Patent ID: 7440592

Claim:
A secure content near eye display apparatus comprising: a microdisplay device; an eye shroud, the user placing his or her eye adjacent to the eye shroud to establish a display-eye interface to view the secure content information; a user verification system configured to verify whether the user is an authorized user, wherein the user verification system includes an eye scanner configured to verify whether the user is the authorized user by scanning the user's eye once the display-eye interface is established between the user's eye and the microdisplay device; a beam splitter arranged to allow the eye scanner to function coaxially with the microdisplay device such that the eye scanner verifies whether the user is the authorized user while the user views the microdisplay device after the display-eye interface is established; a controller coupled to the microdisplay device and to the user verification system, the controller being configured to control the microdisplay device to display secure content information to the user only if the user verification system has verified that the user is the authorized user; and wherein the eye scanner is a non-disruptive eye scanner and is configured to continuously verify whether the user is the authorized user while the user views the microdisplay device after the display-eye interface is established, and wherein the controller is configured to control the microdisplay device to stop displaying the secure content information if the eye scanner is unable to verify that the user is the authorized user, thereby indicating that the display-eye interface is broken.