Removable Camera Support for Fitting Room Portraits
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing fitting room portrait photographic systems face legal restrictions due to the use of attached cameras for privacy concerns, and they often struggle with capturing full-body images due to limited space and the distance between the camera and user, leading to suboptimal selfie-quality images.
Innovation Solution
A system that utilizes a portable computing device with a built-in camera, removably attached to a support structure near a mirror, establishing a bidirectional communication link to acquire images of the user, allowing for panoramic shots and overcoming space limitations with optical elements like convex mirrors for distorted image capture.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a camera is unremovably attached to a structural member (such as a mirror) in a fitting room, then the system can capture user images, but privacy laws forbid such attached camera systems
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the camera from the fixed structural attachment and relocates it to a portable computing device that the user holds. This separation removes the harmful aspect of fixed surveillance while preserving the useful function of image capture. The camera is no longer part of the room infrastructure but becomes a user-controlled portable device.
Solution Approach 2:
The portable computing device acts as an intermediary between the user and the image capture system. Instead of a fixed camera directly monitoring the user, the user themselves controls the portable device with the camera, creating a self-service imaging system that eliminates privacy concerns while maintaining capture capability.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If a portable computing device with built-in camera is used, then privacy concerns are avoided, but the distance between camera and user is limited by arm's length making full-body capture difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces optical elements (mirrors, lenses) to extend the effective imaging distance beyond the physical arm's length limitation. By using optical reflection and refraction, the system captures full-body images while the camera remains close to the user, effectively adding optical dimensions to overcome the physical distance constraint.
3Length of moving object
If the camera is placed within the surface of a mirror, then full-body images can be captured, but the terminal becomes unremovably attached and loses portability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the camera from the mirror structure, preventing permanent integration. The portable computing device with camera remains separate from the mirror, allowing the user to hold the device at the optimal position for full-body capture without the device becoming a fixed installation.
Solution Approach 2:
The user themselves positions and controls the portable device with the camera, eliminating the need for the camera to be pre-installed in the mirror. This self-service approach allows flexible positioning for full-body images while maintaining device portability and user control.
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AI summary
The fitting room comprises a portrait photographic system which comprises: —a mirror; —a support physically attached to the mirror, or to a structural member fixed thereto, the support being configured and arranged to interchangeably and removably attach thereto any of a plurality of portable computing devices having built-in cameras; and—a local computing entity adapted to establish a communication link with the portable computing device attached or to be attached to the support, in order to acquire one or more images of a user placed in front of the mirror with the built-in camera of the portable computing device once attached to the support. The computer program comprises computer subprograms adapted to operate the system of the fitting room of the invention.