Remote Imaging Mounting Ecosystem for Lightweight Offloaded Capture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing imaging devices face challenges in providing ease of use, mounting convenience, and remote control capabilities while maintaining a compact size and limited interface options.
Innovation Solution
A small, lightweight remote imaging device with versatile mounting systems that enable seamless image capture and automatic offload of content, along with wireless communication and processing capabilities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If imaging devices are made smaller and simpler, then ease of use and portability are improved, but processing and storage capabilities are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system is divided into a simple remote imaging device and a separate computing device. The imaging device handles only capture functions while the computing device handles processing, storage, and complex operations. This segmentation allows the imaging device to remain small and simple while still providing advanced capabilities through the connected computing device.
Solution Approach 2:
A computing device acts as an intermediary between the user and the remote imaging device. The computing device receives captured content, performs processing and storage operations, and provides a user interface for controlling the imaging device. This intermediary enables sophisticated functionality without requiring it to be built into the small imaging device itself.
2Adaptability or versatility
If imaging devices include extensive processing and storage capabilities, then functionality is improved, but device size and weight increase
Solution Approach 1:
Processing and storage capabilities are extracted from the imaging device and placed in a separate computing device. The imaging device retains only the essential capture functions, while the computing device handles all processing, storage, and advanced features. This extraction allows the imaging device to remain lightweight while providing extensive functionality through the connected computing device.
Solution Approach 2:
The computing device serves multiple functions: it acts as a controller for the imaging device, a processing unit for captured content, a storage device, and a user interface. This multi-functionality consolidates what would otherwise require separate components, allowing the imaging device itself to remain simple and lightweight while providing comprehensive functionality through the universal computing device.
3Device complexity
If imaging devices have limited interface options, then device simplicity is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The computing device serves as an intermediary that provides a comprehensive user interface for controlling the remote imaging device. Users interact with the computing device's full capabilities (touchscreen, buttons, software interfaces) to control the simple imaging device. This intermediary allows the imaging device to maintain interface simplicity while the computing device provides extensive ease of operation through its richer interface options.
Data Source
AI summary
This disclosure describes a system including an imaging device. The imaging device includes an imaging unit with a lens that focuses light onto an image sensor that produces image data, wherein the image data is only stored by the imaging device for transfer to and processing by an external device. The imaging device includes a control interface that provides commands to the imaging unit. The system also includes a mount with a wall that releasably secures the imaging device and provides access to the control interface and a securing structure that secures the mount to a variety of locations.