A folded camera that includes two light folding elements such as prisms and an independent lens system, located between the two prisms, which includes an aperture stop and a lens stack. The lens system may be moved on one or more axes independently of the prisms to provide autofocus and/or optical image stabilization for the camera. The shapes, materials, and arrangements of the refractive lens elements in the lens stack may be selected to capture high resolution, high quality images while providing a sufficiently long back focal length to accommodate the second prism.

An optical unit with shake-correction function is provided and includes: a movable body, a rotational support structure, a gimbal mechanism, and a fixed body. The rotational support structure rotatably supports the movable body having a camera module around an optical axis. The rotational support structure is rotatably supported by the gimbal mechanism around a first axis and a second axis. The rotational support structure includes a first annular groove in the movable body, a plate roller having a second annular groove, multiple spherical objects to roll between the first annular groove and the second annular groove, and a pressurization structure configured to apply a force for bringing the first annular groove and the second annular groove close to each other in the direction of the optical axis.

Various embodiments include a camera having an actuator arrangement with a low-profile actuator arrangement. For example, the camera may include a voice coil motor (VCM) actuator to move a lens group and/or an image sensor of the camera. According to some embodiments, the VCM actuator may include one or more magnet-coil groups located beside an image sensor package of the camera. In some embodiments, a magnet-coil group may be located between the image sensor package and a side wall of the camera. Additionally, or alternatively, the magnet-coil group may at least partially extend (e.g., in a direction parallel to an optical axis defined by the lens group) past an upper surface of the image sensor and a bottom of the camera in some embodiments.

An embodiment of the present invention discloses a camera actuator including a housing, a mover disposed in the housing, a tilting guide part disposed between the housing and the mover, a driving part disposed in the housing to drive the mover, a first magnetic body disposed at the mover, and a second magnetic body disposed to face the first magnetic body, wherein the tilting guide part is pressed by the mover due to repulsive force of the first magnetic body and the second magnetic body.

An imaging lens module includes an imaging lens unit, an optical folding component and a sensing magnet group. The imaging lens unit has an optical axis. The optical folding component is configured to fold an incident optical path into the imaging lens unit to coincide with the optical axis. The sensing magnet group includes two sensing magnets that are sequentially disposed on the imaging lens unit along a direction in parallel with the optical axis. The sensing magnets are located at the same side with respect to a reference plane that passes through the optical axis and has a normal direction perpendicular to the optical axis. When the sensing magnets are observed from the direction in parallel with the optical axis, images of the sensing magnets are at least partially overlapped. Two adjacent magnetic poles of the sensing magnets are like poles between which there is a repulsive force.

A deroll control system includes an outer housing, a detector configured to capture an image, an annular torsional flexure, at least one drive and a controller configured to control the at least one drive. The annular torsional flexure has a rotatable inner mount surface to which the detector is mounted, a fixed outer mount surface fixed to the outer housing and spaced radially apart from the rotatable inner mount surface, and a flexure region having a plurality of flexures spaced radially between the inner mount surface and the outer mount surface. The at least one drive is coupled to the inner mount surface of the torsional flexure and is configured to cause a counter-rotation of the inner mount surface and the detector about a central rotational axis perpendicular to an image plane to correct a rotation of the image as the detector is capturing the image.

An optical imaging system includes a sensor configured to obtain position and attitude information of the optical imaging system; an optical lens component; an image stabilizing mechanism, configured to change a path of the light based on the position and attitude information. The image stabilizing mechanism includes a first optical element; a support frame supporting the first optical element; a drive mechanism, configured to generate a linear driving force based on the position and attitude information; and a conversion part, configured to convert the linear driving force to a rotary driving force, so as to cause the support frame carrying the first optical element to move with respect to an axis to change the path of the light.

A method for stabilizing a video sequence comprises: obtaining an indication of camera movement from acquisition of a previous camera frame to acquisition of a current camera frame; determining an orientation for the camera at a time of acquiring the current camera frame; and determining a candidate orientation for a crop frame for the current camera frame by adjusting an orientation of a crop frame associated with the previous camera frame according to the determined orientation. A boundary of one of the camera frame or crop frame is traversed to determine if a specific point on the boundary of the crop frame exceeds a boundary of the camera frame. If so, a rotation of the specific point location which would bring the specific point location onto the boundary of the crop frame is determined and the candidate crop frame orientation updated accordingly before the crop frame is displayed.

A camera system comprising a body that contains a lens with a range of focus settings and an image sensor operable to record an image. The camera system has a controller operably connected to the sensor to receive the image, and the controller is operably connected to the lens to control the focus setting. The controller is operable to focus the lens on a selected point, and the controller is operable to determine at least two different first and second subject elements. The controller is operable to focus the lens on the first subject and record a first image, and the controller is operable to focus the lens on the second subject and record a second image.

A camera device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a light output unit that outputs an output light signal to be irradiated to an object, a lens unit that condenses an input light signal reflected from the object, an image sensor that generates an electric signal from the input light signal condensed by the lens unit and an image processing unit that extracts a depth map of the object using at least one of a time difference and a phase difference between the output light signal and the input light signal received by the image sensor, the lens unit including IR (InfraRed) filter, a plurality of solid lenses disposed on the IR filter and a liquid lens disposed on the plurality of solid lenses, or disposed between the plurality of solid lenses, the camera device further including a first driving unit that controls shifting of the IR filter or the image sensor and a second driving unit that controls a curvature of the liquid lens, an optical path of the input light signal being repeatedly shifted according to a predetermined rule by one of the first driving unit and the second driving unit, and the optical path of the input light signal being shifted according to predetermined control information by the other one of the first driving unit and the second driving unit.