Wearable Gesture Trigger for Wireless Camera Pre-Launch
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Solution Overview
Problem
The operation of camera functionality in wireless devices is slow due to the use of slow components, leading to reduced user friendliness and increased frustration, particularly in devices designed to minimize financial cost and energy consumption.
Innovation Solution
A system where a wearable device communicates wirelessly with a wireless device to launch the camera, allowing users to provide inputs such as gestures to initiate camera functionality, enabling the wireless device to prepare for image capture before being physically accessed, using modules like user input detection, communication, and anti-falsing to manage false inputs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Use of energy by moving object
If slow components are used in the wireless device to reduce financial cost and energy consumption, then device cost and power usage are reduced, but camera operation speed deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by detecting user input gestures on the wearable device and pre-launching the camera application on the wireless device before the user physically accesses it. This advance preparation eliminates wait time when the user wants to capture images, resolving the contradiction between using slow components and achieving fast camera operation.
2Ease of manufacture
If slow components are used in the wireless device, then financial cost is reduced, but user friendliness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The wearable device serves as an intermediary that detects user intent through gestures and communicates this to the wireless device, triggering camera launch in advance. This intermediary system enables fast camera operation and improved user friendliness without requiring expensive high-performance components in the wireless device itself.
3Loss of time
If the camera is launched in advance via wearable device, then wait time is reduced and usability is enhanced, but risk of false input activation increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the wearable device monitors gesture patterns and provides confirmation or cancellation options to the user before launching the camera. This feedback loop allows users to verify that their input was intentional, reducing false activations while maintaining the benefit of reduced wait time.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies preliminary anti-action by implementing anti-falsing logic that detects and prevents false gesture inputs before they can trigger camera launch. This preliminary protection mechanism maintains reliability while allowing genuine user inputs to successfully initiate camera functionality.
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AI summary
A system includes a wearable device (102) such as a smartwatch and a wireless device (104) such as a smartphone. A user provides to the wearable device a user input indicating a user desire to launch a camera of the wireless device. The wearable device is separate from the wireless device but communicates wirelessly with the wireless device. The user input can take various forms such as a particular gesture (e.g., the user shaking his or her wrist back and forth twice). In response to the user input, an indication is sent to the wireless device to launch the camera of the wireless device. In response to receipt of the indication from the wearable device, the wireless device launches the camera of the wireless device.