See-through Passive Antiferroelectric Helmet-Mounted Liquid Crystal Display

Author

Quintana, X. ; Oton, J.M. ; Bennis, N. ; De Smet, H. ; De Pauw, H. ; Dabrowski, R. ; Kula, P. ; Geday, M.A.

Author_Institution

Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid

fYear

2007

fDate

Jan. 31 2007-Feb. 2 2007

Firstpage

270

Lastpage

273

Abstract

Helmet-mounted miniature information display (HEMIND) is an IST EU project whose main purpose is to design, prototype and manufacture a helmet-mounted display system for firefighters. The display has been made of a high resolution, miniature, see-through, monochrome display. An autonomous, portable, computer system present images overlapped with the normal viewing field of the user. The images can be video images (thermal images, standard images) as well as data from sensors integrated in the clothes of the user or received through a radio-communication system. The system is composed of head equipment (helmet, display, camera, viewer), body equipment (Control Unit and Interface Units) and interconnect equipment (Battery, Cabling).

Keywords

antiferroelectric liquid crystals; computer displays; helmet mounted displays; liquid crystal displays; microdisplays; wireless sensor networks; HEMIND; autonomous portable computer system; body equipment; firefighters; head equipment; helmet-mounted miniature information display; interconnect equipment; monochrome display; radio-communication system; see-through passive antiferroelectric liquid crystal display; video images; Cameras; Computer displays; Head; Image sensors; Liquid crystal displays; Manufacturing; Portable computers; Prototypes; Sensor systems; Thermal sensors; Antiferroelectric liquid crystal; Helmet-Mounted Display; Passive Addressing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electron Devices, 2007 Spanish Conference on

Conference_Location

Madrid

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0868-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCED.2007.384044

Filename

4271222