Mounted display system

• US 6,486,855 B1
• Filed: 11/12/1997
• Issued: 11/26/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: IV Phoenix Group Inc. (Singapore Technologies Engineering Limited)
• Original Assignee: IV Phoenix Group Inc. (Singapore Technologies Engineering Limited)
• Inventors: Pandolfi, Richard
• Primary Examiner(s): Hjerpe, Richard
• Assistant Examiner(s): Laneau, Ronald
• Application Number:
  US08/968,075
• Time in Patent Office: 1,840 Days
• Field of Search: 345/7, 345/8, 345/84
• US Class Current: 345/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt

Abstract

An electric-powered display is retained in any of a large plurality of positions in the field of vision of a user by a mechanical linkage mounted on the user below the head.

Claims

1. A hands-free, computer driven, information display system, including an information display surface adapted to be positioned at a distance from the eyes of a user when the user is viewing information on said display surface, comprising in combination:

means for hands-free and head-free support of the information display surface at a distance from a user'"'"'s eye such that as the user moves his or her head vertically and horizontally the user'"'"'s field of view moves vertically and horizontally relative to said information display surface between a position where said information display surface is in the position to be viewed by a user at said distance from the eyes of the user and a position where the information display surface is outside the user'"'"'s field of view;

said means for hands-free and head-free support including a member which engages the trunk of the user and a support arm, which is attached to and extends from said member, and to which support arm said information display surface is attached;

said means for hands-free and head-free support providing at least the following degrees of movement of said display surface relative to said head in a stationary position, namely in and out, up and down, and right and left.

2. The hands-free display system as in claim 1 wherein said trunk-engaging member is an articulated curved member that fits over the shoulder of a user and is resiliently biased to engage a portion of the user'"'"'s back and chest and said trunk-engaging member includes a hand responsive user interface to said computer driven, information display system.

3. A hands-free display system as in claim 1 wherein said means for hands-free and head-free support of the information display surface provides six degrees of movement of said display surface, namely, along the following axes with respect to the field of view of a user, up, down, right, left, in, out, and rotation about each of these axes.

4. A hands-free display system as in claim 2 wherein said means for hands-free and head-free support of the information display surface provides six degrees of movement of said display surface, namely, along the following axes with respect to the field of view of a user, up, down, right, left, in, out, and rotation about each of these axes.