Glasses-Type Wearable Notification Routing by Wear State
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing glasses-type wearable information devices, such as smart glasses, lack sufficient mechanisms for handling notifications when they are being worn or not worn by the user, potentially disrupting the user's experience or posing risks during activities like driving.
Innovation Solution
The smart glasses and paired devices, such as smart watches, implement flexible notification control based on their use status and operation modes, transferring notifications to the paired device when the smart glasses are not in use and displaying notifications directly when worn, using display and vibration functions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the glasses-type wearable information device displays notifications directly in the user's field of vision, then the user can receive notifications immediately, but it may cause distractions or safety issues when the device is not being worn
Solution Approach 1:
The notification handling mechanism dynamically adapts based on the device's operational state. When the device is in a wearable state, notifications are projected into the user's field of vision. When the device is in a non-wearable state (folded or stored), notifications are transferred to another wearable terminal. This dynamic state-dependent behavior resolves the contradiction by ensuring notifications are delivered reliably only when safe to do so.
Solution Approach 2:
Another wearable terminal acts as an intermediary for notification delivery when the glasses-type device is not being worn. Instead of attempting to display notifications in a state where no user is present, the system mediates by transferring notifications to a secondary device that the user is likely wearing, thus maintaining reliable notification delivery without creating safety hazards.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the glasses-type wearable information device transfers notifications to another wearable terminal when not in use, then user safety is maintained, but notification delivery may be delayed or less immediate
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary determination of the device's operational state before handling notifications. By checking whether the device is in a wearable or non-wearable state in advance, the system can immediately route notifications through the appropriate channel, minimizing delivery delay while ensuring safety.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback from the operational state detection mechanism to automatically adjust notification handling behavior. The state detection provides continuous feedback about whether the device is being worn, enabling real-time adaptation of notification delivery methods without manual intervention or delay.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the device provides comprehensive notification handling for both worn and non-worn states, then user experience is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The notification handling functionality is segmented into distinct pathways based on operational state. One pathway handles notifications when the device is worn (projecting to field of vision), and another pathway handles notifications when the device is not worn (transferring to another wearable terminal). This segmentation simplifies the control logic by avoiding the need for complex conditional processing within a single unified system.
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AI summary
A glasses-type wearable information device transfers, when a notification from an application is received, the notification to another wearable terminal in a case where the glasses-type wearable information device is not in use, and does not perform display control to project the notification into a field of vision of a user.