Wireless Earpiece Camera Flush Mounting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing wireless earpiece devices lack the capability for hands-free camera operation during video calls, as they do not typically include a flush-mounted camera and are limited to audio signal transmission.
Innovation Solution
A wireless earpiece device with a flush-mounted camera and Bluetooth transceiver, allowing for video signal transmission and audio reception, enabling hands-free video calls by integrating a microcontroller, speaker, microphone, and controls within a housing that communicates wirelessly with a smartphone.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a camera is added to the wireless earpiece device, then video signal transmission capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the camera, Bluetooth transceiver, microcontroller, speaker, microphone, and controls into a single integrated wireless earpiece device. This merging of multiple functional components into one device achieves video signal transmission capability while managing device complexity through unified integration rather than separate components.
Solution Approach 2:
The wireless earpiece device is designed with multi-functionality, serving both as an audio device (speaker, microphone) and a video device (camera with video transmission). The Bluetooth transceiver handles both audio and video signal transmission, making the device universal in its communication capabilities and resolving the contradiction by making one device perform multiple functions.
2Volume of moving object
If the camera is flush mounted within the housing, then device compactness is improved, but manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The camera is specifically positioned and flush mounted on the front surface of the housing, creating a localized precise mounting area. This local quality approach focuses manufacturing precision on the specific camera mounting region rather than requiring overall high precision throughout the entire device, allowing the rest of the housing to maintain standard manufacturing tolerances.
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AI summary
A wireless earpiece camera apparatus for handsfree camera operation during video calls includes a housing having a housing front side, a housing back side, a housing left side, a housing right side, a housing top side, and a housing bottom side. A microcontroller is coupled within the housing. A speaker is coupled within the housing and is in operational communication with the microcontroller. A plurality of controls is coupled to the housing. The plurality of controls is in operational communication with the microcontroller. A camera is coupled to the housing and is flush mounted with the housing front side. The camera is in operational communication with the microcontroller. A Bluetooth transceiver is coupled within the housing. The Bluetooth transceiver is in operational communication with the microcontroller and is in wireless communication with a smartphone.