Earpiece Processing for Wearable Sensor Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current wearable devices face limitations in power supply and processing capability, making it challenging to effectively localize sensors on the body for multipoint data capture and wireless data transmission to processing devices like earpieces.
Innovation Solution
A system where sensors communicate data and software instructions to an earpiece via galvanic or wireless links, allowing the earpiece to process the data, thereby reducing the processing power and battery requirements of body-worn accessories and enabling efficient data analysis and transmission.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If sensors are localized on the body for multipoint data capture, then data capture capability is improved, but power supply and processing capability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the processing functionality from the body-worn sensors and relocates it to a separate wearable computing device. The sensors capture data locally but transmit raw data wirelessly to the external device for processing, thereby reducing the processing power and battery requirements of the body-worn sensors while maintaining multipoint data capture capability
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a wireless communication interface as an intermediary between the body-worn sensors and the wearable computing device. This intermediary enables data transmission without requiring direct physical connection or high-power processing at the sensor location, resolving the contradiction between data capture capability and power consumption
2Measurement precision
If sensors are localized on the body for multipoint data capture, then data capture capability is improved, but processing capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex processing functions from the body-worn sensors and consolidates them in an external wearable computing device. This allows the sensors to remain simple data collection nodes while the processing intelligence is located elsewhere, maintaining high data capture capability without increasing sensor processing complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The system is segmented into distinct functional components: body-worn sensors for data capture, wireless communication interface for data transmission, and external wearable device for processing. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently, with sensors focusing on measurement and the external device handling processing complexity
3Use of energy by moving object
If processing power is reduced in body-worn accessories, then energy consumption is reduced, but data processing capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a wireless communication interface as an intermediary that enables body-worn sensors with reduced processing power to transmit data to an external wearable computing device that performs the actual processing. This intermediary allows the system to achieve low energy consumption at the sensor level while maintaining high data processing capability at the external device level
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This approach enables efficient data processing and transmission from body-worn sensors to earpieces, reducing the size and energy consumption of wearable devices while allowing for sophisticated analysis and authorization of software instructions, enhancing the capability for multipoint data capture and processing.
Implementation Method 1
The communication linkage may be a galvanic communication linkage or other wireless communication linkage
Data Source
AI summary
A method for communicating data from wearable devices, the method includes sensing data with a wearable sensor worn by an individual and communicating the data from the wearable sensor to an earpiece worn by the individual. The method may further include communicating software instructions for analyzing the data sensed with the wearable sensor from the wearable sensor to the earpiece. An earpiece includes an ear piece housing, a processor disposed within the ear piece housing, a speaker operatively connected to the processor, and a microphone operatively connected to the processor. The earpiece is configured to receive at the processor the software instructions for processing data collected from one or more remotely located sensor devices from the one or more remotely located sensor devices and to process the data according to the software instructions.