US Patent Issued to NICHIA on Oct. 6 for "Light source unit and image display device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,420, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Light source unit and image display device" was invented by Wataru Kitahara (Kamiina-gun, Japan), Takanori Aruga (Suwa-gun, Japan) and Hajime Akimoto (Anan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light source unit includes: a display device configured to emit light having a substantially Lambertian light distribution and to display an image; and an imaging optical system including: an input element on which light emitted from the display device is incident, and an output element on which light traveling via the input element is incident, the output element being confi...