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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2009
Jonathan Kaplan, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Louis Warpakowski Furlan, Belmont, CA (US);
Paul Raymond Schaefer, Mountain View, CA (US);
Edward Vernon Bacho, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Joseph Yao Hua Chu, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Lin, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Richard Tobais Inman, San Francisco, CA (US);
William Orner, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jonathan Kaplan, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Louis Warpakowski Furlan, Belmont, CA (US);
Paul Raymond Schaefer, Mountain View, CA (US);
Edward Vernon Bacho, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Joseph Yao Hua Chu, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Lin, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Richard Tobais Inman, San Francisco, CA (US);
William Orner, Mountain View, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a digital camera configured to be powered by rechargeable nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) batteries. The digital camera includes one or more rechargeable NiMH batteries, and first internal circuitry configured to receive power from a universal serial bus (USB) port associated with an external power source and to charge the rechargeable NiMH batteries without removing the rechargeable NiMH batteries from the digital camera.