SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUGMENTED REALITY INTERFACE TO MOBILE DEVICES

1 . A head mounted display system comprising:

a frame such as used for glasses for mounting to the head of a user;

one or more displays mounted in said frame for presentation of images to the eye or eyes of said user;

sensors also mounted in said frame to gather data from the environment of said user;

one or more computer data or graphics processing units mounted in said frame;

a high speed data interface capable of receiving image data from an external mobile computational unit, or smart phone, while simultaneously transferring a compressed form of said environmental data to said external mobile computational unit.

2 . A head mounted display system according to claim 1 wherein said environmental data includes calculations of the position and/or pose of said head mounted display system.

3 . A head mounted display system according to claim 1 wherein said environmental data includes calculated compressed numeric characterizations of images of external scenes or objects in view of image sensors mounted in said frame.

4 . A method for the transfer of data to a mobile computation unit or smart phone comprising the steps:

presenting data from one or more cameras mounted in a head mounted display unit to a data computation and/or graphics computation unit also mounted in said head mounted display;

reducing the data rate needed to transfer the utility of the information in said data by calculating a numeric characterization of said camera data;

transferring said numeric characterization to an external mobile computing unit or smart phone while simultaneously receiving and displaying images from said external unit.

5 . The method of claim 4 with the additional step of combining data from an internal inertial measurement, or similar internal sensors, and transferring said internal sensor data in said numeric characterization.