Patent ID: 6956616

Claim:
An apparatus for facilitating viewing of an object by human eye, comprising: a holder mechanism comprising a support portion having opposing first and second support surfaces; at least one light source disposed on said holder mechanism first surface to illuminate at least a portion of the object; at least one electronic camera unit disposed on said holder mechanism first surface, said camera being operative to capture at least one image of the object; at least one image processor module in electrical communication with said camera unit to format said captured image for display; at least one image display device having a display region, said display device disposed on said holder mechanism second surface and in electrical communication with said image processor module to display said formatted image on said display region; and at least one user-interface control mechanism disposed on said holder mechanism and in electrical communication with said image processor module for controlling the operations of said module to regulate display of the formatted image by the display device; wherein the image processor module comprises at least one processor system in electrical communication with, to receive operational data from, and to control the operations of, at least one of said control mechanism, said camera unit, said light sources and said display device based on a predetermined instruction to adjust at least one of a magnification level, an illumination intensity, an image enhancement and a focusing resolution level of said displayed image; wherein said image enhancement includes at least one of an adjustment to contrast and brightness, a noise elimination, a color re-mapping, an inverse video displaying, an illumination equalization mode, image shifting, image stabilization, and image freezing; and wherein said illumination equalization mode includes modification of illumination brightness over a selected display area to compensate for a non-ideal positioning of said light source.