Patents by Inventor Shigenobu Sugita

Shigenobu Sugita has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11516393
    Abstract: An interchangeable lens apparatus attachable to an imaging apparatus configured to move an image sensor in an image stabilization includes an imaging optical system, a storage unit configured to store image circle information including a relationship between an imaging condition and position information of an image circle of the imaging optical system, and a transmission unit configured to transmit at least part of the image circle information to the imaging apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigenobu Sugita, Kenji Saitsu, Masakazu Kodaira
  • Patent number: 11435566
    Abstract: A zoom lens including in order from an object side: a positive first unit including negative and positive lenses, a positive second unit, a negative third unit, a positive fourth unit, and a rear lens group, wherein at a time of zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, the first unit moves to the object side, a space between the first and second units increases, and a space between the second and third units increases, and a focal length of the zoom lens at the telephoto end, a zoom lens length at the telephoto end, a change amount of the space between the first and second units during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end, a change amount of the space between the second and third units during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Patent number: 11336827
    Abstract: An interchangeable lens apparatus attachable to an imaging apparatus configured to move an image sensor in an image stabilization includes an imaging optical system, a storage unit configured to store image circle information including a relationship between an imaging condition and position information of an image circle of the imaging optical system, and a transmission unit configured to transmit at least part of the image circle information to the imaging apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigenobu Sugita, Kenji Saitsu, Masakazu Kodaira
  • Patent number: 11108958
    Abstract: An interchangeable lens apparatus attachable to an imaging apparatus configured to move an image sensor in an image stabilization includes an imaging optical system, a storage unit configured to store image circle information including a relationship between an imaging condition and position information of an image circle of the imaging optical system, and a transmission unit configured to transmit at least part of the image circle information to the imaging apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigenobu Sugita, Kenji Saitsu, Masakazu Kodaira
  • Publication number: 20210243372
    Abstract: An interchangeable lens apparatus attachable to an imaging apparatus configured to move an image sensor in an image stabilization includes an imaging optical system, a storage unit configured to store image circle information including a relationship between an imaging condition and position information of an image circle of the imaging optical system, and a transmission unit configured to transmit at least part of the image circle information to the imaging apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Shigenobu Sugita, Kenji Saitsu, Masakazu Kodaira
  • Patent number: 10838200
    Abstract: An optical system includes a first lens unit that has a positive refractive power; a second lens unit that is arranged to move during focusing and has a positive or negative refractive power; and a third lens unit that has a positive or negative refractive power. The first lens unit, the second lens unit, and the third lens unit are disposed in that order from an object side to an image side. During the focusing, an interval between adjacent lens units changes. In the optical system, a focal length f of the entire optical system, a distance LD along an optical axis from a lens surface of the first lens unit that is closest to the object side to an image plane, a material of positive lenses included in the first lens unit, and an arrangement of the positive lenses included in the first lens unit are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichi Gyoda, Suguru Inoue, Shigenobu Sugita
  • Patent number: 10641983
    Abstract: A lens apparatus that includes an optical system including a positive lens, the lens apparatus including a holding member arranged to hold the positive lens, an exterior member arranged to accommodate the holding member, and an engaging mechanism arranged to engage the holding member and the exterior member to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigenobu Sugita, Yuki Nagao, Suguru Inoue
  • Patent number: 10627610
    Abstract: The zoom lens of the present invention includes a positive lens unit LP (LULP) disposed closest to an object side, a negative lens unit LNF (LULNF) disposed at an image side of LULP, and an aperture stop disposed at image side of LULNF. The zoom lens further includes at image side of aperture stop, successively in order from object side to image side, a positive lens unit LP1, a negative lens unit LN1 (LULN1), a positive lens unit LP2 (LULP2), and a negative lens unit LN2 (LULN2), in which intervals between adjacent lens units are changed during zooming. LULN1 moves during focusing. The focal length and the total length of zoom lens at a telephoto end, the changing amount from interval between LULP2 and LULN2 at a wide angle end to that at telephoto end, and the total length of zoom lens at wide angle end are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Patent number: 10620401
    Abstract: An optical system includes a plurality of lenses. The distance from the object side lens surface of a lens arranged an the most object side to the image plane is longer than the focal length of the entire system. The material of a positive lens G1p arranged on the most object side among positive lenses included in the optical system, and the arrangement and material of a negative lens Gn located on the most object side among negative lenses arranged an the image side of the positive lens G1p are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigenobu Sugita, Yuichi Gyoda, Suguru Inoue
  • Patent number: 10571670
    Abstract: Provided is a zoom lens, including, in order from an object side to an image side: a negative first lens unit; a positive second lens unit; a negative third lens unit; a positive fourth lens unit; and a positive fifth lens unit, the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth lens units having an interval between each pair of adjacent lens units changed for zooming. The second, fourth, and fifth lens units are configured to move toward the object side for zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end. A focal length of the fourth lens unit, a focal length of the fifth lens unit, an amount of movement of the fifth lens unit for zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end, and a focal length of an entire system of the zoom lens at the wide-angle end are each appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Patent number: 10564407
    Abstract: A zoom lens of the present invention is a zoom lens including a variable stop whose aperture diameter is variable in zooming, the variable stop is a stop which determines a minimum f-number of the zoom lens at least at one of zoom positions in an entire zoom range, and the aperture diameter of the variable stop is variable in focusing at least at a telephoto end in the entire zoom range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Patent number: 10545320
    Abstract: Provided is a zoom lens, including, 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; a fifth lens unit having a negative refractive power; and a rear lens group including one or more lens units, in which the third lens unit is configured to move toward the object side during zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, in which an interval between adjacent lens units is changed during zooming, in which the fourth lens unit is moved in a direction having a vertical component to an optical axis during image stabilization, and in which focal lengths of the third and fourth lens units are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Publication number: 20200018950
    Abstract: An optical system includes a first lens unit that has a positive refractive power; a second lens unit that is arranged to move during focusing and has a positive or negative refractive power; and a third lens unit that has a positive or negative refractive power. The first lens unit, the second lens unit, and the third lens unit are disposed in that order from an object side to an image side. During the focusing, an interval between adjacent lens units changes. In the optical system, a focal length f of the entire optical system, a distance LD along an optical axis from a lens surface of the first lens unit that is closest to the object side to an image plane, a material of positive lenses included in the first lens unit, and an arrangement of the positive lenses included in the first lens unit are appropriately set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Yuichi Gyoda, Suguru Inoue, Shigenobu Sugita
  • Patent number: 10495861
    Abstract: Provided is a zoom lens including, in order from an object side to an image side: 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; a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power; and a rear lens group including at least one lens unit, the first lens unit, the second lens unit, the third lens unit, the fourth lens unit, and the rear lens group having an interval between each pair of adjacent lens units changed for zooming. The third lens unit is configured to move for focusing, and at least a part of the fourth lens unit forms a lens system IS, which is configured to move in a direction including a component of a direction perpendicular to an optical axis for image stabilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Patent number: 10466473
    Abstract: An optical system includes a first lens unit that has a positive refractive power; a second lens unit that is arranged to move during focusing and has a positive or negative refractive power; and a third lens unit that has a positive or negative refractive power. The first lens unit, the second lens unit, and the third lens unit are disposed in that order from an object side to an image side. During the focusing, an interval between adjacent lens units changes. In the optical system, a focal length f of the entire optical system, a distance LD along an optical axis from a lens surface of the first lens unit that is closest to the object side to an image plane, a material of positive lenses included in the first lens unit, and an arrangement of the positive lenses included in the first lens unit are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichi Gyoda, Suguru Inoue, Shigenobu Sugita
  • Patent number: 10429609
    Abstract: In an optical system which includes a positive lens Gp and in which a distance on an optical axis from an object-side lens surface of a lens disposed closest to an object side to an image surface is shorter than a focal length of an entire system, an arrangement and a material of the positive lens Gp, and an arrangement of a focus unit are set appropriately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigenobu Sugita, Suguru Inoue
  • Publication number: 20190141246
    Abstract: An interchangeable lens apparatus attachable to an imaging apparatus configured to move an image sensor in an image stabilization includes an imaging optical system, a storage unit configured to store image circle information including a relationship between an imaging condition and position information of an image circle of the imaging optical system, and a transmission unit configured to transmit at least part of the image circle information to the imaging apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Shigenobu Sugita, Kenji Saitsu, Masakazu Kodaira
  • Publication number: 20190129135
    Abstract: A lens apparatus includes an optical system having a lens, a positive lens, and a negative lens. A material of the positive lens, and a mechanism connecting a holding member holding the positive lens and an exterior member protecting the holding member to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Shigenobu Sugita, Yuki Nagao, Suguru Inoue
  • Patent number: 10254508
    Abstract: In a converter device that is attached between a lens device, which is attachable to and detachable from an image capturing apparatus, and the image capturing apparatus, and that has a reimaging optical system configured to reimage a primary image formed by the lens device on an image plane as a secondary image, the imaging magnification of the reimaging optical system and imaging positions of a primary image and a secondary image are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Patent number: 10244157
    Abstract: The interchangeable lens apparatus provided with an image capturing optical system and being detachably attachable to an image capturing apparatus, the image capturing apparatus being configured to detect a defocus amount of the image capturing optical system by using a signal acquired by photoelectric conversion of an optical image formed by the image capturing optical system. The interchangeable lens apparatus includes a focus lens included in the image capturing optical system, and a memory to store information on a focus sensitivity indicating a relation between a unit movement amount of the focus lens and a displacement amount of the optical image. The information on the focus sensitivity is information for enabling acquiring the focus sensitivity different depending on an image height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigenobu Sugita, Yuichi Kosaka, Takahito Nakamichi