GLASSES-TYPE WEARABLE TERMINAL AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD
According to one embodiment, a display and a sensor signal acceptor which accepts detection signals from a sensor are provided. A first display controller displays a first instruction for instructing a first work on the display, based on the detection signal which indicates an end of preparation for the first work. And, a second display controller displays a second instruction for instructing a next second work on the display, based on the detection signal which indicates an end of the first work.
This application is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/979,203 filed Dec. 22, 2015, which is based upon and claims the benefit of priority from Japanese Patent Application No. 2015-173648, filed Sep. 3, 2015, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
FIELDEmbodiments described herein relate generally to a glasses-type wearable terminal and a data processing method.
BACKGROUNDRecently, glasses equipped with a projector capable of projecting an image has been developed as a glasses-type wearable terminal. The glasses-type wearable terminal is often convenient for a worker who performs maintenance of various types of installation and manufacturing devices in a factory. The worker can see the contents of instructions through a projected image with the glasses-type wearable terminal and can execute the work instructed by the projected image with both hands in real time.
In addition, the worker can execute cooking of a meal, etc., with both hands, while looking at the recipe instructed through a projected image with a glasses-type wearable terminal.
The worker using the glasses-type wearable terminal can execute the instructed work with both hands in real time while seeing the contents of instructions given through a projected image with the glasses-type wearable terminal. For this reason, the worker does not need to move to a position different from the current work position to confirm a content of next work direction or confirm the content of instruction on a display of an installed personal computer, in a conventional manner.
Even if the worker considers having worked based on the content of work instruction, however, the worker often does not work actually (or forgets work steps) or, even if the worker works, the content of work often is imperfect. For example, since noise occurs during the work, the worker may forget the work performance of a certain step (or the work may be imperfect) or the worker may forget closing a door (or close a door imperfectly). In such a case, when the device for the work (a manufacturing device, a conveying device or the like) works again, an accident may occur for the reason that the worker forgets the work and the work is imperfect.
A general architecture that implements the various features of the embodiments will now be described with reference to the drawings. The drawings and the associated descriptions are provided to illustrate the embodiments and not to limit the scope of the invention.
Various embodiments will be described hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings.
In general, according to one embodiment, a glasses-type wearable terminal and a data processing method are provided, wherein during work, such as artificial manipulation and autonomous working, obtaining the certainty of work is supported.
According to one embodiment, a glasses-type wearable terminal, comprising: a display; a sensor signal acceptor which accepts detection signals from a sensor; a first display controller which urges a first instruction for executing a first operation to be displayed on the display, based on the detection signal accepted by the sensor signal acceptor, which indicates an end of preparation for the operation; and a second display controller which urges a second instruction for executing a next second operation to be displayed on the display, based on the detection signal accepted by the sensor signal acceptor, which indicates an end of the first operation.
An embodiment will further be described with reference to the drawings.
Embodiments will be described hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings.
A glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 comprises a projector (display information producer) 1102, a screen (optical path synthesizer) 1106, a driver (often called an image display circuit, a light source driving circuit or a signal processor) 1134, a wireless communication module 1136, etc., and operates with the power supplied from a power supply module 1132 which is, for example, a button battery.
The projector 1102 executes communications, i.e., delivers and receives information with an information management server or a system controller (not shown) connected with an external network NTW, through the wireless communication module 1136.
In addition, the projector 1102 comprises a light source module 1104, an image display module 1110, a half-mirror surface 1112, a full-reflection surface 1114, an emission surface 1116, a lens group 1120, etc. The projector 1102 illuminates an image or information displayed by the image display module 1110, by non-parallel light (divergent light; hereinafter called divergent light) emitted from the light source module 1104, and emits (outputs) the projected image which is the reflected light (of the illumination light).
The light source module 1104 should preferably be a dimming-type white LED light source (L-cos) in which a plurality of, for example, three light emitting diodes (LED) are different in light color and an output light quantity of each diode can be varied independently. If an environment of use of the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 is, for example, a clean room in which, for example, illumination mainly based on an orange color is often used, the light color can be changed in accordance with the environment of use by using the dimming-type white LED light source for the light source module 1104. In addition, by using the dimming-type white LED light source for the light source module 1104 and outputting a display color which can easily be seen for the wearer, occurrence of elements which are troubles for the wearer, such as eye fatigue and its attendant migraine, can be avoided as compared with a case of outputting a display color which can hardly be seen for the wearer.
The image display module 1110 is, for example, a reflection LCD module and displayed a predetermined image, based on display control of the driver 1134.
Light 1108 output from the light source module 1104 is reflected on the half-mirror surface 1112 to illuminate the image displayed on the image display module 1110, and is reflected again as image light corresponding to the image (often called image light) corresponding to the image.
The driver 1134 also controls the light emitted from the light source module 1104 in association with the image (image light) displayed on the image display module 1110.
The screen 1106 comprises a rear transparent refractor 1124, a Fresnel lens type half-mirror surface 1122, and a front transparent refractor 1126.
The light (image light) 1108 reflected at the image display module 1110 of the screen 1106 passes through the half-mirror surface 1112 and the emission surface 1116. Then, the image light is given a predetermined image size by the lens group 1120 and reaches the Fresnel lens type half-mirror surface 1122 of the optical path synthesizer 1106.
The image light 1108 passing through the lens group 1120 and reaching the Fresnel lens type half-mirror surface 1122 of the screen 1106 is reflected in part on the Fresnel lens type half-mirror surface 1122 to form a virtual image corresponding to the image (image light) displayed on the image display module 1110.
The screen 1106 transmits a part of an image seen in the extension of a line of sight of the wearer (wearing the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100), i.e., a background image and displays the image together with the image light corresponding to the image such that the wearer can visually recognize the image.
Part of the image light (divergent light) 1108 emitted from the light source module 1104 and passing through the half-mirror surface 1112 is wholly reflected on the full-reflection surface 1114 and refracted on the emission surface 1116, and becomes leakage light 1118 (i.e., divergent light) from the light source module 1104. The leakage light 1118 is released to the outside through an opening or a gap (guide portion) 1128. A function of obtaining the leakage light 1118 is not indispensable.
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The position of the glasses-type wearable terminal (wearer) and the wearer's state can be detected by using the leakage light from the glasses-type wearable terminal shown in
The detection system of the embodiment includes at least one glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 (−1 to −m), at least one wireless sensor chip 1204 (−1 to −n), and a system controller 1200. They can receive and deliver the information by mutual communications. The mutual communications may be wired or wireless communications, but should preferably be, for example, near field communication such as Bluetooth (registered trademark). More preferably, if they collaborate with each other by near field communication, collaborative operations and collaborative processing between the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 and the wireless sensor chip 1204 can be executed without receiving an influence from free movement of the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100. Alternatively, if they collaborate with each other by near field communication, collaborative operations and collaborative processing between the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 and the wireless sensor chip 1204 can be executed without receiving an influence from free change of the arrangement location of the wireless sensor chip 1204. The wireless communication scheme applied to the present system is not limited, various types of the communication schemes may be adopted and the wireless communication schemes may be changeable.
In the detection system of the embodiment, the light 1108 output from the light source module 1104 of the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 is intermittently modulated with the information including identification of the glasses-type wearable terminal (Identification: hereinafter often called terminal ID) such that the individual identification information, i.e., an arbitrary number of glasses-type wearable terminals 1100 can be identified. For example, the light 1108 emitted from the light source module 1104 is modulated with the information signal including the terminal ID. The wireless sensor chip 1204 transmits the received information signal to the system controller 1200. The system controller can thereby associate the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 with the wireless sensor chip 1204.
In the detection system of the embodiment, as explained above, the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 is used as “an information transmission source” by using the leakage light 1118. Thus, the multi-functional glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 can be implemented with the information transmission function besides the display function of the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100. Then, variety of the system comprising the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 can be achieved.
As the method of modulating the amount of light emission of the light source module 1104, for example, not a chopper-type modulation scheme of intermittently reducing the amount of light emission to zero, but a modulation scheme of maintaining the amount of light emission more than a predetermined amount even if the light amount is small is adopted. Burden on the wearer's eyes can be thereby reduced. As regards the modulation scheme, for example, a digital sum value (DSV) free modulation scheme (i.e., a scheme of calculating DSV of a modulated signal at any time and) is adopted. Thus, variation in the amount of light emission can be suppressed in a comparatively long range (i.e., variation in the amount of light emission can be macroscopically reduced to zero at any time) and the burden on the wearer's eyes can be further reduced.
An effect of reducing the burden on the wearer's eyes can also be produced by setting the reference frequency of the modulation to be higher than or equal to 10 Hz, for example, higher than or equal to 20 Hz, more preferably, higher than or equal to 60 Hz since an eye of a person can recognize a variation of approximately 0.02 seconds. In contrast, since the LED used in the light source module 1104 has an inner impedance and connection capacitance, the modulation frequency of good accuracy should preferably be lower than 100 MHz, more desirably, 10 MHz. Therefore, the reference frequency of modulation at the light source module 1104 used in the detection system of the embodiment should preferably be in a range of 10 Hz to 100 MHz, more desirably, 10 Hz to 10 MHz.
In addition, the leakage light 1118 (transmitted light 1158) which is the divergent light from the light source module 1104 is used in the detection system of the embodiment. The amount of the light detected by the wireless sensor chip 1204 is thereby varied in accordance with a distance 6 between the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 and the wireless sensor chip 1204. By using this phenomenon, the distance between the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 and the wireless sensor chip 1204 (or the orientation of the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 to the wireless sensor chip 1204) can be predicted.
The light can be detected within a comparatively wide range by using the divergent light as the leakage light 1118 (transmitted light 1158) from the light source module 1104. As a result, the position of the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 (i.e., the distance between the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 and the wireless sensor chip 1204 or the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 (i.e., the orientation of the orientation of the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 to the wireless sensor chip 1204) can be detected by merely installing a comparatively small number of wireless sensor chips 1204 (−1 to −n). An expense required to install the detection system can be thereby reduced.
The light amount information of the leakage light 1118 (transmitted light 1158) from the light source module 1104, which is detected by the wireless sensor chip 1204 is transmitted from the wireless sensor chip 1204 to the system controller (or an information management server) at predetermined timing. The system controller 1200 analyzes the information from the wireless sensor chip 1204 which is collected by the system controller (or compiled in the information management server). The position of an arbitrary glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 (−1 to −m), i.e., the wearer and the wearer's state can be thereby estimated.
In the embodiment shown in
The glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 may incorporate a sensor group 1152 including a plurality of sensors. The glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 may incorporate, for example, a microphone 1153, a position detection sensor 1154, a state detection sensor 1155, etc., besides the camera 1138.
The position detection sensor 1145 detects a position in a plurality of manners such as a manner of reading a bar code of a fixed position with, for example, the camera 1138 or a manner of receiving position information from a plurality of communication devices at fixed positions by the communication module 1136 to recognize the position information.
The state detection sensor 1155 comprises, for example, sensors such as an acceleration sensor, a gyroscope, etc., and detects worker's states, based on information output from the acceleration sensor and the gyroscope. The worker's states are, for example, “working” represented by “A”, “moving” represented by “B”, “waiting” represented by “C”, “work start” represented by “D”, “work end” represented by “E”, etc. The worker's states are transmitted to the information management server or the system controller via the network NTW. The sensor group 1152 may also include a color sensor, a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, a line-of-sight sensor, etc.
The communication module 1136 can establish mutual communication with the external system controller 1200 via a wireless and/or wired network.
The display controller 1134b comprises a plurality of display controllers (a first display controller, a second display controller, . . . ) and can change the display data in accordance with a determination result from a determiner 1134c. The determiner 1134c comprises a plurality of determiners (a first determiner, a second determiner, . . . ) and can obtain a determination result corresponding to a detection signal from a sensor signal accepter 1134d. The sensor signal accepter 1134d accepts various types of sensor detection signals from the sensor group 1152. Various types of sensor detection signals from the sensor group 1152 may be transmitted to the system controller 1200 via the communication module 1136, based on the determination result of the determiner 1134c.
The functional blocks may be implemented by software stored in the memory of the driver 1134.
For example, the worker wearing the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 reaches a work location and, for example, presses a work start button located at the work location or makes specific gesture. Work instruction wait information (switch information or state detection information) from the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 is thereby transmitted to the system controller 1200. The system controller 1200 receiving the work instruction wait data determines a work content (also called a work type or work name) and transmits the work start instruction data to the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100.
The work content is preliminarily divided into a plurality of work units (i.e., a plurality of segmented works), segmented work instructions are formed for the respective work units, and the segmented work instructions are prepared as instruction image data. The instruction image data may be prestored in, for example, the RAM of the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 or may be transmitted from the system controller 1200 to the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 for each of the segmented works. It is preferable that a work process for executing the work such as maintenance should be divided into a plurality of work units and that each work unit should be segmented in order to urge the worker to certainly execute the work. The instruction image data is a message or icon image, a moving image or a combination thereof. Alternatively, the instruction image data may be displayed as a color image.
First work start instruction data received from the system controller 1200 via the communication module 1136 is input to the operation input accepter 1134a.
Then, the operation input accepter 1134a controls the display controller 1134b, and the work instruction is thereby started. When the work instruction is started, a first work instruction is presented to the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 by the instruction image data (step SA1). The worker understands the work instruction and starts the wok. When the worker starts the work, the work start is recognized by the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 and the system controller 1200, based on, for example, various types of sensor outputs (step SA2).
If the work start is recognized, the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 and/or the system controller 1200 controls the first work instruction to be non-displayed (step SA3). In other words, display of the first work instruction does not disturb the worker's work.
If an abnormal condition is detected while the worker is working (step SA4), abnormal display is executed and the flow returns to step SA1. The abnormal condition of the work is determined based on, for example, an output of an abnormal temperature detection sensor, an abnormal humidity detection sensor, an abnormal acceleration sensor, an abnormal position detection sensor, an abnormal light sensor or the like in the sensor group 1152.
When the work proceeds smoothly and the first work is completed, the first work completion is detected by the sensor (step SA5). For example, an acceleration sensor, a pressure sensor, etc., are used. When completion of the first work is detected, then a second work instruction is presented (step SA6). Then, detection of a second work start and detection of a second work end are executed, and a third work instruction is presented, similarly to the first work instruction.
When a last work instruction is presented and detection of a last work end is executed, a new next instruction is presented. The new instruction is, for example, an instruction for rest, evacuation, next work, movement to a next work location, or the like. In the present embodiment, a constituent element for executing the display control and/or a process of the display control is an important element, and enables the worker's work to be properly managed and controlled.
As explained above, the embodiment basically comprises the display module and the sensor signal acceptor which accepts a detection signal from the sensor. The first display controller urges the display module to display a first instruction for executing the first work, based on the detection signal indicating the end of the work preparation which is accepted by the sensor signal acceptor, and the second display controller urges the display module to display a second instruction for executing the second work, based on the detection signal indicating the end of the first work which is accepted by the sensor signal acceptor.
In addition, the embodiment also relates to a data processing method of the glasses-type wearable terminal comprising the driving module for processing the work instruction data. The processing method comprises urging the display module to display the first instruction for executing the first work, based on the detection signal indicating the end of the work preparation which is accepted by the sensor signal acceptor, and urging the display module to display the second instruction for executing the second work, based on the detection signal indicating the end of the first work which is accepted by the sensor signal acceptor.
A third display controller may be provided. The third display controller enables the first instruction to be non-displayed, based on the detection signal indicating the start of the first work which is accepted by the sensor signal acceptor.
If the worker does not stop after a while, it is determined whether more than a predetermined time has passed (step SC4). If the worker does not stop after more than a predetermined time, it is determined that some trouble occurs, a warning is displayed via the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100, and a stop instruction is made.
If the worker does not stop at a normal position in step SC6, it is determined that the work position is an abnormal position (step SC7), a warning is displayed via the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100, and an instruction to move to a predetermined position is displayed.
If the worker stops at the normal position, the work instruction explained with reference to
The embodiment described in the present specification does not limit the term “worker”, but it may be explained as a wearer who wears the glasses-type wearable terminal. In addition, the term “work” is not limited either, and can be replaced with any terms such as action, sales, diagnosis, warning, maintenance, monitoring, and action of the wearer of the glasses-type wearable terminal.
The steps of detection, determination and display control are explained with reference to
When communications with the system controller 1200 are started, an instruction is transmitted to the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100 by, for example, the system controller 1200 and a display such as “Tighten the screw” is made (step SB1). The worker inserts a driver 2002 into the housing through the opening to start the operation of tightening the screw 2001. Then, a sensor (for example, the acceleration sensor) 2021 attached to the screw 2001 or the driver 2002 detects the acceleration (step SB2). Thus, when the work of tightening the screw is started, the acceleration sensor 2021 detects rotation of the screw.
Since the rotation detection signal is transmitted to the system controller 1200, the system controller 1200 recognizes that the work is started. Then, the system controller 1200 outputs a command to erase the current instruction “Tighten the screw”. The work location can easily be thereby seen with the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100.
When the screw is tightened and tightening is stopped, a detection output of he sensor 2021 becomes zero. At this time, the sensor detection signal is also transmitted to the system controller 1200 via the communication module 1136. The system controller 1200 thereby determines that tightening the screw is completed (step SB3). The system controller 1200 transmits a next instruction. The next instruction is assumed to be an instruction such as “Close door” (step SB4). The worker closes a door 2006 in accordance with the instruction (step SB5). At this time, i.e., when the door 2006 is rotated in a closing direction, a sensor (for example, an acceleration sensor) 2022 detects the rotation start of the door 2006. At this time, the detection signal is transmitted to the system controller 1200 via the communication module 1136. The system controller 1200 thereby detects the rotation start of the door 2006. When the door 2006 is closed and the rotation is stopped, the sensor (for example, the acceleration sensor) 2022 detects the stop of the door 2006 (i.e., closing of the door 2006). At this time, the sensor detection signal is also transmitted to the system controller 1200 via the communication module 1136. The system controller 1200 thereby determines that closing the screw is completed (step SB5). A next instruction is transmitted to the glasses-type wearable terminal 1100. For example, the system controller 1200 transmits an instruction such as “Closing door is completed. Please wait” (step SB6).
As explained, a plurality of segmented works are executed serially and detection of the start and end of each segmented work is executed. For this reason, each work is executed certainly, and the work can be prevented from being not executed (i.e., for getting the work steps can be prevented), and the work can be prevented from being incomplete. As a result, safety of a device serving as a work target (a manufacturing device, a conveying device or the like) and safety of a manufactured item, a conveyed item or the like can be secured.
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The embodiments shown in
The system controller 1200 can establish communications with each of the glasses-type wearable terminals 1100_1 to 1100_6 and can update the data, and update and rewrite the software in the memories of each terminal. An information management server 1201 stores previous work achievement, data on a check result of each work target, instruction image data on each work target, etc. The system controller 1200 can read the data of the information management server 1201 and transmit the data to the glasses-type wearable terminals as needed. In addition, the system controller 1200 can also transmit the data transmitted from the glasses-type wearable terminals and the sensors of the work targets to the information management server 1201 as storage data.
As explained above, the sensor signal acceptor of the glasses-type wearable terminal can accept sensor signals from a plurality of sensors. The sensor signal acceptor may accept sensor signals from a plurality of sensors mounted on the main body of the glasses-type wearable terminal. Furthermore, the sensor signal acceptor may accept sensor signals from a plurality of external sensors via the antenna. In addition, the glasses-type wearable terminal may comprise a memory and produce first and second instructions, based on data stored in the memory. In addition, the glasses-type wearable terminal may be designed to comprise an antenna and accept the first and second instructions from an external management module via the antenna.
One of methods for automatically detecting completion of the worker's work is a method of replacing the existing device with a new producing device which preliminarily incorporates a plurality of sensors 2021 and 2022 capable of detecting a predetermined work completion state. In this method, however, much investment costs are required for the device replacement. In contrast, if a method of additionally installing the sensors 2021 and 2022 which are at very low costs themselves in an existing environment or an existing device is adopted, an effect of automatically detecting the worker's work completion state at very low costs can be obtained.
As the method of additionally installing the sensors 2021 and 2022, an adhesive element 3008 is formed at a contact portion between the sensors 2021, 2022 and the existing environment or the existing device, in the embodiment shown in
In the structure shown in
In the present embodiment, a low G acceleration sensor having a measurement range below 20G (where 1G represents the gravitational acceleration of the Earth) is used as the acceleration sensor. When the sensor is used as the acceleration sensor, an outer wall portion of the acceleration sensor module or angular speed sensor module 3006 constitutes a fixing module, and a sensor element moving module is installed in the fixing module (inside the acceleration sensor module or angular speed sensor module 3006), but a detailed internal structure of the moving module is not shown in
In addition, in the present embodiment, the vibration type using the Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) technology may be used as the angular speed (gyroscope sensor). Similarly to the above-explained acceleration sensor, a basic structure of the angular speed (gyroscope sensor) is constituted by a fixing module composed of the outer wall portion of the acceleration sensor module or angular speed sensor module 3006 and a sensor element moving module installed in the fixing module (inside the acceleration sensor module or angular speed sensor module 3006). A plurality of first and second comb electrodes arranged orthogonally to each other are arranged inside the fixing module. The voltage is alternately applied to the first comb electrodes to vibrate the sensor element moving module in a certain cycle. When the acceleration sensor module or angular speed sensor module 3006 is rotated, the sensor element moving module relatively makes a rotational movement to the fixing module. Next, the angular speed is detected by recognizing the rotary displacement as variation in the capacitance by the second comb electrodes. Incidentally, the angular sensor (gyroscope sensor) of not only the above-explained mechanical system, but also a geomagnetic type, an optical type or a mechanical type may be used in the present embodiment.
Data based on the acceleration or the angular speed detected in the above-explained manner is transmitted to the system controller 1200 (see
In the present embodiment, as shown in
In general, when an earthquake occurs, an upper position of a tall building shakes more radically than an interior of a one-storied building. Thus, in a structure protruding from a vibration surface, a greater vibration occurs at a position remote from the vibration surface (i.e., the vibration amplitude is great). In the present embodiment using this phenomenon, the environmental vibration power generation device 3000 is arranged at a position farthest from the adhesive element 3008 at the portion which is in contact with the existing environment or the existing device, as shown in
In addition, an instantaneous voltage generator 3104 which is movable synchronously with the movement of the sensor element moving module 3102 is formed to generate an instantaneous voltage in accordance with the movement of the sensor element moving module 3102. A type of using a piezoelectric element, of the instantaneous voltage generator 3104, is called “piezoelectric” and a type of using an electric (i.e., an insulator having a semipermanent charge), of the instantaneous voltage generator 3104, is called “electrostatic”.
The instantaneous voltage generated by the instantaneous voltage generator 3104 is converted into a direct current, smoothed, and boosted by a booster 3106. An output power of the booster 3106 is stored in a storage module 3108.
A specific operation principle in the environmental vibration power generation device 3000 shown in
In other words, in the piezoelectric type, as shown in
In addition, an electric member 3134 is installed in the fixing module 3100, in the electrostatic type, as shown in
A signal detector 3110 is arranged at a voltage output terminal of the instantaneous voltage generator 3104 in
In
In
In the electrostatic type, if the position of the counter-electrode 3136 is moved to the left side, the amount of positive charges deposited on the surface of the counter-electrode 3136 is increased, and the deposited positive charges flow into the input terminal 3116 via the metal electrode substrate 3138. As a result, a current 3148 flows from the right side to the left side, inside the resistor 3120, in both the piezoelectric and electrostatic types. Since the positive charges are supplied from the left electrode of a capacitor element 3122-1, the left electrode is charged with negative charges after the supply. Then, the current 3148 flows to the right electrode of the corresponding capacitor element 3122-1 via a diode element 3126-1 to supply positive charges, based on the theory of electromagnetic capacitor. As another explanation, when the sensor element moving module 3102 moves to the left side in a case where charges are not stored on both electrodes of the capacitor element 3122-1, both the electrodes are simultaneously at the negative potential, and the current 3148 flows to the right electrode of the capacitor element 3122-1 via the diode element 3126-1.
If the sensor element moving module 3102 moves to the right side immediately after that as shown in
After that, when the sensor element moving module 3102 returns to the left side as shown in
In the present embodiment of the structure inside the sensor shown in
In
In addition, a detection signal obtained from each of the signal detectors (1) 3110-1 to (n) 3110-n is subjected to operation processing inside a signal operator 3200 to extract the acceleration signal or angular speed signal.
Boosters (1) 3106-1 to (n) 3106-n are also installed for the respective instantaneous voltage generators (1) 3104-1 to (n) 3104-n, parallel with the signal processing circuits. A detailed structure in each of the boosters (1) 3106-1 to (n) 3106-n may be the same as the structure of the booster 3106 shown in
Next, for example, the embodiment in the electrostatic type will be explained as a specific arrangement example of the instantaneous voltage generators (1) 3104-1 to (n) 3104-n shown in
In contrast, a movable supporter 3139 shaped in a triangular prism is installed in the center of a moving module so as to be movable to the fixing module 3100. Incidentally, in
It is considered based on a positional relationship shown in
In addition, not only the arrangement shown in
In the above-explanations, the movable supporter 3210 is moved in the one-axis direction, but the acceleration in three-axis directions or the angular speed in three-axis directions can also be detected by extending the same principle.
In the environmental vibration power generation device 3000 shown in
In other words, when the worker works, the power of the environmental vibration power generation device 3000 is stored in the sensors 2021 or 2022 since the sensor 2021 or 2022 is vibrated or rotated. When the worker ends the work, the vibration or rotation of the sensor 2021 or 2022 is stopped, and the system controller 1200 is notified of the stop of vibration or rotation of the sensor 2021 or 2022 in a period in which the power amount is secured in the environmental vibration power generation device 3000.
Extracting the variation timing of the acceleration or angular speed and extracting the acceleration value or angular speed value immediately after the extraction of the variation timing may be executed in the controller 3002 shown in
As an index of detecting the variation in acceleration or angular speed, a total value of “angular speeds in a certain rotational direction” or an average value at each timing may be used when the variation in angular speed is detected. When the variation in acceleration is detected, “an absolute value of the acceleration”, “an amplitude value of the variation signal varying in the positive or negative direction” or the like may be calculated and the total value or average value may be calculated at each timing, since reverse in the acceleration direction is often repeated. In addition, an absolute value operation or amplitude calculation of the angular speed may be executed or the total value calculation or average calculation of the acceleration may be executed by considering the direction. The operation processing is executed in a predetermined-period storage/average calculator 3304.
In the present embodiment, comparison between a previously calculated value of each predetermined timing and the calculated value subsequent to the calculated value is used for extraction o the variation timing. In other words, the index obtained by the predetermined-period storage/average calculator 3304 is temporarily stored in a temporary calculation result storing module 3306 and, comparison with an index obtained by the predetermined-period storage/average calculator 3304 immediately after this is executed by a comparator 3308. If a comparison result exceeds a predetermined value (if the index value is greater or smaller than the predetermined value), the comparison result is considered to be “greatly varied” and, the voltage is output (a flag is displayed) to a variation timing notification terminal 3314. Timing of change of the output value at the change timing notification terminal 3314 represents the variation timing. Simultaneously with this, the index value obtained immediately after the change is output to a changed value output terminal 3312.
The extracting method is represented in a form of circuit block diagram in
An output value of the changed value output terminal 3312 is transmitted from the near field communication module 3004 (
Synchronous header SYNC is first transmitted in five bytes, and then followed by receiving side address DADRS represented in sixteen bytes similarly to transmitting side address SADRS represented in sixteen bytes. After changed value VACHG is transmitted immediately after the transmission, error-correction code CRC is last transmitted. The value output to the changed value output terminal 3312 shown in
The sensors 2021 or 2022 capable of detecting the above-explained acceleration or angular speed may be employed in not only the work location explained with reference to
Next, information collected in the system controller 1200 (
The moment at which the acceleration or angular speed is greatly varied is automatically extracted and, immediately after this, the acceleration value or angular speed value (or the storage amount or average value in the predetermined period) is transmitted to the system controller 1200 as information shown in
The near field communication can be executed in the only operation period 3508. Thus, the information which should be transmitted to the system controller 1200 (
In the embodiment system shown in
In contrast, the sensor 2021 or 2022 receiving the power supply from the environmental vibration power generation device 3000 can execute near field communication in the only operation period 3508 as shown in
Incidentally, in this case, the timing of the near field communication managed by the system controller 1200 and the timing of the near field communication executed voluntarily by the sensor 2021 or 2022 overlap, and a factor of unstable near field communication is caused. To solve this problem, in the present embodiment system, a wireless band (wireless reference frequency) of the near field communication managed by the system controller 1200 is separated from a wireless band (wireless reference frequency) of the near field communication executed voluntarily by the sensor 2021 or 2022, to prevent crosstalk between the both modules. Thus, stability of the near field communication managed by the system controller 1200 can be thereby attempted.
Even if the crosstalk between the both modules is prevented by changing the wireless band (wireless reference frequency) as explained above, a risk that crosstalk is caused by simultaneously transmitting signals from the both sensor 2021 and the sensor 2022 may occur. To eliminate the inconvenience, in the present embodiment system, a receive antenna having a structure shown in
The basic structure is composed of a stealth plate 2730 formed in a shape of an approximately triangular pyramid or an approximately quadrangular pyramid. Then, antennas 2710-1 in a cross shape are arranged on each side surface of the approximately triangular pyramid or approximately quadrangular pyramid. The antennas 2710-1 are composed of a set of antennas orthogonal to each other. A set of antennas 2710-1 orthogonal in a cross shape may be arranged on a side surface of the stealth plate 2730, as represented by a solid line in
The detection sensitivity of the cross-shaped antennas 2710 arranged on the side surface of the stealth plate 2730 shown in
In the above embodiments, although eyeglasses-type wearable terminals were shown, the present invention is not limited to this type of glasses. And the work contains various meanings and contains what is produced by the act according [for example,] to persons, such as check, an inspection, operation, opening and closing, insertion, discharge, extraction, and contact.
While certain embodiments have been described, these embodiments have been presented by way of example only, and are not intended to limit the scope of the inventions. Indeed, the novel embodiments described herein may be embodied in a variety of other forms; furthermore, various omissions, substitutions and changes in the form of the embodiments described herein may be made without departing from the spirit of the inventions. The accompanying claims and their equivalents are intended to cover such forms or modifications as would fall within the scope and spirit of the inventions.
Furthermore, the components of claims are in the category of the embodiments even if the components are expressed separately, even if the components are expressed in association with each other or even if the components are expressed in combination with each other. In addition, even if a claim is expressed as control logic, a program including an instruction to urge a computer to be executed, or a computer-readable storage medium storing the instruction, the device of the embodiments is applied to the claim.
Claims
1. A sensor comprising:
- an environmental vibration power generation device for supplying power;
- a communication module;
- at least one of an acceleration sensor module and angular speed sensor module; and
- a contact portion for contact with at least one of an existing environment and an existing device, wherein
- the environmental vibration power generation device is arranged at a position farther from the contact portion.
2. A system comprising:
- a display;
- a sensor; and
- a system controller connected to the display, wherein
- the sensor comprising:
- an environmental vibration power generation device for supplying power;
- a communication module;
- at least one of an acceleration sensor module and angular speed sensor module; and
- a contact portion for contact with at least one of an existing environment and an existing device, wherein
- the environmental vibration power generation device is arranged at a position farther from the contact portion, and
- the system controller is configured to detect completion of a user's predetermined work and display work start instruction data.
Type: Application
Filed: Mar 9, 2018
Publication Date: Jul 12, 2018
Inventors: Yasuhiro Kanishima (Tokyo), Akira Tanaka (Mitaka Tokyo), Kenichi Doniwa (Asaka Saitama), Hiroaki Komaki (Tachikawa Tokyo), Hiroki Kumagai (Kunitachi Tokyo), Takashi Sudo (Fuchu Tokyo), Nobuhide Okabayashi (Tachikawa Tokyo)
Application Number: 15/917,338
