'Is one gyroscope enough?' for Nanotech 2012

摘要

The current market trend is a push on small, lightweight portable devices with advance features for User Interface and gesture recognition, as well as camera features. This new generation of portable devices require Gyroscope sensing capability to enable advanced gaming, high-performance motion detection, gesture recognition, and optical image stabilization. Nowadays, these functions are implemented using two dedicated gyroscopes for OIS (Optical Image Stabilization) and UI (User Interface), each to address specific requirements. The new technology breakthrough is the new dual-core gyroscope capable of handling both user-motion recognition and camera image stabilization in one single device. With the innovative architecture, only a single sensor is needed for these two functionalities at the same time, or separately. This allows space saving, and the reduction of system complexity opens new frontiers in terms of the possibilities to implement gaming, gesture recognition, and image stabilization in ultra portable devices.