Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Shiori Ohsugi

Naoki Nakamura

Takashi Kubota

Takanobu Osaka

Yasuo Katano

Shigenobu Hirano

Masahiro Itoh

Toshiaki Tokita

Yoshifumi Sudoh

Kenji Kameyama

Aino Hasegawa

Satomi Tanaka

Susumu Momma

Norikazu Igarashi

Shun Okazaki

A virtual image display device includes: an image display element that displays an image to be displayed as a virtual image; a propagation optical system that propagates light from the image display element; and a light guide member that guides the light propagated by the propagation optical system. The light guide member includes: a light beam incident part that introduces light including image information from the propagation optical system into the light guide member; an image extractor that extracts the light including image information from an inside of the light guide member; and an image emitter that emits the light including image information to an outside of the light guide member. The propagation optical system includes one or more optical members each having a curved surface shape that is non-rotationally symmetric with respect to an optical axis.

Virtual image display device

A light guide for a virtual image device to guide and emit image light output from an image display element to display a virtual image. The light guide includes a light-guide member and an optical member. The light-guide member includes an incidence portion to receive the image light and an exit portion to emit the image light to an outside, and a reflective portion inclined relative to the incidence portion to guide the image light received by the incidence portion into the light guide. The light-guide member also includes an extraction portion including first planes each inclined relative to the exit portion and second planes each parallel with the exit portion, to guide the image light from each first plane to the exit portion and extract the image light. The optical member includes a parallel plane and an inclined portion.

Light guide, virtual image optical system, and virtual image display device

A light guide includes a light-guide member including an incidence portion through which image light emitted from an image display element enters the light-guide member; an exit portion through which the image light exits the light-guide member to an outside of the light-guide member; a retroreflection portion to reverse a direction of travel of the image light guided through the light-guide member; and an extraction portion to guide the image light reversed by the retroreflection portion to the exit portion. The retroreflection portion has a plurality of surfaces.

Light guide, virtual image display device, and light guide unit

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Kanagawa, Japan

Shiori Ohsugi