Wearable heads-up displays with antennas and antennas for same
AssigneeNorth Inc.
InventorsJoshua Moore, Kai Zhang, George Shaker
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Abstract
Systems, devices and methods for eyeglasses frames and eyeglasses frames assemblies for wearable electronic devices, and particularly systems, devices, and methods that employ an antenna in eyeglasses frames and eyeglasses frames assemblies for wearable heads-up displays, the systems, devices and methods including a pair of eyeglasses having a first arm housing a radio and an antenna, wherein the antenna has a principal axis and main lobe extending outward therefrom and a power source is coupled to the first arm or a second arm and electrically coupled to the radio via an electrically conductive path.
Claims18
An apparatus, comprising:
- a front eyeglass frame, including:
- a first rim, a second rim, and a bridge that physically couples the first rim and the second rim;
- a first arm coupled to the first rim and having a first temple portion;
- a second arm coupled to the second rim and having a second temple portion;
- a printed circuit board;
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- a directional antenna carried by the printed circuit board, the directional antenna having a main lobe with a principal axis that extends outwardly from the printed circuit board, the printed circuit board and the directional antenna housed in the first temple portion of the first arm with the principal axis of the directional antenna directed outwardly therefrom.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.