Portable communication device with virtual image display module

A portable communication device with a virtual image display comprising:

• a hand-held frame having a first aperture in a first end of the frame, a second aperture in a second, opposite end of the frame;
• an earphone module mounted on the frame in the first aperture for slidable movement therein between first and second earphone positions;
• a virtual image display module mounted on the frame in the second aperture for pivotal movement between first and second position, the virtual image display module having a display and an optical system with at least one optic through which the user looks to view a virtual video image of information depicted on the display wherein the optical system projects a magnified image of the displayed information that appears to be at a greater distance from the user than the display module;
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• a linkage connected between the virtual image display module and the earphone module, the linkage moving one of the earphone module or the display module from its first position to its second position as a user moves the other of the modules from its first position to its second position.

A portable communication device with a virtual image display, comprising:

• a hand held frame having a first end and an opposite, second end and a first side and an opposite, second side;
• an earphone speaker for projecting sound mounted in the first end of the frame;
• a virtual image display system having a display depicting an image and at least one optic into which the user looks to view a virtual image, the optic being located at the second end of the frame;
• a switch having a right position and left position;
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• a controller responsive to the switch being moved from the right position to the left position to invert the image depicted on the display so that the top of the image is adjacent a first side of the frame when the switch is in the right position and the top of the image is adjacent the second side of the frame when the switch is in the left position.