US 12,007,671 B2
Systems and cameras for tilting a focal plane of a super-macro image
Noy Cohen, Tel Aviv (IL); and Michael Scherer, Tel Aviv (IL)
Assigned to Corephotonics Ltd., Tel Aviv (IL)
Appl. No. 18/257,110
Filed by Corephotonics Ltd., Tel Aviv (IL)
PCT Filed Jun. 7, 2022, PCT No. PCT/IB2022/055306
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 13, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/259154, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 15, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/288,047, filed on Dec. 10, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/274,700, filed on Nov. 2, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/208,186, filed on Jun. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0400753 A1, Dec. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. G03B 17/12 (2021.01); G03B 5/00 (2021.01); G03B 17/17 (2021.01); G03B 30/00 (2021.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H04N 23/67 (2023.01); H04N 23/69 (2023.01); H04N 23/695 (2023.01); H04N 23/90 (2023.01)
CPC G03B 17/12 (2013.01) [G03B 5/00 (2013.01); G03B 17/17 (2013.01); G03B 30/00 (2021.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H04N 23/67 (2023.01); H04N 23/69 (2023.01); H04N 23/695 (2023.01); H04N 23/90 (2023.01); G03B 2205/0046 (2013.01); G03B 2205/0069 (2013.01)] 37 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A camera, comprising:
an object side optical path folding element (O-OPFE) for folding a first optical path (OP1) to a second optical path (OP2);
a lens;
an image side optical path folding element (I-OPFE) for folding OP2 to a third optical path (OP3), wherein OP1 and OP2 and OP3 are perpendicular to each other;
an I-OPFE actuator; and
an image sensor with an image plane oriented parallel to a X-Y plane in an exemplary orthogonal XYZ coordinate system,
wherein the camera is a super-Macro (SM) camera and has a focal plane, wherein in a zero-tilt focal plane position the focal plane is parallel to a X-Z plane, wherein in a zero-tilt I-OPFE position the I-OPFE forms an angle of 45 degrees with both the X-axis and the Z-axis and is parallel to the Y-axis, wherein the I-OPFE actuator is operative to tilt the focal plane around a first focal plane rotation axis that is parallel to the Z-axis by rotational actuation of the I-OPFE around a first I-OPFE rotation axis that is parallel to the Y-axis, and/or to tilt the focal plane around a second focal plane rotation axis parallel to the X-axis by rotational actuation of the I-OPFE around a second I-OPFE rotation axis that is parallel to the zero-tilt I-OPFE position and perpendicular to the Y-axis.