Patent ID: 7083291

Claim:
In combination, a camcorder having a video screen panel hinged at one edge and which folds into a seating cavity in said cavity in said camcorder, wherein said video screen panel has front and rear surfaces with a video display screen on its front surface, and a light shield formed as a collapsible structure comprising a flat roof having mutually opposing front and rear edges and mutually opposing inboard and outboard side edges, inboard and outboard side panel flaps, each having a free end and an opposite hinged end and said hinged ends of said inboard and outboard side panel flaps are respectively joined to said inboard and outboard side edges of said roof and each of said side panels flaps is foldable onto said roof into a collapsed condition and unfoldable to a deployed condition extending downwardly from said roof, whereby said side panels reside in contact with said front surface of said video screen panel alongside said video display screen, and further comprising a flat mounting strip extending from said rear edge of said roof rearwardly beyond said side panel flaps and across the entire distance between said side panels flaps, and a single thin, narrow, elongated fastening layer of pressure sensitive adhesive extending the entire length of said mounting strip and joining said mounting strip directly to said video screen panel along a single, fixed, elongated region of attachment at a location on said video screen panel rearwardly from said video display screen and across the entire width thereof.