Eyewear including a multi-layered display having an adhesive bonding the layers together at an offset distance inward from an outer edge of the layers. The display has an image display layer, such as an optical waveguide in one example, and a pair of layers encompassing the image display layer and which may comprise optically transparent substrates, such as glass. A respective adhesive is positioned the offset distance inward from the outer edge of the display layer between the image display layer and each of the pair of layers to reduce stress in the display. Each of the adhesives may be a continuous bead such that there is no adhesive between the pair of layers and the image display layer at the outer edges. In one example, the offset distance may be at least double the thickness of the image display layer to reduce stress in the image display layer.

Disclosed is an improved diffraction structure for 3D display systems. The improved diffraction structure includes an intermediate layer that resides between a waveguide substrate and a top grating surface. The top grating surface comprises a first material that corresponds to a first refractive index value, the underlayer comprises a second material that corresponds to a second refractive index value, and the substrate comprises a third material that corresponds to a third refractive index value. According to additional embodiments, improved approaches are provided to implement deposition of imprint materials onto a substrate, which allow for very precise distribution and deposition of different imprint patterns onto any number of substrate surfaces.

A thermoplastic film 10 is a thermoplastic film comprising a light-emitting layer 11, wherein the light-emitting layer 11 comprises a thermoplastic resin and a light-emitting material that emits light by being irradiated with excitation light, and a change in yellowness of laminated glass obtained by bonding two sheets of clear glass in accordance with JIS R 3211 (1998) having a thickness of 2.5 mm with the thermoplastic film interposed therebetween after conducting a light resistance test for 2000 hours based on JIS R3205 2005 is 4 or less. The present invention provides a thermoplastic film comprising a light-emitting material, in which the emission intensity is unlikely to lower even when the thermoplastic film is exposed to ultraviolet rays for a long period of time.

A composite pane for a head-up display, includes a first pane having a first surface and a second surface, a second pane having a first surface and a second surface, and a thermoplastic intermediate layer, which is arranged between the second surface of the first pane and the first surface (III) of the second pane, an HUD region, and a first coating for reflecting p-polarized radiation and has exactly one electrically conductive layer based on silver, wherein a second coating for reducing the total transmitted thermal radiation is provided.

A heads up display system of a vehicle includes a combiner screen having a first substantially transparent substrate defining a first surface and a second surface, a second substantially transparent substrate defining a third surface and a fourth surface. A primary seal is disposed between the first and second substrates. The seal and the first and second substrates define a cavity therebetween. An electro-optic material is positioned within the cavity and a transflective layer having a multilayer polymeric film positioned on one of the first and second surfaces, and a projector for projecting light having a first polarization toward the first surface of the first substrate.

A vehicle information display apparatus using a part of a shield glass of a vehicle to display information on an inside of the vehicle includes: a video display apparatus provided inside the vehicle to project video light of the information; a transparent sheet provided on an inner surface of the display region set to the part of the shield glass; and a light direction converting panel to convert a direction of the video light from the video display apparatus toward the transparent sheet. The transparent sheet includes a phase difference plate, an absorption type polarizing plate to absorb a specific polarized wave, and a transparent sheet member having a light diffusion effect in order from the shield glass side toward the video display apparatus. The information by the video light whose direction is converted by the light direction converting panel is displayed to the inside of the vehicle.

A see-through head mounted display with controllable light blocking includes an optics module comprising a light source and image source positioned on a same side of an angled partially-reflective surface, wherein the light source projects light off the surface to the image source which reflects the light as image light to the surface which transmits the image light along a first axis. The display also includes a flat combiner positioned to reflect the image light off of a first side and simultaneously transmit incident light through the first and a second side, along an optical axis perpendicular to the first axis to provide a view of a displayed image overlaid onto a see-through view of the environment, and a controllable light blocking element arranged generally parallel to the flat combiner and in front of the second side to block light incident on the same optical axis as the image light.

A light projection apparatus is provided comprising: a source of light; a switchable grating on a first substrate; and a diffractive optical element. Light is diffracted at least once by the switchable grating and is diffracted at least once by the DOE.

The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing an optical device, and provides a method of manufacturing an optical device, which includes: preparing first and second optical elements having a pair of corresponding surfaces; forming a reflective unit on the surface of the first optical element selected from the pair of corresponding surfaces; and forming an optical device by bringing the first and second optical elements into close contact with each other and fastening them to each other.

A partially reflective thin film coating is utilized on an optical substrate that is affixed to a waveguide-based optical combiner in a see-through display of a mixed-reality head-mounted display (HMD) device to partially reflect a forward propagating holographic image light back to the user's eye. The thin film coating may be implemented as a broadband reflector over the angular range associated with the holographic images that are rendered over the field of view (FOV) of the virtual portion of the see-through display to simplify manufacturing and reduce bulk and weight of the HMD device.