Patent ID: 11947247
Assignee: COREPHOTONICS LTD.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A camera module, comprising:
a folded continuous zoom Tele (FCZT) camera comprising an optical path folding element (OPFE) for folding a first optical path (OP1) to a second optical path (OP2), a lens including N lens elements, the lens being divided into three lens groups numbered, in order from an object side of the lens, G1, G2 and G3 and having a lens aperture height HA measured along OP1, and
an image sensor,
wherein the FCZT camera is configured to change a zoom factor (ZF) continuously between a minimum zoom factor ZFMIN and a maximum zoom factor ZFMAX by moving G1 and G3 together relative to G2 and by moving G2 relative to the image sensor, wherein the camera module has a camera module height HM measured along OP1, and wherein HM<HA+3 mm.