Patent ID: 8382387

Claim:
A cobra-style streetlight housing for accepting a surveillance camera while the housing is supported from a streetlight support pole, the housing comprising: a streetlight housing comprising: a concave upper housing having an upper housing first end and an upper housing second end, the upper housing first end being adapted for attachment to the streetlight support pole; a concave lower housing, the lower housing having a lower housing first end and a lower housing second end, the lower housing second end being connected to the upper housing second end through a hinge connection that allows movement of the lower housing relative to the upper housing, the lower housing supporting a diffuser lens, the upper housing terminates in an upper housing lower rim and the lower housing terminating in a lower housing upper edge that mates with the upper housing lower rim, the housing further comprising a latch support; a camouflaged lens having a generally extended asymmetrical mandorla shape, the camouflaged lens; and a latch mounted to the latch support, the latch extending between the upper housing lower rim and the lower housing upper edge, so that the camouflaged lens extends between the upper housing lower rim and the lower housing upper edge while the latch retains the lower housing upper edge against the camouflaged lens and retains the camouflaged lens against the upper housing lower edge, so that surveillance equipment may be housed within cobra-style streetlight housing and surveillance video captured through the camouflaged lens.