Vision Training Goggles with Selective Peripheral 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 such stimuli.

Innovation Solution

Specialized eyewear and headpieces with adjustable vision blocking shields or virtual/augmented reality implementations that selectively obscure portions of the non-far-peripheral view, forcing athletes to focus on unobstructed areas.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

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

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecentral focusVSAvoidreaction to peripheral stimuli

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent inverts the conventional approach by blocking the non-far-peripheral view (mid-peripheral and near-peripheral regions) while leaving the far-peripheral view unblocked. This allows athletes to maintain awareness of distant peripheral stimuli while still receiving visual training to improve focus redirection capabilities, thereby resolving the contradiction between central focus and peripheral reaction ability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

2Measurement precision

If non-far-peripheral view is blocked to redirect focus, then awareness of unobscured regions is improved, but total visual information available deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveawareness of unobscured regionsVSAvoidvisual information

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the visual field into different regions (far-peripheral, mid-peripheral, near-peripheral, and central) and applies selective blocking only to specific segments (non-far-peripheral regions). This segmentation allows the system to block portions of the visual field for training purposes while preserving other segments, thereby maintaining access to critical visual information while still achieving focus redirection training.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

3Measurement precision

If conventional goggles block peripheral side view, then central vision is enhanced, but situational awareness deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecentral visionVSAvoidsituational awareness

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent inverts the conventional blocking pattern by specifically preserving the far-peripheral view while blocking the non-far-peripheral regions. This inversion enables athletes to maintain situational awareness of distant events and opponents approaching from afar, while still receiving the visual training benefits of selective obstruction in the mid and near peripheral regions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Data Source

PatentEP3821958A1System and method for vision training using specialized goggles

Publication Date: 2021.05.19 CASTLE CHRISTOPHER J

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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 5 non-blocked or non-obscured areas for sports training.