Optical adapters for mobile devices with a camera

a technology of mobile devices and adapters, applied in the field of optical adapters, can solve the problems of not being easily portable or mobile, affecting the environment, and expensive travel for face-to-face meetings, and achieve the effects of low cost, easy manufacturing, and convenient shipping

Inactive Publication Date: 2010-12-30
ROMAN KENDYL A
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[0015]What is needed is a portable, mobile, lightweight, removable, low cost, easy to manufacture, easy to ship, easy to transport, easy to store, and easy to use device that provides an effective means of videoconferencing over a mobile phone, such as the iPhone or other mobile devices with cameras which are not on the same side as the dis

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Travel for face-to-face meetings is expensive, as well as bad for the environment.
This equipment is not easily portable or mobile.
People are often confined to the rooms permanently supporting the videoconferencing equipment or the network required for the telecommunication.
However, videoconferencing has not been commercially available for mobile phones, inc

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[0082]FIG. 1A illustrates a side view of an exemplary mobile device with a camera on the back, namely opposite from a display. The mobile device with camera 100 shown comprises both a touch display 102 in front and a camera 110 in the back. The camera 110 comprises a lens 106 and camera chip sensor 104, as shown in greater detail in FIG. 2. The camera 110 has been placed at the back of the phone to facilitate a visual of a photograph to be taken on the camera 110 via the touch display 102. In the embodiment shown, the touch display 102 consumes most of the frontal space of mobile device with camera 100. A mobile device with a touch display 102 is exemplary and is used to illustrate the structure and operations of various optical adapters. A mobile device with a non-touch screen could also use the optical adapters.

[0083]FIG. 1B illustrates the back view of a mobile device with a camera 100. The mobile device with camera 100 contains a camera 110 on the back comprising a lens 106. Onl...

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Portable, mobile, lightweight, removable, low cost, easy to manufacture, easy to ship, easy to transport, easy to store, and easy to use optical adapters that provides an effective means of videoconferencing over a mobile phone or other mobile device with a camera. Embodiments include landscape and portrait adapters that can be easily applied, used and removed while maintaining a professional and aesthetic appearance. Small mirrors within the optical adapter allow light from the front of the mobile device to enter the adapter and be conditioned and redirected into the built-in lens of the camera on the back of the mobile device. Novel embodiments include a lens reverser and/or a re-lens. Optical adapters also provide for self-imaging or surveillance. Various protective cases and adapter embodiments are configured to match specific mobile devices.

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RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]The following design patent applications are included herein by reference:[0002]U.S. Design patent application, entitled “Optical Adapter for Mobile Device,” docket number “DPE,” filed concurrently on Jun. 29, 2009.[0003]U.S. Design patent application, entitled “Case for Optical Adapter and Mobile Device,” docket number “DPECASE1,” filed concurrently on Jun. 29, 2009.[0004]U.S. Design patent application, entitled “Case for Optical Adapter and Mobile Device,” docket number “DPECASE2,” filed concurrently on Jun. 29, 2009.[0005]U.S. Design patent application, entitled “Case for Optical Adapter and Mobile Device,” docket number “DPECASE3,” filed concurrently on Jun. 29, 2009.BACKGROUND—FIELD OF INVENTION[0006]The present invention relates to optical adapters, in particular optical adapters for mobile devices with still or video cameras.BACKGROUND—DESCRIPTION OF PRIOR ART[0007]There is often a need or want to see the people we telecommunicate with. This allows u...

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IPC IPC(8): H04N7/15G02B17/08H04N5/225
CPCH04N5/2251H04N5/2254H04N7/142H04N7/15G02B19/0076H04N21/4223H04N21/4788G02B19/0014H04N21/42203G02B13/001H04N23/50H04N23/55H04N23/57G02B7/023H04M1/0264H04N7/147H04N2007/145
Inventor ROMAN, KENDYL A.
Owner ROMAN KENDYL A
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