Smart Mount Camera System for Compact Lens Exchange
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional digital photographing systems face challenges in achieving a balance between high optical performance and compact design, as well as flexibility in lens exchange and communication with mobile devices, due to the integration of image sensors and processors within camera bodies, leading to size and weight issues and limited compatibility with external devices.
Innovation Solution
A digital photographing system comprising a smart mount with a lens, shutter, image sensor, and image processor that can be detached from a camera body or mobile terminal device, enabling wireless communication and operation, with the smart mount including a storage unit, buttons for image capture, and autonomous power supply, allowing for high-quality image capture and processing independent of the camera body.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If image sensors and processors are integrated within camera bodies, then high optical performance is achieved, but size and weight increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the photographing system into separate modules: a lens unit, a smart mount containing the image sensor and processor, and a camera body. This segmentation allows the heavy imaging components to be distributed, reducing the weight concentrated in the camera body while maintaining high optical performance through dedicated imaging modules.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the image sensor and processor from the traditional camera body integration and places them in a separate smart mount unit. This extraction enables the camera body to be lighter while the smart mount can be attached only when needed, resolving the contradiction between integrated performance and weight.
2Measurement precision
If image sensors and processors are integrated within camera bodies, then high optical performance is achieved, but device size increases
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the system into lens, smart mount, and body components, the patent reduces the volume of each individual part. The smart mount with integrated sensor and processor is compact and can be attached to the lens or body as needed, rather than requiring a large integrated camera body.
Solution Approach 2:
The smart mount unit is designed to nest between the lens and camera body, or attach to the lens barrel. This nested configuration allows the imaging components to be housed in a compact form factor that does not significantly increase the overall device volume when attached.
3Measurement precision
If image sensors and processors are integrated within camera bodies, then high optical performance is achieved, but flexibility in lens exchange is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates independent lens and smart mount units that can be exchanged separately. The smart mount with image sensor and processor can remain attached to the camera body while different lenses are exchanged at the lens mount interface, providing both high optical performance and lens exchange flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The smart mount is designed as a universal interface that can work with multiple lens types. The standardized mount allows the same smart mount unit to accommodate various lenses, enabling both high-quality imaging and versatile lens exchange capability.
4Measurement precision
If image sensors and processors are integrated within camera bodies, then high optical performance is achieved, but compatibility with mobile devices is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The smart mount is designed with universal communication capabilities that enable compatibility with multiple device types including camera bodies and mobile devices. The standardized interface and wireless communication protocols allow the same smart mount unit to interface with different devices, providing both high optical performance and broad compatibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The smart mount acts as an intermediary device between the lens and various end devices (camera bodies or mobile devices). It contains the image sensor and processor needed for high-quality capture, while providing standardized interfaces for communication with different device types, thus resolving the contradiction between performance and compatibility.
5Volume of moving object
If smart mount components are separated from camera body, then compact design and flexibility are improved, but communication complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The smart mount serves as an intermediary with built-in communication protocols that simplify the interface between the separated components. It handles the complexity of wireless communication, power transfer, and data synchronization, allowing the camera body and lens to remain simple while achieving compact design and flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The smart mount contains its own processor and communication interface, enabling it to autonomously manage data processing and communication with the camera body or mobile device. This self-service capability reduces the communication burden on the main camera body, simplifying the overall system despite component separation.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution enables a compact digital photographing system with enhanced flexibility, allowing high-quality image capture and processing, and easy communication with various mobile devices, overcoming the limitations of conventional systems by separating the image processing components and enabling wireless operation.
Implementation Method 1
an image sensor that converts object light incident to the lens to electric signals
Data Source
AI summary
A digital photographing system includes a smart mount that includes lenses, a shutter, an image sensor, and an image processor, combined with a camera body or a mobile terminal device. A method of operating the digital photographing system is provided. The digital photographing system includes a lens; a smart mount that captures and processes an image of an object input via the lens; and a body that displays, modifies, stores, or deletes the image captured and processed by the smart mount.