Expandable Mobile Photography Studio for 360° Imaging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Creating detailed 360° interactively-rotatable digital images of large and bulky objects for online inventory databases is inefficient due to the need for transporting items to a separate photography facility, which is time-consuming and costly, and results in non-uniform images when taken on-site.
Innovation Solution
A mobile photography studio with an expandable trailer body, a turntable, and controlled lighting and camera systems that allow for the creation of uniform 360° images within a portable, controlled environment, reducing the need for external facilities and enhancing image quality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If objects are brought to a separate 360° imaging facility, then detailed 360° images can be captured, but transportation time and costs increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of bringing the object to a fixed photography facility, the patent inverts the approach by bringing the photography facility (mobile studio) to the object's location. The trailer-mounted studio with expandable walls and integrated imaging equipment travels to where the inventory is stored, eliminating transportation time for large objects while maintaining controlled imaging conditions.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile studio trailer serves as an intermediary between the inventory location and the imaging process. It provides a portable controlled environment that can be deployed at the inventory site, acting as a mediator that brings studio-quality imaging capabilities without requiring object movement.
2Loss of time
If standard 2D photographs are taken on the car lot, then transportation is avoided, but image uniformity and quality deteriorate due to non-uniform lighting and positioning conditions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the environmental parameters by providing a controlled interior space within the trailer that can be configured with uniform lighting conditions, controlled background, and stable positioning surfaces. This creates consistent imaging parameters regardless of the external environment, achieving studio-quality uniformity without transportation.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile studio incorporates expandable walls that can be adjusted to create the appropriate controlled environment for each imaging task. The dynamic configuration of the trailer interior allows adaptation to different object sizes and imaging requirements while maintaining controlled conditions.
3Volume of moving object
If expandable walls are added to increase internal volume, then larger objects can be accommodated, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The trailer incorporates expandable walls that can be dynamically adjusted to increase internal volume when needed. These walls can be extended outward to create more space for larger objects, then retracted when not needed, providing variable capacity without permanently increasing the trailer's size or complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The wall structure is segmented into expandable sections that can be independently controlled. This allows the trailer to adapt its internal volume by extending specific wall sections as needed, providing flexibility without requiring the entire structure to be permanently larger or more complex.
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AI summary
A mobile photography studio for photographing objects. The studio has a main trailer body having an internal volume defined by a roof, a floor, a front wall, a rear wall, and two side walls. A control computer controls an expansion of the sidewalls of the trailer, and optionally the roof, to expand the internal volume of the trailer. A turntable, which is disposed on the trailer floor supports and rotates the object based on commands from the control computer. At least one camera takes photographs of the object on the turntable based on commands from a camera control computer. A plurality of lights illuminate the object on the turntable based on commands from the control computer. The camera control computer controls the camera(s), and stores and processes the photographs.