Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Min Heu

Kwangseok Byon

Jaeheung Park

Yong-jae Lee

Dongok Choi

Kihuk Lee

Young-woo Park

Jonghoon Won

Jaehyoung Park

Wonseok Song

Hyungjin Rho

Won Seok Song

Jung-pa Seo

Yong-Jae Lee

Bongchan Kim

Hokeun Kwak

Jungpa Seo

Hyosang An

Yongkwan Kim

Jae Mu Yun

Hwan-seon Lee

Dongil Seo

Tae-Kun Lee

Bo Hee Lee

Jaemu Yun

Nak Hoon Kim

Yun-jeong Kim

Hak Jae Jeon

Byung Ho Ahn

Sunhyoung Pyo

Sangyong Jeon

Hyun-Jea Kim

Youngbae Son

Jeongkil Shin

Hwan-Seon Lee

Jung-Pa Seo

Provided are a lens assembly and an electronic apparatus including the same. The lens assembly may include four or more lenses arranged from an object side to an image side where an image sensor is located. The lens assembly may further include a first lens arranged closest to the object side, having positive refractive power, including an object-side surface convex toward the object side, and being an aspherical lens, a last lens arranged closest to the image side, and two or more plastic aspherical lenses disposed between the first lens and the last lens. Various other embodiments thereof may also be possible and at least some of which are disclosed.

Lens assembly and electronic apparatus including the same

A camera module and an electronic device including the same are provided. The camera module and an electronic device include a camera housing, a barrel structure including at least one lens aligned along a first optical axis direction, the barrel structure being at least partially accommodated in the camera housing, a guide unit configured to guide the barrel structure to reciprocate along the first optical axis direction or reciprocate in a plane intersecting the first optical axis, a driving unit axis, a reflective member configured to refract or reflect light incident through the at least one lens in a second optical axis direction intersecting the first optical axis, and an image sensor disposed on the camera housing, aligned with the reflective member in the second optical axis direction, and configured to receive the light refracted or reflected by the reflective member.

Camera module and electronic device including the same

A display device includes a display configured to output a screen image along a first direction, and a lens assembly including at least three lenses arranged sequentially along an optical axis and configured to focus or guide the screen output from the display in a predetermined direction/predetermined position. The lens assembly may be configured to reflect the screen output from the display at least twice between a first lens disposed farthest from the display and an nlens disposed closest to the display. The display may be disposed to be movable in a direction crossing the first direction or the optical axis. The display device satisfies [Conditional expression 1: 0.02<=MD/DSP<=0.2] regarding the diagonal length DSP of the display and the distance MD from the optical axis to the center of the display which is measured along a direction perpendicular to the optical axis.

Display device and electronic device including same

A camera module includes: a first refractive member configured to reflect or refract light that is incident on the first refractive member in a first direction, in a second direction intersecting the first direction; a second refractive member configured to reflect or refract the light that is reflected or refracted by the first refractive member and is incident on the second refractive member in the second direction, in a third direction intersecting the second direction; an image sensor configured to detect the light that is reflected or refracted by the second refractive member and is incident on the image sensor in the third direction; and at least one optical member provided between the first refractive member and the second refractive member, wherein the at least one optical member is configured to block the light that is reflected or refracted by the first refractive member from being incident on the image sensor, and to guide the light that is reflected or refracted by the first refractive member to be incident on the second refractive member in the second direction.

Camera module including folded optics

An electronic device according to an embodiment includes a camera module, a memory, and a processor. The camera module includes a lens part, a first image sensor, a second image sensor, and an optical splitter. The optical splitter provides a first portion of light introduced through the lens part to the first image sensor and provides a second portion of the light introduced through the lens part to the second image sensor. The processor combines first image data obtained based on the first image sensor and second image data obtained based on the second image sensor to generate third image data and performs a specified function.

Electronic device including camera for obtaining different image data from a plurality of image sensors using an optical splitter

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

One or more embodiments of the disclosure relate to, for example, lens assemblies which may function not only as a wide angle lens but also as a telephoto lens. According to an embodiment, a lens assembly comprises a first lens having a positive refractive power, the first lens having a convex surface in a first direction, a second lens having a positive refractive power, the second lens having a convex surface in the first direction, a third lens having a negative refractive power, the third lens having a concave surface in a second direction opposite to the first direction, a fourth lens having a concave surface in the first direction and disposed to face the concave surface of the third lens, and a fifth lens having a positive refractive power, the fifth lens having a convex surface in the second direction. Other embodiments are also disclosed.

Lens assembly and electronic device including the same

An electronic device is disclosed. Moreover, various embodiment found through the disclosure are possible. An electronic device may include a lens assembly including, one or more lenses, an image sensor, an image stabilizer, and a processor. The lens assembly may be arranged to from a first angle between an optical axis of at least some lenses of the one or more lenses, and a surface of the image sensor. The processor may be configured to change an angle of the lens assembly through the image stabilizer in response to shaking of the electronic device, obtain an image through the image sensor, in a state that the angle of the lens assembly is changed, correct, based at least on the first angle and a second angle corresponding to the changed angle of the lens assembly, at least a portion of the image, which is distorted, by the second angle, and display the corrected image through a display electrically connected with the electronic device.

Apparatus and method for compensating for image change caused by optical image stabilization motion

Provided are an optical lens assembly and an electronic apparatus including the same. The optical lens assembly includes a first lens group and a second lens group that are arranged from an object side to an image side, wherein the first lens group has positive refractive power and is fixed during focusing, and the second lens group moves along an optical axis for focusing.

Optical lens assembly and electronic apparatus including the same

Provided are an optical lens assembly and an electronic apparatus including the same according to various embodiments. The optical lens assembly includes: a first lens group having a positive refractive power; a second lens group having a positive refractive power; and a bending unit located between the first lens group and the second lens group and configured to bend an optical path, wherein the first lens group, the second lens group, and the bending unit are sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side, and the optical lens assembly has a maximum viewing angle of 130&#xb0; or more. Other embodiments may be implemented.

An optical system may include: a first lens having positive refractive power facing an object, the first lens having a first convex face facing the object; a second lens having positive refractive power, the second lens having a second convex face facing the object; a third lens having negative refractive power, the third lens having a third concave face facing an image sensor; a fourth lens adjacent to the third lens; a fifth lens adjacent to the fourth lens, the fifth lens having a fourth face facing the object, the fourth face being convex where the fifth lens intersects the optical axis; and a sixth lens adjacent to the fifth lens. The characteristics of the optical system satisfy equation, 0.4&#x3c;f/f&#x3c;1/6 (Here, 'f' represents a focal distance of the optical system, and 'f' represents the focal distance of the second lens).

Short focus lens optical system and imaging device including the same

A zoom lens including a first lens group having a positive refractive power; a second lens group having a negative refractive power; a third lens group having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens group having a negative refractive power; and a fifth lens group having a positive refractive power. The first through fifth lens groups are arranged sequentially from an object side to an image side of the zoom lens, and the first lens group includes a doublet lens and a lens having a positive refractive power. The second lens group includes a first sub-lens group having a negative refractive power and a second sub-lens group having a negative refractive power that is arranged to perform a focusing function. Each of the lens groups is arranged to move when the zoom lens is zoomed.

Zoom lens having wide-angle and telephoto modes and photographing apparatus including the same

A zoom lens and a photographing apparatus including the same. The zoom lens includes, in an order from an object side to an image side: a front lens group having a negative refractive power; an aperture stop; and a rear lens group having a positive refractive power, wherein the front lens group includes a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, and a third lens group having a negative refractive power, and the third lens group includes at least one positive lens and one negative lens and performs focusing, and the rear lens group includes at least two lens groups that are moved during zooming and have a positive refractive power, wherein at least one of the lenses of the two lens groups perform hand shake correction.

Zoom lens and photographing apparatus including the same

A fish eye lens system and a photographing apparatus including the same, the fish eye lens system including, in an order from an object side to an image side: a first lens group having a negative refractive power; an aperture stop; and a second lens group having a positive refractive power, wherein the first lens group includes, in the order from the object side to the image side, a (-A)-th lens group having a negative refractive power, a (-B)-th lens group having a negative refractive power, and a (-C)-th lens group including at least one positive lens, and wherein the (-B)-th lens group is moved to perform focusing.

Fish eye lens system and photographing apparatus including the same

A zoom lens includes: a first lens group having a negative refractive power; a second lens group having a positive refractive power; a third lens group having a positive refractive power and including one piece of positive lens; and a fourth lens group having a negative refractive power, wherein the first, second, third, and fourth lens groups are sequentially disposed in an order from an object side to an image surface side of the zoom lens, all distances between adjacent lens groups change and the third lens group performs focusing while zooming from a wide angle position to a telephoto position, and a following condition is satisfied: 0&#x3c;(L&#x2212;L)/L&#x3c;0.5, wherein Ldenotes a distance between a lens surface of the image surface side of the second lens group and lens surface of the object side of the third lens group in the wide angle position, and Ldenotes a distance between a lens surface of the image surface side of the second lens group and a lens surface of the object side surface of the third lens group in the telephoto position.

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Seoul, South Korea

Min Heu