Patent ID: 7929851

Claim:
A camera module comprising: a first lens assembly positioned on an optical axis of the camera module; a second lens assembly coaxially aligned with the first lens assembly and movable along the optical axis; an image sensor module comprising a first image sensor and a second image sensor at opposite sides thereof; a first driving device structured and arranged for driving the second lens assembly to move backward and forward along the optical axis; and a second driving device structured and arranged for driving the image sensor module to move down and up along directions nonparallel to the optical axis, wherein when the image sensor module is positioned below the first and second lens assemblies the second lens assembly is free to move along the optical axis and switch between a first position and a second position, the first position corresponding to a first state of the camera module and the second position corresponding to a second state of the camera module, the first state being where the second lens assembly is located between the first lens assembly and the image sensor module and the first image sensor detects light from the first and second lens assemblies, and the second state being where the image sensor module is located between the first lens assembly and the second lens assembly and the first image sensor detects light from the first lens assembly and the second image sensor detects light from the second lens assembly.