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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 12, 1998
Joel Robinson, Seattle, WA (US);
Wes Williams, Arlington, WA (US);
George W. Cone, Redmond, WA (US);
Dallas Soward, Bothell, WA (US);
Virtual Vision, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
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.