Self-Tracking Electronic Device with Moving Housing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Electronic devices face challenges in continuously tracking user activity, particularly dynamic movements and events, due to limitations in design and algorithm complexity for accurate tracking.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device equipped with a housing, microphone, camera, driver, wireless communication circuit, and processor that acquires user voice and image data, identifies the user, determines tracking location based on activity, and moves to maintain continuous tracking, providing real-time activity results.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If the electronic device is disposed fixed in a space to track user activity, then static activity tracking capability is improved, but dynamic activity tracking capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The electronic device transitions from a fixed disposition to a mobile one, enabling it to move and reposition itself. The processor controls the driver to move the housing to determined locations, allowing the device to adapt to both static and dynamic user activities by changing its own position rather than relying on user movement toward a fixed device.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the electronic device moves to track dynamic user activity, then dynamic activity tracking capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The electronic device autonomously determines its own movement location based on user activity information without requiring complex external control systems. The processor automatically processes user activity data, determines optimal tracking locations, and controls the driver accordingly, enabling self-directed movement that reduces overall system complexity.
3Duration of action of stationary object
If the electronic device continuously tracks user activity, then tracking continuity is improved, but difficulty in maintaining accurate tracking increases
Solution Approach 1:
The electronic device continuously acquires user activity information, processes this feedback data through the processor, and uses it to determine subsequent movement locations. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enables the device to maintain accurate tracking over extended periods by constantly adjusting its position based on real-time user activity data.
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AI summary
Disclosed are an electronic device and a method of operating the same. The electronic device includes: a housing: a user interface; at least one microphone disposed in the housing; at least one camera disposed in the housing; at least one driver comprising driving circuitry connected to or disposed in the housing and configured to move the housing; a wireless communication circuit disposed within the housing; a processor operatively connected to the user interface, the microphone, the camera, the driver, and the wireless communication circuit; and a memory operatively connected to the processor, wherein the memory stores instructions which, when executed by the processor, control the electronic device to: acquire a voice and/or an image of a user through the microphone and/or the camera, identify the user based on the voice and/or the image, identify an activity of the user based on at least one piece of movement information of the identified user, location information, or information on an object that the user is using, determine a location from which to track the user based on the identified activity, control the driver to move the housing based at least in part on the determined location, track the activity of the user based on continuity of the activity after movement, and provide a result of the activity based on the tracking result.