CAMERA DRIVER

摘要

The camera driver is provided with a camera part that comprises an image pickup element, a lens that forms an object image on the image pickup surface of the image pickup element and a lens barrel that holds the lens; a fixed unit, at least a portion of which is made of a magnetic substance and which comprises a protruding part provided with a shape that is at least a portion of a spherical surface; a movable unit that comprises a first movable part comprising an attraction magnet that generates a magnetic attraction force on the magnetic substance and a contact surface with a conical shape into which the protruding part fits as a result of the magnetic attraction force, and which rotates freely with respect to the center of the sphere of the spherical surface of the protruding part, and a second movable part, which is equipped with the camera part and fixed to the first movable part, and which comprises a fall-off prevention regulating surface provided with a prescribed intervening gap that allows free rotation with respect to the fixed unit when the first movable part rotates; a detector that detects the slant angle of the camera part with respect to the fixed unit and the rotation angle of the camera part around the optical axis of the lens; a first driving part that slants the camera part with respect to the fixed unit; and a second driving part that rotates the camera part with respect to the fixed unit around the center of the optical axis.