A display apparatus providing a virtual image to user is provided. The display apparatus may include a hologram optical element on a path of light emitted from a display panel. The display panel may emit light having different peak wavelength ranges. The reflection angle or the refraction angle recorded in the hologram optical element is different according to the peak wavelength range. Thus, the display apparatus may provide a plurality of virtual images having different focal lengths to the user without physical movement or mechanical operation of the display panel.

A display device is provided, such as for motor vehicles. The device comprises a display element that is backlit via a light source. A lightguide conducts light from the source. A pre-assembled back-lighting module serves to illuminate the display element, and facilitates manufacture and assembly of the device.

A head-up display device includes: an illumination light source unit configured to emit illumination light; an image forming unit configured to form the image by partial transmission of the illumination light and to emit the image as the display light; and an anisotropic diffusion unit disposed on an optical path between the illumination light source unit and the image forming unit to diffuse the illumination light at an anisotropic diffusion angle. When the image is displayed as a virtual image, the image is defined to have an image up-down axis in a direction along an up-down direction of the vehicle and an image left-right axis perpendicular to the image up-down axis. The diffusion angle in the anisotropic diffusion unit is larger in a direction corresponding to the image left-right axis than in a direction corresponding to the image up-down axis.

Provided is a small-sized information display device displaying video image information as a virtual image by use of an eyepiece optical system including a concave mirror having desired reflection characteristics in a specific polarization direction, where a liquid crystal display panel is used as a video image light source. The information display device has a liquid crystal display panel as a flat display forming video image information disposed therein, and includes a virtual image optical system including a member to be projected for displaying virtual images in front of a vehicle by making a video image displayed on the liquid crystal display panel reflect on the member to be projected. The virtual image optical system includes a concave mirror, and a reflective film of the concave mirror has desired reflection characteristics in a specific polarization direction, so that virtual images having uniform brightness and chromaticity can be obtained.

A display device according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a display unit configured to have display information and emits visible light having a continuous spectrum; an infrared cut-off part configured to transmit the visible light from the display unit and to reduce the amount of infrared light striking the display unit; and a reflecting part configured to reflect the visible light having passed through the infrared cut-off part. The infrared cut-off part includes a first polymer film and a second polymer film, the first polymer film includes an infrared cut-off layer configured to reduce infrared light transmission, and the second polymer film includes a high-retardation polyester film and is disposed between the first polymer film and the display unit.

A display device and a mobile object. The display device is installable in a mobile object, and includes a light source, an image former to receive light emitted from the light source and output image light that forms an image, a screen on which the image light forms the image, a housing that houses the light source and the image former, and a holding member to hold the screen. The holding member is attached to the housing with a normal direction of a surface of the screen intersecting with a vertical direction and with a front-and-rear direction of the mobile object. A width of the housing is narrower than a width of the holding member. The mobile object includes the display device, a front windshield to reflect the image light, and an image-forming optical system to project the image light projected from the screen toward the front windshield.

The present invention provides a member for displaying a projected image and a projected image display system in which a clear image can be displayed with high reflectivity and high transmittance without a double image, the member for displaying a projected image including a reflection layer, and a /2 phase difference layer, in which the reflection layer includes a cholesteric liquid crystal layer having selective reflection in a visible light range, and the projected image display system including the member for displaying a projected image, in which the /2 phase difference layer is disposed on an incidence ray side with respect to the reflection layer, and the incidence ray is p-polarized light which vibrates in a direction parallel to an incidence surface.

A head up display arrangement is for a motor vehicle having a human driver. The arrangement includes a picture generation unit producing a light field. A light-reflective mirror reflects the light field such that the light field is visible to the driver as a virtual image. The mirror is transmissive of infrared energy. An infrared energy emitter emits infrared energy through the mirror such that the infrared energy is reflected off of a face of the driver. An infrared camera detects the reflected infrared energy after the reflected infrared energy passes through the mirror a second time.

A head-up display includes a backlight, a liquid crystal display panel, a virtual image optical system, a wavelength selection member that is made of resin having an optical characteristic which absorbs infrared rays and transmits a visible light, and a housing that houses the virtual optical system and the wavelength selection member, in which the virtual optical system includes a lens unit and a free-form surface mirror disposed along an emission direction of the display image light in order from a position closer to an emission surface of the display image light in the liquid crystal display panel, and the wavelength selection member is disposed on an optical path of the display image light extending from an emission surface of the display image light in the liquid crystal display panel to an opening of the housing.

A display panel is attached to an appliance that includes first and second light sources, in which one of the first and second light sources is capable of being turned off when the other is turned on. The display panel basically includes a molded body, a front-side decorative layer, and a sheet-like member. The display panel is capable of individually illuminating a plurality of graphics, which is simultaneously molded and decorated, with light passing through a molded resin. In particular, a first graphic is illuminated in a first window by turning on the first light source, while a first back-side light-shielding region and a second front-side light-shielding region prevent a second graphic from being illuminated. The second graphic is illuminated in a second window by turning on the second light source, while a second back-side light-shielding region and a first front-side light-shielding region prevent the first graphic from being illuminated.