Patents by Inventor Christopher Aaron Clearman
Christopher Aaron Clearman has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10511750Abstract: A four-sided frame for a camera is disclosed. The four-sided frame includes a first side including a hinge mechanism and a second side having a first segment, a second segment that is separable from the first segment, and a latch mechanism. The four-sided frame includes a third side between the first side and the second side and a fourth side between the first side and the second side. The four-sided frame includes a latch mechanism that couples the first segment to the second segment. In an open configuration of the latch mechanism, the first segment and the second segment are separated to allow insertion or removal of the camera. In a closed configuration of the latch mechanism, a distance between the first segment and the second segment is reduced as compared to the open configuration and the four-sided frame secures the outer perimeter of the camera.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Aaron Clearman, Rudy Lucas Samuels, Richard Gioscia
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Publication number: 20190369466Abstract: A camera mounting system has an upper mount component, a lower mount component, and a base mount component. The upper mount component secures the camera and has a ball protrusion that reciprocally couples with a socket of the lower mount component. The upper mount component can rotate 360 degrees relative to the lower mount, and can pivot 90 degrees or more relative to the lower mount component. The lower mount component couples with the base mount component in a plurality of orientations. This camera mounting system allows for a large range of motion for the camera relative to the mounting system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventor: Christopher Aaron Clearman
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Publication number: 20190342473Abstract: A camera housing includes a main body having four sides that form a cavity to receive a camera, a door detachably coupled to the main body, and an exposed area in the main body allowing a user to manipulate a button on the camera or access an I/O or microphone interface of the camera. The camera housing includes an indicator window substantially aligning with a visible indicator on the camera, a latch detachably securing a first side of the door to a first side of the main body; and a hinge coupling a second side of the door to a second side of the main body. The camera housing includes securing protrusions that interlock with corresponding mounting protrusions extending from a camera mount. A front face and a rear face of the camera are exposed when the camera is secured by the door in the camera housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Inventors: Christopher Aaron Clearman, Rudy Lucas Samuels, Richard Gioscia
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Patent number: 10416538Abstract: A camera mounting system has an upper mount component, a lower mount component, and a base mount component. The upper mount component secures the camera and has a ball protrusion that reciprocally couples with a socket of the lower mount component. The upper mount component can rotate 360 degrees relative to the lower mount, and can pivot 90 degrees or more relative to the lower mount component. The lower mount component couples with the base mount component in a plurality of orientations. This camera mounting system allows for a large range of motion for the camera relative to the mounting system.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventor: Christopher Aaron Clearman
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Publication number: 20190025675Abstract: A swivel mount locking apparatus is configured to mount a camera system onto a target user, an object, or a surface. The camera system is mounted on a swivel component which can be rotated to a variety of different positions relative to a base component. To fix the camera position, a locking protrusion of a release lever in the base component is compressibly inserted into a detent located on the swivel component. When a new orientation of the camera system is desired, a user may forcibly pivot the release lever away from the swivel component to decouple the locking protrusion from the detent. The user can then rotate the mounted camera system and the swivel component to the new orientation relative to the base component. At the new orientation, the user may recouple the locking protrusion of the release lever into a different detent of the swivel component, thereby fixing the camera system into the desired, new orientation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Inventors: Joshua Todd Druker, Christopher Aaron Clearman
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Publication number: 20180220050Abstract: A camera housing comprises a four-sided frame. A first side of the four-sided frame includes a first segment, a second segment, and a latch mechanism with a first latch component and a second latch component. The first latch component and the second latch component are pivotally coupled such that in a closed position, the frame securely encloses a camera and in an open position, the first segment and the second segment are separable.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2018Publication date: August 2, 2018Inventors: Christopher Aaron Clearman, Rudy Lucas Samuels, Richard Gioscia
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Patent number: 10025166Abstract: A camera mount for coupling a camera to a user's wrist is described. The camera mount includes a swivel component that rotates relative to a wrist component when an above-threshold amount of force is applied on the swivel component. A rippled spring component is coupled between the swivel component and the wrist component, and exerts an outward force upon the swivel component in response to a compressive force exerted on the rippled spring component by the swivel component. A strap couples to each of two sides of the wrist mount component, and is configured to secure the camera mount to the user's wrist. The camera mount can additionally include a base component and a padding component, and a screw to couple each camera mount component together.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventor: Christopher Aaron Clearman
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Publication number: 20180157153Abstract: A camera mount is configured to securely couple a camera to an object. The camera mount includes a rail mount component and a sliding mount component which can be securely coupled, resulting in a low profile, easy to use camera mount. The rail mount component includes a rail base and two rail wings. The sliding mount component is configured to be inserted into the rail mount component. The sliding amount component further includes two levers and a sliding base with a plurality of protrusions for coupling to a reciprocal mount component. Each lever of the sliding mount component includes a pin and wedge that abut the inside of the rail base to secure the sliding mount component to the rail mount component.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2017Publication date: June 7, 2018Inventor: Christopher Aaron Clearman
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Publication number: 20180136546Abstract: A camera mounting system has an upper mount component, a lower mount component, and a base mount component. The upper mount component secures the camera and has a ball protrusion that reciprocally couples with a socket of the lower mount component. The upper mount component can rotate 360 degrees relative to the lower mount, and can pivot 90 degrees or more relative to the lower mount component. The lower mount component couples with the base mount component in a plurality of orientations. This camera mounting system allows for a large range of motion for the camera relative to the mounting system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2017Publication date: May 17, 2018Inventor: Christopher Aaron Clearman
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Publication number: 20180128007Abstract: Methods, systems, and device for affixing a ground cover to the ground are provided in accordance with various embodiments. For example, some embodiments include a system that may include a ground cover and one or more stakes coupled with the ground cover. In some embodiments, the one or more stakes are coupled with the ground cover utilizing one or more tethers. The one or more tethers may include one or more elastic materials. In some embodiments, the one or more elastic materials include one or more flat elastic bands. In some embodiments, the one or more elastic materials include one or more round elastic chords. Some embodiments of the system include one or more storage components coupled with the ground cover; each of the one or more storage components may be configured to stow one of the one or more stakes.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2017Publication date: May 10, 2018Inventors: Christopher Aaron Clearman, Jaime Lynn Caso
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Patent number: 9930231Abstract: A camera housing includes a frame having sides configured to secure a camera along an outer perimeter of the camera, one of the sides of the frame including a split within the frame. The camera housing also includes a latch mechanism extending along the frame from a first side of the split to a second side of the split, the latch mechanism operable in a closed configuration and an open configuration. A first distance between the first side of the split and the second side of the split when the latch mechanism is in the closed configuration is less than a second distance between the first side of the split and the second side of the split when the latch mechanism is in the open configuration.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2017Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Aaron Clearman, Rudy Lucas Samuels, Richard Gioscia
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Publication number: 20180059514Abstract: A swivel mount locking apparatus is configured to mount a camera system onto a target user, an object, or a surface. The camera system is mounted on a swivel component which can be rotated to a variety of different positions relative to a base component. To fix the camera position, a locking protrusion of a release lever in the base component is compressibly inserted into a detent located on the swivel component. When a new orientation of the camera system is desired, a user may forcibly pivot the release lever away from the swivel component to decouple the locking protrusion from the detent. The user can then rotate the mounted camera system and the swivel component to the new orientation relative to the base component. At the new orientation, the user may recouple the locking protrusion of the release lever into a different detent of the swivel component, thereby fixing the camera system into the desired, new orientation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2016Publication date: March 1, 2018Inventors: Joshua Todd Druker, Christopher Aaron Clearman
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Patent number: 9904148Abstract: A swivel mount locking apparatus is configured to mount a camera system onto a target user, an object, or a surface. The camera system is mounted on a swivel component which can be rotated to a variety of different positions relative to a base component. To fix the camera position, a locking protrusion of a release lever in the base component is compressibly inserted into a detent located on the swivel component. When a new orientation of the camera system is desired, a user may forcibly pivot the release lever away from the swivel component to decouple the locking protrusion from the detent. The user can then rotate the mounted camera system and the swivel component to the new orientation relative to the base component. At the new orientation, the user may recouple the locking protrusion of the release lever into a different detent of the swivel component, thereby fixing the camera system into the desired, new orientation.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2016Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: Joshua Todd Druker, Christopher Aaron Clearman
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Patent number: 9880451Abstract: A camera mounting system has an upper mount component, a lower mount component, and a base mount component. The upper mount component secures the camera and has a ball protrusion that reciprocally couples with a socket of the lower mount component. The upper mount component can rotate 360 degrees relative to the lower mount, and can pivot 90 degrees or more relative to the lower mount component. The lower mount component couples with the base mount component in a plurality of orientations. This camera mounting system allows for a large range of motion for the camera relative to the mounting system.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2017Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventor: Christopher Aaron Clearman
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Patent number: D798939Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: Mark E. Costa, Arthur Kwun, Huy Phuong Nguyen, Eric McCallister Bennett, Joshua Todd Druker, Christopher Aaron Clearman
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Patent number: D798940Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: Mark E. Costa, Arthur Kwun, Huy Phuong Nguyen, Eric McCallister Bennett, Joshua Todd Druker, Christopher Aaron Clearman
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Patent number: D800815Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2016Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Aaron Clearman, Seung Heon Lee, Joseph Chun
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Patent number: D816751Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2016Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: Ryan Harrison, Christopher Aaron Clearman, Seungheon Lee, Joseph Chun
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Patent number: D841721Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2017Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: John George Muhlenkamp, IV, Christopher Aaron Clearman
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Patent number: D867161Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Clearman Labs LLCInventors: Christopher Aaron Clearman, Jaime Lynn Caso