Vision Training Goggles Central Field Obstruction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems for athletic training fail to help athletes react to stimuli outside their central field of view by blocking peripheral vision, instead hindering their ability to respond to peripheral stimuli.

Innovation Solution

The use of specialized eyewear, such as goggles or headpieces with adjustable vision blocking shields, and virtual or augmented reality implementations that selectively obscure parts of the field of view to redirect focus to unobstructed areas, allowing athletes to react to stimuli in the non-blocked regions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If peripheral view is blocked to help athlete focus on central field of view, then central focus is improved, but ability to react to peripheral stimuli deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecentral focusVSAvoidreaction to peripheral stimuli

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of blocking the peripheral view to improve central focus (conventional approach), the invention inverts the approach by blocking the central field of view to force the athlete to rely on and improve their peripheral vision and reaction to peripheral stimuli. This counterintuitive solution resolves the contradiction by making the previously worsened feature (peripheral reaction) the target of improvement.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

2Measurement precision

If peripheral view is blocked to improve central focus, then attention concentration is improved, but awareness of surroundings deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveattention concentrationVSAvoidawareness of surroundings

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The invention inverts the conventional approach by blocking central vision rather than peripheral vision. This forces the athlete to process and respond to peripheral visual information, thereby improving both attention concentration on peripheral stimuli and overall awareness of surroundings simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

3Illumination intensity

If conventional goggles block far-peripheral side view, then central view clarity is improved, but reaction to outside stimuli deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecentral view clarityVSAvoidreaction to outside stimuli

Core Design Contradiction:

Illumination intensityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

Rather than blocking the far-peripheral view to improve central clarity, the invention blocks the central field of view. This inversion forces the athlete to rely on peripheral vision for both clarity and reaction to outside stimuli, resolving the contradiction by making peripheral vision the primary source of both clarity and reactive capability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Data Source

PatentUS11918538B1System and method for vision training using specialized goggles

Publication Date: 2024.03.05 CASTLE CHRISTOPHER J

AI summary

Specialized eyewear (e.g. goggles, or headpiece) are utilized that block or obscure all or a portion of a user's view in order to direct the user's attention on non-blocked or non-obscured areas for sports training.