Enhanced optical and perceptual digital eyewear

• US 10,185,147 B2
• Filed: 10/23/2015
• Issued: 01/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Percept Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Percept Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Lewis, Scott W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Alexander, William R
• Assistant Examiner(s): Duong, Henry
• Application Number:
  US14/921,937
• Publication Number:
  US 20160054569A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,187 Days
• Field of Search: 359209, 359 13, 359630-633, 351201, 351209, 351200, 351205-206, 351210, 351219, 351221, 351222, 351246, 351247
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/113 for determining or recording eye movement
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0127 comprising devices increasing the depth of field
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0138 comprising image capture systems, e.g. camera
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0141 characterised by the informative content of the display
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0178 Eyeglass type eyeglass details G02C
• 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 27/0093 with means for monitoring data relating to the user, e.g. head-tracking, eye-tracking
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0172 characterised by optical features
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/30 Polarising elements light-modulating devices with active elements G02F1/00
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 11/10 Electronic devices other than hearing aids
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 7/00 Optical parts characterised by the material G02B1/00
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• CPC Class Codes: G02C 7/12 Polarisers
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• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0077 Cooperative coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1621 : Group acknowledgement, i.e. the acknowledgement message defining a range of identifiers, e.g. of sequence numbers
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• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0073 : Allocation arrangements that take into account other cell interferences for intercell interference mitigation or co-ordination in orthogonal multiplex systems H04J11/005
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/14 : Two-way operation using the same type of signal, i.e. duplex
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/1469 : using time-sharing
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• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 : Wireless resource allocation
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• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 : in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
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• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 : in wireless communication networks

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 method for providing a wearable optics device comprising:

providing a lens;

providing a dynamic eye tracking mechanism in communication with the lens, wherein the dynamic eye tracking mechanism utilizes medical feature results from optical parameter measurements from an inward facing camera focused on the user'"'"'s eye;

providing one or more environmental sensors, wherein the dynamic eye tracking mechanism and lens utilize detection of one or more external objects in combination with the medical feature results;

wherein the lens, the dynamic eye tracking mechanism, and the camera are included in the optics device when worn, and which generate the medical feature results within the optics device;

wherein parameters personalized to a user are provided based upon the dynamic eye tracking;

wherein the optical parameter measurements include medical features, wherein the medical features comprises one or more changes in the user'"'"'s iris, pupil, retina, sclera, or lens;

receiving the medical feature results based on the optical parameter measurements and the medical features, and communicating those medical feature results to the dynamic eye tracking mechanism.

2. The method of claim 1,

wherein the wearable optics device is included in any one or more of

a visor, helmet, facemask, safety goggles.

3. The method of claim 1,

wherein the parameters are athletic information related to the user'"'"'s participation in a game;

and

wherein the game can be related to any of

track, skiing, baseball, football, tennis, basketball, and golf.

4. The method of claim 3,

wherein an identification of geometry of a field is provided.

5. The method of claim 3,

wherein possession of the football is identified.

6. The method of claim 3,

wherein a skier utilizing the wearable optics device has access to skiing information;

which includes any of or any combination of

speed and location of other skiers, altitude, and topographic features of the terrain.

7. The method of claim 1,

wherein augmented reality is provided remotely, wherein augmented reality is provided based upon the dynamic eye tracking.

8. The method of claim 1,

wherein a particular characteristic of a user is highlighted.

9. The method of claim 1,

wherein the user is an athletic sports player;

and

wherein coach communications, trainer communication, other player communications are connected to the player.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the athletic sports is any of

track, skiing, baseball, football, tennis, basketball, golf.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein any of

a baseball, a football, a tennis ball, a basketball, a golf ball are highlighted.

12. The method of claim 1,

wherein the user is military personnel;

and

wherein the military personnel utilizes augmented reality based upon the dynamic eye tracking.

13. A method as in claim 1,

wherein the optical parameter measurements responsive to the camera include a position of a body part relative to the user'"'"'s head;

wherein the body part includes one or more portions of a hand or limb of the user.

14. A method as in claim 1,

including steps of, in response to the dynamic eye tracking mechanism, one or more of:

highlighting selected augmented reality elements,

occluding selected augmented reality elements using a polarizing filter.

15. A method as in claim 1,

including steps of providing augmented reality elements including two or more of:

audio, visual, and other sensory inputs.

16. A method as in claim 1,

including steps of

providing augmented reality elements;

and

providing feedback in response to interaction between a bodily arrangement and those augmented reality elements, the feedback including two or more of;

audio, visual, and other sensory inputs.

17. A method as in claim 1,

including steps of providing, for a plurality of users, a localized network in which one or more augmented reality elements are shared.

18. A method as in claim 1,

wherein the dynamic eye tracking system is responsive to one or more of:

a capacitance or pressure eye sensor, a selected pattern of user eye blinks or squints.