Smartphone Clip Mount with Screen Marker Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mounting systems for external devices on smartphones and tablets often fail to ensure proper alignment with the device's features, leading to suboptimal performance and usability.
Innovation Solution
A device-and-clip system that includes a clip with movable arms and a releasable connection, along with an application that displays a screen marker to assist in aligning the external device with the smartphone's features, ensuring correct positioning and orientation for functions like image projection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a mounting system is provided for external devices on smartphones, then the functionality and usability are enhanced, but it is difficult to ensure proper alignment with the device features
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an application as an intermediary tool that displays visual markers on the smartphone screen to guide the user in aligning the external device with the camera. The application acts as a mediator between the mounting system and the device features, providing real-time feedback for precise positioning without requiring complex mechanical alignment mechanisms.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a clip with movable arms is used to mount external devices, then the mounting solution can adapt to different device configurations, but the complexity of the mounting system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a clip with movable arms that can dynamically adjust their position and orientation to accommodate different smartphone models and configurations. The movable arms provide flexibility in positioning the external device while maintaining a relatively simple overall clip structure, avoiding the need for multiple specialized clips for different devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The clip design incorporates universal features that allow it to mount external devices on various smartphone models. The movable arms and adjustable positioning mechanisms enable the same clip structure to adapt to different device sizes, shapes, and camera locations, eliminating the need for device-specific mounting solutions.
3Measurement precision
If an application with screen markers is used to guide alignment, then the alignment precision is improved, but the ease of operation is reduced due to additional positioning steps
Solution Approach 1:
The application provides self-service alignment guidance by displaying visual markers that automatically appear on the smartphone screen during the mounting process. The system guides the user through the alignment steps without requiring external tools or complex procedures, making the precision alignment process more self-contained and user-friendly.
Data Source
AI summary
In an aspect, a method of projecting an image using an electronic device having a front face with a display screen, a rear face, and an edge, and further including an LED on a rear face, a processor and memory, and having an application stored in the memory, the method comprising:providing a projector having an aperture therethrough, and a clip including a first arm which has an arm marker, and a second arm;executing the application so as to display a screen marker in a position based on a make and model of the electronic device; andpositioning the clip on the electronic device with the first arm on the front face with the arm marker aligned with the screen marker, positioning the projector's aperture aligned with the LED to pass light through a slide containing an image, to project the image.