US 11,686,952 B2
Reduced height penalty for folded camera
Gal Barak, Tel-Aviv (IL); Itay Yedid, Karme Yosef (IL); and Ephraim Goldenberg, Ashdod (IL)
Assigned to Corephotonics Ltd., Tel Aviv (IL)
Filed by Corephotonics Ltd., Tel-Aviv (IL)
Filed on Feb. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/187,810.
Application 17/187,810 is a continuation of application No. 16/475,267, granted, now 10,976,567, previously published as PCT/IB2018/060203, filed on Dec. 17, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/677,012, filed on May 27, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/672,754, filed on May 17, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/658,819, filed on Apr. 17, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/626,306, filed on Feb. 5, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0181523 A1, Jun. 17, 2021
Int. Cl. G03B 17/17 (2021.01); G02B 27/64 (2006.01); G02B 7/09 (2021.01); G03B 13/36 (2021.01); H04N 23/57 (2023.01)
CPC G02B 27/64 (2013.01) [G02B 7/09 (2013.01); G03B 13/36 (2013.01); G03B 17/17 (2013.01); H04N 23/57 (2023.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A folded camera, comprising:
a lens having a lens height, the lens positioned in an optical path between an optical path folding element and an image sensor and movable in at least one direction;
an envelope surrounding the lens in at least some sections and including a first section and a second section diametrically opposing each other, the first section and the second section parallelly oriented to the optical path and perpendicularly oriented to the lens height, the first section comprising a first opening to provide a first air gap extending between a first surface of the lens to an external surface of the first section, wherein the folded camera has a height not exceeding the lens height by more than 500 μm.