公开(公告)号：US12267588B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-01

申请号：US18827758

申请日：2024-09-08

Applicant: Corephotonics Ltd.

Inventor： Gal Shabtay ,  Noy Cohen ,  Nadav Geva ,  Oded Gigushinski ,  Ephraim Goldenberg

IPC: H04N23/67 ,  G02B7/36 ,  G02B27/64 ,  H04N5/262 ,  H04N5/33 ,  H04N9/64 ,  H04N23/13 ,  H04N23/45 ,  H04N23/55 ,  H04N23/84 ,  H04N23/951 ,  H04N25/13 ,  H04N25/133

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.

公开(公告)号：US12262120B2

公开(公告)日：2025-03-25

申请号：US18772358

申请日：2024-07-15

Applicant: Corephotonics Ltd.

Inventor： Gal Shabtay ,  Ephraim Goldenberg ,  Oded Gigushinski ,  Noy Cohen

IPC: H04N23/69 ,  G02B13/00 ,  G02B27/00 ,  H04N23/00 ,  H04N23/45 ,  H04N23/58 ,  H04N23/667 ,  H04N23/67 ,  H04N23/951

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 combine in still mode at least some of the Wide and Tele image data to provide a fused output image from a particular point of view, and to provide without fusion continuous zoom video mode output images, each output image having a given output resolution, wherein the video mode output images are provided with a smooth transition when switching between a lower zoom factor (ZF) value and a higher ZF value or vice versa, and wherein at the lower ZF the output resolution is determined by the Wide sensor while at the higher ZF value the output resolution is determined by the Tele sensor.

公开(公告)号：US12231772B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-18

申请号：US18675018

申请日：2024-05-27

Applicant: Corephotonics Ltd.

Inventor： Noy Cohen ,  Oded Gigushinski ,  Nadav Geva ,  Gal Shabtay ,  Ester Ashkenazi ,  Ruthy Katz ,  Ephraim Goldenberg

IPC: H04N23/69 ,  H04N23/45 ,  H04N23/62 ,  H04N23/667

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.

公开(公告)号：US12189274B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-07

申请号：US18664484

申请日：2024-05-15

Applicant: Corephotonics Ltd.

Inventor： Gal Shabtay ,  Ephraim Goldenberg ,  Itay Yedid ,  Gil Bachar ,  Noy Cohen

IPC: G03B17/17 ,  G03B15/03 ,  H04M1/02

Abstract: Folded cameras and dual folded-upright cameras that reduce a mobile electronic device and specifically a smartphone bump footprint and height. In some examples, the bump footprint is reduced by reducing the height of a back focal plane section of the folded camera. In some examples, the bump footprint is reduced by reducing the height of a back focal plane section and a lens subsection of the folded camera.

公开(公告)号：US20240430566A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-26

申请号：US18827758

申请日：2024-09-08

Applicant: Corephotonics Ltd.

Inventor： Gal Shabtay ,  Noy Cohen ,  Nadav Geva ,  Oded Gigushinski ,  Ephraim Goldenberg

IPC: H04N23/67 ,  G02B7/36 ,  G02B27/64 ,  H04N5/262 ,  H04N5/33 ,  H04N9/64 ,  H04N23/13 ,  H04N23/45 ,  H04N23/55 ,  H04N23/84 ,  H04N23/951 ,  H04N25/13 ,  H04N25/133

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.

公开(公告)号：US20240406558A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-05

申请号：US18805581

申请日：2024-08-15

Applicant: Corephotonics Ltd.

Inventor： Itamar Azoulai ,  Gal Safra ,  Anat Werbner ,  Ela Yehudayi ,  Paz Ilan ,  Nadav Geva ,  Noy Cohen ,  Gal Shabtay ,  Ephraim Goldenberg ,  Ruthy Katz

IPC: H04N23/68 ,  G02B7/18 ,  G02B27/00 ,  G02B27/64 ,  G03B5/00 ,  G03B30/00 ,  G06T3/40 ,  G06T5/80 ,  G06T7/80 ,  H04N17/00 ,  H04N23/45 ,  H04N23/698 ,  H04N23/81

Abstract: Systems and methods for correcting point of view (POV) aberrations in scanning folded cameras and multi-cameras including such scanning folded cameras. In a Tele folded camera that includes an optical path folding element (OPFE) and an image sensor, the OPFE is tilted in one or two directions to direct the Tele folded camera towards a POV of a scene, a Tele image or a stream of Tele images is captured from the POV, the Tele image having POV aberrations and the POV aberrations are digitally corrected to obtain an aberration-corrected image or stream of images.

公开(公告)号：US20240295797A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-05

申请号：US18655431

申请日：2024-05-06

Applicant: Corephotonics Ltd.

Inventor： Noy Cohen ,  Michael Scherer

IPC: G03B17/12 ,  G03B5/00 ,  G03B17/17 ,  G03B30/00 ,  H04N23/55 ,  H04N23/67 ,  H04N23/69 ,  H04N23/695 ,  H04N23/90

CPC classification number: G03B17/12 ,  G03B5/00 ,  G03B17/17 ,  G03B30/00 ,  H04N23/55 ,  H04N23/67 ,  H04N23/69 ,  H04N23/695 ,  H04N23/90 ,  G03B2205/0046 ,  G03B2205/0069

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 3.0 cm and 35 cm 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 focal plane slightly shifted from one captured Macro image to another and to generate a new Macro image from this sequence, and wherein the focal plane and a depth of field of the new Macro image can be controlled continuously.

公开(公告)号：US12075151B2

公开(公告)日：2024-08-27

申请号：US18446502

申请日：2023-08-09

Applicant: Corephotonics Ltd.

Inventor： Avia Israeli ,  Nitzan Horovitz ,  Limor Battino ,  Yoav Kurtz ,  Noy Cohen

IPC: H04N23/611 ,  G06T7/20 ,  G06V40/18 ,  H04N5/262 ,  H04N23/45 ,  H04N23/69 ,  H04N23/698 ,  H04N23/90

CPC classification number: H04N23/611 ,  G06T7/20 ,  G06V40/18 ,  H04N5/2628 ,  H04N23/45 ,  H04N23/69 ,  H04N23/698 ,  H04N23/90

Abstract: Mobile handheld electronic devices such as smartphones, comprising a Wide camera for capturing Wide images with respective Wide fields of view (FOVW), a Tele camera for capturing Tele images with respective Tele fields of view (FOVT) smaller than FOVW, and a processor configured to stitch a plurality of Wide images into a panorama image with a field of view FOVP>FOVW and to pin a Tele image to a given location within the panorama image to obtain a smart panorama image.

公开(公告)号：US12069371B2

公开(公告)日：2024-08-20

申请号：US18507025

申请日：2023-11-11

Applicant: Corephotonics Ltd.

Inventor： Gal Shabtay ,  Ephraim Goldenberg ,  Oded Gigushinski ,  Noy Cohen

IPC: H04N23/69 ,  G02B13/00 ,  G02B27/00 ,  H04N23/00 ,  H04N23/45 ,  H04N23/58 ,  H04N23/667 ,  H04N23/67 ,  H04N23/951

CPC classification number: H04N23/69 ,  G02B13/0015 ,  G02B13/009 ,  G02B27/0075 ,  H04N23/00 ,  H04N23/45 ,  H04N23/58 ,  H04N23/667 ,  H04N23/67 ,  H04N23/951

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 combine in still mode at least some of the Wide and Tele image data to provide a fused output image from a particular point of view, and to provide without fusion continuous zoom video mode output images, each output image having a given output resolution, wherein the video mode output images are provided with a smooth transition when switching between a lower zoom factor (ZF) value and a higher ZF value or vice versa, and wherein at the lower ZF the output resolution is determined by the Wide sensor while at the higher ZF value the output resolution is determined by the Tele sensor.

公开(公告)号：US12007672B2

公开(公告)日：2024-06-11

申请号：US18479081

申请日：2023-10-01

Applicant: Corephotonics Ltd.

Inventor： Gal Shabtay ,  Ephraim Goldenberg ,  Itay Yedid ,  Gil Bachar ,  Noy Cohen

IPC: G03B17/17 ,  G02B17/00 ,  G03B15/03 ,  H04M1/02

CPC classification number: G03B17/17 ,  G03B15/03 ,  H04M1/0264

Abstract: Folded cameras and dual folded-upright cameras that reduce a mobile electronic device and specifically a smartphone bump footprint and height. In some examples, the bump footprint is reduced by reducing the height of a back focal plane section of the folded camera. In some examples, the bump footprint is reduced by reducing the height of a back focal plane section and a lens subsection of the folded camera.