A Tele folded camera operative to compensate for an undesired rotational motion of a handheld electronic device that includes such a camera, wherein the compensation depends on the undesired rotational motion and on a point of view of the Tele folded camera.

An electronic device of the disclosure may include a camera module including a lens assembly, a reflector for changing a field of view, a Hall sensor for identifying a position of the reflector, and a first memory for storing a first correction value for correcting shading by the lens assembly, a second memory for storing reflector shading correction, and a processor. The processor may obtain a first image frame by driving the camera module, obtain first Hall data corresponding to the position of the reflector through the Hall sensor while the first image frame is obtained through the camera module, obtain the first correction value from the first memory, obtain a second correction value corresponding to the first Hall data among the reflector shading correction values from the second memory, and perform shading correction on the first image frame based on the first correction value and the second correction value.

An electronic device of the disclosure may include a camera module including a lens assembly, a reflector for changing a field of view, a Hall sensor for identifying a position of the reflector, and a first memory for storing a first correction value for correcting shading by the lens assembly, a second memory for storing reflector shading correction, and a processor. The processor may obtain a first image frame by driving the camera module, obtain first Hall data corresponding to the position of the reflector through the Hall sensor while the first image frame is obtained through the camera module, obtain the first correction value from the first memory, obtain a second correction value corresponding to the first Hall data among the reflector shading correction values from the second memory, and perform shading correction on the first image frame based on the first correction value and the second correction value.

A drive assembly with reduced size and reduced noise includes a bottom box, an elastic member, a movable plate, a PCB board, and a plurality of shape memory alloy wires. The bottom box comprises a bottom plate and a plurality of side plates. The plurality of side plates is arranged on a side of the bottom plate to form a receiving groove, the plurality of side plates defines a position groove connects to the receiving groove. The elastic member, the movable plate, the plurality of shape memory alloy wires, and a partial of the rigid printed circuit board are located within the receiving groove, another partial of the rigid printed circuit board is disposed with the position groove. The elastic member connects between the bottom plate and the movable plate, the plurality of shape memory alloy wires connects between the movable plate and the rigid printed circuit board.

A dual-aperture zoom digital camera operable in both still and video modes. The camera includes Wide and Tele imaging sections with respective lens/sensor combinations and image signal processors and a camera controller operatively coupled to the Wide and Tele imaging sections. The Wide and Tele imaging sections provide respective image data. The controller is configured to combine in still mode at least some of the Wide and Tele image data to provide a fused output image from a particular point of view, and to provide without fusion continuous zoom video mode output images, each output image having a given output resolution, wherein the video mode output images are provided with a smooth transition when switching between a lower zoom factor (ZF) value and a higher ZF value or vice versa, and wherein at the lower ZF the output resolution is determined by the Wide sensor while at the higher ZF value the output resolution is determined by the Tele sensor.

The present embodiment relates to a dual camera module comprising: a first camera module including a first liquid lens and capturing a first image; and a second camera module including a second liquid lens and capturing a second image, wherein a viewing angle of the first camera module is smaller than a viewing angle of the second camera module, at least a part of the viewing angle of the first camera module is included in the viewing angle of the second camera module such that there is an overlapping area between the first image and the second image so as to enable a composite image formed by combining the first image and the second image to be generated, and when the first camera module is focused, a focal length of the first liquid lens is varied according to the distance between the first liquid lens and a subject, and when the second camera module is focused, a focal length of the second liquid lens is varied according to the distance between the second liquid lens and the subject.

Methods and systems to implement a miniature long range imaging engine with auto-focus, auto-zoom, and auto-illumination are disclosed herein. An example method includes detecting, by a microprocessor, a presence of an aim light pattern within the FOV; determining, by the microprocessor and in response to the detecting, a target distance of an object in the FOV based on a position of the aim light pattern in the FOV, the target distance being a distance from the imaging engine to the object; causing, by the microprocessor, a variable focus optical element to focus on the object based on the target distance; responsive to making a first determination, by the microprocessor, selecting, based on the target distance, one of a plurality of zoom operation modes; and responsive to making a second determination, by the microprocessor, selecting, based on the target distance, one of a plurality of illumination modes.

Methods and systems to implement a miniature long range imaging engine with auto-focus, auto-zoom, and auto-illumination are disclosed herein. An example method includes detecting, by a microprocessor, a presence of an aim light pattern within the FOV; determining, by the microprocessor and in response to the detecting, a target distance of an object in the FOV based on a position of the aim light pattern in the FOV, the target distance being a distance from the imaging engine to the object; causing, by the microprocessor, a variable focus optical element to focus on the object based on the target distance; responsive to making a first determination, by the microprocessor, selecting, based on the target distance, one of a plurality of zoom operation modes; and responsive to making a second determination, by the microprocessor, selecting, based on the target distance, one of a plurality of illumination modes.

A camera module and a terminal device having the camera module, the camera module including a plurality of lenses, where lenses of the plurality of lenses are sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side along a direction of an optical axis, where at least one of the plurality of lenses is a free-form lens, where the free-form lens is a non-rotationally symmetric lens, where a first lens of the plurality of lenses is a lens of the plurality of lenses nearest the object side in a direction from the object side to the image side, where a distance on the optical axis between an object-side surface of the first lens and an imaging surface is TTL, where an effective focal length of the camera module is EFL, and TTL/EFL≤2.0.

A camera-puddle lamp integrated apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus comprising a lens module; an image sensor; a light source; and a mirror module, the light source is disposed so that light emitted from the light source intersects an optical axis of the lens module in the first area, the light source being disposed in a second area outside the first area, the mirror module includes a mirror that is formed to rotate about one side thereof located in the second area as a rotation axis so as to switch between a first state where at least a portion of the mirror is moved to and disposed in the first area and a second state where the mirror is moved to and disposed in the second area, a light path of the lens module is disposed to be reflected by the mirror and directed to the light source in the first state, and the light path of the lens module is disposed to be directed to the image sensor in the second state, and the camera-puddle lamp integrated apparatus operates as a puddle lamp in the first state and operates as a camera in the second state.