Patent ID: 9325364
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: H02S,H04B,H04N,Y02E

Claim Text:
1. A method for optimizing a solar panel in real time by a user of a smart phone, comprising at least the steps of: providing at least one command to generate input signaling to a smart phone, having a signal processor, a forward-facing camera, a forward-facing screen and a flat back surface, to initiate camera functionality in the signal processor for receiving imaging using the forward-facing camera and providing display imaging signaling from the forward-facing screen of the smart phone corresponding to the imaging received by the forward-facing camera; placing the flat back surface of the smart phone on a flat front surface of a solar panel of a solar device; simultaneously adjusting the planar orientation of the solar panel and the smart phone into at least two positions in order to show visual obstructions in the display imaging signaling provided from the forward-facing screen of the smart phone that may at least partly block sunlight from being received by the solar panel; selecting a position from the at least two positions in order to minimize the visual obstructions in the display imaging signaling provided from the forward-facing screen of the smart phone that may at least partly block sunlight from being received by the solar panel; and removing the smart phone from the solar panel so that the solar panel may receive the sunlight with minimal physical obstructions that may otherwise block the sunlight from being received by the solar panel in the position selected.