ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,850, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Thin multi-aperture imaging system with auto-focus and methods for using same" was invented by Gal Shabtay (Tel Aviv, Israel), Noy Cohen (Tel Aviv, Israel), Nadav Geva (Tel Aviv, Israel), Oded Gigushinski (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ephraim Goldenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dual-aperture digital cameras with auto-focus (AF) and related methods for obtaining a focused and, optionally optically stabilized color image of an object or scene. A dual-aperture camera includes a first sub-camera having a first optics bloc and a color image se...