Dual-Orientation Sensor Array for Simultaneous Image Capture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Smartphone users often take pictures or videos in unsuitable orientations, leading to images that are not optimally suited for various display formats, such as portrait mode for smartphones and landscape mode for TVs.
Innovation Solution
A device with dual rectangular sensors, one oriented for portrait and the other for landscape mode, captures image data simultaneously and processes it to display or store the data as a cross-shaped image, allowing for seamless switching between orientations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a single sensor is used for capturing images, then the device complexity is reduced, but the adaptability to different display formats deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The imaging system is segmented into multiple sensors with different orientations. Specifically, at least two sensors are used: one oriented for portrait mode and another for landscape mode. Each sensor captures images optimized for its specific orientation, allowing the system to adapt to different display formats without requiring complex post-processing or sensor rotation mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The multi-sensor system provides universal functionality by capturing images in both portrait and landscape orientations simultaneously. This allows the same device to produce images suitable for various display formats including smartphone screens, television screens, and social media platforms, making the system versatile across different use cases and display devices.
2Manufacturing precision
If the user manually selects portrait or landscape mode, then the image quality for the selected format is optimized, but the loss of time occurs during mode selection
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-configuring multiple sensors in different orientations before the user needs to take a picture. The sensors are already positioned and ready to capture images in both portrait and landscape modes simultaneously, eliminating the need for the user to manually rotate the device or select modes at the moment of capture.
Solution Approach 2:
The system serves itself by automatically capturing images in multiple orientations without requiring user intervention for mode selection. The multi-sensor setup with image processing circuitry automatically determines and processes the appropriate orientation, freeing the user from having to manually select portrait or landscape mode.
3Ease of operation
If images are captured in portrait mode by default, then the ease of operation is improved, but the adaptability to landscape displays deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The imaging system is segmented into multiple sensors with different orientations. Specifically, at least two sensors are used: one oriented for portrait mode and another for landscape mode. Each sensor captures images optimized for its specific orientation, allowing the system to adapt to different display formats without requiring complex post-processing or sensor rotation mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The system merges the outputs of multiple sensors to provide a comprehensive solution. By combining images from sensors oriented in different directions, the system can deliver appropriately oriented images for any display format, whether portrait or landscape, while maintaining ease of operation with the device held in the user's preferred position.
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AI summary
A device includes at least one first sensor and at least one second sensor for capturing first image data, the at least one first and second sensors being rectangular and arranged orthogonal to the at least one first rectangular sensor, and at least one hardware processor configured to cause the at least one first and second sensors, respectively, the first image data and the second image data at least substantially simultaneously, and at least one of display simultaneously data from the first image data and data from the second image data as a cross-shaped image or store together data from the first image data and data from the second image data as a cross-shaped image. The resulting first and second image data can be stored in a single file in memory. The at least one hardware processor can be processed to remove redundancies between the image data. The device can also extract from the first and second image data, image data corresponding to a rectangle parallel with an horizon.