Embodiments disclosed herein relate in general to digital cameras, and in particular to miniature folded and non-folded digital cameras.
Compact cameras, such as those that are incorporated in smartphones, have typically small apertures with a size of a few millimeters (mm) (e.g. 1-5 mm). The relatively small zo aperture of the camera (compared with cameras with larger aperture) causes at least the following handicaps:
a) the amount of light that can be absorbed by the camera image sensor in a given period of time is limited. This results in poor signal to noise ratio (SNR) ratio when capturing an image in low light situations; and
b) the small aperture, when coupled with a relatively short focal length (e.g. 3-15 mm) due to the physical dimensions of the camera, causes a relatively wide depth of field (DOF). This is contrary to the shallow DOF or “bokeh” effect that is a sought-after property in smartphone devices. Note that “shallow DOF” and “bokeh” are used herein interchangeably.
In known art, the bokeh effect is achieved with a dual-camera setup, by calculating a depth map from two camera images obtained from two separate cameras and by digitally blurring the images according to the depth map.
Compact cameras in smartphones and other hand-held personal electronic devices have different types of actuators. In an example, they often have an optical image stabilization (OIS) actuator that can move the lens barrel (or simply the “lens”) of the camera in a plane parallel to the image sensor plane. In folded cameras, in which an optical path from an object to be photographed is folded toward the image sensor by an optical path folding element (OPFE), for example a prism, OIS is known to be achieved by shifting the lens barrel laterally, in parallel to the sensor plane, or by tilting the prism (see for example co-owned published international patent application WO2016166730).
In the contexts of the following disclosure, DOF is defined as the distance (in meters, cm, etc.) around the plane of focus (POF) in which objects appear acceptably sharp in an image. A shallow DOF is such that the distance is small (e.g. less than 20% of the object distance from the camera) and a wide DOF is such that the distance is large (e.g. more than 30% of the object distance from the camera).
In various exemplary embodiments, there are provided methods for synthetically enlarging a camera aperture and for obtaining shallow DOF effects in folded and non-folded (also referred to as “upright”, “straight”, standing” or “vertical”) compact cameras using dedicated and/or existing actuators, and in particular OIS actuators included in such cameras. The miniature cameras for example in camera incorporated in smartphones, tablet computers, laptop computer, smart televisions, smart home assistant devices, drones, baby monitors, video conference rooms, surveillance cameras, cars, robots and other personalized electronic devices. Known OIS actuators, for example similar to those disclosed in co-owned published international patent application WO2016166730 (folded case) and see for example co-owned international patent application WO20160156996 (non-folded case), may be “modified” by increasing the size and/or length of their magnets and/or coils and/or rails to enable longer movement range (e.g. up to about ±2 mm) of elements in folded and non-folded compact cameras. Henceforth, such OIS actuators will be referred to as “modified OIS actuators”.
The following description refers to relative movements of one camera element (for example the lens, prism, or both) vs. another camera element (for example the image sensor) in an exemplary orthogonal XYZ coordinate system. The exemplary coordinate system is for reference and for understanding inventive features disclosed herein, and should not be considered limiting.
The new use of dedicated and/or existing camera actuators in general and OIS actuators (regular or modified) in particular, coupled with an image acquisition system and a post-processing algorithm, can synthetically increase the size of the aperture, providing better signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and a shallower DOF. The term “synthetically increasing” or “synthetically enlarging” as applied herein to a camera aperture refers to the camera aperture size being effectively (but not physically) increased by capturing different (e.g. a plurality N of) images with the aperture in (N) different positions. The camera aperture is shifted laterally relative to the sensor by a significant amount (for example by a few mm) and several images are captured, each with the aperture located in a different position relative to the sensor. To clarify, the physical aperture size remains constant. Then, by aligning all captured images with respect to a certain in-focus object at a certain distance from the camera and by averaging them, objects outside the plane of focus will blur due to the parallax effect, thereby providing a shallow DOF effect. In some embodiments, the modifications to the OIS actuators to obtain modified OIS actuators enable large enough movement of the aperture of the optical system relative to the original position, so that the resulting parallax effect will be significant, i.e. shallower DOF by 10%, 20% or even 50% from the DOF of a single frame.
In exemplary embodiments there is provided a method comprising providing a camera that includes a camera aperture, a lens having a lens optical axis, an image sensor and an actuator, and operating the at least one actuator to synthetically enlarge the camera aperture to obtain a shallow DOF effect and improved SNR in an image formed from a plurality of images obtained with the image sensor.
In some exemplary embodiments, the actuator is an OIS actuator.
In some exemplary embodiments, the actuator is a modified OIS actuator with an extended actuation range. The extended actuation range may be a range of up to ±2 mm, and more specifically between ±1-2 mm.
In an exemplary embodiment, the operating the actuator to synthetically enlarge the camera aperture includes operating the actuator to move the camera aperture to a plurality of positions, wherein each of the plurality of images is obtained in a respective camera aperture position.
In an exemplary embodiment, the operating the actuator to synthetically enlarge the camera aperture includes operating the actuator to move the lens relative to the image sensor in a first direction substantially perpendicular to the lens optical axis.
In an exemplary embodiment, the operating the actuator to synthetically enlarge the camera aperture includes operating the actuator to move the lens relative to the image sensor in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the lens optical axis, wherein the second direction is not parallel to the first direction.
In some exemplary embodiments, the first and second directions are orthogonal to each other.
In some exemplary embodiments, the camera is a non-folded camera.
In some exemplary embodiments, the camera is a folded camera.
In an exemplary embodiment, the camera is a folded camera that further includes an optical path folding element (OPFE) that folds light from a first optical axis to the lens optical axis.
In an exemplary embodiment in which the camera is folded the operating the actuator to synthetically enlarge the camera aperture includes operating the actuator to move the camera aperture to a plurality of positions, wherein each of the plurality of images is obtained in a respective camera aperture position.
In an exemplary embodiment in which the camera is folded, the operating the actuator to synthetically enlarge the camera aperture includes operating the actuator to move the lens relative to the image sensor in a first direction substantially perpendicular to the lens optical axis.
In an exemplary embodiment in which the camera is folded, the operating the actuator to synthetically enlarge the camera aperture includes operating the actuator to move the lens relative to the image sensor in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the lens optical axis, wherein the second direction is not parallel to the first direction.
Aspects, embodiments and features disclosed herein will become apparent from the following detailed description when considered in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
Returning now to
In
An actuator (not shown) as disclosed in co-owned published international patent applications WO2016166730 (folded) and WO20160156996 (non-folded), may be modified to increase the movement (range) of the lens barrel from a few hundreds of microns to a movement on the order of ±2 mm, to enable shifting the aperture and/or lens along a first direction. The prism may be moved in a second direction, to bring it closer or further away from the edge of the lens, thus also shifting the camera aperture. In other words, in the exemplary coordinate systems shown in
An exemplary method that uses a synthetically increased camera aperture to obtain a shallow DOF and improved SNR is provided with reference to
Acquisition stage (
In an embodiment, the first or second actuator may be a closed loop actuator, such that a position indication and a settling (i.e. arrival of the actuator to the target position) indication may be provided to the camera. In an embodiment, the exposure of the camera maybe synchronized with the motion of the actuator, such that the sequence of N frames acquisition may be constructed from a repetitive stage of (1) frame exposure, (2) actuator motion to a new position, (3) actuator settling. Actuator settling may be such that the actuator does not shift the lens during exposure by more than 1 pixel, 2 pixels or 5 pixels.
Processing Stage: This Stage Includes Three Steps:
a) Frame stack alignment (
b) Frame averaging—(
c) Post processing (
Processing steps 404-408 may be performed immediately after frame acquisition step 402, or at later time. Processing steps 404-408 may be done in the host device (e.g. in the host CPU, GPU etc.), or outside the host device (e.g. by cloud computing).
The added blur for objects outside the chosen plane of focus (defined by the object in the chosen ROI) will result in a shallow DOF effect in the output image, compared with any of the images in the stack (the input image to the algorithm). On the focused objects, the averaging of frames will result in better signal to noise ratio compared with any of the images in the stack.
While this disclosure describes a limited number of embodiments, it will be appreciated that many variations, modifications and other applications of such embodiments may be made. In general, the disclosure is to be understood as not limited by the specific embodiments described herein, but only by the scope of the appended claims.
All references mentioned in this specification are herein incorporated in their entirety by reference into the specification, to the same extent as if each individual reference was specifically and individually indicated to be incorporated herein by reference. In addition, citation or identification of any reference in this application shall not be construed as an admission that such reference is available as prior art to the present application.
This is a continuation application from U.S. patent application Ser. No. 16/121,049 filed Sep. 4, 2018 (now allowed), and is related to and claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional patent application 62/567,287 filed Oct. 3, 2017, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
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