Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Envelope detection circuit for detection of opening angle of a movable MEMS mirror
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Application No.: US16897491Application Date: 2020-06-10
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Publication No.: US11226480B2Publication Date: 2022-01-18
- Inventor: Elik Haran , Offir Duvdevany , Naomi Petrushevsky
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics LTD
- Applicant Address: IL Netanya
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics LTD
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics LTD
- Current Assignee Address: IL Netanya
- Agency: Crowe & Dunlevy
- Main IPC: G02B26/08
- IPC: G02B26/08 ; G01R19/04 ; H02P25/032 ; G02B26/10

Abstract:
An electronic device includes an analog to digital converter receiving an analog mirror sense signal from an oscillating mirror and generating a digital mirror sense signal therefrom, and a digital signal processing block. The digital signal processing block cooperates with the analog to digital converter to take a first sample of the digital mirror sense signal at a first time where a derivative of capacitance of the digital mirror sense signal crosses zero, take a second sample of the digital mirror sense signal at a second time between a peak of the digital mirror sense signal and the first time, and take a third sample of the digital mirror sense signal at a third time after the digital mirror sense signal has reached a minimum. Control circuitry determines an opening angle of the oscillating mirror as a function of the first, second, and third samples.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200301127A1 ENVELOPE DETECTION CIRCUIT FOR DETECTION OF OPENING ANGLE OF A MOVABLE MEMS MIRROR Public/Granted day:2020-09-24
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