Alterable Wearable Characteristics and Coordination

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users of electronic devices and products often have limited capabilities to affect product development, manipulation, and performance, as many products are designed with fixed functionalities that do not cater to individual user preferences or needs.

Innovation Solution

Incorporating a central processing unit (CPU), memory, and an onboard power source into a wide range of products, along with input and output devices, allowing users to manually adjust or control the operation of these products through input devices or receive signals to alter their functionality, including illumination, audio, and coatings that change based on current levels.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If products are designed with fixed functionalities, then manufacturing complexity is reduced and production is simplified, but user adaptability and versatility are limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser adaptabilityVSAvoidproduct complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies dynamics by making product characteristics alterable and adjustable after manufacturing. Products incorporate controllable features that can change their operational parameters, appearance, or functionality based on user input or environmental conditions, allowing fixed hardware to deliver variable performance.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements parameter changes by enabling products to modify their operational parameters (such as illumination intensity, audio output levels, coating properties) through controllable mechanisms. This allows the same physical product to operate across multiple parameter states, enhancing adaptability without requiring multiple different products.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Ease of operation

If products incorporate controllable characteristics and communication devices, then user engagement and customization are enhanced, but device complexity and manufacturing costs increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser control capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies universality by designing communication devices and control systems that can serve multiple functions across different product types. The same communication protocol and control architecture are used to manage various characteristics (illumination, audio, coatings) throughout the venue, reducing the need for product-specific control mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces communication devices as intermediaries between users and product characteristics. These communication devices receive user input and translate it into appropriate control signals for altering product characteristics, simplifying the user interface while managing system complexity through a standardized mediation layer.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple products are coordinated through communication devices, then venue-wide user experience is enhanced, but communication reliability and coordination complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecoordination capabilityVSAvoidcommunication reliability

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms where communication devices monitor and track the state of multiple products and user inputs. This feedback loop allows the system to adjust coordination in real-time, ensuring reliable operation by detecting and responding to communication failures or state changes across the venue.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

Enables users to customize and control various product operations, enhancing user engagement and product versatility, allowing for multiple operational adjustments and coordination of multiple products, thereby increasing product attractiveness and user satisfaction.

Implementation Method 1

an illumination device including a first illumination condition when the input device is in the first input condition and a second illumination condition when the input device is in the second input condition

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectElectroluminescence: Electroluminescence

Data Source

PatentUS8941332B2Systems and apparatuses including alterable characteristics and methods of altering and coordinating such characteristics

Publication Date: 2015.01.27 CAPCAB LLC

AI summary

Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided that include alterable characteristics and such alterable characteristics may be coordinated. Such systems, apparatuses, and methods may include wearable apparatuses and such alterable characteristics may relate to illumination conditions or coating colors. In one example, a wearable apparatus includes an output device such as an illumination device or coating that may be manually manipulated between two different conditions. In another example, two wearable apparatuses may each include an output device such as an illumination device or a coating, and operation of the two illumination devices or coatings may be coordinated. In a further example, operation of an apparatus may be controlled by a third party or venue. Still another exemplary system may include a capturing device for capturing a characteristic of an object and controlling an output device of an apparatus to operate with the same characteristic as the captured characteristic.