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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2020
Omnivision Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Regis Fan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
OmniVision Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A lens-array imager includes lenses Lforming a lens array having a pitch d, a pixel array including pixel-array regions R, and apertured baffle-layers therebetween; m={0, 1, 2, . . . }. Each pixel-array region has a width r<dand pitch p<d. Each apertured baffle-layer is at a respective distance zfrom the pixel array and has a respective plurality of aperture stops Aforming an aperture-stop array. A center of each aperture stop Ais collinear with both a center of region Rand an optical center of lens L. Each aperture-stop array has a pitch that approaches pas zapproaches zero and approaches lens pitch das zapproaches a distance zbetween lens Land region R. A width of each aperture stop Ahas an upper limit that increases from p, when zequals zero, to Wwhen distance zequals z.