Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Kihuk Lee

Hwajoong Jung

Sungoh Kim

Youngkwon Yoon

Wooyong Lee

Cheolho Cheong

Mooyoung Kim

Hwayong Kang

Hyunhee Park

Jonghoon Won

Jaehyun Kim

Yongjoon Jeon

Hyungjin Rho

Dongsoo Kim

Jonghun Won

Kwangseok Byon

Changryong Heo

Chihyun Cho

Sunghyuk Shin

Geonsoo Kim

Namjin Kim

Seungmin Choi

Woosung Chun

Chulhwan Lee

Chanyoung Moon

Hokeun Kwak

Bongchan Kim

Donghoon Jang

Woojhon Choi

Minyoung Park

Sangmin Lee

Dongil Son

Taehwan Kim

Jiyoon Park

Min-Sung Lee

Moonsoo Kim

Wonseok Song

Songhee Jung

Hyungsok Yeo

Youngjo Kim

Minsik Kim

Sungjun Lim

Changsu Han

Taeho Kim

Byounguk Yoon

Seungnyun Kim

Youngseok Kim

Jungeun Lee

Hyejin Kang

Shuichi Shimokawa

Jaewoong Choi

Jaemyung Lee

Yeotak Youn

Jaeho Lee

Soyoung Lee

Sungmin Kim

Yongsang Yun

Donghyun Yeom

Jaeho Kim

Seungho Lee

Youngmin Kim

Minchul Kim

Hochul Hwang

Valeriy Prushinskiy

Dasom Lee

Chang-Ryong Heo

Jae-Wook Lee

Dohan Kim

Donghoon Kim

Junyoung Park

Seungwoo Lee

Kwang-Tai Kim

Dong-Hyun Yeom

Sungwon Kim

Jaehyoung Park

Jongmin Yoon

Sungjun Lee

Chanmin Park

Changwoo Lee

HyunJung Kim

Hyung-Jin Park

Ildo Kim

Jongbum Choi

SeWon Kim

Gaurav Jain

Minkyu Park

Min Heu

Yonggu Lee

Junghyeon Kim

Yongkoo Her

Girish R Kulkarni

Jong-Bum Choi

Jaegon Kim

Hyunjun Kim

Hyunmo Yang

Heonjun Ha

Hyung-Ju Chun

Woohyun Baek

Hanjib Kim

Young Ho Rhee

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first imaging optical system including a first image sensor, and a second imaging optical system including a second image sensor, a reflective member, a first lens group, a second lens group, and a third lens group, the first, second, and third lens groups being sequentially arranged from the reflective member to the second image sensor, the second and third lens groups being configured to slide with respect to the first lens group, and the first and second imaging optical systems being configured to satisfy a conditional expression SSW/SST>2, where SSW denotes a size of the first image sensor and SST denotes a size of the second image sensor.

Electronic device comprising a plurality of imaging optical systems

According to certain embodiments disclosed herein, a lens assembly and/or an electronic device including the same may include an image sensor, and first to ninth lenses sequentially arranged along an optical axis. The first lens may include a convex object side surface while having positive refractive power, the second lens may include a concave image sensor side surface while having negative refractive power, the third lens may have positive refractive power, and the eighth lens may have has negative refractive power and may include an object side surface and an image sensor side surface, at least one of which is an aspherical surface including at least one inflection point. The lens assembly and/or the electronic device may satisfy Conditional Expression 1: 20≤v3≤40 and Conditional Expression 2: 1.7≤Fno≤2.0. Here, 'v3' may be an Abbe number of the third lens, and “Fno” may be an F-number of the lens assembly. Various other embodiments are possible.

Lens assembly and electronic device including same

Disclosed is a camera module. The camera module includes a lens assembly including a lens and an image stabilization assembly including a moving member including a first substrate and an image sensor electrically connected to the first substrate, the image stabilization assembly being connected to the lens assembly wherein an optical axis is at least partially aligned with the image sensor. The image stabilization assembly is configured to move the moving member in at least one direction perpendicular to the optical axis such that the optical axis is aligned with a specified position on the image sensor.

Camera module including image stabilization assembly and electronic device including the camera module

According to various embodiments, an electronic device may include a display, a first camera module disposed under the display and including a first image sensor, the first image sensor comprising a first row and a second row adjacent to the first row and a processor. The processor is configured to obtain first image data using the first row according to a first exposure condition set based on a pixel input value of a first color disposed in the first row, to obtain second image data using the second row according to a second exposure condition set based on an pixel input value of a second color disposed in the second row and to generate a first image based on the first image data and the second image data.

Electronic device for generating image and method thereof

An electronic device includes a first camera including a first lens and having a first field of view, a second camera including a second lens module and having a second field of view, a first Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) driver; a second OIS driver; and a processor configured to: operate the first camera as a main camera; position a center of the first lens at a first point; position a center of the second lens at a point on a first axis passing the first point; detect an event of switching the main camera to the second camera; based on the event being detected, operate the second camera as the main camera; move the center of the second lens to a second point; and move the center of the first lens to a point on a second axis and passing the second point.

Electronic device including camera module and electronic device operating method

An electronic device in various embodiments may include: a front cover forming a front surface of the electronic device; a rear cover forming a rear surface opposite to the front surface; a display placed between the front cover and the rear cover and visually exposed through the front cover; a first camera disposed on the front surface; and a processor operatively connected to the first camera and the display. The display may be divided into a display region and a sensor region when facing the front surface. The display may include: a light-emitting/light-receiving layer including light-emitting diodes disposed in the display region and at least one photodiode disposed in the sensor region; and a filter layer placed between the front cover and the light-emitting/light-receiving layer and including light-emitting filters aligned with the light-emitting diodes in the display region, and at least one light-receiving filter aligned with the at least one photodiode in the sensor region. The processor may be configured to receive, from the at least one photodiode, light information related to light passed through the at least one light-receiving filter to be received by the at least one photodiode, and perform, by the light information, a function related to an image acquired from the first camera to be displayed on the display.

Electronic device having display including light sensor

A camera module may include a camera housing, a camera assembly, at least a portion of which is accommodated in the camera housing, the camera assembly including a lens, an image sensor, and a first printed circuit board (PCB), and the camera assembly being coupled to the camera housing so as to be rotatable about a center of rotation of the camera assembly, a second printed circuit board, at least a portion of which is disposed in the camera housing to face the first printed circuit board, a first wireless communication module disposed on at least a portion of the first printed circuit board, and a second wireless communication module disposed on at least a portion of the second printed circuit board, and the first wireless communication module and the second wireless communication module wirelessly transmit and/or receive a signal related to the camera module. Other embodiments may be provided.

Camera module and electronic device comprising same

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a camera, a display, and a processor configured to obtain a first image including one or more external objects by using the camera, display to output a three-dimensional (3D) object generated based on attributes related to a face among the one or more external objects using the display, receive a selection of at least one graphic attribute from a plurality of graphic attributes which can be applied to the 3D object, generate a 3D avatar for the face based on the at least one graphic attribute, and generate a second image including at least one object reflecting a predetermined facial expression or motion using the 3D avatar.

Electronic device for generating image including 3D avatar reflecting face motion through 3D avatar corresponding to face and method of operating same

According to an embodiment, an electronic device may include a first camera configured to obtain an image using light introduced through a first area of a display and a second camera configured to obtain an image using light introduced through a second area of the display, the display including the first area, the second area, and a third area other than the first area and the second area and at least one processor. The first area may include a first light emitting unit and a first line connecting the first light emitting unit and a first light emitting circuit disposed in the third area, the first line being arranged in a first direction. The second area may include a second light emitting unit and a second line connecting the second light emitting unit and a second light emitting circuit disposed in the third area, the second line being arranged in a second direction different from the first direction.

Method for providing image and electronic device supporting the same

An electronic device includes a camera device configured to adjust a focus; a distance extraction device; and a processor configured to: obtain a first image using the camera device; set a first region of interest for focus detection in a portion of the first image; obtain first depth information using the distance extraction device, the first depth information including a depth distance corresponding to at least one pixel included in the first image; set a second region of interest in another portion of the first image based on at least two portions which differ in depth distance being included in the first region of interest based on the first depth information; and capture an image based on a focus determined corresponding to the second region of interest.

Automatic focus detection method of camera and electric device supporting same

An electronic device includes a housing and a camera module in the housing. The camera module includes a camera housing, a lens assembly disposed in the camera housing, an image sensor disposed in the camera housing and at least partially aligned with an optical axis of the lens, a metal plate including a first area that overlaps the image sensor when viewed in a direction of the optical axis and a second area around the first area, and a circuit board at least partially attached to the metal plate and electrically connected with the image sensor. A slit that penetrates the metal plate or a recess concavely defined in a surface of the metal plate is defined in the second area of the metal plate.

Camera module and electronic device including the same

An electronic device includes a display; a camera module disposed to overlap at least a portion of the display and comprising at least one first image sensor module to generate a first Bayer image processed by a first color filter array and at least one second image sensor module to generate a second Bayer image processed by a second color filter array; and a processor. The first color filter array includes at least one first red pixel, at least one first green pixel, and at least one first blue pixel. The second color filter array includes at least one second red pixel, at least one second green pixel, and at least one second blue pixel. A proportion of the least one second blue pixel in the second color filter array is greater than a proportion of the least one first blue pixel in the first color filter array.

Electronic device including under display camera

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a camera module for acquiring image data, a memory for storing a program module for controlling the camera module, and a processor electrically connected to the camera module or the memory, wherein the program module includes an application associated with the camera module, a framework for processing one or more requests received by the application, a hardware interface for interfacing with the camera module, and a solution layer for interlinking the hardware interface and the framework, and performing a post-processing operation of the image data by using at least a part of the camera module.

Electronic device for processing image data and image data processing method using solution layer

An electronic device including a camera module is provided. The camera module includes a lens assembly including a lens, a lens holder in which the lens assembly is fixedly disposed, a sensor carrier that includes an image sensor at least partially aligned with an optical axis of the lens and a circuit board electrically connected with the image sensor and that moves in a first axial direction perpendicular to the optical axis and a second axial direction perpendicular to the optical axis and the first axial direction, a fixed substrate adjacent to the sensor carrier and fixed in a specified position, and a connecting member that extends from the circuit board to the fixed substrate and that extends to surround at least three interconnected edges of the circuit board when viewed in a direction of the optical axis.

Camera having movable image sensor and electronic device including the same

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first device comprising a spherical housing which rotates and in which a spherical inner space is formed, and a second device which is disposed on the outer surface of the spherical housing and has a ring shape, wherein the first device comprises a first driving device which is disposed within the spherical housing and is capable of transmitting driving force to the spherical housing, a structure disposed within the spherical housing and formed such that the second device is disposed on the surface of the spherical housing, a second driving device which is disposed within the spherical housing and drives the structure, and at least one first sensor which is disposed in the structure and faces the inner surface of the spherical housing.

Rotatable electronic device comprising sensor

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Kihuk Lee