US 11,860,368 B2
Camera system
Noah D. Bedard, Pacifica, CA (US); Ricardo J. Motta, Palo Alto, CA (US); Emanuele Mandelli, Mountain View, CA (US); Daniel R. Hennigan, Livermore, CA (US); Kathrin Berkner Cieslicki, Los Altos, CA (US); Branko Petljanski, San Jose, CA (US); Brett D. Miller, Redwood City, CA (US); and Kenichi Saito, Cupertino, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/933,060.
Application 17/933,060 is a continuation of application No. 17/276,476, granted, now 11,448,886, previously published as PCT/US2019/053622, filed on Sep. 27, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/739,107, filed on Sep. 28, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0185093 A1, Jun. 15, 2023
Int. Cl. G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G03B 30/00 (2021.01)
CPC G02B 27/0172 (2013.01) [G03B 30/00 (2021.01); G02B 2027/014 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0123 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0129 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0138 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0198 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device, comprising:
a two-dimensional array of cameras, wherein each camera in the array is configured to capture light from a respective portion of a field of view (FOV) in front of the device, wherein each camera in the array comprises, from an object side of the camera to an image side of the camera:
a first lens group comprising one or more lens elements;
an aperture stop; and
a second lens group comprising one or more lens elements; and
a plurality of image sensors configured to capture images formed by the two-dimensional array of cameras at image planes at or near surfaces of the image sensors;
wherein entrance pupils of at least some of the cameras in the array are formed at a common plane located behind the image planes formed at the image sensors; and
wherein the cameras are arranged in the array to provide an amount of parallax between adjacent cameras to reduce vignetting and provide spacing between the adjacent cameras.