US 12,216,387 B2
External recording indicators
Justin J. Schwab, San Francisco, CA (US); Nathanael D. Parkhill, Menlo Park, CA (US); Andrew McMahon, San Carlos, CA (US); Jae Lee, Los Gatos, CA (US); Jerome Tu, Saratoga, CA (US); DK Kalinowski, San Francisco, CA (US); Nalaka Vidanagamachchi, San Jose, CA (US); Yohan Rajan, Cupertino, CA (US); Cam Harder, San Francisco, CA (US); and Yoshikazu Shinohara, Cupertino, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 26, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/307,069.
Application 18/307,069 is a continuation of application No. 17/128,409, filed on Dec. 21, 2020, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/953,026, filed on Dec. 23, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0341752 A1, Oct. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. G03B 17/18 (2021.01); G02B 5/00 (2006.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G02B 27/09 (2006.01); G03B 30/00 (2021.01); G11B 27/34 (2006.01); H04N 5/765 (2006.01); H04N 5/77 (2006.01); H04N 23/54 (2023.01); H04N 23/56 (2023.01); H04N 23/57 (2023.01); H04N 23/60 (2023.01); H04N 23/61 (2023.01); H04N 23/80 (2023.01); G02B 13/00 (2006.01); H04N 23/63 (2023.01)
CPC G03B 17/18 (2013.01) [G02B 5/005 (2013.01); G02B 27/0172 (2013.01); G02B 27/095 (2013.01); G03B 30/00 (2021.01); G11B 27/34 (2013.01); H04N 5/765 (2013.01); H04N 5/77 (2013.01); H04N 5/772 (2013.01); H04N 23/54 (2023.01); H04N 23/56 (2023.01); H04N 23/57 (2023.01); H04N 23/60 (2023.01); H04N 23/61 (2023.01); H04N 23/80 (2023.01); G02B 13/004 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0138 (2013.01); H04N 23/634 (2023.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A camera, comprising:
an image sensor; and
a lens barrel comprising one or more refractive lens elements configured to refract light received from an object field to form an image at an image plane at a surface of the image sensor;
an optical element positioned in front of the lens barrel; and
one or more light sources;
wherein the one or more light sources are configured to emit light to the optical element;
wherein the optical element is configured to redirect the light emitted by the one or more light sources to illuminate at least a portion of the object field;
wherein the optical element is a prism and the light emitted passes through the prism, wherein a first surface of the prism faces the object field, a third surface of the prism faces the lens barrel, wherein the one or more light sources are positioned at a second surface of the prism.