Biometric Apparel With Sensory Feedback for Environmental Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing wearable devices, such as smart watches, primarily rely on accelerometers for step detection and lack integration of other sensors like thermometers or radiation detectors, failing to emulate or enhance human senses based on received data.
Innovation Solution
Biometric apparel systems equipped with biometric and environmental sensors, along with sensation devices, transmogrify human senses by generating signals based on biometric and environmental data thresholds.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If wearables only use accelerometers for step detection, then device complexity is reduced, but measurement precision and sensory enhancement capability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple sensor types (accelerometers, thermometers, radiation detectors, biometric sensors) into a single wearable device to achieve comprehensive sensory enhancement. This combination allows the device to detect various biological and environmental parameters simultaneously, resolving the contradiction by integrating diverse measurement capabilities without proportionally increasing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The wearable device is designed with multi-functionality to perform diverse detection tasks through a unified platform. The device can monitor steps, temperature, radiation levels, and various biometric parameters, making it a universal sensor system that addresses multiple measurement needs while maintaining a single device architecture.
2Device complexity
If wearables lack sensation devices, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability and human sense emulation deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical display interfaces with sensation devices that directly stimulate human senses. Instead of relying solely on visual displays, the system uses haptic actuators, light emitters, and other sensation-generating components to provide tactile, optical, and other sensory feedback, enabling the wearable to emulate and enhance human senses in a more direct and adaptive manner.
Solution Approach 2:
Sensation devices serve as intermediaries between the sensor system and the user. These devices translate raw sensor data into meaningful sensory stimuli that the user can perceive, creating a bridge that enhances the interaction between the wearable and the human body while adding adaptive capabilities.
3Device complexity
If wearables don't process and respond to sensor data, then device complexity is reduced, but productivity and functional response deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where sensor data is continuously processed and used to trigger appropriate responses from sensation devices. The system monitors biometric and environmental parameters, compares them against thresholds or patterns, and automatically activates notifications or stimulations when conditions are met, creating a closed-loop system that enhances productivity through automated data-driven responses.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary processing of sensor data in advance, establishing thresholds, patterns, and response rules before actual notifications are needed. This pre-configured approach allows the device to rapidly respond to sensor inputs without requiring complex real-time decision-making, thus improving productivity while maintaining manageable complexity.
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AI summary
The technologies discussed herein relate to a biometrics system comprising one or more processors, computer storage memory having computer-executable instructions, surgically implantable devices, and wearables (e.g., an apparel item configured for an upper torso, an apparel item configured for a lower torso, a sock, a headband, other types of wearables, or one or more combinations thereof) having one or more biometric sensors (e.g., a heart rate sensor, a sweat sensor, a glucose sensor, other types of biometric sensors, or one or more combinations thereof) and one or more sensation devices (e.g., a plurality of visible light sources, a haptic feedback device, other types of sensation devices, or one or more combinations thereof). The wearables may also include one or more environmental sensors. The wearables emulate, transmogrify, or enhance one or more human senses using the one or more sensation devices based on biometric data or environmental data received.