Master Slave Smart Contact Lens System

• US 20180224669A1
• Filed: 09/17/2016
• Published: 08/09/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Raayonnova LLC
• Original Assignee: Raayonnova LLC
• Inventors: Shtukater, Aleksandr
• Granted Patent: US 11,099,405 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 11/10 Electronic devices other than hearing aids
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 7/04 Contact lenses for the eyes disinfection or sterilisation of contact lenses A61L12/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/124 where hardware is a sequential transfer control unit, e.g. microprocessor, peripheral processor or state-machine
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A smart contact lens system and corresponding method for system control and exchanging data and commands between the two components has been disclosed. The system establishes a Master-Slave operational relationship between constituent components. Master-Slave relationship can exist between the two contact lenses, where one lens is a master while the other is a slave or between an external device which may serve as the master component and the contact lenses which may serve as the slave component. The system also comprises a smart contact lens substrate with an embedded communication module and a power supply module. The method to facilitate system control as well as data and commands exchange includes detecting the active system components, dynamically bonding and pairing the detected active components, dynamically or statically categorizing one of the component as master and the other one as slave and exchanging information and commands between the components.

Claims

1. A master slave smart contact lens system comprising:

At least two devices where at least one device is arranged to operate as master and the other as a slave;

At least one smart contact lens substrate with an embedded communication module, power supply module, wherein the said smart contact lens may be arranged as master or slave device;

At least one counter device, comprising at least an integrated communication module and power supply module wherein the said counter device may be arranged as a slave or a master;

2. The master slave smart contact lens system of claim 1 wherein the said counter device may comprise the second smart contact lens or off the eye counter device.

3. The master slave smart contact lens system of claim 1 further comprising:

one slave smart contact lens comprising at least one communication module and a power supply module;

4. The master slave contact lens system of claim 1 further comprising:

one master smart contact lens comprising at least one communication module, a power supply module and a processing module arranged as a controller for the entire system;

5. The master slave smart contact lens system of claim 1 further comprising:

one slave smart contact lens comprising at least one communication module and a power supply module;

6. The master slave smart contact lens system of claim 1 further comprising off the eye counter device further comprising at least one integrated communication module and a power supply module wherein the said counter device is arranged as a slave or a master;

7. The master slave smart contact lens system of claim 1 further comprising first and second smart contact lens comprising at least one communication module and a power supply module;

8. The master slave smart contact lens system of claim 6 further comprising an off the eye counter device comprising at least one integrated communication module and power supply module wherein the said counter device is arranged as master device;

9. The master slave smart contact lens system of claim 1 where slave component exposes services and access to an embedded sensor(s) and device(s) to the master controller component, via communication channel;

10. The master slave smart contact lens system of claim 1 further comprising a slave component with an embedded communication module and a master component with an embedded communication module and processor module;

11. A method of exchanging data between a master component and slave component comprising the steps of:

Discovering active system components available via communication channel using predefined communication protocol;

Dynamically bond and pair available active components by establishing communication channel;

Exchanging components inventory and building interface map for the paired component;

Dynamically determine which component is master or slave component or use statically predefined configuration of master slave component relationship,

Exchange information and commands between master and slave components of the system.

12. Method as described in claim 11 where a master device is either a contact lens or an off the eye device.

13. Method as described in claim 11 where master component requests information from and sends commands to the slave component to be executed by the said slave component and the communication channel.

14. Method as described in claim 11 where communication channel is established by communication module of at least one slave component and communication module of the master component.

15. Method as described in claim 11 where master component and slave component each expose their respective devices and services to each other and service requests for data and service to each other via communication channel.

16. Method of configuring smart contact lens system in a master slave arrangement, whereas the said system comprises at least two components,

whereas each component comprises at least communication module and power supply module,

whereas at least one device is a smart contact lens.