Covert camera viewfinder or display having appearance of ordinary eyeglasses
CA 2247649 C · Owner: Mann, Steve · Inventors: Mann, Steve
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A means of wearable viewfinder or display apparatus is described. The wearable viewfinder may be used by itself to give the wearer a feeling that the world is seen through a camera or may be used with a wearable camera to actually take pictures. The wearable viewfinder is constructed so that it appears to others as ordinary eye-glasses. Some embodiments look just like ordinary unifocal eyeglasses while others have the appearance of bifocal eyeglasses trifocal eyeglasses, or progressive eyeglasses. Because of the wearer's ability to constantly see the world through the apparatus the apparatus behaves as a true extension of the wearer's mind and body giving rise to a new awareness of …
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- Filed October 13, 1998 and granted July 25, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 13, 2018.
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