Integrated Backup Camera Housing for Reverse Sensing and Alerts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current rear-mounted backup camera systems primarily focus on image gathering, leaving a need to integrate additional safety and convenience features into a single, cost-effective package.
Innovation Solution
A modular rear-mounted backup camera system that integrates various features such as audible warnings, emergency lighting, vehicle monitoring, two-way audio communication, and network connectivity, utilizing a common housing with wired and wireless capabilities, and an image processing subsystem for enhanced safety and convenience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate safety and convenience features are integrated into a single rear-mounted system, then functionality and utility are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate safety and convenience features (camera, lights, sensors, communication modules) into a single integrated rear-mounted housing, eliminating the need for multiple separate components and reducing overall system complexity while maintaining full functionality
Solution Approach 2:
The rear-mounted system is designed as a universal platform that can perform multiple functions including imaging, lighting, sensing, and communication, allowing a single device to replace several specialized components and providing adaptability across different vehicle types and applications
2Adaptability or versatility
If additional safety and convenience features are added to backup camera systems, then utility is improved, but manufacturing cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
By integrating multiple features into a single manufactured unit, the patent achieves economies of scale in production, reducing per-unit costs compared to manufacturing and installing separate components, while still providing enhanced utility through the combination of camera, lights, and sensors
3Ease of operation
If a common housing integrates multiple features, then installation ease is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates all safety and convenience features within a single common housing structure, transforming a complex multi-component installation into a simple single-unit installation, thereby dramatically improving ease of operation while the internal integration complexity is managed through modular design
Data Source
AI summary
A backup camera system integrates various capabilities in a common housing to deliver enhanced safety and convenience functions for less cost and improved utility. Apparatus such as an inertial measurement unit (IMU) may be used to automatically detect when the vehicle is moving in reverse, such that no signal is required from the vehicle to determine that the vehicle is moving in reverse. The IMU may further detect a crash situation. A sound or light generator may provide an alert to an area surrounding the vehicle. Integrated communications capabilities provide for remote control of various functions and the exchange of signals and information to remote devices facilitating vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-infrastructure or infrastructure-to-vehicle communications. The system may further integrate proximity detection, imaging and computer-readable code interpretation, and GPS location.