Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.

Norihiro Imamura

Michihiro Yamagata

Tsuguhiro Korenaga

Kenji Nagatomi

Keiichi Matsuzaki

Takeo Azuma

Kunio Nobori

Kazufumi Mizusawa

Shoji Soh

Takamasa Ando

Yoshimitsu Noguchi

Shoji So

Hirofumi Hoshida

Naomi Anzue

Katsuyuki Morita

Shigeru Furumiya

Katsuhiro Kanamori

Kenji Narumi

Takashi Okada

Akiko Murata

Kazuhiro Ochi

Ichiro Oyama

A display device includes: a display; an optical element including a first surface and a second surface; and a reflective member provided on the second surface. The first surface is a convex cylindrical surface whose axial direction is a first direction (parallel to the X axis), allows light emitted from the display to enter, and allows the light reflected by the reflective member to exit. The second surface is a convex cylindrical surface whose axial direction is a second direction (parallel to the Y axis) orthogonal to the first direction. The reflective member includes a reflective surface that reflects the light that has entered from the first surface toward the first surface. The reflective surface is a concave cylindrical surface whose axial direction is the second direction.

Display device

A display system includes: an outputter that is provided behind a windshield of a conveyance in a front-back direction of the conveyance and includes an output surface from which image light is outputted toward the windshield; a reflector that is provided between the windshield and the output surface and includes a reflecting surface at which the image light outputted from the output surface is reflected; and optics that includes a polarizing plate and is provided on the windshield or between the windshield and the reflector, the polarizing plate absorbing or reflecting the image light outputted from the output surface and not reflected at the reflecting surface, and allowing outside light that is light outside of the conveyance to pass through the polarizing plate.

Display system

A display system includes a display device, an optical device, and an operation receiver. The display device is switchable between an emitting state where first image light is allowed to be emitted from the display device and a non-emitting state where the first image light is not allowed to be emitted from the display device. The optical device is switchable between a reflecting state where light coming from a back of the mobile body is reflected from the optical device and a transmitting state where the light passes through the optical device. The operation receiver switches between a first mode where the display device is in the emitting state while the optical member is in the transmitting state and a second mode where the display device is in the non-emitting state while the optical member is in the reflecting state.

Display system for switching between modes that associate emitting states with reflective states

An imaging apparatus in an embodiment includes lens optical systems each including a lens whose surface closest to the target object is shaped to be convex toward the target object, imaging regions which respectively face the lens optical systems and output a photoelectrically converted signal corresponding to an amount of light transmitting the lens optical systems and received by the imaging regions, and a light-transmissive cover which covers an exposed portion of the lens of each of the lens optical systems and a portion between the lens of one of the lens optical systems and the lens of another one of the lens optical systems adjacent to the one of the lens optical systems, the cover having a curved portion which is convex toward the target object. The optical axes of the lens optical systems are parallel to each other.

Imaging apparatus and distance measuring apparatus using the same

A display system includes: a display element that includes a display surface through which light showing an image is emitted; a concave mirror that reflects the light emitted through the display surface of the display element; and an optical element that includes a wave plate and a transmissive polarizing plate that is a polarizing element, the optical element facing the concave mirror. The concave mirror and the optical element are each provided separately from the display element. The optical element (i) transmits reflected light resulting from the light emitted through the display surface of the display element being reflected by the concave mirror, and (ii) reflects light from outside off a surface of the optical element, the surface facing the concave mirror, the light from the outside entering the optical element from a side through which the reflected light exits, and being reflected by the concave mirror.

A display apparatus includes a first mirror and a half mirror between a display device and a concave mirror. The first mirror reflects emission light emitted from an elongate display surface of the display device, toward the half mirror. The half mirror reflects the light reflected by the first mirror, toward the concave mirror. The concave mirror reflects the light reflected by the half mirror, toward the half mirror. In a top view of the display apparatus, a line passing through a center of the display surface in a longitudinal direction and parallel to the longitudinal direction and a tangent line passing through a center of a reflection surface of the concave mirror in a longitudinal direction and parallel to the longitudinal direction intersect at a predetermined angle.

Display apparatus

A display system includes: a display device; a reflection optical system; a housing; and a shield member. The reflection optical system includes at least a last reflective member on which light, emerging from a display screen of the display device, is incident either directly or indirectly. The shield member is held by the housing to assume either a shielding state or an unshielding state. The shielding state is a state where the shield member at least partially cuts off light incident on, or reflected from, the last reflective member. The unshielding state is a state where the shielding state is canceled. The shield member in the shielding state reflects, toward the viewer's eyes, external light impinging on the housing. The housing has a holding structure to hold the shield member, no matter whether the shield member assumes the shielding state or the unshielding state.

A display system includes: a display device in a mobile body; a concave mirror for displaying, in a first mode, a virtual image of a display image shown by image light emitted by the display device; and a plane mirror for reflecting, in a second mode, a rear-view image shown by light that has entered the mobile body. In a top view of the mobile body, the display device and the concave mirror are disposed such that a straight line connecting centers of the display device and the concave mirror has a predetermined angle relative to a front-and-rear direction of the mobile body. A normal direction at a center of a concave mirror surface of the concave mirror when the first mode is functioning and a normal direction normal to a plane mirror surface of the plane mirror when the second mode is functioning are not parallel.

A tangent line, described next, is, in top view, parallel to a straight line extending in a width direction of the display surface in a range in which the attitude can be changed. The tangent line is present on a plane orthogonal to the up-down direction of the automobile, and contacts a center of the final reflective surface. In top view, of an angle formed by a straight line connecting a center of the final reflective surface with a center of the display surface and the tangent line of the final reflective surface, a supplementary angle which is supplementary to an angle that is on a rear side of the automobile and that is on a side where the observer is present is an acute angle of less than 90 degrees.

A display device includes: a display element including a display surface on which image is displayed; a first mirror and a second mirror that reflects emission light emitted from the display surface of the display element; and a polarization element. The polarization element is configured to reflect and transmit the emission light from display surface. The emission light from display surface is reflected off polarization element twice and transmitted through polarization element once by a time the emission light is reflected off first mirror and second mirror and exits from display device.

A display system includes: a display that emits light corresponding to image information; a half mirror that receives the light emitted, reflects, as reflected light, a first component of the light received, and transmits a second component different from the first component; and a first reflecting mirror having a concave surface that receives and reflects the reflected light toward the half mirror. The half mirror includes a first retardation film, a first support substrate, and a reflective polarizing film stacked in this order from a side on which the light emitted is received. The first retardation film changes a phase of the light received. The first support substrate is light-transmissive. The reflective polarizing film reflects a first polarized component and transmits a second polarized component different from the first polarized component.

A camera system includes an image sensor, a wavelength filter, and an imaging optical system. The image sensor has an image capturing plane. The imaging optical system is configured to have light coming from a subject passed through the wavelength filter and imaged on the image capturing plane. The wavelength filter has a perpendicularly incident region and an obliquely incident region. On the perpendicularly incident region, a principal ray, which has passed through the imaging optical system, is incident perpendicularly. On the obliquely incident region, a principal ray, which has passed through the imaging optical system, is incident obliquely. The image sensor has sensitivity to a light ray having a predetermined wavelength. The light ray having the predetermined wavelength is transmitted at a higher transmittance through at least a part of the obliquely incident region than through the perpendicularly incident region.

Camera system, driver/passenger monitoring system, moving vehicle, image capturing method, and non-transitory storage medium

A display system includes a display device, a first mirror, and a second mirror. The display device includes a display surface that displays a first image. Light emitted by the display device is incident directly or indirectly on the first mirror. The first mirror reflects the light incident. The light reflected by the first mirror is directly or indirectly incident on the second mirror. The second mirror reflects, toward an eye-box, the light incident. The light reflected by the second mirror enters an eye of an observer present within the eye-box to display, on the eye of the observer, a second image based on the first image. The first mirror is a Fresnel mirror.

Display system and electronic mirror system including the display system

A display system includes a display unit, a housing, and a reflecting optical system. The display unit displays an image based on a captured image. The housing includes a housing room that houses the display unit and the reflecting optical system. The reflecting optical system reflects the image displayed on the display unit, thereby outputting the reflected image through an opening of the housing to the outside of the housing.

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Osaka, Japan

Norihiro Imamura