Granted Patent B2

US 10,084,500 · App. 14/847,224 · Granted Sep 25, 2018

Abstract

Claims (52)

1. A holster, including:

a holster material configured to hold a video recording apparatus;

a view hole configured to allow video to be recorded by the video recording apparatus;

a plurality of control holes positioned on the holster at locations that correspond to locations on a touch-screen interface of the video recording apparatus, the locations on the touch-screen interface being associated with commands configured to control the video recording apparatus; and

a membrane positioned within at least one of the control holes, the membrane configured to depress a defined area of a screen on the video recording apparatus.

2. The holster of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of control holes are located on the back of the holster.

3. The holster of claim 1 , further including a near field communication chip.

4. The holster of claim 1 , further including a light hole positioned on a front of the holster, the light hole configured to allow light emitting from the video recording apparatus on a backside of the holster to emanate from the front of the holster.

5. A shirt including a holster, the holster including:

a holster material configured to hold a smartphone;

a view hole configured to allow video to be recorded by the smartphone;

a plurality of control holes positioned on the holster at locations that correspond to locations on a touch-screen interface of the smartphone, the locations on the touch-screen interface being associated with commands configured to control the smartphone; and

a membrane positioned within at least one of the control holes, the membrane configured to depress a defined area of a screen on the video recording apparatus.

6. A system, including:

a holster; and

a video recording device, the video recording device including a touch-screen interface;

wherein the holster comprises:

a holster material configured to hold the video recording apparatus;

a view hole configured to allow video to be recorded by the video recording apparatus;

a plurality of control holes positioned on the holster at locations that correspond to locations on the touch-screen interface of the video recording apparatus, the locations on the touch-screen interface being associated with commands configured to control the video recording apparatus;

a membrane positioned within at least one of the control holes, the membrane configured to depress a defined area of a screen on the video recording apparatus; and

a first identification chip; and

wherein the video recording apparatus further comprises

a second identification chip, wherein the video recording apparatus determines whether the first identification chip and the second identification chip are associated.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the plurality of control holes are positioned on a back of the holster.

8. The system of claim 6 , wherein the video recording apparatus further includes a voice recognition module to control the video recording apparatus.

9. The system of claim 6 , wherein the video recording apparatus provides feedback indicating that a command has been processed in response to receiving input by the touch-screen interface.

10. The system of claim 6 , wherein the video recording apparatus is a smartphone.

11. One or more computer readable media comprising instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, perform a method comprising:

activating a first mode of operation for a video recording apparatus;

detecting association of the video recording apparatus with a holster;

activating a second mode of operation for the video recording apparatus upon detecting the association; and

controlling the video recording apparatus based on the second mode of operation while the video recording apparatus is associated with the holster;

wherein the second mode of operation includes commands for controlling a smartphone in connection with a video recording function.

12. The computer readable media of claim 11 , wherein the method further includes:

associating a plurality of defined areas of a touch-screen user interface on the video recording apparatus with commands that control the video recording apparatus; and

receiving input through control holes in the holster to activate at least one of the commands.

13. The computer readable media of claim 11 , wherein the method further includes:

detecting removal of the video recording apparatus from the holster;

deactivating the second mode of operation; and

continuing to record video after deactivating the second mode of operation.

14. The computer readable media of claim 11 , wherein the detecting the association occurs using near field communication chips.

15. The computer readable media of claim 11 , wherein the method further includes receiving voice commands to control operation of the video recording device.

16. The computer readable media of claim 11 , wherein the method further includes:

detecting that the video recording apparatus is not associated with the holster; and

providing a notification that the video recording apparatus is not associated with the holster.

17. The computer readable media of claim 11 , wherein the method further includes:

broadcasting a message from the video recording apparatus indicating that the video recording apparatus is recording video.

18. The computer readable media of claim 17 , wherein the method further includes:

receiving the message by a second video recording apparatus;

saving, by the second video recording apparatus, video from a period of time prior to receiving the message; and

recording video by the second video apparatus.

Assignments (6)