Monocular head-mounted display system (US6452572)

Application Number	Filed	Pub. Date	Title
US1996000652625	1996-05-21	1998-09-29	Monocular portable communication and display system
US1994000288062	1994-08-09
US1994000220042	1994-03-30
US1993000141133	1993-10-22


	Parent Case:			RELATED APPLICATION This is a Divisional Application of U.S. application Ser. No. 08/652,625, filed on May 21, 1996 now U.S. Pat. No. 5,815,126 which is a File Wrapper Continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 08/288,062, filed Aug. 9, 1994 now abandoned which is a Continuation-in-Part of U.S. application Ser. No. 08/220,042, filed on Mar. 30, 1994 now abandoned which is a Continuation-in-Part of U.S. application Ser. No. 08/141,133, filed on Oct. 22, 1993, now abandoned all of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.
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	First Claim: Show all 20 claims			We claim: 1. A head-mounted display system comprising: a support frame; a monocular display module housing coupled to the support frame, the monocular display module housing having a liquid crystal matrix display mounted within the display housing, a matrix display driver circuit within the display housing, a lens system mounted within the display module housing to couple an image generated by the liquid crystal matrix display to an eye of a user, a backlight to illuminate the display, and a reflector that reflects light from the backlight through a diffuser positioned between the backlight and the matrix display, where the backlight, the display, and the lens system are aligned along a single linear optical axis; a circuit housing coupled to the support frame and securable to the head of the user, the circuit housing having display circuitry mounted therein that controls the liquid crystal matrix display to generate an image; and a wireless two-way communications circuit coupled to the support frame, the communications circuit electrically connected to the circuit housing and the communications circuit receiving image data from a remote source.
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Foreign References:

Publication	Date	IPC Code	Assignee	Title
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