Patents Examined by Thong Nguyen
  • Microscope adapter unit
    Patent number: 9250430
    Abstract: A microscope adapter unit disposed on an optical path of illumination light between a light source unit including a light source and a sample surface includes a first lens group having at least one lens and a second lens group having at least one lens. The first lens group converts the illumination light into roughly parallel luminous fluxes, and makes the illumination light enter the second lens group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahito Dohi, Kenji Kawasaki, Kazuhiko Hosono
  • Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus
    Patent number: 9253382
    Abstract: The zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens unit having a negative refractive power. During zooming, the second lens unit is not moved and the first, third and fifth lens units are moved. A distance between the first and second lens units at a telephoto end is larger than that at a wide-angle end, a distance between the second and third lens units at the telephoto end is smaller than that at the wide-angle end. A condition of 0.7<f3/f4<1.5 is satisfied where f3 represents a focal length of the third lens unit, and f4 represents a focal length of the fourth lens unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsuichirou Okumura
  • Zoom lens and electronic device including the same
    Patent number: 9250425
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, sequentially from an object side, a first lens group having negative refractive power, a second lens group having positive refractive power, a third lens group having negative refractive power; and a fourth lens group having positive refractive power. When zoom is varied from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, positions of the first lens group and the fourth lens group are fixed on an optical axis. The second lens group includes, sequentially from the object side, a second A lens group having positive refractive power and a second B lens group having positive refractive power, and the second B lens group is moved in the optical axis direction to perform a focusing function from an object disposed in a close range to an object disposed at infinity. The third lens group is shifted in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis to correct image blur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hagiwara
  • Optical image capturing system, image capturing device and mobile terminal
    Patent number: 9250420
    Abstract: An optical image capturing system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with refractive power has a convex object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof and a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element with negative refractive power has a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof. The fourth lens element with positive refractive power has a convex image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof, wherein the surfaces thereof are aspheric. The optical image capturing system has a total of five lens elements with refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Po-Lun Hsu, Cheng-Chen Lin, Lin-Yao Liao, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Zoom lens system, interchangeable lens apparatus and camera system
    Patent number: 9250423
    Abstract: A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, includes a first lens unit having positive optical power; a second lens unit having negative optical power; a third lens unit having positive optical power; a fourth lens unit having negative optical power, and a subsequent lens unit. The first lens unit includes a negative lens element and a positive lens element. In the zoom lens system, the conditions: 1.47<nd2<1.57 and 60<vd2<75 (nd2: a refractive index to a d-line of the positive lens element, vd2: an Abbe number to a d-line of the positive lens element) are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Imaoka, Tsuneo Uchida, Shunichiro Yoshinaga, Masafumi Sueyoshi
  • Hard-coated antiglare film, polarizing plate and image display including the same, method for producing the same, and method for evaluating the same
    Patent number: 9244205
    Abstract: A hard-coated antiglare film that has superior antiglare properties, allow high definition to be provided even in the case of a low haze value, can prevent white blur in an oblique direction from occurring and, and can improve the depth of black in black display, as well as a polarizing plate, and the like. The hard-coated antiglare film includes a transparent plastic film substrate and a hard-coating antiglare layer containing fine particles, which is on at least one surface of the transparent plastic film substrate. The hard-coated antiglare film has a total haze value Ht in the range of 10% to 35%. The total haze value Ht and an internal haze value Hin satisfy a relationship of 0.5?Hin/Ht?0.9. The surface of the hard-coating antiglare layer has an uneven shape and an arithmetic average surface roughness Ra in the range of 0.1 to 0.3 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Tsuno, Daisuke Hamamoto, Hiroki Kuramoto
  • Structural illumination and evanescent coupling for the extension of imaging interferometric microscopy
    Patent number: 9239455
    Abstract: In accordance with the aspects of the present disclosure, a method and apparatus is disclosed for imaging interferometric microscopy (IIM), which can use an immersion medium to enhance resolution up to a resolution of linear systems resolution limit of ?/4n, where ? is the wavelength in free space and n is the index of refraction of a transmission medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: STC.UNM
    Inventors: Steven R. J. Brueck, Alexander Neumann, Yuliya Kuznetsova
  • Image stabilizer and image-shake correcting method
    Patent number: 9229295
    Abstract: An exemplary image stabilizer includes a shaking sensor, a control module, a driving module, an image module, and a data adjusting module. The shaking sensor detects a shake of a lens associated with the image stabilizer. The control module stores a shake correcting setting having one or more error ranges. The driving module is controlled by the control module to move the lens according to the shake correcting setting. The image module captures an image through the corrected lens. The data adjusting module adjusts the shake correcting setting within one or more of the error ranges when a resolution value of the captured image is lower than a preset reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu-Han Chen, Ho-Kai Liang
  • Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus having the same
    Patent number: 9223119
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, a third lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power, disposed in order from an object side to an image side, and an aperture stop between a lens surface closest to the object side of the second lens unit and a lens surface closest to the object side of the third lens unit, the third lens unit is moved to the image side during a focusing operation from an infinite object to a short distance object, the first lens unit is configured by at most two negative lenses and one positive lens, the third lens unit is configured by a single lens or a cemented lens, and an appropriate conditional expression are met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Tashiro, Yasuaki Hagiwara
  • Mobile device and optical imaging lens thereof
    Patent number: 9217843
    Abstract: Present embodiments provide for a mobile device and an optical imaging lens thereof. The optical imaging lens comprises five lens elements positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. Through controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces and/or the refracting power of the lens elements, the optical imaging lens shows better optical characteristics and the total length of the optical imaging lens is shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chin-Wei Liou, Hung-Chien Hsieh, Yan Bin Chen
  • Zoom lens and image pick-up apparatus having the same
    Patent number: 9207438
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a rear lens group including a plurality of lens units and having a positive refractive power as a whole. The distances between adjacent lens units are changed during zooming. The third lens unit is moved during focusing. The focal length, fw, of the entire zoom lens system at the wide-angle end; the focal length, ft, of the entire zoom lens system at the telephoto end; the combined focal length, f12w, of the first and second lens units at the wide-angle end; and the combined focal length, f12t, of the first and second lens units at the telephoto end are appropriately set to satisfy predetermined conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takahiro Hatada
  • Electro-optic rearview mirror assembly for vehicle
    Patent number: 9205780
    Abstract: An exterior mirror reflective element for a vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly includes a front glass substrate having a transparent conductive coating established at a second surface thereof and a rear glass substrate having a metallic reflector coating established at a third surface thereof, with an electro-optic medium disposed between the second surface of the front glass substrate and the third surface of the rear glass substrate. An electrically conductive clip is disposed along and bridges a perimeter edge of the rear glass substrate to establish electrically conductive connection to the metallic reflector coating at the third surface of the rear glass substrate. A solder joint is established at the electrically conductive clip, and the solder is decoupled from the metallic reflector coating at the third surface of the rear glass substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: MAGNA MIRRORS OF AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Hamid Habibi, Michael J. Baur
  • Composite optical device for sighting targets and measuring distances
    Patent number: 9200869
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a composite optical device which includes the day-time optical device, thermal imaging optical device, laser application device and displaying device while reducing the volume and weight, further comprising attenuator that can control the amount of light for easy display on the display. The present invention also aims to provide a composite optical device with enhanced efficiency of transmitting laser and easy operability by installing the attenuator at an appropriate location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Agency for Defense Development
    Inventors: Dong Won Yang, Dong Min Kwak, Joo Hong Yoon, Kyung Mok Kang
  • Optical system and image projecting apparatus using the same
    Patent number: 9201227
    Abstract: The optical system includes: a first optical group which performs a zoom function using a first movable lens, a second optical group which performs a focus function using a second movable lens, and a third optical group which performs a wide angle function by reflecting light passing through the first optical group and the second optical group, wherein a first intermediate image is formed between the first optical group and the second optical group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-tae Kim, Jeong-ho Nho
  • Image viewing device
    Patent number: 9188724
    Abstract: A viewing device includes an interior assembly includes an interior frame having an exterior surface, an exterior assembly coupled to the interior assembly including an exterior lens, the exterior lens having an interior surface, wherein the interior surface of the exterior lens faces the exterior surface of the interior frame. The viewing device includes a reflective surface on the exterior lens, and an object located on the interior assembly adapted to project an image onto the reflective surface. The reflective surface is configured to reflect the projected image toward the interior assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Inventor: Jeff A. Michelsen
  • Infrared fixed-focus lens
    Patent number: 9182574
    Abstract: The invention provides an infrared fixed-focus lens of which component lens pieces are made of germanium characterized by low chromatic dispersion, and have no surface processed to serve as diffraction optics. The infrared fixed-focus lens comprises a first lens piece disposed closer to an object and of negative power, and a second lens piece disposed closer to the image plane and of positive power. Both the first and second lens pieces are made of germanium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: TAMRON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shingo Fuse
  • System in space for reinforcing photosynthesis and method
    Patent number: 9180980
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system in space for reinforcing photosynthesis on earth, comprising a satellite with at least one first optical assembly intended for collecting sunlight, the position of which is stationary; a second optical assembly, smaller in size and with less inertia than the first optical element, intended for retransmitting the collected light with higher density of the retransmitted flux density than the collected flux density, and with an adjustable orientation; a remotely controllable means capable of adjusting the orientation of the second optical assembly; and a light-transmitting means which transmits the collected light from the first optical assembly to the second optical assembly. The second optical assembly retransmits light only in specified frequency hands around 450 nm and 660 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: ASTRIUM SAS
    Inventors: Robert André Lainé, Pierre Parrot
  • Zoom lens system, interchangeable lens apparatus and camera system
    Patent number: 9172882
    Abstract: A zoom lens system comprising a positive first lens unit composed of three or four lens elements, a negative second lens unit, and subsequent lens units, wherein the subsequent lens units include an aperture diaphragm, an image blur compensating lens unit, and a focusing lens unit, which are provided on the image side relative to the aperture diaphragm, and the conditions: 1.8<|(YW/fW)×FNOT×(fT/fW)|<4.5 and 0.001<(D1W+D2T)/fW<0.200 (YW=fW×tan(?W), fW, fT: focal length of the zoom lens system at wide-angle limit, telephoto limit, ?W: half view angle at wide-angle limit, FNOT: F-number at telephoto limit, D1W: inter-apex distance between the first and second lens units at wide-angle limit, D2T: inter-apex distance between the second lens unit and a most object side lens unit among the subsequent lens units at telephoto limit) are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuneo Uchida, Satoshi Kuzuhara
  • Infrared-cut filter with sapphire substrate and lens module including the infrared-cut filter
    Patent number: 9164262
    Abstract: An IR-cut filter includes a substrate and an infrared filtering film. The substrate is made of sapphire, and includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The infrared filtering film covers the first surface of the substrate and increases the reflectivity in relation to infrared light, thus filtering out the infrared light. The infrared filtering film includes a number of first high refraction index layers and a number of first low refraction index layers alternately stacked on the first surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECSION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ga-Lane Chen, Chung-Pei Wang, Chao-Tsang Wei
  • Laser microscope using phase-modulation type spatial light modulator
    Patent number: 9158100
    Abstract: A laser microscope comprises a laser light source emitting illumination light; an objective applying the illumination light on a sample; a light path compounding unit compounding a first illumination light path and a second illumination path between the laser light source and the objective; a phase-modulation type spatial light modulator placed on a position on the first illumination path, the position also being optically conjugate with a pupil position of the objective, modulating a phase of the illumination light; and a two-dimensional scanning unit placed on the second illumination light path, scanning the sample in a plane orthogonal to an optical axis of the objective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Eiji Yokoi