Patents Assigned to Corephotonics Ltd.
  • Compact folded camera
    Patent number: 11693297
    Abstract: Folded cameras comprising a movable lens having a lens optical axis and positioned in an optical path between an optical path folding element (OPFE) and an image sensor, wherein the OPFE folds light from a first direction to a second direction, the second direction being substantially along the lens optical axis, and an actuator for controlled lens movement, the actuator including or being attached to a shield partially surrounding the lens, the shield having an opening positioned and dimensioned to enable installation of the lens into the shield from an insertion direction substantially parallel to the first direction. A folded camera disclosed herein may be included together with an upright camera in a dual-camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Itay Jerby, Itay Yedid, Gal Avivi, Ephraim Goldenberg, Gil Bachar, Gal Shabtay
  • Frame synchronization in a dual-aperture camera system
    Patent number: 11689803
    Abstract: A dual-aperture camera comprising a first camera having a first sensor and a first image signal processor (ISP), the first camera operative to output a first stream of frames, a second camera having a second sensor and a second ISP, the second camera operative to output a second stream of frames, and a synchronization and operation control module configurable to control operation of one camera in a fully operational mode and operation of the other camera in a partially operational mode and to output an output of the fully operational camera as a dual-aperture camera output, whereby the partially operational mode of the other camera reduces a dual-aperture camera the power consumption in comparison with a full operational mode of the other camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Noy Cohen, Gal Shabtay, Oded Gigushinski, Nadav Geva, Anat Leshem Gat, Gil Bachar
  • Reduced height penalty for folded camera
    Patent number: 11686952
    Abstract: Actuators for actuating a lens in a folded camera, folded cameras including such actuators and dual-cameras including such folded cameras. The actuators actuate a lens having a lens optical axis for auto-focus (AF) and optical image stabilization (OIS) and comprise a stationary sub-assembly that includes an OIS coil having an OIS coil plane and an AF coil having an AF coil plane, and a lens actuating sub-assembly movable relative to the stationary sub-assembly with a lens holder holding the lens, wherein the OIS coil plane is perpendicular to the AF coil plane and wherein the lens optical axis lies between the OIS coil plane and the AF coil plane. Some actuators have a design using VCM actuation and a reduced height due to top and/or bottom openings in actuator envelopes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Gal Barak, Itay Yedid, Ephraim Goldenberg
  • Multi-aperture zoom digital cameras and methods of using same
    Patent number: 11689708
    Abstract: Multi-aperture zoom digital cameras comprising first and second scanning cameras having respective first and second native fields of view (FOV) and operative to scan a scene in respective substantially parallel first and second planes over solid angles larger than the respective native FOV, wherein the first and second cameras have respective centers that lie on an axis that is perpendicular to the first and second planes and are separated by a distance B from each other, and a camera controller operatively coupled to the first and second scanning cameras and configured to control the scanning of each camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Oded Gigushinski, Nadav Geva, Guy Lifshitz
  • Spacer design for mitigating stray light
    Patent number: 11675155
    Abstract: Spacers for separating a first lens element from a second lens element, lens modules including such spacers and digital cameras including such lens modules. A spacer may comprising along its perimeter at least one contact section being in contact with the first lens element and the second lens element and at least one non-contact section being separated from the first lens element. The at least one non-contact section comprises an internal inclined surface having designed to reduce or mitigate stray light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Itay Yedid, Ephraim Goldenberg
  • Low total track length for large sensor format including seven lenses of +?+?++? refractive powers
    Patent number: 11668910
    Abstract: Lens assemblies comprising from an object side to an image side, seven lens elements numbered L1-L7; an optical window; and an image sensor having a sensor diagonal length (SDL), wherein an exemplary lens assembly has a total track length TTL that includes the optical window an effective focal length EFL and a field of view (FOV), wherein TTL/EFL<1.100, wherein TTL/SDL<0.64, wherein FOV<90 degrees, wherein a normalized thickness standard deviation constant T_STD of at least four of the seven lens elements complies with T_STD<0.035, and wherein a focal length f1 of lens element L1 fulfills f1/EFL<0.95.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Roy Rudnick, Michael Dror, Ephraim Goldenberg
  • Folded camera lens designs
    Patent number: 11668894
    Abstract: Digital cameras, optical lens modules for such digital cameras and methods for assembling lens elements in such lens modules. In various embodiments, the digital cameras comprise an optical lens module including N?3 lens elements Li, each lens element comprising a respective front surface S2i?1 and a respective rear surface S2i. In various embodiments the first lens element toward the object side, L1 and its respective front surfaces S1 have optical and/or mechanical properties, such as a clear aperture, a clear height and a mechanical height that are larger than respective properties of following lens elements and surfaces. This is done to achieve a camera with large aperture stop, given a lens and/or camera height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Gal Shabtay, Ephraim Goldenberg, Michael Dror, Itay Yedid, Gil Bachar
  • Imaging system with panoramic scanning range
    Patent number: 11671711
    Abstract: Cameras with panoramic scanning range comprising a folded digital camera in which an optical path folding element (OPFE) that folds a first optical path from an object or scene into a second optical path substantially parallel with an optical axis of a lens of the folded camera, the OPFE being rotatable around the lens optical axis, and systems incorporating such cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Roy Fridman, Gil Bachar, Ruthy Katz, Itamar Zinger, Paz Ilan
  • Slow or fast motion video using depth information
    Patent number: 11659135
    Abstract: Systems comprising a digital camera, an interface operable to mark a first entity in a frame of an input video stream and to determine a frame rate ratio FR1/FR2 between a first frame rate FR1 and a second frame rate FR2, a processor configurable to generate an output video stream of the digital camera, wherein the output video stream includes a first entity played at FR1 and a second entity played at FR2, and methods of using and providing same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Ron Sudar, Ester Bar-El
  • Folded zoom camera module with adaptive aperture
    Patent number: 11656538
    Abstract: Systems comprising a folded camera that includes a lens module with a native aperture, the lens module having a height HM, an adaptive aperture located between the native aperture and an optical path folding element, and an adaptive aperture forming mechanism for forming the adaptive aperture, wherein the adaptive aperture forming mechanism has a height HAA not larger than HM, and methods of using same. In various embodiments, the adaptive aperture forming mechanism includes an actuator and at least one pair of blades operative to be moved by the actuator to a plurality of positions to form the adaptive aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Noy Cohen, Ephraim Goldenberg, Michael Scherer
  • Optical-path folding-element with an extended two degree of freedom rotation range
    Patent number: 11650080
    Abstract: Actuators for rotating an optical-path-folding-element with two, first and second, degrees of freedom in an extended rotation range around two respective rotation axes, folded cameras including such actuators and dual-cameras including a folded camera as above together with an upright camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Itay Yedid, Ephraim Goldenberg, Gil Bachar, Gal Barak, Yiftah Kowal
  • Rotational ball-guided voice coil motor
    Patent number: 11650400
    Abstract: Actuators for rotating or tilting an optical element, for example an optical path folding element, comprising a voice coil motor (VCM) and a curved ball-guided mechanism operative to create a rotation or tilt movement of the optical element around a rotation axis upon actuation by the VCM. In some embodiments, an actuator includes two, first and second VCMs, and two curved ball-guided mechanisms operative to create rotation or tilt around respective first and second rotation axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Gil Bachar, Itay Jerby, Itay Yedid
  • Folded camera with optical image stabilization
    Patent number: 11640047
    Abstract: Folded digital camera comprising a lens having a lens optical axis, an image sensor and first and second optical path folding elements (OPFEs), in which the second OPFE is closest to the image sensor, wherein the lens is operative to move in a first direction substantially parallel to the lens optical axis and in a second direction substantially perpendicular to first and second optical paths, wherein the second OPFE is operative to move in the first direction, and wherein the combined motion of the lens and of the second OPFE is operative to provide focus and to compensate for tilts of the camera around the first and second directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventor: Gil Bachar
  • Image sensors and sensing methods to obtain time-of-flight and phase detection information
    Patent number: 11637977
    Abstract: Indirect time-of-flight (i-ToF) image sensor pixels, i-ToF image sensors including such pixels, stereo cameras including such image sensors, and sensing methods to obtain i-ToF detection and phase detection information using such image sensors and stereo cameras. An i-ToF image sensor pixel may comprise a plurality of sub-pixels, each sub-pixel including a photodiode, a single microlens covering the plurality of sub-pixels and a read-out circuit for extracting i-ToF phase signals of each sub-pixel individually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Nadav Geva, Michael Scherer, Ephraim Goldenberg, Gal Shabtay
  • Two-state zoom folded camera
    Patent number: 11635596
    Abstract: A zoom camera comprising an optical path folding element (OPFE) for folding the light from a first optical path to a second optical path, a first lens having a first optical axis and a first effective focal length EFLL1, the first optical axis being along the second optical path, a collimating lens having a second optical axis, and an image sensor located on the second optical path, wherein the collimating lens is movable between at least a first state and a second state, wherein in the first state the collimating lens is positioned in the second optical path between the OPFE and the first lens such that light entering the first lens arrives only from the image side of the collimating lens, and wherein in the second state the collimating lens is positioned outside the first optical path such that light entering the first lens does not arrive from the image side of the collimating lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Gil Bachar, Gal Shabtay, Ephraim Goldenberg, Roy Rudnick, Michael Dror, Noy Cohen
  • Compact folded camera structure
    Patent number: 11619864
    Abstract: Folded cameras and dual folded-upright cameras that reduce a mobile electronic device and specifically a smartphone bump footprint and height. In some examples, the bump footprint is reduced by reducing the height of a back focal plane section of the folded camera. In some examples, the bump footprint is reduced by reducing the height of a back focal plane section and a lens subsection of the folded camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Gal Shabtay, Ephraim Goldenberg, Itay Yedid, Gil Bachar, Noy Cohen
  • Thin dual-aperture zoom digital camera
    Patent number: 11614635
    Abstract: A dual-aperture zoom camera comprising a Wide camera with a respective Wide lens and a Tele camera with a respective Tele lens, the Wide and Tele cameras mounted directly on a single printed circuit board, wherein the Wide and Tele lenses have respective effective focal lengths EFLW and EFLT and respective total track lengths TTLW and TTLT and wherein TTLW/EFLW>1.1 and TTLT/EFLT<1.0. Optionally, the dual-aperture zoom camera may further comprise an optical OIS controller configured to provide a compensation lens movement according to a user-defined zoom factor (ZF) and a camera tilt (CT) through LMV=CT*EFLZF, where EFLZF is a zoom-factor dependent effective focal length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Gal Shabtay, Ephraim Goldenberg
  • Multi-aperture cameras with at least one two state zoom camera
    Patent number: 11611706
    Abstract: Multi-cameras and in particular dual-cameras comprising a Wide camera comprising a Wide lens and a Wide image sensor, the Wide lens having a Wide effective focal length EFLW and a folded Tele camera comprising a Tele lens with a first optical axis, a Tele image sensor and an OPFE, wherein the Tele lens includes, from an object side to an image side, a first lens element group G1, a second lens element group G2 and a third lens element group G3, wherein at least two of the lens element groups are movable relative to the image sensor along the first optical axis to bring the Tele lens to two zoom states, wherein an effective focal length (EFL) of the Tele lens is changed from EFLT,min in one zoom state to EFLT,max in the other zoom state, wherein EFLTmin>1.5×EFLW and wherein EFLTmax>1.5×EFLTmin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Gal Shabtay, Ephraim Goldenberg, Roy Rudnick, Michael Dror, Gil Bachar, Emil Bronstein, Itay Yedid
  • Dual-aperture zoom digital camera with automatic adjustable tele field of view
    Patent number: 11599007
    Abstract: Devices disclosed herein feature a Wide camera with a Wide field of view (FOVw), a folded Tele camera with a Tele field of view (FOVT) smaller than the FOVw and including an optical path folding element (OPFE). The device may be configured to rotate the OPFE to thereby shift FOVT relative to FOVw in response to recognition of an object or subject of interest detected in FOVw or FOVT. The device can have high resolution in this overlapping FOV either by fusing the Wide and Tele images or by capturing and saving the Tele image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Gal Shabtay, Ephraim Goldenberg, Eran Kali, Noy Cohen, Gil Avraham, Ruthy Katz
  • Zoom dual-aperture camera with folded lens
    Patent number: 11567305
    Abstract: Zoom digital cameras comprising a Wide sub-camera and a folded fixed Tele sub-camera. The folded Tele sub-camera may be auto-focused by moving either its lens or a reflecting element inserted in an optical path between its lens and a respective image sensor. The folded Tele sub-camera is configured to have a low profile to enable its integration within a portable electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Gal Shabtay, Ephraim Goldenberg, Gal Avivi, Gil Bachar