Sliding Rotating Camera Mount for Full-Screen Mobile Terminals
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile terminals with cameras have a low screen-to-body ratio due to camera placement, limiting the coverage of the display screen and preventing automatic panoramic shooting.
Innovation Solution
A mobile terminal design featuring a camera mounting assembly with a sliding and rotating mechanism that allows the camera to extend from and retract into a groove, enabling both front and rear shooting modes and panoramic capabilities by rotating 180 degrees.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the camera is placed on the side of the display screen, then the camera can be positioned on the front face, but the coverage rate of the display screen decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The camera is made movable through a sliding mechanism that allows it to extend from and retract into a groove on the front face. This dynamic positioning enables the camera to be placed on the front face when needed while maintaining full display screen coverage when the camera is retracted, thus resolving the contradiction between camera positioning and display screen coverage.
2Device complexity
If the camera is fixed in a certain direction, then the camera structure is simple, but automatic panoramic shooting cannot be implemented
Solution Approach 1:
The camera is equipped with a rotating mechanism that enables it to rotate around its optical axis. This dynamic rotation capability allows the camera to capture images from multiple angles, implementing automatic panoramic shooting functionality while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure, thus resolving the contradiction between structural simplicity and panoramic shooting capability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the camera is made movable to enable panoramic shooting, then shooting versatility increases, but the mechanism complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The transmission mechanism is divided into two independent parts: a sliding mechanism for extending and retracting the camera along the groove, and a rotating mechanism for rotating the camera around its optical axis. This segmentation allows each mechanism to perform its specific function with simpler structure, reducing overall complexity while enabling multiple shooting modes including panoramic photography.
Solution Approach 2:
A single camera unit is designed to perform multiple functions through the combined sliding and rotating mechanisms. The camera can be positioned at different locations along the groove and rotated to different angles, enabling front shooting, rear shooting, and panoramic shooting modes with one camera, thus increasing versatility without requiring multiple cameras.
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AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a transmission mechanism, a driving mechanism assembly, and a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes: a shell (100) including a first mounting face (110) and second mounting face (120) opposite the first mounting, and a side face (130), the first mounting face defining an accommodation groove (111) extending to the side face along a first direction; a camera mounting assembly (300), including a mounting seat (310) and a camera (320), wherein the mounting seat is arranged in the accommodation groove; and a driving mechanism assembly (400), including a driver (410) coupled to the shell and a transmission mechanism (420), the driver is movable to drive, by the transmission mechanism, the mounting seat to extend from the accommodation groove and capable of driving the mounting seat to rotate around a rotating shaft and the rotating shaft being parallel to the first direction.