ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,386, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Camera with tilt compensation" was invented by Qiang Yang (Fremont, Calif.) and Aurelien R Hubert (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "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 compen...