Eyewear LED Notification Patterns
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current portable eyewear devices, such as smart glasses, lack effective methods for providing status or functional notifications to the wearer, limiting their usability and functionality.
Innovation Solution
Integration of light emitting diode (LED) arrays on the eyewear device's frame or temples, coupled with a processor and memory, which can selectively illuminate patterns to notify the wearer of events, status, or contextual information, using a system that includes communication with mobile devices and servers to identify events and display corresponding notification patterns.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If portable eyewear devices integrate cameras and displays for multiple functions, then the functionality and data sharing capability are improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The eyewear device integrates multiple functions including cameras, displays, and LED notification arrays within a single device framework. The LED arrays can serve multiple purposes: providing status notifications, directional guidance, and contextual information, thereby achieving multi-functionality without proportionally increasing device complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The notification system is segmented into separate LED arrays positioned at different locations on the eyewear device. Each LED array can be independently controlled to provide specific types of notifications, allowing functional decomposition that manages overall device complexity while maintaining versatility
2Ease of operation
If LED arrays are integrated on the eyewear device frame or temples, then the notification capability to the wearer is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The LED arrays serve as an intermediary communication interface between the eyewear device's electronic systems and the wearer. Instead of requiring direct interaction with complex electronic components or displays, the system uses simple visual LED patterns to convey status information, event notifications, and directional guidance, thereby improving ease of operation
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical or complex display-based notification systems with LED optical indicators. The LED arrays provide visual feedback without requiring moving parts, complex display controllers, or user attention to small screens, simplifying the notification mechanism while enhancing wearer awareness
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
Enables efficient and intuitive notification of events, status, and directional guidance to the wearer through customizable LED patterns, enhancing the usability and functionality of portable eyewear devices.
Implementation Method 1
an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) located on an inner surface of at least one of the frame or the temple
Data Source
AI summary
An eyewear device is disclosed including a frame, a temple connected to a lateral side of the frame, an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) to emit light patterns on an inner surface of the frame or the temple within a peripheral view of a wearer of the eyewear, a processor coupled to the eyewear device, and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory stores programming for execution by the processor and notification patterns corresponding to the LEDs. Execution of the programming configures the eyewear device to identify an event for presentation to the wearer, select a notification pattern corresponding to the identified event, and display the selected notification pattern to the wearer by selectively illuminating the LEDs.