Phone Rig Wedge Angling for Multi-Camera Recordings
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current camera rigs and personal electronic device holders are inadequate for supporting multiple devices in a static configuration for professional filming, particularly due to size constraints and the need for multi-perspective recordings.
Innovation Solution
A phone rig system that includes multiple bodies configured to hold electronic apparatuses with screens and cameras, allowing for offset fixation, angled orientations, and lens support, along with a wedge member and hinge mechanism for adjustable positioning and easy access to controls.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple personal electronic devices are held in a static configuration for professional filming, then multi-perspective recordings are enabled, but device size constraints and accessibility to controls are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The camera rig is divided into multiple separate bodies, with each body designed to hold a specific electronic device. This segmentation allows each device to be independently positioned and accessed, maintaining control accessibility while enabling multi-perspective recording configurations.
Solution Approach 2:
The rig employs vertical stacking of device bodies along with horizontal offset positioning. This multi-dimensional arrangement allows screens and controls to remain accessible from the front while cameras are positioned at various angles for multi-perspective recording, resolving the spatial conflict between recording geometry and operational accessibility.
2Ease of operation
If screens are positioned to face the user for accessibility, then control access is improved, but screen light may cast into camera lenses causing glare
Solution Approach 1:
A light-blocking partition or baffle is introduced as an intermediary element between the screen and the camera lens. This partition allows the screen to remain visible and accessible to the user while physically blocking the path of screen light from reaching the camera lens, thereby eliminating glare without compromising screen accessibility.
3Adaptability or versatility
If cameras are positioned at various angles for different perspectives, then recording versatility is improved, but structural complexity of the rig increases
Solution Approach 1:
The rig uses modular bodies that can be independently configured for different camera angles. Each body is a self-contained unit with standardized mounting features, allowing complex angular arrangements to be achieved through simple assembly of standardized components rather than requiring a custom complex structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The bodies are designed with universal mounting features and standardized interfaces that can accommodate different camera orientations. This universality allows the same basic structural elements to serve multiple angular configurations, reducing overall structural complexity while maintaining recording versatility.
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AI summary
A phone rig is provided for multiple cameras for making multiple point of view recordings by a first electronic apparatus having a first screen, a second electronic apparatus having a second screen and a first camera, and a third electronic apparatus having a third screen and a second camera. The phone rig includes a first body for holding the first electronic apparatus in a screen facing orientation, a second body for holding the second electronic apparatus in a camera facing orientation, and a third body for holding the third electronic apparatus. A wedge member is provided for installation between the first body and the second body, such that the first screen of the first electronic apparatus is angled, relative to the first camera of the second electronic apparatus and the second camera of the third electronic apparatus.