Digital Camera Printer Lever Controls for Image Selection and Printing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing digital cameras with integrated printers lack user-friendly operability for printing images, particularly in terms of intuitive control mechanisms and efficient integration of image display and printing operations.
Innovation Solution
A digital camera with a printer incorporates an operation lever that rotates against a biasing force, allowing for image selection, printing initiation, and cancellation through a combination of rotational and release actions, accompanied by visual and auditory feedback, and supports various image processing options via operation rings and dials.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a rotatable lever is provided on an upper surface of a camera body for image classification and recording, then image management functionality is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The rotatable lever is designed to perform multiple functions: classifying images into predetermined folders and recording selected images. By making this single operation member multi-functional, the patent avoids adding separate controls for each function, thereby managing device complexity while improving adaptability for image management.
2Productivity
If printing control is integrated into the camera body, then productivity is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the printing control functions with the existing camera body operations. The same rotatable lever and button operations used for image selection and management are integrated to control the printing process. This consolidation allows printing functionality to be added without requiring entirely separate control mechanisms, thus improving productivity while managing the increase in device complexity.
3Ease of operation
If multiple operation members are provided for print control, then ease of operation is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Existing operation members (rotatable lever and buttons) are designed to serve multiple purposes: image selection, folder navigation, and printing control. By making these members multi-functional, the patent improves ease of operation for print control without adding significant complexity, as the same physical controls handle multiple functions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically selecting images for printing based on previous operations or default settings. This reduces the need for multiple separate operation members, as the system can prepare and initiate printing with fewer manual interventions, thereby improving ease of operation while managing device complexity.
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AI summary
Provided is a digital camera with a printer having good operability.A digital camera with a printer includes an imaging unit, a print unit that prints an image on a medium and discharges the printed medium, a display unit, a first operation member that is rotated from a first position in a first direction around a rotation axis against biasing force, and is rotated in a second direction opposite to the first direction by the biasing force to be returned to the first position in a case in which the first operation member is released, and a processor. The processor performs specific control in accordance with operation of the first operation member.