Glove-Like Device With Integrated Camera And Thumb Actuation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users find it cumbersome to take pictures during sporting activities using separate devices like mobile phones, as removing them and navigating through menus can interrupt their activity and is not ergonomically convenient.
Innovation Solution
A glove-like device with an integrated camera and a switching arrangement that allows users to capture images or sequences by a simple thumb movement, eliminating the need to remove a separate device and minimizing disruption to the activity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a separate device like a mobile phone is used to take pictures during sporting activities, then the camera function is available, but the user must remove the device and navigate through menus which interrupts the activity and is cumbersome
Solution Approach 1:
The camera device is merged with the glove structure, creating an integrated system where the camera unit is built into the glove. This eliminates the need to separate the camera from the wearable device, allowing users to take pictures without removing their gloves or handling separate devices during sporting activities.
Solution Approach 2:
The glove device is designed to be self-contained with the camera functionality already integrated and ready to use. The device serves itself by providing picture-taking capability as an inherent feature of the glove, eliminating the need for users to manually configure or switch between separate devices.
2Ease of operation
If a separate camera device is carried, then the camera function is available, but the device adds complexity to the user's equipment and requires additional actions to operate
Solution Approach 1:
The camera system is merged with the glove structure, creating a unified device that reduces the number of separate items the user must carry and manage. The integration eliminates the complexity of handling multiple devices and switching between them during activities.
3Device complexity
If the camera is integrated into the glove, then the device becomes more compact and easier to operate, but the glove structure must accommodate additional components
Solution Approach 1:
The camera unit and switching arrangement are nested within the glove structure, with the camera housing integrated into the glove's physical form. This nesting approach allows the camera components to be accommodated within the existing glove volume without requiring a completely separate device, achieving compact integration.
Data Source
AI summary
The invention proposes a glove-like device which has a carrier structure, a camera and a switching arrangement. The camera is designed to record an image or series of images when it receives a contact signal. The carrier structure is designed, in the manner of a glove or of a cuff, to be readily fastened on a user's hand and/or wrist such that, in a state in which it has been drawn over the hand, at least some parts of the carrier structure enclose the user's hand. The camera and the switching arrangement are fastened on the carrier structure. The switching arrangement has an actuable component which is specifically arranged, and designed, such that it can be actuated by virtue of the user's thumb executing an actuating movement in the direction of a finger of the same hand and/or in the direction of a finger joint of the same hand, and which thus activates the contact signal and passes the latter on to the camera. In particular for activities such as, for example, many types of sport in which a user protects his hands in any case in gloves, the glove-like device described can make it possible for the user to record images in a straightforward and ergonomically intuitive manner.