Abstract:
A dual-aperture zoom digital camera operable in both still and video modes. The camera includes Wide and Tele imaging sections with respective lens/sensor combinations and image signal processors and a camera controller operatively coupled to the Wide and Tele imaging sections. The Wide and Tele imaging sections provide respective image data. The controller is configured to output, in a zoom-in operation between a lower zoom factor (ZF) value and a higher ZF value, a zoom video output image that includes only Wide image data or only Tele image data, depending on whether a no-switching criterion is fulfilled or not.
Abstract:
Dual-aperture digital cameras with auto-focus (AF) and related methods for obtaining a focused and, optionally optically stabilized color image of an object or scene. A dual- aperture camera includes a first sub-camera having a first optics bloc and a color image sensor for providing a color image, a second sub-camera having a second optics bloc and a clear image sensor for providing a luminance image, the first and second sub-cameras having substantially the same field of view, an AF mechanism coupled mechanically at least to the first optics bloc, and a camera controller coupled to the AF mechanism and to the two image sensors and configured to control the AF mechanism, to calculate a scaling difference and a sharpness difference between the color and luminance images, the scaling and sharpness differences being due to the AF mechanism, and to process the color and luminance images into a fused color image using the calculated differences.
Abstract:
A dual-aperture zoom camera comprising a Wide camera with a respective Wide lens and a Tele camera with a respective Tele lens, the Wide and Tele cameras mounted directly on a single printed circuit board, wherein the Wide and Tele lenses have respective effective focal lengths EFLw and EFL T and respective total track lengths TTLw and TTL T and wherein TTLw/EFLw > 1.1 and TTL T /EFL T
Abstract:
In some embodiments there are disclosed folded camera modules comprising a lens (302) with N ≥ 4 lens elements L i having an effective focal length, EFL, an aperture diameter, DA, a f-number, f/#, a total track length, TTL, and a back focal length, BFL, wherein a first lens element, L 1 , faces an object side and a last lens element, L N , faces an image side; a first optical path folding element, OPFE, (304) for folding a first optical path, OP1, (312) to a second optical path, OP2, (314); and an image sensor (308) having a full sensor diagonal (SD), and wherein the camera module (300) is a folded digital camera module, the lens is located at an object side of the OPFE (304), the EFL is in the range of 8mm
Abstract:
Pop-out lens systems for compact digital cameras, comprising an image sensor and a lens with a field of view FOV > 60deg and having i lens elements L1-Li starting with L1 from an object side toward an image side, each lens element Li having a respective focal length f i, , the lens elements divided into two lens groups G1 and G2 separated by a big gap (BG), the lens having a pop-out total track length TTL 0.25 x TTL, wherein either G1 can move relative to G2 and to the image sensor for focusing or G1 and G2 can move together relative to the image sensor for focusing, and wherein a ratio c-TTL/ TTL
Abstract:
Systems comprising a Wide / Ultra-Wide camera, a folded Tele camera comprising an optical path folding element and a Tele lens module, a lens actuator for moving the Tele lens module for focusing to object-lens distances between 3.0cm and 35cm with an object-to-image magnification between 1:5 and 25:1, and an application processor (AP), wherein the AP is configured to analyze image data from the UW camera to define a Tele capture strategy for a sequence of Macro images with a focus plane slightly shifted from one captured Macro image to another and to generate a new Macro image from this sequence, and wherein the focus plane and a depth of field of the new Macro image can be controlled continuously.
Abstract:
Systems and methods for obtaining a seamless, high resolution, large field of view image comprise capturing a plurality of Tele images in a scene using a scanning Tele camera, each captured Tele image having an associated Tele field of view FOVT, retrieving a R image having a respective R image scene with a field of view greater than FOVT, analyzing the R image for defining an order of scanning positions according to which the folded Tele camera scans a scene to capture the plurality of Tele images, aligning the plurality of Tele images and the R image to obtain aligned Tele images, and composing the aligned Tele images into an output image. The output image may include at least parts of the R image and may be one of a stream of output images.
Abstract:
Systems and methods for obtaining a seamless, high resolution, large field of view image comprise capturing a plurality of Tele images in a scene using a scanning Tele camera, each captured Tele image having an associated Tele field of view FOVT, retrieving a R image having a respective R image scene with a field of view greater than FOVT, analyzing the R image for defining an order of scanning positions according to which the folded Tele camera scans a scene to capture the plurality of Tele images, aligning the plurality of Tele images and the R image to obtain aligned Tele images, and composing the aligned Tele images into an output image. The output image may include at least parts of the R image and may be one of a stream of output images.