Smart Watch Strap Mood Color Dynamics

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional wearable devices, such as smart watches, lack the ability to dynamically express individuality and enhance user mood due to their fixed designs and mass-produced characteristics, leading to user boredom and limited emotional expression.

Innovation Solution

A smart watch with a strap that changes color based on user mood measurements, utilizing a sensor unit, control unit, and output means to select and display colors corresponding to user state information, allowing for dynamic expression of mood and emotional enhancement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If the smart watch uses a fixed design and mass-produced characteristics, then manufacturing cost and ease of manufacture are improved, but user boredom increases and individuality expression is limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of manufactureVSAvoidindividuality expression
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies the dynamics principle by making the strap color dynamic rather than fixed. The strap changes color based on the user's mood, which is detected through sensors. This allows the same mass-produced product to adapt to individual user states, resolving the contradiction between ease of manufacture and individuality expression.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses parameter changes by altering the optical parameter (color) of the strap based on detected user mood parameters. The control unit adjusts the displayed color parameter according to mood detection results, enabling individuality expression without changing the physical structure of the watch, thus maintaining ease of manufacture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Device complexity

If the smart watch has a fixed design, then device complexity is reduced and ease of manufacture is improved, but user boredom increases and emotional expression is limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice complexityVSAvoidemotional expression
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent directly applies the color changes principle by implementing a strap that displays different colors corresponding to different user moods. The output means in the strap changes its displayed color based on mood detection, providing emotional expression capability without significantly increasing device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #32Color changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies universality by making the strap serve multiple functions: it not only secures the watch to the user's wrist but also serves as a mood display interface. This multi-functionality approach allows emotional expression without adding separate complex components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Manufacturing precision

If the smart watch uses mass-produced characteristics, then manufacturing precision and cost are improved, but the ability to express user individuality deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanufacturing precisionVSAvoidindividuality expression
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies the copying principle by using an optical display system that can replicate different colors in the strap. Instead of manufacturing different physical straps for different users, the system copies color information to the strap display, enabling individuality expression through virtual rather than physical customization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The smart watch effectively measures user mood through various sensors and displays corresponding colors, enhancing user experience by expressing individuality and improving mood through dynamic color changes.

Implementation Method 1

a sensor unit configured with at least one of a temperature sensor, a pulse sensor, a blood pressure sensor, an accelerator sensor, a GPS sensor, a gyro sensor, and an optical sensor

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectTemperature sensing:

Implementation Method 2

a sensor unit configured with at least one of a temperature sensor, a pulse sensor, a blood pressure sensor

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectPulse detection:

Implementation Method 3

a sensor unit configured with at least one of a temperature sensor, a pulse sensor, a blood pressure sensor

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectBlood pressure measurement:

Implementation Method 4

a strap that is connected with the body to fix the body to a user's body part, includes an output means of the displayed color, and outputs the displayed color through the output means

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLight emission: Light Emitting Diode

Data Source

PatentUS10520895B2Smart watch that changes color of strap according to mood of user
Publication Date: 2019.12.31 HANCOM INC
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AI summary

A smart watch having a strap changing in color according to a user's mood, the smart watch includes: a body that collects information on a measurement target associated with a user or around the user to write state information, compares the state information with state combination information in which a plurality of pieces of combination information and a displayed color for each of the plurality of pieces of combination information are determined, selects one piece of corresponding combination information from among the plurality of pieces of combination information included in the state combination information, and selects a displayed color matching the selected combination information; and a strap that is connected with the body to fix the body to a user's body part, includes an output means of the displayed color, and outputs the displayed color through the output means according to a control of the body.