ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,278, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Folded optics camera with tilt actuator" was invented by Jian Ouyang (San Jose, Calif.), Nicholas D. Smyth (San Jose, Calif.) and Scott W. Miller (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include a camera with folded optics and a tilt actuator. In some embodiments, the camera may include a folded optics arrangement that may include a prism and a lens group. In some embodiments, an actuator arrangement of the camera may include one or more actuators for tilting the prism about multiple axes. Furthermore, the actuator arrangement may incl...