and a housing having a housing chamber to house the projecting optical system and the receiving optical system, and an optical window for the projection beam and the return beam to travel between the housing chamber and the measurement area. The projection optical axis and the receiving optical axis are offset from each other to define an overlap region inside the housing chamber where footprints of the projection beam and the return beam overlap with each other.

Optical detector

An optical detector includes a light emitter having a light emitting window extended in an extension direction to emit a projection beam from the light emitting window toward a measurement area and to detect a return beam from the measurement area. The optical detector includes a scanning mirror that scans by reflecting the projection beam. The scanning mirror swings within a finite angular range around a rotation axis that is along a direction corresponding to the extension direction.

A virtual image display device displays a virtual image by projecting a display light of an image toward a projection unit, and includes: a display unit configured to emit the display light; and a diffraction reflection element configured to reflect the display light emitted from the display unit by diffraction. The diffraction reflection element has a plate shape along a horizontal plane. The diffraction reflection element is configured to emit the display light toward the projection unit arranged above the diffraction reflection element when the display light is incident, and is set such that an angle of incidence on the diffraction reflection element is larger than an angle of emission from the diffraction reflection element.

Virtual image display device

A LIDAR device includes a light source, a mirror, a rotatable shaft, and a motor. The light source configured to emit a light beam having a predetermined light beam width for scanning a scanning zone. The rotatable shaft has a center axis parallel to a reflective surface of the mirror and is connected to a back surface of the mirror. The motor is configured to rotate the shaft to cause the mirror to swing between a first position and a second position. The light source and the mirror are arranged to have a positional relationship such that a mirror center is aligned with the light beam center when the mirror is at the first position, and the mirror center shifts within a motion area when the mirror is swinging between the first position, non-inclusive, and the second position, inclusive.

LIDAR device

A diffractive optical element exerts a diffractive action on a display light that is emitted from a display unit. A folding mirror is provided on the opposite side of the diffractive optical element from the display unit to reflect the display light. The diffractive optical element includes a transmissive action part and a diffractive and reflective action part. The transmissive action part exerts a transmissive action to transmit therethrough the display light, which is incident from the display unit and is in a first polarization state, toward the folding mirror. The diffractive and reflective action part exerts a diffractive and reflective action to diffract and reflect the display light, which is reflected by the folding mirror and is in a second polarization state opposite to the first polarization state, toward the projection portion on an optical path.

A light guide unit forms an optical path to guide a display light emitted from a display unit toward a projection portion. The light guide unit includes a negative optical element and a positive optical element. The negative optical element is placed on the optical path and has a negative optical power. The positive optical element is placed on the optical path and is closer to the projection portion than the negative optical element. The positive optical element has a positive optical power. The positive optical element is a diffractive optical element having a diffractive structure configured to diffract the display light.

Virtual image display device shifting light of an image to create a virtual image

First and second diffractive reflective elements form an optical path that guides a display light from a display unit toward a projection portion. The first diffractive reflective element is placed on the optical path to reflect the display light toward the projection portion by causing diffraction such that an incident angle and an emission angle of the display light are different from each other. The second diffractive reflective element is placed between the display unit and the first diffractive reflective element on the optical path to reflect the display light from the display unit toward the first diffractive reflective element by causing diffraction such that an incident angle and an emission angle of the display light are different from each other.

A light diffusion member constituting a head-up display device includes multiple micro-lenses and has a curved base surface. The edge angle is larger than the base surface angle change amount. The edge angle is an angle formed by one of tangent lines of two micro-lenses and the other of the tangent lines passing through a boundary between two adjacent micro-lenses on a cross section orthogonal to the base surface. A reference line has a constant direction on the cross section, and a normal line passes at an arbitrary position on the base surface. The maximum value is &#x3b8;and the minimum value is &#x3b8;among angles between the normal line and the reference line. The base surface angle change amount is the absolute value of the difference between &#x3b8;and &#x3b8;.

Head-up display device

A laser projection portion projects multiple laser light fluxes having different wavelengths and superimposed one on another. A scan portion scans the laser light fluxes from the laser projection portion. The image is drawn on a screen member upon incidence of the laser light fluxes scanned by the scan portion. A refraction element portion having positive refractive power is located on a light path between the scan portion and the screen member and adjusts an incident angle of the laser light fluxes to the screen member by refraction. The refraction element portion includes a positive lens part and a negative lens part. The positive lens part has positive refractive power. The negative lens part is made of a medium with a higher dispersing quality than a medium forming the positive lens part and has negative refractive power.

Head-up display apparatus

In a head-up display, a cover member includes a first transmissive member and a second transmissive member that transmit a light beam including an image generated by an image generation unit. The first transmissive member is formed to face upward from a front end to a rear end. Likewise, the second transmissive member is formed to face upward from a front end to a rear end. The rear end of the first transmissive member is offset to an upper side from the front end of the second transmissive member.

Head-up display cover member and display device

A head-up display includes a display unit displaying images in a display region defined on a vehicle windshield, a vehicle information acquisition unit acquiring vehicle information, a forward view information acquisition unit acquiring forward view information, a display object detection unit detecting a display object for which guidance information is required to be displayed in the display region, a display control unit, and a display form setting unit. The display control unit generates a guidance image indicating the guidance information of the detected display object and displays the generated guidance image over the display object in superimposed manner on the windshield. The display form setting unit calculates an annoyance value indicative of an annoyance level felt by a vehicle occupant when displaying the guidance image in superimposed manner, and sets a display form of the guidance image so that the calculated annoyance value is within a predetermined appropriate range.

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Kariya, Japan

Kazuhisa Onda