Face Imaging Casing With Orientation Feedback for Standardized Capture

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing face imaging devices struggle to capture a complete face image with standardized positioning, requiring manual and time-consuming adjustments, and fail to ensure consistent orientation for accurate image comparison.

Innovation Solution

A face imaging device with sensors to determine face orientation and a display to guide positioning, ensuring standardized face orientation through visual feedback and automatic image capture, allowing for consistent imaging conditions and rapid, accurate image capture.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a head support member is used to hold the face, then the face can be positioned, but it is difficult to obtain a complete face image and requires manual adjustment

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemanual adjustment requirementVSAvoidface orientation standardization

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs sensors to detect the actual face orientation and a display to show visual feedback comparing the actual orientation with the desired standardized orientation. This closed-loop feedback system automatically guides the user to achieve proper face positioning without manual adjustment, resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and measurement precision.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables the user to self-position their face correctly by displaying visual feedback from sensor data. The user independently adjusts their own face orientation based on real-time feedback, eliminating the need for operator intervention while achieving standardized positioning.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Productivity

If manual adjustment is used for face positioning, then some positioning can be achieved, but it is time-consuming and difficult to reproduce standardized positioning

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveimage capture speedVSAvoidface positioning standardization

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The real-time feedback system immediately indicates whether the face is correctly positioned, allowing rapid iteration and adjustment. This eliminates time-consuming trial-and-error manual positioning while ensuring standardized face orientation is achieved consistently.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces manual mechanical adjustment with an automated sensor-based detection and display-based guidance system. This substitution dramatically increases productivity by eliminating manual positioning operations while maintaining high measurement precision through automated sensing.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Adaptability or versatility

If face orientation is not standardized, then imaging can be performed, but image comparison quality is compromised

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveimaging flexibilityVSAvoidimage comparison accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The feedback system ensures that face orientation is standardized before image capture by comparing actual orientation with desired orientation. This guarantees that all captured images meet consistent orientation criteria, enabling accurate image comparison while maintaining imaging flexibility through automated guidance.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

Enables capture of a complete face image with standardized positioning, improving comparison quality by minimizing orientation differences and ensuring identical imaging conditions, facilitating fast and user-friendly image capture.

Implementation Method 1

The sensor may for example be a proximity sensor to measure the distance between the sensor and a face of a person

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectProximity sensing:

Implementation Method 2

the sensor may use vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) technology, i.e. a sensor for 3D sensing to determine the face orientation in a relatively accurate manner

Methodology Applied

Scientific Effect3D sensing using VCSEL technology: LIDAR

Implementation Method 3

in the interior of the casing light sources, reflectors

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectLight emission: Light

Data Source

PatentUS12520036B2Face imaging device comprising a casing defining an opening for a face of a person to be imaged, wherein in the interior of the casing light sources and reflectors are arranged

Publication Date: 2026.01.06 SYMAE TECH HLDG

AI summary

The invention relates to a face imaging device comprising a casing defining an opening for a face of a person to be imaged, wherein in the interior of the casing light sources and reflectors are arranged. The invention further relates to a method for taking images of a face of a person using the device and to the use of the device.