XR Underwater Exploration Helmet With Real-Time Dive Data Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Divers face difficulties in conveniently checking and adjusting multiple equipment items during underwater exploration, especially in high-difficulty tasks like rescue work or structure examination, due to challenges such as high turbidity and loss of balance, which can lead to safety issues and inefficiencies.
Innovation Solution
An XR glasses-equipped underwater exploration helmet that integrates modules for creating and displaying XR data, including GPS location, sonar imaging, depth, temperature, and air volume, with features like automatic control and wireless transmission, allowing hands-free operation and real-time data display.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If divers use traditional diving computers and gauges to monitor dive parameters, then they can check equipment items, but they must frequently manually check multiple items one by one which reduces operational efficiency and increases safety risks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple dive parameter displays (water depth, temperature, dive time, air volume) into a single integrated XR display system. The XR glasses overlay multiple data layers in one visual field, eliminating the need to switch between separate diving computer and gauges, thus improving ease of operation while maintaining productivity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from traditional 2D display surfaces (diving computer screen, gauge faces) to 3D spatial display through XR technology. Multiple dive parameters are rendered in three-dimensional space with depth information, allowing divers to perceive and monitor multiple parameters simultaneously in a more intuitive spatial arrangement, enhancing both convenience and operational efficiency
2Reliability
If divers manually check multiple equipment items frequently, then they can monitor dive parameters, but this increases the risk of losing balance and neutral buoyancy break when large currents are generated
Solution Approach 1:
The XR display system provides automatic real-time monitoring of dive parameters without requiring manual intervention. The system self-updates and displays water depth, temperature, dive time, and air volume continuously, freeing divers from repetitive manual checking operations and reducing safety risks associated with frequent equipment manipulation
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides continuous real-time feedback of dive parameters through the XR display, allowing divers to monitor their status without physical contact with equipment. This continuous feedback loop improves safety by eliminating the need to manually check equipment during critical moments while maintaining situational awareness
3Loss of information
If divers check diving computer in high turbidity water, then they can monitor dive parameters, but visual checking becomes difficult or impossible in high turbidity conditions
Solution Approach 1:
The XR glasses act as an intermediary between the dive parameters and the diver's visual perception. Instead of requiring direct visual contact with physical gauges or computer screens that are obscured by turbidity, the XR system transmits parameter information through optical fields projected in the diver's field of view, bypassing the harmful effect of water turbidity on visual information transmission
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical display surfaces (physical screens and gauge faces that require direct line-of-sight viewing) with optical field projection through XR technology. This substitution eliminates the dependency on direct visual contact with physical displays, allowing diver parameter monitoring to function effectively in high turbidity environments where traditional mechanical displays become invisible
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AI summary
An XR glasses-equipped underwater exploration helmet and a method of operating the same are disclosed. The XR glasses-equipped underwater exploration helmet includes: an XR execution module creating XR data; an XR display displaying the XR data created by the XR execution module; a GPS module creating GPS location information; and a GPS signal wireless transmission module creating in real time a GPS wireless signal including the GPS location information created in real time by the GPS module, and transmitting the real-time created GPS wireless signal, wherein the XR data are composed of at least one or more of a current water depth, a current underwater temperature, a dive time, and a remaining air volume. According to the XR glasses-equipped underwater exploration helmet and a method of operating the same described above, since an XR glass is mounted on an underwater exploration helmet and is configured to display data such as a remaining air volume of an air tank, a water depth, a water temperature, a dive time, an available dive time, etc., so there is an effect that a diver can conveniently explore without having to frequently check a diving computer or gauges during diving.