Auto-Focus Driving Assembly, Lens Kit, and Electronic Device
20220317411 ยท 2022-10-06
Inventors
Cpc classification
G03B30/00
PHYSICS
G02B13/007
PHYSICS
International classification
Abstract
An auto-focus driving assembly used in an electronic device includes a lens kit and a sensor, where a light ray incident to the lens kit passes through the auto-focus driving assembly and enters the sensor, and where the auto-focus driving assembly includes a driving motor configured to drive the lens kit to move, a housing configured to accommodate the driving motor, and a first light-shielding body disposed on an inner wall of the housing and configured to prevent light irradiated on the first light-shielding body from being reflected into a cavity of the housing. The first light-shielding body is disposed on the inner wall.
Claims
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28. An electronic device comprising: a periscope lens kit comprising: an image sensor; a lens kit comprising: a barrel comprising: a first end comprising a light inlet; and a second end comprising a first light-shielding, wherein the first light-shielding is a first black light-shielding ring; and at least two lenses disposed in the barrel and between the light inlet and the first light-shielding, wherein the at least two lenses comprise a first lens and a second lens; a second light-shielding is disposed between the first lens and the second lens, wherein the second light-shielding is a second black light-shielding ring, and wherein a first diameter of the first light-shielding is different from a second diameter of the second light-shielding; an auto-focus driving assembly assembled with the barrel, and a reflective structure configured to reflect a light ray incident onto the periscope lens kit through the first lens and the second lens successively, and cast onto the image sensor.
29. The electronic device of claim 28, wherein the first light-shielding and the second light-shielding are disposed on an inner wall of the barrel.
30. The electronic device of claim 28, wherein the auto-focus driving assembly comprises a third light-shielding disposed between the lens kit and the image sensor.
31. The electronic device of claim 30, wherein the third light-shielding is a third black light-shielding ring.
32. The electronic device of claim 30, wherein a surface structure of the third light-shielding is uneven.
33. The electronic device of claim 28, wherein a first surface structure of the first light-shielding is uneven, and wherein a second surface structure of the second light-shielding is uneven.
34. The electronic device of claim 28, wherein the auto-focus driving assembly is configured to drive the barrel to move.
35. The electronic device of claim 28, wherein the first light-shielding is attached to an inner wall of the barrel.
36. The electronic device of claim 28, wherein the second light-shielding is attached to an inner wall of the barrel.
37. The electronic device of claim 28, wherein a thickness of the first light-shielding is less than 0.03 millimeters (mm).
38. The electronic device of claim 28, wherein a thickness of the second light-shielding is less than 0.03 millimeters (mm).
39. A lens kit comprising: a barrel comprising: a first end comprising a light inlet; a second end comprising a first light-shielding, wherein the first light-shielding is a first black light-shielding ring; at least two lenses disposed in the barrel and between the light inlet and the first light-shielding and comprising a first lens and a second lens; and a second light-shielding disposed between the first lens and the second lens, wherein the second light-shielding is a second black light-shielding ring, and wherein a first diameter of the first light-shielding is different from a second diameter of the second light-shielding.
40. The lens kit of claim 39, wherein a surface structure of the first light-shielding is uneven.
41. The lens kit of claim 39, wherein a surface structure of the second light-shielding is uneven.
42. The lens kit of claim 39, wherein the first light-shielding is attached to an inner wall of the barrel.
43. The lens kit of claim 39, wherein the second light-shielding is attached to an inner wall of the barrel.
44. The lens kit of claim 39, wherein a thickness of the first light-shielding is less than 0.03 millimeters (mm).
45. The lens kit of claim 39, wherein a thickness of the second light-shielding is less than 0.03 millimeters (mm).
46. The lens kit of claim 39, wherein the lens kit is a periscope lens kit or a long-focus lens kit.
47. A lens kit system comprising: a lens kit comprising: a barrel comprising: a first end comprising a light inlet; and a second end comprising a first light-shielding, wherein the first light-shielding is a first black light-shielding ring; and at least two lenses disposed in the barrel and between the light inlet and the first light-shielding and comprising a first lens and a second lens; and a second light-shielding disposed between the first lens and the second lens, wherein the second light-shielding is a second black light-shielding ring, and wherein a first diameter of the first light-shielding is different from a second diameter of the second light-shielding; and an auto-focus driving assembly assembled with the barrel and configured to drive the barrel to move.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
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DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS
[0069] The following describes technical solutions of this application with reference to accompanying drawings.
[0070] For ease of understanding this application, the following first briefly describes several concepts in this application.
[0071] 1. Auto-Focus:
[0072] For a lens kit whose lens has a fixed relative position relationship, focusing may be understood as implementing changes of an object distance and an image distance to achieve a conjugate relationship, so that an image is clear. This can be achieved by an auto-focus driving assembly inside a mobile phone by driving this lens kit group to move. In other words, in an auto-focusing process, a focal length of an imaging lens kit may remain unchanged, and auto-focusing is implemented only by changing an object distance and an image distance.
[0073] 2. Optical Image Stabilization:
[0074] In an optical image stabilization technology, when a gyroscope in a camera compact module detects a slight motion, a signal is transmitted to an image chip to calculate a displacement amount that needs to be compensated for, and then a lens kit group is driven to perform compensation based on the calculated displacement amount, so as to overcome image blur caused by a camera shake.
[0075] 3. Field of View (Field of View, FOV):
[0076] In an optical instrument, with a lens kit of the optical instrument as a vertex, an included angle formed by two edges of a maximum range in which an objective image of a detected object can pass through the lens kit is called a field of view. A size of the field of view determines a vision range of the optical instrument. A larger field of view indicates greater vision.
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[0078] The electronic device 100 may be an electronic device having a video shooting or photographing function, for example, a mobile phone, a smartphone, a tablet computer, a laptop computer, a video camera, a video recorder, a camera, or a device in another form having the photographing or video shooting function. For ease of understanding, the embodiments of this application are described by using an example in which the electronic device 100 is a mobile phone.
[0079] The electronic device 100 includes a housing and a display assembly. The housing includes a bezel and a rear cover, and the bezel surrounds an edge of the rear cover. The display assembly is disposed on a side of the bezel that is away from the rear cover. Generally, a user faces the display assembly to observe an image displayed on the display assembly. Therefore, a surface of the display assembly that faces the user may be a front face of the electronic device 100, Accordingly, an exposed face of the rear cover may be a rear face of the electronic device 100.
[0080] A camera compact module (camera compact module, CCM) may be disposed on each of the front face and the rear face of the electronic device 100. Alternatively, the camera compact module may be disposed only on the front face of the electronic device 100 or on the rear face of the electronic device 100. As shown in
[0081] It should be further understood that, quantities of the mounted camera compact modules 110 and the mounted camera compact modules 120 each is not limited to one, and may be two or above. For example, two camera compact modules 120 may be mounted on the rear face of the electronic device 100. A quantity of mounted camera compact modules is not limited in this embodiment of this application.
[0082] The electronic device 100 may further include a processing module, configured to convert an optical signal obtained by the camera compact module into a digital image. For example, the processing module may include an analog-to-digital converter and an image processor such as a digital signal processor (digital signal processing, DSP). The analog-to-digital converter may be configured to convert an analog image signal into a digital image signal. The image processor may, be configured to process digital image information to form a compressed image signal.
[0083] It should be understood that, other elements such as an earpiece and a key may be disposed on the electronic device 100 shown in
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[0085] The camera compact module 200 may include a lens kit, an auto-focus driving assembly, and an image sensor (sensor) 242. The camera compact module 200 may be fixed to a mounting base 241 inside the electronic device 100. The lens kit may be a prime lens kit or a zoom lens kit. The lens kit may alternatively be a short-focus lens kit, a long-focus lens kit, a periscope lens kit, or the like.
[0086] The lens kit may include a barrel 220 and one or more lenses (lens) 210 disposed inside the barrel 220. One end of the barrel 220 is assembled with the auto-focus driving assembly, and the other end of the barrel 220 is provided with a light inlet, so as to control a field of view of the lens kit. The lens 210 may be a plastic (plastic) lens or a glass (glass) lens. The lens 210 may be a spherical lens or an aspheric lens.
[0087] The auto-focus driving assembly includes a housing 230, which may be assembled with the barrel 220, and is configured to perform auto-focusing or optical image stabilization on the lens kit. The auto-focus driving assembly may further include, for example, a driving integrated circuit (not shown in
[0088] The image sensor 242 may be a semiconductor chip. A surface of the image sensor 242 is provided with hundreds of thousands to millions of photodiodes. When exposed to light, the photodiodes generate charges, so as to convert an optical signal into an electrical signal. For example, the image sensor 242 may be a charge coupled device (charge coupled device, CCD) or it a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor, CMOS). As shown in
[0089] The camera compact module 200 may further include, for example, an infrared cut-off filter, elements (not shown in the figure) such as a circuit board, and a gyroscope. For example, the infrared cut-off filter may eliminate an unnecessary light ray cast onto the image sensor 242 to prevent the image sensor 242 from generating false colors or ripples. This improves an effective resolution and color reproduction performance of the image sensor 242. The circuit board may be a flexible printed circuit (flexible printed circuit, FPC) or a printed circuit board (printed circuit board, PCB), and is configured to transmit an electrical signal.
[0090] A working principle of the camera compact module 200 may be as follows: A light ray reflected by a photographed subject passes through the one or more lenses 210 and the auto-focus driving assembly in the lens kit, and is cast onto the surface of the image sensor 242. Based on an optical lens imaging principle, the auto-focus driving assembly may be used to drive the barrel 220, so that the lens 210 inside the barrel 220 is moved to a suitable position to obtain a clear and distortion-free image. In this way, light rays can be focused on the image sensor 242 to form a clear optical image. The image sensor 242 can convert the optical image into an electrical signal to obtain an image signal.
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[0093] It should be understood that, inside some mobile phones, a lens, an auto-focus driving assembly, and an image sensor in a camera compact module form a whole through assembly, and the whole may be referred to as a camera compact module. However, in some cases, a lens kit and an auto-focus driving assembly form a whole, and the whole is referred to as a lens kit module in this embodiment of this application. For example, in a digital camera, a lens kit and an auto-focus driving assembly are assembled into a whole, and the whole is detachably mounted on a body of the digital camera, while an image sensor is mounted inside the body of the digital camera. Therefore, for clearer description, in this embodiment of this application, the camera compact module may include an image sensor, but the lens kit module may not include an image sensor. In some cases, for example, in a mobile phone, a whole formed by assembling a lens kit module and an image sensor may be a camera compact module. In other words, in some cases, a lens kit module may be considered as a part of a camera compact module.
[0094] The lens kit module 500 is formed by assembling a lens kit and an auto-focus driving assembly. For example, in a mobile phone, the lens kit module 500 may be mounted on the mounting base 241 in the mobile phone, and assembled with the image sensor 242 in the mobile phone to form a camera compact module, as shown in
[0095] The lens kit includes a barrel 520 and one or more lenses (lenses 510 shown in
[0096] The auto-focus driving assembly is configured to perform auto-focusing or optical image stabilization on the lens kit. The auto-focus driving assembly includes a housing 530. A first part of the housing 530 may be assembled with the barrel 520. A second part of the housing 530 may be mounted on the mounting base 241 of the electronic device 100, and the second part is away from the lens kit and close to the image sensor 242. The auto-focus driving assembly may further include, for example, a driving integrated circuit (not shown in
[0097] A light-shielding body is disposed on the lens, an inner wall of the barrel, and/or an inner wall of the housing of the auto-focus driving assembly (the inner wall of the housing for short below). The light-shielding body is configured to prevent light irradiated on the light-shielding body from being reflected into a cavity of the housing 530 of the auto-focus driving assembly. There may be one or more light-shielding sheets.
[0098] For ease of understanding this application, the following briefly describes a flare reduction principle of a light-shielding sheet.
[0099] The light-shielding sheet usually has a black color and can absorb a light ray, in other words, reduce a reflectivity of the light ray. By using a structure and shape of the light-shielding body, the light ray can be scattered, to be specific, the light ray can deviate from an original propagation direction in an irradiation position with a large surface curvature, and can spread dispersedly. This reduces the reflectivity of the light ray. A size of the light-shielding body has relatively large impact on light scattering. For example, a smaller thickness H (as shown in
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[0104] Further, experiment and simulation results show that, the light-shielding sheet 551 disposed on the lens 510 or the light-shielding sheet 552 disposed in the region on the inner wall of the barrel that is close to the lens 510 can eliminate, for example, a circular flare or a pillar flare. The light-shielding sheet 553 disposed in the region away from the lens 510 and close to the auto-focus driving assembly and the light-shielding sheet 554 disposed on the inner wall of the housing can eliminate, for example, a shower flare or a pillar flare.
[0105] Further, because the lens kit and the auto-focus driving assembly are two assemblable components, if processing precision of the lens kit does not meet a requirement or the lens kit is improperly designed, a flare is prone to occur. Therefore, the light-shielding body disposed in the auto-focus driving assembly may be used for a remedy, to avoid repair processing on the lens kit and reserve a margin for the processing precision of the lens kit.
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[0108] The light-shielding body 550 shown in
[0109] Reducing the overall thickness H of the light-shielding sheet is sometimes infeasible in further improving a flare reduction effect of the light-shielding sheet. Instead, the flare reduction effect of the light-shielding sheet can be improved by locally thinning the light-shielding sheet.
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[0113] Optionally, a simulation or experiment may be used to determine how to dispose the light-shielding sheet, for example, determine a shape and a size of the light-shielding body and a position for disposing the light-shielding body.
[0114] The light-shielding sheet shown in
[0115] The light-shielding sheet 550 shown in
[0116] In addition to the manners of disposing the light-shielding sheet shown in
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[0119] An inner annular surface of the light-shielding sheet 550 shown in
[0120] Particularly, in a process of auto-focusing or optical image stabilization, relative positions of the lens kit and the auto-focus driving assembly may change. Therefore, to ensure normal operation (that is, to avoid a flare occurring in the image sensor 242) of the lens kit module in a plurality of scenarios, in one aspect, the light-shielding sheet should be disposed in a position capable of avoiding impact by another element, for example, the light-shielding sheet 550 on the inner wall of the housing should be away from the lens kit and close to the image sensor 242; and in another aspect, the light-shielding sheets may be disposed in a plurality of positions of the lens, the inner wall of the barrel, and/or the inner wall of the housing.
[0121] The light-shielding body 550 shown in
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[0123] A surface structure capable of light shielding usually features unevenness, and this surface structure capable of light shielding is sometimes called a coarse surface. For example, fine particles are attached to a smooth surface to form an uneven or rough surface. For example, fine particles may be attached through magnetron sputtering, electroplating, or the like. For another example, fine dents are obtained on a smooth surface through embossing to form an uneven or rough surface. In one aspect, the special surface structure may have a black color, so that the special surface structure may be configured to absorb a light ray. In another aspect, because the special surface structure features unevenness, a light ray irradiated on this special surface structure is easily scattered. Therefore, the light ray can be further prevented from continuing to propagate in the cavity of the housing 530.
[0124] The light-shielding bodies shown in
[0125] For example, to prevent occurrence of motion interference, the barrel in a moving state should not touch the light-shielding body on the auto-focus driving assembly. That is, a position in which the light-shielding body is disposed on the housing is outside a movement range of the lens kit relative to the housing.
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[0127] The camera compact module 1700 may include a lens kit, an auto-focus driving assembly, and an image sensor 1742. The lens kit shown in
[0128] The lens kit includes a barrel 1720 and one or more lenses (lenses 1710 shown in
[0129] The auto-focus driving assembly includes a housing 1730. The housing 1730 is assembled with the barrel 1720, and is configured to perform auto-focusing or optical image stabilization on the lens kit. The auto-focus driving assembly may further include, for example, a driving integrated circuit (not shown in
[0130] Light-shielding bodies are disposed on the lens, an inner wall of the barrel, and an inner wall of the housing of the auto-focus driving assembly (the inner wall of the housing for short below). The light-shielding body is configured to prevent light irradiated on the light-shielding body from being reflected into a cavity of the housing 1730 of the auto-focus driving assembly. There may be one or more light-shielding bodies.
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[0133] Further, because the lens kit and the auto-focus driving assembly are two assemblable components, if processing precision of the lens kit does not meet a requirement or the lens kit is improperly designed, a flare is prone to occur. Therefore, the light-shielding body disposed in the auto-focus driving assembly may be used for a remedy, to avoid repair processing on the lens kit and reserve a margin for the processing precision of the lens kit.
[0134] A person of ordinary skill in the art may be aware that, in combination with the examples described in the embodiments disclosed in this specification, units and algorithm steps may be implemented by electronic hardware or a combination of computer software and electronic hardware. Whether the functions are performed by hardware or software depends on particular applications and design constraint conditions of the technical solutions. A person skilled in the art may use different methods to implement the described functions for each particular application, but it should not be considered that the implementation goes beyond the scope of this application.
[0135] It may be clearly understood by a person skilled in the art that, for the purpose of convenient and brief description, for a detailed working process of the foregoing system, apparatus, and unit, refer to a corresponding process in the foregoing method embodiments, and details are not described herein again.
[0136] In the several embodiments provided in this application, it should be understood that the disclosed system, apparatus, and method may be implemented in other manners. For example, the described apparatus embodiment is merely an example. For example, division into the units is merely logical function division and may be other division during actual implementation. For example, a plurality of units or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be ignored or not performed. In addition, the displayed or discussed mutual couplings or direct couplings or communication connections may be implemented through some interfaces. The indirect couplings or communication connections between the apparatuses or units may be implemented in electrical, mechanical, or other forms.
[0137] The units described as separate parts may or may not be physically separate, and parts displayed as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in one position, or may be distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the units may be selected based on actual requirements to achieve the objectives of the solutions of the embodiments.
[0138] In addition, functional units in the embodiments of this application may be integrated into one processing unit, or each of the units may exist alone physically, or two or more units are integrated into one unit.
[0139] When the functions are implemented in a form of a software functional unit and sold or used as an independent product, the functions may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. Based on such an understanding, the technical solutions of this application essentially, or the part contributing to the current technology, or some of the technical solutions may be implemented in a form of a software product. The computer software product is stored in a storage medium, and includes several instructions for instructing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to perform all or some of the steps of the methods described in the embodiments of this application. The foregoing storage medium includes: any medium that can store program code, such as a USB flash drive, a removable hard disk, a read-only memory (read-only memory, ROM), a random access memory (random access memory, RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disc.
[0140] The foregoing descriptions are merely specific implementations of this application, but are not intended to limit the protection scope of this application. Any variation or replacement readily figured out by a person skilled in the art within the technical scope disclosed in this application shall fall within the protection scope of this application. Therefore, the protection scope of this application shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.