SBIR-STTR Award

Advanced Simulation Displays (ASD) proposes to leverage the work already accomplished building seamless wide field of view displays utilizing commerical flat panel display technology. Three of these systems have been build and delivered utilizing fifty inch plasma panels combined to provide a seamless scene for UH-1H simulators. In addition, ASD is under contract to build three channel seamless plasma displays for the Navy's P3 TORT program. All of these systems that have been developed to date, implement technology developed and is currently patent pending, to tile flat panel displays in either the horizontal or vertical direction. This proposal takes the technology developed by ASD and extends it to allow seamless tiling in both the horizontal and vertical directions simultaneously. In addition, to extending the horizontal and vertical fields of view, at least one display channel will be augmented with a secondary flat panel which will be incorporated into the baseline design to provide 3D stereo imagery in a limted viewing area to support close in visual training tasks. The entire display can also be vertically pivoted to place the display in the optimum postion as required for each training task.

Keywords:
Visual Displays Simulation Acuity High Resolution Flat Panel Displays Seamless Displays Wide Field Of View 3d Stereo

The continued advance of flat panel display technology in the commercial and consumer display industry offers the opportunity to provide wide field of view high resolution displays to the flight simulation community with significantly higher performance and lower cost than previously available. These flat panel displays offer exceptional brightness and contrast and steadily increasing resolution and size. Large flat panel displays with Quad HDTV resolution (3840 x 2160 pixels) are becoming commercially available. This Quad HDTV format will provide eye-limiting resolution performance at an afforable cost. Advanced Simulation Displays has been working on multiple projects that optically combine multiple flat panel displays to provide a continuous and seamless image using commercially available flat panel displays. This program will combine the experience of Advanced Simulation Displays optical combiner technology with expanded field of view and higher resolution than previously availanle.

Keywords:
Flat Panel Displays Optical Combiners Eye Limiting Resolution Wide Field Of View Display Ssystem Seamless Imagery High Brightness And Contrast Motion