Electronic Footwear Navigation Feedback for Pedestrian Collision Avoidance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing wearable electronic devices lack the capability to provide automated features and real-time communication with various infrastructure systems, limiting their effectiveness in enhancing user safety and interaction with the environment.
Innovation Solution
The development of intelligent electronic footwear (IES) equipped with detection tags and communication systems that enable wireless communication with infrastructure systems, vehicles, and other devices, allowing for automated features such as pedestrian collision avoidance and navigation assistance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If intelligent electronic footwear is equipped with detection tags and communication systems for real-time wireless communication with infrastructure systems and vehicles, then user safety and automated features are enhanced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides functionality into discrete modules: detection tags embedded in footwear, separate communication systems, and distributed infrastructure components. This modular segmentation allows complex safety features to be implemented while maintaining manageable device architecture through independent, standardized components that can be developed and maintained separately.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces intermediary devices such as detection tags and communication modules that mediate between the footwear and infrastructure systems. These intermediaries handle the complexity of wireless communication and data processing, allowing the core footwear structure to remain relatively simple while still achieving enhanced safety through layered communication protocols and intermediate processing stages.
2Reliability
If automated features such as pedestrian collision avoidance and navigation assistance are implemented, then effectiveness in enhancing user safety is improved, but loss of time for processing and communication increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by continuously monitoring and pre-processing data from detection tags and sensors before actual collision scenarios occur. Navigation routes are pre-calculated and safety parameters are pre-established, allowing the system to respond immediately when hazards are detected without requiring extensive real-time computation during critical moments.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the system continuously receives data from detection tags, processes information about environmental hazards and navigation status, and provides real-time feedback to adjust user behavior or alert users to dangers. This closed-loop feedback system optimizes response times by maintaining constant awareness of the user's environment and adjusting safety measures dynamically based on current conditions.
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AI summary
Presented are intelligent electronic footwear and apparel with controller-automated features, methods for making/operating such footwear and apparel, and control systems for executing automated features of such footwear and apparel. A method for operating an intelligent electronic shoe (IES) includes receiving, e.g., via a controller through a wireless communications device from a GPS satellite service, location data of a user. The controller also receives, e.g., from a backend server-class computer or other remote computing node, location data for a target object or site, such as a virtual shoe hidden at a virtual spot. The controller retrieves or predicts path plan data including a derived route for traversing from the user's location to the target's location within a geographic area. The controller then transmits command signals to a navigation alert system mounted to the IES's shoe structure to output visual, audio, and/or tactile cues that guide the user along the derived route.