Video analytics camera system for an aerosol delivery device
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing aerosol delivery devices, such as electronic cigarettes, lack advanced features to enhance usability and integration with smart technologies, particularly in controlling environmental settings and providing real-time feedback based on scene analysis.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating a camera system with video content analytics capabilities into aerosol delivery devices to detect temporal or spatial events, allowing for control operations such as adjusting heating or cooling systems and electric lights, and providing notifications or visual indicators based on scene analysis.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a camera system with video content analytics is integrated into the aerosol delivery device, then the device's functionality and smart control capabilities are improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the camera system, video content analytics processor, and aerosol delivery device into an integrated system. The camera system is physically integrated into the device housing, and the control component that performs video analytics is merged with the existing control architecture of the aerosol delivery device, allowing unified control and reduced system integration complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The control component of the aerosol delivery device is designed to perform multiple functions: it controls the delivery of aerosol precursor composition and simultaneously performs video content analytics on captured imagery. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate dedicated processing units, thereby managing device complexity while enhancing smart control capabilities.
2Speed
If video content analytics processing is performed within the aerosol delivery device, then real-time feedback capability is improved, but the use of energy increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs video content analytics selectively based on detected events rather than continuously processing all video data. The control component analyzes video content only when specific temporal or spatial events are detected, reducing overall energy consumption while maintaining real-time feedback capability for important events.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary approach where the camera system captures video imagery and the control component selectively processes this data based on detected events. This intermediary processing strategy allows real-time feedback for critical events while avoiding continuous full-scale analytics, thereby managing energy usage more efficiently.
3Measurement precision
If the camera system captures and processes video imagery for event detection, then the measurement precision of temporal or spatial events is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the video content analytics functionality as a separate computational task performed by the control component, rather than integrating it deeply into the hardware architecture. This extraction allows the system to achieve precise event detection through software-based image analysis without requiring complex dedicated hardware processing units.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses digital video imagery captured by the camera as a copy of the physical scene, allowing analysis of temporal and spatial events without direct physical measurement. This digital copying approach enables precise event detection through image processing algorithms while avoiding the need for complex physical sensors or measurement devices.
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AI summary
An aerosol delivery device includes a cartridge of aerosol precursor composition, and a control body coupled or coupleable to the cartridge. The control body includes a control component to control delivery of components of the aerosol precursor composition in response to detection of airflow through at least a portion of the cartridge or control body, and includes a camera system with a digital camera to capture video imagery of a scene in a field of view thereof. The camera system or the control component is configured to perform video content analytics on the video imagery to detect a temporal or spatial event in the scene, and transfer at least one of the video imagery or information indicative of the temporal or spatial event externally to a computing device configured to store or display the video imagery or information, or perform at least one control operation based on the information.