The invention relates to an electronic device, and more particularly, to an electronic device that can be used for video conference.
With the trend of internationalization, in addition to voice calls, people at different locations can also carry out discussions via video, such that the users can further see a dynamic image of the other parties via a screen during the conference to more accurately understand the other parties. When the number of attendees to a video conference is greater, how to transmit sound of the other parties to the users located in different directions or how to clearly receive the sound of the users located in different directions is a research focus.
The invention provides an electronic device having a plurality of expanded members that can be expanded with respect to a main body, and each of the expanded members has at least one of a radio module and a speaker module and can receive sound or transmit sound in different directions.
An electronic device of the invention includes a main body, a driver module, and a plurality of expanded members. The main body includes at least one image module. The driver module is movably disposed in the main body. The expanded members are disposed beside the main body and connected to the driver module, and each of the expanded members includes at least one of a radio module and a speaker module. The driver module is adapted to drive the expanded members to expand from a collapsed position to a use position, and when the expanded members are located in the collapsed position, the expanded members are collapsed to the main body, and the expanded members are driven by the driver module to be expanded with respect to the main body and are moved to the use position.
In an embodiment of the invention, the driver module contains a sliding member slidably disposed in the main body along an axis, wherein when the sliding member is located at a first position with respect to the main body, the sliding member shields the image module, and the expanded members are collapsed to the main body, and when the sliding member is moved to a second position along the axis with respect to the main body, the image module is exposed to the sliding member, and the expanded members are driven by the sliding member and expanded with respect to the main body.
In an embodiment of the invention, the sliding member is a ring structure sleeved on the main body.
In an embodiment of the invention, the image module includes at least one image capture device, and when the expanded members are located at the use position, the expanded members are driven by the driver module and expanded with respect to the main body, and the image capture modules are activated at the same time.
In an embodiment of the invention, the electronic device further includes a plurality of linkage rod groups respectively corresponding to the expanded members. Each of the linkage rod groups includes a first linkage rod and a second linkage rod. The first linkage rod is fixed to the corresponding expanded member and includes a first end and a second end opposite to each other, wherein the first end is pivoted to the sliding member. The second linkage rod includes a third end and a fourth end opposite to each other, wherein the third end of the second linkage rod is pivoted to the second end of the first linkage rod, and the fourth end is pivoted to the main body.
In an embodiment of the invention, when the sliding member is located at the first position with respect to the main body, an extending direction of the first linkage rod is not parallel to the axis.
In an embodiment of the invention, the main body includes a first magnetic pole, each of the expanded members includes a second magnetic pole, magnetic property of the first magnetic pole and magnetic property of the second magnetic pole are the same, when the sliding member is located at the first position, a position of the second magnetic pole of each of the expanded members are moved away from the first magnetic pole, and when the sliding member is moved toward the second position, the second magnetic pole of each of the expanded members approaches toward the first magnetic pole of the main body and is subjected to a magnetic repulsion of the first magnetic pole and is rotated outward with respect to the main body.
In an embodiment of the invention, each of the expanded members includes a first end portion disposed beside the main body in a surrounding manner and pivoted to the sliding member and a second end portion away from the first end portion, when the sliding member is located at the first position, the second end portion of each of the expanded members is adjacent to the main body, and when the sliding member is moved toward the second position, the second end portion of each of the expanded members is away from the main body, and each of the expanded members is rotated outward with respect to the main body and expanded.
In an embodiment of the invention, the main body includes a first magnetic pole and a second magnetic pole arranged along the axis and having opposite magnetic properties, each of the expanded members includes a third magnetic pole and a fourth magnetic pole having opposite magnetic properties, when the sliding member is located at the first position, the third magnetic pole and the fourth magnetic pole of each of the expanded members are respectively subjected to a magnetic attraction of the first magnetic pole and the second magnetic pole of the main body and collapsed to the main body, and when the sliding member is moved toward the second position, the third magnetic pole of each of the expanded members approaches toward the second magnetic pole of the main body and is subjected to a magnetic repulsion of the second magnetic pole and rotated outward with respect to the main body.
In an embodiment of the invention, the sliding member includes a limiting surface, and when the sliding member is located at the second position, each of the expanded members is in contact with the limiting surface at a section adjacent to the first end portion.
In an embodiment of the invention, the main body includes a guide groove extended along the axis, a normal direction of a bottom wall of the guide groove is not perpendicular to the axis, and the first end portion of each of the expanded members is slidably disposed in the guide groove along the bottom wall.
In an embodiment of the invention, the depth of the guide groove is gradually reduced along the axis.
In an embodiment of the invention, the electronic device further includes a driving member disposed on a movement path of the sliding member, one of the driving member and the main body includes a chute and the other includes a sliding block extended into the chute, the chute is not parallel to the axis, when the sliding member is moved from the first position to the second position, the driving member is pushed by the sliding member and moved along an extending direction of the chute with respect to the main body, and each of the expanded members is pushed by the driving member and rotated outward.
In an embodiment of the invention, the driving member includes a support ramp, and when the sliding member is located at the second position, the support ramp supports a section of the corresponding expanded member adjacent to the first end portion.
In an embodiment of the invention, the electronic device further includes a base detachably assembled to the main body.
In an embodiment of the invention, the main body further includes at least one of a wireless communication module, an output/input interface, and a battery.
In an embodiment of the invention, when the expanded members are located at the use position, the expanded members are driven by the driver module and expanded with respect to the main body, and at least one of the radio module and the speaker module is activated at the same time.
Based on the above, the main body of the electronic device of the invention has an image module, each of the expanded members includes at least one of a radio module and a speaker module, the image module is exposed simply by moving the sliding member to capture an image, and the expanded members disposed beside the main body in a surrounding manner can be expanded toward different directions with respect to the main body and can receive the sound of users located in different directions or transmit sound to the users located in different directions to provide good video effect.
In order to make the aforementioned features and advantages of the disclosure more comprehensible, embodiments accompanied with figures are described in detail below.
In the present embodiment, the driver module is, for instance, a sliding member 120 that can be moved by force applied by a user to drive the expanded members 130. Of course, in other embodiments, the driver module can also be a structure driving the expanded members 130 in other forms such as electricity or an electromagnet after being triggered by a user (such as by pressing a button), and the type of the driver module is not limited thereto.
In the present embodiment, the image module 111 is located at the top portion of the main body 110, but the position of the image module 111 with respect to the main body 110 is not limited thereto. Moreover, in the present embodiment, the quantity of the image module 111 is exemplified by one, but in other embodiments, the image module 111 can also be a plurality and/or a variety, and the quantity of the image module 111 is not limited thereto. In the present embodiment, the image module includes at least one image capture module. The image capture module is exemplified by a 360-degree image capture module (panoramic camera module) and can capture a 360-degree image. Therefore, when a video conference is carried out by the electronic device 100 as shown in
As shown in
In an embodiment, the main body 110 can further include a circuit board module (not shown) respectively electrically connected to the image module 111 and the radio module 133 and/or the speaker module, and in an embodiment, the operation of the electronic device 100 includes, for instance, when the sliding member 120 is pushed down to the second position P2, the image module 111 receives light and transmits the information to the circuit board module, and the circuit board module activates the radio module 133, the speaker module, and/or the image module 111 (such as the image capture module). Of course, the electronic device 100 can also control the image module 111, the radio module 133, the speaker module, and/or the image module 111 (such as the image capture module) to operate at the same time via a switch electrically connected to the circuit board module.
Moreover, in an embodiment, the main body 110 can further include a wireless communication module (not shown) and a battery (not shown) electrically connected to the circuit board module, and image or sound captured by the image module 111 and the radio module 133 can be transmitted to an external device in a wireless manner via a wireless communication module. In an embodiment, the circuit board module includes an output/input interface (not shown), and the output/input interface includes, for instance, a network interface (such as an RJ 11 interface or RJ 45 interface) or a power outlet, and the image or sound captured by the image module 111 and the radio module 133 can also be transmitted to an external device in a wired manner.
In the following, the connection relationship between the main body 110, the sliding member 120, and the expanded members 130 is further described.
In the present embodiment, the linkage rod group 140 includes a first linkage rod 141 and a second linkage rod 144. The first linkage rod 141 is fixed to the corresponding expanded member 130 and includes a first end 142 and a second end 143 opposite to each other, and the first end 142 is pivoted to the sliding member 120. The second linkage rod 144 includes a third end 145 and a fourth end 146 opposite to each other. The third end 145 of the second linkage rod 144 is pivoted to the second end 143 of the first linkage rod 141, and the fourth end 146 is pivoted to the main body 110. Therefore, in the present embodiment, when the sliding member 120 is pulled down and moved toward the second position P2 along the axis A with respect to the main body 110, the sliding member 120 drives the first end 142 of the first linkage rod 141 downward, and since the fourth end 146 of the second linkage rod 144 is only rotated with respect to the main body 110 and the position thereof is not changed on the axis A (up and down direction) with respect to the main body 110, the first linkage rod 141 and the second linkage rod 144 are correspondingly rotated until the position shown in
Moreover, in the present embodiment, to facilitate the downward movement of the sliding member 120, as shown in
It can be seen in
In the present embodiment, the sliding member 120a includes a limiting surface 122 located on the inside of the bottom portion of the sliding member 120a, and when the sliding member 120a is located at the first position P1, the section of the expanded members 130 adjacent to the first end portion 131 is not in contact with the limiting surface 122. When the sliding member 120a is located at the second position P2, the section of the expanded members 130 adjacent to the first end portion 131 is in contact with the limiting surface 122 of the sliding member 120a, and the expanded members 130 are stopped by the limiting surface 122 and are not further rotated outward.
It should be mentioned that, the method of rotating the expanded members 130 outward via magnetic repulsion is not limited to the above. In an embodiment not shown, the main body 110a can also only include one magnetic pole, each of the expanded members 130 can also only include one magnetic pole, and the magnetic properties of the magnetic pole of the main body 110a are the same as the magnetic properties of the magnetic pole of each of the expanded members 130. When the sliding member 120a is located at the first position P1, the position of the magnetic pole of each of the expanded members 130 is away from the magnetic pole of the main body 110a, and when the sliding member 120a is moved toward the second position P2, the magnetic pole of each of the expanded members 130 approaches toward the magnetic pole of the main body 110a, and each of the expanded members 130 is subjected to magnetic repulsion and rotated outward with respect to the main body 110a.
It can be seen in
In the present embodiment, when the sliding member 120 is moved from the first position P1 to the second position P2, the driving member 150 is pushed by the sliding member 120 and moved along the extending direction of the chute 116 with respect to the main body 110c, and the expanded members 130 are pushed by the driving member 150 and rotated outward. Moreover, in the present embodiment, the driving member 150 includes a support ramp 154 located on the outer side of the top portion of the driving member 150, and when the sliding member 120 is located at the first position P1, the support ramp 154 is separated from the section of the corresponding expanded member 130 adjacent to the first end portion 131. When the sliding member 120 is located at the second position P2, the support ramp 154 supports the section of the corresponding expanded member 130 adjacent to the first end portion 131 such that the expanded member can stay at the second position P2.
Based on the above, the main body of the electronic device of the invention has an image module, each of the expanded members includes at least one of a radio module and a speaker module, the image module is exposed simply by moving the sliding member to capture an image, and the expanded members disposed beside the main body in a surrounding manner can be expanded toward different directions with respect to the main body and can receive the sound of users located in different direction or transmit sound to the users located in different directions to provide good video effect.
Although the invention has been described with reference to the above embodiments, it will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art that modifications to the described embodiments may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention. Accordingly, the scope of the invention is defined by the attached claims not by the above detailed descriptions.
This application claims the priority benefits of U.S. provisional application Ser. No. 62/502,757, filed on May 7, 2017. The entirety of the above-mentioned patent application is hereby incorporated by reference herein and made a part of this specification.
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