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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2023

Filed:

Dec. 14, 2018
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kenichi Saito, Cupertino, CA (US);

Yoshikazu Shinohara, Cupertino, CA (US);

Pierre-Jean Parodi-Keravec, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 3/10 (2006.01); G02B 3/14 (2006.01); G02B 17/00 (2006.01); G02B 3/00 (2006.01); G02B 21/36 (2006.01); H04N 9/31 (2006.01); G03B 21/14 (2006.01); G02B 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/3185 (2013.01); G02B 21/36 (2013.01); G03B 21/147 (2013.01); H04N 9/3194 (2013.01);
Abstract

An imaging system including a front aperture, two or more refractive lens elements mounted in a lens barrel, and a photosensor. One or more of the components of the imaging system (e.g., the aperture, lenses, lens groups, and/or photosensor) are tilted with respect to each other and/or with respect to a center (or mechanical) axis of the imaging system to compensate for effects including but not limited to keystone distortion, resolution non-uniformity, and gradient blur that result from tilt of an object in the field of view of the camera with respect to the center axis of the camera.


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