HUD Cameras

The High-End & Reliable Solution in Head-Up Display Cameras for Front or Rear Combiner Location

LERITY designs and manufactures state-of-the-art and customizable Head-Up Display cameras, for both front and rear combiner locations. Our historic know-how in robust electrooptical designs and our proprietary algorithms for real-time image enhancement provide the advantages needed for a superior product. Our HUD cameras have been selected for mission debriefing on the latest generation fighter and trainer aircraft, such as the French Rafale (Dassault) and the American F-15 and F-18 (Boeing), among other military and civilian aircraft.

Applications

Training
Mission restitution

Aircrafts

Dassault Rafale
Boeing F-15
Boeing F/A-18
KAI KA-1
KAI KT-1
Kawasaki T-4

Innovations & Features

Embedded image enhancement algorithms
Robustness to direct sun exposure
No mobile parts for best reliability
CMOS sensor
Very low impact for pilot’s vision
Designed for harsh environments

LERITY Vision Expertise

Real-time signal processing under power consumption constraints

LERITY leads the field in real-time signal processing with low power consumption. An expert in the visible spectrum, LERITY provides the best possible image quality and vision system performance. This expertise is based since 2016 on academic partnerships, supported by the DGA in the framework of CIFRE-DEFENSE theses.

The expertise acquired covers the following areas, for embedded applications with constraints in terms of consumption volume and latency:

Automatic adjustment of vision systems according to the scene and observation conditions
Correction of optical defects
Reduction of vision system noise
Multi-sensor fusion
Automatic detection and tracking

Innovative design of optronic systems in harsh environments

LERITY has extensive know-how and expertise in the design of optronic systems for applications in severe environments: temperature, shocks and vibrations and electromagnetic.

In order to significantly increase the reliability of the systems, our approach consists on the one hand in replacing by innovative solutions all the mechanisms and more generally all the moving parts traditionally used in optronic systems, and on the other hand in minimizing the number of product parts. With this approach it is easy to ensure an excellent electrical continuity between the different parts and consequently a good behavior against electromagnetic aggression

The acquired expertise, validated by qualification tests and demonstration of reliability integrating the real environmental conditions of the products, concerns in particular the following solutions:

LCD-based electronic iris to replace mechanical iris
Passive athermalization of optics to eliminate focusing mechanisms
Multi sensor concept combined with fixed focal length lenses to replace motorized zooms
Consideration of EMC constraints in the design from the preliminary design phases
Dedicated real time signal processing

Image sensors and laser illuminators

LERITY has extensive know-how and expertise in the field of image sensors and laser illuminators operating in the visible spectrum.

This expertise allows to obtain the best performances in terms of ranges and to increase the fields of use in the conditions of poor visibility of vision systems.

This expertise is based on intensive market surveillance in view of the rapid technological developments in these fields. This surveillance allows us to identify the most promising components which will then be characterized according to our metrological standards and then for those which correspond to the requirements of our customers integrated into products.

This expertise covers the following technological fields

Image intensifier tube
CMOS sensors
Laser sources: diode, VCSEL
Fast power transistors
Pulsed illumination synchronized with sensor exposure
Sensor control for very short exposure times
Dedicated real time signal processing