Information handling system electromechanical camera shutter with plural apertures
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsEnoch Chen, Deeder M. Aurongzeb, Peng Lip Goh, Yao-Hsien Huang
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Abstract
A portable information handling system camera module has a single shutter that slides in response to a single shutter mechanism to manage access for a field of view of both a visual camera and an infrared camera by sliding only between first and second positions, the first position aligning an opening of the shutter with a visual camera and a shield visual camera opening, the second position blocking the opening of the shutter and extending an end of the shutter over infrared camera.
Claims20
An information handling system comprising:
- a housing;
- a processor disposed in the housing and operable to execute instructions to process information;
- a memory disposed in the housing and interfaced with the processor, the memory operable to store the instructions and information;
- an embedded controller interfaced with the processor and operable to manage operating conditions in the housing;
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- a camera module having a visual camera and an infrared camera coupled to a circuit board and a shutter assembly, the shutter assembly having a shield with a visual camera opening and an infrared camera opening and having a shutter coupled to a shutter actuator, the shutter actuator sliding the shutter relative to the shield between a first position that blocks both the visual camera opening and the infrared camera opening and a second position that exposes the visual camera through the visual camera opening and the infrared camera through the infrared camera opening.
A method for managing camera access at an information handling system, the method comprising:
- configuring a shutter with a shutter opening;
- engaging the shutter with a shutter actuator to slide between only a first position and a second position relative to a shield;
- coupling the shield to align a first shield opening with a visual camera and a second shield opening with an infrared camera;
- aligning the shutter opening with the first shield opening in the first position and blocking the first shield opening with the shutter in the second position;
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- exposing the infrared camera in the first position and blocking the second shield opening with an end of the shutter in the second position.
A camera module comprising:
- a visual camera;
- an infrared camera;
- a circuit board, the visual camera and infrared camera coupled to the circuit;
- a shutter assembly having a shield with a visual camera opening aligned with the visual camera and an infrared camera opening aligned with the infrared camera and a shutter coupled to a shutter actuator, the shutter actuator sliding the shutter relative to the shield between a first position that blocks both the visual camera opening and the infrared camera opening and a second position that exposes the visual camera through the visual camera opening and the infrared camera through the infrared camera opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.