Patent ID: 11927874
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 6:
7. A camera system of a mobile device, the camera system comprising:
a first camera unit and a second camera unit mounted adjacent to one another on the mobile device such that a visual axis of the first camera unit is aligned with a visual axis of the second camera unit
wherein:
the first camera unit comprises a first lens configuration having a first focal length and a first visual field;
the second camera unit comprises a second lens configuration having a second focal length and a second visual field;
the second visual field is a zoomed in portion of the first visual field;
the first camera unit comprises a movable lens and a fixed image sensor arranged in a straight configuration;
the first camera unit comprises:
a magnet holder holding one or more magnets and supported via a suspension wire connection to a base of the first camera unit;
an optics holder holding the first lens configuration and supported via a spring connection to the suspension wire or the magnet holder;
wherein the one or more magnets included in the magnet holder are configured to interact with a magnetic field generated via an actuator to cause the first lens configuration to move in an XY plane orthogonal to an optical axis of the first lens configuration in order to perform optical image stabilization; and

the second camera unit comprises a reflector, one or more lens, and a movable image sensor arranged in a folded configuration, wherein
the movable image sensor is configured to move relative to the reflector and the one or more lens of the second camera unit; and

a processing unit configured to:
concurrently capture, via the first camera unit and the second camera unit,
a first image covering the first visual field and a second image covering the zoomed in portion of the first visual field; and

generate a synthetic image covering the first visual field, as captured by the first camera unit, and including the zoomed in portion of the first visual field, as captured by the second camera unit.