Earlier this month the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Samsung that revealed an invention relating to a new wearable video headset device which could be used to take live video captured through a "see-what-I-see" camera view. The wearable headset provides two cameras fitting over the user's right and left ears and provides an easy to use microphone to assist the user in narrating the video that they're capturing. For those who already wear glasses, Samsung's latest idea could provide a superior video taking solution over Google's Google Glass.
Samsung's Wearable Video Headset
The brains of the unit sits at the rear of the headset noted as #203 which contains a battery, storage unit, a sensor module, an input/out module, a communications module, and a controller for the headset speakers and video cameras.
A connector may be used as an interface for connecting the wearable video device to an external electronic device such as a smartphone, a power source, and/or the like. Once connected to a smartphone, the user can play a movie or music and control the volume on the rear of the headset or skip to the next tune or repeat a tune or pause a movie, all from the headset controls.
A communication module may wirelessly communicate with an external electronic device. A communication scheme may correspond to a short distance communication scheme such as Bluetooth, an Infrared Data Association (IrDA) communication, a WiFi-Direct communication, a Near Field Communication (NFC), and/or the like.
Camera Overlap Merges Matched Views
In Samsung's patent FIG. 7 noted below we're able to see a view area of interest which refers to an overlap area of a view of the first camera module 270 and a view of the second camera module 275 where there's a matching of view parts to create a smooth single video capture as if the camera was placed in the middle of your face.
Samsung filed their US patent application back December 2013. Considering that this is a patent application, the timing of such a product to market is unknown at this time.
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