Image Capture Booth with Rotating Platter for Consistent Product Photography
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Solution Overview
Problem
Online retailers face challenges in efficiently capturing consistent images of products from multiple directions due to labor-intensive and resource-heavy processes, with variations in lighting, background, and camera positioning leading to inconsistencies in product photography.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising an image capture booth with adjustable illumination panels, object supports, and a camera setup that allows for controlled capture of images from various angles, using a platter and hanger drive system to rotate objects and synchronize lighting, ensuring consistent image capture across different views.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If photographers manually capture images from multiple directions, then complete product views are obtained, but labor time and resource costs increase substantially
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs a rotating platter that can dynamically change positions to present the object from multiple angles (front, back, sides) while the camera remains stationary. This dynamic positioning of the object support resolves the contradiction by automating the multi-directional imaging process, reducing manual labor time while maintaining consistent image quality through controlled rotation and positioning.
Solution Approach 2:
The single camera system serves multiple functions by capturing images of the object from different positions (front, back, left side, right side) through the rotating platter mechanism. This multi-functional approach allows one camera to replace multiple photographers and camera setups, reducing labor time and resource costs while maintaining comprehensive product documentation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If camera position is changed to capture different views, then multiple perspectives are obtained, but background consistency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of moving the camera to capture different views (which changes the background), the system inverts the approach by keeping the camera stationary and rotating the object on the platter. This inversion allows the camera to capture multiple perspectives (front, back, sides) while maintaining a consistent background, resolving the contradiction between view coverage and background consistency.
Solution Approach 2:
The rotating platter acts as an intermediary mechanism between the stationary camera and the object. It enables the camera to capture multiple views of the object from different positions while the platter itself remains within the frame, providing a consistent background. The platter mediates the interaction between the stationary camera and the multi-position imaging requirement.
3Reliability
If multiple photographers are employed, then comprehensive product imaging is achieved, but resource costs and staff time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges the functions of multiple photographers and camera positions into a single automated system. One stationary camera combined with a rotating platter performs the work that would otherwise require multiple photographers and camera setups, reducing resource costs and staff time while maintaining reliable image quality through consistent, controlled imaging conditions.
Solution Approach 2:
The rotating platter system enables self-service imaging where the object rotates automatically to present different views to the stationary camera without requiring multiple photographers. The system serves itself by automatically positioning the object at different angles (front, back, sides) for comprehensive documentation, reducing dependency on multiple human operators.
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AI summary
A system for capturing images of an object includes an image capture booth, one or more lights coupled to the image capture booth, a platter coupled to the image capture booth, and a hanger coupled to the image capture booth. The image capture booth includes panels that enclose a space for imaging objects. The lights illuminate at least a portion of the space. The platter and the hanger each support objects for imaging of the objects in the image capture booth.