US 12,306,529 B2
Camera shutter with additional view blockers
Douglas Laube, Plano, TX (US)
Assigned to Biamp Systems, LLC, Beaverton, OR (US)
Filed by Biamp Systems, LLC, Beaverton, OR (US)
Filed on Oct. 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/972,496.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/271,448, filed on Oct. 25, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0132130 A1, Apr. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. G03B 9/48 (2021.01)
CPC G03B 9/48 (2013.01) 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A camera comprising:
a camera lens; and a shutter mechanism comprising:
two shutter portions respectively located on opposite sides of the camera lens and affixed to pivoting axes, wherein the two shutter portions rotate about the pivoting axes to arcuately move the two shutter portions together to be contiguous with one another in front of the camera lens in a closed position,
wherein a first shutter portion of the two shutter portions comprises a first main rectangular portion and a first triangular-shaped portion having a top surface affixed to a first bottom surface of the first main rectangular portion so that the first triangular-shaped portion is located below a plane of the first bottom surface,
wherein a second shutter portion of the two shutter portions comprises a second main rectangular portion and a second triangular-shaped portion affixed to a second bottom surface of the second main rectangular portion so that the second triangular-shaped portion is located below a plane of the second bottom surface,
wherein in the closed position, the first main rectangular portion and the second main rectangular portion are contiguous and form a vertical gap therebetween, the first bottom surface and the second bottom surface are coplanar, and the second triangular-shaped portion overlaps a bottom surface of the first triangular-shaped portion to cover the vertical gap.