Patent ID: 7796876

Claim:
A lens driving apparatus transferring a lens on a plurality of focus positions previously set, in which a vibration generated when auto focusing is improved, the apparatus comprising: a controller to control the lens to be suspended in one or more intermediate focus positions interposed between a present focus position and a target focus position while controlling the lens to be transferred to the present focus position where the lens is presently located to the target focus position that is a target of transferring the lens among the plurality of focus positions; and a driver to transfer the lens according to a driving control signal from the controller, wherein the controller provides the driving control signal to the driver by using a serial interface method, and the driving control signal comprises a device address to indicate an address of a device of a control object; first position data having position data of the intermediate focus position; and second position data having position data of the target focus position, wherein the first position data and the second position data have data bits depending on a preset rate from entire data bits set according to the serial interface method, respectively.