Audio Visual Enhancement Apparatus

• US 20130343577A1
• Filed: 08/26/2013
• Published: 12/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Screendoor Studio, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Screendoor Studio, Inc.
• Inventors: Waitzman, James W. III, Cox, Lewis Dorsey, Griggs, Zachary A.
• Granted Patent: US 8,929,060 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/120
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/027 comprising magnifying means G02B27/023, G02B27/025, G02B27/04, G02B27/06 and G02B27/08 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/04 having collapsible parts
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 11/004 Mounting transducers, e.g. provided with mechanical moving or orienting device mountings specially adapted to a particular sound-producing device, see the preceding groups G10K1/00 - G10K9/00, e.g. G10K1/26, G10K1/28, G10K9/22; arrangements of sonic watch equipment on submarines B63G8/39; buoys B63B22/00
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass

Abstract

An apparatus of the present disclosure enhances the audio/visual experience of a portable digital device, and comprises a lens positioning slot, a lens storage compartment, a passive audio amplifier, a receiving station.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a base;

a lens positioning slot within the top surface of said base,

a passive audio amplifier, and

a receiving station.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said lens positioning slot is angled to receive a magnifying lens and secure said lens in a position substantially parallel to a digital device positioned within said receiving station.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein said passive audio amplifier is formed as a substantially spherical recess within said base.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein said receiving station and said lens positioning slot are offset from said base at a substantially similar angle.

5. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the receiving station receives the digital device in either a portrait or a landscape orientation.

6. An apparatus comprising:

a base;

a lens positioning slot within the top surface of said base,

a passive audio amplifier,

a sound hood,

a sound channel, and

a receiving station.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein said receiving station couples with said sound channel, and wherein a speaker of a digital device positioned in a landscape orientation emits sound waves that are directed by said sound hood through said sound channel and into said passive audio amplifier.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein said passive audio amplifier is formed as a substantially spherical recess within said base.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein said receiving station and said lens positioning slot are offset from said base at a substantially similar angle.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the passive audio amplifier comprises a reflective surface.

11. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the receiving station couples with the sound channel, and wherein a speaker of a digital device positioned in a portrait orientation emits sound waves that are directed through an opening in the receiving station, the opening aligned with the speaker and the opening directing sound waves to a reflective surface of the passive audio amplifier.

12. An apparatus, comprising:

a slot for receiving a digital device, the digital device having a video screen and an audio output;

a magnifying lens positioned relative to the video screen for magnifying the video screen; and

a passive amplifier for amplifying sound from the audio output.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the receiving station receives the digital device in either a portrait or a landscape orientation.

14. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the passive amplifier comprises a concave reflective surface.