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Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2025

Filed:

Sep. 07, 2022
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Phillip R Sommer, Newark, CA (US);

Seyed Mohammad Javid Mahmoudzadeh, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 23/54 (2023.01); H04N 23/50 (2023.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H04N 23/67 (2023.01); H04N 23/68 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 23/54 (2023.01); H04N 23/50 (2023.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H04N 23/67 (2023.01); H04N 23/687 (2023.01);
Abstract

A camera includes a lens group, an image sensor, an actuator to move the image sensor relative to the lens group, and a flexure that suspends the image sensor from a stationary structure of the camera and that allows motion of the image sensor enabled by the actuator. The flexure includes a dynamic platform to which the image sensor is connected such that the image sensor moves with the dynamic platform, a static platform connected to a static portion of the camera, a plurality of flexure arms that mechanically connect the dynamic platform to the static platform, and one or more elastic spacers positioned between at least two flexure arms of the plurality of flexure arms.


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