ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,482, issued on April 29, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Virtual image display apparatus" was invented by Toshiaki Miyao (Chino, Japan), Toshiyuki Noguchi (Shiojiri, Japan) and Kunihiko Yano (Shiojiri, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual image display apparatus includes an image light emitting unit configured to emit image light, and a see-through mirror which is an optical member having a reflective film that reflects the image light, wherein the see-through mirror includes a first region on which a light ray of the image light corresponding to a center angle of view is incident and a second region on which a l...