US 11,689,803 B2
Frame synchronization in a dual-aperture camera system
Noy Cohen, Tel Aviv (IL); Gal Shabtay, Tel Aviv (IL); Oded Gigushinski, Herzlia (IL); Nadav Geva, Tel Aviv (IL); Anat Leshem Gat, Givataiim (IL); and Gil Bachar, Tel Aviv (IL)
Assigned to Corephotonics Ltd., Tel Aviv (IL)
Filed by Corephotonics Ltd., Tel Aviv (IL)
Filed on Oct. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/496,773.
Application 17/496,773 is a continuation of application No. 16/055,120, filed on Aug. 5, 2018, granted, now 11,172,127.
Application 16/055,120 is a continuation of application No. 15/570,346, granted, now 10,616,484, issued on Apr. 7, 2020, previously published as PCT/IB2017/053470, filed on Jun. 12, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/351,990, filed on Jun. 19, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0030167 A1, Jan. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 23/667 (2023.01); H04N 5/073 (2006.01); H04N 23/45 (2023.01); H04N 23/58 (2023.01); H04N 23/65 (2023.01); H04N 23/67 (2023.01); H04N 23/69 (2023.01); H04N 23/90 (2023.01); H04N 23/951 (2023.01); G02B 13/00 (2006.01); G02B 27/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/04 (2006.01); H04N 7/01 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 23/667 (2023.01) [G02B 13/009 (2013.01); G02B 13/0015 (2013.01); G02B 27/0075 (2013.01); H04N 5/04 (2013.01); H04N 5/0733 (2013.01); H04N 7/0127 (2013.01); H04N 23/45 (2023.01); H04N 23/58 (2023.01); H04N 23/65 (2023.01); H04N 23/651 (2023.01); H04N 23/67 (2023.01); H04N 23/69 (2023.01); H04N 23/90 (2023.01); H04N 23/951 (2023.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
providing a dual-aperture camera that includes a first camera operative to output a respective first camera output and a second camera operative to output a respective second camera output;
operating one camera in a fully operational mode to provide a first frame and operating the other camera in a partially operational mode to provide a second frame; and
synchronizing a parameter of the output of the camera operating in fully operational mode with a parameter of the output of the camera operating in partially operational mode before obtaining a depth map from the first and second frames,
whereby the obtaining of the depth map with one camera in fully operational mode and the other camera in partially operational mode requires less power consumption that the power consumption required when both cameras operate in fully operational mode.