NIGHT VISION GOGGLES FOR PILOT Russian patent published in 2021 - IPC G02B23/12 G02B23/18 H04N5/33 

FIELD: optical equipment.

SUBSTANCE: goggles can be used for piloting, taking off and landing aircraft, and as a day and night surveillance device for ground vehicle drivers. The goggles contain a protective glass, a rectangular prism with reflecting faces, and observation branches – televisional one and for SWIR spectral range, each of which includes an image conversion system, a control unit, an eyepiece, and a microdisplay located in the subject plane of the eyepiece. The optical axes of the branch lenses are parallel and located above the microdisplays in a horizontal plane perpendicular to the optical axis of the eyepieces and are offset relative to each other. The batteries are located between the micro-displays, and the control unit is integrated into the image conversion systems.

EFFECT: provided is possibility of simultaneous observation of images of in-cabin lighting equipment and the field from the glazed cabin day and night, reducing the distance between the input optical axes of the observation branches.

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