Patent ID: 7981109

Claim:
A device for presenting information in conjunction with a surgical console, comprising: a heads-up display configured to be mounted to a microscope; the heads-up display comprising: an eye-piece ring operable to be fitted to or inside an eye-piece of the microscope; a body coupled to the eye-piece ring through a translucent solid material, wherein the body of the heads-up display is operable to receive data regarding a set of surgical parameters from a surgical console and present feedback corresponding to each of the set of parameters to a user; wherein the feedback corresponding to a first parameter of the set of surgical parameters is visual feedback presented through the eye-piece ring, wherein the visual feedback is transmitted to the eye-piece ring through the translucent solid material coupling the eye-piece ring to the body of the heads-up display; and wherein the eye-piece ring comprises a ring surrounding a transparent region configured to allow light to pass through the eye-piece ring such that the visual feedback may be presented through the ring without impeding light traveling through the transparent region of the ring.