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Monocular scene generator for biocular wide field of view display system

US4757378A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 30, 1986
Grant dateJul 12, 1988
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Expiry dateSep 30, 2006

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B2027/0154
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A visual display apparatus for producing a wide field of view picture to an operator includes television cameras directed parallel to a reference axis and disposed angularly left and right of the axis, monitors on which the pictures produced by the cameras are displayed, and lens for magnifying and focusing the monitor pictures. The angularly disposed cameras and their corresponding monitors are disposed in the horizontal picture format; the centrally directed camera and their corresponding monitors are disposed in the vertical picture format. Mirrors located between the monitor surfaces and the magnifying lens directs the pictures on the monitors into the lens.

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