Smart Contact Lens Collaborative Video Capture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Smart contact lenses struggle to capture uninterrupted video due to blinking events, which result in black frames and reduced video quality, as each lens can only record for a limited time before the wearer blinks, limiting the effectiveness of collaborative video capture in multi-user environments.
Innovation Solution
A Collaborative Video Capture (CVC) System that predicts blinking events and transfers video capture control between multiple smart contact lenses, ensuring continuous recording by adjusting control based on blinking patterns and relative positions of users, thereby minimizing interruptions in the captured video.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a single smart contact lens is used for video capture, then the device complexity is low, but the video capture is interrupted by blinking events resulting in black frames and reduced quality
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the video capture function across multiple smart contact lenses worn by different participants. Each lens captures video independently, and the system segments the capture responsibility based on predicted blinking events, ensuring continuous coverage through multiple sources.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines video feeds from multiple smart contact lenses into a single continuous video stream. By merging captures from multiple participants, the system eliminates gaps caused by individual blinking events and produces uninterrupted video output.
2Duration of action of moving object
If video capture continues during blinking events, then the recording duration is maximized, but black frames appear reducing video quality
Solution Approach 1:
The system predicts blinking events in advance using detected blinking patterns and transfers video capture control to another participant before the blink occurs. This preliminary action prevents black frames by ensuring a different lens is capturing during the predicted blink event.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors blinking events and uses this feedback to adjust capture control in real-time. By detecting actual blinking patterns and using this information to predict future blinks, the system dynamically transfers capture responsibility to maintain video quality throughout extended recording sessions.
3Reliability
If capture control is transferred frequently to prevent black frames, then video quality is maintained, but the system complexity and control management increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system predicts blinking events in advance rather than reacting after blinks occur. This allows smooth, pre-planned transitions between capture sources without abrupt changes or complex real-time decision-making during actual blink events.
Solution Approach 2:
Each participant's smart contact lens autonomously detects its own blinking events and patterns, then the system uses this self-reported data to determine when to transfer capture control. This reduces the complexity of centralized monitoring by leveraging self-service detection at each node.
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AI summary
An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and system for collaborative video capturing via multiple smart contact lenses. An embodiment may include identifying a participant, of multiple participants, currently capturing video via a smart contact lens of the identified participant. In response to a predicted next eye closing event for the identified participant, an embodiment may include transferring current video capture to a smart contact lens of another participant, of the multiple participants, during the predicted next eye closing event for the identified participant.