Patent ID: 8665177

Claim:
A video eyewear device comprising: a receiver, disposed in a head-mounted housing, for receiving an input signal having encoded therein video and audio information representing a multimedia presentation; a first microdisplay coupled to the head-mounted housing using a first arm, the first microdisplay and first arm arranged to occlude a field of view of a user, the first microdisplay including a first screen arranged to be viewed directly by the user, the first screen being opaque; a speaker coupled to the head-mounted housing; a video driver circuit disposed in the head-mounted housing and receiving the input signal, and the video driver circuit providing a video portion of the multimedia presentation to the first microdisplay; an audio driver circuit receiving the input signal and providing an audio portion of the multimedia presentation to the speaker; a capacitive sense array formed of at least two capacitive touch sensors, each capacitive touch sensor patterned onto a flexible circuit and disposed in the head-mounted housing, the capacitive touch sensor receiving a user input at one of a location closer to the speaker to control rendering of the audio portion through the speaker and at a location closer to the microdisplay to control display of the video portion through the first screen, and the capacitive sense array providing in response to said user input a control signal to at least one of the video driver circuit or audio driver circuit, the control signal for controlling directly, without menu navigation, an aspect of the multimedia presentation on the video eyewear device, wherein the capacitive sense array enables a user to intuitively control the first microdisplay and the speaker as a function of location of user input relative to the speaker and the microdisplay, while continuing to watch the multimedia presentation unhindered; and a second microdisplay coupled to the head-mounted housing using a second arm, the second microdisplay and second arm arranged to occlude a second field of view of a user, the second microdisplay including a second screen arranged to be viewed directly by the user, the second screen being opaque; wherein the video driver circuit further provides a video portion of the multimedia presentation to the second microdisplay; and wherein the user input is applied to adjust a relative offset between video signals presented on the first and second microdisplays.