US 12,222,476 B2
Imaging device
Kyuhwan Choi, Yongin-si (KR); Dong Kyung Nam, Yongin-si (KR); and Kiwoo Lee, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Jun. 28, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/342,938.
Application 18/342,938 is a continuation of application No. 17/203,247, filed on Mar. 16, 2021, granted, now 11,726,306.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0137748 (KR), filed on Oct. 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0341665 A1, Oct. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. G02B 15/00 (2006.01); G02B 3/14 (2006.01); G02B 26/00 (2006.01); H04N 23/51 (2023.01); H04N 23/69 (2023.01); H04N 23/951 (2023.01)
CPC G02B 15/00 (2013.01) [G02B 3/14 (2013.01); G02B 26/005 (2013.01); H04N 23/69 (2023.01); H04N 23/951 (2023.01); H04N 23/51 (2023.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An imaging device comprising:
a plurality of imaging lens arrays comprising a plurality of imaging optical lenses; and
a sensing array comprising a plurality of sensing elements configured to sense light passing through the plurality of imaging lens arrays,
wherein a first imaging lens array and a second imaging lens array among the plurality of imaging lens arrays comprise an active imaging lens with a variable focal length, and a third imaging lens array among the plurality of imaging lens arrays comprises a passive imaging lens with a fixed focal length,
wherein each of the first imaging lens array, the second imaging lens array and the third imaging lens array are spaced apart from the sensing array, wherein each of the first imaging lens array, the second imaging lens array and the third imaging lens array are separated from each other, and
wherein distances between the first imaging lens array, the second imaging lens array and the third imaging lens array on an optical axis are fixed.