Eyewear Image Generator for Augmented Reality Visual Training
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional visual training devices require users to look away from their path to access training data, leading to distractions and safety concerns, as they often rely on separate devices like watches or mobile phones for displaying information.
Innovation Solution
The development of visual training aids that incorporate eyewear with integrated image generators, processors, global positioning systems, and cameras, allowing for dynamic, augmented reality displays that provide users with real-time training data directly in their line of sight, including virtual competitors' positions relative to their own, enhancing training effectiveness and safety.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If training data is displayed on separate devices like watches or mobile phones, then users can access training information, but users must look away from their path causing distractions and safety concerns
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the training data display functionality with the user's eyewear, merging the information access capability directly into the user's field of vision. This eliminates the need to look at separate devices by integrating the display system into the eyewear, allowing users to view training data while maintaining their forward focus.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary display system (augmented reality display or heads-up display) that acts as a mediator between the training data and the user's vision. This intermediary projects or overlays information directly onto the user's visual field, allowing information access without requiring the user to divert their gaze from their path.
2Loss of information
If conventional training devices provide comprehensive training data, then users receive detailed performance information, but the data must be viewed on separate devices requiring user attention diversion
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the comprehensive training data display with the user's line of sight by integrating the display system into eyewear. This allows complete training information to be presented without requiring users to handle or look at separate devices, thereby maintaining both information completeness and operational ease.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions the display from a two-dimensional separate device screen to an overlay dimension within the user's visual field. By projecting training data as augmented reality elements or heads-up display information directly into the user's vision, the system provides comprehensive data without requiring attention diversion.
3Ease of operation
If video eyewear technologies are used to display graphics on lenses, then users can view training data in their line of vision, but the device complexity increases with projectors and mirrors
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs mobile computing devices that serve multiple functions: they provide processing power, display capabilities, global positioning system functionality, and communication abilities. By consolidating these functions into a single universal device that can interface with eyewear, the system reduces overall complexity compared to dedicated projector-mirror systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses the display capabilities of existing mobile computing devices to create a virtual copy of the training data display function. Instead of requiring physical projectors and mirrors, the system uses software-based augmented reality or heads-up display technologies that replicate the information presentation function through digital means.
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AI summary
Visual training aids including an eyewear article including a lens, an image generator mounted to the eyewear article in a position to display an image on the lens, a processor operatively connected to and in data communication with the image generator, a global positioning system operatively connected to and in data communication with the processor, a computer readable medium operatively connected to and in data communication with the processor. In some examples, the visual training aid includes a pair of eyeglasses. In some examples, the visual training aid includes a display monitor mounted to the eyewear. In some examples, the visual training aid includes a camera mounted to the eyewear.