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Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025

Filed:

May. 20, 2022
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Qiang Yang, Fremont, CA (US);

Aurelien R Hubert, Saratoga, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 27/64 (2006.01); G02B 7/09 (2021.01); G03B 5/00 (2021.01); H04N 23/54 (2023.01); H04N 23/68 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 27/646 (2013.01); G02B 7/09 (2013.01); G03B 5/00 (2013.01); H04N 23/54 (2023.01); H04N 23/687 (2023.01); G03B 2205/0007 (2013.01); G03B 2205/0015 (2013.01); G03B 2205/0069 (2013.01);
Abstract

A camera may include a tilt actuator having one or more tilt magnets and one or more tilt coils. The tilt actuator may detect unexpected tilt between one or more lenses and an image sensor of the camera. The tilt actuator may control current of the tilt coils to interact with magnetic fields of the tilt magnets to generate motive force to rotate the lenses relative to the image sensor around one or more axes to compensate for the detected tilt. In addition, the tilt coils and tilt magnets may interact to move the lenses relative to the image sensor along an optical axis of the lenses to adjust a focus of the camera.


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