Waypoint Generation for Marine Electronics
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies lack an efficient method to automatically record and associate navigational data with images or videos during marine activities, making it difficult to recall specific locations and events, such as fishing spots, for future reference.
Innovation Solution
A method that involves sending a trigger from a camera device or smartphone to a marine electronics device to generate a waypoint based on navigational data, associating the waypoint with recorded images or videos, and storing this information on a cloud server, allowing for easy retrieval and mapping of locations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual recording of locations and images is used, then users can document marine activities, but it requires significant user effort and time to correlate locations with images
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges the location recording function with the image recording function by automatically associating images with waypoints based on timing correlation. When a waypoint is created, the system automatically links any images captured at that time, eliminating the need for manual correlation and significantly reducing user effort.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary action by automatically capturing and storing image timestamps alongside waypoint data. This pre-association of metadata enables automatic correlation later without requiring user intervention, solving the time loss problem.
2Productivity
If automatic waypoint generation is implemented, then location recording becomes efficient, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service by automatically generating waypoints and associating images without requiring complex user interactions. The marine electronics device autonomously correlates navigational data with image data based on timing, simplifying the user interface while maintaining high productivity.
3Speed
If images are stored locally on the marine electronics device, then access is immediate, but storage capacity is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system transitions from a single-dimension local storage model to a multi-dimensional storage architecture by implementing cloud-based storage alongside local storage. This allows images to be accessed locally when needed while maintaining long-term archival capacity in the cloud, effectively expanding storage capacity without sacrificing access speed.
4Quantity of substance
If cloud storage is used, then storage capacity is expanded, but data transmission time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-uploading image metadata and thumbnails to the cloud while keeping full-resolution images locally. This enables quick local access for immediate needs while progressively syncing data to the cloud in the background, reducing the perceived transmission time.
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AI summary
Described herein are implementations of various technologies for a method. The method may receive a request to record images. The method may send a trigger to a marine electronics device in response to receiving the request to record images. The method may receive navigational data regarding a location of the marine electronics device. The method may generate a waypoint based on the navigational data in response to the trigger.