Wearable Interactive Skin With Touch Display and Condition Sensing
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a need for improved wearables that can provide interactive functionality, including touch input and output capabilities, to support infotainment, safety, and communication, while also being able to detect conditions and respond accordingly.
Innovation Solution
The integration of an interactive skin with flexible layers, including a touch-sensitive layer and a transparent display cover, which allows for touch input and visual feedback, and can be configured to detect conditions using sensors, supporting virtual user interface controls and communication connectivity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional wearables are used, then basic functionality is provided, but interactive functionality and user engagement are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functional layers (transparent display cover layer, touch-sensitive layer, flexible layers, sensor layer) into a single integrated interactive skin structure. This merging approach enables touch input, visual output, and condition detection capabilities while maintaining a unified wearable form factor, resolving the contradiction between enhanced interactivity and structural complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The interactive skin serves multiple functions simultaneously: it displays visual information, detects user touch input, monitors wearable conditions via sensors, and provides haptic feedback. This multi-functionality approach allows a single component to replace multiple separate systems, enhancing versatility without proportionally increasing complexity
2Illumination intensity
If transparent display cover layer is added, then visual information display is enabled, but touch sensitivity may be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a transparent display cover layer made of flexible material that maintains optical transparency for visual display while being sufficiently thin to allow touch sensitivity to pass through. The flexible nature of this layer ensures it does not significantly attenuate touch input signals, thus preserving ease of operation while enabling visual feedback
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple functional layers are integrated, then interactive capabilities are enhanced, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The interactive skin is divided into distinct functional segments (transparent display cover layer, touch-sensitive layer, flexible layers, sensor layer), each designed and manufactured separately with specific properties. This segmentation allows for specialized manufacturing processes for each layer while maintaining overall system integration, making the complex assembly more manageable and manufacturable
Data Source
AI summary
A wearable may be provided with or configured to provide interactive skin. The interactive skin may be configured for accepting touch input from a user. The interactive skin may include one or more flexible layers and may include or be mounted under a transparent display cover layer such as a layer of clear glass or plastic. Interactive skin may include a touch-sensitive layer that allows a user to provide touch input to the wearable. Display pixels on interactive skin may be used to display visual information to the user. The interactive skin may be configured for detecting a condition of at least one wearable and generating an output function in response to the detected condition.