Design of an Optical Link for a Side-Mounted Helmet Display Using Off-the-Shelf Lenses.

Abstract

The Helmet-Mounted Display (HMD) is a primary component of a Visually-Coupled System (VCS). Commercially available optical links for the HMDs are available but expensive. Ray-tracing techniques were employed to investigate the possibility of using 'off-the-shelf' lenses in an optical link. Four inexpensive, simple-magnifier systems were designed and evaluated with a new device, the HMD optical test instrument. The theory of geometric optics limits such an optical to the simple-magnifier systems.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA018332

Entities

People

  • James T. Larkins

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Computer Science
  • Computer Graphics
  • Display Systems
  • Helmet Mounted Displays
  • Ray Tracing

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).