CN216595734U - Vehicle-mounted head-up display - Google Patents

Abstract

The application relates to an on-vehicle new line display, include: a base; the diffraction waveguide is arranged on the base and rotates at a high speed during working; the diffraction waveguide is provided with an entrance pupil grating and an exit pupil grating; the projection optical machine is arranged between the base and the diffraction waveguide and corresponds to the entrance pupil area, and the light outlet axis of the projection optical machine and the central axis of the entrance pupil grating are coaxial with the rotation axis of the diffraction waveguide; the light emitted by the projection light machine enters the entrance pupil grating, is diffracted and coupled into the diffraction waveguide by the entrance pupil grating, is totally reflected in the waveguide, is propagated to the exit pupil grating, and is diffracted and output by the exit pupil grating. The vehicle-mounted head-up display realizes large view field display through the small-area diffraction waveguide.

Description

Vehicle-mounted head-up display

Technical Field

The application belongs to the technical field of display, and particularly relates to a vehicle-mounted head-up display.

Background

At present, in the driving process of a driver, important information such as vehicle speed and navigation needs to be regularly observed to assist in driving, and the driver generally needs to hold down to check an instrument panel and a navigator of the automobile to acquire the information. If the virtual image formed by the Head-Up Display falls in front of the sight line of the driver, the driver can conveniently check the vehicle and route information, and the driving safety is greatly improved.

According to the imaging solution of HUD, it can be classified into three categories: windshield reflection type, glass imaging type, virtual imaging type. The reflection type of the windshield is that the image is projected by utilizing the reflection of the windshield, the method is easily influenced by the surface type of the windshield and illumination, the display area is small, and the display content generally only has single information such as vehicle speed and the like; the glass imaging type is that a fixing part is arranged above an instrument panel, plane or curved glass is inserted to serve as a projection screen, and images are projected onto the glass for display, so that the method has the advantages of larger display field angle and rich display content, and can simultaneously display vehicle and road information; the virtual imaging type utilizes novel display technologies such as holography or AR, the method is rich in display content, depth information can be integrated, display is more visual, and a driver is immersed in the whole environment.

The existing AR-HUD based on the optical waveguide technology forms images through a semi-transparent semi-reflecting mirror, on one hand, the road surface condition is watched through the reflecting mirror, on the other hand, a projection image source is reflected by the reflecting mirror and enters the human eye area, and the image source reflected by the reflecting mirror is generally a display screen such as LCOS, Micro-LED and the like or a primary image surface projected by DLP.

However, large area AR waveguides are very expensive to fabricate and difficult to popularize.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The application provides a vehicle-mounted head-up display to solve the problem that the large size and the high manufacturing cost of the vehicle-mounted head-up display realized by a waveguide.

In order to solve the above technical problem, the present application provides an on-vehicle new line display, including: a base; a diffractive waveguide rotatably disposed relative to the base; the diffraction waveguide is provided with an entrance pupil grating and an exit pupil grating; the projection optical machine is arranged between the base and the diffraction waveguide and corresponds to the entrance pupil area, and the light outlet axis of the projection optical machine and the central axis of the entrance pupil grating are coaxial with the rotation axis of the diffraction waveguide; the light emitted by the projection light machine enters the entrance pupil grating, is diffracted by the entrance pupil grating to enter the diffraction waveguide, is transmitted to the exit pupil grating through the total internal reflection of the diffraction waveguide, and is diffracted and output by the exit pupil grating.

In one embodiment, further comprising: the driving motor is connected with the diffraction waveguide and drives the diffraction waveguide to rotate at a preset speed; the preset speed is greater than or equal to 30 Hz.

In one embodiment, the projector emits RGB three-color light in a rotation period of the diffractive waveguide, and the preset speed is 30Hz at the lowest; or, the light projector emits RGB three-color light in time sequence within three rotation periods of the diffraction waveguide, and the preset speed is 60Hz at the lowest.

In one embodiment, the predetermined speed required for high imaging quality is greater than or equal to 180 Hz.

In one embodiment, the diffractive waveguide is further provided with a pupil expansion grating arranged outside the entrance pupil grating, the exit pupil grating is arranged on the lower side of the pupil expansion grating, light emitted by the projection light machine enters the entrance pupil grating, is diffracted and coupled by the entrance pupil grating to enter the diffractive waveguide, propagates to the pupil expansion grating through total reflection, and is diffracted by the pupil expansion grating to enable the light to be diverted and enter the exit pupil grating.

In one embodiment, the diffraction waveguide comprises two pupil expansion gratings and two exit pupil gratings, the two pupil expansion gratings are respectively located at two opposite sides of the entrance pupil grating, and the two exit pupil gratings and the two pupil expansion gratings are arranged in a one-to-one correspondence manner.

In one embodiment, the diffractive waveguide comprises two exit pupil gratings, one on each of opposite sides of the entrance pupil grating.

In one embodiment, the diffractive waveguide is symmetrically shaped, with the center of symmetry of the diffractive waveguide being the center of rotation.

In one embodiment, the diffractive waveguide is circular, centered on the center of rotation.

In one embodiment, a reflection increasing film or a light shielding layer is disposed on a surface of the entrance pupil grating away from the projector engine.

In one embodiment, the diffractive waveguide comprises an entrance pupil grating and an exit pupil grating; or, comprises an entrance pupil grating, a pupil expanding grating and an exit pupil grating; the entrance pupil grating is a blazed grating.

In one embodiment, the entrance pupil grating is a generally symmetric grating.

In one embodiment, the length of the diffractive waveguide is 50-200 mm, and the maximum included angle between the exit pupil grating and the entrance pupil grating is 20-30 °.

Different from the prior art, this application vehicle-mounted new line display includes base, diffraction waveguide, projection ray apparatus, and the relative base rotation setting of diffraction waveguide, projection ray apparatus fixed setting in the base, and the center of the last entrance pupil grating of diffraction waveguide is coaxial with the center of rotation, utilizes the rotation to realize the equivalent distribution of exit pupil grating, and the surface of rotation can be equivalent to a circular exit pupil face promptly. Therefore, a small volume of the diffractive waveguide can realize a large area display.

Drawings

The above and other objects, features and advantages of exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure will become readily apparent from the following detailed description read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Several embodiments of the present disclosure are illustrated by way of example, and not by way of limitation, in the figures of the accompanying drawings and in which like reference numerals refer to similar or corresponding parts and in which:

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of a vehicle head-up display of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a diagram of waveguide paths in the vehicle head-up display of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a first configuration of a diffractive waveguide in the vehicle head-up display of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a second configuration of a diffractive waveguide in the vehicle head-up display of the present application;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a third configuration of a diffractive waveguide in the vehicle head-up display of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a fourth schematic diagram of a diffractive waveguide in the vehicle head-up display of the present application;

FIG. 7 is a fifth schematic view of a diffractive waveguide of the vehicle head-up display of the present application;

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an equivalent grating profile of a diffraction waveguide rotation type in a vehicle-mounted head-up display according to the present application;

FIG. 9 is a diagram of the display effect of the vehicular heads-up display of the present application;

FIG. 10 is a diagram of an application scenario of the in-vehicle head-up display of the present application in a vehicle;

fig. 11 is a diagram of another application scenario of the vehicle-mounted head-up display in the present application in a vehicle.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present disclosure will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present disclosure, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all embodiments of the present disclosure. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments disclosed herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present disclosure.

Currently, in the AR-HUD scheme, a large-sized diffractive waveguide is generally used in order to take into account the distance and the field of view. For a display distance of 50-100 cm, under a FOV of 15 degrees, the area of the exit pupil area of the diffraction waveguide reaches 100-300 cm2, and the large area will generate very high manufacturing cost, which is not beneficial to popularization. Therefore, the present application is expected to realize the display effect of a large field of view and increase the eye box of the AR-HUD with a small exit pupil area.

The main idea of the invention is to adopt a rotary diffraction waveguide to realize the AR-HUD with a large field of view. For example, a diffractive waveguide with an angle of 20 ° to the exit pupil surface is rotated at high speed around the center of the entrance pupil, and a projector is fixed on the back of the entrance pupil region to emit light from the front of the exit pupil region in a transmission manner. The large-field AR-HUD realized in the mode has the advantages that the area of the exit pupil area is reduced to 5.56-16.67 cm2, and the manufacturing cost can be effectively reduced.

The following detailed description of the disclosed embodiments will be made with reference to the accompanying drawings, which are illustrated in fig. 1-10.

First, as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, the vehicle-mounted head-up display of the present embodiment includes adiffractive waveguide 100, a projectionoptical device 500, and abase 700, and in order to facilitate stability of thediffractive waveguide 100, the vehicle-mounted head-up display further includes a waveguide fixing member and aprotective cover 600.

Thediffractive waveguide 100 is rotatably disposed relative to thebase 700, and theoptical projector 500 is fixedly disposed in thebase 700 and located between thediffractive waveguide 100 and thebase 700, so that the light exiting mode of thediffractive waveguide 100 is transmission light exiting, that is, light beams of theoptical projector 500 are coupled into the waveguide from the back of the entrance pupil grating of the diffractive waveguide, exit from the front of the exit pupil grating, and enter human eyes.

The main purpose of the light emitting mode is to prevent the ray machine from shielding the view field so as to improve the use experience of the AR-HUD. The exit pupil of theoptical projector 500 faces the back of the entrance pupil grating of thediffractive waveguide 100. The central axis of the entrance pupil grating of thediffractive waveguide 100, the central axis of the rotation track (rotation axis) of thediffractive waveguide 100, and the central axis of the exit pupil plane of theoptical projection engine 500, i.e., the light exit axis, are coaxial.

Thediffraction waveguide 100 is specifically driven to rotate by a driving motor, the driving motor drives thediffraction waveguide 100 to rotate at a preset speed, the preset speed can be set to be greater than or equal to 30Hz, and can be further set to be greater than or equal to 60Hz, so that high-speed rotation is realized. To achieve high image quality, the preset speed is further set to be greater than or equal to 180 Hz.

The diffraction waveguide is specifically installed in thewaveguide fixing member 600, a waveguide sheet rotation track is provided inside thewaveguide fixing member 600, and the surface thereof is protected by a protective cover.

The present application utilizes a rotating diffractive waveguide structure to provide an AR-HUD with a large field of view and to increase the eye box. An equivalent large area circular exit pupil region is formed by high speed rotation. Because the projection light machine is fixed on the back of the entrance pupil grating and does not rotate along with the waveguide, the imaging area of the projection light machine is the whole rotating area. Therefore, the display effect of a large visual field can be realized through the small-area exit pupil.

Referring to FIGS. 3-7, the structure of the diffractive waveguide is described. Wherein fig. 3 is a single-sided waveguide, comprising an entrance pupil grating 101, an exit pupil grating 201 and a first exit pupil grating 301, wherein the dashed part is a rotation region.

The waveguide is a conventional monolithic monocular diffractive waveguide, which is commonly used for near-eye displays. The projectionoptical machine 500 is arranged at the back of the entrance pupil grating 101, the normal of the exit pupil surface of theoptical machine 500 is superposed with the normal of the entrance pupil area of the waveguide, the projection light beams are coupled into the waveguide from the entrance pupil grating 101 and are propagated to the pupil expanding grating 201 through total reflection, one part of the light is diffracted towards the exit pupil grating 301 under the action of the pupil expanding grating, the other part of the light is continuously propagated through total reflection, and the deflection and one-dimensional pupil expansion of the light path are simultaneously carried out in the pupil expanding grating; the light diffracted toward the exit pupil grating 301 simultaneously undergoes two-dimensional pupil expansion and exit pupil by the exit pupil grating 301. The final exit pupil image is magnified in two directions and enters the human eye.

Thediffraction waveguide 100 is driven by a motor to rotate around the center of the entrance pupil grating at a speed of more than 30Hz, and according to the principle of an equivalent view field surface, when the rotation speed exceeds the resolution capability of human eyes, the whole rotation surface can be regarded as an equivalent view field surface so as to realize large view field display. The effective area of the equivalent field of view is the integral area of the exit pupil grating 301 when rotating, the larger the intercept of the rotation radius to the exit pupil area is, the larger the effective area of the equivalent field of view is, and simultaneously the whole luminance of the emitted light is also reduced to (pi r ^2) ^ (1) of the original luminance of the emitted light, wherein r is the rotation radius.

Since thediffractive waveguide 100 is in a single-sided diffraction mode, optionally, in order to improve the brightness of the outgoing light, the entrance pupil grating 101 may adopt a blazed grating to improve the diffraction efficiency.

Alternatively, thelight engine 500 may employ three color light sources to sequentially project R, G, B three colors of light in a time sequential manner. Thediffraction waveguide 100 needs to rotate a circle in a projection period of the optical machine to cover the projection period of the three color lights, so as to ensure the color uniformity in the color display. The projection period is the time required by completing one projection of three color lights in sequence, and the rotating speed of the diffraction waveguide is 30Hz at the lowest. Or the three rotation periods emit the RGB three-color light in time sequence, and at this time, the rotation speed of thediffraction waveguide 100 is 60Hz at the lowest.

Optionally, a reflection increasing film or a shading coating may be added to the waveguide entrance pupil grating and the vicinity thereof to shield the influence of the direct transmission light on the user, thereby improving the use experience.

Optionally, the shape of the original single-chip diffraction waveguide can be changed properly, and can be selected as a round-edge rectangle with the length equal to the rotation diameter, as shown in fig. 6, or can be selected as a round waveguide, and the entrance pupil region is arranged at the position of the center of a circle. The above waveguide chip variation is effective in improving its stability during rotation.

Theprojection optics 500 is placed on the back of the waveguide, and the optics and the image source are fixed and neither will rotate with the waveguide. The light-emitting mode of the waveguide sheet is a transmission mode, that is, light beams are coupled into the waveguide from the back of the waveguide sheet, and light is emitted from the front of the waveguide and enters human eyes, which is shown in fig. 3. The main purpose of the light emitting mode is to prevent shading so as to improve the use experience of the AR-HUD.

Fig. 4 is also a single-sided waveguide including an entrance pupil grating 101 and a second exit pupil grating 401, and thediffractive waveguide 100 does not include a pupil expansion grating, so that only one-dimensional pupil exists, but since it rotates at high speed during operation and the projection optical engine is fixed on the back of the entrance pupil and does not rotate along with the waveguide, its one-dimensional pupil expansion is converted into a radial pupil expansion, thereby greatly increasing the viewing area.

Thediffractive waveguide 100 includes only an entrance pupil grating and an exit pupil grating, and only one-dimensional pupil expansion is possible when used alone. When it is used as a carrier of a rotating waveguide plate, its light wave vector is radiative. In the equivalent visual field surface during rotation, the entrance pupil light can be diffracted towards all directions, and the light waves of each angle can simultaneously expand the pupil and the exit pupil, so that the one-dimensional expanding pupil is converted into the radiation expanding pupil, and the image and the visual field are enlarged.

Thediffraction waveguide 100 is driven by a motor to rotate around the center of the entrance pupil area at a speed of more than 30Hz, and according to the principle of an equivalent view field surface, when the rotating speed exceeds the resolving power of human eyes, the whole rotating surface can be regarded as an equivalent view field surface so as to realize large view field display. The effective area of the equivalent field of view is the integral area of the second exit pupil grating 401 when rotating, the larger the intercept of the rotation radius to the exit pupil area is, the larger the effective area of the equivalent field of view is, and simultaneously the whole luminance of the emitted light is also reduced, becoming (pi r ^2) ^ (1) of the original luminance of the emitted light, where r is the rotation radius.

Since thediffractive waveguide 100 is in a single-sided diffraction mode, optionally, in order to improve the brightness of the outgoing light, the entrance pupil grating may adopt a blazed grating to improve the diffraction efficiency. For the bilateral diffraction mode in the application, a common symmetrical grating is adopted.

Optionally, thelight projector 500 may adopt a three-color light source, and sequentially projects R, G, B three colors of light in a time-sequential manner, where the rotation speed of the diffractive waveguide is 30Hz at the lowest.

Optionally, thediffraction waveguide 100 needs to rotate a circle within a projection period of the optical machine to cover the projection period of the three color lights, so as to ensure color uniformity during color display. The projection period is the time required by the three color lights to complete one projection in sequence.

Optionally, a reflection enhancement film or a shading coating can be added in the entrance pupil region and the vicinity of the waveguide to shield the influence of direct transmission light on a user and improve the use experience.

Optionally, the original single-chip diffraction waveguide may be changed in shape, and may be a circular rectangle with a length equal to the rotation diameter, as shown in fig. 7, or a circular waveguide, and the entrance pupil region is set at the center of the circle. The waveguide slice variant can effectively improve the stability of the waveguide slice during rotation.

The projection optical machine is placed on the back of the waveguide sheet, the normal line of the optical machine exit pupil surface is coincided with the normal line of the waveguide entrance pupil area, the optical machine and the image source are fixed, and the optical machine and the image source can not rotate along with the waveguide sheet. The light-emitting mode of the waveguide sheet is a transmission mode, namely, light beams are coupled into the waveguide from the back surface of the waveguide sheet, and light is emitted from the front surface of the waveguide sheet and then enters human eyes. The main purpose of the light emitting mode is to prevent shading so as to improve the use experience of the AR-HUD.

Figure 5 is a bilateral waveguide comprising an entrance pupil grating 101, a second exit pupil grating 401 and a third exit pupil grating 402. The waveguide does not include a pupil expansion grating, only has a one-dimensional pupil expansion, but because the waveguide rotates at a high speed during working, and the projection optical machine is fixed on the back of the entrance pupil and cannot rotate along with the waveguide, the one-dimensional pupil expansion is converted into a radiation type pupil expansion, so that the visual area is greatly increased.

Thediffractive waveguide 100 includes only an entrance pupil grating and an exit pupil grating, and only one-dimensional pupil expansion is possible when used alone. When it is used as a carrier of a rotating waveguide plate, its light wave vector is radiative. In the equivalent field of view during rotation, the entrance pupil light is diffracted in all directions, and the light waves at each angle simultaneously expand and exit pupils, so that the one-dimensional expansion pupil is converted into a radiation expansion pupil, and the image is enlarged.

Thediffraction waveguide 100 is driven by a motor to rotate around the center of the entrance pupil area at a speed of more than 30Hz, and according to the principle of an equivalent view field surface, when the rotating speed exceeds the resolving power of human eyes, the whole rotating surface can be regarded as an equivalent view field surface so as to realize large view field display. The effective area of the equivalent field of view is the integral area of the second exit pupil grating 401 and the third exit pupil grating 402 when rotating, the larger the intercept of the rotating radius to the exit pupil area is, the larger the effective area of the equivalent field of view is, and simultaneously the whole luminance of the emitted light is also reduced, becoming (pi r ^2) ^ (1) of the original luminance of the emitted light, where r is the rotating radius.

The embodiment adopts a bilateral diffraction mode, the sizes of the exit pupils at the left side and the right side and the grating structures are in mirror symmetry along the central axis of the waveguide piece, and compared with a unilateral diffraction waveguide, the emergent brightness of an equivalent view field surface can be improved to 2 times of the original brightness.

Alternatively, the light projector may employ three color light sources to sequentially project R, G, B three colors of light in a time sequential manner.

Optionally, the diffraction waveguide needs to rotate a circle in a projection period of the optical machine to cover the projection period of the three color lights, so as to ensure color uniformity during color display. The projection period is the time required by the three color lights to complete one projection in sequence.

Optionally, a reflection increasing film or a shading coating may be added in the entrance pupil region and the vicinity of the waveguide to shield the influence of the direct transmission light on the user and improve the use experience.

The projection optical machine is arranged on the back of the waveguide sheet, the optical machine and the image source are fixed, and the optical machine and the image source can not rotate along with the waveguide sheet. The light-emitting mode of the waveguide sheet is a transmission mode, that is, light beams are coupled into the waveguide from the back of the waveguide sheet, and light is emitted from the front of the waveguide and enters human eyes, as shown in fig. 2-1. The main purpose of the light emitting mode is to prevent shading so as to improve the use experience of the AR-HUD.

The entrance pupil grating, the pupil expanding grating and the exit pupil grating are diffraction gratings, and can be surface relief gratings or volume holographic gratings. The maximum length of thediffraction waveguide 100 is 50-100 mm, and the maximum included angle between the exit pupil grating and the entrance pupil grating is 20-30 degrees.

Referring to fig. 8-9, fig. 8 shows an equivalent grating distribution, in which the solid lines of the outermost circle and the middle circle are equivalent exit pupil boundaries, and the dotted lines of the middle circle are equivalent exit pupil gratings; the solid line of the innermost circle is an equivalent entrance pupil boundary, and the dotted line of the innermost circle is an equivalent entrance pupil grating. Fig. 9 is a diagram showing the effect, in which a small-area dead zone is formed in the center of the display surface, and the size of the dead zone is equal to the area of the entrance pupil region.

Since theoptical projector 500 is fixed on the back of the entrance pupil grating and does not rotate along with thediffractive waveguide 100, the direction of the wave vector of thediffractive waveguide 100 changes along with thediffractive waveguide 100 every time thediffractive waveguide 100 rotates a certain angle. When the rotation speed of the diffraction waveguide reaches the resolution limit (24Hz) of human eyes, the rotation surface can be equivalent to a large-area circular exit pupil area, the gratings are arranged in concentric rings with gradually increasing radiuses, and the grating direction of each unit area faces to the center of a circle. Wherein, the display area in fig. 9 is an integration surface when the waveguide exit pupil grating rotates, and is also an equivalent view field surface and an exit pupil equivalent grating of the system; the non-display area is an integration surface when the waveguide entrance pupil grating rotates, and is also an entrance pupil equivalent grating of the system.

The concentric circle type grating is different from a common unidirectional diffraction grating, the diffraction mode of the concentric circle type grating is radiation type diffraction, the diffraction angle can be towards all directions, and the concentric circle type grating is isotropic. When the projection beam is coupled into the waveguide, the entrance pupil beam will be diffracted in all directions, and the pupil expansion and exit of all directions are performed simultaneously, and the final image effect is shown in fig. 9.

Please refer to fig. 10-11, which are respectively application scenarios of the vehicle head-up display in a vehicle, and fig. 10 is a window reflective AR-HUD, i.e. output light of the vehicle head-up display is reflected by a window to enter human eyes. Fig. 11 is a vertical AR-HUD, i.e. the output light of the on-board heads-up display enters the human eye directly.

At present, the AR-HUD is designed to realize large-field display mostly by adopting a large-area exit pupil area, and the method is expensive in manufacturing cost and difficult to popularize. The equivalent field of view produced by rotating the waveguide plate can realize large-field-of-view display by a small-area exit pupil area, and the technology is a main realization means of future large-field-of-view AR-HUD.

In the above description of the present specification, the terms "fixed," "mounted," "connected," or "connected," and the like, are to be construed broadly unless otherwise expressly specified or limited. For example, with the term "coupled", it can be fixedly coupled, detachably coupled, or integrally formed; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be directly connected or indirectly connected through intervening media, or they may be connected internally or in any other suitable relationship. Therefore, unless the specification explicitly defines otherwise, those skilled in the art can understand the specific meaning of the above terms in the present application according to specific circumstances.

From the above description of the present specification, those skilled in the art will also understand the terms used below, terms indicating orientation or positional relationship such as "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "length", "width", "thickness", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "axial", "radial", "circumferential", "central", "longitudinal", "transverse", "clockwise" or "counterclockwise" and the like are based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings of the present specification, it is used for convenience in explanation of the disclosure and for simplicity in description, and does not explicitly show or imply that the devices or elements involved must be in the particular orientation described, constructed and operated, therefore, the above terms of orientation or positional relationship should not be interpreted or construed as limiting the present application.

In addition, the terms "first" or "second", etc. used in this specification are used to refer to numbers or ordinal terms for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one of the feature. In the description of the present specification, "a plurality" means at least two, for example, two, three or more, and the like, unless specifically defined otherwise.

While various embodiments of the present application have been shown and described herein, it will be obvious to those skilled in the art that such embodiments are provided by way of example only. Numerous modifications, changes, and substitutions will occur to those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the present application. It should be understood that various alternatives to the embodiments of the application described herein may be employed in practicing the application. The following claims are intended to define the scope of the application and, accordingly, to cover module compositions, equivalents, or alternatives falling within the scope of these claims.

Claims (14)

1. An on-vehicle heads-up display, comprising:

a base;

a diffractive waveguide rotatably disposed relative to the base; an entrance pupil grating and an exit pupil grating are arranged on the diffraction waveguide;

the projection optical machine is fixedly arranged in the base, positioned between the base and the diffraction waveguide and arranged corresponding to the entrance pupil grating;

the light outlet axis of the projection light machine and the central axis of the entrance pupil grating are coaxial with the rotation axis of the diffraction waveguide; the light emitted by the projection light machine enters the entrance pupil grating, is diffracted by the entrance pupil grating to enter the diffraction waveguide, is transmitted to the exit pupil grating through the total internal reflection of the diffraction waveguide, and is diffracted and output by the exit pupil grating.

2. The vehicle-mounted heads-up display of claim 1 further comprising:

the driving motor is connected with the diffraction waveguide and drives the diffraction waveguide to rotate at a preset speed; the preset speed is greater than or equal to 30Hz, or the preset speed is greater than or equal to 60 Hz.

3. The vehicle-mounted head-up display according to claim 2, wherein the projector light machine emits RGB lights in a cycle of rotation of the diffraction waveguide, and the preset speed is 30Hz at the lowest; or, the light projector emits RGB three-color light in time sequence within three rotation periods of the diffraction waveguide, and the preset speed is 60Hz at the lowest.

4. The vehicle head-up display of claim 2 or 3, wherein the preset speed required to achieve high imaging quality is greater than or equal to 180 hz.

5. The vehicle head-up display of claim 1, wherein the diffractive waveguide is further provided with a pupil expansion grating disposed outside the entrance pupil grating, the exit pupil grating is disposed below the pupil expansion grating, the light emitted from the projection optics enters the entrance pupil grating, is diffractively coupled into the diffractive waveguide by the entrance pupil grating, propagates to the pupil expansion grating by total reflection, and is diffracted by the pupil expansion grating to turn the light into the exit pupil grating.

6. The vehicle-mounted head-up display according to claim 5, wherein the diffraction waveguide comprises two pupil expansion gratings and two exit pupil gratings, the two pupil expansion gratings are respectively located at two opposite sides of the entrance pupil grating, and the two exit pupil gratings are arranged in one-to-one correspondence with the two pupil expansion gratings.

7. The vehicle head-up display of claim 1, wherein the diffractive waveguide comprises two exit pupil gratings disposed on opposite sides of the entrance pupil grating.

8. The vehicle head-up display of claim 1, wherein the diffractive waveguide is symmetrically shaped, and a center of symmetry of the diffractive waveguide is a center of rotation.

9. The vehicle head-up display of claim 8, wherein the diffractive waveguide is circular centered on the center of rotation.

10. The vehicle-mounted head-up display of claim 1, wherein a surface of the entrance pupil grating away from the projector engine is provided with a reflection increasing film or a light shielding layer.

11. The vehicle head-up display of claim 1, wherein the diffractive waveguide comprises an entrance pupil grating and an exit pupil grating; or, comprises an entrance pupil grating, a pupil expanding grating and an exit pupil grating; the entrance pupil gratings are all blazed gratings.

12. The vehicle-mounted head-up display of claim 5 or 7, wherein the entrance pupil grating is a generally symmetric grating.

13. The vehicle-mounted head-up display of claim 1, wherein the maximum length of the diffractive waveguide is 50mm to 200mm, and the maximum angle between the exit pupil grating and the entrance pupil grating is 20 ° to 30 °.

14. The vehicle-mounted head-up display according to claim 1, further comprising a waveguide holder and a protective cover, wherein the diffractive waveguide is disposed in the waveguide holder, and the waveguide holder and the protective cover are sequentially disposed on the base.

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