CAE is providing an auto-alignment tool for the visual system that will help reduce the labor required to maintain the visual picture quality. It involves a camera that the software uses to view the visual display and the test patterns, a light meter that senses the gamma (so brightness and color temperature can be automatically adjusted) and the software itself.
This system has been in development at CAE for a while and I believe we will be the first to have it. We're hoping everything goes well and the tool works as it purported to.
In the pic below you can seen Henry Ng working on the camera. He's epoxying the lens for the light sensor onto the bottom of the camera. The lens directs light into a fiber-optic cable, which transports it to a box that breaks it down and communicates the information to the computer for analysis. This entire assembly hangs inside the top of the visual dome behind the back-projection screen.
Henry working on the Auto-Alignment camera
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Ron, the entire civilized world has autocal for their visual systems. It was only America West that had to do it the old fashioned way. :D I'm surprised to see another pan tilt camera, I thought CAE would be using a gimbal mirror?
Matt, this isn't CAE's first autocal system, just the first one for the new visual with 4 projectors.
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