Camera Communication Interface for Simultaneous Image Capture and Data Storage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Photographing apparatuses lack the ability to communicate with external devices while capturing images, requiring users to stop photographing and switch modes, which is inconvenient and burdensome, especially for sharing images with comments that include audio or text data.
Innovation Solution
A photographing apparatus with an image photographing unit, storage unit, display unit, and communication interface that allows simultaneous image capture and data reception from external devices, such as mobile phones, via short-range and long-range communication, storing received data as metadata with the image and enabling notification messages during image display.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If photographing apparatus uses separate communication devices for communication with external apparatuses, then communication function is achieved, but user convenience deteriorates due to requiring mode switching during photographing
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the photographing function and communication function into a single integrated photographing apparatus. The communication interface is built-in, allowing the device to both capture images and communicate with external apparatuses simultaneously without requiring separate communication devices or mode switching, thus improving ease of operation.
2Productivity
If photographing apparatus temporarily stops photographing to communicate with external apparatuses, then communication is enabled, but productivity deteriorates due to interruption of image capture
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables continuous operation of both photographing and communication functions simultaneously. The controller is configured to receive data from external apparatuses through the communication interface while the image sensor continues capturing images, storing both the photographed images and received data together without interrupting either function, thus maintaining productivity while improving user convenience.
3Loss of information
If photographed images are stored as text files on PC for comment sharing, then storage is achieved, but information representation capability deteriorates as text cannot convey movement feeling
Solution Approach 1:
The patent stores received data (such as audio comments) and photographed images together as composite data in the storage unit. This composite storage structure preserves both the visual image information and the auditory comment information in their original formats, maintaining the movement feeling and emotional content that would be lost if converted to text only.
4Adaptability or versatility
If multiple operations are required to enable comment sharing from other users, then communication capability is achieved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to user burden
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables automatic reception and storage of comments from other users through the built-in communication interface. When data is received from external apparatuses, the controller automatically stores the received data together with the photographed image in the storage unit without requiring users to perform multiple manual operations, thus achieving versatile comment sharing capability while reducing user burden.
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AI summary
A photographing apparatus capable of performing communication with an external apparatus and a method of controlling the photographing apparatus. The photographing apparatus can communicate with an external apparatus and store data received from the external apparatus together with a photographed image, even while photographing the image. Additionally, the data received from the external apparatus can be stored in a form of metadata to connect data to the image, and thus it is possible to play back the data received from the external apparatus in a more lifelike manner.