Multi-stage Shutter Button with Display for Camera Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing portable electronic devices with camera modules lack an intuitive and efficient method to switch between camera operation modes and sharing captured images or videos directly to online social networking platforms, limiting user experience in seamlessly capturing and publishing content.
Innovation Solution
A portable electronic device equipped with a camera module and a shutter button that is switchable between multiple stages, including a normal state, half depression state, full depression state, protruding control knob state, and half-pressed protruding state, allowing users to take pictures or videos and publish them to online social networking platforms through a control circuit and display screen, enabling intuitive menu selection and sharing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a traditional single-stage shutter button is used, then the device structure remains simple, but the user cannot efficiently switch between camera operation modes and sharing options
Solution Approach 1:
The shutter button is designed with multiple depression stages (first stage, second stage, third stage) that dynamically change its functional state. Each stage triggers different operations: first stage for capturing media, second stage for confirming selections, and third stage for dismissing overlays. This dynamic multi-stage design allows a single component to perform multiple functions that would otherwise require separate controls, improving ease of operation while maintaining relatively simple device structure.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate buttons are provided for different functions, then each function can be clearly assigned, but the device becomes more complex and harder to operate
Solution Approach 1:
The shutter button serves multiple functions across different operation modes. In camera mode, it captures media; in gallery mode, it confirms selections or dismisses overlays; in sharing mode, it publishes content to social networks. This multi-functional design consolidates what would traditionally require multiple separate buttons into a single universal control, enhancing adaptability while reducing device complexity.
3Ease of operation
If a multi-stage shutter button with display screen is added, then intuitive menu selection and sharing is enabled, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The display screen is integrated directly into the shutter button assembly, merging the display function with the control mechanism. This allows the shutter button to serve as both a control input and an information display device, showing previews, options, and confirmation messages directly at the control location. This integration improves ease of operation by providing visual feedback near the control, while the combined design avoids adding separate display components that would increase overall device complexity.
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AI summary
A portable electronic device equipped with a camera module and a shutter buffer and a control method using the same. The shutter button is switchable between multiple stages and includes a display screen. A control circuit of the portable electronic device operates the camera module and provides display content to the display screen based on the switch between the multiple stages of the shutter button.