Wide FOV Processor Integrated Conformal Holographic Tiling Helmet-Mounted Display

To address the DARPA need for a paroramic, wide field-of-view (FOV) helmet-mounted display, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Wide FOV Processor Integrated Conformal Holographic Tiling Helmet-Mounted Display (WiPICHT-HMD) technology. This proposed system is based on optically tiled OLED microdisplays with conformal multiplexed holographic waveguide optics, which prevent light-leakage for covert operation. The innovations in WiPICHT-HMD include holographic tiling of low-cost small FOV high-resolution microdisplays to generate wide-FOV high-resolution displays. Sensor information from large-format megapixel sensor will be processed by a computationally efficient parallel compressive sampling architecture and adaptively fused with tactical symbology within an optimized binocular overlap. The compact low-power WiPICHT-HMD can be integrated with a clip-on ANVIS-compatible helmet mount for existing systems. In Phase I, POC will demonstrate the feasibility of WiPICHT-HMD by providing a laboratory demonstration of a single-color see-through HMD with the goal of 2550 x 1200 pixels for the central and periphery regions. In Phase II, POC plans to develop a high-resolution (4250 x 2400 pixels) WiPICHT-HMD clip-on prototype that allows for 20:20 visual acuity in the central region and meets the space weight ergonomic and power requirements for current helmets.