ENHANCED OPTICAL AND PERCEPTUAL DIGITAL EYEWEAR

• US 20130208234A1
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Published: 08/15/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Percept Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Percept Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: LEWIS, Scott W.
• Granted Patent: US 8,696,113 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 351/158
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/113 for determining or recording eye movement
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0118 comprising devices for improving the contrast of the display / brillance control visibility
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/014 comprising information/image processing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0187 slaved to motion of at least a part of the body of the user, e.g. head, eye
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/30 Polarising elements light-modulating devices with active elements G02F1/00
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 11/00 Non-optical adjuncts; Attachment thereof G02C7/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 11/10 Electronic devices other than hearing aids
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/015 Input arrangements based on nervous system activity detection, e.g. brain waves [EEG] detection, electromyograms [EMG] detection, electrodermal response detection

Abstract

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.

Claims

1. A wearable optics device comprising:

a lens; and

a dynamic eye tracking mechanism in communication with the lens;

wherein an optical parameter based operating system is utilized based upon the dynamic eye tracking.

2. The wearable optics system of claim 1, wherein the dynamic eye tracking is utilized to control the operating system.

3. The wearable optics system of claim 1, wherein applications are utilized to control sensors and the communication of the wearable optics device.

4. The wearable optics system of claim 1, wherein lenses is controlled by the operating system.

5. The wearable optics device of claim 1, wherein the lens includes a plurality of layers.

6. The wearable optics system of claim 1, wherein lens layer drivers and an eye cursor are controlled by the operating system.

7. A wearable optics device comprising:

a lens; and

a dynamic eye tracking mechanism in communication with the lens;

wherein shading or inverse shading is utilized based upon the dynamic eye tracking.

8. The wearable optics device of claim 7, wherein inverse shading is provide when viewing a display.

9. The wearable optics device of claim 7, wherein inverse shading is provided by a polarized filter.

10. The wearable optics device of claim 7, wherein algorithms for shading and inverse shading are provided within the wearable optics device.

11. The wearable optics device of claim 7, wherein algorithms are provided to transform non-visual spectrum to visible information.

12. The wearable optics device of claim 8, wherein the display is utilized with any of a smartphone, personal computer, laptop, desktop or portable device.

13. The wearable optics device of claim 7, wherein an object is unshaded but the area outside of the object is shaded.

14. The wearable optics device of claim 7, wherein object recognition is utilized.

15. The wearable optics device of claim 7, wherein if ambient light is above some predetermined value then you shade.

16. The wearable optics device of claim 7, wherein each lens has its own inverse shading.

17. The wearable optics device of claim 10, wherein translucency shading is provided for reading material.

18. A method comprising:

utilizing dynamic eye tracking with a wearable optics device;

wherein a perceptual optimization is utilized based upon the dynamic eye tracking.

19. The method of claim 18 which includes providing an enhancement utilizing objective and subjective quality standards based upon perceptual parameters.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the perceptual parameters include any and any combination of optical expression, voice, brain wave, environmental, audio, video, navigational, augmented reality, algorithmic, spatial, cognitive, interpretive.

21. The method of claim 18, wherein the wearable optics device controls any or any combination of mimics, amplifies, or expands a user perceptual physiology utilizing perceptual parameters.

22. The method of claim 20, wherein the optical expressions are images.

23. A wearable optics device comprising:

a lens; and

a dynamic eye tracking mechanism in communication with the lens;

wherein an augmented reality overlay is utilized based upon the dynamic eye tracking.

24. The wearable optics device of claim 23, wherein an overlay translation is augmented reality overlay in real time

25. The wearable optics device of claim 23, wherein an overlay translation is provided in the wearable optics device using line of sight or focal length of the lens of the user to the object to provide an augmented reality overlay