Samsung Electro-mechanics Co., Ltd.

Samsung Electro-machincs Co., Ltd.

Youn Joong Lee

Je Hyeon Yu

Jin A Kim

Chan Woo Park

Sung Man Pang

Koon Shik Cho

Byung Hoon Kim

Won Tae Choi

Ja Hwi Cho

Ho Kwon Yoon

Ji Hwan Kim

Young Bok Yoon

Jong Jin Lee

Chang Seok Lee

Jae Shin Lee

Deuk Hee Park

Sang Hyun Cha

Chang Bae Lee

Sang Hyun Min

Kwang Mook Lee

Myeung Su Kim

Kyoung Soo Kwon

Sang Suk Kim

Chae Dong Go

Taek Soo Kim

A tiltless OIS circuit includes a first signal processing unit generating a first direction-position detection signal and a tilt detection signal based on a first direction-first sensing signal and a first direction-second sensing signal, a control unit generating a first direction position control signal, a tilt control signal, and a second direction position control signal, based on the first direction-position detection signal, the tilt detection signal, and a second direction sensing signal, respectively, a second signal processing unit generating a first direction-first position control signal and a first direction-second position control signal based on the first direction position control signal and the tilt control signal, and a driving unit generating a first direction-first driving signal, a first direction-second driving signal, and a second direction driving signal, based on the first direction-first position control signal, the first direction-second position control signal, and the second direction position control signal, respectively.

Tiltless optical image stabilization (OIS) circuit and OIS device

An apparatus configured to reduce an offset of a Hall sensor includes a voltage-current conversion circuit and a current mirror circuit. The voltage-current conversion circuit is configured to generate a current configured to decrease when a voltage of an input terminal to which a bias current of a Hall sensor is input increases and increase when the voltage of the input terminal decreases. The current mirror circuit has a current mirror structure configured to feedback the bias current based on the current generated by the voltage-current conversion circuit.

Apparatus for controlling lens module and reducing offset of Hall sensor

An actuator including two or more detection targets disposed on a surface and another surface of a lens barrel, respectively, an oscillating unit including a first oscillation circuit unit including two or more oscillation circuits disposed to face the surface and a second oscillation circuit unit including two or more oscillation circuits disposed to face the other surface to output oscillation signals, and a determining unit to calculate a position of the lens barrel from the oscillation signals output from the oscillating unit. A frequency range of an oscillation signal output from any one of the two or more oscillation circuits of the first oscillation circuit unit is different from that of an oscillation signal output from any one of the two or more oscillation circuits of the second oscillation circuit unit.

Actuator of camera module

An apparatus controlling a position of a camera module includes an operating coil disposed on a housing of the camera module to face a magnetic member disposed on a lens barrel of the camera module, a driving circuit providing a driving current to the operating coil, a capacitor circuit having a capacitor value to form a resonance circuit together with the operating coil to resonate at a resonance frequency varied depending on an inductance value of the operating coil; a resonance maintaining circuit maintaining a level of a resonance signal generated by the operating coil and the capacitor circuit, a resonance frequency detecting circuit detecting a resonance frequency signal from the resonance signal generated by the operating coil and the capacitor circuit, and a control circuit configured to control the driving circuit in response to the resonance frequency signal from the resonance frequency detecting circuit.

Apparatus and method controlling position of camera module with a single coil

A camera module includes a lens barrel configured to be movable; a detection target disposed on one side of the lens barrel; an integrated coil and a sensing coil facing the detection target and disposed in a direction perpendicular to a direction of movement of the lens barrel; a driver configured to apply a driving signal to the integrated coil; and a position detector configured to detect a position of the lens barrel according to an inductance of the integrated coil and an inductance of the sensing coil, wherein a width of the integrated coil in the direction perpendicular to the direction of movement of the lens barrel and a width of the sensing coil in the direction perpendicular to the direction of movement of the lens barrel change in the direction of movement of the lens barrel.

Camera module

An actuator for a camera module includes two or more detectable elements, the detectable elements are respectively disposed on a first and second surface of a lens barrel, an oscillating element including a first oscillation circuit unit that includes two or more oscillation circuits facing the first surface of the lens barrel, and a second oscillation circuit unit that includes two or more oscillation circuits facing the second surface of the lens barrel, and a determining device that calculates a position of the lens barrel in response to oscillation signals output from the oscillating element. The determining device is configured to calculate the position of the lens barrel based on determined frequencies of oscillation signals of the first oscillation circuit unit and the second oscillation circuit unit.

Camera module with actuator and lens module position detection

An actuator of a camera module includes a driving coil disposed to face a detection target; a driving circuit including a plurality of transistors connected to the driving coil; and a processor configured to provide a respective gate control signal to a gate of each of the plurality of transistors, and detect a displacement of the detection target based on a component of an oscillation signal generated in a driving signal applied to the driving coil in response to an operation of any one of the plurality of transistors being switched by the respective gate control signal.

A camera module includes a lens barrel, a driving coil disposed to face a target detection unit prepared on one side of the lens barrel, a driving device configured to provide a driving signal to the driving coil, and a position calculating unit including a first capacitor, configured to provide a ground for an alternating current (AC) signal to the driving coil, a second capacitor, connected to the driving coil to constitute oscillation circuit together with the driving coil, and a position calculating circuit configured to calculate a position of the lens barrel from a frequency of the oscillation circuit.

Camera module and portable electronic device

A bridge circuit includes: a first leg including a first switching device and a second switching device connected between a first node and a ground; a second leg including a third switching device and a fourth switching device connected between the first node and the ground; and a first charge recycler connected between a gate of the first switching device and a gate of the third switching device, and configured to transfer charges accumulated in the first switching device to the gate of the third switching device prior to turning on the third switching device.

Bridge circuit and rectifier including the same

Provided is an LED driving apparatus. The LED driving apparatus includes a plurality of LED groups each comprising one or more diodes, a switch group comprising a plurality of switch units connected respectively to the LED groups to drive the connected LED group when a control signal is activated, and a switch controlling unit configured to compare an input voltage of the LED groups with an output voltage of the LED groups, calculate a comparison value, and generate the control signal according to the comparison value. Accordingly, the LED driving apparatus drives the LED groups selectively according to the difference between the input voltage of the LED group and the output voltage of the LED group, thereby overcoming the problem of heat generation by forward voltage distribution.

Light emitting diode driving apparatus

Provided is an output buffer circuit having a slew rate increasing part configured with a switching element. The output buffer circuit can obtain an output voltage having a high slew rate even though a smaller amount of a bias current than that required in a conventional output buffer is used. Therefore, the output buffer circuit can reduce power consumption. In the output buffer circuit with a compensation capacitive load, an input part has two input terminal receiving differential input voltage signals, and an output part increases a gain of the differential input voltages. A current source biases the output part, and a slew rate increasing part is connected to the output part and the compensation capacitive load. The slew rate increasing part includes a switching element to increase a slew rate of the output buffer circuit.

Output buffer circuit

A high resolution digital/analog converting apparatus for a spatial optical modulator includes a resistor string including a plurality of resistors connected to each other in series between operating voltage terminals to divide operating voltages into a plurality of voltages using the plural resistors, a decoder to provide switching signals corresponding to digital signals, and a switch unit to select two voltages from the plural voltages divided by the resistor string according to the switching signal of the decoder. The two voltages are adjacent to each other. Moreover, the digital/analog converting apparatus may include a digital/analog converter to perform a digital/analog conversion of the two voltages.

Digital/analog converting apparatus with high resolution

An output buffer circuit includes an input stage of which one end receives an input voltage and the other end receives an output voltage; a class AB output stage that increases a current flowing in the output stage when the difference between the input and output voltages is larger than 0; a floating current source that biases the class AB output stage; a summing circuit that is connected to the input stage, the floating current source, and the class AB output stage so as to sum up the current supplied from the input stage and the internal current supplied from the floating current source; and an offset compensating circuit that is connected to the input stage and is composed of a plurality of switching elements and resistors so as to detect an offset voltage to compensate.

A digital/analog converter includes a first divided-voltage generating section which divides a reference supply voltage through the voltage distribution, a decoder section which receives a digital signal so as to output a decoded selection signal, a first divided-voltage selecting section which selects and outputs a plurality of divided voltages among the divided voltages generated from the first divided-voltage generating section on the basis of the selection signal output from the decoder section, a second divided-voltage selecting section which selects and outputs a plurality of divided voltages among the divided-voltages output from the first divided-voltage selecting section on the basis of the selection signal output from the decoder section, a second divided-voltage generating section which divides the plurality of divided-voltages output from the second divided-voltage selecting section, a third divided-voltage selecting section which selects a predetermined voltage among the divided-voltages output from the second divided-voltages generating section on the basis of the selection signal output from the decoder, and a voltage output section which outputs the predetermined voltage selected from the third divided-voltage selecting section.

Digital/analog converter

The present invention relates to a digital/analog converter. The digital/analog converter includes a divided-voltage generating section that divides a reference supply voltage through the voltage distribution; a decoder section that receives a digital signal so as to output a decoded selection signal; a first divided-voltage selecting section that selects and outputs a plurality of divided voltages among the divided-voltages generated from the divided-voltage generating section on the basis of the selection signal output from the decoder section; a second divided-voltage selecting section that selects and outputs a plurality of divided-voltages among the divided-voltages output from the first divided-voltage selecting section on the basis of the selection signal output from the decoder section; a divided-voltage storing section that charges and discharges the plurality of divided-voltages output from the second divided-voltage selecting section; a third divided-voltage selecting section that selects a predetermined voltage among the divided-voltages discharged from the divided-voltages storing section on the basis of the selection signal output from the decoder; and a voltage output section that outputs the predetermined voltage selected from the third divided-voltage selecting section.

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Youn Joong Lee