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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2016
Contour Ip Holding, Llc, Provo, UT (US);
Jason Green, Seattle, WA (US);
Marc Barros, Bellevue, WA (US);
David Thorpe, Portland, OR (US);
Chunshik Kim, Portland, OR (US);
Felix Ballerstedt, Portland, OR (US);
David Randall Knaub, Portland, OR (US);
Oved Valadez, Portland, OR (US);
Peter Kettenring, Reinhem, DE;
Margaret Novotny, Greenbrae, CA (US);
Laura O'Donnell, El Segundo, CA (US);
Jeff Howard, San Francisco, CA (US);
Contour IP Holding, LLC, Provo, UT (US);
Abstract
An integrated hands-free, point of view, action-sports, digital video camera (or camcorder) () includes: a rotary horizon adjustment controller () for adjusting the orientation of a horizontal image plane () recorded by an image sensor with respect to the orientation of a camera housing (); a laser alignment system with laser sources () capable of projecting light to define a horizontal projection axis () that is coordinated with orientation of the horizontal image plane (); a manually operable switch (), which covers a microphone () whenever the switch () is in the OFF position, for controlling video data capture; and a 'quick-release' mounting system () that retains a desired orientation of the camera ().