Modular Imaging Apparatus for Time-Slice Photography
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing methods for time-slice imaging with multiple DSLR cameras face challenges in simultaneous operation due to the impracticality of pressing numerous shutter release buttons and the complexity of setting and connecting multiple heavy cameras, requiring significant manpower and time.
Innovation Solution
An imaging apparatus with modularized units, including a module case and a support, that reduces the weight of imaging units by minimizing components, allows for angle and height adjustments, and facilitates easy assembly and storage by separating modules and supports, enabling simultaneous operation of multiple cameras.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If multiple individual digital cameras are used for time-slice imaging, then imaging capability is achieved, but weight and difficulty of connection increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple imaging units are integrated into a single modular assembly that can be mounted on a tripod. The module case contains multiple imaging units arranged in specific configurations, allowing them to function as one unified system rather than separate cameras, thereby reducing overall weight and simplifying connection to the tripod.
2Quantity of substance
If multiple individual digital cameras are used for time-slice imaging, then imaging capability is achieved, but assembly and installation time increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system is divided into modular components: a module case containing multiple imaging units, a tripod support structure, and detachable mounting mechanisms. This segmentation allows the imaging units to be pre-assembled in a module that can be quickly attached to the tripod as a single unit, dramatically reducing installation time compared to setting up multiple separate cameras individually.
3Quantity of substance
If multiple heavy DSLR cameras are connected for time-slice imaging, then imaging capability is achieved, but ease of operation decreases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple imaging units are merged into a single modular assembly with unified mounting interfaces. The module case contains all necessary imaging units and their mounting hardware integrated together, allowing the entire assembly to be connected to the tripod through a single connection point, thereby greatly improving ease of operation.
4Adaptability or versatility
If multiple imaging units are arranged around a subject, then time-slice imaging capability is achieved, but storage convenience decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The imaging system is segmented into a compact module case containing multiple imaging units that can be stored together as one unit. The modular design allows the imaging units to be arranged in various configurations when deployed, but stored efficiently in a consolidated case, thereby maintaining both configuration flexibility and storage convenience.
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AI summary
Provided is an imaging apparatus including at least one or more imaging units, and more particularly, to an imaging apparatus including at least one or more imaging units which includes at least one or more modules to perform modularization so that a time-slice imaging device may be installed, performs a light weight of the imaging units to solve difficulty in a process of connecting multiple heavy digital single lens reflex (DSLR) cameras to each other in order to realize a time-sliced image at a certain moment, achieves assembly simplicity and storage convenience through a structure that may be stored by separating the modules and a support, and achieves popularization of an imaging apparatus capable of capturing a time slice image.