US 11,812,149 B2
Zoomable image sensor and image sensing method
Yang Ho Cho, Seongnam-si (KR); Kyuhwan Choi, Yongin-si (KR); and Seunghoon Han, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Oct. 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/509,765.
Application 17/509,765 is a continuation of application No. 16/775,965, filed on Jan. 29, 2020, granted, now 11,184,546.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0125238 (KR), filed on Oct. 10, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0046175 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 5/335 (2011.01); H04N 23/69 (2023.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H04N 23/80 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/69 (2023.01) [H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H04N 23/80 (2023.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mobile device comprising:
a plurality of lens elements configured to concentrate incident light; and
a sensing element configured to sense light passing through the plurality of lens elements,
wherein each lens element of the plurality of lens elements is separated from the sensing element by a corresponding focal length of the lens element, and
wherein one lens element of the plurality of lens elements has a first focal length that is different from a second focal length of another lens element of the plurality of lens elements and is separated from the sensing element by the first focal length.