Smart Glasses Display Media Control via Environmental Adaptation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Smart glasses systems face limitations in providing entertainment and safety while users are in motion, as they struggle to adapt to changing environmental conditions such as light levels and hazards, leading to potential distractions and reduced effectiveness in presenting media assets.

Innovation Solution

The system adjusts the presentation of media assets on smart glasses based on environmental information, including light levels and hazards, by varying opacity and color mix, using sensors to detect user gaze shifts and environmental conditions, allowing for safe and effective entertainment in various environments.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Illumination intensity

If the smart glass display presents media assets with high opacity and luminosity for entertainment, then the entertainment quality is improved, but the user's ability to detect environmental hazards deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedisplay luminosityVSAvoidhazard detection capability

Core Design Contradiction:

Illumination intensityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic adjustment of display parameters (opacity, luminosity, color mix) based on real-time environmental conditions detected by sensors. The display transitions from static high-opacity presentation to adaptive presentation that responds to user movement, light levels, and detected hazards, resolving the contradiction between entertainment quality and safety awareness

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses sensors to detect environmental conditions and user behavior, then feeds this information back to adjust display parameters. This closed-loop feedback mechanism allows the display to automatically reduce opacity when hazards are detected or when the user moves, maintaining entertainment quality while ensuring safety

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If the smart glass display maintains high opacity for media asset presentation, then entertainment effectiveness is improved, but user safety in hazardous environments deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveentertainment effectivenessVSAvoidsafety hazard

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The display opacity is dynamically adjusted based on detected hazards and user movement. When the system detects the user is stationary and no hazards are present, it maintains high opacity for entertainment. When hazards are detected or the user moves, opacity is reduced to prioritize safety, resolving the contradiction between entertainment effectiveness and safety

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically monitors environmental conditions and adjusts display parameters without requiring user intervention. The sensors continuously detect hazards and user behavior, and the system self-adjusts opacity and luminosity accordingly, maintaining both entertainment effectiveness and safety autonomously

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Measurement precision

If the smart glass system uses pupil monitoring to detect user gaze, then field of view detection is improved, but reliability deteriorates due to lack of user control over pupil

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvegaze detection precisionVSAvoidgaze detection reliability

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple detection methods including pupil monitoring with other sensors (accelerometers, gyroscopes, light sensors) to detect user gaze and field of view. This multi-sensor approach compensates for the limitations of pupil monitoring alone, improving reliability while maintaining precision through data fusion from multiple sources

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

4Productivity

If the smart glass display provides full entertainment content, then user entertainment is improved, but user awareness of environmental hazards deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveentertainment provisionVSAvoidenvironmental hazard awareness

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically balances entertainment provision with hazard awareness by adjusting display parameters in real-time. When hazards are detected or the user moves, the system reduces opacity and may pause entertainment content, allowing hazard awareness to take precedence. When no hazards are present and the user is stationary, full entertainment content is provided, resolving the contradiction between productivity and safety

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS11906737B2Methods and systems for controlling media content presentation on a smart glasses display

Publication Date: 2024.02.20 ADEIA GUIDES INC

AI summary

Systems and methods are described herein for controlling a smart glass display based on environmental conditions. The smart glass display may be configured for presenting a media asset. Further, the smart glass display is configured with a transparent display function that adjusts the presentation of the media asset based on the environmental conditions. The smart glass display may identify environmental information and determine a hazard based on the environmental information. Further, a smart glass display may observe the user's eye movement and may execute a specific function corresponding to the user's eye movement.