Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optical device and operation input apparatus
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Application No.: US15538842Application Date: 2015-12-28
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Publication No.: US10338749B2Publication Date: 2019-07-02
- Inventor: Norikazu Kitamura , Masayuki Shinohara , Yuji Hirose , Yasuhiro Tanoue , Mitsuru Okuda , Kazuyuki Okada
- Applicant: OMRON Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Kyoto-shi
- Assignee: OMRON Corporation
- Current Assignee: OMRON Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kyoto-shi
- Agency: Metrolexis Law Group, PLLC
- International Application: PCT/JP2015/086572 WO 20151228
- International Announcement: WO2016/114102 WO 20160721
- Main IPC: G06F3/042
- IPC: G06F3/042 ; G02B27/22 ; G02B3/08 ; G01S17/08 ; F21V8/00 ; H04N13/388

Abstract:
An optical device includes a light-guiding plate that guides light in a plane parallel to an emission surface that emits light, and a sensor for detecting an object located on an emission surface side using light that passes through a back surface opposite to the emission surface and through the emission surface. The light-guiding plate has light convergence portions that receive light guided by the light-guiding plate and each have optical surfaces that cause light to be emitted from the emission surface in directions in which the light substantially converges at or scatters from one convergence point or one convergence line in a space, and the convergence points or the convergence lines for the light convergence portions are different from each other, and an image is formed in the space on the emission surface side by a collection of the convergence points or the convergence lines.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170371493A1 OPTICAL DEVICE AND OPERATION INPUT APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2017-12-28
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