Synchronized camera and microphone tracking
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorPeng Lip Goh
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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 base. 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 base 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 by a mounting base, the housing containing a lens aligned with an image sensor to capture visual images in a field of view, the mounting base including a camera actuator coupled to the housing and operable to rotate the housing relative to the bracket.
A method for coupling directing a camera field of view towards an end user, the method comprising:
- coupling a lens and image sensor in a housing;
- coupling an image processor in an interior of a bracket;
- coupling a camera actuator in a mounting base;
- rotationally coupling the mounting base to the housing;
- coupling the mounting base to the bracket;
- detecting the end user with the image processor;
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- commanding the camera actuator to rotate the housing to direct the field of view at the end user.
A camera comprising:
- a housing;
- a bracket 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;
- a mounting base rotationally coupling the bracket to the housing;
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- a camera actuator coupled in the mounting base and operable to rotate the housing relative to the bracket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.