CN214795415U

CN214795415U - Near-to-eye display device

Info

Publication number: CN214795415U
Application number: CN202023009738.4U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 康雪雪; 赵鑫; 郑昱
Original assignee: Journey Technology Ltd
Current assignee: Journey Technology Ltd
Priority date: 2020-12-14
Filing date: 2020-12-14
Publication date: 2021-11-19
Anticipated expiration: 2030-12-14

Abstract

The utility model discloses a near-to-eye display device, include: the device comprises an image source, a polarization beam splitting assembly, a quarter-wave plate, a reflector assembly and a prism main body; the polarization beam splitting assembly, the quarter-wave plate and the reflector assembly are integrally arranged in the prism main body; the image source is used for emitting a first light beam; the polarization beam splitting component is positioned on the propagation path of the first light beam and is used for selecting the first light beam as a first polarization light beam; the quarter-wave plate and the reflector component are sequentially positioned on a propagation path of the first polarized light beam, the first polarized light beam passes through the quarter-wave plate, is reflected by the reflector component and then passes through the quarter-wave plate to form a second polarized light beam, and the polarization direction of the second polarized light beam is orthogonal to the polarization direction of the first polarized light beam; the polarization beam splitting assembly is also positioned on the propagation path of the second polarization light beam and at least used for reflecting the second polarization light beam to the eyes of the user. The problems that a near-eye display device is complex in structure, unfavorable in system integration and affects wearability are solved.

Description

Near-to-eye display device

Technical Field

The embodiment of the utility model provides a relate to and show technical field, especially relate to a near-to-eye display device.

Background

The augmented reality technology is realized by adopting a near-eye display scheme to overlay a virtual image onto a real scene, provides immersive and interactive experiences for a user, and has important significance in the fields of industry, medicine and the like except in the aspect of entertainment. Existing display schemes such as coaxial prism schemes, arrayed optical waveguides, holographic gratings, etc. However, the above related art has at least the following problems: the existing near-eye display device for augmented reality generally adopts a side display device, and a side catadioptric system is adopted to collimate and couple light emitted by the display device into an optical flat plate, so that large-field-angle viewing is realized. Such systems are typically bulky, heavy, and complex, which can be detrimental to system integration and impact the wearability of the near-eye display device.

The prism scheme is exemplified by Google Glass, and the optical display system thereof mainly consists of a projector and a prism. Wherein, the projector projects the image, and the prism directly reflects the image to the retina of the human eye, and is overlapped with the real image. Because the system is positioned above human eyes, the eyes need to be focused to the upper right to see image information, and the set of system has natural contradiction between the angle of view and the volume. The Google Glass system has a small angle of view, only 15 degrees of angle of view, but the optical lens has a thickness of 10mm, and obviously the 15 degrees of angle of view is not enough for practical use, but if the angle of view is increased, the volume of the lens must be doubled, so that the lens is inconvenient to wear and heavier in appearance due to the large volume of the lens in near-eye display. Fig. 1 is a waveguide diagram of a near-eye display array waveguide structure in the prior art. As shown in fig. 1, the lumus arrayed waveguide scheme has a complicated light source coupling structure, and obviously, for near-eye display, the light and thin miniaturization is more desirable.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In view of this, the embodiment of the utility model provides a near-to-eye display device has solved that near-to-eye display device is bulky among the prior art, heavy and the structure is complicated, is unfavorable for system integration and influences near-to-eye display device's wearable technical problem.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a near-to-eye display device, including: the device comprises an image source, a polarization beam splitting assembly, a quarter-wave plate, a reflector assembly and a prism main body; the image source is positioned at one side of the prism main body, and the polarization beam splitting component, the quarter-wave plate and the reflector component are integrally arranged in the prism main body;

the image source is used for emitting a first light beam;

the polarization beam splitting assembly is positioned on a propagation path of the first light beam and is used for selecting the first light beam as a first polarization light beam;

the quarter-wave plate and the reflector component are sequentially positioned on a propagation path of the first polarized light beam, the first polarized light beam is reflected by the reflector component after passing through the quarter-wave plate and then passes through the quarter-wave plate again to form a second polarized light beam, and the polarization direction of the second polarized light beam is orthogonal to the polarization direction of the first polarized light beam;

the polarization beam splitting assembly is also positioned on the propagation path of the second polarization beam and at least used for reflecting the second polarization beam to the eyes of the user.

Optionally, the polarization beam splitter component includes a first polarization beam splitter;

the first polarization beam splitter is positioned on the propagation path of the first light beam and is used for selecting the first light beam as the first polarization light beam;

the first polarizing beamsplitter is further positioned in the propagation path of the second polarized light beam for reflecting the second polarized light beam to the user's eye.

Optionally, the polarization beam splitter assembly includes at least two polarization beam splitters; at least two of the polarizing beamsplitters include a first polarizing beamsplitter, an ith polarizing beamsplitter and an nth polarizing beamsplitter; n is more than or equal to 2 and is an integer, 1< i is less than or equal to N and i is an integer;

the ith polarization beam splitter and the Nth polarization beam splitter are sequentially positioned on the transmission path of the first polarization light beam and are used for transmitting the first polarization light beam;

the Nth polarizing beam splitter, the ith polarizing beam splitter and the first polarizing beam splitter are sequentially positioned on the propagation path of the second polarizing beam; the Nth polarizing beam splitter and the ith polarizing beam splitter are used for partially reflecting the second polarized light beam to the eyes of the user and partially transmitting the second polarized light beam; the first PBS is used for reflecting the second polarized light beam to the eyes of the user.

Optionally, the intensities of the second polarized light beams reflected by the nth pbs, the ith pbs and the first pbs are the same.

Optionally, the mirror assembly comprises a spherical mirror or an aspherical mirror;

the second polarized beam comprises a parallel beam.

Optionally, the near-eye display device further includes a polarizing component;

the polarizing component is positioned on a propagation path of the first light beam and is used for selecting the first light beam to be a linearly polarized light beam.

Optionally, an included angle α between the polarization beam splitting component and the propagation direction of the first light beam satisfies 0 ° < α ≦ 45 °;

the field angle beta of the user's eyes satisfies-40 DEG < beta.less than or equal to 40 deg.

The embodiment of the utility model provides a pair of near-to-eye display device, include: the device comprises an image source, a polarization beam splitting assembly, a quarter-wave plate, a reflector assembly and a prism main body; the image source is arranged on one side of the prism main body, and the polarization beam splitting assembly, the quarter wave plate and the reflector assembly are integrally arranged in the prism main body, so that the size and the weight of the display device are reduced, the system integration is facilitated, and the wearability is improved. Specifically, the image source is arranged to emit a first light beam, the first light beam is selected to be a first polarized light beam after passing through the polarization beam splitting assembly, the quarter-wave plate and the reflector assembly are sequentially located on a propagation path of the first polarized light beam, the first polarized light beam is reflected by the reflector assembly after passing through the quarter-wave plate and then passes through the quarter-wave plate again to form a second polarized light beam, and the polarization direction of the second polarized light beam selected by the quarter-wave plate and the reflector is orthogonal to the polarization direction of the first polarized light beam. Therefore, the embodiment of the utility model provides a when reducing display device volume and weight, reduce the secondary reflection, improve the imaging definition, display device is more frivolous, does benefit to system integration to improve the wearable nature of device.

Drawings

Other features, objects and advantages of the invention will become more apparent upon reading of the detailed description of non-limiting embodiments made with reference to the following drawings:

FIG. 1 is a schematic waveguide diagram of a prior art near-eye display array waveguide structure;

fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a near-eye display device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of another near-eye display device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic flow chart illustrating a method for manufacturing a near-eye display device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a structural intention in a process of manufacturing a near-eye display device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a dot-column diagram of a near-eye display device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a MTF graph of a near-eye display device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a graph of field curvature and F-tan (theta) distortion of a near-to-eye display device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 9 is an image effect diagram of a near-eye display device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions of the present invention will be described in detail through the following embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. Obviously, the described embodiments are some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments, and all other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art without creative efforts based on the embodiments of the present invention all fall into the protection scope of the present invention.

Examples

An embodiment of the utility model provides a near-to-eye display device. Fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a near-eye display device according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 2, the near-eye display device includes: the device comprises an image source 1, a polarization beam splitting component 2, a quarter-wave plate 3, a reflector component 4 and a prism main body 5; the image source 1 is positioned at one side of the prism main body 5, and the polarization light splitting component 2, the quarter-wave plate 3 and the reflector component 4 are integrally arranged in the prism main body 1; the image source 1 is used for emitting a first light beam; the polarization beam splitting component 2 is positioned on the propagation path of the first light beam and is used for selecting the first light beam as a first polarization light beam A; the quarter-wave plate 3 and the reflector component 4 are sequentially positioned on a propagation path of the first polarized light beam, the first polarized light beam A passes through the quarter-wave plate 3, is reflected by the reflector component 4, and then passes through the quarter-wave plate 3 to form a second polarized light beam B, and the polarization direction of the second polarized light beam B is orthogonal to the polarization direction of the first polarized light beam A; the polarization beam splitting assembly 2 is also located on the propagation path of the second polarized light beam B, and at least used for reflecting the second polarized light beam B to the user's eye.

Illustratively, as shown in FIG. 2, this embodiment provides a near-eye display scheme that does not require a side collimating coupling structure, directly embedding the collimating elements within the prismatic structure. Specifically, the near-eye display device includes: the prism comprises an image source 1, a polarization beam splitting component 2, a quarter wave plate 3, a reflector component 4 and a prism main body 5, wherein the polarization beam splitting component 2, the quarter wave plate 3 and the reflector component 4 are integrally embedded in the prism main body 1. The image source 1 comprises at least one of a light emitting diode display device, an organic light emitting diode display device, a micro light emitting diode display device and a liquid crystal display device, wherein the image source 1 emits a first light beam for visual imaging of eyes, wherein the emitted first light beam comprises natural light. The image source 1 is arranged on one side of the prism body 5, for example, the image source 1 is arranged above the prism body 5, i.e., above the eyes, as shown in fig. 2; alternatively, the image sources 1 are disposed on both sides of the prism body 5, i.e., on the left or right side of the eyes, matching the requirements of augmented reality monocular or binocular glasses. The prism main body 5 includes glass or a material having a good light transmittance, and serves as a fixing main body of the near-eye display device and carries an internal photosensitive element.

Referring to fig. 2, the image source 1 emits a first light beam above the prism main body 5, the polarization splitting assembly 2 is disposed on a propagation path of the first light beam, and the polarization splitting assembly 2 has a function of selecting a polarization direction of the incident light beam, can transmit a P-polarized light beam satisfying a preset polarization direction, and reflects a light beam non-parallel to the polarization direction of the P-polarized light beam; or, the light beam which is not parallel to the polarization direction of the S-polarized light beam is reflected while the S-polarized light beam which satisfies the preset polarization direction is transmitted, wherein the polarization direction of the P-polarized light beam is orthogonal to the polarization direction of the S-polarized light beam. When the first light beam is natural light, the polarization beam splitter assembly 2 selectively forms the first light beam into a first polarized light beam a, where the first polarized light beam a includes a P-polarized light beam or an S-polarized light beam. Specifically, taking the first polarized light beam a as the P-polarized light beam as an example, the quarter-wave plate 3 and the mirror assembly 4 are sequentially arranged on a propagation path of the first polarized light beam a, and the first polarized light beam a passes through the quarter-wave plate 3, is reflected and collimated by the mirror assembly 4, and then passes through the quarter-wave plate 3 to form the second polarized light beam B. Because the first polarized light beam A passes through the quarter-wave plate 3 twice, the emergent second polarized light beam B has a certain phase difference relative to the incident first polarized light beam A, at the moment, the polarization direction of the second polarized light beam B is orthogonal to that of the first polarized light beam A, and the second polarized light beam B satisfies the S polarized light beam. Meanwhile, the polarization beam splitting assembly 2 is also positioned on the propagation path of the second polarization beam B, and when the polarization direction of the second polarization beam B and the polarization direction of the first polarization beam a meet the orthogonality, the polarization beam splitting assembly 2 reflects the second polarization beam B to the user's eyes, so that a clear image is formed on the retinas of the user's eyes. Furthermore, the arrangement of the reflector component 4 at the edge of one side of the prism main body 5 does not affect the eyes to receive the light rays of the real world, and the reasonable arrangement of parameters such as the focal length of the reflector component 4 meets the requirement of collimating and outputting the second polarized light beam B. Further, through the sensitization area of rationally setting up polarization beam splitting subassembly 2 transmission first light beam and reflection second polarization light beam B, all can receive reflected second polarization light beam B when eyes move about, form complete image to can expand user's eyes in the field of view scope of horizontal direction, can both receive clear complete image in great field of view scope.

To sum up, the embodiment of the present invention provides a near-to-eye display device, including: the device comprises an image source, a polarization beam splitting assembly, a quarter-wave plate, a reflector assembly and a prism main body; the image source is arranged on one side of the prism main body, and the polarization beam splitting assembly, the quarter wave plate and the reflector assembly are integrally arranged in the prism main body, so that the size and the weight of the display device are reduced, the system integration is facilitated, and the wearability is improved. Specifically, the image source is arranged to emit a first light beam, the first light beam is selected to be a first polarized light beam after passing through the polarization beam splitting assembly, the quarter-wave plate and the reflector assembly are sequentially located on a propagation path of the first polarized light beam, the first polarized light beam is reflected by the reflector assembly after passing through the quarter-wave plate and then passes through the quarter-wave plate again to form a second polarized light beam, and the polarization direction of the second polarized light beam selected by the quarter-wave plate and the reflector is orthogonal to the polarization direction of the first polarized light beam. Therefore, the embodiment of the utility model provides a when reducing display device volume and weight, reduce the secondary reflection, improve the imaging definition, display device is more frivolous, does benefit to system integration to improve the wearable nature of device. The integrated structure appearance which is lighter, thinner, simpler and more compact is more similar to that of common glasses, and the imaging requirement of the near-to-eye display device is met.

As a possible embodiment, with continued reference to fig. 2, the polarization splitting assembly 2 comprises a first polarization beam splitter 21; the first polarization beam splitter 21 is located on the propagation path of the first light beam and is used for selecting the first light beam as a first polarized light beam A; the first pbs 21 is also located in the propagation path of the second polarized light beam B for reflecting the second polarized light beam B to the user's eye.

Specifically, with continued reference to fig. 2, the polarization beam splitting assembly 2 includes a first polarization beam splitter 21, and the first polarization beam splitter 21 includes a polarization beam splitter substrate and a polarization beam splitting film (not shown), and polarization beam splitting can be achieved by changing the polarization beam splitting film. The first polarization beam splitter 21 is arranged on a transmission path of the first light beam, the first polarization beam splitter 21 selects the incident first light beam to be a first polarization light beam A which meets the transmission of the polarization direction, the first polarization light beam A comprises a P polarization light beam or an S polarization light beam, a second polarization light beam B which is orthogonal to the polarization direction of the first polarization light beam A is formed after the first polarization light beam A passes through the quarter-wave plate 3 twice, and at the moment, the first polarization beam splitter 21 does not meet the requirement of transmitting the second polarization light beam B, and the second polarization light beam B is reflected to eyes of a user.

Optionally, the polarization beam splitter component 2 includes at least two polarization beam splitters; the at least two polarizing beamsplitters include a first polarizing beamsplitter, an ith polarizing beamsplitter and an nth polarizing beamsplitter; n is more than or equal to 2 and is an integer, 1< i is less than or equal to N and i is an integer; the first polarization beam splitter is positioned on the propagation path of the first light beam and used for selecting the first light beam as a first polarization light beam; the ith polarization spectroscope and the Nth polarization spectroscope are sequentially positioned on the transmission path of the first polarization light beam and are used for transmitting the first polarization light beam; the Nth polarizing beam splitter, the ith polarizing beam splitter and the first polarizing beam splitter are sequentially positioned on the transmission path of the second polarizing beam; the Nth polarizing beam splitter and the ith polarizing beam splitter are used for partially reflecting the second polarized light beam to the eyes of the user and partially transmitting the second polarized light beam; the first PBS is used for reflecting the second polarized light beam to the eyes of the user.

Exemplarily, fig. 3 illustrates another near-eye display device provided in an embodiment of the present invention

The structure is schematic. The polarization beam splitting assembly 2 comprises at least two polarization beam splitters, including a first polarization beam splitter, an ith polarization beam splitter and an Nth polarization beam splitter; n is more than or equal to 2 and is an integer, 1< i is less than or equal to N and i is an integer. Taking 3 polarization beam splitters as an example, as shown in fig. 3, the first polarization beam splitter 21 is located on a propagation path of the first light beam and is configured to select the first light beam as a first polarization light beam a, where the first polarization light beam a includes a P-polarization light beam or an S-polarization light beam, the second polarization beam splitter 22 and the third polarization beam splitter 23 are sequentially located on the propagation path of the first polarization light beam a, and the first polarization light beam a is deflected after passing through the quarter-wave plate 3 for the first time in a polarization direction by reasonably setting the second polarization beam splitter 22 and the third polarization beam splitter 23 to pass through the first polarization light beam a. Through the reasonable quantity that sets up polarization spectroscope, can effectively expand the emergent area of second polarized beam B on the vertical direction to improve the visual field scope of user's eyes in the vertical direction.

Specifically, the first polarized light beam a is reflected by the reflector assembly 4, then passes through the quarter-wave plate 3 for the second time, and is deflected again in the polarization direction, and is deflected in the polarization direction twice to form a second polarized light beam B orthogonal to the polarization direction of the first polarized light beam a, and meanwhile, the third polarized beam splitter 23, the second polarized beam splitter 22 and the first polarized beam splitter 21 are ensured to be located on the propagation path of the second polarized light beam B in sequence. By reasonably setting the proportion of the transmission and reflection of the second polarized light beam B by the third polarizing beam splitter 23, the third polarizing beam splitter 23 partially reflects the second polarized light beam B to the eyes of the user and partially transmits the second polarized light beam B; the proportion of the second polarized light beam B transmitted and reflected by the second polarized beam splitter 22 is reasonably set to meet the requirement that the second polarized beam splitter 22 partially reflects the second polarized light beam B to the eyes of the user and partially transmits the second polarized light beam B; and setting the ratio of the transmission and reflection of the second polarized light beam B by the first polarized beam splitter 21 to satisfy the requirement that the first polarized beam splitter 21 completely reflects the second polarized light beam B to the eyes of the user, and finally realizing the uniform light intensity of the second polarized light beam B to be uniformly incident to the eyes of the user for imaging.

Optionally, the intensities of the second polarized light beams reflected by the nth, ith and first polarizing beam splitters are the same.

Specifically, the at least two polarizing beam splitters include a first polarizing beam splitter, an ith polarizing beam splitter and an nth polarizing beam splitter; n is more than or equal to 2 and is an integer, 1< i is less than or equal to N and i is an integer. It shows that, when the number of the polarization beam splitters is N, the light intensity of the second polarization light beams respectively reflected by the nth polarization beam splitter, the ith polarization beam splitter and the first polarization beam splitter is ensured to be consistent by reasonably setting the included angle between the polarization beam splitter and the propagation direction of the first light beam and the transmittance of the polarization beam splitter, and the visual imaging effect is improved.

Optionally, the mirror assembly 4 comprises a spherical mirror or an aspherical mirror; the second polarized light beam B comprises a parallel light beam. The collimating adjustment of the incident beam can be realized by reasonably setting parameters such as the focal length of the spherical reflector or the aspheric reflector, the non-parallel light is reflected into the parallel beam, and the imaging definition of eyes of a user is improved.

Meanwhile, the optical structure of the near-eye display device is reasonably designed, for example, the thickness of the prism main body 5 is selected or the imaging of secondary reflected light is reduced to avoid ghost images, so that the light intensity of the second polarized light beam B reflected by the third polarizing beam splitter 23, the second polarizing beam splitter 22 and the first polarizing beam splitter 21 is the same, and the uniformity and the definition of imaging are improved.

As a possible embodiment, the near-eye display device further includes a polarizing component (not shown in the figure); the polarizing component is positioned on the propagation path of the first light beam and is used for selecting the first light beam as a linearly polarized light beam.

Specifically, in order to improve the energy utilization rate of the light beams entering the eyes and improve the imaging definition, the near-eye display device further comprises a polarizing component, wherein the polarizing component comprises a polarizer, a nicols prism and the like which are commonly used in the market, and can obtain polarized light from natural light. When the polarized light beam enters the polarization splitting assembly, the polarization selecting direction of the polarization splitting assembly is selected to be consistent with that of the polarization splitting assembly, so that the incidence efficiency of the linearly polarized light beam entering the polarization splitting assembly can be improved, the energy utilization rate of the light beam entering eyes is further improved, and the imaging definition is improved.

Optionally, with continued reference to fig. 2 or fig. 3, an included angle α between the polarization splitting assembly 2 and the propagation direction of the first light beam satisfies 0< α ≦ 45 °; the field angle beta (not shown in the figure) of the user's eye (not shown in the figure) satisfies-40 deg. < beta ≦ 40 deg..

Specifically, with continued reference to fig. 2 or fig. 3, the angle α between the photosensitive plane of the polarization beam splitter 2 and the propagation direction of the first light beam may be optionally set to 0< α ≦ 45 °, and in consideration of the most comfortable field of view for human eyes, preferably, α ≦ 45 °, at this time, the second polarization beam B reflected by the polarization beam splitter 2 enters into the user's eye horizontally, and the diagonal field angle of the eye in the effective reflection area of the light beam emitted by the image source may reach-40 ° < β ≦ 40 ° along the propagation direction of the second polarization beam B as the reference line, so as to achieve a larger field angle and eye movement range. When two rows of polarization light splitting assemblies are arranged as the reflecting planes, the requirement of 30mm of transverse moving eye range and 8mm of longitudinal moving eye range is met, and the larger moving eye range can be expanded by arranging the transverse area and the longitudinal number of the reflecting planes. Through the structural arrangement, the user can still experience clear imaging in a larger eye movement range, and the user has higher visual imaging experience.

The embodiment of the utility model provides a still provide a near-to-eye display device's preparation method for the near-to-eye display device that the preparation above-mentioned embodiment provided. Fig. 4 is a schematic flow chart illustrating a method for manufacturing a near-eye display device according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 4, the preparation method includes:

s101, providing an image source, wherein the image source is used for emitting a first light beam.

Specifically, with continued reference to fig. 2 or fig. 3, an imaging image source 1 is provided, the image source 1 includes at least one of a light emitting diode display device, an organic light emitting diode display device, a micro light emitting diode display device, and a liquid crystal display device, and the image source 1 emits a first light beam for eye vision imaging, wherein the first light beam includes natural light.

And S102, providing a prism main body, wherein the prism main body is positioned on one side of an image source.

Specifically, with continued reference to fig. 2 or fig. 3, a prism body 5 is provided, which is disposed on a propagation path of the outgoing light from the image source 1, and the prism body 5 includes glass or a material with good light transmittance, as a fixing body of an optical element of the near-eye display device, and carries an internal photosensitive element.

S103, preparing a polarization beam splitting assembly in the prism main body, wherein the polarization beam splitting assembly is located on a propagation path of the first light beam and is used for selecting the first light beam as a first polarization light beam.

Specifically, with continued reference to fig. 2 or fig. 3, the polarization splitting assembly 2 is prepared in the prism main body 5 in advance, the polarization splitting assembly is arranged on the propagation path of the first light beam, the polarization splitting assembly 2 selects the first light beam as the first polarized light beam a by selecting polarization, and an included angle α exists between the photosensitive plane of the polarization splitting assembly 2 and the propagation path of the first light beam, and is preferably set to 45 °. Through the structural arrangement, the user can still experience clear imaging in a larger eye movement range, and the user has higher visual imaging experience.

And S104, preparing a quarter wave plate in the prism main body.

Specifically, with continued reference to fig. 2 or fig. 3, a quarter-wave plate 3 is embedded in the prism main body 5 along the propagation direction of the first polarized light beam a for deflecting the first polarized light beam a into the second polarized light beam B, and the detailed principle is not described here.

S105, preparing a reflector component in the prism main body; the quarter-wave plate and the reflector component are sequentially positioned on a transmission path of the first polarized light beam, the first polarized light beam is reflected by the reflector component after passing through the quarter-wave plate and then passes through the quarter-wave plate again to form a second polarized light beam, and the polarization direction of the second polarized light beam is orthogonal to the polarization direction of the first polarized light beam; the polarization beam splitting assembly is also positioned on the propagation path of the second polarization light beam and at least used for reflecting the second polarization light beam to the eyes of the user.

For example, with reference to fig. 2 or fig. 3, a mirror assembly 4 is embedded in the prism main body 5, and the mirror assembly 4 includes a spherical mirror or an aspheric mirror, and by reasonably setting parameters such as focal length of the mirror, collimation adjustment of an incident beam can be achieved, non-parallel light is reflected into parallel light beams, and eye imaging definition is improved. The quarter-wave plate 3 and the reflector component 4 are arranged on the propagation path of the first polarized light beam in sequence, when the first polarized light beam A passes through the quarter-wave plate 3, is reflected by the reflector component 4, then passes through the quarter-wave plate 3 again, and forms a second polarized light beam B with the polarization direction orthogonal to that of the first polarized light beam A, at the moment, when the second polarized light beam B reaches the polarization beam splitting component 2 along the light beam propagation direction, because the preset transmission requirement is not met, the polarization beam splitting component 2 at least partially reflects the second polarized light beam B to the eyes of a user, and the second polarized light beam B is focused and imaged in the eyes.

To sum up, the embodiment of the utility model provides a pair of near-to-eye display device's preparation method, one side that is located the prism main part through setting up the image source, image source transmission imaging beam, with polarization beam splitting subassembly, quarter wave plate and reflector component integrated in proper order set up in the prism main part, along imaging beam's propagation path on, make imaging beam permeate polarization beam splitting subassembly in proper order, permeate quarter wave plate, by reflector component reflection, permeate quarter wave plate again, by polarization beam splitting subassembly reflection, the second polarization beam that the outgoing has specific polarization direction directly enters into to user's eyes, through reducing display device volume and weight, do benefit to system integration, improve wearable, reduce the reflection number of times of imaging beam in the prism main part simultaneously, avoid ghost image, improve the image definition of going into the eye. Therefore, the embodiment of the utility model provides a when reducing display device volume and weight, reduce the secondary reflection, improve the imaging definition, display device is more frivolous, does benefit to system integration to improve the wearable nature of device.

Optionally, fig. 5 is a structural intention in a process of manufacturing a near-eye display device according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 5, the polarization splitting assembly includes a first polarization beam splitter; the prism body 5 includes a first subsection 51, a second subsection 52, and a third subsection 53, which are independently provided.

Specifically, taking the polarization beam splitting assembly 2 including the first polarization beam splitter 21 as an example, with reference to fig. 2, the first polarization beam splitter 21 has a first polarization beam a selected by the first polarization beam splitting assembly, and reflects the second polarization beam B with the deflection direction selected by the quarter-wave plate to the user's eye for imaging. The prism main body 5 includes a first subsection 51, a second subsection 52, and a third subsection 53 which are independently provided.

Preparing a polarization splitting assembly in a prism body, comprising: a polarizing beam splitter film is formed on a surface a 'of the first subsection 51 facing the second subsection 52 and/or a surface B' of the second subsection 52 facing the first subsection 51 to form a first polarizing beam splitter.

Specifically, referring to fig. 5, a first polarizing beam splitter is formed by plating a polarizing beam splitting film on a surface a' of the first section 51 facing the second section 52; and/or, the surface B' of the second subsection 52 facing the first subsection 51 is plated with a polarizing beam splitting film to form a first polarizing beam splitter.

Preparing a mirror assembly in a prism body, comprising: a reflective film is prepared on a side surface C of the second section 52 facing the third section 53, and/or a surface D of the third section 53 facing the second section 52, to form a mirror assembly.

Specifically, referring to fig. 5, a reflective film may be plated on a surface C of the second sub-portion 52 facing the third sub-portion 53 by a plating process to form a mirror assembly; and/or, the surface D of the third subsection 53 facing the second subsection 52 is coated with a reflective film to form a mirror assembly.

The same effect can be achieved by coating the surface A 'or the surface B' and any one of the surface C and the surface D, and meanwhile, in order to achieve the uniformity of the visual field of eyes of a user, the light intensity reaching the eyes can be consistent as far as possible by selecting the light transmission and reflection ratios of the polarization beam splitting films of different parts, so that the imaging effect is better.

Optionally, the polarization beam splitter assembly includes at least two polarization beam splitters; the at least two polarizing beamsplitters include a first polarizing beamsplitter, an ith polarizing beamsplitter and an nth polarizing beamsplitter; n is more than or equal to 2 and is an integer, 1< i is less than or equal to N and i is an integer; the prism body includes a first part, an i-th part, an N-th part, an (N +1) -th part, and an (N +2) -th part, which are independently provided.

Specifically, the polarization beam splitting assembly comprises at least two polarization beam splitters, and the expansion of the second polarization light beam in the light beam transmission direction is realized by reasonably setting the number of the polarization beam splitters, so that the vertical field angle range of human eyes is expanded. Specifically, the vertical field of view of the eyeglasses can reach-40 ° < ω ≦ 40 °. The at least two polarizing beamsplitters include a first polarizing beamsplitter, an ith polarizing beamsplitter and an nth polarizing beamsplitter; n is more than or equal to 2 and is an integer, 1< i is less than or equal to N and i is an integer. Taking N as a positive number three, 3 polarizing beam splitters are prepared in a prism main body as an example, correspondingly, the prism main body comprises a first sub-part, a second sub-part, a third sub-part, a fourth sub-part and a fifth sub-part which are independently arranged, and the first polarizing beam splitter, the second polarizing beam splitter, the third polarizing beam splitter and the reflecting mirror are sequentially prepared.

Preparing a polarization splitting assembly in a prism body, comprising:

and preparing a polarization beam splitting film on the surface of the first subsection facing the second subsection and/or the surface of the second subsection facing the first subsection to form a first polarization beam splitter.

Specifically, a film coating process may be adopted to coat a polarization beam splitting film on a surface of one side of the first sub-portion facing the second sub-portion to form a first polarization beam splitter; and/or plating a polarization beam splitting film on the surface of the second subsection facing the first subsection to form the first polarization beam splitter.

Forming an i-th polarizing beam splitter by preparing a polarizing beam splitting film on a surface of the i-th sub-section facing the (i +1) -th sub-section, and/or a surface of the (i +1) -th sub-section facing the i-th sub-section.

Specifically, taking 3 polarizing beam splitters prepared in the prism main body as an example, a film coating process can be adopted to coat a polarizing beam splitter film on the surface of one side, facing the third part, of the second part, so as to form a second polarizing beam splitter; and/or plating a polarization beam splitting film on the surface of the third subsection facing the second subsection to form a second polarization beam splitter.

Preparing a polarization splitting film on a surface of the Nth sub-part facing the (N +1) th sub-part, and/or a surface of the (N +1) th sub-part facing the Nth sub-part, to form an Nth polarization beam splitter.

Specifically, for example, 3 polarizing beam splitters are prepared in the prism main body, a plating process may be adopted to plate a polarizing beam splitting film on a surface of the third section facing the fourth section to form a third polarizing beam splitter, and/or plate a polarizing beam splitting film on a surface of the fourth section facing the third section to form a third polarizing beam splitter.

Preparing a mirror assembly in a prism body, comprising:

and preparing a reflecting film on the surface of the (N +1) th subsection facing to the (N +2) th subsection and/or the surface of the (N +2) th subsection facing to the (N +1) th subsection to form a reflecting mirror assembly.

Specifically, taking 3 polarizing beam splitters prepared in the prism main body as an example, a coating process can be adopted to coat a reflective film on the surface of one side of the fourth part facing the fifth part to form a reflective mirror assembly; and/or the surface of the fourth subsection facing the fifth subsection is coated with a reflecting film to form a reflecting mirror assembly.

To sum up, the embodiment of the utility model provides a pair of near-to-eye display device's preparation method, one side that is located the prism main part through setting up the image source, emission image forming light beam, on the propagation path along image forming light beam, polarization beam splitting subassembly includes the polarization spectroscope, thereby prism main part modularization is divided to the quantity that rationally sets up the polarization spectroscope, thereby adopt cross section at the module of prism main part to prepare polarization beam splitting membrane and reflectance coating respectively, the preparation obtains polarization beam splitting subassembly, quarter wave plate and reflector component integrate the structure that sets up in the prism main part in proper order, and image forming light beam sees through polarization beam splitting subassembly in proper order, see through the quarter wave plate, reflected by the reflector component, see through the quarter wave plate again, reflected by polarization beam splitting subassembly, the second polarization light beam that the emergence has specific polarization direction directly enters into user's eyes, and set up a plurality of polarization spectroscopes extension second polarization light beam and get into the polarization light beam of user's eyes at the vertical direction The range, the purpose of expanding the visual field range of the eyes of the user in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction is realized. This embodiment does benefit to system integration, improves wearable through reducing display device volume and weight, reduces the reflection number of times of formation of image light beam in the prism main part simultaneously, avoids the ghost image, improves the imaging definition of seeing into the eye.

As a possible implementation manner, a specific example is given, a near-eye display device is prepared based on the preparation method provided in the above example, and an optical simulation test is performed on the prepared near-eye display device.

With continued reference to fig. 2, a near-eye display device includes: the device comprises an image source 1, a polarization beam splitting component 2, a quarter-wave plate 3, a reflector component 4 and a prism main body 5; the image source 1 is positioned at one side of the prism main body 5, and the polarization light splitting component 2, the quarter-wave plate 3 and the reflector component 4 are integrally arranged in the prism main body 1; the image source 1 is used for emitting a first light beam; the polarization beam splitting component 2 is positioned on the propagation path of the first light beam and is used for selecting the first light beam as a first polarization light beam A; the quarter-wave plate 3 and the reflector component 4 are sequentially positioned on a propagation path of the first polarized light beam, the first polarized light beam A passes through the quarter-wave plate 3, is reflected by the reflector component 4, and then passes through the quarter-wave plate 3 to form a second polarized light beam B, and the polarization direction of the second polarized light beam B is orthogonal to the polarization direction of the first polarized light beam A; the polarization beam splitting assembly 2 is also located on the propagation path of the second polarized light beam B, and at least used for reflecting the second polarized light beam B to the user's eye.

Adopt Optic Studio software right the utility model provides a near-to-eye display device has carried out the optics simulation test, and figure 6 is the utility model provides a near-to-eye display device's point chart. The point diagram is one of the most common evaluation methods in modern optical design, and many light rays emitted from one point pass through an optical system, and the intersection points of the light rays and an image surface are not concentrated on the same point any more due to aberration, so that a dispersion pattern scattered in a certain range is formed, and the dispersion pattern is called as the point diagram. As shown in fig. 6, the second polarized light beam entering the eyes of the user and emitted from the near-eye display device provided by the embodiment of the present invention is parallel light, and the root mean square radius (RMS radius) of the near-eye display device at each viewing field position is controlled to be below RMS <13 μm, which indicates that the polarized light beam emitted from the near-eye display device has lower chromatic aberration and aberration in the horizontal and vertical viewing fields of the eyes, and the user can see the visual imaging with high definition.

Fig. 7 is a MTF graph of a near-eye display device according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 8, when the spatial frequency in the MTF curve satisfies 12 cycles/mm, the transfer function is substantially 0.8 or more, and the eye movement range is large in the visual field range in the horizontal and vertical directions of the eye, so that high-definition imaging can be performed on the retina of the eye.

Fig. 8 is a graph of field curvature and F-Theta distortion of a near-to-eye display device according to an embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 9 is an image effect diagram of a near-eye display device according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 8, the left side is a field curvature diagram of the near-eye display device, and the right side is an F-Theta distortion diagram of the near-eye display device, wherein, in a field curvature diagram coordinate system, horizontal coordinates represent the size of field curvature and are in mm; the vertical coordinate represents the normalized image height, with no units; wherein T represents meridian and S represents arc loss; as can be seen from the curvature of field diagram in fig. 8, the curvature of field of the near-eye display device provided by the present embodiment is effectively controlled within <0.4mm, i.e. when imaging on the retina of the eye, the difference between the image quality at the center and the image quality at the periphery is small, as shown in fig. 9; in a F-tan (theta) distortion diagram coordinate system, a horizontal coordinate represents the distortion size and has a unit of percent; the vertical coordinate represents the normalized image height, with no units; as can be seen from the F-Theta distortion diagram in fig. 8, the optical distortion of the near-to-eye display device provided by the present embodiment is effectively controlled to be less than or equal to 1.6%, which is better corrected, the imaging distortion is smaller, and the requirements of low distortion and real imaging of the image on the retina of the eye are met, as shown in fig. 9.

The embodiment of the utility model provides a structure of reflection outgoing parallel light in this kind of prism main part compares with prior art array waveguide's structure and need not complicated ray apparatus coupling structure, and the appearance looks more the same with ordinary glasses, and moves the eye scope great, and the user can both receive clear complete image in great field of view scope. The edge position of the reflecting spherical surface does not influence the eyes to receive light rays of the real world, and the polarizing beam splitter can be realized by plating a transparent and thin polarizing beam splitting film and does not shield the sight. The integrated structure appearance which is lighter, thinner, simpler and more compact is more similar to that of common glasses, and the imaging requirement of the near-to-eye display device is met.

It should be noted that the foregoing is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention and the technical principles applied. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiments described herein, but that the features of the various embodiments of the invention may be partially or fully coupled to each other or combined and may cooperate with each other and be technically driven in various ways. Numerous obvious variations, rearrangements, combinations, and substitutions will now occur to those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the invention. Therefore, although the present invention has been described in greater detail with reference to the above embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and may include other equivalent embodiments without departing from the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A near-eye display device, comprising: the device comprises an image source, a polarization beam splitting assembly, a quarter-wave plate, a reflector assembly and a prism main body; the image source is positioned at one side of the prism main body, and the polarization beam splitting component, the quarter-wave plate and the reflector component are integrally arranged in the prism main body;

the image source is used for emitting a first light beam;

2. The near-eye display device of claim 1 wherein the polarizing beam splitting component comprises a first polarizing beam splitter;

3. The near-eye display device of claim 1 wherein the polarizing beam splitting assembly comprises at least two polarizing beam splitters; at least two of the polarizing beamsplitters include a first polarizing beamsplitter, an ith polarizing beamsplitter and an nth polarizing beamsplitter; n is more than or equal to 2 and is an integer, 1< i is less than or equal to N and i is an integer;

4. A near-eye display device as recited in claim 3, wherein the second polarized light beams reflected by the nth pbs, the ith pbs, and the first pbs, respectively, have substantially the same intensity.

5. The near-eye display device of claim 1 wherein the mirror assembly comprises a spherical mirror or an aspheric mirror;

the second polarized beam comprises a parallel beam.

6. The near-eye display device of claim 1, further comprising a polarizing component;

the polarizing component is positioned on the propagation path of the first light beam and is used for adjusting the first light beam to be a linearly polarized light beam.

7. The near-eye display device of claim 1 wherein the polarizing beam splitting assembly is at an angle α of 0 ° < α ≦ 45 ° to the propagation direction of the first light beam;

the field angle of the user's eyes satisfies-40 ° < β ≦ 40 °.