AR Wearable Smoke Visualization for Smokeless Smoking Cues
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Solution Overview
Problem
Smokers using smokeless tobacco products experience a reduction in smoking satisfaction due to the lack of visual cues typically associated with traditional smoking, such as visible smoke.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device, such as wearable augmented reality glasses, communicates with a smokeless inhalation instrument to detect smoking events and outputs image data, including visual representations of smoke, through a display to enhance the smoking experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If smokeless tobacco is used to eliminate smoke generation, then harmful factors to non-smokers are reduced, but visual smoking satisfaction is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an electronic device as an intermediary between the smokeless inhalation instrument and the user's visual perception. The device receives data from the inhalation instrument and generates virtual smoke images through a display, mediating the visual feedback that would otherwise be absent in smokeless tobacco usage.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a visual copy of smoke through image data generated by the electronic device. Instead of actual physical smoke, the system produces digital representations that mimic the appearance and behavior of smoke, providing visual satisfaction without the harmful physical substance.
2Loss of information
If traditional cigarettes are used to provide visual smoking experience, then visual smoking satisfaction is achieved, but harmful smoke is generated
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a digital copy of the visual smoke experience through image data generated by the electronic device. This virtual smoke replica provides the desired visual feedback while the physical inhalation instrument produces no harmful smoke or aerosol.
Solution Approach 2:
The electronic device acts as a mediator that decouples the visual smoke experience from the physical inhalation process. The display device provides visual feedback based on data from the inhalation instrument, allowing the user to see virtual smoke without actual smoke being generated.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If smokeless inhalation instrument is used to eliminate smoke, then health risks are reduced, but smoking satisfaction is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The electronic device serves as an intermediary that restores the visual component of smoking satisfaction. By receiving data from the smokeless inhalation instrument and generating corresponding virtual smoke images, it compensates for the missing visual feedback that reduces smoking satisfaction.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a virtual copy of the smoke visual experience through image data. This digital smoke representation provides the visual satisfaction that accompanies the act of inhalation, maintaining the ritual and sensory experience of smoking without the harmful physical smoke.
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AI summary
An electronic device wearable by a user includes a communication module that performs communication with an external device, a display, and a processor electrically connected to the communication module and the display, wherein the processor may receive data on a smoking event from the external device through the communication module, and based on the received data on the smoking event, output image data including at least one object corresponding to the smoking event, through the display. In addition, various embodiments identified through the specification are possible.