CN111103689A

CN111103689A - Wearable equipment

Info

Publication number: CN111103689A
Application number: CN201911386591.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 梁波; 姜滨; 迟小羽
Original assignee: Goertek Techology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Goertek Techology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-12-29
Filing date: 2019-12-29
Publication date: 2020-05-05

Abstract

The application discloses wearable equipment, including AR glasses and wireless control device, wireless control device wears in user's hand, including control unit and wireless communication system, when the user triggered control unit, can produce control signal, and rethread wireless communication system sends to AR glasses. The AR glasses comprise a glasses body, a wireless communication system and a control system, and after the control signal is received, the control system controls the corresponding device of the glasses body according to the control signal. First, the wireless control device is worn on the hand of the user, so that the user can operate conveniently; in addition, the wireless control device and the AR glasses are in wireless communication, so that the wireless control device is free from the interference of a wire harness and convenient to carry; finally, the corresponding control part does not need to be arranged on the AR glasses, the space occupation of the AR glasses can be reduced, the AR glasses can be lightened and miniaturized, and the wearing comfort of the user is further improved.

Description

Wearable equipment

Technical Field

The application relates to the technical field of electronic products, in particular to a wearable device.

Background

Augmented Reality (AR) glasses, which apply AR technology to glasses, are one of smart head-mounted devices, and are popular among a large number of users because they can implement not only the functions of ordinary glasses but also a large number of functions that cannot be implemented by ordinary glasses, such as navigation, calling, and watching video.

Because the user is in the use, the AR glasses need wear in user's face, so will be convenient inadequately some operations to the AR glasses, for example, when video playback needs to suspend, need the specific button on the user's touch-control AR glasses just can realize, and AR glasses itself is less bulky, so the space that the button occupies is also limited, and the user is at the touch-control in-process, is difficult to find, or the mistake touches and leads to the scheduling problem of shutting down.

Therefore, how to realize convenient operation of the AR glasses is a problem to be solved urgently by those skilled in the art.

Disclosure of Invention

The utility model aims at providing a wearable equipment, including AR glasses with wear in the wireless control device of hand, can convenient control AR glasses through wireless control device, improve user's experience and feel.

In order to solve the technical problem, the application provides a wearable device, which comprises AR glasses and a wireless control device used for being worn on a hand;

the wireless control device comprises a control component and a wireless communication system;

the control component is used for sending the received control signal to the wireless communication system;

the wireless communication system is used for wirelessly transmitting the control signal to the AR glasses;

the AR glasses comprise a glasses body, a wireless communication system and a control system;

the wireless communication system of the AR glasses is used for establishing wireless connection with the wireless communication system of the wireless control device so as to receive the control signal;

and the control system is used for controlling the device corresponding to the glasses body according to the control signal.

Preferably, the wireless control device is a bluetooth ring, and the wireless communication system is a bluetooth module.

Preferably, the AR glasses further comprise: the control system is also used for processing signals collected by the camera and converting and outputting the signals to the audio playing system and the AR optical machine of the glasses body.

Preferably, the wireless communication system of the AR glasses is further configured to establish a wireless communication connection with a terminal device, and is configured to receive a signal sent by the terminal device, and the control system is further configured to convert the signal sent by the terminal device and output the converted signal to the audio playing system and the AR light machine of the glasses body.

Preferably, the control system comprises:

the signal processor is connected with the camera and the wireless communication system of the AR glasses and is used for decoding the signals collected by the camera and the signals sent by the terminal equipment to obtain signals in an MIPI format and sending the contained audio signals to the audio playing system;

the first signal conversion chip is connected with the signal processor and used for converting the MIPI format signals into RGB format signals;

and the second signal conversion chip is connected with the first signal conversion chip and is used for converting the RGB format signal into an LVDS format signal and outputting the LVDS format signal to the AR optical machine.

Preferably, the AR glasses further comprise an ambient light sensor and a 6-axis sensor connected to the signal processor.

Preferably, the AR light machine is a Micro LED light machine.

Preferably, the wireless control device further includes: piezoelectric motor, 6-axis sensor and pilot lamp.

Preferably, the control part is a key.

Preferably, the number of the keys is 3.

The wearable equipment that this application provided, including AR glasses and wireless control device, wireless control device wears in user's hand, including control unit and wireless communication system, when the user triggered control unit, can produce control signal, and rethread wireless communication system sends to AR glasses. The AR glasses comprise a glasses body, a wireless communication system and a control system, and after the control signal is received, the control system controls the corresponding device of the glasses body according to the control signal. First, the wireless control device is worn on the hand of the user, so that the user can operate conveniently; in addition, the wireless control device and the AR glasses are in wireless communication, so that the wireless control device is free from the interference of a wire harness and convenient to carry; finally, the corresponding control part does not need to be arranged on the AR glasses, the space occupation of the AR glasses can be reduced, the AR glasses can be lightened and miniaturized, and the wearing comfort of the user is further improved.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present application, the drawings needed for the embodiments will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application, and that other drawings can be obtained by those skilled in the art without inventive effort.

Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a wearable device provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2 is a hardware platform structure diagram of a wireless control device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 3 is a hardware platform structure diagram of AR glasses according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 4 is a structural diagram of an AR glasses body according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 5 is a data link diagram of a wearable device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, and not all the embodiments. All other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments in the present application without any creative effort belong to the protection scope of the present application.

The core of the application is to provide a wearable device.

In order that those skilled in the art will better understand the disclosure, the following detailed description will be given with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Fig. 1 is a structural diagram of a wearable device provided in an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 1, the apparatus comprises two parts, one part being AR glasses 1 and the other part being a wireless control device 2. The wireless control device 2 is worn on the hand of a user, and the wireless control device 2 is divided into two parts, one part is a control unit 20, and the other part is a wireless communication system 21. The control section 20 mainly receives a control signal from a user and outputs the control signal to the wireless communication system 21. In the present embodiment, the type of the control unit 20 is not limited, and may be a key, such as a mechanical key, or a touch key. The wireless communication system 21 wirelessly transmits the signal to the AR glasses 1, and realizes control of the AR glasses 1. The wireless control device 2 may be a bracelet or a ring, and the communication mode thereof may be WIFI communication or bluetooth communication. Since the data amount of the control signal transmitted from the wireless control device 2 to the AR glasses 1 is small, bluetooth communication can be used in a normal case. In addition, the Bluetooth chip is low in power consumption, so that the Bluetooth chip is suitable for low-power-consumption application scenes. The AR glasses 1 are intended to be worn on the face of a user and include a glasses body 10, a wireless communication system 11, and a control system 12. And a wireless communication system 11 of the AR glasses, for establishing wireless connection with the wireless control device 2 to receive the control signal. And the control system 12 is used for controlling the corresponding devices of the glasses body 10 according to the control signals. It is understood that the glasses body 10 may include a glasses frame 100, glasses legs, a lens 101, an AR light machine 102, an audio playing system 103, a battery 104, a power chip 105, a memory chip 106, and the like. In this embodiment, the communication method in the wireless communication system 11 is not limited, but needs to correspond to the communication method in the wireless control apparatus 2, and for example, if the wireless control apparatus 2 adopts the bluetooth communication method, the wireless communication system 11 also needs to have a bluetooth communication function, be embodied in a hardware device, and need to include a bluetooth chip. In a preferred embodiment, the wireless control device 2 is a bluetooth ring.

It can be understood that the present embodiment is not limited to the control object of the control signal, that is, the control signal may control any device on the glasses body, for example, control the AR optical engine 102, and in addition, the specific operation of the control signal is also not limited, for example, the playing is paused.

The wearable equipment that this embodiment provided, including AR glasses and wireless control device, wireless control device wears in user's hand, including control unit and wireless communication system, when the user triggers control unit, can produce control signal, and rethread wireless communication system sends to AR glasses. The AR glasses comprise a glasses body, a wireless communication system and a control system, and after the control signal is received, the control system controls the corresponding device of the glasses body according to the control signal. First, the wireless control device is worn on the hand of the user, so that the user can operate conveniently; in addition, the wireless control device and the AR glasses are in wireless communication, so that the wireless control device is free from the interference of a wire harness and convenient to carry; finally, the corresponding control part does not need to be arranged on the AR glasses, the space occupation of the AR glasses can be reduced, the AR glasses can be lightened and miniaturized, and the wearing comfort of the user is further improved.

Fig. 2 is a hardware platform structure diagram of a wireless control device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. In fig. 2, a bluetooth ring is taken as an example for explanation, and as shown in fig. 2, the wireless communication system 21 of the wireless control device 2 is a bluetooth module, and in addition, for convenience of carrying, battery power supply is usually adopted, so the wireless control device 2 further includes a battery 22, a battery charge and discharge management chip 23, and a voltage reduction device 24. It should be noted that this embodiment only shows one implementation manner of the bluetooth ring, and does not represent that only the above devices are included.

Specifically, the wireless communication system 21 of the wireless control apparatus 2 includes a front antenna for transmitting and receiving signals wirelessly, and a control chip for controlling the transmission and reception of the control signal generated by the control component and controlling the parameter configuration, power on/off, and the like of the battery charge and discharge management chip 23 and the voltage reduction device 24, and the control chip may be implemented by a chip NRF 52832. The battery charge/discharge management chip 23 is responsible for charge/discharge of the battery 22 and path management of power supply. In fig. 2, one specific form of the voltage dropping device 24 is Buck DCDC, which is used to drop the received voltage for use by the chip NRF 52832.

As a preferred embodiment, the wireless control device 2 further includes: a piezoelectric motor 25, a 6-axis sensor 26 and an indicator light 27.

In order to enrich the function of the Bluetooth ring, a piezoelectric motor 25 is added, the piezoelectric motor 25 can adopt a ceramic plate with the thickness of 10mm by 7.8mm by 0.5mm, and the ceramic plate is applied with 100 Hz-200 Hz switching voltage by utilizing the inverse piezoelectric effect, so that the ceramic plate can vibrate by 10V switching voltage. The vibration of the piezoelectric motor 25 can alert the user in a specific scene. Since the voltage supplied by the battery 22 or the power supply is typically 5V, a voltage boosting device 28 is also required for the piezoelectric motor 25, and in fig. 2, one specific form of the voltage boosting device 28 is Boost DCDC. Boost DCDC is used for driving piezoelectric motor 25, and the on-off control of cooperation control chip realizes the vibration effect of piezoelectric motor 25 different frequencies. The 6-axis sensor 26 can collect signals to realize measurement of acceleration and rotation angle, functions such as wrist measurement and step counting are realized, obtained results can be wirelessly transmitted to the AR glasses 1 and displayed on the AR glasses 1. The indicator 27 is used to indicate the current working status, such as pairing, connection, low power, etc. in order to reduce power consumption, an LED may be used.

Further, the control part 20 is a key. In this embodiment, the outer side surface of the bluetooth ring is provided with a key, and when the key is pressed, a corresponding control signal is generated. It is understood that the more the number of keys is, the more control manners can be realized, but it is easy to cause misoperation and occupy too much space, and therefore, as a preferred embodiment, the number of keys is set to 3. In one embodiment, the 3 keys are up, down and enter keys, respectively. The confirmation and up-down selection functions of the UI interface of the AR glasses 1 can be controlled by the above 3 buttons.

Fig. 3 is a hardware platform structure diagram of AR glasses according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in fig. 3, the wireless communication system 11 of the AR glasses includes a bluetooth module for communicating with the bluetooth ring wirelessly, and in order to enrich the functions of the AR glasses 1, the wireless communication system 11 of the AR glasses further includes a WIFI module, so that a low power consumption system scheme can be formed by a WIFI-BT two-in-one chip WCN3620 in fig. 3, and the front end of the chip WCN3620 is a filter and a front antenna. The signal processor in the control system 12 of the AR glasses 1 may be implemented by a digital signal processor MSM8909W, and the digital signal processor MSM8909W runs an android system, and is responsible for processing encoding and saving of image signals, output of audio signals, processing of data of sensors, and the like. In addition, the memory chip 106 in the glasses body 10 can be implemented by an EMCP, which is formed by combining an EMMC and an MCP, and compared with the conventional MCP, the EMCP has a built-in NAND Flash control chip, so that the burden of the operation of the main chip can be reduced, and a Flash memory with a larger capacity can be managed. In this embodiment, the capacity of the memory chip 106 is not limited, and may be 4 GB. The power chip 105 in the glasses body 10 can be implemented by the PMW3100, providing 24 power sources required by the high-pass system and charge and discharge management of the battery 104. The audio playing system 103 in the glasses body 10 can be realized by a DSP and two micro-speakers, the DSP is used for optimizing audio signals, the power consumption of the micro-speakers is low, and the micro-speakers are used for playing left and right channel audio, specifically, the micro-speakers can be realized by MAX 98390.

On the basis of the above embodiment, the AR eyeglasses 1 further include: the camera 13 is connected with the control system 12, and the control system 12 is further configured to process a signal collected by the camera 13, and convert the signal and output the signal to the audio playing system 103 and the AR light machine 102 of the glasses body 10. As shown in fig. 3, the CSI interface of the digital signal processor MSM8909W is connected to the camera 13, and the camera 13 is disposed on the frame 100 for capturing a current picture. After the camera 13 collects the signals, the signals are output to the digital signal processor MSM8909W through the CSI interface, and after being processed, the signals are played on the audio playing system 103 and the AR optical machine 102, and may also be stored in the memory chip 106. In this embodiment, the number and pixels of the cameras 13 are not limited, and may be 1 to 2, and 500 ten thousand pixels may be used.

On the basis of the above embodiments, in this embodiment, the wireless communication system 11 of the AR glasses is further configured to establish a wireless communication connection with the terminal device, and is configured to receive a signal sent by the terminal device, and the control system 12 is further configured to convert the signal sent by the terminal device and output the converted signal to the audio playing system 103 and the AR light machine 102 of the glasses body 10. As described above, the wireless communication system 11 of the AR glasses forms a low power consumption system scheme through the WIFI-BT two-in-one chip WCN3620, on one hand, the AR glasses 1 may be connected with a bluetooth ring through bluetooth communication, and on the other hand, the AR glasses 1 may be connected with a terminal device through WIFI communication. It should be noted that the AR glasses 1 may also be connected to the terminal device through bluetooth communication, and specifically, what communication method is adopted needs to be determined according to the transmitted signal. When the data volume of the transmitted signal is small, for example, a short message, bluetooth communication may be used, and when the data volume of the transmitted signal is large, for example, a movie, WIFI communication may be used. The terminal device may be a mobile phone, and certainly, a tablet computer or other devices may be used besides the mobile phone.

As a preferred embodiment, the control system 12 comprises, in addition to the above mentioned signal processor, a first signal conversion chip and a second signal conversion chip. Specifically, the signal processor decodes the obtained signal to obtain an MIPI format signal, sends the included audio signal to the audio playing system 103, and outputs the included image signal to the first signal conversion chip. The first signal conversion chip is configured to convert the MIPI format signal into an RGB format signal, and the second signal conversion chip is configured to convert the RGB format signal into an LVDS format signal and output the LVDS format signal to the AR optical engine 102. Specifically, the first signal conversion chip may be implemented by a chip LT9211, and the chip LT9211 has an MIPI interface and an RGB interface. The second signal conversion chip can be implemented by a programmable logic controller (FPGA), the FPGA is connected to the chip LT9211 through an RGB interface, and the FPGA is connected to the AR optical engine 102 through an LVDS interface.

On the basis of the above-described embodiment, in the present embodiment, the AR glasses 1 further include the ambient light sensor 14 and the 6-axis sensor 15 connected to the signal processor. As shown in fig. 3, the signal processor has an I2C interface for interfacing with the ambient light sensor 14, the ambient light sensor 14 collecting ambient light to provide the basis for the system to adjust the display brightness. The digital signal processor MSM8909W has an SPI interface for connection with the 6-axis sensor 15, the 6-axis sensor 15 for providing a 3dof parameter for detecting changes in the position of the user's head, etc. In addition, in other embodiments, the digital signal processor MSM8909W also has a USB interface for connecting USB peripherals.

It is understood that when the above signal processor has a MIPI interface, the AR optical machine 102 also needs to support the MIPI interface, and a Micro LED optical machine or a DLP type optical machine may be used, but in view of miniaturization, as another preferred embodiment, the AR optical machine 102 is a Micro LED optical machine. The miniaturized Micro LED optical machine is adopted to replace a DLP optical machine, the volume is greatly reduced, and the volume can reach 20.7 x 12.8 x 11.6mm at present. Fig. 4 is a structural diagram of an AR glasses body according to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 4, the AR optical machine 102 is disposed at the joint of the temple and the frame 100, and the temple portion can be made smaller based on the use of a miniaturized optical machine, so that the problem of interference with the angle of view of the human eye can be avoided.

In order to make the technical solutions provided by the present application more clear to those skilled in the art, a specific application scenario is provided in this embodiment for description. Fig. 5 is a data link diagram of a wearable device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

a: the mobile phone is used as a data transmitting terminal, near AR glasses are searched through Bluetooth, then a device which is required to be connected is selected from the searched or previously connected devices, after the Bluetooth connection is established, the mobile phone can transmit audio signals and image signals according to an A2DP protocol, or an application message prompt is sent to the AR glasses through the Bluetooth protocol for displaying.

b: the AR glasses are used as a receiving end, the received audio signals and image signals are sent to a digital signal processor MSM8909W through a chip WCN3620, the signals are decoded through the digital signal processor MSM8909W, the audio signals are transmitted to an audio playing system through an I2S interface after decoding is completed, the image signals are sent to a chip LT9211 through an MIPI interface, and the image data of the image signals are converted into RGB signals through the chip LT9211 and sent to a next-stage FPGA for processing; the FPGA converts the processed RGB data into LVDS signals and sends the LVDS signals to a display part of the AR glasses for displaying images.

Signals collected by a camera of the AR glasses are sent to a digital signal processor MSM8909W through a CSI interface, and the digital signal processor MSM8909W receives the signals, then codes and stores the data, and can store the data into an EMCP; if the signals collected by the camera are required to be downloaded to the mobile phone, the signals can be downloaded to the mobile phone in a WIFI communication mode.

c: the bluetooth ring provides convenient operation in the system, and the user pairs the back with bluetooth ring and AR glasses, can realize through 3 buttons on it operations such as shoot, record a video, music broadcast, pause, UI interface selection, specifically includes following 3 scenes: scene 1: the Bluetooth ring controls the UI interface of the AR glasses to enter a photographing or video recording interface through up and down keys, photographing or starting video recording is carried out through a confirmation key, and the confirmation key is pressed again to finish photographing or video recording;

scene 2: the Bluetooth ring controls the UI interface of the AR glasses to enter a music playing interface through up and down keys, and after a song is selected, a confirmation key is pressed to start playing or pause playing;

scene 3: the Bluetooth ring controls the UI interface of the AR glasses to enter a setting menu through an up-down key, and can be used for adjusting the volume of the Micro loudspeaker or the brightness of the Micro LED optical machine;

the wearable device provided by the present application is described in detail above. The embodiments are described in a progressive manner in the specification, each embodiment focuses on differences from other embodiments, and the same and similar parts among the embodiments are referred to each other. The device disclosed by the embodiment corresponds to the method disclosed by the embodiment, so that the description is simple, and the relevant points can be referred to the method part for description. It should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, it is possible to make several improvements and modifications to the present application without departing from the principle of the present application, and such improvements and modifications also fall within the scope of the claims of the present application.

It is further noted that, in the present specification, relational terms such as first and second, and the like are used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. Also, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other identical elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

Claims

1. A wearable device comprising AR glasses and a wireless control means for wearing on a hand;

2. The wearable device of claim 1, wherein the wireless control device is a bluetooth ring and the wireless communication system is a bluetooth module.

3. The wearable device of claim 2, wherein the AR glasses further comprise: the control system is also used for processing signals collected by the camera and converting and outputting the signals to the audio playing system and the AR optical machine of the glasses body.

4. The wearable device of claim 3, wherein the wireless communication system of the AR glasses is further configured to establish a wireless communication connection with a terminal device, and to receive a signal sent by the terminal device, and the control system is further configured to convert the signal sent by the terminal device and output the converted signal to the audio playing system and the AR light engine of the glasses body.

5. The wearable device of claim 4, wherein the control system comprises:

6. The wearable device of claim 5, wherein the AR glasses further comprise an ambient light sensor and a 6-axis sensor connected with the signal processor.

7. The wearable device according to any of claims 3-6, wherein the AR light engine is a MicroLED light engine.

8. The wearable device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the wireless control apparatus further comprises: piezoelectric motor, 6-axis sensor and pilot lamp.

9. The wearable device of claim 8, wherein the control component is a key.

10. The wearable device of claim 9, wherein the number of keys is 3.