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US 10,761,404 B2Granted
Privacy shutter for computer camera
AssigneeHandstands Promo, LLC
InventorStefan Leimer
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Abstract
A privacy shutter selectively covers and exposes a camera lens on a computer device. The privacy shutter has a frame with an aperture and a slider carried by the frame and slidable in the aperture. The slider slides between open and closed positions. The frame has a channel in an outer side of the frame and extending from the aperture to a perimeter of the frame. The channel has an outer opening and an inner cavity slidably receiving the slider therein. The outer opening of the channel exposes the outer surface of the slider in both the closed and opened positions.
Claims20
A privacy shutter configured to selectively cover and expose a camera lens of a computer device, the privacy shutter comprising:
- a) a frame with an inner side configured to be affixed to a surface surrounding the camera lens on the computer device, an outer side opposite the inner side, and an aperture circumscribed by the frame;
- b) a slider carried by the frame and slidable with respect to the aperture, the slider having an outer surface, the slider being slidable with respect to the frame between:
- i) a closed position in which the slider is disposed across the aperture of the frame and is configured to be disposed over the camera lens of the computer device;
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- ii) an open position in which the slider exposes the aperture of the frame and is configured to expose the camera lens of the computer device;
- c) a channel in the outer side of the frame and extending from the aperture to a perimeter of the frame, the channel having opposite open ends with one open end in the aperture and another open end in the perimeter, the opposite open ends slidably receiving the slider therethrough;
- d) the channel having an outer opening and an inner cavity slidably receiving the slider therein, the outer opening of the channel exposing the outer surface of the slider in both the closed and opened positions, the outer opening being narrower than the inner cavity and forming opposite lips extending over the slider to retain the slider in the inner cavity of the channel;
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- e) the outer opening of the channel of the frame having a width between the lips less than a width of the aperture of the frame.
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A privacy shutter configured to selectively cover and expose a camera lens of a computer device, the privacy shutter comprising:
- a) a frame with:
- i) an inner side configured to be affixed to a surface surrounding the camera lens on the computer device;
- ii) an outer side opposite the inner side;
- iii) an aperture circumscribed by the frame;
- iv) a channel in the outer side of the frame and extending from the aperture to a perimeter of the frame, the channel having opposite open ends with one open end in the aperture and another open end in the perimeter;
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- v) the channel having an outer opening and an inner cavity, the outer opening being narrower than the inner cavity and forming opposite lips extending over the inner cavity of the channel;
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- b) a slider carried by the frame and having:
- i) a head slidably disposed in the aperture of the frame with an inner surface flush with an inner side of the frame;
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- ii) a flap extending from the head and into the channel of the frame, the flap being slidable in the channel, the flap having an outer surface exposed in the outer opening of the channel and between the lips of the channel with the lips of the channel retaining the flap in the channel.
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A privacy shutter configured to selectively cover and expose a camera lens of a computer device, the privacy shutter comprising:
- a) a frame with:
- i) an inner side configured to be affixed to a surface surrounding the camera lens on the computer device;
- ii) an outer side opposite the inner side;
- iii) an aperture circumscribed by the frame;
- iv) a channel in the outer side of the frame and extending from the aperture to a perimeter of the frame, the channel having opposite open ends with one open end in the aperture and another open end in the perimeter;
- v) the channel having an outer opening and an inner cavity, the outer opening being narrower than the inner cavity and forming opposite lips extending over the inner cavity of the channel;
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- vi) a pair of slots in the inner side of the frame on opposite sides of the aperture forming a track;
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- b) a slider carried by the frame and having:
- i) a head slidably disposed in the aperture of the frame with an inner surface flush with an inner side of the frame;
- ii) a pair of tabs extending from opposite sides of the head and into the pair of slots, respectively, the pair of tabs slidable in the pair of slots as the slider slides, the pair of tabs retaining the head in the aperture;
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- iii) a flap extending from the head and into the channel of the frame, the flap being slidable in the channel, the flap having an outer surface exposed in the outer opening of the channel and between the lips of the channel with the lips of the channel retaining the flap in the channel;
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- c) the slider slidable with respect to the frame between:
- i) a closed position in which the slider is disposed across the aperture of the frame configured to be disposed over the camera lens of the computer device;
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- ii) an open position in which the slider exposes the aperture of the frame and configured to expose the camera lens of the computer device, the outer opening of the channel exposing the outer surface of the slider in the opened position.
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