Electronic device stand for image acquisition and analysis

• US 9,362,969 B1
• Filed: 10/23/2015
• Issued: 06/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bank of the Ozarks
• Original Assignee: C1 Bank
• Inventors: Burgess, Trevor, deOliveira, Marcio
• Primary Examiner(s): Rego, Dominic
• Application Number:
  US14/921,328
• Time in Patent Office: 228 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3877 Arrangements for enabling portable transceivers to be used in a fixed position, e.g. cradles or boosters
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/04 Supports for telephone transmitters or receivers

Abstract

A stand for an electronic device having a camera at one end, where the stand includes: an elongate base having a target end, a device end, a first side, and a second side; a tray disposed on a top surface of the target end adjacent to the first side of the base; a foot extending from the device end; and a device support extending upward from the base between the device end and the target end of the base. The device support has a height and a distance from the foot such that a camera of an electronic device can capture an image of an object or document located in the tray when the device is resting on the foot and the device support.

Claims

1. A stand for an electronic device having a camera at one end thereof, the stand comprising:

(a) an elongate base having a target end, a device end, a first side, and a second side;

(b) a tray disposed on a top surface of the target end adjacent to the first side of the base;

(c) a foot extending from the device end; and

(d) a device support extending upward from the base between the target end and the device end of the base, the device support having a height and a distance from the foot such that a camera of a device can capture an image of an object in the tray when the device is in contact with the foot and the device support.

2. The stand of claim 1, wherein the device support further comprises a graded top surface and a lateral alignment member disposed at a first side thereof.

3. The stand of claim 2, wherein the height of the device support and the distance from the foot are configured such that the device rests on the stand at an angle between thirty-five and fifty degrees relative to the base.

4. The stand of claim 1, wherein the device end further comprises at least one base lateral alignment member extending upward therefrom between the foot and the device support.

5. The stand of claim 1, wherein the foot comprises:

(a) a first wall extending outwardly from the device end of the base substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis thereof; and

(b) a second wall extending from the first wall in perpendicular relation to the longitudinal axis of the base.

6. The stand of claim 5, wherein the foot further comprises a support plate extending between the device end of the base to the second wall of the foot adjacent to the first wall and extending for at least a portion of the length of the second wall.

7. The stand of claim 6, further comprising an open space defined by the first and second sides of the base, device support, and the device end of the base.

8. The stand of claim 5, wherein the first wall of the foot is slidably attached to the base.

9. The stand of claim 8, wherein the first wall of the foot comprises a roller guide.

10. The stand of claim 1, wherein the tray comprises a lateral sidewall extending partially along a length of the target end in substantially parallel relation to a longitudinal axis of the base.

11. The stand of claim 10, wherein the tray further comprises a transverse sidewall extending from the lateral sidewall in substantially perpendicular relation to the longitudinal axis of the base, and wherein the lateral and transverse sidewalls form a recess.

12. The stand of claim 11, wherein the tray further comprises a raised bottom surface relative to the top surface of the target end.

13. The stand of claim 11, wherein the tray comprises a nonslip material.

14. The stand of claim 11, wherein the tray is sized to accommodate an identification card between three and four inches in length and two and three inches in width.

15. The stand of claim 1 further comprising one or more cutouts on the device support, target end, and device end.

16. The stand of claim 1, wherein the device support comprises:

(a) a lower wall extending between the first side and the second side of the base in substantially perpendicular relation to the device end and target end thereof;

(b) a first and a second support rail extending upward from the lower wall;

(c) a top surface extending between the first and second support rails; and

(d) a plurality of intermediate support rails extending between a bottom side of the top surface and the lower wall of the device support.

17. The stand of claim 16, further comprising an open space defined by the lower wall, the top surface, the first support rail, and an intermediate support rail.