Modular 3D Body Imaging Pillars for Portable Multi-Angle Scanning
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Solution Overview
Problem
3D imaging technologies are limited in their application for personalized health, wellness, fitness, and rehabilitation for the common individual, lacking effective solutions for capturing and analyzing body data for medical diagnostics and rehabilitation progress.
Innovation Solution
A 3D body imaging system comprising a kit with configurable sensing pillars and sensors that capture image data from multiple perspectives, a processing unit for generating and analyzing 3D images, and a database for storing and comparing user data to provide personalized health, wellness, and rehabilitation insights.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional 3D imaging technologies are used, then 3D body data can be captured, but the system lacks effectiveness for personalized health, wellness, fitness, and rehabilitation applications
Solution Approach 1:
The imaging system is divided into multiple independent sensing pillars, each containing sensors distributed along a vertical axis. This segmentation allows the system to capture 3D body data from multiple perspectives simultaneously, improving the reliability of medical diagnostic capabilities while maintaining adaptability for various health applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The system is designed to serve multiple functions including medical diagnostics, rehabilitation tracking, fitness monitoring, and wellness assessments. The same sensor array and processing unit can analyze different body parameters for different applications, making the system universally effective across personalized health domains.
2Measurement precision
If multiple sensors are distributed along the vertical axis to capture image data from different perspectives, then 3D imaging quality improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Sensors are nested along the vertical axis of each sensing pillar, with multiple sensors positioned at different heights. This nested arrangement allows compact integration of multiple sensing elements within a single pillar structure, achieving high 3D imaging quality without proportionally increasing overall device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transitions from traditional single-point or single-plane imaging to multi-dimensional 3D capture by distributing sensors along the vertical dimension. This dimensional approach enables comprehensive body scanning from multiple perspectives while organizing complexity in a structured vertical hierarchy rather than requiring scattered components throughout space.
3Ease of operation
If pillar segments are made configurable between assembled and disassembled configurations, then portability improves, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The pillar segments are designed with dynamic configurability, allowing them to be assembled into operational sensing pillars during use and disassembled for storage or transport. This dynamic reconfigurability improves portability while the modular segment design simplifies manufacturing by allowing standardized components to be assembled in different configurations.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables accurate and non-invasive medical diagnostics, rehabilitation tracking, and personalized health assessments by generating detailed 3D body images, allowing for medical condition identification, rehabilitation progress monitoring, and customized health solutions.
Implementation Method 1
a plurality of sensors each defining a respective field of view and being configured to be supported on the elongated body of the at least one upstanding sensing pillar when formed and to be distributed along the vertical axis to have overlapping fields of view, the sensors being operable to capture image data of the body of the user
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AI summary
A system and kit for capturing a 3D image of a body a user includes a plurality of pillar segments being configurable between an assembled configuration and a disassembled configuration. In the assembled configuration, the pillar segments are joined to form one or more upstanding sensing pillars. A plurality of sensors operable to capture image data are distributed along the one or more sensing pillars. The plurality of sensors have fields of view that are overlapping when supported on the sensing pillars. In the disassembled configuration, transportation of the pillar segments is facilitated. The system and kit may be suitable for use at a remote location. Additional functionalities may include a power storage unit, solar charging panels, climate control subsystem, and wireless communication submodule. In operation, the sensing pillars may be enclosed within an enclosure.