Digital Camera Meta Data Optical Display Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for recording meta data in digital film cameras often require manual input or separate storage, making it cumbersome and difficult to synchronize and read meta data during film cutting, especially when using traditional clapboards.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus with display means for optical representation of meta data, allowing for easy legibility and automatic reading, which can reflect meta data onto the image sensor, eliminating the need for a physical clapboard and enabling instantaneous data capture.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual input or separate storage methods are used for meta data, then the recording process becomes cumbersome and difficult to synchronize, but implementing display means for optical representation improves legibility and automatic reading capability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the meta data display function with the existing display means of the digital film camera. The control unit utilizes the camera's display screen to optically represent meta data, merging the meta data management function into the existing camera system rather than requiring separate storage and display devices. This resolves the contradiction by improving readability through optical display while avoiding the complexity of separate meta data systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The display means serves multiple functions: displaying image data during recording, showing meta data information, and providing visual feedback for synchronization purposes. By making the display means universal, the patent improves meta data readability without adding dedicated specialized devices, thus avoiding increased system complexity.
2Productivity
If physical clapboards are used for meta data representation, then the recording process requires manual handling and positioning, but using display means enables instantaneous data capture and reflection onto image sensor
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical clapboard system with an electronic display-based system. Instead of physically positioning and photographing a clapboard, the control unit generates and displays meta data optically on the camera's display screen, which can then be captured by the image sensor. This substitution dramatically increases productivity by eliminating manual handling while the integration into existing camera components minimizes added complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates an optical copy of the meta data on the display screen that can be captured by the image sensor. This digital/optical copying mechanism replaces the physical clapboard copy, enabling instantaneous capture and reflection of meta data without mechanical intervention, thus improving productivity while using existing camera infrastructure.
3Device complexity
If meta data are stored separately from image data, then data management becomes complex and synchronization difficult, but generating both as common digital image information simplifies processing
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges meta data and image data into a unified digital image information format. The control unit generates meta data that is optically represented on the display screen alongside or integrated with image data, ensuring both are captured together as common digital information. This eliminates the complexity of separate data management and prevents information loss through separation.
Solution Approach 2:
The display screen serves as an intermediary that visually represents both image data and meta data in a unified manner before capture. This intermediary representation ensures that meta data and image data are processed together as common digital image information, simplifying data management while maintaining the integrity and association of all recorded information.
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
Facilitates easy and automatic reading of meta data, allowing for accurate and timely updates, and simplifies the recording process by integrating meta data directly into the image data as common image information, improving synchronization and efficiency during film editing.
Implementation Method 1
the meta data image generation means include display means for the optical representation of meta data, in particular a display
Implementation Method 2
mirror means are provided for the reflecting of the meta data shown on the display means onto the image sensor
Data Source
AI summary
The invention relates to an apparatus for the recording of image data and meta data which contain information on the image data—such as recording parameters—with a digital camera which includes at least one image sensor for the generation of the image data and with meta data image generation means by which the meta data can be recorded in the form of image information detectable by the human eye so that the image data and the meta data can be generated as common image information, with the meta data image generation means including display means for the visual presentation of meta data, in particular a display, and/or data processing means for the electronic generation of the meta data inside the image data, in particular a controller.