Patents Assigned to Elbit Systems Ltd.
  • Patent number: 12287479
    Abstract: A direct view display system (DVDS) and a method to operate it are provided herein. The DVDS may include: a variable optical power element (VOPE); a transparent active image source located with the VOPE on a common optical axis going from an outside scene to an eye position of a viewer; and a time division multiplexer (TDM) configured to control the VOPE and the transparent active image source, wherein the TDM is configured in a certain time period to cause the transparent active image source to be in a transparent state and the VOPE to exhibit no optical power, and wherein the TDM is configured in another time period to cause said transparent active image source to exhibit an image and said VOPE to apply non-zero optical power, for projecting the image onto the eye position at a desirable distance therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Ornit Amir, Yolanda Landesberg, Aron Arlievsky, Ofer Nesher
  • Patent number: 12276861
    Abstract: An eyepiece suitable for a night vision device, having an optical combiner for injecting a synthetic image onto the scene and having a single optical correction mechanism is provided herein. The eyepiece may include an observer-side lens; an objective-side lens; a diopter adjustment knob configured to set a distance between the observer-side lens and the objective-side lens; and an optical combiner located between the objective-side lens and the objective-side lens, wherein the optical combiner reflects towards the observer-side lens, the synthetic image transmitted from outside the eyepiece and transfers towards the observer-side lens, a scene image coming from an objecting lens of the night vision device and passing through the objective side lens, and wherein the diopter adjustment knob serves as a single setting mechanism which simultaneously sets a diopter of the observer and a focal depth of the display source image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Gil Benesh, Sharon Golebowicz
  • Patent number: 12276860
    Abstract: An eyepiece suitable for a night vision device, having an optical combiner for injecting a synthetic image onto the scene and having a single optical correction mechanism is provided herein. The eyepiece may include an observer-side lens; an objective-side lens; a diopter adjustment knob configured to set a distance between the observer-side lens and the objective-side lens; and an optical combiner located between the objective-side lens and the objective-side lens, wherein the optical combiner reflects towards the observer-side lens, the synthetic image transmitted from outside the eyepiece and transfers towards the observer-side lens, a scene image coming from an objecting lens of the night vision device and passing through the objective side lens, and wherein the diopter adjustment knob serves as a single setting mechanism which simultaneously sets a diopter of the observer and a focal depth of the display source image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Gil Benesh, Sharon Golebowicz
  • Patent number: 12253387
    Abstract: A method of determining a configuration of a measurement volume, the method may include: generating, by at least one transmitter, a transmitted magnetic field within the measurement volume; measuring, by at least one receiver positioned, a total magnetic field in the measurement volume at at least one receiver position and generating at least one receiver output signal; generating, by a processing unit, a measured dataset; comparing, by the processing unit, the measured dataset with at least one of at least two reference configuration datasets each for determined for one of at least two different configurations of the measurement volume; and identifying, by the processing unit, a reference configuration dataset of the at least two reference configuration datasets that corresponds to the measured dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Evgeni Gurovich, Yoav Ophir
  • Publication number: 20250067987
    Abstract: Head wearable display (HWD) systems and methods of display reliability verification with respect to the HWD operated by a user are provided, which comprise tracking a position and orientation (P&O) of the HWD relative to hardware element(s) at known position(s), which are selected from a surroundings of the user and are visible to the user through the HWD, calculating position(s) of the hardware element(s) with respect to the HWD, and displaying, in the HWD and according to the calculated position(s), verification symbol(s) that correspond to the hardware element(s). Display reliability verification may be carried out automatically using a camera and an image processing module, optionally with an additional illuminator, which compares the element(s)'s captured locations with the element(s)'s expected location according to the tracking, and indicates possible discrepancies. Discrepancy identification may be used to initiate a correction process or to indicate the presented symbology to be unreliable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Yaniv ROIMI, Ben-Yishai RANI
  • Patent number: 12140758
    Abstract: Head wearable display (HWD) systems and methods of display reliability verification with respect to the HWD operated by a user are provided, which comprise tracking a position and orientation (P&O) of the HWD relative to hardware element(s) at known position(s), which are selected from a surroundings of the user and are visible to the user through the HWD, calculating position(s) of the hardware element(s) with respect to the HWD, and displaying, in the HWD and according to the calculated position(s), verification symbol(s) that correspond to the hardware element(s). Display reliability verification may be carried out automatically using a camera and an image processing module, optionally with an additional illuminator, which compares the element(s)'s captured locations with the element (s)'s expected location according to the tracking, and indicates possible discrepancies. Discrepancy identification may be used to initiate a correction process or to indicate the presented symbology to be unreliable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Yaniv Roimi, Rani Ben-Yishai
  • Patent number: 12112713
    Abstract: A head wearable device (HWD) suitable to be worn by a user, the HWD may include: a head tracker configured to track a line of sight (LOS) of the user; a near eye display (NED) comprising: a plurality of transistors groups forming a pixel array of said display, a plurality of backlight units, forming a backlight surface of said display; a backlight control module configured to dim the backlight units that spatially overlap one or more of the transistor groups whenever the data at said transistor groups is being refreshed and further configured to change at least one of: a frequency and a location of the dimmed backlight units; and a computer processor coupled to the tracker and the NED and configured to instruct the backlight control module to change at least one of: the frequency and the location of the dimmed backlight units, based on the user LOS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoav Ophir, Gil Benesh
  • Publication number: 20240231036
    Abstract: An eyepiece suitable for a night vision device, having an optical combiner for injecting a synthetic image onto the scene and having a single optical correction mechanism is provided herein. The eyepiece may include an observer-side lens; an objective-side lens; a diopter adjustment knob configured to set a distance between the observer-side lens and the objective-side lens; and an optical combiner located between the objective-side lens and the objective-side lens, wherein the optical combiner reflects towards the observer-side lens, the synthetic image transmitted from outside the eyepiece and transfers towards the observer-side lens, a scene image coming from an objecting lens of the night vision device and passing through the objective side lens, and wherein the diopter adjustment knob serves as a single setting mechanism which simultaneously sets a diopter of the observer and a focal depth of the display source image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Gil BENESH, Sharon GOLEBOWICZ
  • Patent number: 11933978
    Abstract: An optical system that reduces reflections from an electronic display is provided herein. The optical system may include an electronic display; and a light directing medium configured to steer a plurality of viewing cones into an eye motion box facing said display so that said viewing cones overlap at least partially at the eye motion box plane, wherein a viewing cone is a geometric location only within which a viewer can see light coming from said electronic display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Errikos Amarilio, Yolanda Landesberg
  • Patent number: 11933982
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for using a user's line of sight (LOS) and/or gaze direction to enhance displayed data and control various displays and instruments. The user's LOS is tracked, corresponding element(s) in a scene at which the user gazes are identified, e.g., in a database, and respective displayed data are enhanced or otherwise manipulated with respect to the identified element(s). The database may be multilayered and may comprise data layers which are conformal to a scene representation. Users may also select, using their LOS, among multiple layers of information and among multiple displayed parts to enhance or attenuate respective layers or parts. Designated elements may be real-world elements, displayed elements or instruments in the operational surroundings of the user. Identification of elements at which LOSs of multiple users are aimed at may be used for exchange of information among the users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Itamar Nocham, Avner Shahal
  • Publication number: 20230384600
    Abstract: A method and a system for displaying a scene to a user wearing ahead mounted display (HMD) while removing obstructions in a field of view (FOV) of the user are provided herein. The method may include: capturing by a sensor a vehicle image of the scene wherein the first sensor is mounted on the vehicle; tracking a position and orientation of the HMD in a specified coordinate system, to yield a line of sight (LOS) of the user wearing the HMD; obtaining a database containing obstacles data indicating at least one physical object located within the vehicle and affecting the FOV of the user; calculating an obstructed portion in the FOV of the user, based on the LOS and the database; generating from the vehicle image, an un-obstructed view which includes a portion of the scene overlapping the obstructed portion; and displaying in the HMD the un-obstructed view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Vadim NEIMARK, Johai AMATI, Sharon KEDEM
  • Patent number: 11823374
    Abstract: Imaging systems and methods are provided, which implement wide field imaging of a region for medical procedures and provide tracking of tools and tissues in the whole region while providing digitally magnified images of a portion of the captured region. Optical tracking may be implemented by stereoscopic imaging, and various elements may be optically tracked such as various markers and fiducials, as well as certain shapes and objects which are optically identifiable by image processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Ron Schneider, Abraham Zeitouny
  • Patent number: 11815690
    Abstract: Head mounted displays (HMD) and corresponding display methods are provided, which obtain, repeatedly, from a monitoring system of a vehicle and, a reference vector relating to the vehicle; display on the HMD a reference symbol that indicates the reference vector; and determine movements of a HMD symbology according to a spatial relation between a received user's line of sight (LOS) and the reference vector. For example, the vehicle may be an aircraft and the reference vector a flight path vector (FPV) received from the aircraft's avionics. The proposed HMD enhances the displayed information content while avoiding excessive movements of the symbology. The HMD's functional parameters may be pre-set or adapted according to user preference and flight stage characteristics. The reference symbol anchors most of the symbology, while minimal critical information may be moved along with the user's LOS, providing a clearer and more stable view through the HMD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Avner Shahal, Omer Hasharoni, Yuval Assaf
  • Publication number: 20230314755
    Abstract: An eyepiece suitable for a night vision device, having an optical combiner for injecting a synthetic image onto the scene and having a single optical correction mechanism is provided herein. The eyepiece may include an observer-side lens; an objective-side lens; a diopter adjustment knob configured to set a distance between the observer-side lens and the objective-side lens; and an optical combiner located between the objective-side lens and the objective-side lens, wherein the optical combiner reflects towards the observer-side lens, the synthetic image transmitted from outside the eyepiece and transfers towards the observer-side lens, a scene image coming from an objecting lens of the night vision device and passing through the objective side lens, and wherein the diopter adjustment knob serves as a single setting mechanism which simultaneously sets a diopter of the observer and a focal depth of the display source image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Gil BENESH, Sharon GOLEBOWICZ
  • Publication number: 20230003550
    Abstract: A method of determining a configuration of a measurement volume, the method may include: generating, by at least one transmitter, a transmitted magnetic field within the measurement volume; measuring, by at least one receiver positioned, a total magnetic field in the measurement volume at at least one receiver position and generating at least one receiver output signal; generating, by a processing unit, a measured dataset; comparing, by the processing unit, the measured dataset with at least one of at least two reference configuration datasets each for determined for one of at least two different configurations of the measurement volume; and identifying, by the processing unit, a reference configuration dataset of the at least two reference configuration datasets that corresponds to the measured dataset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Evgeni GUROVICH, Yoav OPHIR
  • Publication number: 20220404624
    Abstract: Head mounted displays (HMD) and corresponding display methods are provided, which obtain, repeatedly, from a monitoring system of a vehicle and, a reference vector relating to the vehicle; display on the HMD a reference symbol that indicates the reference vector; and determine movements of a HMD symbology according to a spatial relation between a received user's line of sight (LOS) and the reference vector. For example, the vehicle may be an aircraft and the reference vector a flight path vector (FPV) received from the aircraft's avionics. The proposed HMD enhances the displayed information content while avoiding excessive movements of the symbology. The HMD's functional parameters may be pre-set or adapted according to user preference and flight stage characteristics. The reference symbol anchors most of the symbology, while minimal critical information may be moved along with the user's LOS, providing a clearer and more stable view through the HMD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Avner SHAHAL, Omer Hasharoni, Yuval Assaf
  • Patent number: 11484363
    Abstract: System for determining a position of a tool-point-of-interest of a tool, relative to an eye-tissue-of-interest, which includes and imager a tool-tracker and a processor. The imager acquires an image of a tissue-reference-marker. The tool-tracker determines information relating to the P&O of the tool in a reference-coordinate-system. The imager and the tool-tracker are in registration with the reference-coordinate-system. The processor determines the position of the tissue-reference-marker in the reference-coordinate-system, according to the acquired image of the tissue-reference-marker. The processor determines the P&O of the eye-tissue-of-interest in the reference-coordinate-system according to at least the position of the tissue-reference-marker and a relative position between the tissue-reference-marker and the eye-tissue-of-interest. The relative position is pre-determined from a stored-3D-model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Ron Schneider, Abraham Zeitouny, Einav Namer Yelin, Rani Ben-Yishai
  • Patent number: 11422370
    Abstract: Head mounted displays (HMD) and corresponding display methods are provided, which obtain, repeatedly, from a monitoring system of a vehicle and, a reference vector relating to the vehicle; display on the HMD a reference symbol that indicates the reference vector; and determine movements of a HMD symbology according to a spatial relation between a received user's line of sight (LOS) and the reference vector. For example, the vehicle may be an aircraft and the reference vector a flight path vector (FPV) received from the aircraft's avionics. The proposed HMD enhances the displayed information content while avoiding excessive movements of the symbology. The HMD's functional parameters may be pre-set or adapted according to user preference and flight stage characteristics. The reference symbol anchors most of the symbology, while minimal critical information may be moved along with the user's LOS, providing a clearer and more stable view through the HMD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Avner Shahal, Omer Hasharoni, Yuval Assaf
  • Patent number: 11389249
    Abstract: Systems and method are provided which enhance ophthalmological surgical procedures. Systems may include camera(s) configured to capture and magnify eye image(s) (possibly stereoscopic), a tissue position and orientation (P&O) tracker configured in to track a P&O of a specified eye tissue, a tool P&O tracker configured to track a P&O of treatment tool(s) and derive a tool tip pointing vector therefrom, a processing unit configured to calculate an intersection between the tool tip pointing vector and the specified eye tissue and to relate spatially optical coherence tomography (OCT) image(s) of the eye tissue to the tool tip location and/or to the intersection, and a display module configured to display the magnified image(s) of the eye tissue with the OCT image(s) associated therewith according to the spatial relation. An OCT imager may be mounted on the tool tip to provide the OCT image(s) in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Ron Schneider, Avi Zeitouni
  • Patent number: 11284540
    Abstract: A first thermal management approach involves an air flow through cooling mechanism with multiple airflow channels for dissipating heat generated in a PCA. The air flow direction through at least one of the channels is different from the air flow direction through at least another of the channels. Alternatively or additionally, the airflow inlet of at least one channel is off-axis with respect to the airflow outlet. A second thermal management approach involves the fabrication of a PCB with enhanced durability by mitigating via cracking or PTH fatigue. At least one PCB layer is composed of a base material formed from a 3D woven fiberglass fabric, and conductive material deposited onto the base material surface. A conductive PTH extends through the base material of multiple PCB layers, where the CTE of the base material along the z-axis direction substantially matches the CTE of the conductive material along the x-axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Oleg Naigertsik, Alex Fischman, Ian Engleman, Isaac Jak Kettner