Portable information handling system peripheral camera and dock
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsJace W. Files, John Trevor Morrison, Andrew P. Tosh
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Abstract
An information handling system having a display magnetically couples a peripheral camera to the display with a ferromagnetic material disposed behind the display. A dock couples to the display and has a curved base on which a cylindrical housing of the peripheral camera rests. A power pogo pin and ground pogo pin extend from the dock rear support front surface to contact a power concentric ring and a ground concentric ring formed in the peripheral camera cylindrical housing rear side. The power pin contacts the power concentric ring and the ground pin contacts the ground concentric ring through 360 degrees of rotational orientation of the cylindrical housing in the dock curved base.
Claims20
An information handling system comprising:
- a housing;
- a processor disposed in the housing portion and operable to execute instructions to process information;
- a memory disposed in the housing and interfaced with the processor, the memory storing the information and instructions;
- a display interfaced with the processor, the display operable to present the information has visual images;
- a peripheral camera separate from the housing and having a cylindrical housing, an image sensor at a first end of the camera housing and a magnet at a second end of the camera housing;
- a dock coupled to the display and having a portion shaped to conform to the cylindrical housing when the peripheral camera rests on the dock;
- a power pin configured to communicate power;
- and
- a power concentric ring configured to communicate the power;
- wherein the power pin and the power concentric ring are positioned to communicate the power between the peripheral camera and dock through 360 degrees of rotational orientation of the cylindrical housing in the dock.
A method for communicating power to a peripheral camera from a dock, the method comprising:
- coupling an image sensor at a first end of a cylindrical housing to assemble the peripheral camera;
- placing the cylindrical housing in a curved portion of the dock;
- and
- aligning by interaction of the cylinder and the curved portion a power pin and a power concentric ring to transfer power from the dock to the peripheral camera, the power pin and power concentric ring through 360 degrees of rotation of the cylindrical housing.
A peripheral camera comprising:
- a cylindrical housing having first and second ends;
- an image sensor exposed at the first end of the cylindrical housing to capture visual images;
- a magnet disposed at the second end of the cylindrical housing;
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- a power concentric ring exposed at the second end and configured to accept power from a power contact pin to power the image sensor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.