A display device including a display to generate a real image, and an optical system. The optical system includes a plurality of lenslets, each having one cluster of object pixels, where the assignation of object pixels to clusters may change periodically in time intervals. Each lenslet produces a ray pencil from each object pixel of its cluster which has waists laying close to a waist surface. The ray pencils are projected towards an eye position. The ray pencils are configured to generate a partial virtual image from the real image of its corresponding cluster. At least two of the lenslets cannot be made to coincide by a simple translation rigid motion. Foveal rays are a subset of rays emanating from the lenslets.

A display device includes: a display that generates image display light; a concave mirror that reflects the image display light such that the image display light is projected onto a transparent member; and a drive mechanism that moves the display in a range in which a distance from the concave mirror to the display is smaller than or equal to a reference distance at which the image display light traveling from the concave mirror to the transparent member becomes parallel light.

An optical system is provided that includes a correction portion including one or more spatially varying polarizers. A first spatially varying polarizer of the one or more spatially varying polarizers has a first control input configured to receive a first control signal indicating whether the first spatially varying polarizer is to be active or inactive. When active, the first spatially varying polarizer is operative to provide a first optical correction on light passing through the correction portion. The optical system includes a controller configured to determine whether to implement the first optical correction on the light passing through the correction portion and in response to determining to implement the first optical correction on the light passing through the correction portion, output the first control signal indicating the first spatially varying polarizer is to be active. Additional spatially varying polarizers may be controlled to provide additional or alternative optical corrections.

An optical element includes a hologram layer, a resin substrate to which the hologram layer is adhered, and a holder portion that supports the resin substrate and has a thermal expansion coefficient smaller than that of the resin substrate. One of the holder portion and the resin substrate includes a contact surface along an axis extending in a plate thickness direction of the resin substrate, and the other of the holder portion and the resin substrate includes a pressing surface that presses the contact surface.

Provided is a display device including a light guide plate; a reflective prism configured to reflect an imaging beam toward the light guide plate, wherein the imaging beam reflected by the reflective prism travels within the light guide plate at an angle greater than a critical angle of the light guide plate; and a diffraction grating configured to diffract the imaging beam traveling within the light guide plate to an angle less than or equal to the critical angle of the light guide plate, wherein the reflective prism includes a first surface in contact with the light guide plate, and a second surface configured to reflect the imaging beam.

A method of forming a curved mirror for a heads-up display includes providing a mirror preform including a first major surface, a second major surface, and a minor surface connecting the first and second major surfaces. The minor preform has a central portion and a peripheral portion surrounding the central portion. The method includes disposing the minor preform on a mold having a concave surface facing the second major surface and within a housing that surrounds at least a portion of the minor surface, a space being defined between the concave surface and the second major surface with a perimeter of the space being bounded by the housing, the mold comprising a ditch-type vacuum line along a periphery of the concave surface underneath the peripheral portion. The method also includes providing vacuum pressure to the space via the ditch-type vacuum line to conform the mirror preform to the concave surface.

An optical assembly for an eye-tracking camera includes an aperture stop, a first optical surface, and a second optical surface. The optical assembly is configured to receive non-visible light reflected or scattered by an eye and to direct the non-visible light to an image sensor along an optical path, where the non-visible light is received from an optical combiner of an eye-tracking system. The first optical surface is disposed on the optical path and is configured to correct for field-independent optical aberrations induced by the optical combiner. The second optical surface is disposed on the optical path and is configured to correct for field-dependent optical aberrations induced by the optical combiner.

An ultra-thin lens for augmented reality (AR) display includes: a primary lens, an intermediate lens, and a secondary lens. After entering the primary lens, image light undergoes two total reflections, then enters the intermediate lens and is partially reflected, then is directed to a human eye through the intermediate lens and the primary lens. The secondary lens is configured on the other side of the intermediate lens, and environmental light is directed to the human eye through the secondary lens, the intermediate lens, and the primary lens. According to the ultra-thin lens, total reflection and light splitting functions of the image light are realized respectively through the primary lens and the intermediate lens, so that the entire lens has a thin and light profile.

Disclosed in the present invention is a head-mounted electronic vision aid device and a visual distortion correction method thereof. A display unit is configured to movably display a grid/grid group, a user input unit is configured to select at least one to-be-corrected part in the grid/grid group according to the real-time image feedback information viewed by a user, when the to-be-corrected part is selected, the user input unit sends a correction control signal for performing image correction on the to-be-corrected part in a coordinate system where the grid/grid group is currently located to a processing unit, the processing unit performs calculation processing on the correction control signal to obtain variations of the to-be-corrected part before and after correction in the coordinate system, a storage unit stores plurality of combinations of the variations of the to-be-corrected part, and a display unit can display an image after visual distortion correction according to the plurality of combinations of the variations stored in the storage unit. Compared with the prior art, visual distortion correction can be achieved quickly and intuitively, and the demands of low-vision users with different symptom progresses are met.

A display assembly monitors movements in a waveguide assembly and corrects for aberrations in image light caused by the monitored movements. For example, an artificial reality headset may include a display assembly that monitors for changes in shape or displacement of waveguide assemblies that generate three dimensional images for display with a real world environment. The display assembly includes movement sensors (e.g., piezoelectric movement sensors) coupled to the waveguide assembly. The movement sensors monitor the movement of the waveguide assembly and provide the monitored movement to a display controller that generates instructions for correcting aberrations in the image light.