US 12,072,609 B2
Slim pop-out cameras and lenses for such cameras
Gal Shabtay, Tel Aviv (IL); Itay Yedid, Karme Yosef (IL); Ephraim Goldenberg, Ashdod (IL); Tal Korman, Tel Aviv (IL); Roy Rudnick, Tel Aviv (IL); Kobi Goldstein, Lapid (IL); Yiftah Kowal, Rehovot (IL); Michael Dror, Nes Ziona (IL); and Michael Scherer, Tel Aviv (IL)
Assigned to Corephotonics Ltd., Tel Aviv (IL)
Filed by Corephotonics Ltd., Tel Aviv (IL)
Filed on Aug. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/460,231.
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 2021/0397069 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. G03B 17/04 (2021.01); G02B 7/02 (2021.01); G02B 13/02 (2006.01); G02B 13/06 (2006.01); G03B 17/12 (2021.01); G03B 30/00 (2021.01); H04N 23/54 (2023.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H04N 23/57 (2023.01)
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)] 29 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;
an image sensor having a sensor diagonal SD in the range of 5-30 mm; and
a pop-out mechanism configured to control at least one air-gap between lens elements or between a lens element and the image sensor to bring the camera 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 cTTL/SD<0.6.