An information provision device and an information provision method. Each of the information provision device and information provision method includes projecting an image light to a light transmission member so as to display a for-driver information image, sensing a relative distance of an object to be detected existing around the mobile object in the direction of travel, detecting a location of a viewpoint of the driver, and changing a position at which an object image indicating the object to be detected is displayed according to a result of the detecting so as to change a perception distance of the driver influenced by a motion parallax of the object image according to the relative distance of the object to be detected in the direction of travel.

An optical scanning device includes: a light source unit configured to emit a light beam; a light deflecting unit configured to two-dimensionally deflect the light beam in a main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction orthogonal to the main scanning direction; and an image formation unit configured to form an image by two-dimensional scanning of the light beam performed by the light deflecting unit, in which a flat plate configured to transmit light incident on the light deflecting unit and deflected reflection light from the light deflecting unit is arranged in an optical path of the light beam between the light deflecting unit and the image formation unit, and the flat plate is inclined with respect to the image formation unit in a cross section in the sub-scanning direction.

A light source device includes a plurality of light sources configured to output a plurality of laser beams of different color components; and circuitry. A ratio in maximum output power between the plurality of laser beams output from the plurality of light sources is variable.

An object of the invention is to provide an information display device that displays information in a vehicle, can reduce the movement of the viewpoint of a viewer, and can obtain a large amount of image information. In order to achieve the object, there is provided an information display device that displays information in a vehicle and includes a first information display device that displays image information of a virtual image using reflection from a windshield of the vehicle, a second information display device that scans the windshield with laser light using a MEMS element to obtain a real image, and a third information display device using an instrument panel of the vehicle.

A method and an illumination arrangement for generating image effects in the interior of a motor vehicle or also outside the motor vehicle. To use existing installation space as efficiently as possible, light is radiated, in the form of at least a first optical reference wave field, onto a irradiation surface that is arranged laterally on an optical image storage device. In the optical image storage, which contains a holographic layer or a diffractive optical layer, the optical reference wave field is transformed into at least a first image wave field and is emitted on an emission side, at a first angular offset with respect to the irradiation surface.

A scanning-type display device includes: a light source which emits projection-display laser light; an optical scanning unit which uses the laser light emitted from the light source in scanning; and a light diffusion unit which includes a plurality of light diffusion channels arranged in two dimensions and diffuses the laser light used in scanning by the optical scanning unit. The light diffusion unit is configured so that an angle formed by optical paths extending to an eye of an observer through a pair of adjacent light diffusion channels arbitrarily selected from among the plurality of light diffusion channels becomes equal to or larger than an angle set on the basis of a resolution angle of the eye.

An image rendering apparatus includes a light source unit, a detecting unit, an optical scanner, a light source driving unit, and an adjusting unit. The light source driving unit is configured to control the light source unit in such a way that a rendered image is generated by the scan of the optical scanner inside a scan area scanned by the optical scanner and that a characteristic laser beam is emitted at a position and in a pattern corresponding to a rendered content of the rendered image. The rendered image includes an indicator related to a speed of a vehicle. The light source driving unit is configured to control the light source unit to emit the characteristics detecting laser beam in such a way that a scale for the indicator related to the speed of the vehicle is rendered.

A head-up display system includes an image generating apparatus configured to emit light having a first polarization and including image information; a polarization beam splitter provided on an optical path of the light having the first polarization and configured to transmit the light having the first polarization; a wave plate configured to transmit the light transmitted through the polarization beam splitter while changing a phase of the light; and a mirror configured to reflect the light sequentially transmitted through the polarization beam splitter and the wave plate back to the polarization beam splitter through the wave plate. The polarization beam splitter may reflect light having a second polarization that is different from the first polarization and obtained by transmitting the light reflected by the mirror back through the wave plate.

A head-up display device, a head-up display method and a vehicle are provided. The head-up display device includes: a light source configured to generate a to-be-modulated light beam; a phase spatial light modulator configured to modulate a phase of the to-be-modulated light beam and emit at least two phase-modulated light beams; a reproduction component configured to perform image reproduction on the at least two phase-modulated light beams, so as to generate at least two reproduced images; at least two diffusers configured to receive and diffuse the at least two reproduced images generated by the reproduction component respectively; and a reflector assembly configured to guide the at least two light beams diffused by the at least two diffusers to a projection region, so as to form at least two projection images at different spatial positions.

A driving consciousness estimation device includes a driving readiness estimation unit configured to estimate a driving readiness relating to a driving consciousness of the driver from a driver's reaction to the travelling environment, a driving task demand estimation unit configured to estimate a driving task demand which is an index required for the driver with respect to the driving readiness from the travelling environment, and an attention awakening unit configured to execute awakening of attention for the driver relating to the driving of the vehicle based on the result of comparison between the driving readiness and the driving task demand.