Optical: systems and elements – Single channel simultaneously to or from plural channels – By partial reflection at beam splitting or combining surface
Reexamination Certificate
2008-02-08
2009-11-17
Sugarman, Scott J (Department: 2873)
Optical: systems and elements
Single channel simultaneously to or from plural channels
By partial reflection at beam splitting or combining surface
C345S007000, C348S115000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07619826
ABSTRACT:
A display device for a vehicle is provided, by which an attaching position thereof can be altered depending upon an attachment limiting condition of the vehicle. The display device includes: a display source provided in an instrument panel of the vehicle; and a prism provided on a light path between the display source and an aperture of the instrument panel and refracting display light of an image displayed on the display source backward in the vehicle, wherein the prism is formed in a shape inclined upward in a backward direction of the vehicle, wherein (a) a virtual image of the image projected on a projection area of a windshield of the vehicle, onto which area the display image from the prism is projected and (b) a front view of the vehicle to be seen from an eye point of the vehicle through the windshield are seen in a superimposed manner.
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Office Action dated Jun. 20, 2008, issued on the counterpart German application and its partial translation.
Kumon Hitoshi
Nakamura Go
Nomura Koji
Sugiyama Tetsuya
Takamatsu Masahiro
Kratz Quintos & Hanson, LLP
Pinkney Dawayne A
Sugarman Scott J
Toyota Jidosha & Kabushiki Kaisha
Yazaki -Corporation
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