Corephotonics Ltd.

Eastman-Kodak Company

Kobi Goldstein

Ephraim Goldenberg

Yiftah Kowal

Itay Yedid

Oriel Grushka

Gal Shabtay

Michael Dror

Roy Rudnick

Michael Scherer

Tal Korman

Vinay Bhus

Itay Manor

Daniel Boltinsky

Rami Boltanski

Vitaly Burkatovsky

Ophir Eyal

Dana Deutsch

Moshe Liberman

Shay Amsili

Micha Dror

Pop-out cameras brought to at least an extended operational position and a collapsed position by pop-out mechanisms that include shape-memory alloy (SMA) materials. A camera may comprise a lens including a plurality of lens elements, an image sensor, and a pop-out mechanism configured to control at least one air-gap between the lens elements or between a lens element and the image sensor to bring the camera to an operative pop-out state and to a collapsed state, wherein the pop-out mechanism includes at least one component made from a SMA material.

Pop-out mobile cameras and actuators

The present disclosure provides a camera module for use in a portable electronic device. The camera module comprises a shiftable lens barrel comprising an objective assembly holding coaxially one or more lens elements defining an optical axis. The camera module has a retractable cover window. The lens barrel has an operative state and a collapsed state and the cover window has a corresponding extended and retracted position. The camera further comprises an actuator including a driving motor; a pop-out assembly actuatable by the actuator. The pop-out assembly includes a driving cam configured to be driven rotationally by the actuator, a carrier configured to receive the lens barrel and an image sensor configured to image a field of view of the objective assembly when the lens barrel is in the operative state.

Systems for pop-out camera

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

Optical image stabilization (OIS) mechanisms, comprising a moving frame including a first groove, a static frame including a second groove, an OIS actuator, and first, second and third bearings that define an OIS plane, wherein the first ball bearing is located in a rail formed by the first groove and the second groove, wherein the ball-bearings are positioned between the moving frame and the static frame and allow a first movement and a second movement of the moving frame relative to the static frame, wherein the first movement is a rotational movement performed around a rotation axis that coincides with the position of the first ball bearing and is perpendicular to the OIS plane, and wherein the second movement is a linear movement along the rail.

Slim compact lens optical image stabilization

A method includes removing the previously imaged area () from the flexographic plate () to create an opening in the flexographic plate; providing a portion () from a flexographic plate built from similar material of the previously imaged flexographic plate; adding adhesive material () to the portion or to the opening or to the portion and to the opening; placing the opening within the portion; curing the adhesive material to permanently fix the portion to the flexographic plate; polishing the top () of the portion to match to the top surface () of the flexographic plate; and imaging the portion.

Method for fixing a flexographic plate

The present invention relates to a system for optically adjusting a computer-to-plate (CTP) imaging head which includes an a light source (), optical fiber () for transmitting light emitted from the light source; an imaging lens () for focusing light emitted from a distal end of the optical fiber () on a substrate; wherein a portion of light striking the substrate is reflected back to the distal end of the optical fiber; a fiber optic coupler () in the optical fiber which transmits the reflected light to a light detector (); wherein the light detector measures intensity of the reflected light; and a control unit configured to adjust the imaging head according to the intensity of the reflected light.

System for optically adjusting an imaging head

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Lapid, Israel

Kobi Goldstein