Head-Mounted Display Onboard Processor Wireless Transceiver
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional personal viewing devices, such as head-mounted displays, operate like computer monitors and lack enhanced connectivity and functionality, limiting their interactive capabilities and requiring wired connections due to size and weight constraints.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating an onboard processor and wireless transceivers into personal viewing devices, enabling them to function as standalone interactive units with enhanced connectivity, overlaying images, and providing mixed reality experiences through embedded cameras and sensors, allowing for wireless communication and onboard application execution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If wired connections are used to connect external image generating devices to personal viewing devices, then reliability of connection is improved, but device complexity and portability are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the image generating device and display device into a single integrated personal viewing device. The processor, memory, camera, display, and other components are merged into one wearable unit, eliminating the need for external devices and wired connections while maintaining reliable functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The personal viewing device is designed to be self-sufficient with an onboard processor that executes applications locally and an integrated camera that captures images without requiring external image generating devices. The device serves itself by generating and displaying content independently.
2Adaptability or versatility
If onboard processor and wireless transceivers are incorporated into personal viewing devices, then functionality and connectivity are improved, but weight and size are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The personal viewing device incorporates multiple functions including image capture, wireless communication, application execution, and display in a single unit. The processor can execute various applications, the transceiver enables multiple communication protocols, and the camera serves both capture and overlay functions, maximizing versatility while consolidating components.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent nests multiple functional components within the personal viewing device structure. The processor is embedded within the device housing, the transceiver is integrated into the same chassis, and the camera is positioned to work with the display overlay system. This nesting allows multiple functions to coexist in a compact form factor.
3Quantity of substance
If images are overlaid on the display in personal viewing devices, then information density is improved, but image quality and clarity are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent overlays camera-captured images with computer-generated graphical images in a composite display. By combining real-world visual information with digital overlays in a mixed reality interface, the system increases information density without significantly compromising image quality. The overlay technique allows multiple layers of information to be presented simultaneously.
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AI summary
Images are overlaid using a personal viewing device, such as a head mounted display. The personal viewing device includes a mount, an electronic display, a lens, and an electronic circuit. The electronic display, lens, and electronic circuit are physically attached to the mount. The electronic display and lens are positioned by the mount so that an eye views the electronic display through the lens. The electronic circuit overlays a first image with a second image to produce an overlaid image. The electronic circuit then displays the overlaid image on the electronic display. The electronic circuit can include an image generating device. The image generating device can generate the first image and/or the second image. The image generating device can be a video player or a processor. The personal viewing device can further include a wireless transceiver attached to the mount.