Collision avoidance apparatus
AssigneeHockey Tech Systems, LLC
InventorsRick Giampietro, Jeffrey Todd Harvey
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are systems and methods that relate to a modular protective system designed to be worn or incorporated into a helmet that prevent collisions with other stationary or moving objects by providing a visual and/or audible signal to the user. The system is composed of sensors that provide both directional and velocity information related to objects within the device/wearers surroundings. A computer device receives this information and translates it into a collision path and notifies the wearer of a possible collision and its trajectory.
Claims21
A user wearable system, comprising:
- one or more object tracking sensors;
- one or more force sensors;
- a computer readable memory comprising processor executable modules;
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- a processor, coupled to the computer readable memory, that executes or facilitates execution of the processor executable modules, the processor executable modules comprising:
- a trajectory module that processes data received from the object tracking sensors to calculate a trajectory of an object within a spatial vicinity of a user;
- a force module that calculates a force applied to the user wearable system from data received from force sensors;
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- an alert module that receives a calculated object trajectory signal from the trajectory module and a calculated applied force signal from the force module and determines if an alert should be provided to the user regarding the force from a collision and the trajectory of an object likely to collide with the user.
A user wearable device, comprising:
- one or more trajectory sensors to track paths of objects relative to the user wearable device;
- one or more force sensors to measure gravitational loads applied to the user wearable device;
- a user interface to notify a user of an impending collision with an object and a direction of travel of the object;
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- a network interface to notify a remote communication component that an excessive force has been applied to the user.
A method comprising:
- detecting, by wearable device comprising one or more trajectory sensors, an object approaching a user;
- determining, by a processor in the wearable device, that a collision of the user with the object has at least a threshold likelihood of occurring;
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- providing, by the processor, an audible, visual, and/or tactile warning to the user of a current or estimated location, travel direction, speed, or acceleration of the object,
- wherein at least one of the following is true;
- (i) the step of detecting further comprises detecting multiple objects approaching the user, determining trajectories of each of the multiple objects, and displaying the trajectories of each of the multiple objects on an external display device to be viewed by the user;
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- (ii) the wearable device uses a communication between other devices for trCking and recording the user's movements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.