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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2013
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Douglas Beck, Kirkland, WA (US);
Todd Schoepflin, Shoreline, WA (US);
Chun Beng Goh, Bellevue, WA (US);
Hakon Strande, Woodinville, WA (US);
Raymond Cheng Hui Xue, Issaquah, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques of shifting the lens stack from an image capture sensor within a smart device and/or mobile device are disclosed. The shifting of the center of the lens stack from the center of the sensor allows the Field of View (FOV) of such a camera assembly to have an angle from the normal and/or perpendicular direction from the surface of the device. Such an angle allows the FOV to be substantially horizontal and/or parallel to a surface when the device is held (e.g. by a kickstand) at a similar angle from the vertical direction. When the front of the lens stack is substantially at a front surface of the device and the sensor is attached to a back surface of the device, then the Total Track Length (TTL) is substantially the depth of the device.