Patent ID: 7379112
Filing Date: 2008-05-27
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A quick change lens mount for connecting a lens assembly to a camera board, the camera board having an image recording device, a filter and a filter housing to position the filter over the image recording device, comprising: (a) a base attached to said camera board, having a quick connect coupling for removable coupling to said lens assembly said base having an interior opening and said quick connect coupling having a pair of slots to permit passage of a key and a pair of keyways extending circumferentially from ends of corresponding ones of said slots; (b) a removable adapter coupled to said lens assembly, said removable adapter having a threaded interior opening to receive a threaded end of a lens housing and a base insert end, said base insert end having keys for engagement with said keyways on said base so as to lock said lens assembly to said base upon engagement of the keys of said removable adapter to respective ones of said keyways on said base, and; (c) means for affixing said base, filter and filter frame to said camera board, and said filter housing is rectangular and has undercuts at respective corners such that corners of said filter extend through corresponding ones of the undercuts of said filter housing such that said filter housing tightly grips said filter.