According to the invention, provided are a windshield glass including: a projected image display portion on which a projected image is displayed with projected light; and a second glass plate, an intermediate layer, and a first glass plate provided in this order from an incidence side of the projected light, in which the intermediate layer has a wedge-shaped cross section, the projected image display portion at least includes a half-mirror film, and the half-mirror film includes a cholesteric liquid crystal layer, and a head-up display system including the windshield glass. According to the windshield glass of the invention, it is possible to perform a display of a projected image having high brightness, in which generation of a double image is reduced.

A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a picture generation unit producing a light field. An optical element reflects the light field such that the light field is visible to a human driver of the motor vehicle as a virtual image. A holographic film is attached to the optical element. A driver monitoring system senses infrared energy reflected by the holographic film.

An angle-of-view testing method for a projection display device, including setting a reference viewpoint at a same side as a reflective surface associated with the projection display device, setting a metrical marker plate with a metrical marker at another side opposite to the reflective surface at a first distance from the reference viewpoint, projecting a testing picture onto the reflective surface by the projection display device, where light of the testing picture is reflected by the reflective surface toward the reference viewpoint, such that a projected image as a virtual image of the testing picture is observed at the reference viewpoint as being projected onto the metrical marker plate, determining the coverage of the projected image with respect to the metrical marker of the metrical marker plate, and determining an angle of view of the projection display device based on the determined coverage.

In a head-up display, a cover member includes a first transmissive member and a second transmissive member that transmit a light beam including an image generated by an image generation unit. The first transmissive member is formed to face upward from a front end to a rear end. Likewise, the second transmissive member is formed to face upward from a front end to a rear end. The rear end of the first transmissive member is offset to an upper side from the front end of the second transmissive member.

A display control device controls display of a virtual image which is superimposed on foreground of a vehicle by projection of a display light image from an optical unit to a projection area. The display control device sets a projection position of the display light image which is projected in the projection area on the basis of a relative position of a superimposition object on which the virtual image is superimposed, obtains a measurement information from one vehicle height sensor measuring a displacement in a vertical direction occurring in the vehicle, obtains a gradient information indicating a gradient of a road on which the vehicle travels on the basis of three-dimensional map data, and corrects the projection position of the display light image on the basis of the measurement information and the gradient information.

In order to enrich the time taken in transition between deactivated state and activated state, a head-up display device according to the present invention is provided with: a projected member; a display means that emits display light; a reflecting mirror for reflecting the display light; a drive means for changing the angle of reflection of the display light by rotating the reflecting mirror; and a control means for, by controlling the drive means and the display means, causing the display light reflected by the reflecting mirror to irradiate the projected member so as to cause a vehicle passenger to visually recognize a virtual image via the projected member. The control means, at the time of transition between deactivated state and activated state, changes the manner of display of the display means 3 in accordance with the position of the reflecting mirror when causing the mirror to be moved from one to the other between a first position corresponding to the deactivated state and a second position corresponding to the activated state.

A vehicle window plate has a maximum value of a variation of a curvature in a vertical direction being ±7.6E-6 mm.sup.−2 or less at least within a HUD display area. The curvature preferably increases monotonically from a lower side to an upper side at least within the HUD display area.

A method and apparatus for controlling a head-up display (HUD) considering an eye tracking status are provided. The method includes identifying an eye tracking status based on a result of an eye tracking, and identifying a rendering mode for an HUD image to be one of a two-dimensional (2D) rendering mode and a three-dimensional (3D) rendering mode based on the eye tracking status.

A vehicular head-up display system provides a driver with two virtual images in different image distances, wherein each of the virtual images utilizes all pixels of a single image source. Linearly polarized light beams, which are emanated from the image source, pass through a dynamic polarization converter, whereby to form two image light beams with orthogonal polarization states that are switched fast for time-multiplexing. The two image light beams are selected by a polarization selection component for transmission and reflection respectively. The reflected image light beam is handled by an optical relay component to form an intermediate image. A curved mirror reflects the two image light beams to a virtual image reflecting surface to form two virtual images in different virtual image distances in respect to eyes of a driver in front of the virtual image reflecting surface.

A head-up display apparatus includes a light source portion that projects light from a light source, a screen member that has a diffusion portion inclined with respect to a hypothetical reference line that extends along a projection direction of the light from the light source, and a light-transmissive optical element that is disposed between the light source portion and the diffusion portion and has a first optical surface exposed to the light source portion and a second optical surface exposed to the diffusion portion. The projection direction corresponds to a center of the image. The diffusion portion diffuses the light from the light source. A distance between the first optical surface and the second optical surface increases in a direction from a side on which the diffusion portion is closer to the light source portion to a side on which the diffusion portion is farther from the light source portion.