Patent ID: 7068258
Filing Date: 2006-06-27
Classification: G02B,H04M

Abstract:
1. A portable communication device with a virtual image display, comprising: a hand held frame having a first end and a second, opposite end; an earphone speaker for projecting sound mounted in the first end of the frame; a virtual image display system including a display and at least one optic through which a user looks to view an enlarged virtual image of information depicted on the display, the virtual image display system being mounted in the second end of the frame wherein both the earphone speaker and the virtual image display system are mounted on the frame for movement to increase the distance between the earphone speaker and the optic through which the user looks to view the image when the device is in use; a switch mounted on the device, the switch having a right position and a left position; a controller responsive to the switch being moved from the right position to the left position to invert the image depicted on the display so that the top of the image is adjacent to a first side of the frame when the switch is in the right position and the top of the image is adjacent to a second side of the frame when the switch is in the left position; and a first microphone mounted on the first side of the device and a second microphone mounted on the second side of the device, said controller being responsive to the switch being in the right position to disable the first microphone and enable the second microphone and the controller being responsive to the switch being in the left position to disable the second niicroplione and enable the first microphone.