Systems for augmented reality visual aids and tools

Abstract

Adaptive Control Driven System/ACDS 99, supports visual enhancement, mitigation of challenges and with basic image modification algorithms and any known hardware from contact lenses to IOLs to AR hardware glasses, & enables users to enhance vision with user interface based on a series of adjustments that are applied to move, modify, or reshape image sets and components with full advantage of the remaining useful retinal area, thus addressing aspects of visual challenges heretofore inaccessible by devices which learn needed adjustments.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . In a system for dramatically changing display of the environment to a user, the improvements comprising, in combination:
 a means-for-direct user control of image modification;   instantaneous visual feedback; and a structural software process guiding a user to address large-scale appearance before fine-tuning smaller details, to tailor the subject outputs to optimized visual enhancement to address visual defects, whereby relatively intact peripheral vision can be used to provide data to be used to improve central vision impacted by degradation of the macula.   
     
     
         2 . The system of  claim 1 , further comprising use of eccentric viewing through patient adaptation to increase functionality such as reading, by viewing words in context, for example. 
     
     
         3 . The system of  claim 2 , whereby a user's field of view (FOV) is not decreased by overmagnification, rather automated by use of Augment Reality (AR) methodologies. 
     
     
         4 . The system of  claim 3 , wherein the continuous-space model for camera's inputs and displayed FOVs is governed by a class of radial mapping function with simple parameterizations having limited degrees of freedom, lending them to intuitive adjustment by un-trained users.' 
     
     
         5 . The system of  claim 4 , further comprising fixation training, for example, gamification accomplished by following fixation target around a display screen in conjunction with at least one of a hand held pointer and voice active controls. 
     
     
         6 . The system of  claim 5 , further comprising, in combination:
 Grid-based mapping functions;   Composability and scalability of warps;   Visual updates in real-time and temporally independent ability to adjust and fine-tune the subject models.   
     
     
         7 . The system of  claim 6 , disposed within a device, lense, IOL, two or three dimensional film, sheet, modular assembly of integrated components, and any type of internal or external framed glasses skeleton, infrastructure or housing or frame being wearable and non-invasive to a user. 
     
     
         8 . An adaptive control driven system/ACDS for visual enhancement and correction useful for addressing ocular disease states, which comprises, in combination;
 Software using at least one feature programmed to simulate improved functional vision for a user from a matrix selected from the group consisting of:   Hybrid magnification & warping; FOV dependent on head tracking;   Word shifting with “target lines”; Central radial warping;   Interactive on the fly FOV mapping; Dynamic Zoom;   OCR & Font change adaptation; Distortion Grid adjustment;   Scotoma interactive adjustment; and,   Adaptive peripheral vision training.   
     
     
         9 . An adaptive control driven system/ACDS for visual enhancement of  claim 8  and correction useful for identifying, diagnosing for addressing, or otherwise mitigating ocular disease states, comprising hardware which further comprises, at least the following features and their functional equivalents:
 At least a wearable machine or manufacture of matter in the state of the art effective for managing; 
 One button wireless update; 
 Stabilization & targeting training; 
 Targeting lines & crosshairs for eye fixation & tracking; 
 Interactive voice recognition and control; 
 Reading & text recognition mode; 
 Voice memo; and 
 Mode shift transitions. 
 
     
     
         10 . An adaptive control driven system/ACDS for visual enhancement and correction useful for addressing ocular disease states, which comprises in combination:
 At least a set of hardware capable of implementing user-driven adjustments, driven by any subject software described herein to effectively manage;   Hybrid magnification & warping   FOV dependent on head tracking   Word shifting with “target lines”   Central radial warping   Interactive on the fly FOV mapping   Dynamic Zoom   OCR & Font change adaptation   Distortion Grid adjustment   Scotoma interactive adjustment   Adaptive peripheral vision training;   In combination in whole or in part with:
 One button wireless update 
 Stabilization & targeting training 
 Training lines & crosshairs for eye fixation & tracking 
 Interactive voice recognition mode 
 Voice memo, and 
 Mode shift transitions. 
   
     
     
         11 . The adaptive control driven system/ACDS for visual enhancement defined in  claim 10 , further comprising, in combination:
 On-boarded—batteries; Bluetooth-wifi connection; charging and data ports.   
     
     
         12 . The adaptive control driven system/ACDS for visual enhancement in  claim 11 , further comprising, in combination:
 On-boarded—dual stereoscopic see-thru displays and an autofocus camera.   
     
     
         13 . The adaptive control driven system/ACDS for visual enhancement  12 , further comprising, in combination:
 On-boarded—processing and accelerometer gyroscope magnetometer chips.   
     
     
         14 . The adaptive control driven system/ACDS for visual enhancement of  claim 13 , manifested within and:
 Graphically user interfaced through basic set up mode displays and training mode displays; wherein user registration; visual field calibration; field of view definition; contrast configuration indicator configuration and control registration function in tandem.   
     
     
         15 . The adaptive control driven system/ACDS for visual enhancement of  claim 14  Further comprising training mode displays. 
     
     
         16 . The adaptive control driven system/ACDS for visual enhancement of  claim 15  further comprising software updates. 
     
     
         17 . An adaptive control driven system/ACDS for visual enhancement further comprising processes for driving the ACDS for adaptive peripheral vision training. 
     
     
         18 . The adaptive control driven system/ACDS for visual enhancement of  claim 17 , further comprising processes for driving the ACDS for adaptive Eccentric viewing Training. 
     
     
         19 . The adaptive control driven system/CDS for visual enhancement of  claim 18 , further comprising pupil tracking with customizable offset for eccentric viewing. 
     
     
         20 . The adaptive control driven system/ACDS for visual enhancement of  claim 19 , further comprising means for enabling users to experience gamification, namely following fixation targets around screen for training. 
     
     
         21 . The adaptive control driven system/ACDS for visual enhancement of  claim 20 , further comprising targeting lines overlaid on reality for fixation. 
     
     
         22 . The adaptive control driven system/ACDS for visual enhancement of  claim 21 , further comprising guided fixation across page or landscape w/head tracking. 
     
     
         23 . The adaptive control driven system/ACDS for visual enhancement of  claim 22 , further comprising guided fixation with words moving across screen at fixed rates. 
     
     
         24 . The adaptive control driven system/ACDS for visual enhancement of  claim 23 , further comprising guided fixation with words moving at variable rates triggered by user. 
     
     
         25 . The adaptive control driven system/ACDS for visual enhancement of  claim 24 , further comprising guided training & controlling eye movements with tracking lines. 
     
     
         26 . The adaptive control driven system/ACDS for visual enhancement of  claim 25 , further comprising look ahead preview to piece together words for increased reading speed. 
     
     
         27 . The adaptive control driven system/ACDS for visual enhancement of  claim 26  further comprising distortion training to improve fixation.