Patent Document ID: 20120075168
Application ID: 13232930
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An eyepiece, comprising: a mechanical frame adapted to secure a lens and an image source facility in proximity with an upper portion of the lens; the image source facility comprising an LED, a planar illumination facility and a reflective display; the planar illumination facility adapted to convert a light beam from the LED received on a side of the planar illumination facility into a top emitting planar light source; the planar illumination facility positioned to uniformly illuminate the reflective display, the planar illumination facility further adapted to be substantially transmissive to allow image light reflected from the reflective display to pass through the planar illumination facility towards a beam splitter; and the beam splitter positioned to receive the image light from the reflective display and to reflect a portion of the image light onto a mirrored surface, wherein the mirrored surface is positioned and shaped to reflect the image light into an eye of a wearer of the eyepiece thereby providing an image within a field of view, the mirrored surface further adapted to be partially transmissive within an area of image reflectance.