Omron Corporation

Masayuki Shinohara

Norikazu Kitamura

Yasuhiro Tanoue

Gouo Kurata

Kazuhide Hirota

Shigeru Aoyama

Yoshihiko Takagi

Yoshimasa Osumi

Yuto Mori

Mitsuru Okuda

Kazuyuki Okada

Takako Ishikawa

Yoshihiro Ueno

Yuji Hirose

Hiroyuki Miyamoto

Tsuyoshi Arai

Koichi Takemura

Jun Kishimoto

Isao Makuta

Takuma Iwase

Masao Mishina

Yukihiro Takahashi

Junya Fujita

Junichi Takagi

Tomofusa Shibata

Yutaka Okayasu

Masafumi Danno

Norihisa Kanzaki

Hayato Yoshida

Akihiro Funamoto

Masayuki Kojima

Yoshihisa Yamanaka

Takaaki Suzumura

Morihisa Ota

Takahiro Morichi

Tetsuya Minobe

Katsuyuki Manabe

Kenji Sakurai

Tsukasa Yamashita

Yasuhiro Kawabata

Yasuhito Uetsuji

Takeshi Kakinuma

Tomohiko Matsushita

Motohiko Matsushita

Mamoru Yabe

Masaaki Ikeda

Makoto Ohhira

Yoshikaga Taguchi

Hiroshi Kitajima

Ryo Yamamoto

Takamitsu Ishikawa

Junichiro Tsuji

Masaaki Hiramatsu

Tadashi Matsuoka

Toru Ashida

Yutato Okuno

Toshikaga Taguchi

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 light guide plate guides light from a light source to form an image in a space, and includes a light introduction portion and a light emitting portion. Light from the light source is incident on the light introduction portion. The light emitting portion includes a curved emission surface that emits light from the light source incident from the light introduction portion, and is bent and connected to the light introduction portion.

Display device

Parallel light traveling in a direction perpendicular to an outgoing surface having a curved surface is emitted. A light guide member according to one or more embodiments may include: an incident surface where light from a light source enters; at least one reflective surface that reflects the light having entered from the incident surface; and an outgoing surface that is formed of a curved surface and emits the light reflected by the reflective surface. The reflective surface reflects the light having entered from the light source in a direction in which the incident angle of the light incident on the outgoing surface is constant.

Light guide member, lighting device, and display device

A light guide plate according to one or more embodiments may include an incident surface that receives light and an optical path changer on a back surface perpendicular to the incident surface. Light reflected by the optical path changer forms a stereoscopic image including a near formed image at an imaging position within a predetermined distance from the back surface and a distant formed image at another imaging position. The near formed image includes an image formation area with a larger total area than an image formation area of the distant formed image.

Light guide plate device including optical path changer

A light guide plate according to one or more embodiments may include an incident surface that receives light, and an optical path changer on a back surface perpendicular to the incident surface. The optical path changer may reflect light to be emitted through an emission surface parallel to the back surface. The light emitted through the emission surface may form a formed image including a plane image representing a surface. The plane image may include a near imaging portion and a distant imaging portion. The plane image may have two ends included in the near imaging portion in a cross section perpendicular to the back surface and an optical axis of a light source.

Light guide plate device including an optical path changer

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

When an optical element is transparent, an observer is enabled to visually recognize a stereoscopic image having a stereoscopic effect. A display method for a stereoscopic image, using a display device provided with a transparent light guide plate, includes: emitting light to be recognized by the observer as a stereoscopic image (I) from an optical element; and displaying the stereoscopic image (I) on a stereoscopic image forming plane (P) not parallel to an outgoing surface () of the optical element. In the display method, the observer is able to visually recognize a rear surface side of the display device through the optical element.

Display method

A method is disclosed for manufacturing, by injection molding with use of a mold, a light guide plate in which a first region having a curvature in a first direction and a second region having a predetermined curved surface are connected. The mold includes a first member for forming the first region and a second member for forming the second region. The first member is manufactured by bending a first electroforming stamper on which a predetermined structure is formed by electroforming in a direction corresponding to the first direction.

Method for manufacturing light guiding plate, light guiding plate, and lighting tool for vehicle

A light emitting device is provided to a vehicle. The light emitting device includes a display portion and a light emitting portion. The display portion includes a first light source and a light guide plate that guides light from the first light source to form a first image in a space. The light emitting portion includes a second light source and a light emitting region that overlaps with the first image in a vehicle front-rear direction at a position close to the first image and emits light from the second light source to the outside of the vehicle.

Light emitting device

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

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Kyoto, Japan

Masayuki Shinohara