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US 2016/0109711 A1Published application
Optical configurations for head-worn see-through displays
AssigneeOsterhout Group, Inc.
InventorJohn N. Border
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Abstract
Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for providing a high transmission see-through view of the environment while trapping escaping light from the display system. In embodiments, a camera system is also provided that is aligned with the display system to provide images of the environment in a viewing direction of the user.
Claims1
A head-worn computer, comprising:
- a see-through optical system adapted to visually present digital content to an eye of a person wearing the head-worn computer, wherein the person can see a surrounding environment through the see-through optical system, the see through optical system further comprising:
- a partially reflective combiner adapted to reflect, towards the eye, display light based on the digital content, wherein the partially reflective combiner is in-line with an optical axis that provides the eye with the see through view of the surrounding environment, wherein the partially reflective combiner includes an electronically controllable surface to regulate a see through transparency percentage of the partially reflective combiner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.