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Digitaloptics Corporation Mems

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Civcom Devices & Systems Ltd.

Civcom Inc.

Ditigaloptics Corporation Europe Limited

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

Ester Ashkenazi

David Mendlovic

Ziv Shemesh

Emil Bronstein

Yiftah Kowal

Eran Kali

Naim Konforti

Paz Ilan

Gil Avraham

Zeev Zalevsky

Pavel Reshidko

Adi Teitel

Emanuel Marom

Tal Korman

Anat Leshem Gat

Udi Yakir

Dolev Danino

Sagi Habani

Itamar Boral

Itamar Azoulai

Kai Engelhardt

Kobi Goldstein

Aviram Sariel

Efraim Goldenberg

Eyal Ben-Eliezer

Uriel Levy

Yonatan Mandel

Anat Leshem

Guy Michrowski

Omri Levi

Yehuda Miron

Gal Safra

Jamil Nasser

Javier Garcia

Ido Raveh

Amir Shemer

Paul C Elliott

Boris Alexey Glushko

Roy Fridman

Leonard Bergstein

Yariv Oz

Adi Falik

Christopher Aubuchon

Gal Adler

Dan Abraham Shklarsky

Maya Mayberg

Aviad Ofek

Hagai Tzafrir

Itay Jerbi

Shlomo Eisenbach

Dana Deutsch

Shai Vaisman

Eran Briman

Ela Yehudayi

Anat Werbner

Ephrahim Goldenberg

Eliezer Mendlovic

Ya'Ara David

Sharon Karako

Uzi Efron

Nadav Cohen

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

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

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

Indirect time-of-flight (i-ToF) image sensor pixels, i-ToF image sensors including such pixels, stereo cameras including such image sensors, and sensing methods to obtain i-ToF detection and phase detection information using such image sensors and stereo cameras. An i-ToF image sensor pixel may comprise a plurality of sub-pixels, each sub-pixel including a photodiode, a single microlens covering the plurality of sub-pixels and a read-out circuit for extracting i-ToF phase signals of each sub-pixel individually.

Image sensors and sensing methods to obtain time-of-flight and phase detection information

Mobile devices comprising a first camera having a first camera field-of-view (FOV) and including a first image sensor configured to operate a first segment of the first image sensor in a full resolution-mode for capturing full resolution image data and to operate a second segment of the first image sensor in a binning resolution mode for capturing binning resolution image data and a processor for analyzing image data of the first camera to select a region of interest (ROI) in a scene and for configuring the first image sensor so that the selected ROI is captured in full resolution. In some examples, a mobile device further comprises a second camera having a second FOV (FOV) and including a second image sensor configured to capture FOV, wherein the analysis of image data to select a ROI is performed by analysing image data of the second camera.

Systems and methods for zoom digital camera with automatic adjustable zoom field of view

Pop-out lens systems for compact digital cameras, comprising an image sensor and a lens with a field of view FOV>60 deg and having i lens elements L-Li starting with Lfrom an object side toward an image side, each lens element Li having a respective focal length f, the lens elements divided into two lens groups Gand Gseparated by a big gap (BG), the lens having a pop-out total track length TTL<20 mm in a pop-out state and a collapsed total track length c-TTL in a collapsed state, wherein BG>0.25×TTL, wherein either Gcan move relative to Gand to the image sensor for focusing or Gand Gcan move together relative to the image sensor for focusing, and wherein a ratio c-TTL/TTL<0.7.

Slim pop-out wide camera lenses

Digital cameras, optical lens modules for such digital cameras and methods for assembling lens elements in such lens modules. In various embodiments, the digital cameras comprise an optical lens module including N≥3 lens elements L, each lens element comprising a respective front surface Sand a respective rear surface S. In various embodiments the first lens element toward the object side, Land its respective front surfaces Shave optical and/or mechanical properties, such as a clear aperture, a clear height and a mechanical height that are larger than respective properties of following lens elements and surfaces. This is done to achieve a camera with large aperture stop, given a lens and/or camera height.

Folded camera lens designs

Folded digital cameras, comprising a lens with N≥3 lens elements Land having an EFL, an aperture diameter DA, a f-number f/ #, a TTL, and a BFL, wherein each lens element has a respective focal length fand wherein a first lens element Lfaces an object side and a last lens element Lfaces an image side; an image sensor having a sensor diagonal (SD); and an optical path folding element (OPFE) for providing a folded optical path between an object and the image sensor, wherein the lens is located at an object side of the OPFE, wherein the EFL is in the range of 8 mm<EFL<50 mm, and wherein a ratio between the BFL and the TTL fulfills BFL/TTL>0.75.

Compact folded Tele cameras

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Tel Aviv, Israel

Gal Shabtay