A smart mirror can show live or recorded streaming video of an instructor performing a workout in a package that is attractive and unobtrusive enough to hang in a living room. The smart mirror includes a mirror surface with a fully reflecting section and a partially reflecting section. A display behind the partially reflecting section shows the video when the smart mirror is on and is almost invisible when the smart mirror is off. The smart mirror also has a speaker, a microphone, and a camera to enable a user to view the video content and interact with the instructor. The smart mirror may connect to the user's smart phone, a peripheral device (e.g., a Bluetooth speaker) to augment user experience, a biometric sensor to provide biometric data to assess user performance, and/or a network router to connect the smart mirror to a content provider, an instructor, and/or other users.

A display apparatus includes a half mirror configured to form a mirror image of an object existing in space in front of the half mirror; a display placed behind the half mirror; and overlay image generating means for generating an overlay image to be displayed by the display in a size appropriate for the mirror image at a position appropriate for the mirror image.

A night vision system includes an eyepiece and a video camera to capture a video image that can be remote to the eyepiece. The eyepiece includes an optical device with a front side and a back side. A splitting surface within the optical device reflects some of a video image toward an eye of a user of the eyepiece, and the splitting surface further allows some light of an optical image received from in front of the eyepiece to past through the eyepiece to the eye of the user. The layer of switchable coating on the eyepiece can be switched between a transparent mode and an opaque mode by the user. When in an opaque mode no light can leave the front side of the optical device and only the video image can be seen through the eyepiece.

A portable remote controlled video production apparatus and method are provided, as is a teleprompter/Interrotron integrated with a camera. A computer is mounted in a rigid cage, the computer having a local portion of remote access remote control software. A camera is fixedly mounted in the cage in communication with the computer; either the camera or the computer have camera control software running thereon. A monitor is fixedly mounted in the cage in front of the camera and parallel to the lens axis; the monitor is in communication with the computer. A beamsplitter is fixedly mounted in the cage in front of the lens reflecting light from the monitor towards a front of the cage. The camera and computer are controllable remotely via a remote portion of the remote access remote control software running on a remote computer communicating with the local portion of the remote access remote control software.

A smart mirror can show live or recorded streaming video of an instructor performing a workout in a package that is attractive and unobtrusive enough to hang in a living room. The smart mirror includes a mirror surface with a fully reflecting section and a partially reflecting section. A display behind the partially reflecting section shows the video when the smart mirror is on and is almost invisible when the smart mirror is off. The smart mirror also has a speaker, a microphone, and a camera to enable a user to view the video content and interact with the instructor. The smart mirror may connect to the user's smart phone, a peripheral device (e.g., a Bluetooth speaker) to augment user experience, a biometric sensor to provide biometric data to assess user performance, and/or a network router to connect the smart mirror to a content provider, an instructor, and/or other users.

A smart mirror can show live or recorded streaming video of an instructor performing a workout in a package that is attractive and unobtrusive enough to hang in a living room. The smart mirror includes a mirror surface with a fully reflecting section and a partially reflecting section. A display behind the partially reflecting section shows the video when the smart mirror is on and is almost invisible when the smart mirror is off. The smart mirror also has a speaker, a microphone, and a camera to enable a user to view the video content and interact with the instructor. The smart mirror may connect to the user's smart phone, a peripheral device (e.g., a Bluetooth speaker) to augment user experience, a biometric sensor to provide biometric data to assess user performance, and/or a network router to connect the smart mirror to a content provider, an instructor, and/or other users.

A wavelength beam combining device includes: a polarization beam splitter configured to separate the plurality of laser beams into a plurality of first polarized light beams linearly polarized in a first polarization direction and a plurality of second polarized light beams linearly polarized in a second polarization direction that is orthogonal to the first polarization direction; a first polarization conversion element configured to convert the second polarized light beams into a plurality of third polarized light beams linearly polarized in the first polarization direction; a diffraction grating configured to diffract the plurality of first polarized light beams and generate a coaxially combined first wavelength-combined beam, and to diffract the plurality of third polarized light beams and generate a coaxially combined second wavelength-combined beam; and a polarization beam combiner configured to generate and emit a third wavelength-combined beam into which the first wavelength-combined beam and the second wavelength-combined beam have been coaxially combined.

According to the invention, provided are a combiner including: a projected image display portion on which a projected image is displayed with projected light; and a base material; in which the projected image display portion at least includes a half-mirror film, the half-mirror film and the base material are provided in this order from an incidence side of the projected light, the half-mirror film includes two or more cholesteric liquid crystal layers, center wavelengths of selective reflection of the two or more cholesteric liquid crystal layers are different from each other, and the cholesteric liquid crystal layer closest to the incidence side of the projected light has the longest center wavelength of selective reflection, and a head-up display system including a projected image display member. The combiner makes it possible to display a projected image having high brightness, in which the generation of a double image is reduced.

A laser optical system including: a beam splitter configured to split a laser beam into a first light and a second light by reflecting a portion of the laser beam and transmitting another portion of the laser beam; a first reflective member located in a path of the first light and reflecting the first light; and a second reflective member located in a path of the first light and reflecting the first light toward the beam splitter after the first light is reflected by the first reflective member, wherein a portion of the first light reflected toward the beam splitter is incident on and passes through the beam splitter and at least partially overlaps the second light.

An aperture stop exploitation camera comprises an imaging lens column positioned along an optical axis and configured to transmit light from a scene from a single viewpoint and converge the light as it passes through the aperture stop. Also, the camera comprises a light redistribution optic (LRO) that is a thin V-shape having an apex. The LRO is centered along the optical axis with the apex pointing towards the imaging lens column. The LRO has two planar sides with each side angled 45 degrees with respect to the optical axis and each side configured to reflect and transmit the light transmitted from the imaging lens column into three independent, spatially separate images, each retaining all the spectral, polarimetric, and relative intensity information of the light from the scene. The camera comprises three image sensors, each image sensor positioned to receive one of the three independent, spatially separate images.