Voice-Controlled Device Light Ring Camera Depth Sensor Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current voice-controlled devices lack an efficient method to provide visual feedback and image recognition capabilities, limiting user interaction and data analysis for personal item identification.
Innovation Solution
A voice-controlled device equipped with image capturing capabilities, a depth sensing unit, and a lighting system that sends images to an image-recognition service for analysis, allowing for visual feedback through a light ring or other electronic devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If voice-controlled devices are equipped with image capturing capabilities and depth sensing units, then visual feedback and image recognition capabilities are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple sensing capabilities (image capturing, depth sensing, lighting) into a single integrated device housing. The camera, depth sensing unit with infrared emitter and receiver, and lighting elements are merged into one unified system that can perform both voice control and visual recognition functions, reducing overall system complexity despite adding capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The device is designed with multi-functional components that serve multiple purposes. For example, the camera array serves both image recognition and depth sensing functions, while the lighting system provides both illumination for image capture and visual feedback to users. This universality allows the device to gain versatile capabilities without proportionally increasing complexity.
2Ease of operation
If image recognition service is integrated, then user interaction and data analysis are enhanced, but processing time and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The device captures images and depth data in advance using the camera and depth sensing unit before processing is needed. By pre-capturing the visual data with the integrated sensors, the system prepares information ready for analysis, reducing the time and energy required for real-time processing when image recognition is triggered.
Data Source
AI summary
This disclosure describes a voice-controlled electronic device that includes a housing and a mounting component. The housing includes a translucent cover attached to a cylindrical-shaped unibody enclosure. The electronic device further includes a microphone array disposed near a first end within the housing, a speaker box disposed within the housing, and a printed circuit board assembly disposed within the housing. Additionally, the electronic device includes a camera disposed within the housing and attached to the printed circuit board assembly, and a depth sensor that includes a depth camera and a projector. In some instances, the camera and the depth sensor point substantially in a direction of the translucent cover. Furthermore, the electronic device includes a light ring that protrudes from a surface of the translucent display and surrounds a lens of the camera.