US 10,225,479 B2
Dual aperture zoom digital cameraGeneral
US 10,225,479 B2
Dual aperture zoom digital camera
Tech Center:
2600 Communications
Examiner:
Cynthia Segura
Art Unit:
2697 Selective Visual Display Systems
Agent:
Nathan and Associates
Inventors:
Gal Shabtay; Ephraim Goldenberg; Oded Gigushinski; Noy Cohen
Assignee:
Priority:
06/13/13
Filed:
07/28/18
Granted:
03/05/19
Expiration:
06/13/33
Abstract
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.
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
H04H04N23/667H04NG02B27/0075G02B