Lens water dispersion
AssigneeGoPro, Inc.
InventorsIngrid Cotoros, Jonathan Stern
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Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed for lens water dispersion. For example, an image capture device may include a lens mounted on a body of the image capture device; an image sensor mounted within the body, behind the lens and configured to detect images based on light incident on the image sensor through the lens; and a dispersion structure around a perimeter of the lens on an external surface of the body, wherein the dispersion structure includes gaps sized to cause capillary action to move water away from the lens, from a first edge of the dispersion structure to a second edge of the dispersion structure.
Claims20
An image capture device comprising:
- a lens mounted on a body of the image capture device;
- an image sensor mounted within the body, behind the lens and configured to detect images based on light incident on the image sensor through the lens;
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- a dispersion structure around a perimeter of the lens on an external surface of the body,
- wherein the dispersion structure includes gaps sized to cause capillary action to move water away from the lens, from a first edge of the dispersion structure to a second edge of the dispersion structure, in which the dispersion structure includes a mesh with an inter-strand spacing that is sized to cause capillary action for water.
An image capture device comprising:
- a lens mounted on a body of the image capture device;
- an image sensor mounted within the body, behind the lens and configured to detect images based on light incident on the image sensor through the lens;
- and
- a dispersion structure around a perimeter of the lens on an external surface of the body,
- wherein the dispersion structure includes gaps sized to cause capillary action to move water away from the lens, from a first edge of the dispersion structure to a second edge of the dispersion structure, in which the dispersion structure includes a sintered powder with pores that are sized to cause capillary action for water.
An image capture device comprising:
- a lens mounted on a body of the image capture device;
- an image sensor mounted within the body, behind the lens and configured to detect images based on light incident on the image sensor through the lens;
- a dispersion structure around a perimeter of the lens on an external surface of the body, wherein the dispersion structure includes gaps sized to cause capillary action to move water away from the lens, from a first edge of the dispersion structure to a second edge of the dispersion structure;
- an accumulation volume on the external surface of the body around the perimeter of the dispersion structure;
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- a plurality of gravity channels radiating from the accumulation volume that are spaced around an outer perimeter of the accumulation volume.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.