Smart Glasses Display Coordination with Mobile Devices

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Solution Overview

Problem

When using smart glasses and other mobile devices simultaneously, the display of smart glasses often overlaps with other devices, making it difficult for users to see the other devices' screens effectively.

Innovation Solution

A wearable terminal device, such as smart glasses, equipped with a processor and memory, projects a captured image and controls the display to hide or reduce the projected image when a mobile terminal device is in the user's field of view, using wireless communication to coordinate with the mobile device.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If smart glasses project a captured image in the user's field of view, then the user can see information displayed on the smart glasses, but the projected image overlaps with other mobile devices in the field of view, making it difficult for the user to see the other devices' screens

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevisibility of mobile device screenVSAvoiddisplay functionality of smart glasses
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The smart glasses dynamically adjust their display state based on real-time detection of other mobile devices in the field of view. When another mobile device is detected, the projection is hidden or reduced; when no other device is present, normal projection continues. This dynamic adaptation resolves the contradiction by making the display system flexible rather than fixed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses line-of-sight detection technology to continuously monitor the user's field of view and detect the presence of other mobile devices. This feedback mechanism triggers automatic adjustment of the projection state, creating a closed-loop control system that resolves the visibility conflict between smart glasses and other devices.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Loss of information

If the smart glasses continuously project images in the field of view, then the user receives continuous information display, but this creates obstruction when the user needs to view other mobile devices

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevisibility of other devicesVSAvoidinformation display continuity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system proactively detects the presence of other mobile devices in the field of view before significant obstruction occurs and preemptively hides or reduces the projection. This preliminary action prevents the conflict from fully manifesting, allowing smooth transitions between viewing smart glasses content and other devices without information loss.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #9Preliminary anti-action

Solution Approach 2:

The projection system switches between different states (normal projection, hidden projection, reduced projection) based on real-time conditions. This dynamic behavior maintains information display continuity at the system level while temporarily adjusting local display behavior to accommodate user needs for viewing other devices.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS11709645B2Wearable terminal device, control method, and system
Publication Date: 2023.07.25 CANON KK
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AI summary

A wearable terminal device capable of wirelessly communicating with a mobile terminal device having a display unit, the wearable terminal device comprising receiving status information of the mobile terminal device from the mobile terminal device when status of the mobile terminal device changes, determining whether or not to select display of the wearable terminal device based on the status information, and controlling the display of the wearable terminal device based on a determination result by the determining.