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Samsung patents compact camera lens design for thinner phones

Samsung has filed a patent for a camera lens system that uses six specific lenses to focus light onto a sensor. The design aims to keep the camera module thin while maintaining a wide field of view and high image quality.

Why it mattersThis is a routine improvement in camera hardware that helps manufacturers fit high-quality cameras into thinner devices.

In the filing’s own words

An imaging device includes an image sensor and a lens assembly. The lens assembly includes at least six lenses sequentially aligned along an optical axis from a first lens, to focus or guide light to the image sensor. The at least six lenses include: a first lens farthest from the image sensor and having positive refractive power, a second lens, disposed between the first lens and the image sensor and has negative refractive power, a third lens, disposed between the second lens and the image sensor and has positive refractive power, a fourth lens, disposed between the third lens and the image sensor and has negative refractive power, a fifth lens, disposed between the fourth lens and the image sensor and has positive refractive power, and a sixth lens, disposed between the fifth lens and the image sensor and has negative refractive power.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. An image capturing device comprising: an image sensor; and a lens assembly configured to focus or guide light to the image sensor and comprising at least six lenses sequentially aligned along an optical axis, wherein the at least six lenses comprise: a first lens farthest from the image sensor and having a meniscus shape that is convex toward a subject side and having a positive refractive power; a second lens between the first lens and the image sensor, having a meniscus shape that is convex toward the subject side, and having a first negative refractive power; a third lens between the second lens and the image sensor and having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens between the third lens and the image sensor and having a negative refractive power; a fifth lens between the fourth lens and the image sensor, having a biconvex shape in a chief region of the fifth lens that intersects the optical axis, and having a positive refractive power; and a sixth lens between the fifth lens and the image sensor and having a negative refractive power, and wherein the lens assembly satisfies: 5.9 mm ≤ f * tan ⁡ ( semi - FOV) ≤ 6.5 mm, 0.55 ≤ OAL / ( ImgH * 2) ≤ 0.64, and 1 ≤ SA / L ⁢ 5 ⁢ S ⁢ 1 ⁢ ape ≤ 1.4, where f is a focal length of the lens assembly, semi-FOV is a half field of view of the lens assembly, OAL is a first distance from a subject-side surface of the first lens to the image sensor, measured on the optical axis, ImgH is a maximum image height of the image sensor, and SA is a second distance from the subject-side surface of the first lens to a subject-side surface of the fifth lens, measured on the optical axis, and L5S1ape is a half-aperture size of the subject-side surface of the fifth lens.

Facts

Company
Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
Official title
IMAGING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING SAME
Publication number
US20260270542A1
Application number
19665515
Filed
May 1, 2026
Published
Sep 10, 2026
Inventors
2
Claims
13

Classified under

H04N 23/55 Electricity & electronicsG02B 7/10 Physics & computingG02B 9/62 Physics & computingG03B 30/00 Physics & computingH04N 23/661 Electricity & electronics
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