Camera Remote Handle Layout for Intuitive Thumb Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing camera remote controls are not compact or ergonomic, with insufficient intuitive operating elements and poor accessibility, leading to user discomfort and potential mechanical failures.
Innovation Solution
The remote control design features a handle axis rotated out of the principal axis by more than 90 degrees, allowing for additional display and operational elements within a larger accessible surface area, maintaining compactness and ergonomics, with optimized cross-sectional shapes and strategically placed operating elements for intuitive operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If additional operating elements are mounted at a distal front area of the grab handle unit, then the number of operating elements is increased, but the accessibility of these elements deteriorates and the contact between grab handle unit and mounting module becomes prone to failures and wear
Solution Approach 1:
The patent rotates the handle axis out of the principal axis in the principal plane by more than 90 degrees, creating a new spatial dimension and orientation for mounting operating elements. This dimensional change allows operating elements to be positioned in areas that are both numerous and highly accessible to the user's thumb, resolving the contradiction between increasing the number of elements and maintaining accessibility.
2Device complexity
If the display is located on a lateral surface of the grab handle unit, then the display can be integrated into the remote control, but the user has to rotate the grab handle unit for every single reading process
Solution Approach 1:
By rotating the handle axis more than 90 degrees out of the principal axis, the patent creates a new orientation where the display can be positioned on a surface that is naturally visible to the user in the operational position, eliminating the need for rotation and improving readability while maintaining integration.
3Length of moving object
If the remote control is made more compact, then the handiness is improved, but the area for display and operation possibilities is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent utilizes the spatial volume created by rotating the handle axis more than 90 degrees to position operating elements and display in three-dimensional space. This allows the remote control to maintain a compact form factor while providing sufficient surface area for multiple operating elements and display through efficient use of available space in the new orientation.
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AI summary
A remote control for cameras, having a grab handle unit that may be received in a first hand by a user along a handle axis and a first operating element operable using a second hand of the user and rotatable about a first axis of rotation, wherein the first axis of rotation is substantially perpendicular to a principal axis of the remote control and spans a principal plane with the principal axis, wherein the handle axis is rotated out of the principal axis within the principal plane, whereby an angle between handle axis and the first axis of rotation is higher than 90 angular degrees, wherein the remote control has an operating body with additional display means and/or operational elements within the area that is present due to the rotation of the handle axis thereout.