Flexible Lens Connector for Concealed Security Camera
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Solution Overview
Problem
Security cameras are often easily detectable and can be tampered with or avoided by intruders, which limits their effectiveness in monitoring areas of interest without being clearly visible.
Innovation Solution
A camera assembly with a flexible lens connector that allows the lens to be positioned at a distance from the camera body, enabling it to view an area while the camera body is concealed, and includes a wireless communication module for remote power management and signal transmission.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If the camera body is positioned close to the lens for compact design, then device complexity is reduced, but the camera becomes easily detectable and vulnerable to tampering
Solution Approach 1:
The camera system is divided into separate components: the camera body and the lens assembly connected by a flexible lens connector. This segmentation allows the lens to be positioned remotely from the camera body, enabling the camera to be concealed while maintaining monitoring capability and reducing detectability.
Solution Approach 2:
A flexible lens connector serves as an intermediary element between the camera body and the lens. This connector enables the lens to be positioned at a distance from the camera body while maintaining structural connection and signal transmission, allowing the camera body to be hidden while the lens remains in the optimal monitoring position.
2Reliability
If the lens is positioned at a distance from the camera body using a flexible connector, then the camera body can be concealed and detectability is reduced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The lens connector is constructed with flexible materials that allow it to bend and adapt to various positions while maintaining structural integrity and signal transmission. This flexibility enables the lens to be positioned remotely from the camera body without requiring rigid mechanical support structures, thereby reducing overall device complexity despite the increased separation distance.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces complex mechanical positioning systems with a flexible connector that allows passive adaptation to different positions. Instead of using motors, actuators, or complex mounting mechanisms to position the lens, the flexible connector naturally adapts to the required configuration, simplifying the mechanical system while enabling remote lens positioning.
3Ease of operation
If wireless communication modules are added for remote power management, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The wireless communication module serves multiple functions: power management, data transmission, and control commands. By integrating these functions into a single wireless communication system, the patent reduces the need for separate communication hardware and simplifies the overall system architecture, thereby improving ease of operation without proportionally increasing device complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and systems are described for using a video camera. According to at least one embodiment, a camera assembly for recording video footage includes a lens connector with a lens attached to a first end and a camera body connector on a second end. Further, the lens connector has a length that separates the video lens a distance from a camera body when the lens connector is attached to camera body and also housing at least one cable capable of transmitting a video signal recorded by the lens from the lens to the camera body. Also, the camera body has a power module and a communication module to communicate with a remote control unit.