Collaborative Navigation Between Mobile and Wearable Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a lack of integration and synergy between mobile devices and wearable devices for positioning and navigation purposes, limiting their collaborative functionality in providing seamless navigation experiences.
Innovation Solution
The system enables collaborative navigation between a mobile device and a wearable device by establishing a wireless connection, allowing them to exchange and coordinate navigation data, display different types of navigation information, and adjust settings based on location and user preferences, ensuring synchronized and context-aware navigation across both devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If mobile device and wearable device are paired for basic functionality access, then functionality beyond traditional watch is improved, but integration and synergy for positioning and navigation purposes deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the navigation capabilities of the mobile device with the wearable device by establishing a collaborative navigation system. The mobile device determines its location using GPS or other positioning methods, then shares this location data with the wearable device via wireless communication. This combining of positioning and navigation functions across both devices resolves the contradiction by achieving reliable navigation integration while maintaining the versatility of paired device functionality.
2Loss of information
If navigation data is displayed on both devices separately, then navigation information availability is improved, but collaborative navigation synergy deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements multi-functionality where the navigation system can operate in multiple modes: the mobile device can display full map views and detailed navigation information, while the wearable device provides turn-by-turn directions and location tracking. Both devices access and display navigation data simultaneously, with the wearable device utilizing the mobile device's determined location. This universal navigation approach ensures information availability on both devices while creating collaborative synergy through shared location data and coordinated display functions.
3Measurement precision
If wearable device uses mobile device's determined location, then navigation accuracy is improved, but device independence deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses wireless communication as an intermediary between the mobile device and wearable device. The mobile device acts as a mediator that determines location using GPS or other positioning systems, then transmits this location data to the wearable device. This intermediary approach improves measurement precision by leveraging the mobile device's more accurate positioning capabilities, while the wearable device maintains a degree of independence by still performing its own navigation calculations and display functions based on the received location data.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for collaborative navigation and operation on two mobile devices. The method may include establishing a wireless connection between a first mobile device and a second mobile device, and generating navigation data by the first mobile device for collaborative navigation based on a location of the first mobile device. The method may also include selecting a first subset of the navigation data for display by the first mobile device, and selecting a second subset of the navigation data for display by the second mobile device. The method may also include transferring the second subset of navigation data to the second mobile device and coordinating the display of the first subset of navigation data on the first mobile device with display of the second subset of navigation data on the second mobile device.