The present disclosure relates to multiple view optical systems. An example optical system includes at least one primary optical element configured to receive incident light from a scene and a plurality of relay mirrors optically coupled to the at least one primary optical element. The optical system also includes a lens optically coupled to the plurality of relay mirrors, and an image sensor configured to receive focused light from the lens. The image sensor includes a first light-sensitive area and a second light-sensitive area. The primary optical element, the plurality of relay mirrors, and the lens interact with the incident light to form a first focused light portion and a second focused light portion. The first focused light portion forms a first image portion of the scene on the first light-sensitive area and the second focused light portion forms a second image portion of the scene on the second light-sensitive area.

An eyeglass-type video display device includes a video generation device and an eyeglass body. The video generation device includes a MEMS optical deflector and a VCSEL mounted on the same substrate, and a planar mirror and a rotating mirror arranged above the substrate. Light emitted from an emission part is emitted obliquely upward from one longitudinal-direction end side of the substrate through the planar mirror, the rotating mirror, and a revolving mirror. The video generation device is attached to an arm of the eyeglass body such that the emission direction of the light becomes a direction that is obliquely forward with respect to an inner side surface of the arm.

A cloaking device comprises an object-side, an image-side, a cloaked region between the object-side and the image-side. An object-side optical component and an object-side tilt correction (TC) component are positioned on the object-side, and an image-side optical component and an image-side TC component are positioned on the image-side. The cloaking device is tilted relative to an object positioned on the object-side such that light from the object is incident on the cloaking device at an acute angle. The object-side TC component redirects light from the object incident on the cloaking device such that the light propagates through the cloaking device generally normal to the object-side and image-side optical components. The image-side TC component redirects light propagating through the cloaking device back to normal to the object to form an image of the object on the image-side of the cloaking device which, if not for the TC components, would be distorted.

A head-mounted display (HMD) system includes an optical arrangement, a first image panel, a second image panel, and a central image panel located between the first and second image panels. The optical arrangement is reconfigurable between a first position and a second position that maintains first and second optical pathways of the first and second image panels, and the HMD system has a different form factor when the optical arrangement is in the second position as compared to the first position. The optical arrangement includes at least one segmented optical component, wherein segments of the segmented optical component are moveable relative to each other to reconfigure the optical arrangement between the first position and the second position. The segmented optical component may include one more lens assemblies, each with multiple lens segments that are rotatable relative to each other about a hinge structure.

A cloaking device includes an object-side, an image-side, a cloaked region and eight prisms positioned around the cloaked region. Each of the prisms has a light entrance side, a light exit side, a vertex formed from the intersection of a plane defined by the light entrance side and a plane defined by the light exit side, and a vertex angle between the light entrance side and the light exit side. A pair of first object-side prisms with inward facing vertices and a pair of second object-side prisms with outward facing vertices are positioned on the object-side, and a pair of first image-side prisms with outward facing vertices and a pair of second image-side prisms with inward facing vertices are positioned on the image-side. The light entrance sides of the pair of second object-side prisms are parallel and spaced apart from the light exit sides of the pair of first object-side prisms.

A cloaking device includes an object-side, an image-side, a cloaked region (CR) between the object-side and the image-side. An object-side CR reflection boundary, an object-side half-mirror, and an object-side multiband dichroic color filter are positioned on the object side and an image-side CR reflection boundary, an image-side half-mirror, and an image-side multiband dichroic color filter are positioned on the image-side. The object-side half-mirror and the object-side multiband dichroic color filter are spaced apart from and positioned generally parallel to the object-side CR reflection boundary, and the image-side half-mirror and the image-side multiband dichroic color filter are spaced apart from and positioned generally parallel to the image-side CR reflection boundary. Light from an object located on the object-side of the cloaking device and obscured by the CR propagates via three optical paths to form an image of the object on the image-side of the cloaking device.

The imaging optical system consists of, in order from a magnification side along an optical axis: a first lens group; a first optical axis deflection unit that deflects the optical axis; a second lens group; a second optical axis deflection unit that deflects the optical axis; and a third lens group. The imaging optical system forms an intermediate image between the first optical axis deflection unit and a surface closest to the magnification side in the first lens group.

A head-mounted display (HMD) system includes an optical arrangement; a first image panel, wherein the optical arrangement directs image light from the first image panel along a first optical pathway; a second image panel, wherein the optical arrangement directs image light from the second image panel along a second optical pathway different from the first optical pathway; and a central image panel located between the first image panel and the second image panel, the central image panel including a first portion and a second portion. The optical arrangement directs light from the first portion and the second portion of the central image panel along different optical pathways. The optical arrangement is configured such that light from the first image panel and the first portion of central image panel are emitted from the HMD system in a combined fashion in a first eye direction, and light from the second image panel and the second portion of the central image panel are emitted from the HMD system in a combined fashion in a second eye direction different from the first eye direction.

A head-mounted display (HMD) system includes an optical arrangement; at least one moveable image panel, wherein the optical arrangement directs image light from the moveable image panel along a first optical pathway; a fixed image panel, wherein a portion of image light emitted from the fixed image panel is combined with image light of the at least one moveable image panel by the optical arrangement; and an adjustment mechanism that is configured to adjust an interpupillary distance (IPD) of the HMD system by moving the optical arrangement and the moveable image panel relative to the fixed image panel between a first position and a second position corresponding to different IPDs. The adjustment to the IPD maintains the first optical pathway. The HMD system further may include a sensing module that measures an adjustment position of the optical arrangement, and control electronics configured that determines the IPD based on the measured adjustment position, and updates image light emitted by the fixed image panel based on the IPD.

A head-mounted display (HMD) system includes an optical arrangement, a first image panel, a second image panel, and a central image panel located between the first and second image panels. The optical arrangement is reconfigurable between a first position and a second position that maintains first and second optical pathways of the first and second image panels, and the HMD system has a different form factor when the optical arrangement is in the second position as compared to the first position. The optical arrangement includes at least one segmented optical component, wherein segments of the segmented optical component are moveable relative to each other to reconfigure the optical arrangement between the first position and the second position. The segmented optical component may include one more lens assemblies, each with multiple lens segments that are rotatable relative to each other about a hinge structure.