US 12,135,426 B2
Wearable e-reader
Trae Benjamin Stephens, San Francisco, CA (US); Benjamin Eli Nelson Chelf, San Francisco, CA (US); Nicholas Cory Johnson, Austin, TX (US); John Aaron Boiles, Albany, CA (US); Nicholas Grant Lewis, Sparks, NV (US); Kevin Robert McKinney, Los Gatos, CA (US); Steven David Oliver, San Jose, CA (US); Tun Yuen Yeung, Fremont, CA (US); Keith Alsberg, Chicago, IL (US); and Jeremiah O'Leary, Chicago, IL (US)
Assigned to Sindarin, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Sindarin, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/888,012.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/332,396, filed on Apr. 19, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0333375 A1, Oct. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. G02B 27/01 (2006.01); F21V 8/00 (2006.01); G02B 25/00 (2006.01); G02C 5/20 (2006.01); G02C 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 27/0149 (2013.01) [G02B 6/0045 (2013.01); G02B 6/0055 (2013.01); G02B 6/0073 (2013.01); G02B 25/004 (2013.01); G02B 27/0172 (2013.01); G02B 27/0176 (2013.01); G02B 27/0179 (2013.01); G02C 5/20 (2013.01); G02C 11/10 (2013.01); G06F 1/163 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0154 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0178 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
a pair of optical units, wherein the pair of optical units are wearable, wherein a first optical unit of the pair of optical units comprises:
a first magnifying lens;
one or more first front lights;
a first electronic ink (e-ink) display, wherein the first e-ink display and the one or more first front lights are top mounted on a first circuit board; and
a first polarizer, wherein the one or more first front lights illuminate the first e-ink display from the front of the first e-ink display to be observable by a user via the first polarizer and the first magnifying lens; and
wherein a second optical unit of the pair of optical units comprises:
a second magnifying lens;
one or more second front lights;
a second electronic ink (e-ink) display, wherein the second e-ink display and the one or more second front lights are top mounted on a second circuit board; and
a second polarizer, wherein the one or more second front lights illuminate the second e-ink display from the front of the second e-ink display to be observable by the user via the second polarizer and the second magnifying lens.