Imaging Apparatus Panoramic Progress Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of imaging apparatuses face challenges in creating panoramic images as they lack clear feedback on the progress and remaining angles, requiring manual testing of lens characteristics and focal lengths to determine the maximum angle for panoramic image creation.
Innovation Solution
An imaging apparatus and method that display the progress of panoramic image creation using a progress bar, indicating the current and remaining angles, and automatically detect the maximum angle based on the focal length, providing real-time feedback and eliminating the need for manual testing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the user manually tests and remembers maximum angles for panoramic image creation, then the imaging apparatus can produce panoramic images, but the user experience deteriorates due to lack of clear progress feedback and repeated manual testing
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a progress bar that provides real-time visual feedback during panoramic image creation. The progress bar displays the current shooting angle, remaining angle, and completion status, allowing users to monitor the panoramic shooting process without manual testing or memory retention. This feedback mechanism directly resolves the information loss problem while improving ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-calculates and stores maximum angles for panoramic image creation based on different focal lengths before the user needs them. When panoramic mode is activated, the system automatically retrieves the appropriate maximum angle information and uses it to configure the progress bar, eliminating the need for users to perform manual testing beforehand.
2Ease of operation
If the imaging apparatus provides detailed progress information during panoramic creation, then user experience improves, but the device complexity increases due to additional processing and display requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The progress bar serves multiple functions simultaneously: it displays the current shooting angle, calculates and shows the remaining angle, indicates completion status, and guides users on when to stop shooting. By consolidating these multiple information needs into a single universal display element, the system improves user experience without proportionally increasing device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically tracks shooting progress by monitoring the rotation angle of the imaging apparatus and compares it against the pre-stored maximum angle. The controller autonomously updates the progress bar display without requiring additional user input or complex external processing, allowing the system to provide detailed information while maintaining relatively simple architecture.
3Extent of automation
If the system automatically detects maximum angle based on focal length, then manual testing is eliminated, but the system requires storage and processing capabilities for focal length-angle mappings
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-calculates the relationship between focal lengths and maximum panoramic angles, storing these mappings in advance in memory. When panoramic mode is activated, the system simply retrieves the appropriate maximum angle based on the current focal length setting, rather than performing complex real-time calculations. This approach achieves high automation while minimizing processing and storage requirements during actual operation.
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AI summary
Disclosed herein is an imaging apparatus including a main body, an imaging unit mounted on the main body that captures an image of an object, an input unit that receives a command to capture the image, a controller that controls operation of the imaging unit to create a panoramic image when a panorama mode is input to the input unit and that determines a current progress angle and a remaining angle to complete creation of the panoramic image based on the operation of the imaging unit during creation of the panoramic image, and a display unit that displays shooting angle information for creation of the panoramic image with a live view.