OIS circuit, OIS device with synchronization between single sensor and multiple drivers, and operation method thereof

1. An optical image stabilization (OIS) circuit comprising a single sensor configured to provide sensor data, the OIS circuit comprising:

a main OIS circuit configured to:

output a control signal to the sensor, and receive the control signal from the sensor with sensor data,

output an interruption signal to initiate a control operation, and

control a main OIS operation; and

a sub-OIS circuit configured to be synchronized with the main OIS circuit based on the control signal input with the sensor data, and control a sub OIS operation based on the interruption signal.

2. The OIS circuit of claim 1 , wherein the main OIS circuit comprises:

a serial peripheral interface (SPI) master configured to perform an SPI communication with an SPI slave in the sensor; and

a memory configured to store sensor data received through the SPI communication.

3. The OIS circuit of claim 2 , wherein the main OIS circuit further comprises a timer configured to produce the interruption signal.

4. The OIS circuit of claim 2 , wherein the control signal of the main OIS circuit comprises a clock signal and a chip selector signal.

5. The OIS circuit of claim 4 , wherein the sub OIS circuit comprises first to N th sub OIS circuits, and

wherein the first to N th sub OIS circuits are enabled based on the chip selector signal, and are configured to receive the sensor data from the sensor based on the clock signal.

6. An optical image stabilization (OIS) device, comprising:

a single sensor configured to provide sensor data;

a main OIS circuit configured to:

output a control signal to the single sensor, and receive the control signal with sensor data,

output an interruption signal to initiate a control operation, and

control a main OIS operation; and

a sub-OIS circuit configured to be synchronized with the main OIS circuit based on the control signal input with the sensor data, and control a sub OIS operation based on the interruption signal.

7. The OIS device of claim 6 , wherein the main OIS circuit comprises:

a serial peripheral interface (SPI) master configured to perform an SPI communication with an SPI slave in the single sensor; and

a memory configured to store sensor data received through the SPI communication.

8. The OIS device of claim 6 , wherein the single sensor comprises a gyro sensor comprising an SPI slave configured to perform an SPI communication with the main OIS circuit.

9. The OIS device of claim 7 , wherein the main OIS circuit further comprises a timer configured to produce the interruption signal.

10. The OIS device of claim 7 , wherein the control signal of the main OIS circuit comprises a clock signal and a chip selector signal.

11. The OIS device of claim 10 , wherein the sub OIS circuit comprises first to N th sub OIS circuits, and

wherein the first to N th sub OIS circuits are enabled based on the chip selector signal, and are configured to receive the sensor data from the single sensor based on the clock signal.

12. An operating method of an optical image stabilization (OIS) device, the method comprising:

outputting a control signal from a main OIS circuit to a single sensor, and receiving the control signal with sensor data output from the single sensor;

inputting the sensor data output from the single sensor to a sub OIS circuit based on the control signal;

cyclically producing, by the main OIS circuit, an interruption signal to initiate a control operation to control a main OIS operation based on the interruption signal; and

controlling, by the sub OIS circuit, a sub OIS operation based on the interruption signal.

13. The operating method of claim 12 , wherein a serial peripheral interface (SPI) SPI slave in the single sensor performs an SPI communication with the main OIS circuit.

14. The operating method of claim 12 , wherein a timer in the main OIS circuit produces the interruption signal to initiate the control operation.

15. The operating method of claim 12 , wherein the control signal of the main OIS circuit comprises a clock signal and a chip selector signal.

16. The operating method of claim 15 , wherein the sub OIS circuit comprises first to N th OIS circuits, and

wherein the first to N th OIS circuits are enabled based on the chip selector signal, and receive the sensor data output from the single sensor based on the clock signal.

17. An optical image stabilization (OIS) device comprising:

an OIS circuit comprising a main OIS circuit, and one or more sub OIS circuits; and

a single sensor configured to receive a control signal from the main OIS circuit, and transmit the control signal and sensor data to the main OIS circuit and the one or more sub OIS circuits;

wherein the main OIS circuit comprises a timer configured to generate an interruption signal, and

wherein the one or more sub OIS circuits are synchronized with the main OIS circuit to simultaneously receive the sensor data in response to the control signal, and to perform a sub OIS control operation based on the interruption signal.

18. The OIS device of claim 17 , wherein the timer of the main OIS circuit is configured to produce the interruption signal to initiate the OIS control operation.

19. The OIS device of claim 18 , wherein the OIS control operation comprises an operation to control a lens actuator.

20. The OIS device of claim 19 , wherein the single sensor is a gyro sensor.