Camera mounting assembly

• US 8,970,689 B2
• Filed: 11/01/2012
• Issued: 03/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
• Original Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
• Inventors: Campbell, Scott Patrick, Demerjian, Michael Zaven, Samuels, Rudy Lucas
• Primary Examiner(s): Henn, Timothy J
• Application Number:
  US13/666,807
• Publication Number:
  US 20130107111A1
• Time in Patent Office: 852 Days
• Field of Search: 348/81, 348/335, 348/340, 348373-376
• US Class Current: 348/81
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/08 Waterproof bodies or housings
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/561 Support related camera accessories
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/51 Housings
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/54 Mounting of pick-up tubes, electronic image sensors, deviation or focusing coils
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/55 Optical parts specially adapted for electronic image sensors; Mounting thereof

Abstract

A camera mounting assembly is configured to couple to a camera housing. The camera mounting assembly includes a plurality of indentations configured to allow for the passage of light through the indentations and upon the image sensor of a camera enclosed by the camera housing. The camera mounting assembly can further include recessed channels within an inner-front surface of the camera mounting assembly configured to further allow for the passage of light through the indentations, through the recessed channels, and upon the image sensor.

Claims

1. A quadrilateral-shaped camera mounting assembly comprising an inner-front surface, the inner-front surface comprising:

an opening within the inner-front surface of the camera mounting assembly and configured to be placed over a camera lens comprising a rectangular image sensor;

a plurality of sides coupled to the edges of the inner-front surface of the camera mounting assembly and protruding from the inner-front surface of the camera mounting assembly, the plurality of sides comprising an indented section at each intersection of two adjacent sides; and

a plurality of recessed channels within the inner-front surface of the camera mounting assembly, wherein each recessed channel is associated with an indented section;

wherein each indented section and associated recessed channel are configured to allow for the passage of light through the indented section and associated recessed channel and incident upon the image sensor.

2. The quadrilateral-shaped camera mounting assembly of claim 1 wherein the quadrilateral is a rectangle.

3. The quadrilateral-shaped camera mounting assembly of claim 1 wherein the quadrilateral is a square.

4. The quadrilateral-shaped camera mounting assembly of claim 1 wherein each indentation is formed by reducing the protruding height of two sides at the intersection of the two sides relative to the inner-front surface of the camera mounting assembly.

5. A camera mounting assembly comprising an inner-front surface, the inner-front surface comprising:

an opening within the inner-front surface of the camera mounting assembly and configured to be placed over a camera lens comprising an image sensor;

a perimeter coupled to edges of the inner-front surface and protruding from the inner-front surface, the perimeter comprising a plurality of indentations, each indentation associated with a corner of the image sensor and configured to allow for the passage of light through the indentation and incident upon the associated image sensor corner; and

one or more recessed channels within the inner-front surface of the camera mounting assembly, each recessed channel corresponding to one of the plurality of indentations.

6. The camera mounting assembly of claim 5 wherein the camera mounting assembly is rectangle-shaped.

7. The camera mounting assembly of claim 5 wherein the camera mounting assembly is square-shaped.

8. The camera mounting assembly of claim 5 wherein the camera mounting assembly is circle-shaped.

9. The camera mounting assembly of claim 5 wherein each indentation comprises a portion of the perimeter that protrudes a lesser distance from the inner-front surface relative to portions of the perimeter adjacent to the indentation.

10. The camera mounting assembly of claim 5 wherein the inner-front surface comprises a second opening configured to be placed over a second camera lens comprising a second image sensor.

11. The camera mounting assembly of claim 10 wherein the plurality indentations comprise four indentations at corners of the camera mounting assembly such that a first pair of indentations are configured to allow for the passage of light through the first pair of indentations and incident upon two corners of the image sensor and that a second pair of indentations are configured to allow for the passage of light through the second pair of indentations and incident upon two corners of the second image sensor.