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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2018
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Romeo I. Mercado, Fremont, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A compact, small form factor optical system for cameras that provides multiple optical paths to capture images of an object field in different portions of the light spectrum. The optical system includes a front lens group that captures visible and near-infrared (NIR) light from an object field and refracts the light to a beam splitter that splits the visible light and the NIR light onto two paths. On the visible light path, a visible light lens group refracts the visible light to form an image of the object field at a visible light sensor. On the NIR light path, a NIR light lens group refracts the NIR light to form an image of the object field at an NIR light sensor. The optical system thus provides images of the object field at two sensor planes, one image in the visible spectrum and the other image in the NIR spectrum.