公开(公告)号：US20220229262A1

公开(公告)日：2022-07-21

申请号：US17715249

申请日：2022-04-07

Applicant: Corephotonics Ltd.

Inventor： Itay Yedid ,  Ephraim Goldenberg

IPC: G02B7/02 ,  H04N5/225

Abstract: Spacers for separating a first lens element from a second lens element, lens modules including such spacers and digital cameras including such lens modules. A spacer may comprising along its perimeter at least one contact section being in contact with the first lens element and the second lens element and at least one non-contact section being separated from the first lens element. The at least one non-contact section comprises an internal inclined surface having designed to reduce or mitigate stray light.

公开(公告)号：US11368631B1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-21

申请号：US17276376

申请日：2020-06-09

Applicant: Corephotonics Ltd.

Inventor： Anat Leshem Gat ,  Ruthy Katz ,  Omri Levi ,  Oded Gigushinski ,  Yiftah Kowal ,  Ephraim Goldenberg ,  Gal Shabtay ,  Noy Cohen ,  Michael Scherer

IPC: H04N5/262 ,  H04N5/232 ,  H04N5/225 ,  H04N5/265

Abstract: Systems, imaging devices and methods for creating background blur in camera panning or motion. Using an imaging device with an image sensor, a method may comprise selecting an object to be tracked in a scene, recording an image or an image stream, and aligning the selected object optically and/or digitally to a same position on the image sensor while the selected object moves relative to the imaging device or relative to the scene, thereby creating a blurred image background and/or foreground relative to the selected object and a sense of panning or motion.

公开(公告)号：US11350038B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-31

申请号：US17136538

申请日：2020-12-29

Applicant: Corephotonics Ltd.

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

IPC: H04N5/232 ,  H04N5/225

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：US11315276B2

公开(公告)日：2022-04-26

申请号：US16975726

申请日：2020-03-06

Applicant: Corephotonics Ltd.

Inventor： Nadav Geva ,  Paz Ilan ,  Oded Gigushinski ,  Ephraim Goldenberg ,  Gal Shabtay

IPC: G06T7/593 ,  G06T7/80 ,  H04N13/246

Abstract: Methods for stereo calibration of a dual-camera that includes a first camera and a second camera and system for performing such methods. In some embodiments, a method comprises obtaining optimized extrinsic and intrinsic parameters using initial intrinsic parameters and, optionally, initial extrinsic parameters of the cameras, estimating an infinity offset e using the optimized extrinsic and extrinsic parameters, and estimating a scaling factor s using the optimized extrinsic and extrinsic parameters and infinity offset parameter e, wherein the optimized extrinsic and extrinsic parameters, infinity offset e and scaling factor s are used together to provide stereo calibration that leads to improved depth estimation.

公开(公告)号：US11287668B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-29

申请号：US16812289

申请日：2020-03-07

Applicant: Corephotonics Ltd.

Inventor： Gal Shabtay ,  Ephraim Goldenberg

IPC: G02B27/64 ,  G02B9/60 ,  G02B13/00 ,  G02B13/02 ,  H04N5/225 ,  H04N5/232 ,  H04N9/097 ,  G02B1/04 ,  G02B27/00 ,  G02B13/18 ,  G02B9/62 ,  G02B5/00 ,  G02B9/64 ,  G02B9/12 ,  G02B9/00 ,  H04N101/00

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 EFLT and respective total track lengths TTLW and TTLT and wherein TTLW/EFLW>1.1 and TTLT/EFLT

公开(公告)号：US20210397069A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-23

申请号：US17460231

申请日：2021-08-29

Applicant: Corephotonics Ltd.

Inventor： Gal Shabtay ,  Itay Yedid ,  Ephraim Goldenberg ,  Tal Korman ,  Roy Rudnick ,  Kobi Goldstein ,  Yiftah Kowal ,  Michael Dror ,  Michael Scherer

IPC: G03B17/04 ,  H04N5/225 ,  G02B13/06 ,  G02B13/02 ,  G02B7/02

Abstract: Digital cameras comprising a lens assembly comprising N lens elements L1-LN starting with Li on an object side, wherein N is >4, an image sensor having a sensor diagonal SD, and a pop-out mechanism that controls a largest air-gap d between two consecutive lens elements within lens elements L1 and LN to bring the camera to an operative pop-out state and a collapsed state, wherein the lens assembly has a total track length TTL in the operative pop-out state and a collapsed total track length cTTL in the collapsed state, wherein SD is in the range of 7-20 mm and wherein cTTL/SD

公开(公告)号：US20210389576A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-16

申请号：US17460229

申请日：2021-08-29

Applicant: Corephotonics Ltd.

Inventor： Ephraim Goldenberg ,  Gal Shabtay ,  Gal Avivi ,  Michael Dror ,  Gil Bachar ,  Itay Jerby ,  Itay Yedid

IPC: G02B13/00 ,  G02B13/16 ,  G02B7/08 ,  G02B27/64 ,  H04N5/225 ,  H04N5/232 ,  G02B7/09

Abstract: Compact folded camera modules having auto-focus (AF) and optical image stabilization (OIS) capabilities and multi-aperture cameras including such modules. In an embodiment, a folded camera module includes an optical path folding element (OPFE) for folding light from a first optical path with a first optical axis to a second optical path with a second optical axis perpendicular to the first optical axis, an image sensor and a lens module carrying a lens with a symmetry axis parallel to the second optical axis. The lens module can be actuated to move in first and second orthogonal directions in a plane perpendicular to the first optical axis, the movement in the first direction being for auto-focus and the movement in the second direction being for OIS. The OPFE can be actuated to tilt for OIS.

公开(公告)号：US20210360131A1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-18

申请号：US16632342

申请日：2019-07-21

Applicant: Corephotonics Ltd.

Inventor： Gil Bachar ,  Ephraim Goldenberg ,  Roy Rudnick

IPC: H04N5/225 ,  G09G3/00 ,  G09G3/20 ,  G02B27/10

Abstract: Systems comprising a display having a first pixel array and a gap in the first pixel array in which at least some pixels of the first pixel array are missing, a device such as a camera, a light emitting device or a light receiving device, and a second pixel array. The systems are operable in a first operation mode in which the camera or light emitting device are operative to, respectively, capture images or emit light while the second pixel array is not operative to display information, and in a second operation mode in which the camera or light emitting device are not operative to, respectively, capture images or emit light while the second pixel array is operative to display the second array pixel information in the gap in the first pixel array. Systems are also operable in a third operation mode in which in which the camera or light emitting device are operative to, respectively, capture images or emit light while the second pixel array is operative to display information.

公开(公告)号：US20210333126A9

公开(公告)日：2021-10-28

申请号：US17013561

申请日：2020-09-05

Applicant: Corephotonics Ltd.

Inventor： Itay Yedid ,  Ephraim Goldenberg ,  Gil Bachar ,  Gal Barak ,  Yiftah Kowal

IPC: G01D5/14 ,  G02B13/00 ,  G02B7/18 ,  H01F7/02 ,  G01P13/00

Abstract: Actuators for rotating an optical-path-folding-element with two, first and second, degrees of freedom in an extended rotation range around two respective rotation axes, folded cameras including such actuators and dual-cameras including a folded camera as above together with an upright camera.

公开(公告)号：US20210325643A1

公开(公告)日：2021-10-21

申请号：US17268104

申请日：2019-08-12

Applicant: Corephotonics Ltd.

Inventor： Gil Bachar ,  Gal Shabtay ,  Ephraim Goldenberg ,  Roy Rudnick ,  Michael Dror ,  Noy Cohen

IPC: G02B13/00 ,  G02B27/30 ,  G02B7/04 ,  G02B15/06

Abstract: A zoom camera comprising an optical path folding element (OPFE) for folding the light from a first optical path to a second optical path, a first lens having a first optical axis and a first effective focal length EFLL1, the first optical axis being along the second optical path, a collimating lens having a second optical axis, and an image sensor located on the second optical path, wherein the collimating lens is movable between at least a first state and a second state, wherein in the first state the collimating lens is positioned in the second optical path between the OPFE and the first lens such that light entering the first lens arrives only from the image side of the collimating lens, and wherein in the second state the collimating lens is positioned outside the first optical path such that light entering the first lens does not arrive from the image side of the collimating lens.