Protective Case For A Mobile Device

Abstract

A mobile device case includes a soft protective housing defining a camera-lens aperture and a touchscreen display aperture, and a lens attachment interface including a capture plate protruding into the camera-lens aperture sufficient to overlap a coupling interface of a removable lens assembly along the optical path of the miniature camera module, and a catch to facilitate stable locking coupling of the removable lens assembly in optical alignment with the miniature camera module.

We claim: 
     
         1 . An auxiliary optical assembly for a mobile device that includes a miniature camera module and a touchscreen display, comprising:
 a removable lens assembly including a lens holder, a lens coupled to the lens holder, and a coupling interface;   a mobile device case defining a camera-lens aperture and a touchscreen display aperture, said case being configured to securely couple around at least a portion of the periphery of said mobile device; and   a lens attachment interface comprising a capture plate protruding into the camera-lens aperture across at least a portion of a periphery of the camera-lens aperture sufficient to overlap the coupling interface along an optical path of the miniature camera module, and a catch to facilitate stable locking coupling of said removable lens assembly in optical alignment with said miniature camera module.