This application claims the priority benefit of Taiwan application serial no. 104211521, filed on Jul. 17, 2015. The entirety of the above-mentioned patent application is hereby incorporated by reference herein and made a part of this specification.
Field of the Invention
The invention is directed to a wearable electronic device and more particularly, a wearable imaging device.
Description of Related Art
With the increasingly advancement in the technology industry, portable electronic devices, such as notebooks (NBs), tablet PCs and smart phones have been widely used in our daily life. Types, functions and usage of the electronic devices are increasingly diversified. In the meantime, the electronic devices have better portability due to being continuously developed toward miniaturization, so as to speed up the popularization of the electronic devices. In recent years, in order to enhance convenience of the portable electronic devices, a variety of wearable electronic devices, such as wearable imaging devices that can be directly worn on a user are therefore launched.
At present, when a wearable imaging device is held on clothes or a body, it often needs an additionally equipped holder or a holding fixture disposed on its device body. Therefore, the holder additionally equipped to or directly disposed on the wearable imaging device often lead to a large-volume appearance of the wearable imaging device as well as to an increase of overall weight of the device. Even worse, as for the wearable imaging device design, requirements for appearance aesthetics and miniaturization design of the entire wearable imaging device might be sacrificed for accommodating the holding fixture.
The invention provides a wearable imaging device, which can be conveniently hung on a user's clothes or body through configuration of a device body, magnetic members and a linking strap and through the magnetic members being detachably and magnetically attached to the device body surface.
According to an embodiment of the invention, a wearable imaging device including a device body, an imaging lens, a linking strap, a first magnetic member and a second magnetic member is provided. The imaging lens is disposed on the device body. The linking strap has a first end and a second end, and the first end is connected to the device body. In addition, the first magnetic member is disposed at the second end of the linking strap. The second magnetic member is disposed on the device body. The first magnetic member is magnetically attached to the second magnetic member, such that the second end of the linking strap is detachably attached to the device body, and a hanging hole is formed.
In an embodiment of the invention, the device body further includes a first status display element disposed by the imaging lens. The first status display element is adapted to send a first status signal, and the first status signal indicates an operation status of the imaging lens.
In an embodiment of the invention, the device body further includes a shutter button disposed on a side of the device body, and the shutter button is adapted to control the imaging lens to perform auto focus and capture an image.
In an embodiment of the invention, the device body further includes a power button disposed on the other side of the device body to turn on or turn off the power of the wearable imaging device.
In an embodiment of the invention, the device body further includes a second status display element disposed by the power button. The second status display element is adapted to send a second status signal, and the second status signal indicates a power status of the wearable imaging device.
In an embodiment of the invention, the linking strap is made of a flexible material.
In an embodiment of the invention, the device body further includes at least one slot serving as a universal serial bus (USB) slot, a memory module slot or a charging slot.
In an embodiment of the invention, a thin object is adapted to be held between the first magnetic member and the second magnetic member.
To sum up, in the wearable imaging device of the invention, with the disposition of the device body, the linking strap, the first and the second magnetic members, the wearable imaging device can be directly hung on a user's clothes or body, without additionally designing and disposing a holding fixture on the wearable imaging device. Therefore, the wearable imaging device of the invention does not have to sacrifice requirements for appearance aesthetics and miniaturization design for the disposition of the holding fixture. In the mean time, the invention substitute the simple magnetic members for the holding fixture in the related art, which can further facilitate in reducing parts of the device to lower down cost and complexity for the device assembly.
In order to make the aforementioned and other features and advantages of the present invention more comprehensible, several embodiments accompanied with figures are described in detail below.
The accompanying drawings are included to provide a further understanding of the present invention, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification. The drawings illustrate embodiments of the present invention and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the present invention.
In the present embodiment, the linking strap 150 may be made of leather, rubber, synthetic resins, elastic fabric or any other flexible material, such that the linking strap 150 is capable of being bent and stretched. Additionally, in the present embodiment, the first magnetic member 160 and the second magnetic member 162 are, for example, powerful magnets used to provide sufficient magnetic force between the second end 154 of the linking strap 150 and the second surface 112 of the device body 110. It should be mentioned that since effective and sufficient magnetic force may be provided between the first magnetic member 160 and the second magnetic member 162, a thin object (not shown) with a certain thickness may be held between the first magnetic member 160 and the second magnetic member, such that the wearable imaging device 100 may be directly hung on a pocket, a collar, a hat or a variety of accessories of user's clothing. In addition, the wearable imaging device 100 of the present embodiment may also be hung on a variety of portable leather good or handbags. Moreover, the first magnetic member 160 and the second magnetic member 162 may be magnetically fastened to each other to increase attractive stability between the second end 154 of the linking strap 150 and the second surface 112 of the device body 110. The wearable imaging device 100 of the present embodiment may substitute for the conventional holding member through the disposition of the linking strap 150, the first magnetic member 160 and the second magnetic member 162. Thus, device component parts can be further reduced in overall device design, so as to reduce assembly cost and complexity of the wearable imaging device 100.
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Furthermore, the first status display element 121 of the present embodiment may be a light-emitting element (e.g., an LED), which is capable of indicating the first status signal in various types through a change of a light-emitting frequency or a light-emitting color, so as to indicate the operation status of the imaging lens 140. For instance, when the imaging lens 140 is used to take a photo or a video, the first status display element 121 may emit the first status signal of green light to indicate that the imaging lens 140 is in a capturing status. Additionally, when the imaging lens 140 is stopped from capturing, and the lens is closed, the first status display element 121 may emit red light to indicate that the imaging lens 140 is in a closed status. Moreover, the first status display element 121 may also be operated with the shutter button 122, and when the user lightly presses the shutter button 122 for performing auto focus, the first status display element 121 may emit a fast-flashing light to indicate that the imaging lens 40 is performing auto focus.
In detail, the second status display element 123 of the present embodiment may be a light-emitting element (e.g., an LED), which is capable of indicating the first status signal in various types through a change of a light-emitting frequency or a light-emitting color, so as to indicate the power status of the wearable imaging device 100. For instance, the second status display element 123 may be operated with the power button 124, and when the user lightly presses the power button 124 to turn on the power of the wearable imaging device 100, the second status display element 123 emits the second status signal of green light to indicate that the wearable imaging device 100 is in a power-on status. On the other hand, when the user light presses the power button 124 to turn off the power of the wearable imaging device 100, the second status display element 123 may emit red signal light to indicate that the wearable imaging device 100 is in a power-off status. Besides, when the power of the wearable imaging device 100 is exhausted, the second status display element 123 may also emit red signal light to indicate that the power of the wearable imaging device 100 is exhausted and remind the user for follow-up charging operation. In addition, before the power of the wearable imaging device 100 is exhausted, the second status display element 123 may emit continuously flashing light to remind the user that the power of the wearable imaging device 100 about to be exhausted.
In light of the foregoing, through the disposition of the device body, the linking strap, the first and the second magnetic members and through the magnetic force among the first and the second magnetic members and the device body in the wearable imaging device of the invention, the wearable imaging device can be directly hung on the user's clothes, without other additionally designed or provided holding fixtures. In addition, the user can penetrate the flexible strap body, such as a chain or a hanging strap through the hanging hole formed between the linking strap and the device body. Thereby, the user can directly hang the wearable imaging device on the body, clothes, or various portable items, such as leather goods, handbags or portable items, through the hanging hole formed between the linking strap and the device body or further through the flexible strap body. Therefore, the design of the wearable imaging device of the invention can facilitate in increasing the carrying and using convenience for the user. In the meantime, as for the appearance design, the wearable imaging device of the invention does not have to sacrifice appearance aesthetics and miniaturization design for the disposition of the holding fixture.
Although the invention has been described with reference to the above embodiments, it will be apparent to one of the ordinary skill in the art that modifications to the described embodiment may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention. Accordingly, the scope of the invention will be defined by the attached claims not by the above detailed descriptions.
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104211521 | Jul 2015 | TW | national |