Augmented Reality Eyewear for Athletic Data Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional personal training and fitness tracking systems lack community-sharing features, making them less motivational and entertaining, and often require users to access separate devices to view training data, which can be inconvenient and unsafe during athletic activities.
Innovation Solution
The system allows users to log and share athletic challenges through mobile devices, using challenge record servers to compare and update records, and provides augmented reality displays on eyewear to view navigational and challenge data without needing to access separate devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If conventional systems allow logging and uploading athletic data to servers, then data tracking capability is improved, but community-sharing features and motivational value deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines individual athletic data tracking with community challenge features by merging the data logging functionality with social competition elements. Users can create challenges, invite others to participate, and compare results within a unified system, transforming isolated data tracking into an engaging community experience.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides multi-functionality by enabling users to both track their own athletic data and participate in community challenges simultaneously. The platform serves multiple purposes: personal fitness monitoring, social interaction, competition, and motivation, all within a single system.
2Loss of information
If users access separate devices to view athletic training data, then data visibility is improved, but user safety and convenience during athletic activities deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the data display function directly into the athletic eyewear device, combining navigation, challenge results, and training data visualization with the physical activity monitoring. Users view all relevant information through the eyewear's display without needing to access separate devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The athletic eyewear acts as an intermediary device between the user and the athletic activity environment. It provides visual feedback about training data and navigation information directly in the user's field of view, mediating the interaction between the user and the physical activity without requiring attention diversion to other devices.
3Device complexity
If symbolic maps are used to illustrate navigational information, then system simplicity is improved, but location precision and visual clarity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by enhancing specific areas of the visual display with detailed graphical representations. Instead of using uniform symbolic maps throughout, the system provides enhanced visual feedback at critical locations such as challenge checkpoints and turn points, while maintaining simpler representations elsewhere to preserve overall system simplicity.
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AI summary
Methods for sharing athletic activities and systems incorporating the same, wherein some examples include receiving challenger data corresponding to a challenge initiated by challengers, communicating challenger data to challenge record servers, comparing challenger data to owner records to determine if challengers were victorious, and requesting challenge record servers to overwrite owner records if the challengers were victorious. Other examples may additionally or alternatively include storing on challenge record servers one or more server challenge datasets including owner records, receiving challenger data corresponding to challenges completed by challengers, comparing owner records to the challenger data to determine if the challengers were victorious, and overwriting the owner record if the challengers were victorious. Other examples may additionally or alternatively include receiving selected geographic regions, communicating the selected geographic regions to challenge record servers, and receiving from the challenge record servers owner records proximate the selected geographic regions.