Image display apparatus and image display method

Abstract

An image display apparatus capable of achieving uniform image quality while improving the use efficiency of incident light, including: an image forming unit that emits image light and converts the image light into parallel light for an angle of view; a light guide plate that allows the image light converted by the image forming unit to enter, to travel inside the light guide plate, and to be emitted outward from the light guide plate; a first diffraction grating in the light guide plate that diffracts the image light and causes the image light to travel inside the light guide plate; a second diffraction grating in the light guide plate that diffracts the image light traveling inside the light guide plate and emits the image light outward from the light guide plate; and a recycler diffraction grating that diffracts and recycles the image light emitted from the second diffraction grating.

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