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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2023
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Rafal Piersiak, Belmont, CA (US);
John Roos, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Matthew J. England, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Mikhail Donskoi, Brovary, UA;
Maksym Yemelin, Gdansk, PL;
Chung-Sen Huang, Taipei, TW;
Chi-Yuan Wang, New Taipei, TW;
Hsiu-Fen Yeh, Taipei, TW;
Bartlomiej Pawlik, Singapore, SG;
Samuel Taeyoung Lee, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
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.