Modular Marine Display with Glove-Compatible Touch
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current marine display devices are cumbersome and costly due to the need for multiple devices to track location, detect fish, and provide additional functionalities, often requiring users to remove gloves in cold temperatures and cannot monitor multiple locations simultaneously.
Innovation Solution
A modular marine display system that includes an image module for capturing underwater sea life images, a display device with sensors for glove-compatible touch control, and a streaming device for wireless signal transmission, allowing remote monitoring and operation without external power sources.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple separate devices are used to track location, detect fish, and provide additional functionalities, then each specific function can be performed reliably, but the overall device complexity and cost increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines GPS receiver, fish finder, and additional functionality modules into a single integrated marine display device. The housing contains multiple functional modules that can operate independently or together, allowing the system to provide location tracking, fish detection, and other features through one unified device rather than multiple separate devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The marine display device is designed with multi-functionality to perform various tasks including GPS location tracking, fish detection through sonar, weather information display, and communication capabilities. This universal design allows a single device to replace multiple specialized devices, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining reliable performance of each function.
2Device complexity
If traditional display devices are used in cold temperatures, then the device structure remains simple, but the user must remove gloves to operate the device
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical button controls with a touchscreen display that can detect touch through gloves. The display screen incorporates sensing technology that detects the electrical properties of human contact, allowing users to interact with the interface while wearing insulated gloves, thereby eliminating the need to remove gloves in cold weather operations.
3Device complexity
If a single detection device is used in fish finders, then the device structure remains simple, but only one location can be monitored at a time
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the detection system into multiple independent detection devices or transducers that can be deployed at different locations. Each detection device operates independently to monitor a specific area, and the marine display device integrates signals from all devices to provide comprehensive multi-location monitoring capability, allowing users to track fish at multiple spots simultaneously.
4Adaptability or versatility
If additional functionality is coupled together in marine display devices, then more features are available, but the device becomes bulkier and more expensive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a modular architecture where functional modules such as GPS receiver, fish finder, and additional features are nested within a hierarchical structure. Smaller functional units are integrated into larger system components, allowing multiple functionalities to be packed into a compact form factor. The housing contains stacked or integrated modules that share common structural elements, reducing overall device volume while maintaining full functionality.
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 users to monitor multiple locations simultaneously, operate the device with gloves on, and add/remove functionalities as needed, providing a cost-effective and user-friendly solution for tracking and fishing applications.
Implementation Method 1
an imaging device that graphically or pictorially captures images of underwater seal life
Implementation Method 2
one or more sensors for detecting contact of the display screen by the user so that the contact by the user controls one or more functions of the marine display device; wherein the one or more sensors detect the contact of the user when the user is wearing gloves
Data Source
AI summary
An image module comprising: (a) an imaging device that graphically or pictorially captures images of underwater sea life (b) a module housing including one or more components that processing an image generated by the imaging device; wherein the image module is discrete from a marine display and is capable of being connected to the marine display so that the graphic or pictorial images of underwater seal life captured by the imaging device are displayed.