US 11,818,281 B2
Handheld electronic device
Benjamin J. Kallman, Emerald Hills, CA (US); Luman Zhang, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Hugh J. Jay, Cupertino, CA (US); Trent Canales, Cupertino, CA (US); Lindsay M. Alanen, San Jose, CA (US); Christopher B. Lyons, Cupertino, CA (US); Brian A. Argyres, San Mateo, CA (US); Sherry Cao, San Francisco, CA (US); Jaden A. Barney, East Palo Alto, CA (US); Lucy E. Browning, San Francisco, CA (US); Sawyer I. Cohen, Menlo Park, CA (US); and Benjamin J. Pope, Mountain View, CA (US)
Assigned to APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/949,536.
Application 17/949,536 is a division of application No. 17/068,570, filed on Oct. 12, 2020, granted, now 11,503,143.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/943,199, filed on Dec. 3, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/946,920, filed on Dec. 11, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/047,760, filed on Jul. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0018308 A1, Jan. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. H04M 1/02 (2006.01); H05K 5/02 (2006.01); H05K 1/18 (2006.01); H05K 5/00 (2006.01); H05K 1/11 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01)
CPC H04M 1/0206 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1637 (2013.01); G06F 1/1686 (2013.01); H04M 1/026 (2013.01); H04M 1/0264 (2013.01); H04M 1/0266 (2013.01); H05K 1/115 (2013.01); H05K 1/118 (2013.01); H05K 1/189 (2013.01); H05K 5/0047 (2013.01); H05K 5/0086 (2013.01); H05K 5/0217 (2013.01); H04M 2201/38 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
8. A portable electronic device comprising:
a housing;
a display at least partially within the housing;
a front cover coupled to the housing and positioned over the display;
a rear cover coupled to the housing and defining:
a rear exterior surface of the portable electronic device;
an internal surface opposite the rear exterior surface; and
a hole extending from the rear exterior surface to the internal surface;
a camera module mounted within the housing and comprising:
a lens assembly extending at least partially into the hole of the rear cover;
an image sensor positioned below the lens assembly;
a first actuation system configured to move the lens assembly along a first axis transverse to the rear exterior surface; and
a second actuation system configured to:
move the image sensor along a second axis parallel to the rear exterior surface; and
move the image sensor along a third axis parallel to the rear exterior surface and transverse to the second axis.