Imaging Device Carrier for Dynamic Stabilization and Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current photographic technologies are limited by rigidity and poor video resolution, failing to support high-quality, low-cost, and flexible photography with dynamic scene movement.
Innovation Solution
A portable device system with a carrier and imaging device that can move along a configured path, stabilize the imaging device, and capture image frames based on time-dependent parameters, enabling panoramic and target-tracking photography.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If cameras are fixed at a place or associated with limited degrees of freedom, then the photographic effects are simple and rigid, but the device complexity is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by enabling the camera to move freely in three-dimensional space along a configurable path rather than being fixed or limited to simple degrees of freedom. The carrier system allows dynamic positioning with multiple degrees of freedom, enabling complex photographic effects while maintaining manageable system complexity through modular design.
Solution Approach 2:
The carrier system serves multiple functions: it positions the camera along a moving path, stabilizes the imaging device during movement, and enables various photographic modes (panoramic, target-tracking, time-dependent). This multi-functionality achieves high adaptability without proportionally increasing device complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If CGI technologies are used for flexible scene movement, then the scene movement flexibility is improved, but the video resolution and image quality deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces CGI computational methods with a physical mechanical system - a carrier that actually moves the camera through three-dimensional space. This substitution captures real optical information during movement, ensuring high image quality while achieving flexible scene movement, avoiding the quality degradation inherent in CGI approaches.
Solution Approach 2:
By implementing actual physical movement of the camera along configurable paths with multiple degrees of freedom, the system achieves flexible scene movement dynamically rather than through computational manipulation, thereby maintaining high resolution and image quality.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the carrier moves the imaging device along a moving path, then the photography flexibility is improved, but the stability of the imaging device deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements dynamic stabilization, where the carrier actively compensates for movements and vibrations during motion. The stabilization mechanism adjusts in real-time to maintain imaging device stability even while the carrier moves along complex paths, enabling both flexibility and stability simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The carrier system incorporates feedback mechanisms to monitor the imaging device's position and orientation during movement, making real-time adjustments to maintain stability. This feedback control allows the system to achieve flexible movement paths while preserving image quality and device stability.
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AI summary
System and method can support photography. A controller can configure a carrier to move an imaging device along a moving path. Furthermore, the controller can apply a time-dependent configuration on the imaging device, and use the imaging device for capturing a set of image frames along the moving path based on the one or more time-dependent parameters.