Patent ID: 9729767
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G02B,H04N

Claim:
1. A wearable display apparatus for viewing video images of objects illuminated with infrared light, the display apparatus comprising: a transparent display that is positioned in a user's field of vision when the display apparatus is worn; an infrared light source that illuminates infrared light to a surrounding environment to cause infrared light images to be reflected from the surrounding environment; a stereoscopic video camera device including at least two cameras that each capture the reflected infrared light images of the illuminated surrounding environment, the surrounding environment to which the infrared light is illuminated including at least an area in front of the stereoscopic video camera device; and a projection system that receives the infrared light images from the stereoscopic video camera device, and projects (i) a first infrared-illuminated video image onto a transparent left eye viewport portion of the transparent display, the first infrared-illuminated video image overlapping a user's left eye field of vision, and concurrently, (ii) a second infrared-illuminated video image onto a transparent right eye viewport portion of the transparent display, the second infrared-illuminated video image overlapping a user's right eye field of vision, wherein projection of the first infrared-illuminated video image and the second infrared-illuminated video image onto the transparent display creates a stereoscopic image viewable by the user.