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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019

Filed:

Oct. 26, 2015
Applicant:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Yoshihisa Aikoh, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/31 (2006.01); G02B 27/14 (2006.01); G03B 21/20 (2006.01); G03B 33/06 (2006.01); G03B 21/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/3161 (2013.01); G02B 27/141 (2013.01); G03B 21/2033 (2013.01); G03B 21/2066 (2013.01); G03B 33/06 (2013.01); H04N 9/3158 (2013.01); H04N 9/3164 (2013.01); G03B 21/16 (2013.01); G03B 21/204 (2013.01); G03B 21/2073 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image display apparatus includes an image generation element generating an image on the basis of incident light, an illumination optical system having an irradiated surface and guiding light applied to the irradiated surface into the image generation element, the irradiated surface including a plurality of divided areas. A light source system includes a plurality of light source units corresponding to the plurality of divided areas, and a light guiding optical system, the plurality of light source units emitting emitted light to corresponding divided areas. Further, at least one of the plurality of light source units is arranged so that the emitted light passes through space opposed to at least one different divided area, the at least one different divided area being different from the divided area to be irradiated with the emitted light.


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