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Gal Shabtay

Ephraim Goldenberg

Gil Bachar

Noy Cohen

Itay Yedid

Michael Dror

Oded Gigushinski

Gal Avivi

Nadav Geva

Itay Jerby

Roy Rudnick

Ruthy Katz

Michael Scherer

Nadav Goulinski

Yiftah Kowal

Ziv Shemesh

Emil Bronstein

Ester Ashkenazi

David Mendlovic

Eran Kali

Naim Konforti

Paz Ilan

Gil Avraham

Zeev Zalevsky

Pavel Reshidko

Udi Yakir

Dolev Danino

Adi Teitel

Sagi Habani

Anat Leshem Gat

Emanuel Marom

Kobi Goldstein

Tal Korman

Itamar Boral

Itamar Azoulai

Kai Engelhardt

Aviram Sariel

Efraim Goldenberg

Eyal Ben-Eliezer

Omri Levi

Anat Leshem

Yonatan Mandel

Uriel Levy

Guy Michrowski

Gal Safra

Jamil Nasser

Yehuda Miron

Javier Garcia

Ido Raveh

Amir Shemer

Paul C Elliott

Boris Alexey Glushko

Roy Fridman

Yariv Oz

Leonard Bergstein

Dan Abraham Shklarsky

Adi Falik

Dana Deutsch

Gal Adler

Christopher Aubuchon

Eran Briman

Ya'Ara David

Hagai Tzafrir

Shai Vaisman

Maya Mayberg

Aviad Ofek

Ela Yehudayi

Anat Werbner

Sharon Karako

Shlomo Eisenbach

Nadav Cohen

Uzi Efron

Eliezer Mendlovic

Ephrahim Goldenberg

Itay Jerbi

Micha Dror

Ephraim Robert Goldenberg

Cameras with OIS capable of performing multi zoom super macro photography and handheld electronic devices comprising such cameras. A camera may include a lens comprising N lens elements L-Ldivided into two or more lens groups arranged along a lens optical axis starting with Lon an object side and ending with Lon an image side, adjacent lens groups separated by a respective air-gap dalong the lens optical axis; an image sensor with a sensor diagonal Sbetween 7 and 20 mm separated from lens element Lby an air-gap dalong the lens optical axis; and an actuator for controlling air-gaps dand dto switch the camera between M≥1 operative pop-out states and a collapsed state and to focus the camera on an object at an object-lens distance of less than 30 cm.

Pop-out zoom camera

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 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.

Systems and methods for obtaining a super macro image

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.

System and method for creating background blur in camera panning or motion

Multi-cameras and in particular dual-cameras comprising a Wide camera comprising a Wide lens and a Wide image sensor, the Wide lens having a Wide effective focal length EFLand a folded Tele camera comprising a Tele lens with a first optical axis, a Tele image sensor and an OPFE, wherein the Tele lens includes, from an object side to an image side, a first lens element group G1, a second lens element group G2 and a third lens element group G3, wherein at least two of the lens element groups are movable relative to the image sensor along the first optical axis to bring the Tele lens to two zoom states, wherein an effective focal length (EFL) of the Tele lens is changed from EFLin one zoom state to EFLin the other zoom state, wherein EFL>1.5×EFLand wherein EFL>1.5×EFL.

Multi-aperture cameras with at least one two state zoom camera

Mobile electronic devices comprising a first camera with a first field of view FOV, a second, Macro camera with a Macro field of view FOVsmaller than FOV, and a device screen that includes a first screen section configured to display first image data from the first camera and a second screen section configured to display second image data from the Macro camera when both cameras are focused to a distance equal to or smaller than 30 cm.

Split screen feature for macro photography

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.

Auto focus and optical image stabilization in a compact folded camera

Scanning Tele cameras (STCs) based on two optical path folding element (OPFE) field-of-view scanning and mobile devices including such STCs. A STC may comprise a first OPFE (O-OPFE) for folding a first optical path OPto a second optical path OP, an O-OPFE actuator, a second OPFE (I-OPFE) for folding OPto a third optical path OP, an I-OPFE actuator, a lens, a lens actuator and an image sensor, wherein the STC has a STC native field-of-view (n-FOV), wherein the O-OPFE actuator is configured to rotate the O-OPFE around a first axis and the I-OPFE actuator rotates the I-OPFE around a second axis for scanning a scene with the n-FOV, wherein the lens actuator is configured to move the lens for focusing along a third axis, and wherein the first axis is perpendicular to the second axis and parallel to the third axis.

Large-aperture compact scanning tele cameras

Digital cameras comprising a lens assembly comprising N lens elements L-Lstarting with Lon an object side, wherein N is ≥4, an image sensor having a sensor diagonal S, and a pop-out mechanism that controls a largest air-gap d between two consecutive lens elements within lens elements Land Lto 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 Sis in the range of 7-20 mm and wherein cTTL/S<0.6.

Slim pop-out cameras and lenses for such cameras

The presently disclosed subject matter includes a mobile electronic comprising an integrated camera, comprising a Wide camera unit comprising a Wide lens unit, and a Telephoto camera unit comprising a telephoto lens unit, the telephoto lens unit and the wide lens unit having respectively TTL/EFL ratios smaller and larger than 1 and defining separate telephoto and wide optical paths.

Miniature telephoto lens module and a camera utilizing such a lens module

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.

Dual aperture zoom camera with video support and switching / non-switching dynamic control

An optical lens assembly includes five lens elements and provides a TTL/EFL<1.0. In an embodiment, the focal length of the first lens element f1<TTL/2, an air gap between first and second lens elements is smaller than half the second lens element thickness, an air gap between the third and fourth lens elements is greater than TTL/5 and an air gap between the fourth and fifth lens elements is smaller than about 1.5 times the fifth lens element thickness. All lens elements may be aspheric.

Miniature telephoto lens assembly

Folded cameras with a total track length (TTL), f numbers smaller than 1.2 and large fields of view, e.g. of at least 60 degrees. Such folded cameras may comprise a lens with N≥7 lens elements, an image sensor and an optical path folding element for providing a folded optical path between an object and the lens, wherein an aperture stop of the lens is located closer to a first surface of the first lens element facing the object than a distance d that fulfills d/TTL=0.2.

Folded camera lens designs including eight lenses of +-+-+++-refractive powers

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.

Compact folded camera structure

Voice coil motor (VCM) actuators for rotating an optical path folding element (OPFE) over an extended scanning range relative to a scanning/rotation range needed for optical image stabilization (OIS).

Folded camera structure with an extended light- folding-element scanning range

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Tel Aviv, Israel

Gal Shabtay