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

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
capturing a first image of a first visual field using a first camera unit of a mobile device;
concurrently capturing a second image of a second visual field using a second camera unit of the mobile device,
wherein:
the first camera unit and the second camera unit are 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;
the first camera unit comprises a first lens configuration with 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;

generating 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; and
preserving to a storage medium the generated synthetic image.