| CPC G02B 13/0065 (2013.01) [G02B 13/02 (2013.01); G02B 26/108 (2013.01); G03B 13/36 (2013.01); G03B 17/17 (2013.01); H04N 23/54 (2023.01)] | 46 Claims |
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1. A scanning Tele camera (STC), comprising:
an optical path folding element (OPFE) for folding a first optical path OP1 to a second optical path OP2, wherein the OPFE has an OPFE height HO measured along OP1, an OPFE length LO measured along an axis parallel to OP2, an OPFE light entering surface and an OPFE light exiting surface;
an OPFE actuator;
a lens having a lens optical axis parallel to OP2, an effective focal length EFL, a f number f/#, a maximum lens aperture height HA measured along OP1, and a maximum lens aperture width WA measured along an axis perpendicular to both OP1 and OP2; and
an image sensor having an image sensor diagonal SD and an image sensor height HSensor measured along OP1,
wherein the STC has a STC native field-of-view n-FOVT, wherein the OPFE actuator is configured to rotate the OPFE around a first rotation axis perpendicular to both OP1 and OP2 and around a second rotation axis parallel to OP1 for scanning a scene with the n-FOVT, wherein the first rotation axis is located at a distance Δ1 from the light exiting surface of the OPFE, and wherein Δ1/LO<0.25.
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