Eyewear Spatial Audio Guidance via Image-Target Matching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing portable electronic devices, including wearable devices like eyewear, lack effective spatial audio feedback systems that can guide users within complex environments.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of an eyewear device equipped with processors, memory, image sensors, and speakers, which captures environmental images, identifies target locations, and provides audio signals to guide the user through spatial audio feedback.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If spatial audio feedback system is added to portable electronic devices, then user guidance capability in complex environments is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines spatial audio feedback with existing portable electronic devices (smartphones, tablets, wearables) by integrating audio speakers and processing capabilities into these platforms. This merging approach enables user guidance functionality without requiring entirely new device categories, thus improving ease of operation while managing device complexity through shared hardware resources.
Solution Approach 2:
The spatial audio feedback system is designed to work across multiple types of portable electronic devices including smartphones, tablets, and wearable devices. By creating a universal solution that leverages existing sensors, processors, and audio components across different device categories, the system improves user guidance capability without proportionally increasing complexity for each specific device type.
2Ease of operation
If multiple sensors and processing components are integrated into portable devices, then spatial audio guidance functionality is improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements spatial audio guidance by activating only the necessary components (audio speakers, relevant sensors) during active guidance tasks rather than maintaining all processing units at full capacity continuously. This partial action approach enables sophisticated spatial audio functionality while managing energy consumption by keeping power usage proportional to the current operational needs of the guidance system.
Solution Approach 2:
The spatial audio feedback system leverages existing sensors (microphones, cameras, motion sensors) and processing capabilities that are already present in portable electronic devices for their primary functions. By having the device serve its own guidance needs using existing components rather than requiring dedicated dedicated hardware, the system reduces additional energy consumption while maintaining full spatial audio guidance functionality.
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AI summary
Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for an immersive augmented reality (AR) experience using an eyewear device with spatial audio. The eyewear device has a processor, a memory, an image sensor, and speakers. The eyewear device captures image information for an environment surrounding the device, identifies a match between objects in the image information and predetermined objects in previously obtained information for the same environment. The eyewear device then identifies a target location within the environment, which may be associated with a physical or a virtual object. The eyewear device monitors its orientation with respect to the target location and presents audio signals to guide the user toward the target location.