Alight-emitting element of the present disclosure includes a light-emitting section including a plurality of light-emitting regions, and one or a plurality of microlens members controlling a traveling direction of light emitted from each of the light-emitting regions. Alternatively, the light-emitting element of the present disclosure includes a light-emitting section including one light-emitting region, and a plurality of microlens members controlling a traveling direction of light emitted from the one light-emitting region. Alternatively, the light-emitting element of the present disclosure includes a light-emitting section including a plurality of light-emitting regions, and one or a plurality of microlens members controlling a traveling direction of each light emitted from the plurality of light-emitting regions.

Provided is an augmented reality display with a thin optical combiner, and the augmented reality display with a thin optical combiner provided to have an overall shape wearable by a user includes an optical combiner part provided in the form of a lens located in front of a user's eyes to receive a virtual image light wave and combine an external scene and a virtual image, wherein the optical combiner part includes a plurality of glass substrates, and a polarization-dependent lens inserted obliquely in a diagonal direction between the plurality of glass substrates to transmit optically modulated virtual image light waves in a direction toward the eyes.

A display system is disclosed including an emitter system assembly for providing a light output. The emitter system assembly includes a first emitter that provides a first emission spectrum, a cavity at least partially surrounding the first emitter, a first aperture configured for transmitting therethrough at least a portion of the first emission spectrum from the first emitter, and a shaping element in optical communication with the first aperture. The cavity includes reflectors that reflect the first emission spectrum within the cavity and toward the aperture.

A micro-optic device, including: a substrate; a plurality of image elements; and a plurality of focusing elements, each focusing element focuses light towards, or causes light to be diverged from or constructively interfere at a real or imaginary focal point, the focusing elements causing the image elements to be sampled so as to project imagery which is observable to a user from at least a first viewing angle, wherein a first focusing structure including at least a first group of the focusing elements and a first imagery structure including at least a first group of the image elements are integrated into a first unitary structure on a first side of the substrate.

To suppress, in an optical body in which a microlens array as a non-periodic structure is arranged and deployed in a wide range, occurrence of periodic optical properties in a structural unit larger than the non-periodic structure. The optical body includes a single non-periodic structure region or a collection of a plurality of non-periodic structure regions, the non-periodic structure region being composed of a single lens group including a plurality of single lenses. In the non-periodic structure region, a located state of the single lens group is non-periodic as a whole. A ratio of a size of the non-periodic structure region to an average aperture diameter of the single lenses in the non-periodic structure region is more than or equal to 25.

A head-up display has a display element, a projection system, a diffusing plate, and a mirror element. In such head-up displays, frequently irritations due to stray light occur. A head-up display that produces less irritation from incident stray light is therefore desirable. The diffusing plate has focusing elements on its side facing the projection system and a light-blocking mask on its side facing away from the projection system.

An image sensor includes a plurality of pixels configured to receive an optical signal incident through a first lens portion; a planarization layer that has a same refractive index as a refractive index of the first lens portion; a second lens portion that is configured to classify the optical signal incident through the first lens portion according to an incidence angle, and is configured to deliver the optical signal to each of the plurality of pixels; and image processing circuitry configured to generate a subject image by combining one or more subimages obtained from the optical signal, wherein the planarization layer is arranged between the second lens portion and the plurality of pixels.

There is provided a projection display (200), and a method for illuminating a projection display (200). The projection display (200) comprising a waveguide (2) comprising an input grating (4) having a plurality of linear diffractive features (6), the input grating (4) configured to couple in light into the waveguide (2), and an array of LEDs configured to form an illumination pupil which is optically relayed as an input pupil (8) onto the input grating (4), such that at the input grating (4) the input pupil (8) has a shape that is larger in a direction parallel to the linear diffractive features (6) than in a direction perpendicular to the linear diffractive features (6).

An optical system includes a lens layer including a plurality of microlenses arranged along orthogonal first and second directions, and at least one optically opaque mask layer spaced apart from the lens layer and defining a plurality of through openings therein arranged along the first and second directions. There is a one-to-one correspondence between the microlenses and the openings, such that for each microlens, the microlens and corresponding openings are substantially centered on a straight line making a same oblique angle with the lens layer. An optical layer can include the lens layer and the optically opaque mask layer embedded in the optical layer.

According to one embodiment, an electronic device comprises a plurality of microlenses arranged in a hexagonal periodic structure, and provided in the plurality of sensor regions, and a plurality of spacers between the plurality of sensor regions, wherein the plurality of sensor regions include a first sensor region adjacent to the plurality of spacers, a second sensor region adjacent to the first sensor region in the first direction, and a third sensor region adjacent to the first sensor region in the second direction, and include at least one microlens overlapped with the first sensor region and the second sensor region, and at least one microlens overlapped with the first sensor region and the third sensor region.