US Patent Issued to RICOH on July 7 for "Optical device, retinal projection display, and head-mounted display" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,974, issued on July 7, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Optical device, retinal projection display, and head-mounted display" was invented by Shu Tanaka (Osaka, Japan), Akitoshi Mochida (Osaka, Japan) and Nobunari Tsukamoto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device includes: a light source to emit light; a light scanner to deflect the light emitted from the light source to scan an image formation object with the light through a light deflector; the light deflector to deflect the light emitted from the light scanner to the image formation object; a reflector between the light scanner and the image forma...