ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,662, issued on May 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Camera with tiltable optical field of view changing elements" was invented by Stepan Evgenievich Ivanov (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Elena Gennadievna Malinovskaya (Moscow) and Andrey Alexandrovich Manko (Moscow).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical assembly of an imaging device includes an array of lens assemblies each having a double-folded optical axis, and an image sensor. Each of the lens assemblies each having the double-folded optical axis includes an input optical axis folding element, at least one lens having an optical power, and...