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Image display apparatus and image photographing apparatus therefor

US6445365B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateSep 16, 1997
Grant dateSep 3, 2002
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Expiry dateSep 16, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B2027/0198
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

This invention relates to an image display apparatus having first image generating means for displaying first image information by a plurality of pixels emitting light, second image generating means for displaying second image information by a plurality of pixels emitting light, the second image information being part of the first image information, visual axis detecting means for detecting an observer's visual axis direction, optical means for combining a first image from the first image generating means and a second image from the second image generating means, moving the second image relative to the first image in conformity with an output signal from the visual axis detecting means and turning it to the observer's pupil, the marginal portion of the second image being made substantially coincident with the boundary between the pixels of the first image when the images are combined, and image display changing means for changing the first image information and the second image information on the basis of the output signal of the visual axis detecting means.

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