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

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus for supporting different camera enabled mobile computer devices, including planar mobile computer devices having a display screen in the plane of the device and clamshell mobile computer devices having a generally planar keyboard base and display screen that in use is folded out from the planar base, 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:
an upright support structure having a forward facing side, a top end, and a bottom end,
a footer structure at the bottom end of the upright support structure for maintaining the upright support structure in an upright position,
a mobile device support platform attachable to the upright support structure above the footer structure so as to extend forwardly of the forward facing side of the upright support structure, the mobile device support platform being configured to support a clamshell mobile computer device with a folded out display screen such that the folded out display screen is in a forward facing orientation and such that a person positioned in front of the support stand may view the display screen of the mobile computer device while being within the camera coverage area of the mobile computer device, and
means on the forward extending mobile device support platform for supporting a planar mobile computer device in an upright position on the forward extending mobile device support platform so as to position the display screen of the planar mobile device in a 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.