Eye Gaze Training Device with Programmable Feedback Delays
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current sports training devices fail to effectively improve hand-eye coordination by providing timely feedback and cues to athletes, leading to suboptimal performance in sports that require precise eye tracking and follow-through.
Innovation Solution
An eye gaze training device that detects impacts through movement, vibration, noise, and other means, providing alerts and feedback signals with programmable delays to help athletes maintain proper eye tracking and head stability, integrated into wearable devices or sports equipment like tennis rackets, to enhance hand-eye coordination.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional training methods are used without automated feedback, then device complexity is reduced, but hand-eye coordination training effectiveness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements automated feedback mechanisms including visual displays showing impact timing, audio signals providing timing cues, and vibration motors delivering tactile feedback. These feedback systems provide real-time information to athletes about their eye-tracking timing relative to impact moments, enabling them to adjust and improve their hand-eye coordination through repeated practice with immediate performance information.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual coaching feedback with automated electronic detection and feedback systems. Sensors detect impact timing and automatically generate feedback signals without requiring a coach's continuous observation and instruction, thereby improving training consistency and reliability while managing complexity through automation.
2Speed
If feedback is provided immediately after impact, then training responsiveness is improved, but the natural delay in eye tracking response is not properly trained
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides feedback at multiple staged intervals: immediate feedback for awareness, delayed feedback for timing adjustment, and progressively extended delays to train the optimal eye-tracking response time. This staged approach allows athletes to first become aware of their timing errors, then gradually learn to delay their eye movement to achieve optimal contact timing.
Solution Approach 2:
The feedback timing is made dynamic and adjustable rather than fixed. The system can vary feedback delay intervals based on the athlete's performance level, providing immediate feedback for beginners and progressively longer delays for advanced users, thereby adapting to different training stages and optimizing learning progression.
3Measurement precision
If multiple sensor types are integrated for comprehensive detection, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple sensor types (accelerometers, gyroscopes, impact sensors) into an integrated detection system within a single device. These sensors work together to detect impact timing, direction, and force, providing comprehensive measurement data. The merged system processes information from all sensors to generate unified feedback, improving measurement precision while managing complexity through integration.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The device translates coaching cues into measurable and kinesthetic feedback, allowing athletes to associate physical sensations with optimal eye tracking delays, improving performance by recording and correlating impact detection with feedback signals, and providing historical data for performance improvement.
Implementation Method 1
detect the impact of an object... through movement, vibration, noise
Data Source
AI summary
An eye gaze training device is disclosed, including associated methods to record an impact and to provide a cue or feedback with a proper delay between action and instinctual eye tracking, improve hand-eye coordination, and thereby to improve one's performance in a sport, athletic event, or the like. This training device and associated methods provides for detection, recording, classification, translation, transmission, and learning, all associated with teaching and learning the proper way of striking an object with another object with proper hand-eye coordination. In various embodiments associated systems and methods of the eye gaze training device are included. In at least one embodiment, the eye gaze training device includes a microcontroller, impact sensor, power source, feedbacks, alert device, control settings and switches, accelerometers, position detectors, any one or more of which may be used in an eye gaze training device, as well as additional devices such as headbands, waist devices, leg devices.