Enhanced macro photography in smartphones

The ICG-20660L can be found in the recently announced Xiaomi Mi5 smartphone. These enhancements expand on InvenSense’s 2-axis dedicated solutions on camera modules, while enabling adoption of OIS with expanded capabilities in the main board of smartphones.

With the huge popularity of smartphone cameras, OEMs are looking for ways to enhance that experience with OIS across their product portfolio, while maintaining aesthetically pleasing industrial designs. Furthermore, the lightweight and portable nature of a smartphone form factor makes it ideal for one-handed use and close up photography, or macro mode, where the photographer may be capturing the details of a beautiful flower.

Macro photography, however, magnifies hand jitter beyond the capabilities of existing OIS solutions, especially in a small form factor phone. The ICG-20660L addresses this challenge by allowing the OIS-Macro motion sensor to be placed on the main board of a phone without the need for dynamic calibration at the phone level during production. This solution enhances the photography experience and also allows creation of a compact camera module while reducing the total system cost, as dynamic calibration is no longer needed due to InvenSense’s ability to accurately control tolerances needed for main board OIS.