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In this paper, we proposed an ultra slim optical zoom system with Alvarez freeform lenses. A 3X optical zoom system with two pairs of Alvarez lenses was developed. Alvarez lenses are fabricated by precise injection molding and the movable elements are actuated by voice coil motors. A slim camera module was fabricated with a size of 25 mm(width)×25 mm(length)×6 mm(height). The zooming and imaging capabilities of this Alvarez zoom system are demonstrated experimentally. The prototype exhibits a promising future for space-constrained application such as mobile phone camera module, wearable imaging system and endoscopic system.

.To realize automatic zooming of presbyopia glasses, we proposed a gaze distance detection method based on binocular tracking. A theoretical model was built to calculate gaze distance based on the gaze directions of two eyeballs. The gaze direction of each eyeball was obtained by the pupil center corneal reflection method. Three light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and two miniature cameras were placed on the glasses frame around the eyeball. Then, gaze direction was derived by calculating the distances between the pupil center and the positions of three LED reflection images by the corneal from the images captured by cameras. The experiment setup was built to test the gaze direction and gaze distance. The experimental result demonstrates that it is an effective way to obtain the user’s gaze distance for automatically adjusting the focal length of the zoom glasses.