Wearable Optics with Dynamic Eye Tracking and AR
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wearable optics devices lack additional functionality beyond their primary uses, such as vision enhancement and protection, and there is a need to integrate advanced features like dynamic eye tracking and augmented reality capabilities.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating dynamic eye tracking mechanisms into wearable optics devices, which enable personalized parameter adjustments and augmented reality overlays, navigation, and other advanced features through communication with lenses, allowing for enhanced functionality such as media display, telecommunications, and perceptual optimization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If dynamic eye tracking mechanisms and augmented reality capabilities are integrated into wearable optics devices, then functionality and versatility are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements multi-functionality by integrating dynamic eye tracking, augmented reality overlays, media display, and telecommunications capabilities into a single wearable optics device. The lens system serves multiple purposes: providing vision enhancement, displaying augmented reality information, and enabling media interaction, thereby resolving the contradiction between increased functionality and device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines multiple functional components (eye tracking mechanism, augmented reality display, media player, communication modules) into an integrated wearable optics system. By merging these functions into a unified device with a single lens system, the patent achieves enhanced versatility while managing complexity through consolidation rather than separate components.
2Adaptability or versatility
If advanced features like dynamic eye tracking and augmented reality are added to wearable optics, then adaptability is improved, but ease of operation may deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service functionality through automatic eye tracking that dynamically adjusts parameters without user intervention. The system autonomously tracks eye movements and optimizes display parameters, augmented reality overlays, and media presentation based on real-time eye data, eliminating the need for manual controls and simplifying operation while maintaining high adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs dynamic adjustments where the lens system and display parameters automatically adapt in real-time based on eye tracking data. The system continuously modifies focus, display content, and presentation parameters according to user eye movements, providing personalized functionality without requiring user input and thereby maintaining ease of operation despite advanced capabilities.
Data Source
AI summary
Improved wearable optics is disclosed. The wearable optics comprises a frame member and a lens. The wearable optics also includes circuitry within the frame member for enhancing the use of the wearable optics. A system and method in accordance with the present invention is directed to a variety of ways to enhance the use of eyeglasses. They are: (1) media focals, that is, utilizing the wearable optics for its intended purpose and enhancing that use by using imaging techniques to improve the vision of the user; (2) telecommunications enhancements that allow the eyeglasses to be integrated with telecommunication devices such as cell phones or the like; and (3) entertainment enhancements that allow the wearable optics to be integrated with devices such as MP3 players, radios, or the like.