Wearable Vision-Control Assembly for Visual Focus Training
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing training methods fail to effectively help practitioners maintain constant visual focus on moving or stationary targets while performing controlled physical movements, leading to inefficiencies and increased risk of accidents in sports and other tasks.
Innovation Solution
A wearable training apparatus featuring a vision-control assembly with a see-through area surrounded by opaque material, limiting the field of vision to a central portion, forcing users to maintain focus on a target within this area, and optionally coupled with imaging devices for analysis.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If practitioners use conventional training methods with full field of vision, then they can perceive the environment broadly, but they cannot effectively maintain constant visual focus on moving or stationary targets while performing controlled physical movements
Solution Approach 1:
The field of vision is segmented into a central see-through area and peripheral blocked areas using the vision-control assembly. This segmentation forces practitioners to focus attention on the central target area while blocking distracting peripheral visual information, thereby improving visual focus precision during training exercises.
Solution Approach 2:
The vision-control assembly creates different visual qualities in different spatial zones: the central see-through area maintains transparency for target acquisition, while the peripheral areas are blocked to eliminate distractions. This local differentiation of visual quality enhances the ability to maintain constant visual focus on targets.
2Speed
If practitioners maintain constant visual focus on targets, then they improve their reaction time and coordination, but they require significant training effort and time
Solution Approach 1:
The vision-control assembly is worn during training sessions to preliminarily condition practitioners' visual focus habits. By repeatedly training with the restricted field of vision, practitioners develop automated target acquisition skills that transfer to real-world applications, reducing the time needed for skill acquisition.
Solution Approach 2:
The imaging devices capture practitioners' performance while wearing the vision-control assembly and provide feedback for analysis. This feedback mechanism allows practitioners to review and improve their visual focus and body movement coordination, accelerating the learning process and reducing overall training time.
3Reliability
If practitioners perform controlled body movements while focusing on targets, then they improve their physical performance, but they increase the risk of accidents due to inability to perceive peripheral environment
Solution Approach 1:
The training protocol involves periodic sessions with the vision-control assembly interspersed with normal vision periods. This periodic training approach allows practitioners to develop focused attention skills while maintaining awareness of their surroundings, balancing performance improvement with safety.
Solution Approach 2:
The imaging devices serve as intermediaries by recording and analyzing practitioners' movements and focus patterns. This intermediary system provides objective data about performance consistency and helps identify potential safety issues, allowing for adjusted training protocols that maintain both performance and safety.
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AI summary
A wearable training apparatus has a vision-control assembly for engaging a user's face about the user's eyes. The vision-control assembly has a see-through area about the user's eyes and an opaque area surrounding the see-through area at least on a temporal side and an inferior side thereof. The opaque area is for substantially blocking at least major portions of the natural monocular vision-areas of a natural field of vision (FOV) of the user's eyes, said natural monocular vision-areas being peripheral to a natural binocular vision-area on respectively temporal sides. The see-through area is for forming a reduced FOV about a gaze direction. The reduced FOV has a span encompassing at least a major portion of the natural binocular vision-area of the natural FOV of the user's eyes about the gaze direction thereof, said natural binocular vision-area being at an angular center of the natural FOV.