Patent ID: 8588448

Claim:
A communication eyewear assembly comprising: a frame assembly; at least one substantially transparent eye panel coupled to said frame assembly; said frame assembly structured to be supportably disposed on a wearer so as to maintain said at least one eye panel disposed in front of a wearer's eye; a processor coupled to said frame assembly, said processor structured and disposed to receive an incoming audio signal; at least one earpiece disposed in wireless communication with said processor and further structured to be disposed in operative proximity to the at least one of the wearer's ears; said at least one earpiece comprising a speaker assembly structured and disposed to audibly communicate said incoming audio signal to the wearer; said at least one earpiece further comprising a rechargeable earpiece power supply structured and disposed to provide power to at least said speaker assembly, and wherein said earpiece and said frame assembly are structured to be secured to one another to define a stored orientation and are cooperatively structured to charge said rechargeable earpiece power supply when said at least one earpiece is disposed in said stored orientation; said processor further structured to transmit said incoming audio signal to said at least one earpiece; an outbound microphone assembly disposed and structured to pick up an outbound audio signal from the wearer and transmit said outbound audio signal to said processor; and said processor further structured and disposed to transmit said outbound signal.