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US 7,623,182 B2Granted
Camera interface module
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsDaniel J. Byrne, Jeff B. Beemer, Amol Subhash Pandit
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Abstract
A camera interface module is disclosed. The camera interface module has a first connector on one side configured to couple with a camera dock. The camera interface module has a second smaller connector on a second side configured to couple to a camera. The camera interface module has a standard input/output (I/O) connector and a power jack on a third side.
Claims15
A camera interface module (CIM), comprising:
- a first connector mounted on a first side, the first connector having a first size where the first connector is configured to couple to a camera dock;
- a second connector mounted on a second side, the second connector having a second size, where the second size is smaller than the first size, and where the second connector is configured to couple to a camera;
- a standard I/O connector and a power jack mounted on a third side, wherein the CIM is configured to electrically couple the camera to a computer and a power source only through the first connector when the CIM is coupled to the camera dock and through the standard I/O connector and the power jack respectively when the CIM is disconnected from the camera dock;
- wherein the CIM is configured such that the standard I/O connector and the power jack are inaccessible when the camera interface module is mounted in the camera dock.
1 more element
A camera docking system, comprising:
- a dock having a first size camera specific I/O connector mounted on a top side of the dock;
- a camera interface module (CIM) comprising
- a first camera specific I/O connector mounted on a bottom side of the CIM and configured to couple to the first size camera specific I/O connector mounted on the top side of the dock;
- a second camera specific I/O connector mounted on a top side of the CIM, where the size of the second camera specific I/O connector is smaller than the size of the first camera specific I/O connector;
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- a standard I/O connector and a power jack mounted on a third side of the CIM;
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- a camera with a second size camera specific I/O connector configured to couple to the second size camera specific I/O connector mounted on the top side of the CIM, wherein the CIM is configured to electrically couple the camera to a computer and a power source only through the first camera specific I/O connector of the CIM when the CIM is coupled to the dock, and through the standard I/O connector and the power jack respectively when the CIM is disconnected from the dock.
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A method for manufacturing a camera interface module, comprising:
- mounting a first connector on a first side, the first connector having a first size where the first connector is configured to couple to a camera dock;
- mounting a second connector on a second side, the second connector having a second size, where the second size is smaller than the first size, and where the second connector is configured to couple to a camera;
- mounting a standard I/O connector and a power jack on a third side;
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- providing a mechanism that electrically couples the camera to a computer and a power source only through the first connector when the camera interface module is coupled to the camera dock, and through the standard I/O connector and the power jack respectively when the CIM is disconnected from the camera dock;
- wherein the module is configured such that the standard I/O connector and the power jack are inaccessible when the camera interface module is mounted in the camera dock.
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A camera interface module (CIM), comprising:
- a first connector mounted on a first side, the first connector having a first size where the first connector is configured to couple to a camera dock;
- a second connector mounted on a second side, the second connector having a second size, where the second connector is configured to couple to a camera;
- a standard I/O connector;
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- a power jack, wherein the CIM is configured to electrically couple the camera to a computer and a power source only through the camera dock when the CIM is coupled to the camera dock, and through the standard I/O connector and the power jack respectively when the CIM is disconnected from the camera dock;
- wherein the CIM is configured such that the standard I/O connector and the power jack are inaccessible when the camera interface module is mounted in the camera dock.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.