US 12,405,525 B2
Actively select lenses for camera focus processes
Morgan Daniel Murphy, Kokomo, IN (US); and Ronald M. Taylor, Greentown, IN (US)
Assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG, Schaffhausen (CH)
Filed by Aptiv Technologies AG, Schaffhausen (CH)
Filed on Mar. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/657,351.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/265,927, filed on Dec. 22, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/265,929, filed on Dec. 22, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0199311 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
Int. Cl. G03B 43/00 (2021.01)
CPC G03B 43/00 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
identifying, by a processor of camera modular alignment and test (CMAT) equipment, a set of camera components and a corresponding set of first lenses that are loaded into the CMAT equipment for producing a portion of a final camera assembly;
controlling, by the processor, the CMAT equipment to execute an initial five-axis lens alignment check that measures an initial modulation transfer function (MTF) performance for the first lenses when dry-fit assembled with the camera components;
determining, by the processor, whether the initial MTF performance for the first lenses satisfies a MTF threshold; and
responsive to determining that the initial MTF performance for the first lenses does not satisfy the MTF threshold, further controlling the CMAT equipment to:
use a set of second lenses that are loaded into the CMAT equipment for producing the portion of the final camera assembly with the camera components;
compute a rotation to apply to the first lenses for use in producing a portion of another final camera assembly with different camera components; and
store the first lenses within the CMAT equipment such that the portion of the other final camera assembly includes the first lenses with the rotation applied.