Patent ID: 8292523

Claim:
A removable protective covering for a camera lens of a camera, comprising: a protective outer cup having a cup interior space defined therein; a protective inner liner sized to fit inside the cup interior space, said protective inner liner having a liner interior space sized to fit over the camera lens; wherein said outer cup and inner liner have beveled walls having a top circumference and an opening circumference, said opening circumference being larger than said top circumference thereby giving said protective covering a frusto-conical shape, and wherein said opening circumference is slightly larger than said camera lens and said top circumference is slightly smaller than said camera lens such that said protective covering can easily fit onto said camera lens, and wherein inner liner can conform to camera lenses of varying sizes to retain said camera lens in place and to provide protection to said camera lens; and a domed top having a dome wall and a cup top, said dome wall adjoined with said beveled cup wall and said cup top adjoined with said dome wall to create an enclosed domed top, wherein said enclosed domed top protrudes from said camera lens within said protective covering such that said enclosed domed top creates a hollow compression zone to provide additional impact protection to the camera lens.