Protective case for a mobile device
AssigneeMoment Inc
InventorsMarc Barros, Erik Hedberg, Robert John Lincoln, Miguel Christophy, Kent Suzuki, Josh Baxley, Phillip Pasqual, Jessica Livak, Audrey Louchart
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Abstract
A mobile device case includes a soft protective housing defining a camera-lens aperture and a touchscreen display aperture, and a lens attachment interface including a capture plate protruding into the camera-lens aperture sufficient to overlap a coupling interface of a removable lens assembly along the optical path of the miniature camera module, and a catch to facilitate stable locking coupling of the removable lens assembly in optical alignment with the miniature camera module.
Claims26
A mobile camera system, comprising:
- a camera enabled mobile device including a miniature camera module embedded within the mobile device including a built-in lens and an image sensor for capturing digital images;
- a mobile device processor configured for processing the digital images;
- a mobile device display for viewing the digital images;
- a case coupled around the camera-enabled mobile device, wherein said case comprises:
- a housing defining a camera-lens aperture and a touchscreen display aperture, said housing being configured to securely couple around at least a portion of the periphery of said mobile device;
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- a lens attachment interface comprising
- a capture plate comprising a detent segment protruding into the camera-lens aperture across at least a portion of a periphery of the camera-lens aperture sufficient to overlap a bayonet tab of a coupling interface of a removable lens assembly along an optical path of the miniature camera module, and
- a catch comprising a spring clip or a recess trap or a combination thereof to automatically prevent backward rotation and thereby to facilitate automatic stable locking coupling upon forward rotation of the removable lens assembly including moving said bayonet tab along said detent segment between a starting orientation and a final stable orientation engaged with said catch in optical alignment with said miniature camera module.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.