WO1991004508A3 - Helmet mounted display - Google Patents

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WO1991004508A3
WO1991004508A3 PCT/US1990/005205 US9005205W WO9104508A3 WO 1991004508 A3 WO1991004508 A3 WO 1991004508A3 US 9005205 W US9005205 W US 9005205W WO 9104508 A3 WO9104508 A3 WO 9104508A3
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lclv
dichroic prism
projection
projects
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John Lawrence Henkes
John Edward Bigelow
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Gen Electric
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B27/00—Optical systems or apparatus not provided for by any of the groups G02B1/00 - G02B26/00, G02B30/00
    • G02B27/01—Head-up displays
    • G02B27/017—Head mounted
    • G02B27/0172—Head mounted characterised by optical features
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B27/00—Optical systems or apparatus not provided for by any of the groups G02B1/00 - G02B26/00, G02B30/00
    • G02B27/01—Head-up displays
    • G02B27/0101—Head-up displays characterised by optical features
    • G02B2027/0123—Head-up displays characterised by optical features comprising devices increasing the field of view
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B27/00—Optical systems or apparatus not provided for by any of the groups G02B1/00 - G02B26/00, G02B30/00
    • G02B27/01—Head-up displays
    • G02B27/0101—Head-up displays characterised by optical features
    • G02B2027/0132—Head-up displays characterised by optical features comprising binocular systems
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B27/00—Optical systems or apparatus not provided for by any of the groups G02B1/00 - G02B26/00, G02B30/00
    • G02B27/01—Head-up displays
    • G02B27/0101—Head-up displays characterised by optical features
    • G02B2027/0143—Head-up displays characterised by optical features the two eyes not being equipped with identical nor symmetrical optical devices
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B27/00—Optical systems or apparatus not provided for by any of the groups G02B1/00 - G02B26/00, G02B30/00
    • G02B27/01—Head-up displays
    • G02B27/017—Head mounted
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B5/00—Optical elements other than lenses
    • G02B5/30—Polarising elements

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Abstract

A helmet-mountable display device includes a pair of dichroic prism assemblies, each having a projection face and three side faces. A liquid crystal light valve (LCLV) device is mounted on each side face and a fluorescent light source is mounted in alignment with each LCLV to respectively project a red, green and blue light beam through the corresponding LCLV and into each dichroic prism. Each dichroic prism assembly synthesizes the separate beams of colored light and projects a resultant beam through the projection face. Each resultant beam is transferred by relay lenses to a pair of projection lenses; the projection lenses respectively project each light beam onto a spherical reflector which, in combination with a plane reflector, projects an undistorted, full-color, three-dimensional virtual image at infinity into the eyes of a helmet wearer.
PCT/US1990/005205 1989-09-14 1990-09-13 Helmet mounted display WO1991004508A2 (en)

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US40717889A 1989-09-14 1989-09-14
US407,178 1989-09-14
US53561790A 1990-06-11 1990-06-11
US535,617 1990-06-11

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WO1991004508A2 WO1991004508A2 (en) 1991-04-04
WO1991004508A3 true WO1991004508A3 (en) 1991-05-02

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