Adjustable Animal Collar Camera Sightlines
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing animal collars with cameras fail to provide sufficient environmental specificity for accurate animal location surveillance, leading to potential dangers, inaccurate scoring, and owner anxiety in competition and non-competition settings.
Innovation Solution
An adjustable animal collar with multiple returnably resilient arms and cameras, supported by flexible braces, which allows for adjustable orientation and reduces view-obstruction, combined with tracking and lighting features, and an internet application interface for remote data access.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a fixed camera is mounted on the collar, then the structure is simple, but the camera view is obstructed by the animal's head positioning and motion
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the dynamics principle by making the camera mount adjustable and repositionable rather than fixed. The collar includes a camera bracket that can be moved to different positions on the collar body, allowing the camera to be dynamically repositioned to maintain optimal sightlines as the animal moves its head, thereby resolving the contradiction between simple structure and reliable camera view.
2Measurement precision
If the camera is positioned close to the collar body, then the structure is compact, but environmental specificity and location accuracy are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the dimensionality change principle by extending the camera position away from the collar body through an adjustable arm or bracket structure. This creates additional spatial dimension, allowing the camera to be positioned at an optimal distance and angle from the collar body to capture broader environmental context and improve location accuracy, while maintaining structural compactness through collapsible or telescoping mounting mechanisms.
3Reliability
If a single camera is used, then the device is simple, but view obstruction occurs due to limited camera positioning options
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the segmentation principle by dividing the camera system into multiple independent camera units that can be positioned at different locations on the collar. Each camera can capture different views, and the system can selectively use one or multiple cameras depending on the situation, thereby improving surveillance accuracy while keeping the overall system modular and manageable in complexity.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The collar provides precise location surveillance and improved camera sightlines, reducing view-obstruction and enhancing accuracy in animal tracking, thereby minimizing risks and improving scoring and owner confidence.
Implementation Method 1
an adjustable arm depending from the platform disposed within the band, the adjustable arm comprising a returnably resilient elongated shaft
Implementation Method 2
A plurality of braces disposed between the platform and the adjustable arm. The collar also has tracking means disposed on the band for transmitting the location of the collar. The collar also has lighting means disposed on the band for transmitting light from the collar. In this aforementioned embodiment, the plurality of braces supporting the adjustable arm, the plurality of braces having sufficient flexibility to achieve displacement and adjustable orientation of the adjustable arm
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AI summary
An animal collar has an adjustable band having a first end and a second end, the first end and second mutually coupled and a platform disposed within the band. The collar has at least one adjustable arm depending from the platform disposed within the band, the adjustable arm comprising a returnably resilient elongated shaft having a first end and a second end, the second end of the shaft of the adjustable arm having a camera. A plurality of braces are disposed between the platform and the adjustable arm. The collar includes tracking and lighting.