Split body camera
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsPeng Lip Goh, Deeder M. Aurongzeb
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Abstract
An information handling system camera coupled by a bracket to a display to capture visual images in a field of view of the camera from a viewing position of the display. A housing contains a lens and image sensor mounted by a rotating member on a mounting plate. The bracket has an interior that includes an image processor to process visual images captured by the image sensor. The image sensor interfaces through a flexible cable with the image processor. A camera actuator and microphone actuator associated with the mounting plate track an end user in the camera field of view with logic executing in part on the image processor.
Claims20
An information handling system comprising:
- a processor operable to execute instructions to process information;
- a memory interfaced with the processor and operable to store the instructions and information;
- a display interfaced with the processor and operable to present the information as visual images;
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- a camera coupled to a perimeter of the display by a bracket and interfaced with the processor, the camera having a housing coupled to the bracket, the housing containing a lens aligned with an image sensor, the bracket having an interior, the interior containing an image processor interfaced with the image sensor through a flexible cable.
A method for coupling a camera to a display having a display panel, the method comprising:
- coupling a lens and image sensor in a housing;
- coupling an image processor in an interior of a bracket;
- interfacing the image sensor with the image processor to capture visual images;
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- coupling the bracket to the display.
A camera comprising:
- a housing;
- a bracket coupled to the housing and having an interior, the bracket configured to couple to a display;
- a lens coupled in the housing;
- an image sensor coupled in the housing and aligned with a lens to capture visual images of the lens field of view;
- an image processor coupled in the bracket interior;
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- a flexible cable interfacing the image sensor and image processor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.