Tired of misplacing your eyeglasses? Well this invention from ImagiStar LLC may be your answer. In their concept, a sophisticated electronic system is integrated into the eyeglasses. Environmental sensor data is collected and processed to automatically determine if your eyeglasses are at an unexpected location based on typical usage. This feature sets this invention apart from other location and tracking devices. In other words, the eyeglasses "realize" they've been lost possibly before you do! The eyeglasses notify you via wireless communications letting you know they are misplaced or possibly stolen. The concept can be also adapted to a device that can be attached to other items such as a wallet, purse, keys, phones, etc.Image source: United States Patent and Trademark Office
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Abstract
A portable item reporting device (PIRD) is configured to detect an individual person's use of conventional consumer eyeglasses. A PIRD includes a microprocessor, memory, one or more environmental detectors (such as optical detectors, motion detectors, cameras, and location detectors, as well as timer elements and possibly calendar elements. With the integrated electronics, the eyeglasses with PIRD may self-identify contexts in which the glasses may be lost, stolen, or misplaced. The eyeglasses with PIRD may also identify when the glasses have been covered over with papers or other objects (such as when set down on a desk), so that the owner of glasses may be at risk of losing or forgetting the glasses. A camera of the glasses may also maintain an ongoing record of user activity when the user is wearing the glasses. The record may aid the user in later identifying other personal items which the user set down and forgot to pick up again.
Eye Glasses with Individual User Awareness
Inventor: Steven Charles Oppenheimer
Current Assignee: IMAGISTAR LLC
Filed: Mar. 15 , 2022