Display system
AssigneeBarr & Stroud Limited
InventorsGordon Swan, Herbert Morrison Runciman, Hillary Sillito
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Abstract
A panoramic display system for use in a vehicle equipped with a plurality of episcopes (22) includes an information gathering sensor and a plurality of displays (24) for the gathered information. Each display (24) is associated with a respective episcope (22) and is operable to display the information gathered from a field of view corresponding to the respective episcope.
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A panoramic display system for use in a vehicle equipped with a plurality of episcopes, the system including an information gathering sensor for gathering information and a plurality of displays for gathered information, each display for association with a respective episcope and being operable to display information gathered from a field of view corresponding to the respective episcope, further including a larger central display device for displaying selected information from one of said plurality of displays.
A panoramic display system for use in a vehicle equipped with a plurality of episcopes, the system including an information gathering sensor and a plurality of displays for gathered information, each display for association with a respective episcope and being operable to display information gathered from a field of view corresponding to a respective episcope, and a central display device for displaying selected and magnified information from one of said plurality of displays.
A panoramic display system for use in a vehicle equipped with a plurality of episcopes, the system including an information gathering sensor for gathering information and a plurality of displays for gathered information, each display for association with a respective episcope and being operable to display information gathered from a field of view corresponding to the respective episcope, wherein each episcope defines a visual path and each display is arranged to inject an image therefrom into the respective episcope visual path, in combination with a plurality of episcopes wherein each display output is substantially collimated and is injected into a respective episcope visual path by a beam splitter at an upper rhomboid face of a respective episcope.
A panoramic display system in combination with a plurality of episcopes each defining a visual path, the system for use in a vehicle and including an information gathering sensor for gathering information and a plurality of displays for gathered information, each display for association with a respective episcope and being operable to display information gathered from a field of view corresponding to the respective episcope by injecting an image from the display into the respective episcope visual path wherein each display emits within a defined spectral region narrower than the visual spectrum and each display includes a collimator comprising a concave surface on a 45 degrees prism separated from an upper rhomboid surface of a respective episcope by a beam-splitter which is transmissive in the spectral region of the display and reflective over the remainder of the visual waveband, the display being injected through a lower rhomboid surface of the episcope by a beam-splitting coating which is partially transmissive, partially reflective in the spectral region of the display and is reflective over the remainder of the visual waveband.
A panoramic display system for use in a vehicle equipped with a plurality of episcopes, the system including an information gathering sensor for gathering information and a plurality of displays for gathered information, each display for association with a respective episcope and being operable to display information gathered from a field of view corresponding to the respective episcope wherein each display includes collimating optics and means are provided for compensating residual distortions of said optics by distorting an electronic image sent to each display.
A panoramic display system for use in a vehicle, the system comprising a plurality of episcopes, an information gathering sensor for gathering information and a plurality of displays for gathered information, each display being associated with a respective episcope and being operable to display information gathered from a field of view corresponding to the respective episcope, further including a larger central display device for displaying selected information from one of said plurality of displays.
A panoramic display system for use in a vehicle, the system comprising a plurality of episcopes, an information gathering sensor, a plurality of displays for gathered information, each display being associated with a respective episcope and being operable to display information gathered from a field of view corresponding to the respective episcope, and a central display device for displaying selected and magnified information from one of said plurality of displays.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.