Provided are an augmented reality optical module, including a first lens, a second lens, a third lens group, a first polarization modulation unit provided on a side of the third lens group and configured to modulate the light emitted by the image source into first circularly polarized light, an angle selection film provided on a first surface of one side of the first lens and configured to reflect light having an incidence angle greater than or equal to a first angle and transmit light having an incidence angle smaller than or equal to a second angle, and a second polarization modulation unit provided on the other side of the first lens and configured to modulate incident circularly polarized light into linearly polarized light.

A HUD system including a light source projecting p-polarized light towards a glazing, the glazing includes an outer sheet of glass having a first surface and a second surface, and an inner sheet of glass having a first surface and a second surface, and the second surface of the inner sheet of glass has a first coating, where both sheets are bonded by at least one sheet of interlayer material, and the first coating includes at least one high refractive index layer having a thickness from 50 to 100 nm, and at least one low refractive index layer having a thickness from 70 to 160 nm, and the least one high refractive index layer has at least one of an oxide of Zr, Nb, Sn; a mixed oxide of Ti, Zr, Nb, Si, Sb, Sn, Zn, In; a nitride of Si, Zr; or a mixed nitride of Si, Zr.

A near-eye display device, including: a display screen (1) used for image display; an imaging lens (2) located at a light emission side of the display screen (1) and used for imaging a displayed image of the display screen (1); a flat plate (3) located on the side of the imaging lens (2) facing away from the display screen (1) and obliquely arranged relative to the optical axis of the imaging lens (2); a phase retardation layer (4) located on the side of the flat plate (3) facing the imaging lens (2); a polarization beam-splitting layer (5) located between the phase retardation layer (4) and the flat plate (3); a polarizing layer (6) located between the polarization splitting layer (5) and the flat plate (3); and a curved mirror (7).

The head-up display apparatus includes a displaying device installed inside an instrument panel, an opening portion formed in the instrument panel, and a combiner disposed above the opening portion. An image of the displaying device is projected to the combiner through the opening portion. The displaying device is a segment display. The segment display includes a plurality of light sources and a character/symbol plate having a plurality of image informing parts. The combiner is made of a non-translucent dark plate or a semi-translucent dark smoke plate.

Gray-tone lithography techniques for controlling the thickness profile of an overcoat layer on a surface-relief grating that has a non-uniform grating parameter (e.g., depth, duty cycle, or period), compensating for the non-uniform etch rate in a large area, defining etch/block regions, and/or controlling the thickness of the grating layer.

A head-mounted apparatus include an eyepiece that include a variable dimming assembly and a frame mounting the eyepiece so that a user side of the eyepiece faces a towards a user and a world side of the eyepiece opposite the first side faces away from the user. The dynamic dimming assembly selectively modulates an intensity of light transmitted parallel to an optical axis from the world side to the user side during operation. The dynamic dimming assembly includes a variable birefringence cell having multiple pixels each having an independently variable birefringence, a first linear polarizer arranged on the user side of the variable birefringence cell, the first linear polarizer being configured to transmit light propagating parallel to the optical axis linearly polarized along a pass axis of the first linear polarizer orthogonal to the optical axis, a quarter wave plate arranged between the variable birefringence cell and the first linear polarizer, a fast axis of the quarter wave plate being arranged relative to the pass axis of the first linear polarizer to transform linearly polarized light transmitted by the first linear polarizer into circularly polarized light, and a second linear polarizer on the world side of the variable birefringence cell.

The present invention relates to a method for improving the image quality of a HUD system, the HUD system comprising an image display device (1) and a reflecting element (3) having a partially transmissive first reflective surface (3a) and at least one partially transmissive second reflective surface (3b) substantially parallel thereto, and a polarization-dependent reflection layer (13) and/or an anti-reflection layer (14) and/or an optical birefringent layer (15), wherein the second reflective surface (3b) is arranged on the side of the first reflective surface (3a) opposite the image display device (1) and wherein the reflecting element (3) is adapted to produce reflected light beams (12a, 12b) from incident light beams (11) which are originating from the points of the image generated by the image display device (1) and arriving at the reflective surfaces (3a, 3b) and to reflect a portion of the reflected light beams (12a, 12b) toward a design detection point (23a), characterized by —determining for each of the incident light beams (11) reflected by the reflecting element (3) in the direction of the design detection point (23a) an optimal polarization state to which the intensity ratio of the reflected light beams (12a, 12b) reflected by the first reflective surface (3a) and first reflected by the second reflective surface (3b) during the reflection of the given incident light beam (11) is minimal, and —setting the polarization states of the incident light beams (11) reflected by the reflecting element (3) in the direction of the design detection point (23a) by means of a polarizing element (20) arranged in the path of the incident light beams (11) in accordance with the previously determined optimal polarization states. The invention also relates to a polarizing element and a HUD system.

There are provided a reflection film, a windshield glass, and a head-up display system capable of suppressing formation of double images of a display image. The reflection film has a linearly polarized light reflection layer in which optically anisotropic layers and isotropic layers are laminated and a polarization converting layer, and the polarization converting layer satisfies any of conditions below. (A) The polarization converting layer is a retardation layer in which the front retardation is 30 nm to 200 nm and the angle between a slow axis direction and a direction of the transmission axis of the linearly polarized light reflection layer is 35° or less. (B) The polarization converting layer is a layer in which a helical alignment structure of a liquid crystal compound is fixed, and the number of pitches x in the helical alignment structure and the film thickness y (unit .Math.m) of the polarization converting layer satisfy all relational expressions below.

$0.1\le \text{x}\le \text{1}\text{.0}$

$0.5\le \text{y}\le \text{3}\text{.0}$

$3000\le (1560\times \text{y)/x}\le \text{50000}$

The present disclosure provides a display device, the display device includes an optical imaging apparatus including an image source element, a beam splitting element, and a reflective element configured to be aligned on light path; and an absorbing element, a shape of the absorbing element and an arrangement position of the absorbing element in the display device cause the absorbing element to absorb non-imaging light in a scene to be displayed, and not block imaging light for generating a display image of the scene to be displayed. In the display device, the absorbing element absorbs the non-imaging light in the scene to be displayed and reduces the non-imaging light in the display device, in turn reduces influence of the non-imaging light on the scene to be displayed and improves display quality of the display image of the scene to be displayed.

An optical device includes a first waveguide, having parallel first and second faces and parallel third and fourth faces forming a rectangular cross-section, that guides light by four-fold internal reflection and is associated with a coupling-out configuration that couples light out of the first waveguide into a second waveguide. The first or second face is subdivided into first and second regions having different optical characteristics. The optical device also includes a coupling-in configuration having a surface that transmits light into the first waveguide. The surface is deployed in association with a portion of the third or fourth face adjoining the second region such that an edge associated with the surface trims an input collimated image in a first dimension, and a boundary between the first and second regions trims the input collimated image in a second dimension to produce a trimmed collimated image that advances by four-fold internal reflection.