Wireless Earpiece Smart Glasses Biometric Display Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current biometric sensors worn on the body face challenges such as limited accuracy due to position, shearing stresses, power constraints, and exposure to harsh agents, making it difficult to accurately process and display user data, especially in dynamic environments.

Innovation Solution

A system and method utilizing wireless earpieces that receive user input and send commands to smart glasses or other devices to display content, including biometric data, through a personal area network, enabling seamless communication and control of external devices like smart glasses, watches, or implants.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If biometric sensors are worn on the body, then biometric data can be collected, but accuracy is limited due to position, shearing stresses, and exposure to harsh agents

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebiometric data accuracyVSAvoidexposure to harsh agents and shearing stresses
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a second screen device (smartphone, tablet, or computer) as an intermediary to display biometric data instead of displaying it directly on the wearable device. This mediator allows the wearable to focus on accurate data collection while the second screen handles data presentation, resolving the contradiction between maintaining sensor accuracy and protecting from environmental factors.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent extracts the display function from the wearable device and relocates it to a separate second screen device. This separation allows the wearable to be optimized for biometric sensing without the complexity and vulnerability of integrated display components, thereby improving measurement precision while reducing exposure to harmful factors.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Loss of information

If display content is shown on wearable devices, then data accessibility is improved, but user distraction from environment may occur

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata accessibilityVSAvoiduser distraction
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic control of the display where content is shown or hidden based on user activity, location, and environmental context. The system dynamically adjusts whether to display notifications or biometric data based on real-time conditions, allowing data accessibility when needed while preventing distraction during activities like driving or walking.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors user context (location, activity, environmental factors) and uses this feedback to dynamically adjust display behavior. This feedback loop ensures that information is presented when it will be useful and safe, while suppressing displays when they might cause distraction or harm.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Measurement precision

If multiple sensors are integrated in wearable device, then biometric data accuracy improves, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebiometric sensing accuracyVSAvoidsensor integration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The second screen device serves as an intermediary that handles the complexity of processing and interpreting data from multiple sensors. The wearable device can integrate multiple sensors for improved accuracy while offloading the computational complexity to the paired smartphone or computer, resolving the contradiction between measurement precision and device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS10175753B2Second screen devices utilizing data from ear worn device system and method
Publication Date: 2019.01.08 BRAGI
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AI summary

A system, method and personal area network for displaying content utilizing wireless earpieces. The wireless earpieces are linked with smart glasses. The smart glasses include a number of cameras. User input is received through the wireless earpieces. A command associated with the user input is sent to display the content from the number of cameras in response to the user input received through the wireless earpieces.