Patent ID: 8376548

Claim:
A near-eye display for projecting virtual images from an image generator to an eyebox within which the virtual images can be seen by a viewer comprising a selectively reflective powered optic connecting first and second optical paths, the first optical path providing for conveying image-bearing light from the image generator to the selectively reflective powered optic and the second optical path providing for conveying the image-bearing light along a line of sight from the selectively reflective powered optic to the eyebox, first and second selectively reflective surfaces folding the first optical path with respect to the second optical path to locate the image generator out of the line of sight to the eyebox, the image generator being effectively inclined to the line of sight to the eyebox for reducing a thickness of the near-eye display, and the selectively reflective powered optic being oriented normal to local overlapping portions of the first and second optical paths at the selectively reflective powered optic.