US 12,155,922 B2
Camera system of mobile device including geometry phase lens
Chang-Kun Lee, Seoul (KR); Hyun Seok Choi, Seoul (KR); Ju Hyun Kim, Anyang-si (KR); and Hong-Seok Lee, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Gyeonggi-Do (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Jul. 25, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/226,131.
Application 18/226,131 is a continuation of application No. 17/689,938, filed on Mar. 8, 2022, granted, now 11,758,258.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0031031 (KR), filed on Mar. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0379566 A1, Nov. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 5/335 (2011.01); G02B 27/28 (2006.01); G03B 30/00 (2021.01); H04M 1/02 (2006.01); H04N 23/10 (2023.01); H04N 23/16 (2023.01); H04N 23/45 (2023.01); H04N 23/54 (2023.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H04N 23/57 (2023.01); H04N 23/667 (2023.01); H04N 23/69 (2023.01); H10K 59/65 (2023.01); H10K 77/10 (2023.01); H10K 102/00 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/57 (2023.01) [G02B 27/286 (2013.01); G03B 30/00 (2021.01); H04M 1/0216 (2013.01); H04M 1/0264 (2013.01); H04N 23/10 (2023.01); H04N 23/16 (2023.01); H04N 23/45 (2023.01); H04N 23/54 (2023.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H04N 23/667 (2023.01); H04N 23/69 (2023.01); H10K 59/65 (2023.02); H10K 77/111 (2023.02); H10K 2102/311 (2023.02)] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A camera system of a mobile device, comprising:
a sensor module disposed in a first body connected to a rotation member of the mobile device, wherein the sensor module includes an image sensor; and
a lens module disposed in a second body connected to the rotation member, wherein the lens module includes a first geometry phase lens and at least one optical lens,
wherein
the sensor module further includes a first polarization selecting device in front of the image sensor with respect to an incident direction of a first beam input to the sensor module, wherein the first polarization selecting device electrically or mechanically modulates a polarization state of the first beam input to the sensor module,
the sensor module and the lens module are disposed below a common surface of the first body and the second body,
when the first body and the second body are rotated with respect to the rotation member to overlap each other, the sensor module and the lens module are operated as a common camera system, and
the common camera system operates in a first photographing mode and a second photographing mode with different viewing angles based on two focuses generated by modulating a polarization state of a second beam input to the first geometry phase lens of the lens module.