US 11,800,214 B2
Real time camera-based visibility improvement in atmospheric suit
Ashley Rose Himmelmann, Beloit, WI (US); Jake Rohrig, Simsbury, CT (US); and Monica Torralba, Antioch, CA (US)
Assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION, Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed by Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International, Inc., Windsor Locks, CT (US)
Filed on Jan. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/568,103.
Prior Publication US 2023/0217094 A1, Jul. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 23/62 (2023.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01); H04N 23/611 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/62 (2023.01) [H04N 7/181 (2013.01); H04N 23/611 (2023.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for visibility in an atmospheric suit having helmet, the system comprising:
first and second cameras mounted to the helmet and arranged to view different areas of an environment outside the atmospheric suit;
a display device within the helmet configured to display an image obtained by the first and second cameras;
a first input device configured to obtain input from a wearer of the atmospheric suit, the first input device is a third camera mounted within the helmet and arranged to track eye movement of the wearer of the atmospheric suit and a second input device that is one or more of:
a microphone within the helmet configured to obtain audio input from the wearer as initiating input; and
a glove of the atmospheric suit configured to capture hand movements of the wearer as the initiating input;
a controller configured to receive the initiating input and thereafter track eye movement of the wearer via the third camera and responsively capture images from one of the first and second cameras that is selected from the tracked eye movement of the wearer, display the captured images on the display device and adjust magnification and contrast depending on a location of an object as detected by a rangefinder of the selected one of the first and second cameras.