Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Samuel Taeyoung Lee

Matthew J England

James Siminoff

Robert Tso

Christopher Loew

Mark D Siminoff

Spiro Sacre

Rafal Piersiak

John Roos

Eric Scott Micko

Sonny Windstrup Rasmussen

Mikhail Donskoi

Stephen H Chakmakjian

Chung-Sen Huang

Bartlomiej Pawlik

Oleksii Shekolian

Maksym Yemelin

Hsiu-Fen Yeh

Chi-Yuan Wang

Dan Gilbert Allen

A device includes a first housing, a camera residing at least partially within the first housing, a switch residing at least partially within the first housing, and a second housing coupled to the first housing and at least partially residing within the first housing. The switch is configured to disable the camera. The second housing includes a receptacle configured to receive a battery, and an arm having a tab configured to engage and disengage a lever of the switch to disable the camera. One or more contacts at least partially reside within the first housing and are configured to electrically connect to an accessory coupled to the first housing.

Electronic device with modular accessories

A device includes a housing, a camera at least partially disposed within the housing, one or more microphones at least partially disposed within the housing, and a printed circuit board (PCB) including a switch. The switch has a lever that is transitionable between a displaced position and a non-displaced position. A privacy cover couple to the housing and includes a rib disposed on an interior surface of the privacy cover. The privacy cover is transitionable between a first position in which the camera is obstructed and the rib is engaged with the lever to transition the lever to the displaced position, and a second position in which the camera is unobstructed and the rib is disengaged with the lever such that the lever is permitted to transition to the non-displaced position.

Device with rotatable privacy cover

An optical Boresight alignment device that leverages creation of an opto-mechanical reference to the rifle barrel so that the riflescope can be used to directly measure the axis of the rifle barrel and thereby offer the necessary feedback to precisely boresight the riflescope. An illumination multiplexer module (IMM) allows the riflescope to function as an illuminated precision autocollimator with which to optically measure the barrel angle. The present invention leverages the two most accurate rifle components: the barrel and the riflescope themselves to directly measure the axes of each device, the optical (riflescope) and the mechanical (barrel). This is an improvement over existing methods by successfully using the external surface of the rifle barrel as a kinematic mechanical reference.

Optical rifle boresight alignment apparatus and method

Security devices and associated methods have a housing, a camera with a field of view of a monitored area outside the housing, a microphone to sense audio from the monitored area, a speaker to generate sound audible to the monitored area, an illumination source to illuminate the monitored area, a communication module to communicate with a communication network, a motion sensor to detect motion within the monitored area, at least two removable battery casings, each configured via a release button to hold at least one battery within the housing, and a control circuit that, when the motion sensor detects motion, is operable to (a) activate the illumination source, (b) capture video and audio from the camera and the microphone, and (c) send the captured video and audio to a remote server via the communication module and the communication network.

Security devices and associated audio/video communication methods

Some embodiments provide a novel method for harnessing the heat generated by one or more components (e.g., a set of IR LEDs) of an A/V recording and communication device in order to manage the temperature of one or more batteries of the A/V recording and communication device. Some aspects of the present embodiments raise the temperature of the battery in a cold weather without requiring any additional electrical power (e.g., without consuming any additional power for heating up the battery). In one aspect of the present embodiments, a thermally conductive sheet is coupled to a printed circuit board to which one or more IR LEDs are coupled. The thermally conductive sheet transfers the waste heat generated by the IR LEDs of the A/V recording and communication device to a rechargeable battery of the device.

Combination heatsink and battery heater for electronic devices

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Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Samuel Taeyoung Lee