Patent ID: 11913601
Assignee: HERST VENTURES, INC.
Field: Mechanical elements (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  G  B | IPC B  F  G

Claim 20:
21. An apparatus for supporting different camera enabled mobile computer devices, including planar mobile computer devices, such as tablets and cell phones having perimeter edges and a display screen in the plane of the device and laptop computers with a fold out display screen, the display screens of the mobile computer devices each having camera coverage areas in front of the device's display screen, wherein a person who uses the mobile computer device for a video session must position himself or herself in front of the display screen of the mobile computer device to be within the camera coverage area in front of the device's display screen, the apparatus comprising:
a support structure,
a device support platform attachable to and extending forwardly from the support structure so that a camera enabled laptop computer can be supported on the device support platform with a folded out display screen that can be viewed by a user positioned in front of the support platform while the user is within the camera coverage area of the camera enabled laptop computer, and
a removable adaptor for the device support platform configured to capture and hold the perimeter edges of planar mobile computer devices of different thicknesses with or without cases so as to hold any one of the planar mobile computer devices in an upright forward facing orientation that can be viewed by a user positioned in front of the support platform while the user is within the camera coverage area of the camera enabled planar mobile device.