Patent ID: 8908279

Claim:
A head-mounted display system comprising: a projecting mechanism comprising: a light source including first light-emitting diodes; a reflector for reflecting light from the light source; a flat-panel display including a flat-panel configured to control the light from the light source; and a housing containing the light source, the reflector, and the flat-panel display in this order, the reflector being disposed on an inner surface of the housing; and an eye-proximate optical system placed in front of one of left and right eyes of an observer, wherein the light from the projecting mechanism is directed to the one of left and right eyes of the observer through the eye-proximate optical system to form a an image to be perceived by the one of left and right eyes of the observer, optical axes of the first light-emitting diodes are parallel with a pupillary axial direction to the one of left and right eyes of the observer, and a direction normal to the flat-panel is not parallel with the pupillary axial direction; distances between the flat-panel and the respective first light-emitting diodes are equal to each other.