Patent ID: RE45062

Claim:
Apparatus for assisting a user in viewing images in a standing, seated, or reclining posture, comprising: a moveable headrest mounted on or with respect to a support for supporting a head of said user in executing head movements from a changing direction; a light source, responsive to a light control signal, for providing light for image viewing by an eye in a head of the user acting as a passive viewer; and an actuator, responsive to a headrest control signal, for causing the moveable headrest to execute attitudinal movements for emulation by the head of the user acting as a passive viewer, wherein the light control signal contains information for providing said light for image viewing by said eye in said head of said user acting as a passive viewer, said images having a portion with high informational content and a portion with low informational content and wherein the portion with high informational content changes position with respect to the portion with the low informational content for emulation by the eye for foveal viewing by said user acting as a passive viewer.