Modular Eyewear System with Embedded Electronics for Hands-Free Assistance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current eyewear devices are not modularly reconfigurable, limiting their ability to provide personalized and adaptive assistance to users, especially in situations where hands are occupied and information is not readily accessible.
Innovation Solution
A modularized eyewear system with interchangeable frames and temples equipped with embedded electronics, including a voice interface, sensors, and a processor, to receive user commands, gather sensor data, and provide assistance based on context and state analysis.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If current eyewear devices are used, then the device structure is simple, but the ability to provide personalized and adaptive assistance is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The eyewear device is divided into modular components including interchangeable frames, temples with embedded electronics, and separate sensor modules. This segmentation allows the system to provide personalized assistance through different configurations while keeping each module relatively simple in structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The eyewear system integrates multiple functions including voice interface for commands, sensor data collection for context awareness, processor for analysis, and assistance provision through audio/visual outputs. This multi-functionality enables personalized adaptive assistance within a unified device structure.
2Ease of operation
If information is made accessible through traditional devices, then information is available, but hands are occupied and information is not readily accessible
Solution Approach 1:
The eyewear device provides self-service capabilities through voice-activated interfaces that allow users to access information and receive assistance without manual interaction. The device autonomously processes sensor data to understand user context and provides relevant information through audio outputs, enabling hands-free operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The sensor system continuously collects data about user context and state in advance, so that when information is needed, the system already has the necessary data processed and ready for immediate delivery through the voice interface, reducing access time.
3Object-generated harmful factors
If earphones or earbuds are used for personalized sound transmission, then sound delivery is effective, but the ear canal is obstructed and hearing of far field and near field sounds is interfered with
Solution Approach 1:
The audio transmission function is extracted from traditional ear canal-occluding earphones and relocated to the eyewear device structure. Audio outputs are delivered through the eyewear frame and temples, which do not obstruct the ear canal, thereby maintaining personalized sound transmission while preserving natural hearing of far field and near field sounds.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are taught that provide assistance to a user through an eyewear device. Data is received from a first sensor. The first sensor is incorporated into an eyewear device. The first sensor measures a parameter related to the user. A state of the user is analyzed using the data. Assistance is provided to the user. The assistance is in a form of feedback, and the feedback is related to the state of the user. The assistance can also be related to a context of the user and a state of the user. The context of the user is determined from the data.