Thales

Sextant Avionique

Jean-Claude Ebert

Bruno Barbier

Jean-Blaise Migozzi

Patrick Lach

Matthieu Grossetete

Johanna Dominici

Jean-Michel Francois

Jean-Noël Perbet

An image acquisition system comprises: a single set of focussing optics focussing an incident beam from a scene to be imaged on a first sensor and a second sensor exhibiting identical spectral response curves; followed by separation means separating the irradiance of the beam coming from the focussing optics into first and second predetermined fractions, the separation means orienting the first fraction towards the first sensor and the second fraction towards the second sensor; control means for controlling a first acquisition time of the scene to be imaged by the first sensor to obtain a first image and/or a second acquisition time of the scene to be imaged by the second sensor to obtain a second image; and merging means that merge the first image coming from the first sensor and the second image coming from the second sensor to generate a final image.

Acquisition system for images having a high dynamic range

The general field of the invention is that of head-up display systems HUD, protected from solar illumination. An HUD includes at least one display, an optical system and at least one semi-reflecting plate called a combiner, said optical system and said combiner being arranged so that the image on the display is collimated, the display emitting in at least one first optical spectrum of first spectral width, the display being arranged so as to withstand illumination of a predetermined level. In the display according to the invention, the lateral chromatism of the optical system is sufficiently strong for the level of solar illumination received by the display to be always less than said predetermined level and said lateral chromatism is sufficiently weak for the dispersion of the first spectrum emitted by the display and seen by a user to be less than or equal to the resolution limit of the human eye.

Head-up display with optical combination providing protection against solar illumination

The device includes a source of white images, a liquid crystal matrix to control the hue and a liquid crystal matrix to control the saturation of the images displayed.

Optimized color display device which uses a matrix to control the hue

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St. Medard en Jalles, France

Jean-Claude Ebert