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公开(公告)号：US20230010117A1
公开(公告)日：2023-01-12
申请号：US17933063
申请日：2022-09-16
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Shashank Sharma
Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera with a voice coil motor (VCM) actuator assembly to provide autofocus (AF) and/or optical image stabilization (OIS) movement. The VCM actuator assembly is configured to move an image sensor of the camera in three dimensions (e.g. X, Y, and Z) to provide the AF and/or OIS movements. The VCM actuator assembly is asymmetrical and includes an at least partially open side that allows an optical assembly of the camera to pass through the open side of the VCM actuator. In some embodiments, the optical assembly is part of a folded optics arrangement of the camera that includes one or more prisms/and or lenses.
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公开(公告)号：US11539864B1
公开(公告)日：2022-12-27
申请号：US16563725
申请日：2019-09-06
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Shashank Sharma , Brad V. Johnson , Alfred N. Mireault
Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera with a folded optics arrangement and include a voice coil motor (VCM) actuator assembly to provide autofocus (AF) and/or optical image stabilization (OIS) movement. The camera with folded optics and the associated VCM actuator assembly have a first rotational normal mode of free vibration such that lenses of the camera rotate about an optical axis of the camera such that the rotational motion in the first rotational mode of free vibration is invisible from a perspective of an image sensor of the camera.
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公开(公告)号：US11350018B2
公开(公告)日：2022-05-31
申请号：US16984334
申请日：2020-08-04
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Shashank Sharma , Alfred N. Mireault , Nicholas D. Smyth , Zachary W. Birnbaum
Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera having one or more bumper arrangements to cushion lateral movement of one or more camera components. In some embodiments, the bumper arrangement(s) may cushion lateral movement of a moveable platform as the moveable platform approaches a stationary structure. According to some embodiments, the bumper arrangement(s) may include one or more bumper features attached to (and/or defined by) the moveable platform and/or the stationary structure.
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公开(公告)号：US11314147B1
公开(公告)日：2022-04-26
申请号：US16417936
申请日：2019-05-21
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Shashank Sharma , Alfred N. Mireault
Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera with folded optics. Some embodiments include a voice coil motor (VCM) actuator module to provide autofocus (AF) and/or optical image stabilization (OIS) movement. Some embodiments include suspension arrangements. Some embodiments include flexure arrangements.
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公开(公告)号：US11223766B2
公开(公告)日：2022-01-11
申请号：US17112411
申请日：2020-12-04
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Shashank Sharma , Scott W. Miller
Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera voice coil motor (VCM) actuator configured to shift an image sensor along multiple axes. Some embodiments include a magnet and coil arrangement. Some embodiments include a position sensing arrangement. Some embodiments include a flexure arrangement. Some embodiments include a coil structure and coil carrier assembly.
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公开(公告)号：US20210385387A1
公开(公告)日：2021-12-09
申请号：US17408304
申请日：2021-08-20
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Shashank Sharma , Scott W. Miller , Aurelien R. Hubert
Abstract: Some embodiments include a camera system having a first camera unit and a second camera unit. The first camera unit may include a first actuator. The second camera unit may include a second actuator. In some embodiments, the first actuator may move one or more components of the first camera unit to provide autofocus and/or optical image stabilization functionality to the first camera unit. In some embodiments, the second actuator may move one or more components of the second camera unit to provide autofocus and/or optical image stabilization functionality to the second camera unit. In some examples, the first camera unit may be configured to capture a first image of a first visual field. The second camera unit may be configured to capture, simultaneously with the first camera unit capturing the first image, a second image of a second visual field.
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公开(公告)号：US11048147B2
公开(公告)日：2021-06-29
申请号：US16571659
申请日：2019-09-16
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Shashank Sharma
Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera with a voice coil motor (VCM) actuator assembly to provide autofocus (AF) and/or optical image stabilization (OIS) movement. The VCM actuator assembly is configured to move an image sensor of the camera in three dimensions (e.g. X, Y, and Z) to provide the AF and/or OIS movements. The VCM actuator assembly is asymmetrical and includes an at least partially open side that allows an optical assembly of the camera to pass through the open side of the VCM actuator. In some embodiments, the optical assembly is part of a folded optics arrangement of the camera that includes one or more prisms/and or lenses.
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28.发明授权公开(公告)号：US10578886B1
公开(公告)日：2020-03-03
申请号：US15169636
申请日：2016-05-31
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Shashank Sharma , Scott W. Miller
Abstract: Some embodiments of a camera unit of a multifunction device include an actuator for moving the optical package relative to the image sensor. In some embodiments, the actuator includes one or more lateral magnets situated at one or more sides of the optical package. In some embodiments, the actuator includes one or more optical image stabilization coils for circulating electric current in a plane perpendicular to the an optical axis of the optical package to generate magnetic interactions with a respective one of the one or more lateral magnets. In some embodiments, each of the optical image stabilization coils has an interior surface boundary, and a space enclosed by the interior surface boundary has a width smaller at a center of a length of the optical image stabilization coil than at the ends of the optical image stabilization coil.
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公开(公告)号：US20190271901A1
公开(公告)日：2019-09-05
申请号：US16415887
申请日：2019-05-17
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Shashank Sharma
Abstract: In some embodiments, a camera unit of a multifunction device may include an optical package and an actuator for moving the optical package. In some embodiments, the actuator may include an asymmetric magnet arrangement. The asymmetric magnet arrangement may include a lateral position control magnet situated at a first side of the optical package, and a pair of transverse position control magnets situated at respective second and third sides of the optical package opposite one another with respect to an axis between the optical package and the lateral magnet. In some embodiments, the actuator may include one or more position sensor magnets attached to the optical package, and one or more magnetic field sensors for determining a position of the position sensor magnets.
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公开(公告)号：US10317649B2
公开(公告)日：2019-06-11
申请号：US15685953
申请日：2017-08-24
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Shashank Sharma , Scott W. Miller , Alfred N. Mireault
Abstract: A camera module includes an optical package, a camera actuator for moving the optical package, a camera subassembly, and one or more resilient members arranged within the camera subassembly to prevent, reduce, or cushion contact between the optical package and other components of the camera. The resilient members may be mounted on the lens carrier of the optical package and configured to come into resistive contact with components of the camera subassembly and/or mounted on components of the camera subassembly and configured to come into resistive contact with the optical package. In either case, the resistive cushioning provided by the resilient members may reduce or prevent contact (and an associated rattling noise associated with the contact) between the optical package and the hard components of the camera subassembly. The resilient members may be configured to cushion, but also allow hard stop contact. In embodiments bumpers (e.g., elastomeric pads) may be used.
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