Patent ID: 11910864
Assignee: ROCKWELL COLLINS, INC.
Field: Other consumer goods (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A  G  B | IPC A  B  G

Claim 12:
13. A helmet assembly for a spacesuit, comprising:
an external face shield attachable to a spacesuit, the external face shield providing at least one field of view (FOV) to a user of the spacesuit;
one or more suit status displays mounted to the external face shield within the at least one FOV, each suit status display comprising:
a one-dimensional array of one or more light-emitting diode (LED) units;
and
an LED controller operatively coupled to the array of LED units and in communication with a suit controller of the spacesuit, the LED controller configured to:
receive at least one first suit status from the suit controller;
and
display the at least one first suit status to the user by illuminating a first subset of one or more LED units of the array;

and
at least one microphone in communication with the LED controller, the microphone configured to receive verbal control input from the user;
wherein the LED controller is configured to, based on the received verbal control input from the user, transition from displaying the at least one first suit status to displaying at least one second suit status by illuminating a second subset of one or more LED units of the array.