Heads-up display with variable focal plane

• Main Authors: Ponomarev, Vitaly, Svarichevsky, Mikhail
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 17.03.2020
• Subjects: ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS INVEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OFTRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GASEXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS, IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; CALCULATING; CINEMATOGRAPHY; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OR APPARATUS; HOLOGRAPHY; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS; OPTICS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

A heads up display system with a variable focal plane includes a projection device to generate light representative of at least one virtual graphic, an imaging matrix to project the light representative of the at least one virtual graphic on at least one image plane, a display device to display the at least one virtual graphic on the at least one image plane, and a translation device to dynamically change a position of the imaging matrix relative to the display device based, at least in part, on a predetermined operational parameter to dynamically vary a focal distance between the display device and the at least one image plane.