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: 9638904
    Abstract: In a zoom lens including, in order from an object side: a front group including at least one lens unit; a positive lens unit; and a negative lens unit, an interval between the lens units adjacent to each other is changed during zooming, a combined focal length of the front group is negative at a wide angle end, the positive lens unit moves toward the object side during zooming from the wide angle end to a telephoto end, the negative lens unit moves toward the image side during focusing from infinity to proximity at a first zoom position, and during focusing from infinity to proximity at a second zoom position, which is on a telephoto side of the first zoom position, the positive lens unit moves toward the image side, and the negative lens unit moves toward the object side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Patent number: 9575391
    Abstract: A zoom lens comprises, 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; and a rear unit including at least one lens unit. The intervals between the adjacent lens units vary during zooming. The rear unit has a positive refractive power over the entire zoom range. The second lens unit includes at least three negative lenses, and at least two positive lenses. The materials of all the positive lenses included in the second lens unit are appropriately selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Publication number: 20170038569
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a lens unit Ln having the highest negative refractive power of all the following lens units, a lens unit Lm2 having positive refractive power, a lens unit Lm having negative refractive power, and a rear lens group Lp including one or more lens units and having overall positive refractive power. During zooming, a distance between every adjacent lens units varies. During focusing from an infinite distance to a minimum object distance, the lens unit Ln and the lens unit Lm move toward the object side. The focal length FLm of the lens unit Lm and the focal length FLm2 of the lens unit Lm2 are appropriately set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Patent number: 9465203
    Abstract: Provided is a zoom lens, including, in order from object side to image side: first and second lens units having positive and negative powers, respectively; and three or more lens units. An interval between adjacent ones of the lens units is changed during zooming. An N-th lens unit, where 5?N holds, counted from object side has negative refractive power, and moves to image side during focusing from infinite object to a close distance object. The N-th lens unit includes, in order from object side to image side, negative, positive, negative, and positive lenses. A focal length (fN) of N-th lens unit, a focal length (fT) of an entire system at telephoto end, a distance (o1N) from a surface vertex of N-th lens unit on object side to a front principal point position of N-th lens unit, and a length (dN) on optical axis of N-th lens unit are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Publication number: 20160131879
    Abstract: A zoom lens, includes, in order from an object side: a positive first lens unit; a negative second lens unit; and a rear lens group that includes at least two lens units and is positive as a whole over an entire zoom range, intervals between adjacent lens units changing during zooming. The second lens unit includes at least two negative lenses successively arranged including a first negative lens arranged closest to the object side and a second negative lens, an object-side surface of the first negative lens includes an aspherical surface having a positive aspherical surface amount; and an image-side surface of the first negative lens and surfaces of the second negative lens include a surface having an aspherical surface having a positive aspherical surface amount and a surface having an aspherical surface having a negative aspherical surface amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Patent number: 9297985
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a rear lens group having a positive refractive power as a whole and including at least one lens unit. An interval between the first lens unit and the rear lens group at the telephoto end is smaller than that at the wide angle end. The first lens unit includes a first aspheric lens having a positive aspheric amount, and a second aspheric lens having a negative aspheric amount on the image side of the first aspheric lens. The predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Publication number: 20160073005
    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: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Shigenobu Sugita, Yuichi Kosaka, Takahito Nakamichi
  • Patent number: 9268119
    Abstract: A zoom lens including a plurality of lens units, and two variable stops having an aperture diameter changing for zooming, the lens units being configured to change intervals between the respective neighboring lens units for zooming, the zoom lens having an F-number which is constant over an entire zoom range, the two variable stops including a first variable stop disposed on an object side, and a second variable stop disposed on an image side. A distance (Sw1) from the first variable stop to an image plane at a wide-angle end, a distance (Sw2) from the second variable stop to the image plane at the wide-angle end, and a distance (Tkw) from an exit pupil position to the image plane at the wide-angle end are each set appropriately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Patent number: 9268118
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first, a second, a third, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth and a seventh lens units respectively having positive, negative, positive, negative, positive, negative and positive refractive powers. A distance between adjacent lens units change during zooming so that a distance between the fourth lens unit and the fifth lens unit at a telephoto end is shorter than the distance at a wide angle end and a distance between the fifth lens unit and the sixth lens unit at the telephoto end is longer than the distance at the wide angle end. And the fourth lens unit moves during focusing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Patent number: 9250424
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes a lens unit Lv positioned at the most object side of a plurality of lens units having the negative refractive power, a lens unit Lp positioned at the most object side of lens units having a positive refractive power, the lens units being positioned at an image side of the lens unit Lv, and lens units Fp and Fn respectively having a positive and a negative refractive power positioned at an image side of the lens unit Lp, the lens units Fp and Fn being configured to move during focusing. During focusing from infinity to minimum object distance, the lens unit Fp and the lens unit Fn move in the same direction in a wide angle range, and the lens unit Fp moves to an object side and the lens unit Fn moves to an image side in a telephoto range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Patent number: 9217849
    Abstract: The zoom lens includes in order from an object side to an image side where N represents an integer equal to or more than 5, a first lens unit, a second lens unit, an (N?2)-th lens unit, an (N?1)-th lens unit and an N-th lens unit respectively having positive, negative, positive, negative and positive refractive powers. The (N?1)-th lens unit includes an image stabilizing lens unit. The conditions of 0.01<BldN/TDw<0.09 and 2.0<fN/fw<8.0 are satisfied where BldN represents a length of the N-th lens unit on the optical axis, TDw represents a distance on the optical axis between a most object side lens surface and a most-image side lens surface at a wide-angle end, fw represents a focal length of the entire zoom lens at the wide-angle end, and fN represents a focal length of the N-th lens unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Patent number: 9207442
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, a lens unit Lp having the highest positive refractive power, a lens unit Ln having negative refractive power, and a lens unit Lp2 having positive refractive power. In a first region, focusing from an infinite distance to a predetermined finite distance and zooming are able to be performed. In a second region in which macro driving is performed from a telephoto end to a macro end, two or more lens units are moved during macro driving so that the lens unit Lp is located closer to the object side than at a wide-angle end, a distance between the lens unit Lp and the lens unit Ln is larger at the macro end than at the wide-angle end, and a distance between the lens unit Ln and the lens unit Lp2 is smaller at the macro end than at the wide-angle end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Publication number: 20150277091
    Abstract: In a zoom lens including, in order from an object side: a front group including at least one lens unit; a positive lens unit; and a negative lens unit, an interval between the lens units adjacent to each other is changed during zooming, a combined focal length of the front group is negative at a wide angle end, the positive lens unit moves toward the object side during zooming from the wide angle end to a telephoto end, the negative lens unit moves toward the image side during focusing from infinity to proximity at a first zoom position, and during focusing from infinity to proximity at a second zoom position, which is on a telephoto side of the first zoom position, the positive lens unit moves toward the image side, and the negative lens unit moves toward the object side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Publication number: 20150277090
    Abstract: A zoom lens comprises, 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; and a rear unit including at least one lens unit. The intervals between the adjacent lens units vary during zooming. The rear unit has a positive refractive power over the entire zoom range. The second lens unit includes at least three negative lenses, and at least two positive lenses. The materials of all the positive lenses included in the second lens unit are appropriately selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Patent number: 9110278
    Abstract: The zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a rear lens group including one or more lens units and having as a whole a positive refractive power. The first and rear lens group are moved during zooming so that a distance therebetween decreases at a telephoto end as compared with at a wide-angle end. The first lens unit includes an image side aspheric lens having a negative aspheric amount and one or more object side aspheric lenses disposed on the object side further than the image side aspheric lens. A condition of 0.060<?Aspi×Ndi/BLD1<0.200 is satisfied where Aspi represents an aspheric amount of an i-th object side aspheric lens, Ndi represents a refractive index of the i-th object side aspheric lens, BLD1 represents a length of the first lens unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Patent number: 9046676
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes N lens units, in which a lens unit having a positive refractive power is disposed closest to an object side. Each lens unit is moved to effect zooming. An (N?1)th lens unit and an N-th lens unit, counted from the object side, have positive refractive powers. The (N?1)th lens unit includes a first lens subunit having a positive refractive power and a second lens subunit having a negative refractive power in order from the object side to an image side. The second lens subunit is moved to have a component in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis to move an image position. A focal length fN of the N-th lens unit, a back focus bkt at the telephoto end, and an amount of movement mN of the N-th lens unit during zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Publication number: 20150146044
    Abstract: Provided is a zoom lens, including, in order from object side to image side: first and second lens units having positive and negative powers, respectively; and three or more lens units. An interval between adjacent ones of the lens units is changed during zooming. An N-th lens unit, where 5?N holds, counted from object side has negative refractive power, and moves to image side during focusing from infinite object to a close distance object. The N-th lens unit includes, in order from object side to image side, negative, positive, negative, and positive lenses. A focal length (fN) of N-th lens unit, a focal length (fT) of an entire system at telephoto end, a distance (o1N) from a surface vertex of N-th lens unit on object side to a front principal point position of N-th lens unit, and a length (dN) on optical axis of N-th lens unit are appropriately set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Patent number: 8797655
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes a lens unit Ln having negative refractive power including two or less lenses moving during focusing and zooming, a lens unit Lp1 having positive refractive power disposed adjacent to an object side thereof, and a lens unit Lp2 having positive refractive power disposed adjacent to an image side thereof. The lens units Lp1 and Lp2 move during zooming. A distance Tlw between a lens surface nearest to the object side in the entire zoom lens and an image plane at a wide-angle end, a distance Dnw between the lens surface nearest to the image side of the lens unit Ln and the image plane at the wide-angle end, a back focus bfw at the wide-angle end, and a maximum amount of movement Mnz during focusing of the lens unit Ln at a telephoto end are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Publication number: 20140198393
    Abstract: A zoom lens including a plurality of lens units, and two variable stops having an aperture diameter changing for zooming, the lens units being configured to change intervals between the respective neighboring lens units for zooming, the zoom lens having an F-number which is constant over an entire zoom range, the two variable stops including a first variable stop disposed on an object side, and a second variable stop disposed on an image side. A distance (Sw1) from the first variable stop to an image plane at a wide-angle end, a distance (Sw2) from the second variable stop to the image plane at the wide-angle end, and a distance (Tkw) from an exit pupil position to the image plane at the wide-angle end are each set appropriately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Patent number: 8760771
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes an aperture stop and a plurality of lens units which are moved during zooming. The plurality of lens units includes, on an object side of the aperture stop, a lens unit Lp having a positive refractive power and a lens unit Ln having a negative refractive power which is disposed to be adjacent to an image side of the positive lens unit Lp. At least one of the positive lens unit Lp and the negative lens unit Ln includes two or less lenses which are moved during focusing, and a focal length Fp of the positive lens unit Lp and a focal length Fn of the negative lens unit Ln are appropriately set based on predetermined mathematical conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita