The head-up display device includes a display element that emits image light and a virtual image optical system. The virtual image optical system includes a lens unit and a free curved surface mirror disposed along the emission direction of the image light in this order from a position close to the display element. The display element is disposed with a tilting attitude with respect to the optical axis of the lens unit with an end on the housing aperture side in an emission surface being close to an incidence surface in the lens unit and with an end on the opposite side of the housing aperture in an emission surface being apart from an incidence surface in the lens unit. The lens unit has an optical characteristic of optically enlarging an optical path length difference according to a virtual image distance difference.

Lighting devices, methods of manufacturing a lighting device, automotive lighting systems including the lighting device are described. A lighting device includes at least one light guide. The at least one light guide includes a cavity having a middle. The at least one light guide is a parabolic collimator having its focus point coincide with the middle of the cavity. The lighting device also includes an encapsulating material that has at least one opening through which light is emitted. The lighting device also includes at least one light-emitting element embedded into the cavity of the light guide. The light-emitting element has a coating oriented towards the at least one opening of the encapsulating material.

A diffraction element device includes a diffractive element and a power source, the diffractive element includes a substrate and a plurality of multi-step structures, each of the multi-step structures is composed of a plurality of steps, an electrode is provided at a part of the multi-step structures, a piezoelectric material or an electrostrictive material is included in a part of the multi-step structures, the power source is connected to the electrode or the substrate, and a height of the multi-step structures changes due to a voltage applied from the power source.

This application provides a lens module and a lens module control method to implement, among other features, automatic focusing and improve image definition. The lens module includes an imaging lens, a first control module, a first processing module, a liquid lens, and an image chip. The liquid lens is configured to refract an imaging beam that comes from the imaging lens, and the liquid lens comprises a transparent first flat lens and a transparent second flat lens that are parallel to each other. The first control module is configured to adjust a distance between the first flat lens and the second flat lens. The first processing module is configured to adjust a distance between the first flat lens and the second flat lens by using the first control module and based on a definition of the digital image, so as to adjust the definition of the image generated by the image chip.

An inner surface image inspection apparatus includes: an image-capturing unit; a lens-barrel attached in front of the image-capturing unit, the lens-barrel containing lenses; an insert unit of a cylindrical shape attached to a leading end of the lens-barrel, the insert unit adapted to be inserted into the hole of the inspection object; a mirror disposed in the insert unit in such a manner that a reflecting surface of the mirror is inclined relative to the optical axis of the lenses of the optical system; and a linear motion mechanism configured to move the mirror in parallel to the optical axis.

A filter assembly comprises a planar first optical filter, a planar second optical filter, a frame-shaped base part for accommodating the first and second optical filters, wherein the base part comprises a support part for supporting edge portions of lower surfaces of the first and second optical filters, and a wall part for laterally enclosing at least part of the first and second optical filters, and one or more clamp parts for securing the first and second optical filters against the base part when the first and second optical filters are inserted into the base part, by contacting upper surfaces of the first and second optical filters and pressing the first and second optical filters towards the support part. The disclosure further relates to a method of manufacturing such filter assembly.

An optical scanning unit steers a light beam emitted from a laser diode in the main scanning direction by a polygon mirror. The laser diode, a collimator lens, an aperture, a first lens, the polygon mirror, and a condensing lens are sequentially placed in the optical system of the optical scanning unit. The laser diode emits a light beam in which divergent angles in intersecting two directions are different from each other. The direction in which the light beam divergent angle is large is aligned with the sub-scanning direction, and the direction in which the light beam divergent angle is small is aligned with the main scanning direction. The first lens has a first function to condense a beam in the sub-scanning direction and a second function to diffuse a beam in the main scanning direction.

An inventive device includes a multi-aperture imaging device comprising an image sensor; an array of adjacently arranged optical channels, each optical channel including an optic for projecting at least one partial field of view of a total field of view onto an image sensor area of the image sensor arrangement, a beam deflection means for deflecting an optical path of the optical channels, and a focusing means for setting a focal position of the multi-aperture imaging device. The device further comprises a control means configured to control the focusing means and to receive image information from the image sensor; the control means being configured to control the multi-aperture imaging device into a sequence of focal positions so as to capture a corresponding sequence of image information of the total field of view and to produce, from the sequence of image information, a depth map for the captured total field of view.

A laser device includes a light source part; an optical path adjustment part; a light distribution part that splits a laser beam into a plurality of sub-beams to a substrate; a drive part that moves the light distribution part and adjusts relative positions between the light distribution part and the substrate; a sensing part; and a control part. The control part generates an image based on a signal sensed by the sensing part and measures an image contrast of the image. The control part records and compares a plurality of image contrasts according to the position of the light distribution part to determine an optimal position of the light distribution part.

A device includes a display element and a lens assembly. The lens assembly includes a polarization non-selective partial reflector, a polarization selective reflector and a polarization switch disposed at opposite sides of the polarization non-selective partial reflector, and a polarization selective transmissive lens disposed between the polarization switch and the polarization non-selective partial reflector. The device also includes a controller configured to: during a first sub-frame of a display frame, control the display element to display a first virtual sub-image including content of a first portion of a virtual image, and control the polarization switch to operate in a switching state. The controller is also configured to: during a second sub-frame of the display frame, control the display element to display a second virtual sub-image including content of a second portion of the virtual image, and control the polarization switch to operate in a non-switching state.