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US 11,112,676 B2Granted
Camera lens sliders
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorDerek Kanas
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Abstract
Examples disclosed herein provide a shutter for obscuring a viewing portion of an opening found on a housing of a computing device. As an example, the housing includes a bezel that includes the opening extending through the bezel. The housing includes a slider deployable from within the housing, and the shutter is to selectively obscure the viewing portion when the slider is to deploy from within the housing.
Claims12
A computing device comprising:
- a camera comprising a lens;
- and
- a housing comprising:
- an opening extending through the housing, wherein the opening is to accommodate the lens;
- a slider deployable from within the housing;
- a shutter to selectively obscure a viewing portion of the opening;
- and
- an element coupled to the slider that is to engage with the shutter, wherein the element is to bend to take the shape of an outer edge of the shutter, and wherein when the slider is to deploy from within the housing in a first instance, the shutter is to obscure the viewing portion, and wherein when the slider is to deploy from within the housing in a second instance subsequent to the first instance, the shutter is to expose the viewing portion.
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A computing device comprising:
- a camera comprising a lens;
- and
- a housing comprising:
- a bezel comprising an opening extending through the bezel, wherein the opening is to accommodate the lens;
- a slider deployable from within the housing;
- a shutter to selectively obscure a viewing portion of the opening;
- and
- an element coupled to the slider that is to bend to conform along an outer edge of the shutter;
- wherein when the slider is to deploy from within the housing in a first instance, the shutter is to obscure the viewing portion.
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A computing device comprising:
- a camera comprising a lens;
- and
- a housing comprising:
- an opening extending through the housing, wherein the opening is to accommodate the lens;
- a slider deployable from within the housing;
- a shutter rotatably positioned within the housing;
- and
- an element coupled to the slider,
- wherein extending the slider from the housing is to slide the element along an outer edge of the shutter such that the element bends to conform with the outer edge, and
- wherein retracting the slider into the housing after the extending is to engage the element with a tooth on the shutter to rotate the shutter and obscure the lens.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.