US 12,066,747 B2
Slim pop-out cameras and lenses for such cameras
Gal Shabtay, Tel Aviv (IL); Itay Yedid, Tel Aviv (IL); Ephraim Goldenberg, Tel Aviv (IL); Tal Korman, Tel Aviv (IL); Roy Rudnick, Tel Aviv (IL); Kobi Goldstein, Tel Aviv (IL); Yiftah Kowal, Tel Aviv (IL); Michael Dror, Tel Aviv (IL); and Michael Scherer, Tel Aviv (IL)
Assigned to Corephotonics Ltd., Tel Aviv (IL)
Filed by Corephotonics Ltd., Tel Aviv (IL)
Filed on Jan. 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/567,417.
Application 17/567,417 is a continuation of application No. 17/460,231, filed on Aug. 29, 2021.
Application 17/460,231 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/291,475, abandoned, previously published as PCT/IB2020/058697, filed on Sep. 18, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/037,836, filed on Jun. 11, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/026,317, filed on May 18, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/904,913, filed on Sep. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0128886 A1, Apr. 28, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G03B 17/04 (2021.01); G02B 7/02 (2021.01); G02B 13/02 (2006.01); G02B 13/06 (2006.01); G03B 30/00 (2021.01); H04N 23/54 (2023.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H04N 23/57 (2023.01); G03B 17/12 (2021.01)
CPC G03B 17/04 (2013.01) [G02B 7/021 (2013.01); G02B 7/026 (2013.01); G02B 13/02 (2013.01); G02B 13/06 (2013.01); G03B 30/00 (2021.01); H04N 23/54 (2023.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H04N 23/57 (2023.01); G03B 17/12 (2013.01)] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A camera, comprising:
an optics module comprising a lens assembly that includes N lens elements L1-LN starting with L1 on an object side, wherein N≥4 and wherein the lens assembly has a back focal length BFL that is larger than any air-gap between lens elements, an effective focal length EFL within a range of 7 mm to 18 mm and a f number f/#;
a pop-out mechanism configured to actuate the lens assembly to an operative pop-out state and to a collapsed state, wherein the lens assembly has a total track length TTL in the operative pop-out state and a collapsed total track length cTTL in the collapsed state, and wherein the pop-out mechanism is configured to control the BFL such that cTTL/EFL≤0.8; and
an image sensor having a sensor diagonal SD.