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The world’s smallest anti-shaking actuator for CCM up to 5M pixels was developed in January 2009. The CCM is sized 8.5×8.5×6.8 mm3 and embedded with auto-focus function. By 2010, eight US patents were filed with two already granted. MPT licensed these home-grown anti-shaking compact camera module technologies to and helped form the AP Photonics Limited (APP), a Hong Kongbased company newly established in 2010 intending to tap into the global camera phone market.

This novel chip-scale actuator developed for various advanced auto-focus compact camera modules has the following features:

• CCM size at 1.3M pixels: 5.5×6.0×4.9 mm3
• CCM size at 3M pixels: 6.8×6.8×5.6 mm3
• Supports resolution up to 5M pixels
• Low cost (50% saving compared to conventional Bill of Material cost)
• Four US patents have been fi led by 2010

Technologies for Transfer

• 1.3M pixels functional chip-scale camera module prototype
• 3M pixels functional chip-scale camera module prototype

This project focuses on integrating lens module and actuator into a 3X Zoom CCM for mobile phone applications. The CCM size will be greatly reduced and novel design of magnet-yoke will be delivered to eliminate magnetic interference between actuators. The target size of this camera is 50% smaller than the existing products in the market. One US patent has been filed by 2010.

Production-ready Compact Optical Zoom CCM with the following specifications:

• Resolution: 5M / 8M pixels
• Pixel Size: ≤1.75 μm
• Zoom Power: 3X
• Embedded function: Auto-focus
• Dimension: 11×19×12.5 mm3