Wireless Warning System for Action Camera Imaging Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Action cameras lack a reliable method for users to continuously monitor and adjust imaging settings such as focus, exposure, and angle during recording, leading to potential loss of opportunities and increased stress due to the absence or low quality of display devices.
Innovation Solution
An imaging system comprising an imaging device that monitors the imaging situation and detects abnormalities, transmitting this information to a warning generation device, which issues warnings through various means such as display, audio, vibration, or light to alert the user of any deviations from optimal settings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If no display device is mounted on the action camera, then the impact resistance and water resistance are maintained, but the user cannot check the imaging situation such as angle of view, exposure, and focus
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a separate display device as an intermediary between the action camera and the user. The display device receives captured images via wireless communication and presents them to the user, allowing the camera to remain compact and resistant while still providing imaging situation feedback.
Solution Approach 2:
The system separates the camera function from the display function. The action camera focuses solely on capturing images with high resistance properties, while the display device handles the presentation of imaging situation information, allowing each component to optimize its specific function.
2Loss of information
If a display device is mounted on the action camera, then the user can check the imaging situation, but the size of the action camera increases
Solution Approach 1:
A separate display device acts as a mediator, receiving images wirelessly from the compact camera and displaying them externally. This eliminates the need to integrate a display within the camera body, maintaining the camera's small size while still providing visual feedback to the user.
Solution Approach 2:
The display function is extracted from the camera system and placed in a separate device. This allows the camera to maintain its compact form factor while the display device, which can be larger, handles the presentation of imaging information.
3Loss of information
If a display device with high resolution is mounted on the action camera, then the image quality is improved, but the impact resistance and water resistance are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The display device serves as an intermediary that can have high resolution without affecting the camera's resistance properties. The camera captures high-quality images, and the separate display device presents them with high fidelity, allowing both high image quality and camera durability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the high-resolution display requirement from the camera body. The camera maintains its resistant, compact design while the separate display device provides high-resolution imaging feedback, allowing each component to be optimized independently.
4Loss of information
If the user continuously checks the captured image on an external display device, then the imaging situation can be monitored, but it is difficult to do so during imaging
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements continuous feedback by wirelessly transmitting captured images to the display device in real-time during imaging. This allows the user to monitor the imaging situation continuously without interrupting the recording process, and the detection unit provides feedback on abnormalities such as focus, exposure, and white balance issues.
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AI summary
The present technology relates to an imaging system, a warning generation device and method, an imaging device and method, and a program capable of more simply checking an imaging situation.A camera-control detection processing unit of the imaging device performs a detection process for various types of control based on a captured image, and an image quality control processing unit detects occurrence of abnormality corresponding to each cause based on the result of the detection process. A warning determination processing unit generates a warning flag indicating whether or not abnormality occurs based on the detection result by the image quality control processing unit, and a wireless transmission unit transmits the warning flag to a warning generation device. A wireless reception unit of the warning generation device receives the warning flag, and a warning means control processing unit instructs warning according to the warning flag. A display processing unit displays a warning icon on a display unit according to the instruction of the warning means control processing unit. The present technology can be applied to an action camera.