Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optical image stabilization with voice coil motor for moving image sensor
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Application No.: US17719287Application Date: 2022-04-12
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Publication No.: US11956544B2Publication Date: 2024-04-09
- Inventor: Seyed Mohammad Javid Mahmoudzadeh , Aurelien R Hubert , Phillip R Sommer
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Kowert, Hood, Munyon, Rankin & Goetzel, P.C.
- Agent Robert C. Kowert
- Main IPC: H04N23/68
- IPC: H04N23/68 ; G02B7/08 ; G02B27/64 ; G03B5/00 ; G03B13/36 ; H02K41/035 ; H04N23/63

Abstract:
A camera includes a camera actuator having autofocus (AF) voice coil motor (VCM) with a lens carrier mounting attachment moveably mounted to a base, magnets mounted to the base, and an AF coil fixedly mounted to the lens carrier mounting attachment for producing forces for moving a lens carrier in a direction of an optical axis of a lens of the lens carrier. The magnets may include a pair of first magnets laterally spaced along a first side of the camera and a pair of second magnets laterally spaced along a second side of the camera opposite the first side. The optical image stabilization (OIS) VCM includes an image sensor carrier moveably mounted to the base, and OIS coils moveably mounted to the image sensor carrier within the magnetic fields of the magnets, for producing forces for moving the image sensor carrier in directions orthogonal to the optical axis.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220247931A1 Optical Image Stabilization with Voice Coil Motor for Moving Image Sensor Public/Granted day:2022-08-04
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