# US 10,120,419 B2 · Wearable device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,120,419 B2 - Document ID: US10120419B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/380,588 - Filed: 2016-12-15 - Published: 2017-06-29 - Granted: 2018-11-06 - Earliest claimed: 2015-12-24 - Assignees: Olympus Corporation - Applicants: Olympus Corporation - Inventors: Seiji Tatsuta - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10120419B2 ## CPC - G06F 1/1675: {Miscellaneous details related to the relative movement between the different enclosures or enclosure parts} - G06F 1/163: {Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt} - G06F 1/1639: {the display being based on projection} - G06F 3/011: {Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality (blind teaching G09B21/00)} - G06F 3/0362: with detection of one-dimensional [1D] translations or rotations of an operating part of the device, e.g. scroll wheels, sliders, knobs, rollers or belts - G02B 27/0176: {characterised by mechanical features} - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G02B: OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS ## Abstract A wearable device includes a wearable element that is worn on the head of the wearer, a display that displays a virtual image within part of the field of view of the wearer, and a connector that is connected to the wearable element. The connector includes a slide-rotation mechanism that supports the display so as to be slidable with respect to the head and rotatable in a state in which the display has been slid. The slide-rotation mechanism is provided to the connector so that the slide direction of the display is parallel to the direction that extends along the rotation axis around which the display is rotated. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A wearable device comprising: a wearable element that is worn on a head of a wearer; a display that displays a virtual image within part of a field of view of the wearer; and a connector that is connected to the wearable element, and comprises a slide-rotation mechanism that supports the display so as to be slidable with respect to the head and rotatable in a state in which the display has been slid, wherein the slide-rotation mechanism is provided to the connector so that a slide direction of the display is parallel to a direction that extends along a rotation axis around which the display is rotated; and the slide-rotation mechanism comprises: a rod-like slide shaft that is secured on the connector; and a holder that is secured on the wearable element, and holds the slide shaft so as to be slidable and rotatable. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The wearable device as defined in claim 1, wherein the slide direction of the display is a direction that extends along eyes of the wearer when the wearable element is worn on the head, and the slide-rotation mechanism is configured so that the wearer can slide the display to a position at which the wearer can observe a display screen of the display with one eye, and then change a position of a display image within the field of view of the wearer by rotating the display, or rotate the display to a position at which an eyepiece optical axis of the display coincides with a line of sight of the wearer. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The wearable device as defined in claim 1, wherein the slide-rotation mechanism is configured such that a position of a display image within the field of view of the wearer can be changed by rotating the connector and the slide shaft around a rotation axis, the rotation axis being a given axis of the slide shaft that extends in a longitudinal direction. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The wearable device as defined in claim 1, wherein a relationship “Fs>Fr” is satisfied (where, Fs is a force required when sliding the slide shaft with respect to the holder, and Fr is a force required when rotating the slide shaft with respect to the holder). ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The wearable device as defined in claim 1, wherein the slide shaft comprises a cylindrical member of which a cylinder axis extends parallel to the slide direction, and the holder is an elastic member having a cylindrical hole into which the cylindrical member is inserted. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The wearable device as defined in claim 5, wherein a protrusion is formed on a curved surface of the cylindrical member, a plurality of grooves are formed in a curved surface of the cylindrical hole, each of the plurality of grooves being formed along a circumferential direction, the slide shaft is slid with respect to the holder while the protrusion that has engaged with one groove among the plurality of grooves engages with a groove among the plurality of grooves that differs from the one groove, and the slide shaft is rotated with respect to the holder while the protrusion that has engaged with the groove when the slide shaft was slid with respect to the holder is rotated along the groove. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The wearable device as defined in claim 1, wherein the slide shaft is a male screw member of which a rotation axis extends parallel to the slide direction, the holder is a female screw member that corresponds to the male screw member, and the slide shaft can be rotated and slid with respect to the holder by turning the male screw member or the female screw member. ### Claim 8 A wearable device comprising: a wearable element that is worn on a head of a wearer; a display that displays a virtual image within part of a field of view of the wearer; and a connector that is connected to the wearable element, and comprises a slide-rotation mechanism that supports the display so as to be slidable with respect to the head and rotatable in a state in which the display has been slid, wherein the slide-rotation mechanism is provided to the connector so that a slide direction of the display is parallel to a direction that extends along a rotation axis around which the display is rotated; and the slide-rotation mechanism comprises: a rod-like slide shaft that is secured on the display; and a holder that is secured on the connector, and holds the slide shaft so as to be slidable and rotatable. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The wearable device as defined in claim 8, wherein the slide-rotation mechanism is configured such that an eyepiece optical axis of the display can be caused to coincide with a line of sight of the wearer by rotating the display and the slide shaft around a rotation axis, the rotation axis being a given axis of the slide shaft that extends in a longitudinal direction. ### Claim 10 A wearable device comprising: a wearable element that is worn on a head of a wearer; a display that displays a virtual image within part of a field of view of the wearer; and a connector that is connected to the wearable element, and comprises a slide-rotation mechanism that supports the display so as to be slidable with respect to the head and rotatable in a state in which the display has been slid, wherein the slide-rotation mechanism is provided to the connector so that a slide direction of the display is parallel to a direction that extends along a rotation axis around which the display is rotated; and the slide-rotation mechanism comprises: a rod-like slide shaft that is secured on the connector; a shaft holder that holds the slide shaft so as to be slidable; and a rotation holder that is provided to the wearable element, and holds the shaft holder so as to be rotatable. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The wearable device as defined in claim 10, wherein the slide shaft engages with the shaft holder so as to be slidable in a longitudinal direction of the slide shaft and non-rotatable, and the shaft holder engages with the rotation holder so as to be rotatable and non-slidable. ### Claim 12 (depends on 10) The wearable device as defined in claim 10, wherein a relationship “Fs>Fr” is satisfied (where, Fs is a force required when sliding the slide shaft with respect to the shaft holder, and Fr is a force required when rotating the shaft holder with respect to the rotation holder). ### Claim 13 (depends on 10) The wearable device as defined in claim 10, wherein the slide shaft is a columnar member of which a longitudinal direction is parallel to the slide direction, the shaft holder is a circular member having a hole into which the columnar member is inserted, and the rotation holder is a member having a circular hole with which the circular member engages. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The wearable device as defined in claim 13, wherein a plurality of protrusions that are arranged along the slide direction are formed on a side surface of the columnar member, a groove is formed in an inner surface of the hole of the shaft holder, a groove is formed in an inner surface of the circular hole along a circumferential direction, the slide shaft is slid with respect to the shaft holder while one protrusion among the plurality of protrusions of the columnar member that has engaged with the groove formed in the inner surface of the hole of the shaft holder is removed from the groove, and a protrusion among the plurality of protrusions that differs from the one protrusion engages with the groove, and the shaft holder is rotated with respect to the rotation holder while an outer circumferential surface of the circular member is rotated along the groove formed in the inner surface of the circular hole. ### Claim 15 A wearable device comprising: a wearable element that is worn on a head of a wearer; a display that displays a virtual image within part of a field of view of the wearer; and a connector that is connected to the wearable element, and comprises a slide-rotation mechanism that supports the display so as to be slidable with respect to the head and rotatable in a state in which the display has been slid, wherein the slide-rotation mechanism is provided to the connector so that a slide direction of the display is parallel to a direction that extends along a rotation axis around which the display is rotated; and the slide-rotation mechanism comprises: a rod-like slide shaft that is secured on the display; a shaft holder that holds the slide shaft so as to be slidable; and a rotation holder that is provided to the connector, and holds the shaft holder so as to be rotatable.