Rotatable Camera Lighting Assembly to Prevent Glare and Ghosting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing monitoring devices with fixed lighting angles lack flexibility in adjusting lighting to match the camera's rotation, leading to inconvenience in maintenance and potential issues like dazzling light or ghosting in images.
Innovation Solution
A monitoring device with a rotatable body and lighting assembly, allowing the camera and lighting to adjust angles independently, featuring a limiter mechanism for controlled rotation and a waterproof wire passing mechanism for improved assembly and performance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the lighting lamp is arranged around the camera with a fixed lighting angle, then the structure is simple, but the flexibility is insufficient when the camera rotates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the dynamics principle by making the lighting assembly rotatable relative to the camera body, allowing the lighting angle to be adjusted dynamically. The lighting assembly can rotate independently within a predetermined angle range, enabling it to adapt to different camera rotation positions and maintain optimal lighting conditions without requiring a completely fixed rigid structure.
2Illumination intensity
If the lighting angle is fixed, then the manufacturing is simple, but the lighting range is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing the lighting system into independent modular lighting assemblies that can be separately manufactured and then assembled to the camera body. Each lighting assembly can be produced using standard manufacturing processes, and the modular design allows for easy assembly and disassembly, reducing overall manufacturing complexity while enabling adjusted lighting angles for extended lighting range.
3Ease of operation
If the camera and lighting are in different locations, then the functions are independent, but the maintenance and management are inconvenient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the merging principle by integrating the lighting assemblies directly onto the camera body, creating a unified monitoring device. This combination allows maintenance personnel to service both the camera and lighting components at a single location, significantly improving maintenance convenience. The integrated design maintains functional independence of each component while eliminating the need to visit multiple separate installation locations.
4Illumination intensity
If the lighting lamp faces the camera shooting direction, then the lighting effect is good, but dazzling light or ghosting occurs in images
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by configuring different lighting assemblies to face different directions rather than all lighting lamps pointing in the same direction. Some lighting assemblies are oriented to provide illumination without directly facing the camera lens, creating localized lighting zones that achieve good lighting effects in specific areas while avoiding the harmful effect of light directly entering the camera and causing dazzling or ghosting in the captured images.
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AI summary
A monitoring device may comprise: a base; a body rotatably connected to the base; a camera installed on the body; a lighting assembly rotatably connected to the body and having a first limit position and a second limit position on a path of rotation relative to the body. A light-emitting surface of the lighting assembly in the first limit position faces a shooting direction of the camera, and the light-emitting surface of the lighting assembly in the second limit position faces away from the shooting direction of the camera.