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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2016
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Masahiro Kasano, Osaka, JP;
Kouki Ichihashi, Osaka, JP;
Yosuke Asai, Osaka, JP;
Katsuhiko Hayashi, Nara, JP;
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a virtual image display apparatus, head-up display system, and vehicle that distribute a spatially divided parallax image between a left eye and right eye of a user appropriately. The virtual image display apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a display device configured to spatially divide with a first pitch and to output right-eye images and left-eye images, first optical members periodically disposed with a second pitch, distributing light based on the output from the display device between a right-eye direction and a left-eye direction, and a second optical member configured to reflect or refract, by positive power, the light distributed between the right-eye direction and the left-eye direction by the first optical members. The first pitch is narrower than the second pitch.