Camera opening for smartphone battery case to reduce flash glare
AssigneeIncase Designs Corp.
InventorMarkus Diebel
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Abstract
A case for portable electronic devices including smartphones includes a feature to prevent glare from a flash from affecting images and video captured by a camera lens and also a battery to extend battery life of the electronic device. Smartphones have telephony, Internet connectivity, and camera and video features. Photos and video can be uploaded through the Internet or sent to other phones. The case has a hole for a camera flash of the smartphone to pass through. The edging of the hole is colored black or another dark color to prevent glare from appearing in the photos or video taken by the smartphone when using the camera flash.
Claims26
A user removable protective case for a smartphone, the case comprising:
- a base having a base front surface and a base back surface, wherein a housing of the smartphone can be placed on the base front surface;
- a camera-flash opening formed in the case and extends a thickness of the case, the camera-flash opening has a first dimension longer than a second dimension, transverse to the first dimension, and the camera-flash opening is positioned so a flash emitted by the camera flash of the smartphone passes through the camera-flash opening, and an edging of the camera-flash opening of the case has a dark coloring;
- a battery, enclosed between the base front surface and the base back surface;
- an electronic circuitry positioned on a first printed circuit board, coupled to the battery;
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- a second printed circuit board, coupled to an inner connector and the first printed circuit board, wherein the second printed circuit board is a separate printed circuit board from the first printed circuit board, the inner connector is coupled to the battery through the first printed circuit board, and the inner connector is adapted to interface with a connector of the smartphone.
A user removable protective case for a smartphone, the case comprising:
- a base having a base front surface and a base back surface, wherein a housing of the smartphone can be placed on the base front surface;
- a camera-flash opening formed in the case and extends a thickness of the case, the camera-flash opening has a first dimension longer than a second dimension, transverse to the first dimension, and the camera-flash opening is positioned so a flash emitted by the camera flash of the smartphone passes through the camera-flash opening, and an edging of the camera-flash opening of the case has a dark coloring;
- a battery, enclosed between the base front surface and the base back surface;
- an electronic circuitry positioned on a first printed circuit board, coupled to the battery;
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- an inner connector, coupled to the first printed circuit board, wherein the inner connector is coupled to the battery, and the inner connector is adapted to interface with a connector of the smartphone.
A user removable protective case for a smartphone, the case comprising:
- a base having a base front surface and a base back surface, wherein a housing of the smartphone device can be placed against the base front surface;
- a battery, enclosed between the base front surface and the base back surface;
- an electronic circuitry, an inner connector, and an outer connector, wherein the battery is coupled to the electronic circuitry, the inner connector, and the outer connector, and wherein the inner connector is adapted to interface with a connector of the smartphone;
- a sound box, formed in the case, between the inner connector and the outer connector;
- at least one audio opening, formed on a surface of the case, wherein the at least one audio opening is coupled to the sound box;
- a camera-flash opening formed in the case and extends a thickness of the case, the camera-flash opening has a first dimension longer than a second dimension, transverse to the first dimension, and the camera-flash opening is positioned so a flash emitted by the camera flash of the smartphone passes through the camera-flash opening;
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- an edging of the camera-flash opening of the case has a dark coloring.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.