IMAGING APPARATUS HAVING LENS ELEMENT

摘要

There is provided in one embodiment an imaging apparatus having a lens assembly. The lens assembly can comprises a lens element having a first light transmissive substrate and a second light transmissive substrate, the first light transmissive substrate including a first electrode, the second light transmissive substrate including a second electrode. The lens element can further comprise liquid crystal material intermediate the first light transmissive substrate and the second light transmissive substrate.

主权项

1. An apparatus comprising:
an image sensor array having a plurality of rows of pixels and a global shutter operation in which each row of pixels has a common exposure start time and a common exposure termination time; a liquid crystal lens for focusing light onto the image sensor array, the liquid crystal lens having a far focus lens setting and near focus lens setting; and wherein the apparatus is configured to:
adjust the liquid crystal lens from the far focus lens setting to the near focus lens setting;while adjusting the liquid crystal lens from the far focus lens setting to the near focus lens setting, capture, with the image sensor array in the global shutter operation, multiple frames of image data; andwhile adjusting the liquid crystal lens from the far focus lens setting to the near focus lens setting, attempt to decode a decodable indicia in each captured frame of image data.