Abstract:
A portable communication device is provided. The device includes a camera assembly comprising a lens and an image sensor, a printed circuit board (PCB) surrounding at least a portion of the camera assembly, and a plurality of coils including a first, second, and third coils respectively disposed on first, second, and third areas of the PCB, and a control circuit electrically connected to the PCB, the first coil, the second coil, and the third coil. The control circuit performs a first function related to the camera assembly by moving the camera assembly, by using the first coil, in a direction substantially parallel to an optical axis of the lens, and a second function related to the camera assembly by rotating the camera assembly about at least one rotation shaft, which is substantially perpendicular to the optical axis, using at least one of the second coil or the third coil.
Abstract:
A camera module is provided. The camera module includes a housing, a lens assembly including at least one lens, an iris diaphragm disposed over the lens and configured to adjust an amount of external light incident on the lens, an iris diaphragm magnet member disposed on a surface of the lens assembly for adjusting a movement of the iris diaphragm, a coil disposed on a surface of the housing facing the iris diaphragm magnet member, at least one sensor disposed on the surface and sensing a magnetic force of the iris diaphragm magnet member, a lens driving unit moving the lens assembly, and control circuitry configured to detect a magnetic force between the moved lens assembly and the surface by using the sensor, determine a position of the lens assembly relative to the surface based at least on the magnetic force, correct a signal for controlling an amount of electric current supplied to the coil according to the position, and adjust an aperture ratio of the iris diaphragm through the iris diaphragm magnet member by using an electromagnetic force output through the coil according to the corrected signal.
Abstract:
An electronic device is disclosed, including a housing, an optical image stabilization (OIS) coil and an auto-focus (AF) coil, a first lens disposed along an optical axis, a second lens disposed under the first lens, and a third lens disposed under the second lens, the second lens is deformable according to movement of an AF carrier, an OIS carrier including an OIS magnet disposed corresponding to the OIS coil of the housing, and configured to move the third lens along a direction perpendicular to the optical axis, wherein the AF carrier includes an AF magnet corresponding to the AF coil, to move the second lens along the optical axis, and a processor configured to apply a current to the OIS coil to move the OIS carrier, resulting in movement of the third lens in the direction perpendicular to the optical axis, and apply a current to the AF coil to deform the second lens by movement of the AF carrier.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an electronic device that includes a display and a camera module. The display includes a camera exposure area. The camera module is disposed on the camera exposure area and includes a housing. The camera module includes a lens housing that is fixed to the housing and at least one lens that is disposed in the lens housing and includes an optical axis facing toward the camera exposure area. The camera module includes a first printed circuit board that moves in the housing in an optical axis direction of the lens and an image sensor that faces the lens and that is mounted on the first printed circuit board. The camera module includes a second printed circuit board disposed on an opposite side to the image sensor. The camera module includes a connecting member disposed between the first and second printed circuit boards for transferring an electrical signal.
Abstract:
A camera module is provided. The camera module includes a housing assembly, a lens assembly that is accommodated in the housing assembly and that includes at least one lens, and an aperture module that adjusts an amount of external light incident on the at least one lens. The aperture module includes an aperture base including a base opening through which the at least one lens is exposed based on being viewed from above the at least one lens, an aperture slider that is disposed on one side surface of the aperture base and that performs a sliding motion along a specified path, an aperture lever that rotates through a specified angle depending on the sliding motion of the aperture slider, and aperture blades that move toward or away from each other depending on a rotation of the aperture lever.
Abstract:
An electronic device includes an auto-focus camera module. The auto-focus camera module comprises a lens module equipped with at least one lens and including an cylindrical insertion unit formed therein; and a carrier formed with a hollow portion, into which the insertion unit of the lens module is inserted in an optical axis direction of the lens, wherein the lens module includes a first rotation prevention portion, the carrier includes a second rotation prevention portion formed at a position corresponding to the first rotation prevention portion, and in a state where the insertion unit of the lens module is inserted into the hollow portion of the carrier, the first rotation prevention portion and the second rotation prevention portion are engaged with each other so as to prevent the lens module from being rotated with respect to the carrier.
Abstract:
An electronic device includes an auto-focus camera module. The auto-focus camera module comprises a lens module equipped with at least one lens and including an cylindrical insertion unit formed therein; and a carrier formed with a hollow portion, into which the insertion unit of the lens module is inserted in an optical axis direction of the lens, wherein the lens module includes a first rotation prevention portion, the carrier includes a second rotation prevention portion formed at a position corresponding to the first rotation prevention portion, and in a state where the insertion unit of the lens module is inserted into the hollow portion of the carrier, the first rotation prevention portion and the second rotation prevention portion are engaged with each other so as to prevent the lens module from being rotated with respect to the carrier.