Modular Electronic Eyewear with Interchangeable Sensor Modules
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electronic eyewear is bulky, expensive, and lacks user customization, battery life, and privacy features, making it impractical for daily use by the mass population.
Innovation Solution
Customizable electronic eyewear with interchangeable frames, temples, and sensor modules that allow for removable batteries and electronic components, enabling style and functionality adjustments, and secure data protection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional electronic eyewear integrates photonics systems for AR/VR, then interactive experience capability is improved, but device size and bulk increase making it impractical for daily use
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the electronic eyewear into separate modular components: a frame, interchangeable temples, and detachable sensor modules. This segmentation allows the device to maintain AR/VR functionality through attachable sensor modules while keeping the base frame lightweight and compact, resolving the contradiction between capability and size.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic configurability through interchangeable temples and detachable sensor modules that can be attached or removed as needed. This allows the device to transition between functional states (with or without AR/VR capabilities) and adapt to different user needs, maintaining versatility without permanent bulk.
2Adaptability or versatility
If electronic eyewear integrates cameras and sensors for functionality, then feature capability is improved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent separates electronic components into independent sensor modules that can be detached and replaced. Each module contains specific functionality (cameras, sensors), allowing users to choose only the features they need, thereby reducing overall device complexity and cost while maintaining capability flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates universal attachment interfaces on the frame that can accommodate different types of sensor modules. This universal design allows a single frame to support multiple functionality configurations, reducing the need for multiple complex device variants and lowering overall system complexity.
3Use of energy by moving object
If electronic eyewear uses integrated batteries, then power supply is provided, but battery life is limited and replacement is difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent places batteries within individual sensor modules rather than integrating them into the frame. This segmentation allows users to replace only the battery-containing sensor module when power is depleted, extending effective usage duration without requiring complex integrated battery systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables easy replacement of sensor modules containing depleted batteries with fresh modules. This approach allows continuous operation by discarding exhausted battery modules and recovering/reusing the frame and other functional components, effectively extending device operational life.
4Ease of manufacture
If electronic eyewear is designed with fixed components, then manufacturing simplicity is maintained, but user customization and style preferences cannot be accommodated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the eyewear into separately manufacturable components (frame, temples, sensor modules) with standardized attachment interfaces. Each component can be manufactured independently using simple processes, then assembled in various configurations to accommodate user customization preferences without complicating manufacturing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements universal attachment ports on the frame that can accept different temple styles and sensor module configurations. This universal interface allows a single frame design to support multiple customization options, maintaining manufacturing simplicity while enabling user adaptation to style and fit preferences.
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AI summary
Customizable electronic eyewear is provided including a frame having left and right attachment ports, a first sensor module having a first frame engagement portion attachable to a left side of the frame at the left attachment port, a first temple hingedly attachable to the first sensor module opposite the frame, a second sensor module having a second frame engagement portion attachable to a right side of the frame at the right attachment port, a second temple hingedly attachable to the second sensor module opposite the frame, and a battery installable in a cavity defined in at least one of the first temple or the second temple and operable to supply electrical power to at least one of the first sensor module or the second sensor module.