Patent ID: 7869128

Claim:
A head mounted display, comprising: a support member; the support member including: a pair of lateral frames which are configured to come into contact with both sides of a head of a user; and a front frame which is adapted to be provided in front of a face of the user and is configured to come into contact with a nose of the user, an image display device for displaying an image; an eyepiece optical system adapted to be provided in front of an eye of the user, the eyepiece optical system adapted to combine an external light beam in front of the eye of the user with an image light beam from the image displayed on the image display device into a combined light beam, and adapted to lead the combined light beam to the user's eye; a connection section which connects the eyepiece optical system with the front frame at a center position in a lateral direction of the user's face; and a transparent plate provided on a counter-face side of the eyepiece optical system so as to cover substantially all the eyepiece optical system when viewed from the counter-face side of the eyepiece optical system, so that the external light beam enters the eyepiece optical system through the transparent plate.