17.5:Invited Paper: Eyewear Platforms For Miniature Displays

Abstract

The use of eyewear as a platform for mobile display systems is gaining acceptance, owing to the high degree of miniaturization that is now possible in optics, electronics, and microdisplays. Eyewear offers unique features for display integration. This paper will review important aspects of eyewear display design and provide a progress report on eyewear display development.

P-159: Fiber-Optic Color Synthesizer

“…For the hand-held device there are practical limits to the size and the resolution of the display. The small size of the display cannot produce the discernible information due to the resolution limit [1] and yet large size display with the enough resolution requires a suitable distance from the view position. In order to cope with these demands, light beam scanning display technology is being intensively developed [2][3].…”

P‐16: Wearable, Stereo Eyewear Display

“…Near-eye displays can overcome this limitation by using optics to magnify the image, thereby allowing the system to remain small in size, yet produce a large image. In previous publications we have described monocular systems [1,2] and the optics required for light weight miniature eyewear devices. These optical approaches can also be used in binocular systems.…”

Fiber-optic color synthesizer

“…With rapid progress in ubiquitous networks, research in display devices is converging in the direction of small form factor, high-resolution, and low power consumption. For handheld devices, there are practical limits; small size displays cannot produce highly discernible images because of the resolution limit, 1,2 and yet large size displays with a high enough resolution require a suitable distance from the view position. To cope with these rather contradictory difficulties, light beam scanning display technologies are being intensively developed both experimentally 3,4 and theoretically.…”