An optical system guides a light beam from a display element to an exit pupil. The optical system includes a first optical element including a transmission surface, a reflection-transmission surface, and a reflection surface, and a negative lens including a concave surface on an exit pupil side. The light beam from the display element heads toward the exit pupil via the transmission surface, the reflection-transmission surface, the reflection surface, the reflection-transmission surface, and the negative lens in this order. A predetermined condition is satisfied.

The invention discloses an optical system of near-eye see-through head-mounted display, comprising a first lens, a second lens and a micro image display, the first lens and the second lens are attached to the micro image display, and the first lens and the second lens are free-form lenses with a uniform thickness. The architecture of the optical system of near-eye see-through head-mounted display provided by the present invention can not only reduce the number of times the light is refracted in the architecture of the optical system, but also eliminate the aberration of the light emitted by the micro image display in all directions, making the images be viewed from all directions and angles with no aberration.

An imaging system, including a light valve, a projection surface, and a projection lens, is provided. The projection lens has a reduction side and a magnification side, and includes a lens group and a convex mirror. The light valve is configured on the reduction side. The projection surface is configured on the magnification side. There is an included angle between the projection surface and a light receiving surface. The lens group is configured on an optical path between the magnification side and the reduction side, and includes first to seventh lens elements sequentially arranged from the magnification side to the reduction side. The refractive powers of the first to seventh lens elements are respectively negative, negative, positive, positive, negative, positive, and positive. The convex mirror is configured on an optical path between the lens group and the magnification side. A projection device, including the imaging system, is also provided.

An optical module according to the present disclosure includes: a first display panel that emits a first image light, a first virtual image optical system that forms a first exit pupil of the first image light, and a control unit corrects a video image signal to a first correction video signal based on distortion generated in the first optical system, an aspect ratio of the video image signal being smaller than an aspect ratio of the first display panel, wherein the control unit causes the first display panel to emit the first image light from the first display panel based on the first correction video image signal.

A display module includes a display element, a light-guiding optical system forming an exit pupil, and an optical member including a light incidence surface and a light emission surface. The light-guiding optical system is an eccentric optical system, and includes first and second incidence areas on which the image light emitted from the light emission surface is incident. The optical member is disposed, correcting an inclination of the light emission surface with respect to the light-guiding optical system such that an variation amount in an incidence angle of the image light with respect to the first incidence area, before and after the light emission surface is inclined, is greater than an variation amount in an incidence angle of the image light with respect to the second incidence area.

An optical unit includes a projection lens, a prism configured to guide the image light from the projection lens, and a mirror member configured to reflect, toward a pupil position, the image light from the prism, wherein the prism includes a first surface where the image light from the projection lens is incident while being transmitted, a second surface at which the image light that passed through the first surface is reflected, and a third surface at which the image light that passed through the second surface is reflected toward the second surface, and the image light reflected at the third surface is emitted while being transmitted through the second surface.

A display device includes an image element, a prism mirror that receives image light emitted from the image element through a light incident surface, reflects the image light with an inner reflection surface, and emits the image light from a light emission surface, and a see-through mirror that reflects the image light emitted from the prism mirror toward a pupil position, wherein the prism mirror emits the image light incident from a front to be bent in a direction inclined with respect to the front, and a light emission side of an image source that includes the image element and the prism mirror is covered with a light transmission window that blocks dust.

A virtual image display apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a first display module, a second display module, and a coupling portion having an adjustable structure. The adjustable structure adjusts the first display module with respect to the second display module at least a relative rotational position and relative positions in longitudinal and depth directions.

An optical module according to the present disclosure includes: a first display panel that emits a first image light, a first virtual image optical system that forms a first exit pupil of the first image light, and a control unit corrects a video image signal to a first correction video signal based on distortion generated in the first optical system, an aspect ratio of the video image signal being smaller than an aspect ratio of the first display panel, wherein the control unit causes the first display panel to emit the first image light from the first display panel based on the first correction video image signal.

A virtual image display device includes a display element, a light-guiding system configured to guide imaging light that exits the display element, and a mirror member having a first surface where the imaging light that exits the light-guiding system is incident while being refracted and a second surface that reflects the imaging light that passes through the first surface and causes the imaging light to exit the mirror member through the first surface where the imaging light is refracted. In the mirror member, the curvature of the first surface differs from the curvature of the second surface.