Panoramic Sensor Armature for Unobstructed Video Capture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing devices for face-to-face video capture obstruct the user's fine focus field-of-view and fail to facilitate mobile, hands-free panoramic video teleconferencing while capturing the user's facial reactions and surrounding environment simultaneously.
Innovation Solution
A personal mobile support apparatus with an adjustable armature and extension mechanism that positions a spherical field-of-view image and audio sensor assembly in front of the user's face, using manual or automated mechanisms to rotate and extend the armature, ensuring the sensor assembly does not block the user's view, and integrates with a portable electronic device for interactive and automated control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a facial sensor is positioned directly in front of the user's face for face-to-face video capture, then face capture quality is improved, but the user's fine focus field-of-view is obstructed
Solution Approach 1:
The sensor assembly is rotated around the user's face to capture facial images from multiple angular dimensions rather than from a single frontal position. This multi-dimensional approach allows the sensor to acquire comprehensive facial data while maintaining the user's forward field-of-view unobstructed
Solution Approach 2:
The sensor assembly is made rotatable and dynamically adjustable in position relative to the user's face. Instead of being fixed directly in front of the face, the sensor can move to different locations and angles, adapting its position to capture facial features effectively while avoiding obstruction of the user's view
2Adaptability or versatility
If a sensor assembly is mounted on a head-worn device for panoramic capture, then panoramic video teleconferencing capability is improved, but the peripheral field-of-view of the user is blocked
Solution Approach 1:
The panoramic capture function is separated from the user's head by mounting the sensor assembly on an extendable armature that reaches outward from the head-worn device. This segmentation allows the sensor to be positioned in space away from the user's head, enabling panoramic capture without blocking the user's peripheral vision
Solution Approach 2:
An extendable armature acts as an intermediary mechanical structure between the head-worn device and the sensor assembly. This intermediary component extends the sensor outward to a position where it can capture panoramic views without interfering with the user's field-of-view
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AI summary
A support apparatus with adjustable mechanisms hold a spherical field-of-regard image and audio sensor assembly located at its distal end in front of a user's face such that the user's fine focus field-of-view of the foreground is not blocked by the mast or the sensor assembly. Automated mechanisms rotate and extend the armature and sensor assembly into position for face-to-face panoramic hands-free video teleconferencing, gaming, or logging. A portable wired or wireless host electronic device with a personal assistant application and sensor correlation system interactively communicates with support apparatus circuitry and servos, imagery, audio, eye and ROI tracking, neural, and user input and feedback systems to orchestrate responses to a local remote user. A sensor assembly includes a VLSIC multi-ROI processing system with integrated camera and display that hides the assembly and provides information to the user or onlooker.