US20180039082A1 - Compact head-mounted display system having uniform image - Google Patents

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US20180039082A1 US15/549,603 US201615549603A US2018039082A1 US 20180039082 A1 US20180039082 A1 US 20180039082A1 US 201615549603 A US201615549603 A US 201615549603A US 2018039082 A1 US2018039082 A1 US 2018039082A1
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  • the present invention relates to substrate-guided optical devices, and particularly to devices which include a plurality of reflecting surfaces carried by a common light-transmissive substrate, also referred to as a light-guide optical element (LOE).
  • a common light-transmissive substrate also referred to as a light-guide optical element (LOE).
  • LOE light-guide optical element
  • the invention can be implemented to advantage in a large number of imaging applications, such as, for example, head-mounted and head-up displays, cellular phones, compact displays, 3-D displays, compact beam expanders as well as non-imaging applications such as flat-panel indicators, compact illuminators and scanners.
  • imaging applications such as, for example, head-mounted and head-up displays, cellular phones, compact displays, 3-D displays, compact beam expanders as well as non-imaging applications such as flat-panel indicators, compact illuminators and scanners.
  • an optical module serves both as an imaging lens and a combiner, in which a two-dimensional display is imaged to infinity and reflected into the eye of an observer.
  • the display can be obtained directly from either a spatial light modulator (SLM) such as a cathode ray tube (CRT), a liquid crystal display (LCD), an organic light emitting diode array (OLED), or a scanning source and similar devices, or indirectly, by means of a relay lens or an optical fiber bundle.
  • SLM spatial light modulator
  • CTR cathode ray tube
  • LCD liquid crystal display
  • OLED organic light emitting diode array
  • the display comprises an array of elements (pixels) imaged to infinity by a collimating lens and transmitted into the eye of the viewer by means of a reflecting or partially reflecting surface acting as a combiner for non-see-through and see-through applications, respectively.
  • a conventional, free-space optical module is used for these purposes.
  • FOV field-of-view
  • the strive for compactness has led to several different complex optical solutions, all of which, on one hand, are still not sufficiently compact for most practical applications, and, on the other hand, suffer major drawbacks in terms of manufacturability.
  • the eye-motion-box (EMB) of the optical viewing angles resulting from these designs is usually very small—typically less than 8 mm.
  • EMB eye-motion-box
  • the present invention facilitates the design and fabrication of very compact LOEs for, amongst other applications, head-mounted displays.
  • the invention allows relatively wide FOVs together with relatively large eye-motion-box values.
  • the resulting optical system offers a large, high-quality image, which also accommodates large movements of the eye.
  • the optical system offered by the present invention is particularly advantageous because it is substantially more compact than state-of-the-art implementations, and yet it can be readily incorporated even into optical systems having specialized configurations.
  • a further application of the present invention is to provide a compact display with a wide FOV for mobile, hand-held applications such as cellular phones.
  • sufficient bandwidth is available for full video transmission.
  • the limiting factor remains the quality of the display within the device of the end-user.
  • the mobility requirement restricts the physical size of the displays, and the result is a direct-display with poor image viewing quality.
  • the present invention enables a physically very compact display with a very large virtual image. This is a key feature in mobile communications, and especially for mobile internet access, solving one of the main limitations for its practical implementation.
  • the present invention thereby enables the viewing of the digital content of a full format internet page within a small, hand-held device, such as a cellular phone.
  • the broad object of the present invention is therefore to alleviate the drawbacks of state-of-the-art compact optical display devices and to provide other optical components and systems having improved performance, according to specific requirements.
  • an optical device comprising a light-transmitting substrate having an input aperture, an output aperture, at least two major surfaces and edges, an optical element for coupling light waves into the substrate by total internal reflection, at least one partially reflecting surface located between the two major surfaces of the light-transmitting substrate for partially reflecting light waves out of the substrate, a first transparent plate, having at least two major surfaces, one of the major surfaces of the transparent plate being optically attached to a major surface of the light-transmitting substrate defining an interface plane, and a beam-splitting coating applied at the interface plane between the substrate and the transparent plate, wherein light waves coupled inside the light-transmitting substrate are partially reflected from the interface plane and partially pass therethrough.
  • FIG. 1 is a side view of an exemplary prior art light-guide optical element
  • FIGS. 2A and 2B are diagrams illustrating detailed sectional views of an exemplary array of selectively reflective surfaces
  • FIG. 3 is a schematic sectional-view of a reflective surface with two different impinging rays, according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates a sectional view of an exemplary array of selectively reflective surfaces wherein a transparent plate is attached to the substrate edge;
  • FIG. 5 is a schematic sectional-view of a reflective surface according to the present invention, illustrating the actual active aperture of the surface
  • FIG. 6 illustrates the active aperture size of the reflecting surfaces as a function of the field angle, for an exemplary LOE
  • FIG. 7 illustrates detailed sectional views of the reflectance from an exemplary array of selectively reflective surfaces, for three different viewing angles
  • FIG. 8 illustrates the required distance between two adjacent reflecting surfaces as a function of the field angle, for an exemplary LOE
  • FIG. 9 is another schematic sectional-view of a reflective surface with two different impinging rays, according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 10 illustrates a sectional view of an exemplary array of selectively reflective surfaces having a wedged transparent plate is attached to the substrate edge;
  • FIG. 11 is another schematic sectional-view of a reflective surface with two different impinging rays, according to the present invention, wherein the two rays are reflected from two partially reflecting surfaces;
  • FIG. 12 is yet another schematic sectional-view of a reflective surface with two different impinging rays, according to the present invention, wherein the two rays are coupled into the LOE remotely located and coupled-out of the LOE adjacent to each other;
  • FIGS. 13A and 13B are schematic sectional-views of a beam splitting surface embedded inside a light-guide optical element
  • FIG. 14 is a graph illustrating reflectance curves of a beam splitting surface as a function of incident angles, for an exemplary angular sensitive coating for s-polarized light-waves;
  • FIG. 15 is a further graph illustrating reflectance curves of a beam splitting surface as a function of incident angles, for an exemplary angular sensitive coating for s-polarized light-waves;
  • FIG. 16 is a schematic sectional-view of two different beam splitting surfaces embedded inside a light-guide optical element
  • FIG. 17 is another schematic sectional-view of a beam splitting surface embedded inside a light-guide optical element wherein partially reflecting surfaces are fabricated inside the transparent attached plate, and
  • FIGS. 18A and 18B are yet further schematic sectional-views of embodiments of a beam-splitting surface embedded inside a light-guide optical element wherein the coupling in, as well as the coupling-out elements are diffractive optical elements.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a sectional view of a light-guide optical element (LOE), according to the present invention.
  • the first reflecting surface 16 is illuminated by a collimated display 18 emanating from a light source (not shown) located behind the device.
  • the reflecting surface 16 reflects the incident light from the source such that the light is trapped inside a planar substrate 20 by total internal reflection. After several reflections off the surfaces 26 , 27 of the substrate, the trapped light waves reach an array of partially reflecting surfaces 22 , which couple the light out of the substrate into the eye 24 , having a pupil 25 , of a viewer.
  • the input surface of the LOE will be defined as the surface through which the input light waves enter the LOE and the output surface of the LOE will be defined as the surface through which the trapped light waves exit the LOE.
  • the input aperture of the LOE will be referred to as the part of the input surface through which the input light waves actually pass while entering the LOE
  • the output aperture of the LOE will be referred to as a part of the output surface through which the output light waves actually pass while exiting the LOE.
  • both of the input and the output surfaces coincide with the lower surface 26 , however, other configurations are envisioned in which the input and the image light waves could be located on opposite sides of the substrate, or on one of the edges of the LOE.
  • ⁇ sur ⁇ ⁇ 2 ⁇ i ⁇ ⁇ n 2 ( 1 )
  • the trapped rays arrive at the reflecting surfaces from two distinct directions 28 , 30 .
  • the trapped rays arrive at the partially reflecting surface 22 from one of these directions 28 after an even number of reflections from the substrate surfaces 26 and 27 , wherein the incident angle ⁇ ref between the trapped ray and the normal to the reflecting surface is:
  • each ray first arrives at the surface from the direction 30 , wherein some of the rays again impinge on the surface from direction 28 .
  • the reflectance be negligible for the rays that impinge on the surface having the second direction 28 .
  • the ray then intersects the same selectively partially reflecting surface at point 84 at an incident angle of 75° without noticeable reflection, and then intersects again at point 86 at an incident angle of 25°, where another portion of the energy of the ray is coupled out of the substrate.
  • the ray 88 shown in FIG. 2B experiences only one reflection 90 from the same surface. Further multiple reflections occur at other partially reflecting surfaces.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates this non-uniformity phenomenon with a detailed sectional view of the partially reflective surface 22 , which couples light trapped inside the substrate out and into the eye 24 of a viewer.
  • the ray 80 is reflected off the upper surface 27 , next to the line 100 , which is the intersection of the reflecting surface 22 with the upper surface 27 . Since this ray does not impinge on the reflecting surface 22 , its brightness remains the same and its first incidence at surface 22 is at the point 102 , after double reflection from both external surfaces. At this point, the light wave is partially reflected and the ray 104 is coupled out of the substrate 20 .
  • the first incidence at surface 22 is before it meets the upper surface 27 , at point 106 wherein the light wave is partially reflected and the ray 108 is coupled out of the substrate.
  • the brightness of the coupled-out ray is lower than the adjacent ray 104 .
  • all the rays with the same coupled-in angle as 80 that arrive at surface 22 left of the point 102 have lower brightness. Consequently, the reflectance from surface 22 is actually “darker” left of the point 102 for this particular couple-in angle.
  • the human eye tolerates significant variations in brightness, which remain unnoticed.
  • the eye integrates the light which emerges from a single viewing angle and focuses it onto one point on the retina, and since the response curve of the eye is logarithmic, small variations, if any, in the brightness of the display will not be noticeable. Therefore, even for moderate levels of illumination uniformity within the display, the human eye experiences a high-quality image.
  • the required moderate uniformity can readily be achieved with the element illustrated in FIG. 1 .
  • a comparatively large number of partially reflecting surfaces is required, to achieve the desired output aperture.
  • the non-uniformity due to the multiple intersections with the large number of partially reflecting surfaces becomes more dominant, especially for displays located at a distance from the eye, such as head-up displays and the non-uniformity cannot be accepted.
  • a more systematic method to overcome the non-uniformity is required.
  • the “darker” portions of the partially reflecting surfaces 22 contribute less to the coupling of the trapped light waves out of the substrate, their impact on the optical performance of the LOE can be only be negative, namely, there will be darker portions in the output aperture of the system and dark stripes will exist in the image.
  • the transparency of each one of the reflecting surfaces is, however, uniform with respect to the light waves from the external scene. Therefore, if overlapping is set between the reflective surfaces to compensate for the darker portions in the output aperture, then rays from the output scene that cross these overlapped areas will suffer from double attenuations, and darker stripes will be created in the external scene. This phenomenon significantly reduces the performance not only of displays which are located at a distance from the eye, such as head-up displays, but also that of near-eye displays, and hence, it cannot be utilized.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates an embodiment for overcoming this problem.
  • Only the “bright” portions of the partially reflecting surfaces 22 a , 22 b and 22 c are embedded inside the substrate, namely, the reflecting surfaces 22 a , 22 b and 22 c no longer intersect with the lower major surface 26 , but terminate short of this surface. Since the ends of the reflecting surfaces are adjacent to one another over the length of the LOE, there will be no gaps in the projected image, and since there is no overlap between the surfaces there will be no gaps in the external view.
  • There are several ways to construct this LOE one of which is to attach a transparent plate 120 having a thickness T, preferably by optical cementing, to the active area of the substrate. In order to utilize only the active areas of the reflective surfaces 22 in the correct manner, it is important to calculate the actual active area of each partially reflective surface and the required thickness T of the plate 120 .
  • the bright aperture D n of the reflective surface 22 n in the plane of the external surface 26 is:
  • the trapped angle ⁇ in can be varied as a function of the FOV, it is important to know with which angle to associate each reflecting surface 22 n , in order to calculate its active aperture.
  • FIG. 7 which is a sectional view of a compact LOE display system based on the proposed configuration, illustrates this effect.
  • a single plane light wave 112 representing a particular viewing angle 114 , illuminates only part of the overall array of partially reflecting surfaces 22 a , 22 b and 22 c .
  • a nominal viewing angle is defined, and the required active area of the reflecting surface is calculated according to this angle.
  • the exact, detailed design of the active area of the various partially reflective surfaces is performed as follows: for each particular surface, a ray is plotted (taking refraction, due to Snell's Law, into consideration) from the left edge of the surface to the center of the designated eye pupil 25 .
  • the calculated direction is set as the nominal incident direction and the particular active area is calculated according to that direction.
  • the exact values of the reflecting surfaces active areas can be used to determine the various distances T between the left edge 102 of the bright part of each reflecting surface 22 n and the lower surface 26 .
  • a larger active area dictates a smaller inter-surface distance. This distance represents the thickness of the plate 120 ( FIG. 7 ) that should be attached to the lower surface of the LOE.
  • the distance T as a function of the coupled-in angle ⁇ in is:
  • FIG. 8 illustrates the required thickness T of the plate 120 as a function of the field angle, for the same parameters as set above in reference to FIG. 6 . It is worthwhile setting the thickness T as the maximal calculated value to assure that the phenomenon of dark stripes will be avoided in the image. Setting a too thick plate 120 will cause an opposite effect, namely, the appearance of bright stripes in the image.
  • two light rays, 122 and 124 are coupled inside the substrate 20 .
  • the two rays are partially reflected from surface 22 a at points 126 and 128 , respectively.
  • Only ray 122 impinges on the second surface 22 b at point 130 and is partially reflected there, while ray 124 skips over surface 22 b without any reflectance.
  • the brightness of ray 124 which impinges on surface 22 c at point 134 , is higher than that of ray 122 at point 132 .
  • the brightness of the coupled-out ray 138 from point 134 is higher than that of ray 136 which is coupled-out from point 132 , and a bright stripe will appear in the image. Consequently, an exact value of the thickness T should be chosen to avoid dark as well as bright stripes in the image.
  • This occurrence of dark or bright stripes due to the structure of the partially reflective surfaces in the LOE is not limited to the surface which creates this phenomenon.
  • the brightness of the coupled ray 88 which is reflected twice by surface 22 a , is lower at point 110 than that of ray 80 , which is reflected only once from surface 22 a at point 102 .
  • the brightness of the reflected wave 112 is lower than that of the adjacent ray 104 .
  • not only the brightness of the reflected wave from surface 22 a is different, but also the brightness of the transmitted rays 140 and 142 is different.
  • Another source for unevenness of the image can be the non-uniformity of the image waves which are coupled into the LOE.
  • two rays 152 and 154 are located at the edges of the plane wave 156 , which originates from the same point in the display source (not shown).
  • the two exit rays 160 and 162 which originated from rays 152 and 154 , respectively, and reflected from surface 22 a , have accordingly different brightness. Unlike the input light wave 156 , however, the two different rays are adjacent to each other, and this dissimilarity will easily be seen as a dark stripe in the image. These two rays 164 , 165 will continue to propagate together, adjacent to each other, inside the LOE and will create a dark stripe at each place that they will be coupled out together. Naturally, the best way to avoid this unevenness is to assure that all the coupled light waves into the LOE have a uniform brightness over the entire input aperture for the entire FOV. This demand might be very difficult to fulfil for systems having large FOV as well as wide input apertures.
  • this unevenness problem may be solved by attaching a transparent plate to one of the major surfaces of the LOE, as described above with reference to FIG. 4 .
  • a beam splitting coating 166 is applied to the interface plane 167 between the LOE 20 and the transparent plate 120 .
  • two light rays, 168 and 170 are coupled inside the substrate 20 . Only ray 168 impinges on the first partially reflective surface 22 a at point 172 and is partially reflected there, while ray 170 skips over surface 22 a , without any reflectance.
  • the rays exchange energies with two other rays (not shown) at intersection points 180 and 182 .
  • the two reflected rays 184 and 186 from surface 22 b will have substantially similar brightness and the bright stripe effect will be significantly improved.
  • two light rays, 188 and 190 are coupled inside the substrate 20 .
  • Only ray 188 impinges on the first partially reflective surface 22 a at point 192 and partially reflected there before being reflected by the upper surface 27 .
  • ray 190 which is reflected downward from the upper major surface 27 , has a higher brightness then ray 188 .
  • These two rays intersect each other at point 194 which is located at the interface plane 167 and exchange energies there.
  • these two rays intersect with other rays at the points 196 and 198 which are located on the beam splitting surface 167 .
  • the rays 200 and 202 which are reflected from surface 22 a and consequentially the rays 204 and 206 which are reflected from surface 22 b will have substantially the same brightness, and therefore, the dark stripes effect will be significantly decreased.
  • This improved uniformity of brightness effect is applicable also for dark and bright stripes, which are caused by a non-uniform illumination at the input aperture of the LOE.
  • the brightness distribution of the optical waves, which is trapped inside the LOE is substantially more uniform over the output aperture of the LOE than over the input aperture.
  • the light rays 184 , 186 which are reflected from surface 22 a , intersect with the beam splitting surface 167 , before being coupled out from the LOE.
  • a simple reflecting coating cannot be easily applied to surface 167 since this surface should also be transparent to the light-waves that exit the substrate 20 as well as transparent to the light wave from the external scene for see-through applications, namely, the light-waves should pass through plane 167 at small incident angles, and be partially reflected at higher incident angles.
  • the passing incident angles are between 0° and 15° and the partially reflecting incident angles are between 40° and 65°.
  • FIG. 14 illustrates for s-polarization the reflectance curves as functions of the incident angles for three representative wavelengths in the photopic region: 470 nm, 550 nm and 630 nm.
  • partial reflectance between 45% and 55%) at large incident angles between 40° and 65° and low reflectance (below 5%) at small incident angles, for s-polarized light-waves.
  • p-polarized light-waves it is impossible to achieve substantial reflectance at incident angles between 40° and 65°, due to the proximity to the Brewster angle. Since the polarization which is usually utilized for an LOE-based imaging system, is the s-polarization, the required beam splitter can be fairly easily applied.
  • the beam splitting coating should be substantially transparent for light waves from the external scene which impinge on the interface surface at low incident angles and which are substantially non-polarized, the coating should have low reflectance (below 5%) at small incident angles also for p-polarized light waves.
  • a difficulty still existing is that the LOE 20 is assembled from several different components. Since the fabrication process usually involves cementing optical elements, and since the required angular-sensitive reflecting coating is applied to the light-guide surface only after the body of the LOE 20 is complete, it is not possible to utilize the conventional hot-coating procedures that may damage the cemented areas. Novel thin-film technologies, as well as ion-assisted coating procedures, can also be used for cold processing. Eliminating the need to heat parts, allows cemented parts to be safely coated. An alternative is that the required coating can simply be applied to transparent plate 120 , which is adjacent to the LOE 20 , utilizing conventional hot-coating procedures and then cementing it at the proper place. Clearly, his alternative approach can be utilized only if the transparent plate 120 is not too thin and hence might be deformed during the coating process.
  • the light waves are coupled out from the substrate by partially reflecting surfaces, which are oriented at an oblique angle in relation to the major surfaces, and usually coated with a dielectric coating.
  • FIG. 18A there are systems wherein the light waves are coupled into and out from the substrate utilizing diffractive elements 230 and 232 , respectively.
  • diffractive elements 230 and 232 respectively.
  • the same uniformity issues that were discussed above should also be relevant to this configuration.
  • the two rays 234 and 236 from the same point in the display source are coupled into the substrate 238 remotely located from each other at the two edges of the coupling-in element 230 .
  • the rays are coupled-out by the coupling-out element 232 located adjacent to each other.
  • any dissimilarity between the rays will be easily seen in the coupled-out wave.
  • the diffractive efficiency of the coupling-out element 232 is increased gradually.
  • different rays from the same point source might pass through different locations in the element 232 before being coupled-out the element and hence will have different brightness in the image.
  • Another source for the unevenness can be caused by the fact that the ray 234 is partially diffracted out of the substrate at the right edge 240 of the grating 232 while ray 236 impinges on the lower surface just left of the grating, and hence, is not diffracted there.
  • ray 236 will have a higher brightness and this difference will easily be seen.
  • FIG. 18B illustrates a similar approach to solve these issues.
  • a transparent plate 242 is cemented to the upper surface 244 of the substrate 238 , wherein the interface surface 246 is coated with a beam-splitting coating similar to the above-described coatings.

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