US 12,228,709 B2
Compact folded tele cameras
Gal Shabtay, Tel Aviv (IL); Nadav Goulinski, Tel Aviv (IL); Ephraim Goldenberg, Tel Aviv (IL); Michael Scherer, Tel Aviv (IL); and Ziv Shemesh, Tel Aviv (IL)
Assigned to Corephotonics Ltd., Tel Aviv (IL)
Appl. No. 18/571,742
Filed by Corephotonics Ltd., Tel Aviv (IL)
PCT Filed Jun. 21, 2022, PCT No. PCT/IB2022/055745
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 19, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/269486, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 29, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/291,628, filed on Dec. 20, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/288,047, filed on Dec. 10, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/245,892, filed on Sep. 19, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/213,899, filed on Jun. 23, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0126051 A1, Apr. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. G02B 13/00 (2006.01); G02B 9/34 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 13/0065 (2013.01) [G02B 9/34 (2013.01); G02B 13/004 (2013.01)] 33 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A camera, comprising:
a lens having an optical axis OA, with N≥4 lens elements Li wherein 1≤i≤N and an effective focal length EFL, wherein a first lens element L1 faces an object side and a last lens element LN faces an image side;
an image sensor having a sensor diagonal SD; and
an optical path folding element OPFE for providing a folded optical path between an object and the image sensor, by folding light from a first optical path OP1 that is parallel to the OA to a second optical path OP2 that is perpendicular to the image sensor,
wherein the camera is a folded digital camera, wherein the lens is located at an object side of the OPFE, wherein the EFL is in the range of 8 mm<EFL<50 mm, and wherein 0.45<SD/EFL<0.7.