US 12,392,999 B2
Folded camera lens designs including eight lenses of +-+-+++-refractive powers
Gal Shabtay, Tel Aviv (IL); Ephraim Goldenberg, Tel Aviv (IL); Roy Rudnick, Tel Aviv (IL); and Nadav Goulinski, Tel Aviv (IL)
Assigned to Corephotonics Ltd., Tel Aviv (IL)
Filed by Corephotonics Ltd., Tel Aviv (IL)
Filed on Jun. 27, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/755,732.
Application 18/755,732 is a continuation of application No. 17/607,400, granted, now 12,050,308, previously published as PCT/IB2021/056357, filed on Jul. 14, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/054,862, filed on Jul. 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0345372 A1, Oct. 17, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G02B 13/00 (2006.01); G02B 9/64 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 13/0065 (2013.01) [G02B 9/64 (2013.01); G02B 13/0045 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A folded camera, comprising: a lens having an effective focal length (EFL) and including N≥7 lens elements Li along a lens optical axis wherein a first lens element L1 faces an object side, wherein each lens element Li has a respective front surface S2i-1 and a respective rear surface S2i, the lens element surfaces marked Sk where 1≤k≤2N, wherein each lens element surface Sk has a clear height value CH(Sk) and a clear aperture value CA(Sk), and wherein a clear aperture value CA(S2N) in lens element LN is greater than a clear aperture value CA(S1) in lens element L1;
an image sensor; and
an optical path folding element (OPFE) for folding a first optical path to a second optical path that is perpendicular to the first optical path and parallel to the lens optical axis, wherein one or more of the lens elements are cut lens elements that have a respective width WLi measured along an axis perpendicular to both the first optical path and the second optical path, and a respective height HLi measured along an axis parallel to the first optical path, wherein WLi>HLi, wherein the camera has an f number f/#<1.1, and
wherein the folded camera is a wide camera with a field of view (FOV) ranging from 60 degrees to 90 degrees.