Digital Glass Enhanced Media System for Team Coordination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current digital eyeglass technology is limited in its functionality, primarily operating as a simple internet-connected data sink, lacking advanced coordination and communication capabilities for efficient information distribution during incidents or team tasks.
Innovation Solution
A coordinated digital eyeglass environment with a Digital Glass Enhanced Media System (DGEMS) that includes a control module and distribution module, enabling efficient communication and data distribution among digital glass devices and external agencies through a registration module, source/destination determination, and processing of video and audio streams.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If digital eyeglasses operate as a simple internet-connected data sink, then device complexity is reduced and ease of manufacture is improved, but functionality and coordination capabilities are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a media server as an intermediary component that handles complex coordination, communication, and data distribution tasks. This allows the digital eyeglasses to gain advanced functionality without bearing the full complexity burden themselves, as the media server acts as a mediator between multiple devices and external agencies.
Solution Approach 2:
The media server is designed to perform multiple functions including coordination, communication, data distribution, and incident management across various digital eyeglass devices and external agencies. This multi-functional approach enables enhanced versatility without requiring each individual device to be complex.
2Adaptability or versatility
If digital eyeglasses operate as a simple internet-connected data sink, then ease of operation is maintained, but coordination and communication capabilities during incidents are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The media server serves as an intelligent intermediary that automatically handles complex coordination and communication protocols during incidents. Users can easily operate their digital eyeglasses while the media server manages the sophisticated coordination tasks in the background, maintaining ease of operation while enhancing coordination capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the media server continuously monitors device status, incident progress, and communication effectiveness. This allows automatic adjustment of coordination strategies and information distribution, enhancing coordination capability while requiring minimal user intervention and maintaining ease of operation.
3Productivity
If digital eyeglasses operate as a simple internet-connected data sink, then device complexity is reduced, but information distribution efficiency during incidents is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The media server acts as a centralized intermediary that optimizes information distribution efficiency by intelligently routing data between multiple digital eyeglass devices and external agencies. This centralizes the complexity of efficient information distribution in the media server rather than requiring complex distributed algorithms in each device.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing communication channels, device registrations, and information distribution protocols before incidents occur. The media server maintains ready-to-use communication pathways and device profiles, enabling rapid and efficient information distribution when incidents arise without requiring complex real-time decision-making.
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AI summary
A digital glass enhanced media system (DGEMS) is provided that is capable of performing routing and processing of audio and video inputs received from a plurality of digital glass devices, as well as a plurality of agencies, in order to provide enhanced and coordinated information distribution among the digital glass devices. Such routing may include distributing information received from the devices to relevant agencies providing assistance to the wearers of those devices, as well as to other team member devices. Control is also provided, such that a user of such a digital glass device can select how or what information is received. In this manner, coordinated information distribution can be provided so as to allow users to optimize the coordination of their teamwork.