US 11,988,834 B2
Optical device
Ju Hwa Ha, Seoul (KR); Jae Joong Kwon, Suwon-si (KR); Jeong Woo Park, Yongin-si (KR); and Su Bin Jung, Incheon (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Mar. 17, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/821,920.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0030469 (KR), filed on Mar. 18, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0301148 A1, Sep. 24, 2020
Int. Cl. G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G02B 5/10 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 27/0172 (2013.01) [G02B 5/10 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0178 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An optical device comprising:
a lens including a transparent or translucent material, the lens comprising:
a first lens portion having a first curved surface with a first curvature; and
a second lens portion having a second curved surface corresponding to the first curved surface, a side surface opposite to the second curved surface, and an upper surface sharing a first side of a curve line with the second curved surface;
a display device disposed on a first side surface of the lens;
a convex lens disposed between the first side surface of the lens and the display device; and
a plurality of reflectors disposed on the first curved surface, the plurality of reflectors disposed between the first curved surface and the second curved surface, the plurality of reflectors configured to reflect light of the display device refracted by the convex lens into the upper surface of the second lens portion,
wherein:
an object disposed on other surface of the lens and an image of the display device is viewed from the one surface of the lens by reflecting the reflector which includes an opaque material;
the plurality of reflectors are disposed between the first lens portion and the second lens portion in one direction; and
the display device is disposed on the second lens portion in the one direction.