Physical Optics Corporation — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: A15-040

Description

To address the Armys need for a head-wearable integrated video decompression micro-display that is capable of directly receiving compressed video signal and displaying the decompressed video to the human eye, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Wearable INtelligent Display (WIND). It is based on a novel design that employs an integrated system on a chip (SoC) with a real-time video decoder to process compressed video streams and interface directly with an integrated micro-display. This innovation enables the micro-display pixels to be driven directly from the decoded video signal components utilizing the intricacies of the decompression algorithms, eliminating the need for any intermediate standard conversions such as VGA, HDMI, and DVI. As a result, WIND is a highly integrated, low-power, low-latency, and lightweight micro-display that directly receives and displays high-quality compressed video streams over wireless networks and is designed specifically for head-wearable application. In Phase I, POC will demonstrate the feasibility of WIND by designing, modeling, and simulating the design in a software validation platform that analyzes the validity of the approach and identifies potential issues. In Phase II, POC will develop a hardware feasibility design packaged with a micro-display with supporting hardware and software.