Head-Mounted Display
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKohei Terada, Miyuki Kusuda
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Abstract
A head-mounted display includes an image display device displaying an image, a mounting member that is fixed to a head of a user, a first ball joint capable of moving and holding the image display device relative to the mounting member and a second ball joint. The first ball joint can move the image display device relative to the mounting member with a first degree of freedom or a third degree of freedom smaller than the first degree of freedom. A socket can selectively change a degree of freedom of the first ball joint between the first degree of freedom and the third degree of freedom.
Claims11
A head-mounted display comprising:
- a display unit that displays an image;
- a fixed unit that is to be fixed on a head of a user;
- an adjustment unit that is able to move and hold the display unit relative to the fixed unit, the adjustment unit being provided with a first adjustment unit that is able to move the display unit relative to the fixed unit with a first degree of freedom or a third degree of freedom smaller than the first degree of freedom and then hold the display unit, and with a second adjustment unit that is able to move the display unit relative to the fixed unit with a second degree of freedom and then hold the display unit;
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- a degree-of-freedom changing unit that is able to selectively change a degree of freedom of the first adjustment unit between the first degree of freedom and the third degree of freedom.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.