US 11,947,247 B2
Folded camera with continuously adaptive zoom factor
Rami Boltanski, Tel Aviv (IL); Ephraim Goldenberg, Tel Aviv (IL); and Roy Rudnick, Tel Aviv (IL)
Assigned to Corephotonics Ltd., Tel Aviv (IL)
Filed by Corephotonics Ltd., Tel Aviv (IL)
Filed on May 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/319,506.
Application 18/319,506 is a continuation of application No. 17/788,489, previously published as PCT/IB2021/061078, filed on Nov. 29, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/119,853, filed on Dec. 1, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0288783 A1, Sep. 14, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G03B 17/12 (2021.01); G02B 15/14 (2006.01); H04N 23/69 (2023.01)
CPC G03B 17/12 (2013.01) [G02B 15/143103 (2019.08); H04N 23/69 (2023.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A camera module, comprising:
a folded continuous zoom Tele (FCZT) camera comprising an optical path folding element (OPFE) for folding a first optical path (OP1) to a second optical path (OP2), a lens including N lens elements, the lens being divided into three lens groups numbered, in order from an object side of the lens, G1, G2 and G3 and having a lens aperture height HA measured along OP1, and
an image sensor,
wherein the FCZT camera is configured to change a zoom factor (ZF) continuously between a minimum zoom factor ZFMIN and a maximum zoom factor ZFMAX by moving G1 and G3 together relative to G2 and by moving G2 relative to the image sensor, wherein the camera module has a camera module height HM measured along OP1, and wherein HM<HA+3 mm.