УДК: 535.3, 535.8

Systems design of augmented-reality collimator displays

Bakholdin, A.V., Vasiliev, V.N., Romanova, G.E., Grishina, N.Y.

Publication in Journal of Optical Technology

For Russian citation (Opticheskii Zhurnal):

Бахолдин А.В., Васильев В.Н., Романова Г.Э., Гришина Н.Ю. Схемотехника коллиматорных дисплеев дополненной реальности // Оптический журнал. 2016. Т. 83. № 10. С. 31–38.

Bakholdin A.V., Vasiliev V.N., Romanova G.E., Grishina N.Yu. Systems design of augmented-reality collimator displays [in Russian] // Opticheskii Zhurnal. 2016. V. 83. № 10. P. 31–38.

For citation (Journal of Optical Technology):

A. V. Bakholdin, V. N. Vasil’ev, G. É. Romanova, and N. Yu. Grishina, "Systems design of augmented-reality collimator displays," Journal of Optical Technology. 83(10), 604-609 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOT.83.000604

Abstract:

This paper describes the optical systems of helmet-mounted augmented-reality displays. Designs are presented that are based both on a nonplanar combiner and a flat combiner that brings a supplementary image into coincidence with an image of ambient space. Examples of systems are given for various implementations that use an opaque image generator.

Keywords:

systems of augmented-reality displays, collimator objective, combiner

OCIS codes: 080.2740, 220.3620, 220.4830

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