Patent ID: 6614408
Filing Date: 2003-09-02
Classification: G02B,G09G,H04N

Abstract:
A portable electronic camera device including an electronic camera and an electronic display, said electronic display responsive to an output from said electronic camera, said electronic display being, in use, viewable by an eye of a user of said portable electronic camera device, and reflective optics arranged for reflecting light such that at least a portion of a first set of converging rays of light which would, absent said reflective optics, converge at said eye is reflected to a second set of converging rays directed at the center of projection of said camera, wherein said reflective optics is further for reflecting light from said electronic display such that said reflected light from said electronic display forms a third set of converging rays approximating said first set of converging rays, in order to provide substantial exact registration of what would have been seen by said eye, in the absence of said portable electronic camera device, with what, in the presence of said portable electronic camera device, is seen at said eye.