Customer: AMO STAR (Simulation, Training, Assessment & Research) Center - Dania, FL.

Integrator: Electric Picture Display Systems, Melbourne FL

What: STAR Center 270 Docking Bridge upgrade from lamp-based 1280x1024 landscape 7 channel projection system to a 9 channel, portrait 1920x1200 LED illuminated projection systems.

Image Generator: Kongsberg Marine Simulation.

Projectors: Digital Projection M-Vision LED1000 WUXGA projectors with 0.84-1.03:1 zoom lenses.  These lenses helped give us lens shift which enabled us to reduce lost pixels to keystoning.

Warp & Blend: Replaced a 3DPerception Compact-UTM blend/warp processing system with Calibre HQView 325 video processors and Scalable Display Manager application. Canon T5 cameras (qty 4) are used to enable the entire 205 degree display to be viewed and calibrated. Masking for black level: Electric Picture's patent-pending Mantis Motorized to eliminate the optical overlap zones for night training.

Why:
• First, improve vertical field of view at top and bottom.  The benefit here was creating a more immersive environment for others in the bridge besides pilot or person at the helm having limited VFoV looking out windows.  Having increased VFoV took away the unused space on the screen, and kept those involved in the simulation activity in a more immersive environment.  
• Second, improve color space/gamut in the projection with LED v. lamp-based projection. Also better contrast in the newer LED illuminated projectors as well.
• Third, increase resolution from 1024 vertical v. 1920 vertical.

When: 2015.

Photograph:The image above is the finished product. The picture includes three blend zones.
 Can you find the seams in the image?