Autonomous Imaging Mobile Device With Ring Light Interaction Cues
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing devices face challenges in interacting and photographing in environments like music events, where collision avoidance and dialog are difficult, especially with language-based interaction being insufficient.
Innovation Solution
A mobile device equipped with an imaging unit, sensor, and light emitting unit, capable of autonomous operation for collision avoidance and environment recognition, with light emission expressions based on a set photographing plan.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If language-based interaction is used for collision avoidance, then the device can communicate with users, but interaction performance is insufficient in environments like music events
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile device autonomously navigates and avoids collisions using its own sensors (laser radar, ultrasonic sensors, cameras) without requiring continuous language interaction or external control, enabling it to serve itself in complex environments
Solution Approach 2:
The device employs multiple sensing modalities (laser radar for distance, ultrasonic sensors for proximity, cameras for visual recognition) to handle various interaction scenarios, making it adaptable to different environments including music events where language interaction fails
2Ease of operation
If the light emitting unit is added to provide light emission expressions, then interaction performance is enhanced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The light emitting unit serves multiple functions: it provides visual feedback about the device's state and recognition results, enables interaction in dark environments, and can display emotions or status through different light patterns, thereby enhancing interaction without requiring separate systems for each function
Solution Approach 2:
The light emitting unit is integrated into the housing structure itself rather than being a separate external component, merging the lighting function with the device's existing structure to minimize additional complexity
3Measurement precision
If autonomous operation with multiple sensors is implemented, then operational accuracy is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The sensing system is divided into specialized modules: laser radar for distance measurement, ultrasonic sensors for proximity detection, and cameras for visual recognition. Each sensor type handles specific aspects of environmental perception, allowing the system to achieve high accuracy through division of labor rather than using a single complex sensing system
Solution Approach 2:
The control unit acts as an intermediary that receives data from multiple sensor types, processes and integrates this information, and coordinates the imaging unit and light emitting unit accordingly. This centralized coordination manages the complexity of multiple sensors by providing a single point of integration and decision-making
Data Source
AI summary
There is provided a mobile device that operates in order to image a subject, the mobile device including an imaging unit, a sensor that recognizes a surrounding environment, and a light emitting unit disposed on a housing in a ring shape or on the entire surface of the housing. The operation of the mobile device includes imaging, based on a set photographing plan, with the imaging unit, the subject recognized by the sensor as the mobile device moves. The light emitting unit performs a light emission expression corresponding to at least one of the photographing plan and the operation of the mobile device.