866 results about "Wearable Electronic Device" patented technology

Various embodiments of an ear-wearable electronic device are disclosed. The device includes a housing having a top shell and a bottom shell, a microphone disposed within the housing, and an acoustic path disposed at least partially within the housing and extending between an acoustic port disposed at an outer surface of the housing and an outlet disposed within the housing that acoustically couples the acoustic path to an inlet of the microphone. The device further includes an acoustic filter disposed at least partially within an inner surface of the top shell and includes a neck and a resonance cavity acoustically coupled to the neck. The acoustic filter is acoustically coupled to the acoustic path via the neck. Further, the acoustic filter is configured to reduce an intensity of acoustic waves sensed by the microphone in a first frequency range.

A wearing member and a wearable electronic device comprising same are provided. The wearing member includes a strap, a cover assembly coupled to one end of the strap, and a link assembly for fixing the cover assembly to a housing of the wearable electronic device, wherein the link assembly includes a main body containing an internal space a first magnetic member disposed in the internal space, a button member configured to slide in a first direction toward the main body or a second direction away from the main body, and including a first recess, a second magnetic member disposed in the first recess, and facing the first magnetic member, and a fixing member disposed in the internal space, wherein at least a portion of the fixing member is detachably coupled to the housing of the wearable electronic device based on a sliding movement of the button member.

A wearable electronic device can include a sidewall housing defining an internal volume and a band slot configured to receive a securement band. The sidewall housing can include a radio-frequency (RF)-transparent window defining the band slot, a rear cover coupled to the sidewall housing with the rear cover including metal, an antenna resonator disposed in the internal volume adjacent the RF-transparent window, and a conductor electrically coupling the rear cover to the antenna resonator.

A wearable electronic device, a system and methods of monitoring with a wearable electronic device. The device includes a hybrid wireless communication module with wireless communication sub-modules to selectively acquire location data from both indoor and outdoor sources, as well as a wireless communication sub-module to selectively transmit an LPWAN signal to provide location information based on the acquired data. The device may also include one or more sensors to collect one or more of environmental data, activity data and physiological data. The device may transmit some or all of its acquired data to a larger system, including a cloud-based server to, in addition to providing location-based data, be used as a part of a predictive health care protocol to correlate changes in acquired data to salient indicators of the health of a wearer of the device. In one form, the predictive health care protocol uses a machine learning model.

The invention relates to the field of super-hydrophobic materials, in particular to a basalt fiber composite material as well as a preparation method and application thereof. According to the composite fabric material provided by the invention, a multistage micro-nano rough surface of the MoS2 nanoflowers and the silver nanoparticles is constructed on the fiber substrate, so that not only is super-hydrophobic self-cleaning realized, but also the anti-icing performance is relatively high, and particularly, rapid heating is realized by combining broadband absorption of the MoS2 nanoflowers and a local surface plasma resonance effect of the silver nanoparticles; and meanwhile, the silver nanoparticles accelerate heat conduction, so that excellent ice melting capability is obtained. The high conductivity of the silver nanoparticles constructs a conductive path, and the layered structure of MoS2 triggers interface polarization, so that the electromagnetic shielding effectiveness of the X wave band is improved. The dual antibacterial mechanism of the MoS2 nanoflowers and the silver nanoparticles also realizes broad-spectrum efficient antibiosis, the preparation method is green and environment-friendly, the cost is low, and the requirements of complex scenes such as wearable electronic equipment, medical protection, polar region protection and national defense can be met.

A support band for a wearable electronic device includes a first band portion, a second band portion, and an adjustment assembly. A cable is connected to the second band portion extends through a first passage and a second passage of a cable lock that is connected to the first band portion. The locking features allow movement of the cable in a tightening direction and restrain movement of the cable in a loosening direction. A cable pull engages a first portion of the cable between the first passage and the second passage. The cable pull moves away from the cable lock during an extension stroke, and the cable pull moves toward the cable lock during a return stroke.

The invention provides a wear-resistant, transparent, flexible and fluoride-free super-hydrophobic composite coating and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps: mixing hydroxyl-terminated polydimethylsiloxane, gamma-aminopropyltriethoxysilane and dibutyltin dilaurate for reaction to obtain a modified precursor solution, adding swelled epoxy resin into the modified precursor solution, and heating for reaction to obtain siloxane modified epoxy resin; the preparation method comprises the following steps: dispersing nano silicon dioxide in an ethyl acetate solution to form a SiO2 suspension; and uniformly mixing the modified epoxy resin with a SiO2 suspension, adding polyether amine as a curing agent, stirring and mixing, and constructing the epoxy resin / hydroxyl-terminated polydimethylsiloxane / nano-silica super-hydrophobic coating on a substrate by adopting an air spraying mode. According to the preparation method disclosed by the invention, the super-hydrophobic coating with excellent transparency and flexibility and good adhesive force and wear resistance can be prepared, and the super-hydrophobic coating has a wide application prospect in the fields of wearable electronic equipment, photoelectric devices and the like.

The disclosed system for interacting with objects in an extended reality (XR) environment generated by an XR system may include (1) neuromuscular sensors configured to sense neuromuscular signals from a wrist of a user and (2) at least one computer processor programmed to (a) determine, based at least in part on the sensed neuromuscular signals, information relating to an interaction of the user with an object in the XR environment and (b) instruct the XR system to, based on the determined information relating to the interaction of the user with the object, augment the interaction of the user with the object in the XR environment. Other embodiments of this aspect include corresponding apparatus, and computer programs recorded on one or more computer storage devices, each configured to perform the actions of the methods.

Disclosed is an electronic device. The electronic device may include a housing forming a first space configured to seat an external electronic device and a second space, a battery storing power, a support part disposed within the first space and configured to support the external electronic device when the external electronic device is seated in the electronic device, a first antenna and a second antenna disposed in the support part, a third antenna disposed in the second space and configured to receive a first magnetic field from the outside of the housing and to supply power to the battery. The battery may be disposed in the second space. The battery may radiate a second magnetic field to at least some area of the first space by supplying power to at least one of the first antenna and the second antenna.

Various embodiments of an ear-wearable electronic device are disclosed. The device includes a faceplate having an outer surface and an inner surface, where the faceplate defines a cavity disposed in the inner surface of the faceplate; a microphone disposed at least partially within the cavity and including an inlet; and an acoustic path disposed within the faceplate and extending between a microphone port disposed at the outer surface of the faceplate and an outlet disposed in the cavity. The acoustic path is acoustically coupled to the inlet of the microphone via the outlet. The inlet of the microphone is disposed in the cavity or in the outlet of the acoustic path. The acoustic path is configured such that all acoustic waves propagating within the acoustic path pass directly from the acoustic path to the inlet of the microphone.

The present invention discloses a method for preparing a flexible polyaniline / biomass carbon electromagnetic shielding material. After high-temperature carbonization of a fiber fabric, a structurally ordered biomass carbon matrix is ​​obtained. Under the synergistic action of an oxidant and a dopant, aniline monomer is in situ oxidatively polymerized to generate polyaniline that is adsorbed on the surface of the biomass carbon matrix, thereby obtaining the polyaniline / biomass carbon electromagnetic shielding material. The electromagnetic shielding material of the present invention has an intricate and ordered two-dimensional network structure, which helps to establish a conductive network and exhibits excellent electromagnetic shielding effectiveness. In addition, the unique flexibility can fully meet the special requirements of flexible wearable electronic devices, electromagnetic shielding clothing fillers, etc. for the performance of electromagnetic shielding materials. The synthesis process of this method is safe and environmentally friendly, and the required consumables are cheap and abundant, making it suitable for commercialization and industrialization requirements.

Various embodiments of an earbud and an ear-wearable electronic device that includes such earbud are disclosed. The earbud includes an elongated body having a first end, a second end, a cavity extending along a body axis between the first end and the second end of the elongated body, and a body acoustic port disposed in the first end of the body and acoustically coupled to the cavity of the body. A portion of the cavity adjacent the body acoustic port includes a cross-sectional area in a plane orthogonal to the body axis that increases in a direction from the second end of the body to the first end of the body. The earbud further includes a flange connected to the elongated body and a wax bridge disposed on an outer surface of the flange along the body axis and over the body acoustic port.

Disclosed is a wearable electronic device. The wearable electronic device includes: a display module comprising a display; a housing to which the display module is coupled; and a projection display disposed on a side portion of the housing and configured to display information on a display area adjacent to the housing, the projection display may include: a substrate disposed along a mounting surface provided on a side portion of the housing; a plurality of light-emitting devices comprising light-emitting circuitry disposed on the substrate in a grating arrangement; and a plurality of micro-lenses covering a light-emitting surface of the plurality of light-emitting devices.

The invention discloses a biaxial flexible strain sensor based on laser induced graphene. Comprising a flexible substrate, a flexible sensitive layer, a flexible spacing layer and a flexible upper cover, both the flexible substrate and the flexible upper cover are made of a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) material, the flexible sensitive layer is generated on a mixed substrate of polyimide (PI) and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) through a laser ablation process, and then the sensitive layer is transferred to the PDMS substrate through a substrate transfer process. The flexible sensitive layer adopts an I-shaped structure, and two ends of the flexible sensitive layer are coated with electrode layer external wires. The method can be applied to the fields of wearable electronic equipment and medical monitoring. By means of the I-shaped structure, the sensitive layers in different directions can detect the strain in the main direction, and meanwhile interference caused by the strain in different directions is avoided. The preparation method is simple and efficient, a special gas environment is not needed, patterning preparation of graphene can be completed only through one step, and the production cost is reduced.

In one embodiment, a method includes displaying functions associated with a remote device at a wearable computing device, wherein the remote device is paired with the wearable computing device, receiving a user input from a user at the wearable computing device, determining intended operations of one or more of the functions by the user based on the user input, sending instructions for executing the intended operations of the one or more of the functions associated with the remote device to the remote device, and displaying execution results of the intended operations of the one or more of the functions associated with the remote device at the wearable computing device.

Wake-word processing by a wearable electronic device could be carried out when the device is worn by a user and is in a device sleep state, the device including a linear microphone array having at least two microphones vertically spaced from each other, and the device also including a processor. And the example method could involve (i) the at least two microphones of the linear microphone array receiving an audio waveform representing a wake-word utterance, (ii) the processor making a determination, based at least on an angle of arrival of the audio waveform at the at least two microphones of the linear microphone array and / or an energy level of the audio waveform received at the at least two microphones of the linear array, of whether to accept the wake-word utterance or rather to reject the wake-word utterance, and (iii) the processor controlling operation of the device based on the determination.

A wearable electronic device including a magnetic strap is provided. The wearable electronic device includes a communication module, a geomagnetic sensor, a motion sensor, memory storing one or more computer programs, and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the communication module, the geomagnetic sensor, the motion sensor, and the memory, wherein one or more computer programs include computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors individually or collectively, cause the wearable electronic device collect geomagnetic measurement values collected using the geomagnetic sensor, determine whether to update a reference magnetic field stored in the memory on the basis of offset update information of the geomagnetic sensor, when updating the reference magnetic field, designate, as reference data, geomagnetic measurement values satisfying a first condition collected within the effective time of the reference magnetic field, a second condition for collecting of magnetic field strengths within an average error range, and a third condition collected within a movement range through the motion sensor, and update the reference magnetic field based on the designated reference data.

The invention discloses wearable electronic equipment for occupational environment health monitoring. The problems that existing fixed and handheld monitoring equipment is poor in real-time performance and insufficient in individual protection are solved. The wearable electronic equipment comprises a main control module, an environment sensing module, a positioning module, a motion sensor, an alarm module, a wireless communication module and a data storage module, the main control module processes the collected environment, position and activity state information, compares the information with a preset safety threshold value, immediately starts multi-mode grading alarm when dangerous parameters exceed the standard, uploads the information to a monitoring center or a cloud platform through dual-mode communication, and uploads a protection mode from passive response to active early warning. According to the invention, one-stop monitoring of a complex dangerous environment is realized, active continuous monitoring and active early warning can be realized without personnel operation, effective transmission of information is guaranteed by multi-mode alarm, an end-edge-cloud protection system is constructed, wearing is comfortable, operation is not affected, and all-weather safety monitoring is realized.

The embodiment of the invention provides wearable electronic equipment, and belongs to the technical field of electronic equipment. The wearable electronic equipment comprises a shell and an antenna device. Wherein the shell comprises a contact surface, and the contact surface is used for being in contact with a wearer. The antenna device is arranged in the shell, the antenna device comprises a first antenna structure and a second antenna structure, and the first antenna structure and the second antenna structure are used for generating resonance at the same time. The first antenna structure, the second antenna structure and the contact surface are sequentially arranged along the thickness direction of the shell, and the first antenna structure and the second antenna structure are arranged at an interval. The projection of the second antenna structure and the projection of the first antenna structure are at least partially overlapped in the thickness direction of the shell. Therefore, the absorption of electromagnetic energy by a human body can be reduced, and the antenna efficiency is improved.

Eyewear having a frame, a hinge, and a hyperextendable temple. An extender is coupled to the hinge and the temple, and the extender extends with respect to the hinge allowing hyperextension of the temple with respect to the frame. The extender may include a bushing and a spring that allows the temple hyperextension, and which also creates a bias force to urge the temple against a user's head during use.

A head-wearable electronic device is provided. The head-wearable electronic device may comprise: a head-wearable housing structure; a display assembly including a first display and a second display located over each eye of a user wearing the head-wearable housing structure; a first display driver circuit connected to the first display; a second display driver circuit connected to the second display; and a processor including one or more processing circuits.

A wearable electronic device is provided. The wearable electronic device includes a body portion having a glass mounting part, a temple member, and a hinge rotatably connecting the temple member to the body portion, wherein the hinge includes a hinge housing which is rotatably connected to the body portion through a first shaft and rotatably connected to the temple member through a second shaft, a first pulley fixed to the body portion and allowing the first shaft to pass therethrough, a second pulley fixed to the temple member and allowing the second shaft to pass therethrough, and a first wire surrounding at least a portion of each of the first pulley and the second pulley.

A wearable electronic device and method for the same are disclosed. The wearable device includes a memory, housing, photoplethysmogram (PPG) sensor, display and processor. The processor implements the method, including: receiving a PPG signal via the PPG sensor, detecting blood pressure values for a plurality of consecutive time periods based on characteristic information detected from the received PPG signal, in response to detecting termination of an exercise event, generating an exercise parameter determination model based on blood pressure characteristic information generated from the detected blood pressure values after the detected termination, and control the display to display information generated from the exercise parameter determination model.

Provided are a display device, a wearable electronic device, and a method of manufacturing the display device, the display device including: a substrate in which a display area and a non-display area are defined, and the substrate having first and second surfaces opposing each other in a thickness direction of the substrate, and a side surface between the first and second surfaces; a display section on the first surface of the substrate in the display area and configured to display an image; a pad portion on the first surface of the substrate in the non-display area; a filling layer on the display portion and configured to cover the display portion; and a chamfered portion on at least a portion of a side surface of the substrate. The side surface of the substrate may include at least one crack extending in one direction intersecting the thickness direction.

Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that embed information in video presented on an outward display of a wearable device. For example, a process may include generating a video signal depicting a current appearance of a face portion. Changes in an attribute of the face portion in the video signal over time may correspond to a current heart rate of a user wearing the wearable electronic device. The process may further include embedding data into the video signal by altering the attribute of the face portion in the video signal over time such that the changes in the attribute of the face portion in the video signal over time correspond to both the current heart rate and the data. The process may further include presenting the video signal depicting the current appearance of the face portion on an outward-facing display of the wearable electronic device.

Wearable electronic devices can be equipped with global positioning system (GPS) location sensors that can be used to determine its latitude and longitude coordinates. The device can include a magnetometer sensor to determine its direction on a digital compass. The device can be used to configure the location of a GPS boundary. The size and shape of the boundary can be configured on either the wearable device or a separate computing device. The wearable device can be either inside of a boundary or outside of a boundary. The boundaries can have assigned priority levels that may determine the information displayed on the device. The device can traverse boundaries of different priority levels that may determine the information displayed on the device. The device's boundary status can be relayed to a server for data processing.

The invention particularly relates to hierarchical porous conductive gel, a preparation method thereof and a friction nano-generator. Aiming at the defects of mechanical property and electric conductivity of the existing conductive gel material, the invention provides the conductive gel with a multi-stage pore structure, food-grade raw materials are adopted, and the multi-stage pore structure is realized through a freeze-drying method and an interactive embedding mode of gel with different densities; the moist environment of an internal ion solution can be kept for a long time, and good stability and flexibility are achieved. The invention also provides a friction nano-generator using the gel material as a conductive medium, and the friction nano-generator has good electrical properties and good application prospects when applied to wearable electronic equipment.

The application provides a wear-resistant transparent flexible fluorine-free super-hydrophobic composite coating and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps: mixing and reacting hydroxyl-terminated polydimethylsiloxane, gamma-aminopropyl triethoxysilane and dibutyl tin dilaurate to obtain a modified precursor solution, adding swelled epoxy resin into the modified precursor solution, and obtaining a siloxane modified epoxy resin after heating reaction; dispersing nano-silicon dioxide in an ethyl acetate solution to form a SiO2 suspension; uniformly mixing the modified epoxy resin and the SiO2 suspension, adding polyether amine as a curing agent, and stirring and mixing, and then adopting an air spraying mode to build an epoxy resin / hydroxyl-terminated polydimethylsiloxane / nano-silicon dioxide super-hydrophobic coating on a substrate. The preparation method can prepare a super-hydrophobic coating with excellent transparency and flexibility, good adhesion and wear resistance, and has a wide application prospect in the fields of wearable electronic devices and optoelectronic devices.

An example networked controlling device, a wearable electronic device, and a computer-implemented method for using a networked controlling device to transmit a wireless control message to a target wireless networked node are provided. An example networked controlling device includes one or more processors configured to determine a position and an orientation of the networked controlling device relative to one or more wireless networked nodes in communication with a wireless network. The networked controlling device further configured to determine a pointing vector of the networked controlling device based at least in part on the position and the orientation; and transmit, on the wireless network, a wireless control message comprising pointing vector data representing the pointing vector, wherein the wireless control message is accepted by at least one wireless networked node of the one or more wireless networked nodes based at least in part on the pointing vector data.

The invention provides a preparation method of a cellulose-based water-induced deformation and color-changing film. Water-induced deformation and color-changing response are realized synergistically. The film is mainly prepared from the following components in parts by weight: 16.67 to 25 parts of hydrophilic micelle, 33.33 to 50 parts of absolute ethyl alcohol, 10 to 16 parts of modified cellulose, 12.5 to 20 parts of cross-linking agent and 2.5 to 4 parts of red dye. The cellulose-based water-induced deformation and color-changing film can realize deformation and color-changing response at the same time, the water absorption rate and the water absorption capacity of the two surfaces of the film are regulated and controlled by utilizing the content difference of hydrophilic micelles in the upper surface and the lower surface of the film, and the water-induced deformation response of the film is realized. Meanwhile, after the thin film absorbs water and swells, the microstructure arrangement in the thin film is changed due to the increase of the volume, so that incident light generates a stronger scattering effect in the material, and the hydrochromic behavior of the thin film is realized. The cellulose-based water-induced deformation and color-changing film has synergistic deformation and color-changing response to water stimulation, and has great application potential in the fields of actuators, wearable electronic equipment, intelligent robots and the like.