US 9,185,291 C1 (12,323rd)
Dual aperture zoom digital camera
Gal Shabtay, Tel-Aviv (IL); Ephraim Goldenberg, Ashdod (IL); Oded Gigushinski, Tel-Aviv (IL); and Noy Cohen, Tel-Aviv (IL)
Filed by Corephotonics Ltd., Tel-Aviv (IL)
Assigned to COREPHOTONICS LTD.
Reexamination Request No. 90/014,987, Mar. 23, 2022.
Reexamination Certificate for Patent 9,185,291, issued Nov. 10, 2015, Appl. No. 14/365,711, Jun. 16, 2014.
PCT Filed Jun. 12, 2014, PCT No. PCT/IB2014/062180
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 16, 2014,
PCT Pub. No. WO2014/199338, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 18, 2014.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/834,486, filed on Jun. 13, 2013.
Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate issued on Jun. 30, 2023.
Int. Cl. H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 23/69 (2023.01); H04N 23/58 (2023.01); H04N 23/667 (2023.01); H04N 23/00 (2023.01); H04N 23/67 (2023.01); H04N 23/951 (2023.01); H04N 23/45 (2023.01); G02B 13/00 (2006.01); G02B 27/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 23/69 (2023.01) [G02B 13/009 (2013.01); G02B 13/0015 (2013.01); G02B 27/0075 (2013.01); H04N 23/00 (2023.01); H04N 23/45 (2023.01); H04N 23/58 (2023.01); H04N 23/667 (2023.01); H04N 23/67 (2023.01); H04N 23/951 (2023.01)]
OG exemplary drawing
AS A RESULT OF REEXAMINATION, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT:
The patentability of claims 1-7, 10, 11 and 14 is confirmed.
Claims 12, 13, 17 and 22 are cancelled.
Claims 8, 9, 15, 16 and 18-21 were not reexamined.
1. A zoom digital camera comprising:
a) a Wide imaging section that includes a fixed focal length Wide lens with a Wide field of view (FOV), a Wide sensor and a Wide image signal processor (ISP), the Wide imaging section operative to provide Wide image data of an object or scene;
b) a Tele imaging section that includes a fixed focal length Tele lens with a Tele FOV that is narrower than the Wide FOV, a Tele sensor and a Tele ISP, the Tele imaging section operative to provide Tele image data of the object or scene; and
c) a camera controller operatively coupled to the Wide and Tele imaging sections, the camera controller configured to combine in still mode at least some of the Wide and Tele image data to provide a fused output image of the object or scene from a particular point of view and to provide without fusion continuous zoom video mode output images of the object or scene, each output image having a respective output resolution;
wherein the video output images are provided with a smooth transition when switching between a lower zoom factor (ZF) value and a higher ZF value or vice versa, wherein at the lower ZF value the output resolution is determined by the Wide sensor, and wherein at the higher ZF value the output resolution is determined by the Tele sensor.