Systems and cameras for tilting a focal plane of a super-macro image
AssigneeCorephotonics Ltd.
InventorsNoy Cohen, Michael Scherer
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Abstract
Systems comprising a Wide/Ultra-Wide camera, a folded Tele camera comprising an optical path folding element and a Tele lens module, a lens actuator for moving the Tele lens module for focusing to object-lens distances between 3.0 cm and 35 cm with an object-to-image magnification between 1:5 and 25:1, and an application processor (AP), wherein the AP is configured to analyze image data from the UW camera to define a Tele capture strategy for a sequence of Macro images with a focal plane slightly shifted from one captured Macro image to another and to generate a new Macro image from this sequence, and wherein the focal plane and a depth of field of the new Macro image can be controlled continuously.
Claims38
A camera, comprising:
- an object side optical path folding element (O-OPFE) for folding a first optical path (OP1) to a second optical path (OP2);
- a lens;
- an image side optical path folding element (I-OPFE) for folding OP2 to a third optical path (OP3), wherein OP1 and OP2 and OP3 are perpendicular to each other;
- an I-OPFE actuator;
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- an image sensor with an image plane oriented parallel to a X-Y plane in an exemplary orthogonal XYZ coordinate system,
- wherein the camera is a super-Macro (SM) camera and has a focal plane, wherein in a zero-tilt focal plane position the focal plane is parallel to a X-Z plane, wherein in a zero-tilt I-OPFE position the I-OPFE forms an angle of 45 degrees with both the X-axis and the Z-axis and is parallel to the Y-axis, wherein the I-OPFE actuator is operative to tilt the focal plane around a first focal plane rotation axis that is parallel to the Z-axis by rotational actuation of the I-OPFE around a first I-OPFE rotation axis that is parallel to the Y-axis, and/or to tilt the focal plane around a second focal plane rotation axis parallel to the X-axis by rotational actuation of the I-OPFE around a second I-OPFE rotation axis that is parallel to the zero-tilt I-OPFE position and perpendicular to the Y-axis.
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