PCB-mountable lens adapter for a PCB-mountable camera module
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1. A PCB-mountable lens adapter for a PCB-mountable camera module, comprising:
- an adapter lens and an adapter housing for holding the adapter lens coaxially with a camera lens of the PCB-mountable camera module when both the PCB-mountable camera module and the adapter housing are coupled to a PCB;
an exit pupil of the adapter lens being coplanar with an entrance pupil of the camera lens;
the adapter lens and the camera lens cooperatively forming an imaging system with a field of view exceeding a field of view of the camera lens alone.
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Abstract
A PCB-mountable lens adapter includes an adapter lens for being a component of an imaging system that has a second field of view different from the first field of view, the imaging system comprising the adapter lens and the camera lens; and an adapter housing for holding the adapter lens and for attaching to a PCB. A method for modifying the field of view of an camera module includes attaching a PCB-mountable lens adapter to a PCB, the PCB-mountable lens adapter including an adapter lens mounted in an adapter housing, the PCB being configured for surface-mounting of the camera module thereto.
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1. A PCB-mountable lens adapter for a PCB-mountable camera module, comprising:
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an adapter lens and an adapter housing for holding the adapter lens coaxially with a camera lens of the PCB-mountable camera module when both the PCB-mountable camera module and the adapter housing are coupled to a PCB; an exit pupil of the adapter lens being coplanar with an entrance pupil of the camera lens; the adapter lens and the camera lens cooperatively forming an imaging system with a field of view exceeding a field of view of the camera lens alone. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method for modifying the field of view of a PCB-mountable camera module, comprising:
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attaching a PCB-mountable lens adapter to a printed-circuit board (PCB), the PCB-mountable lens adapter including an adapter lens mounted in an adapter housing, the PCB being configured for surface-mounting of the PCB-mountable camera module thereto; mounting the adapter lens in the adapter housing; and positioning the adapter lens and a camera lens of the camera module such that an exit pupil of the adapter lens is coplanar with an entrance pupil of the camera lens. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A PCB-mountable lens adapter for a PCB-mountable camera module, comprising:
an adapter housing for positioning an exit pupil of an adapter lens in the same plane as an entrance pupil of a camera lens of the PCB-mountable camera module when (i) the adapter lens is mounted in the adapter housing, (ii) the adapter housing is attached to a PCB, and (iii) the PCB-mountable camera module is surface-mounted to the PCB. - View Dependent Claims (18)
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