Corephotonics Ltd.

Adeia Semiconductor Bonding Technologies Inc.

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Leland Stanford Junior University

Fotonation Limited

Nvidia Corporation

Digitaloptics Corporation Mems

Corephontonics Ltd.

Noy Cohen

Ephraim Goldenberg

Gal Shabtay

Oded Gigushinski

Nadav Geva

Ruthy Katz

Gil Bachar

Ester Ashkenazi

Itay Yedid

Michael Scherer

Yiftah Kowal

Eran Kali

Gil Avraham

Michael Dror

Roy Rudnick

Anat Leshem Gat

Eyal Ben-Eliezer

Omri Levi

Udi Yakir

Dolev Danino

Sagi Habani

Itay Jerby

Nadav Goulinski

Adi Teitel

Orly Liba

Yoav Kurtz

Nitzan Horovitz

Guy Michrowski

Shahar Kovalsky

Anat Leshem

Yonatan Mandel

Alexandru Drimbarean

Marc Stewart Levoy

Tomer Schwartz

Paz Ilan

Daniel Cohen

Jeffrey Danowitz

Samuel J Yang

Itamar Azoulai

Logan Grosenick

Yariv Oz

Michael J Broxton

Poitr Stec

Adi Falik

Gal Safra

Mark A Horowitz

Karl A Deisseroth

Ricardo Jansson Motta

Uri Kinrot

David Mendlovic

Corneliu Zaharia

Ido Yerushalmy

Pavel Reshidko

Roy Fridman

Mihai Constantine Munteanu

Gal Adler

Aaron S Andalman

Anat Werbner

Ela Yehudayi

Maya Mayberg

Eran Briman

Karl A Disseroth

Dana Deutsch

Aviad Ofek

Ehpraim Goldenberg

Limor Battino

Shahar Kovelsky

Yariz Oz

Avi Amramy

Eliezer Uri Mendlovic

Ya'Ara David

Avia Israeli

Oren Zohar

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

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

Folded digital cameras comprising a lens system with a lens and an image sensor, the lens having N≥6 lens elements L, an effective focal length (EFL) and a total track length (TTL), wherein each lens element has a respective focal length fand wherein a first lens element Lfaces an object side, and an optical path folding element (OPFE) for providing a folded optical path between an object and the lens. In some embodiments, the lens system has a focusing range that covers object-lens distances from infinity to a minimal object distance (MIOD), wherein MIOD/EFL is smaller than 20 or even 7. In some embodiments, the ratio of a maximal chief ray angle to a field of view of the folded camera Max CRA/FOV is smaller than 0.25 or even 0.15 when the camera is focused at infinity.

Folded macro-tele camera lens designs including six lenses of ++−+−+ or +−++−+, seven lenses of ++−++−+, or 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

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

Systems including dual-aperture zoom digital cameras with scanning optical path folding elements (OPFEs) for automotive or surveillance applications and methods for operating and using same. In some embodiments, a dual-aperture zoom digital camera comprises a Wide camera with a Wide field of view FOV, a Wide sensor and a Wide lens, wherein the Wide camera is operative to output Wide image information, a Tele camera with a Tele field of view FOVsmaller than FOVand with a Tele sensor, a Tele lens with a Tele lens optical axis and a scanning OPFE, and a processing unit operative to detect an object of interest (OOI) from Wide and/or Tele image information and to direct the Tele camera to move FOVto acquire Tele image information on the OOI.

Cameras with scanning optical path folding elements for automotive or surveillance

Systems comprising a folded camera that includes a lens module with a native aperture, the lens module having a height H, an adaptive aperture located between the native aperture and an optical path folding element, and an adaptive aperture forming mechanism for forming the adaptive aperture, wherein the adaptive aperture forming mechanism has a height Hnot larger than H, and methods of using same. In various embodiments, the adaptive aperture forming mechanism includes an actuator and at least one pair of blades operative to be moved by the actuator to a plurality of positions to form the adaptive aperture.

Folded zoom camera module with adaptive aperture

Mobile handheld electronic devices such as smartphones, comprising a Wide camera for capturing Wide images with respective Wide fields of view (FOV), a Tele camera for capturing Tele images with respective Tele fields of view (FOV) smaller than FOV, and a processor configured to stitch a plurality of Wide images into a panorama image with a field of view FOV>FOVand to pin a Tele image to a given location within the panorama image to obtain a smart panorama image.

Systems and methods for obtaining a smart panoramic image

Dual-aperture digital cameras with auto-focus (AF) and related methods for obtaining a focused and, optionally optically stabilized color image of an object or scene. A dual-aperture camera includes a first sub-camera having a first optics bloc and a color image sensor for providing a color image, a second sub-camera having a second optics bloc and a clear image sensor for providing a luminance image, the first and second sub-cameras having substantially the same field of view, an AF mechanism coupled mechanically at least to the first optics bloc, and a camera controller coupled to the AF mechanism and to the two image sensors and configured to control the AF mechanism, to calculate a scaling difference and a sharpness difference between the color and luminance images, the scaling and sharpness differences being due to the AF mechanism, and to process the color and luminance images into a fused color image using the calculated differences.

Thin multi-aperture imaging system with auto-focus and methods for using same

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 combine in still mode at least some of the Wide and Tele image data to provide a fused output image from a particular point of view, and to provide without fusion continuous zoom video mode output images, each output image having a given output resolution, wherein the video mode output images are provided with a smooth transition when switching between a lower zoom factor (ZF) value and a higher ZF value or vice versa, and wherein at the lower ZF the output resolution is determined by the Wide sensor while at the higher ZF value the output resolution is determined by the Tele sensor.

Dual aperture zoom digital camera

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

A dual-aperture camera comprising a first camera having a first sensor and a first image signal processor (ISP), the first camera operative to output a first stream of frames, a second camera having a second sensor and a second ISP, the second camera operative to output a second stream of frames, and a synchronization and operation control module configurable to control operation of one camera in a fully operational mode and operation of the other camera in a partially operational mode and to output an output of the fully operational camera as a dual-aperture camera output, whereby the partially operational mode of the other camera reduces a dual-aperture camera the power consumption in comparison with a full operational mode of the other camera.

Frame synchronization in a dual-aperture camera system

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Tel Aviv, Israel

Noy Cohen