Patent ID: 8224380

Claim:
A structure of a first handheld device for facilitating a second handheld device to use and share a video input module and a video output module of said first handheld device, said first handheld device further having a video input processor, a video output processor and a housekeeping processor, said video input processor, said video output processor and said housekeeping processor collaborating to process a video stream for displaying on said video output module, said video output module connected to said video output processor, said structure comprising: a sharing slot, slot including an exposed top golden finger part and a bottom golden finger part; a bypass element with a plurality of metal teeth to electrically connect said top golden finger part and said bottom golden finger part when said bypass element is inserted into said sharing slot for said first handheld device to operate as a standalone device; a first bus cable, electrically connected to said top golden finger part when said first bus cable is connected to said sharing slot; and a second bus cable, electrically connected to said bottom golden finger part when said second cable is connected to said sharing slot; wherein said top golden finger part and said first bus cable form a first signal path for said video stream from said video input module for sharing said video input module, and said bottom golden finger part and said second bus cable form a second signal path for said video stream to be passed to said video input processor for processing said video stream and sharing said video output module.