Innovate your smartphone cameras with TLens^®

TLens^® for smartphone AF cameras

• Not only is the smartphone market competitive and large, it also drives technology innovation.
• While smartphone OEMs must balance cost and time-to-market with product differentiation, high-performing cameras continue to be one of the most important functionalities for smartphones.
• Key selling points:
• Ultra-compact size
• Lowest power consumption
• Enables sharp and fast continuous video focus (important for social media posting)
• Focuses objects from very close (down to 10 cm) to far (infinity) distances
• TLens^® Add-In supports ultra-wide FOV scene captures
• Fully compatible with large image sensor formats (up to 1/1.5”)
• Allows smaller display “punch hole” than possible with other autofocus technologies
• Supports lower F-number to enhance low light performance and create shallow depth of field
• Non-magnetic actuator enables flexible placement of cameras in the smartphone PCB
• Fast speed and constant FOV enables new applications such as All-in-Focus or Light Field Capture
• Highly robust, TLens^® can change focus >1 billion times over its lifetime

All-in-Focus Image

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The examples above illustrate some of the many unique use cases that the TLens^® autofocus technology can enable using only a single camera without complex software. There are various ways in which smartphone OEMs can implement poLight^® products’ unique capabilities by employing either the TLens^® Add-On (assembled on top of a fixed focus camera module) or Add-In (assembled inside the lens stack of a camera module) design architecture option. poLight^® is ready to support your differentiated smartphone camera development needs.

TLens^® Design Win Examples in Customer Devices