Multi-featured Miniature Camera with Contour Mounting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional miniature cameras face challenges in being compact, lightweight, and feature-rich while providing stable mounting on helmets, supporting multiple Bluetooth connections, and enabling real-time image synchronization and image recognition with cluster communication.
Innovation Solution
A multi-featured miniature camera with a contour design for easy helmet mounting, featuring rotatable lenses, infrared imaging, wireless power and data transfer, multiple Bluetooth connectivity, GPS, and image processing, along with a water-resistant and lightweight design, allowing for simultaneous communication with multiple devices and real-time image transmission.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple features (wireless power transfer, image recognition, multiple Bluetooth connections, etc.) are integrated into the camera, then the functionality and versatility are improved, but the device complexity and size increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates multiple previously separate features (wireless power transfer, image recognition, multiple Bluetooth connections, contour mounting design) into a single camera device. This merging of functions into one unified system resolves the contradiction by achieving versatility without proportionally increasing complexity, as the features are coordinated through centralized control rather than requiring separate independent systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The camera is designed as a universal device capable of performing multiple functions: capturing images, wireless power transfer, image recognition, multiple Bluetooth device connections, and contour mounting on helmets. This multi-functionality approach allows the single device to replace multiple specialized devices, improving adaptability while managing complexity through integrated design.
2Weight of moving object
If the camera is made compact and lightweight, then the ease of mounting and portability are improved, but the space for components and battery is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs parameter optimization in component selection and arrangement to achieve a compact yet functional camera design. By carefully selecting components with optimal size-to-performance ratios and arranging them efficiently within the camera housing, the design achieves lightweight and compact dimensions while still accommodating necessary components including battery, processors for image recognition, and wireless communication modules.
3Weight of moving object
If the camera is made lightweight for helmet mounting, then the comfort and stability are improved, but the mounting security and durability are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The contour mounting design provides adjustable and adaptable mounting capability that can be dynamically configured for different helmet shapes and sizes. The mounting mechanism allows for secure attachment while maintaining comfort, resolving the contradiction between lightweight design and mounting reliability through flexible, adaptable mounting rather than rigid fixed structures.
4Adaptability or versatility
If multiple Bluetooth connections are enabled, then the communication versatility is improved, but the power consumption and device complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The camera implements periodic or on-demand Bluetooth connections rather than continuous active connections to multiple devices. The system can maintain connectivity to multiple Bluetooth devices but activates communications as needed, reducing overall power consumption while preserving the versatility of multi-device connectivity capability.
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AI summary
The present invention proposes a multi-featured miniature camera. The components of the camera mainly comprise of an image capturing means, multiple activating means, an infrared radiating means, a microphone, multiple Bluetooth connection means, an identification chip means, a wireless power charging means, a wireless data transfer means, an image processing means and a location determination means. The camera provides wireless power and data transfer, image recognition, Push-To-Talk (PTT) function, multiple Bluetooth communication etc. This multi-featured camera is mounted on different application areas such as on the helmet of police officers, sport players, firefighters etc. The camera body is designed in such a way, that it easily fits on the helmet.