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US 7,689,116 B2Granted
Thinner mobile camera optical lens system and image forming method using the same
AssigneeSamsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
InventorsHo Sik You, Seok Ho Song, Ho Seop Jeong, Sang Hyuck Lee, Hye Ran Oh
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Abstract
The present invention provides a mobile camera optical lens system which assures a wide view angle by dividing a view angle into two or more view angles, and simultaneously achieves the thinness of the mobile camera optical lens system by providing separate off-axis lens systems respectively corresponding to the split view angles.
Claims21
A thinner mobile camera optical lens system, comprising:
- two or more lens systems to pass light beams entering through two or more identical split view angles into which an view angle of the mobile camera optical lens system is divided, the lens systems corresponding to the split view angles;
- and
- a single image sensor to receive the light beams passing through the two or more lens systems,
- wherein the lens systems are integrally or separately formed using injection molding, or are formed on wafer scale.
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A thinner mobile camera optical lens system comprising:
- two or more lens systems to pass light beams entering through two or more identical split view angles into which a view angle of the mobile camera optical lens system is divided, the lens systems corresponding to the split view angles;
- and
- a single image sensor to receive the light beams passing through the two or more lens systems,
- wherein the optical lens system satisfies the following condition:
- L/ID≦0.6
- where L is overall length and ID is diagonal length of the image sensor.
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A method of forming an image using a thinner mobile camera optical lens system, comprising:
- dividing a view angle of a mobile camera optical lens system into two or more identical angles;
- passing light beams, entering through the split view angles, through respective lens systems corresponding thereto;
- forming the light beams, passing through the respective lens systems, on the corresponding areas of an image sensor;
- and
- combining the images formed on the respective areas of the image sensor,
- wherein the lens systems are integrally or separately formed using injection molding, or are formed on a wafer scale.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.