Virtual Vision, Inc.

Joel W Robinson

Kevin W Shimasaki

Wendie L Siverts

Wes Williams

George W Cone

Gregory Lee Heacock

John W Pace

Wayde Hampton Watters

Gordon B Kuenster

Steven J Shankle

Dallas Soward

Fredrick W Rivera

Jessica L Quint

Stephen Peart

Theodore F Pierson

A monocular head mounted display system that is convertible between a right eye display system and a left eye display system includes a generally symmetrical frame. A flexible support arm moveably mounted on the frame, supports an image display module. The image display module includes a display and optical system to project an enlarged image at a distance from the user. With the frame in a first position with the image display module below the frame, the image is viewable by a user's right eye. The system is converted by moving the support arm so that the display module is above the frame in the first position and then the frame is flipped over to an inverted position with the display module again below the frame but the image viewable by the user's left eye.

Convertible right eye/left eye monocular head mounted display system

A head mounted display system is shown that is modular such that various components of the system are removably mounted and/or adjustably mounted on a frame that is supported on a user's head. The head mounted display system can thus accommodate different users and components of different configurations. In particular, the display system includes a mirror through which a displayed image is viewed, the position of the mirror being adjustable and the mirror being removable from the frame of the display system. The display system further includes a nose piece that is adjustably mounted on the frame so as to allow the distance between the frame member supporting the display and a nose bridge to be varied. The nose piece is further completely removable from the frame of the display system so as to allow the display system to accommodate a user wearing conventional glasses. The display system also includes removable earphones and removable earphone retainers disposed on the temples of the display system. The hinges connecting the temples to the frame of the display system are removable and further include wire retaining members so as to maintain the earphone wire, if present, adjacent to the temple of the display system.

Head mounted display system

A miniature microscope is extremely small, fitting in a palm of a user's hand while providing powerful magnification and enhanced brightness so that the details of an object which cannot be resolved by an unaided eye can be easily seen. The microscope includes a housing have a holder for supporting an object to be viewed. At least one light source is position in the housing off-axis with respect to the object to be viewed. A first prism includes a first prism surface for reflecting light from the light source to a beam splitter surface wherein the beam splitter surface reflects light from the first prism surface to the object to be viewed. The beam splitter surface also passes light reflected from the object therethrough to a second prism. The second prism is positioned with respect to the first prism to provide refraction correction. The miniature microscope also includes a movable focusing optic that receives light passed through the first and second prisms for providing a magnified image of the object supported in the holder.

Miniature microscope

A support is shown for an image display system that is to be worn on a user's head. The image display system includes an image generating module with at least one optical element into which a user looks to view a generated image and an electronics module, both of these modules being removably mountable on the support. The support includes a head hugging member having a front portion, a pair of side portions, a top portion and a back portion integrally formed from a material with multidirectional elasticity so that the side, top and back portions conform to and hug the user's head. The support also includes a rigid bill secured to the front portion of the head hugging member so that it extends outwardly from a user's forehead for providing a rigid support onto which the image generating module is mounted. Whereas the image generating module is mounted on the front of the support, the electronics module is removably mounted on a back portion of the support to provide a head mounted display system the weight of which is distributed over the user's entire head. In a second embodiment the support is formed of a cloth cap with a rigid bill for supporting the image generating module.

Support for a head mounted display system

A head mounted display system includes an eye shade with a central opaque portion to block out light in the central field of view of the user's eyes and transparent or semi-transparent side portions on either side of the central portion so as to maintain the user's side peripheral vision substantially free from obstruction. A shield may be mounted on the lower peripheral edge of the eye shade so as to block light, water spray and particles from entering the interior of the head mounted display system.

Head mounted display system with light blocking structure

Portable interface unit for a head-up display system

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Bothell, WA, United States of America

Joel W Robinson