US 11,867,903 B2
Device and method for the near-eye display of computer generated images
Rolf R. Hainich, Berlin (DE)
Filed by Rolf R. Hainich, Berlin (DE)
Filed on Sep. 13, 2015, as Appl. No. 14/852,573.
Claims priority of application No. 102014013320.6 (DE), filed on Sep. 15, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2016/0077336 A1, Mar. 17, 2016
Int. Cl. G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G02B 5/20 (2006.01); G01J 1/04 (2006.01); G02B 5/30 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 27/017 (2013.01) [G02B 5/201 (2013.01); G01J 1/0429 (2013.01); G02B 5/3083 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0178 (2013.01); G06T 2219/008 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Apparatus for viewing an image generated by a signal or information processing system or a computer,
the apparatus comprising either one display and optics assembly for one eye or two display and optics assemblies, one of them dedicated to each eye of a user,
the display and optics assemblies each being characterized by consisting of:
(a) a display,
the display from a front surface of which, which is facing away from the eye, light can be emitted or reflected as an areal light pattern representing an image,
the display surface having a shape being at least partly part of a cylindrical or elliptical shape curved around the eye,
the display being at least partially transparent, allowing to see through it from its back side which is facing toward the eye; and
(b) the optics assembly consisting of a single non-transparent or semi-transparent mirror,
a mirror back reflecting and focusing toward the eye the areal light pattern emanating from the display and thereby allowing the image to be viewed through a back side of the display,
the mirror having an optical shape being form-invariant and part of uniformly continuous shape curved around the eye,
the mirror providing to the eye the image as a virtual image.