Apple Inc.

Micron Technology Incorporated

Hewlett-packard Company

Aptina Imaging Corporation

Agilent Technologies, Inc.

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Avago Technologies Ecbu IP (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC

Biotechnology Research and Development Corporation

Avago Technologies Sensor IP (singapore) Pte. Ltd

Tarsium B.v.

Richard Lawrence Baer

Richard H Tsai

Curt Alan Flory

Andrew David Fernandez

Richard John Topliss

Douglas Stuart Brodie

Ramakrishna Kakarala

Dietrich Werner Vook

John Stewart Wenstrand

Xuemei Zhang

Izhak Baharav

Carl A Myerholtz

Ting Chen

Jianping Zhou

Parin Patel

Scott Thomas Smith

Rolf Toft

Patricia Johnson

Edwin W Foo

Blake M Coughenour

Angelo M Alaimo

Sebastien X Beysserie

Jonathan P Ive

Alan C Dye

Andre Souza Dos Santos

William A Sorrentino, Iii

Behkish J Manzari

Mark Melvin Butterworth

Paul M Hubel

Peter Henry Mahowald

Haitao Guo

Arman Hajati

Johnnie B Manzari

Santiago Alban

Damien J Thivent

Anthony J Rossetti

May Tom-Moy

Paul Lewis Corredoura

George E Williams

Florian R Fournier

Dwight Poplin

Garam Young

Darlene J Spira-Solomon

Thomas P Doherty

Bryan Dang

Michael F Jean

Mohamad H Suleiman

Todd Stephen Sachs

Pavel Pivonka

Paul S Weiss

Christopher D Silsby

Michael Ross Malone

James E Young

Richard David Seely

Jurgen Alfred Lux

Kevin A Gross

Calvin Kyaw Wong

Richard J Topliss

Waguih S Ishak

Barry G Willis

David C Beard

Edward T Chang

Shashikant G Hegde

Laura Savidge

Arathi S Bale

David Amnon Silverstein

Bond Y Ying

Christian A Le Cocq

Lloyd A Bumm

Shannon L Gardiner

Xuemel Zhang

William A Sorrentino Iii

A mobile device includes a camera and a light source module embedded in the mobile device. The light source module includes at least a laser-pumped phosphor light source that includes a photoluminescent phosphor and a laser diode to generate laser light within a first wavelength range to pump the photoluminescent phosphor. Exposure of the photoluminescent phosphor to the laser light results in emission of visible light within a second wavelength range according to a laser-pumped emission spectrum associated with the photoluminescent phosphor.

Mobile device including laser-pumped phosphor light source

Some embodiments provide an apparatus for controlling the motion of a camera component. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes an actuator module. The actuator module includes a plurality of magnets. Each magnet of the plurality of magnets is poled with magnetic domains substantially aligned in the same direction throughout each magnet. The apparatus further includes a coil rigidly disposed around a lens. Each magnet of the plurality of magnets contributes to the forces to adjust focus of the lens based on Lorentz forces generated from the coil.

Voice coil motor optical image stabilization

Various embodiments disclosed herein include techniques for maintaining multiple cameras in focus on same objects and/or at same distances. In some examples, a subordinate camera may be configured to focus based on the focus of a primary camera. For instance, a focus relationship between the primary camera and the subordinate camera may be determined. The focus relationship may characterize the trajectory of the lens position of the subordinate camera with respect to the lens position of the primary camera. In various examples, the focus relationship may be updated.

Primary-subordinate camera focus based on lens position sensing

An accessory strobe device for a mobile device may operate to provide illumination at the same time as an internal built-in strobe (flash) of the mobile device. The accessory strobe device may receive a single, unidirectional signal from the mobile device that provides signals related to the timing of the internal strobe. The accessory strobe device may process the received signal to control its illumination using the timing and relative intensity levels of the internal strobe during metering and main (normal) flash operations associated with a camera on the mobile device. With the accessory strobe device operating using timing and relative intensity levels in a predetermined relationship with the timing and relative intensity levels of the internal strobe, the accessory strobe device may be used to complement the internal strobe during the metering and main (normal) flash operations for the camera.

Accessory strobe interface

The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for adjusting simulated image effects. In some embodiments, user interfaces for adjusting a simulated depth effect is described. In some embodiments, user interfaces for displaying adjustments to a simulated depth effect is described. In some embodiments, user interfaces for indicating an interference to adjusting simulated image effects is described.

User interfaces for simulated depth effects

Voice coil motor optical image stabilization wires

A small format factor camera system for mobile devices that provides improved image quality when using accessory lenses. The system may detect an accessory lens attached to the camera, either via sensing technology or by analyzing captured images. The system may analyze image data to determine current alignment (e.g., optical axis alignment, spacing, and/or tilt) of the accessory lens relative to the camera lens, and may shift the camera lens on one or more axes using a mechanical or optical actuator, for example to align the camera lens optical axis with the accessory lens optical axis. The system may also determine optical characteristics of the accessory lens, either via sensing technology or by analyzing captured images, and may apply one or more image processing functions to images captured using the accessory lens according to the determined optical characteristics of the accessory lens.

Adapting camera systems to accessory lenses

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Richard Lawrence Baer