A Night Vision Aid As A Consumer Product

James H Burbo

doi:10.1117/12.954793

27 July 1976 A Night Vision Aid As A Consumer Product

James H Burbo

Proceedings Volume 0078, Low Light Level Devices for Science and Technolgy; (1976) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.954793
Event: 1976 SPIE/SPSE Technical Symposium East, 1976, Reston, United States

Abstract

Second Generation Night Vision Devices have received some consideration as comilmer cial products, but rarely as consumer goods, not from lack of potential applications, but because their high cost was inevitably considered to reduce the size of the potential market nearly to the vanishing point. Working with the Retinitis Pigmatosa Foundation, ITT has designed a Second Generation Intensifier Monocular as a medical prosthetic aid for persons suffering from retinal degenerations causing night blindness. The proposed use environment for such an instrullent posed an altogether different set of contraints on the design from those encountered in designing military instruments; some require ents of course are relaxed, but others, surprisingly are at least as stringent as those for military application, though often for different reasons. This paper describes the resulting instrument, showing the tradeoffs among cost, performance, human engineering, and environmental considerations, and indicating the rationale behind the design deci-sions made.

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James H Burbo "A Night Vision Aid As A Consumer Product", Proc. SPIE 0078, Low Light Level Devices for Science and Technolgy, (27 July 1976); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.954793

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