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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2018
Applicant:
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Spring, TX (US);
Inventors:
Alexander Wayne Clark, Spring, TX (US);
Tony Moon, Spring, TX (US);
Alan Man Pan Tam, Spring, TX (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/044 (2013.01); H04N 5/2257 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04112 (2013.01);
Abstract
Examples disclosed herein provide an image capture device. As an example, the image capture device includes an image sensor, a shutter, and a touch-enabled layer disposed above the image sensor. A controller of the image capture device is to register a user touch interaction with the touch-enabled layer and, based on a gesture detected from the user touch interaction, cycle between engaging the shutter to cover the image sensor and disengaging the shutter to expose the image sensor.