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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2018
Omron Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Omron Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
An optical device includes a light guide plate configured to guide light within a plane parallel to an emission surface, and a plurality of deflectors configured to deflect light guided thereto by the light guide plate, causing light forming an image in a space outside the light guide plate to exit from the emission surface. Each deflector in the plurality of deflectors cause the light to exit from the emission surface toward a direction substantially converging onto a single convergence point or convergence line in the space, or to substantially radiate from a single convergence point or convergence line in the space. The convergence point or the convergence line is mutually different among the plurality of deflectors with a grouping of a plurality of the convergence points or the convergence lines forming the image in the space.