ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,320, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image display apparatus and image display system" was invented by Tomohisa Aida (Tochigi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image display apparatus includes a light source unit, an image generating element configured to modulate an incident light beam and to generate an image light beam, a light guide member configured to propagate a light beam from the light source unit inside the light guide member and to emit as an illumination light beam part of the light beam from each of a plurality of regions on the light guide member toward the image generating element, an opt...