The present disclosure provides an optical system and a near-eye display device. The optical system includes an optical waveguide and an eyepiece system. The eyepiece system is on a light incident side of the optical waveguide, and a light exit side of the eyepiece system is opposite to the light incident side of the optical waveguide so that light exited from the eyepiece system is incident on the optical waveguide. The eyepiece system includes a lens group which includes a first lens, a second lens and a third lens which are sequentially arranged in a direction parallel to the optical axis of the lens group; a side of the first lens away from the second lens is the light exit side of the eyepiece system, each of the first lens and the third lens has a positive focal power; and the second lens has a negative focal power.

A light-emitting module manufacturing method of the present disclosure includes: providing a plurality of light sources each including a semiconductor layered structure and an electrode; providing a lightguide plate having a first principal surface to serve as a light extraction surface, a second principal surface opposite to the first principal surface, and a plurality of through holes penetrating through the lightguide plate from the first principal surface to the second principal surface; providing a light modulating member in each of the through holes; providing a plurality of bonding members on the light modulating member; equalizing heights of upper surfaces of the plurality of bonding members; placing the light sources on the bonding members such that the electrode faces away from the light modulating member; providing a cover member so as to cover the second principal surface; and forming an interconnect layer electrically coupled with the light sources.

Time-multiplexed backlighting includes a time-multiplexed light source to provide a light beam having a first non-zero propagation angle during a first time interval and a second non-zero propagation angle during a second time interval. A time-multiplexed backlight includes a light guide configured to guide the light beam and a diffraction grating configured to coupled out a portion of the guided light beam with a different principal angular direction in each of the first time interval and the second time interval. A multiview display includes the time-multiplexed light source and a multibeam backlight to provide coupled-out light beams during each of the first and second time intervals, wherein the principal angular directions of the coupled-out light beams correspond to different view directions of the multiview display.

An optical device includes a lightguide and a display at a top of a head mountable frame. The display is oriented toward an eye-side of the optical device. A reflector is positioned at an eye-side of the optical device and directs light into the lightguide. This orientation and arrangement of components reduces light leaking out of the optical device. The lightguide includes curved first and second surfaces. The device reflects light through the curved first surface to a user eye for augmented reality vision. A head mountable frame supports the display, the reflector, and the lightguide.

The present invention can be applied to the technical field pertaining to display devices and, for example, relates to a flat lighting device using a light emitting diode (LED) and a display device including same. The present invention provides a display device including a flat lighting device, wherein the display device may comprise: a light source which emits white light by using a light emitting diode and a yellow phosphor; a red phosphor layer which is disposed on the light source and adsorbs a part of the white light emitted from the light source to emit red light; and a first dichroic filter layer which is disposed on the red phosphor layer and has a reflective pattern reflecting at least a part of the long-wavelength side of the wavelength region of the red light.

An optical waveguide combiner having an output coupler comprising an array of embedded partially reflective dielectric mirrors expanding and coupling a virtual, optionally color, image generated by a laser display engine into a user EMB, wherein the dielectric mirrors are configured having a wavelength band for each lasing band of the laser display engine that includes wavelengths of light in the lasing band and in a range of wavelengths over which the lasing band is expected to drift, a reflectivity angular range exhibiting a first reflectivity, a transmittance angular range exhibiting a second reflectivity less than the first reflectivity, and a see-thru angular transmittance range having high transmittance for natural light incident on the facets.

The invention provides a light guide element comprising a light guide and a layer element, wherein the light guide comprises a light guide face and wherein the layer element comprises an optical layer, wherein said optical layer is in contact with at least part of the light guide face, wherein the optical layer has a first index of refraction (n1) smaller than the refractive index of seawater, wherein the light guide comprises a UV radiation transmissive light guide material.

Nitrogen-containing cyclic compounds for color conversion film, and a color conversion film, a backlight unit and a display apparatus including the compound(s).

There is provided a method of operating a wearable heads-up display, which display includes a light source, a light guide, and an incoupler carried by the light guide. The method includes emitting first and second beams having first and second wavelengths respectively, directing the first and second beams towards the incoupler, and directing, by the incoupler, at least a portion of the first and second beams into the light guide. Moreover the method includes internally reflecting, by the light guide, the portions of the first and second beams to form first and second reflected beams respectively. The first and second beams respectively may have first and second incoupling losses. Furthermore, the method includes adjusting a beam characteristic of at least one of the first and second beams to control a difference between their respective incoupling losses.

A display device according to one or more embodiments may be provided with: a light guide plate that guides incident light and emits the light from a light exit surface; a half mirror disposed on the light-exit-surface side of the light guide plate; and a mirror disposed on the side opposite to the light exit surface of the light guide plate. The light guide plate may form an image accompanied by a change that is made in a direction from the half mirror toward the mirror in a space different from the light exit surface.