Sensor-Integrated Headset for Standardized Eye-Based Diagnostics
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a lack of standardized hardware for comprehensive eye-based diagnostics across various healthcare applications, limiting the effectiveness of virtual reality gear, eye-tracking tablets, smartphone cameras, and generic high-resolution cameras in brain health, cognitive health, and epilepsy diagnostics.
Innovation Solution
A headset integrated with sensors, a controller, and a transceiver that captures and processes health information data, communicating it to an intermediate device for further processing to facilitate health-related diagnostics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If generic hardware (VR gear, eye-tracking tablets, smartphone cameras) is used for eye-based diagnostics, then device complexity is reduced and ease of manufacture is improved, but measurement precision and reliability are insufficient for comprehensive healthcare applications
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the diagnostic platform into modular components: a headset with embedded sensors for data capture, a controller for pre-processing, and an intermediate device for advanced processing. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently while maintaining overall system precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The headset is designed as a universal platform that can perform multiple healthcare functions including brain health diagnostics, cognitive health assessment, epilepsy detection, and stroke/TIA identification through integrated multi-functional sensors.
2Reliability
If standardized hardware is developed for comprehensive eye-based diagnostics, then measurement precision and reliability are improved, but ease of manufacture and device complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The controller performs pre-processing of sensor data before it reaches the intermediate device, preparing the data in advance for final analysis. This preliminary action ensures consistent data quality and reduces the computational burden on subsequent processing stages.
Solution Approach 2:
An intermediate device serves as a mediator between the headset sensors and the final diagnostic processing. This intermediary layer standardizes data formats and processing protocols, ensuring diagnostic consistency across different applications while simplifying manufacturing through standardized interfaces.
3Measurement precision
If multiple sensors are embedded into the headset frame for comprehensive health data capture, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity and manufacturing difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple sensors for capturing different health parameters are merged into a single integrated headset frame with a unified controller. This combination allows comprehensive health data capture while managing complexity through integrated architecture rather than separate devices.
4Productivity
If real-time pre-processing is performed by the headset controller, then productivity and response time are improved, but use of energy and device complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The controller performs partial pre-processing of sensor data, handling only the essential filtering and initial analysis required for immediate diagnostic response. This partial action provides real-time productivity benefits while avoiding the excessive energy consumption that would result from complete data processing in the headset.
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments are related to a headset integrated into a healthcare platform. The headset comprises one or more sensors embedded into a frame of the headset, a controller coupled to the one or more sensors, and a transceiver coupled to the controller. The one or more sensors capture health information data for a user wearing the headset. The controller pre-processes at least a portion of the captured health information data to generate a pre-processed portion of the health information data. The transceiver communicates the health information data and the pre-processed portion of health information data to an intermediate device communicatively coupled to the headset. The intermediate device processes at least one of the health information data and the pre-processed portion of health information data to generate processed health information data for a health-related diagnostic of the user.