Patent ID: 8625200

Claim:
A head-mounted display apparatus comprising: (I) a frame adapted to be mounted on a user's head; (II) an image display system supported by the frame; and (III) a reflective optical surface supported by the frame, the reflective optical surface being a continuous surface that is not rotationally symmetric about any coordinate axis of a three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system; wherein: (a) the image display system includes at least one light-emitting surface; (b) the reflective optical surface is configured to reflect spatially-separated virtual images of spatially-separated portions of the at least one light-emitting surface to perform non-pupil forming, in-focus for near-to-the eye viewing of spatially-separated reflected virtual images, at least one of the spatially-separated virtual images being angularly separated from at least one other of the spatially-separated virtual images by an angular separation of at least 100 degrees, said angular separation being measured from the center of rotation of a single eye of the user; and (c) at least one point of the reflective optical surface being angularly separated from at least one other point of the reflective optical surface by at least 100 degrees, said angular separation being measured from the center of rotation of the single eye of the user; (d) wherein the angular separation is up to a widest field of view for a single eye.