Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Seoul National University

Byung-kwon Kang

Jeong-kil Shin

In Gun Kim

Yu-dong Bae

Dong-Hoon Jang

Young-hyun Kim

Liefeng Zhao

Hyun-Jun Shin

Jun-Mo Koo

Sang-moon Lee

Jin-young Choi

Jung-pa Seo

Byeong-Hoon Park

Pyo-Jae Kim

Han-eung Kim

Dong-Sung Song

Ho-keun Kwak

Young-Kwon Yoon

Sung-Hee Cho

Yong-Gu Lee

Woon-Tahk Sung

Jae-Sik Sohn

Seung-Yong Kim

Kee-wook Na

Hyung-Jin Chang

Myoung-Won Kim

Shane Cho

Hyung-Jin Jang

Provided are an optical lens assembly and an electronic device including the optical lens assembly. The optical lens assembly includes a front group closest to an object side and including a first lens having a positive refractive power and an image side surface that is concave, and a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, and a fourth lens having a positive refractive power. Other embodiments may be provided.

Optical lens assembly, device, and image forming method

Provided are an optical lens assembly and a method of forming an image. The optical lens assembly includes: a first lens having a convex object-side surface; a second lens having a convex object-side surface; at least one lens at an image side of the second lens; a first stop being a variable stop at an object side of the first lens; and a second stop at an image side of the first lens, wherein the second stop determines a minimum F number, and the first stop is variable to determine an F number greater than the minimum F number.

Optical lens assembly and method of forming image using the same

A lens assembly according to the present disclosure includes at least one lens, a spacer, and a barrel. The at least one lens having an effective region configured to refract light, a flange region formed on at least a part surrounding the effective region, and a first cut formed on a sub region of the flange region. The spacer includes a second cut formed to correspond to the first cut and is configured to maintain a distance between multiple lenses mounted in the barrel. Moreover, the barrel is configured to receive the at least one lens and the spacer, in which the lens and the spacer are disposed inside the barrel such that the first cut and the second cut correspond to a third cut formed on an outer circumferential surface of the barrel. Various embodiments of the lens assembly and an electronic device including the same are described herein.

Lens assembly and electronic device including the same

An optical lens assembly utilized as part of an electronic device may be configured to provide a compact structure and/or a thin profile for the electronic device while maintaining high resolution, via the use of at least one lens having planar surfaces in partial portions thereof. An optical lens assembly may include at least two lenses arranged from an object side to an image side, where at least one of the at least two lenses includes an object side surface with a planar central region, an image side surface that also has a planar central region and a peripheral region having an aspherical surface. Various embodiments with differing lens arrangements are disclosed.

Optical lens assembly and apparatus having the same

Disclosed is an image capturing optical system including, in order from an object side, a first lens having positive refractive power and concave upwards, a second lens having positive refractive power, a third lens having negative refractive power, a fourth lens having positive refractive power, a fifth lens having positive refractive power and including at least one inflection points on the object side or an upper surface, and a sixth lens having negative refractive power and being convex upwards.

Image capturing optical system

Embodiments disclose a display apparatus including: an image processing device which processes an image signal; a display device which displays an image based on the processed image signal; a connection device which connects to an upgrade apparatus which processes the image signal; a power supply device which supplies power to each component of the display apparatus and the upgrade apparatus through the connection device; and a first controller which controls the connection device to receive the processed image signal from the upgrade apparatus when the upgrade apparatus is connected through the connection device, wherein the power supply device is controlled by the upgrade apparatus connected through the connection device.

Display apparatus, upgrade apparatus, control method thereof, and display system

Provided are a mobile communication terminal and a photography method for the same using a conversion lens. The mobile communication terminal includes a terminal body, a camera assembly installed at one side of the terminal body and a conversion lens detachably installed on a front surface of the camera assembly, wherein product data of the conversion lens mounted on the camera assembly are automatically identified and a microcomputer installed in the terminal body automatically adjusts a photography mode such that a special photography mode is entered without requiring any professional knowledge.

Mobile communication terminal having conversion lens and photography method using the same

Disclosed is a method for auto-focus control of a digital camera, the method including moving a focus lens of the digital camera to a position for a longest-distance photographing, and then extracting an edge value according to a corresponding position while moving the focus lens by a preset interval in a direction toward an image sensor; estimating a form of a preset function based on the extracted edge values, and calculating a maximum value of the estimated function; calculating a difference between a maximum value of the preset function calculated at a first current position of the focus lens and a maximum value of the preset function calculated at a previous position of the focus lens; and moving the focus lens to a position corresponding to a currently-calculated maximum value of the preset function when the difference between the maximum value of the preset function calculated at the first current position of the focus lens and the maximum value of the preset function calculated at the previous position of the focus lens is less than or equal to a preset threshold value.

Method and apparatus for auto-focus control of digital camera

A three-dimensional (3D) graphic rendering apparatus is provided. The 3D graphic rendering apparatus includes an object-information extraction module which extracts a bound box of each of a plurality of objects, including an i-th object and a j-th object, wherein i and j are natural numbers; an object alignment module which aligns the i-th object and the j-th object according to distances of the i-th and j-th objects, based on the extracted bound boxes of the i-th and j-th objects, from a visual point; and a rendering module which sequentially renders the aligned i-th and j-th objects such that an object among the i-th and j-th objects distant from the visual point can be rendered earlier than an object among the i-th and j-th objects less distant from the visual point.

3D graphic rendering apparatus and method

A hand-shake correction apparatus and method for a camera module for typical use in a mobile device. A camera unit includes an angular velocity sensor for sensing an angular velocity of a hand-shake motion of a camera, a position detection sensor for detecting a current position of an image sensor, and an actuator for actuating the image sensor. An Optical Image Stabilizer (OIS) circuit unit controls the actuator using a multi-rate Proportional Integrate Derivative (PID) control scheme that performs control a plurality of times using a shorter control period compared with existing PID controls for a basic period, in which a reference value is updated according to a control reference value by which the image sensor optimally shifts to correct a hand-shake motion.

Hand-shake correction method and apparatus of camera module for use in mobile device

A PID controlling apparatus and method for providing a control value to a control object according to the difference between an output value of the control object and a target value are provided, in which an error calculator outputs an error value between the target value and the output value of the control object, a PID operator calculates a proportional value, an integral value, and a derivative value of the error value, calculates the control value using the proportional value, the integral value, and the derivative value, and outputs the control value to the control object, a first sampler samples the output value of the control object a plurality of times with respect to the target value and outputs a sampled output value, and a controller controls the PID operator to repeat a PID operation and output the control value according to a sampling period of the first sampler.

Apparatus and method for proportional-integral-derivative control

A method and apparatus for compensating hand-trembling of a camera with reduced time required for capture compensated images. The method may include: calculating exposure time proper for preventing hand-trembling using an AE (Automatic Exposure) algorithm during an image-capturing standby mode; executing image-capturing multiple times depending on the exposure time at the time of inputting a photographing signal through a photographing button, and detecting the amount of hand-trembling at each time of image-capturing. The storing of images can be selected by a preset number of required images from the captured images as resultant images, the images being sequentially stored from an image having a lowest amount of hand-trembling as a resultant image, whereby an image with reduced hand-trembling can be obtained.

Method and apparatus for compensating hand-trembling of camera

Disclosed is an optical image stabilizer for use with a camera lens assembly. The optical image stabilizer including a fixable substrate; a movable substrate movably disposed on the fixable substrate, a fixable comb structure fixed on the fixable substrate and disposed on the movable substrate, and a movable comb structure disposed on the movable substrate and capable of moving on the fixable substrate with the movable substrate, wherein the movable substrate is moved by an attraction force acting between the fixable comb structure and the movable comb structure, when an electromotive force is applied to the fixable comb structure and the movable comb structure. In the optical image stabilizer, the movable substrate on which an image sensor is disposed and the elements for moving the movable substrate are manufactured using MEMS technology, thereby facilitating downsizing of optical image stabilizers and improving the precision of products.

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Byung-kwon Kang