ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,064, issued on June 2, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Eyepiece optical system and display device" was invented by Takao Yamanaka (Osaka, Japan) and Yoshio Matsumura (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An eyepiece optical system has an optical axis for guiding a light beam between a pupil of a user and a display surface, and includes: a first lens element having, on a display side, a polarizing reflective surface reflecting or transmitting an incident light beam according to polarization of the incident light beam; and a second lens element disposed between the first lens e...