Patents by Inventor Yong-Joo Jo

Yong-Joo Jo 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: 11906706
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens having an object-side surface that is convex; a second lens having a refractive power and a refractive index of 1.65 or more; a third lens having a refractive power; a fourth lens having a refractive power and an object-side surface that is convex; a fifth lens having a refractive power; a sixth lens having a positive refractive power; and a seventh lens having an object-side surface that is convex, wherein the first lens through the seventh lens are sequentially disposed in numerical order from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optical imaging system, and two or more of the first lens and the third lens through the seventh lens have a refractive index of 1.6 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Hyuk Huh, Jae Hyun Baik, Yong Joo Jo
  • Patent number: 11906709
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens having a negative refractive power, a fifth lens having a negative refractive power, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens having a positive refractive power. The first lens to seventh lens are sequentially disposed in a direction from an object side toward an imaging plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Hwa Jung, Yong Joo Jo
  • Patent number: 11906707
    Abstract: An imaging lens system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens, sequentially disposed at intervals from an object side of the imaging lens system. The imaging lens system satisfies 1.5<Nd5<1.6, 30<V5<50, and TTL/2IH<0.730, where Nd5 is a refractive index of the fifth lens, V5 is an Abbe number of the fifth lens, TTL is a distance from an object side surface of the first lens to an imaging plane, and 21H is a diagonal length of the imaging plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kil Soo Shin, Yong Joo Jo
  • Patent number: 11899171
    Abstract: An imaging lens system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens disposed in order from an object side. In the imaging lens system, the first lens has positive refractive power and an object-side surface of the first lens is concave. A field of view of the imaging lens system is 100 degrees or more. In the imaging lens system, a distance TTL from the object-side surface of the first lens to an imaging plane and a height ImgH of the imaging plane satisfy TTL/ImgH<1.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Hyun Jang, Ki Jin Nam, Yong Joo Jo, Phil Ho Jung, Ju Hwa Son
  • Publication number: 20240045173
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens group including at least one lens; a second lens group including at least one lens; and a third lens group including at least one lens, wherein the first lens group, the second lens group, and the third lens group are sequentially disposed in ascending numerical order along an optical axis from an object side toward an image side, each of the second lens group and the third lens group is configured to move along the optical axis relative to the first lens group, the at least one lens of the second lens group includes at least one glass lens and at least one plastic lens, an Abbe number of a glass lens of the second lens group is vg2_g, an Abbe number of a plastic lens of the second lens group is vg2_p, and |vg2_g?vg2_p| is greater than 25.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Phil Ho JUNG, Yong Joo JO, Tae Yeon LIM
  • Publication number: 20240045179
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens disposed sequentially from an object side. The optical imaging system satisfies ?2.0<L3R2/f<?0.5 and 3.0<f/IMG_HT<4.0, where L3R2 is a radius of curvature of an image-side surface of the third lens, f is a focal length of the optical imaging system, and IMG_HT is half a diagonal length of an imaging plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hag Chul KIM, Yong Joo JO, Hyo Jin HWANG
  • Publication number: 20240045183
    Abstract: A camera module includes a lens module including a plurality of lenses having refractive power, a first optical path folding unit disposed on the object side of the lens module and configured to refract or reflect incident light in an optical axis direction of the lens module. Among the lenses constituting the lens module, an effective radius of a lens closest to the first optical path folding unit may have substantially the same size as an effective radius of an exit surface of the first optical path folding unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Hyun KIM, So Mi YANG, Jae Hyuk HUH, Yong Joo JO
  • Patent number: 11892607
    Abstract: An optical system includes: a first lens having refractive power; a second lens having refractive power; a third lens having refractive power and comprising an image-side surface which is convex in a paraxial region; a fourth lens having refractive power; a fifth lens having refractive power and comprising an image-side surface which is concave in the paraxial region; a sixth lens having refractive power; and a stop disposed in front of an object-side surface of the first lens. The first to sixth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side. A radius of the stop SD and an overall focal length of the optical system f satisfy: 0.2<SD/f<0.6. An aberration improvement effect and high degrees of resolution and brightness may be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong Joo Jo
  • Publication number: 20240036291
    Abstract: An image capturing lens system includes a first lens having negative refractive power, a second lens having positive refractive power, a third lens having negative refractive power, a fourth lens having positive refractive power, a fifth lens having refractive power, a sixth lens having refractive power, a seventh lens having positive refractive power, and an eighth lens having refractive power. The first to eighth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side. The first lens and the fourth lens are formed of a glass material. The second lens, the third lens, the fifth lens, the sixth lens, the seventh lens, and the eighth lens are formed of a plastic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyuk Joo KIM, Hwan Soo PARK, Yong Joo JO
  • Patent number: 11886037
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a plurality of lenses disposed along an optical axis from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optical imaging system. The lenses are separated from each other by respective air gaps along the optical axis between the lenses. The lenses include a first lens closest to the object side of the optical imaging system. The conditional expressions 1.5 mm<Gmax, TL<12.0 mm, and 0.15<R1/f are satisfied, where Gmax is a maximum air gap along the optical axis among all of the air gaps, TL is a length of the optical imaging system along the optical axis from an object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging plane, R1 is a radius of curvature of the object-side surface of the first lens, and f is a focal length of the optical imaging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Hyuk Jang, Byung Hyun Kim, Jae Hyuk Huh, Yong Joo Jo
  • Publication number: 20240019666
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens disposed in order from an object side, wherein TTL/(2*IMG HT)?0.6 is satisfied, where TTL is a distance on an optical axis from an object-side surface of the first lens to an imaging plane of an image sensor, and IMG HT is half a diagonal length of the imaging plane of the image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Il Yong PARK, Yong Joo JO
  • Publication number: 20240019665
    Abstract: A camera module includes a first optical path conversion unit configured to reflect or refract light incident along a first optical axis in a direction of a second optical axis that intersects the first optical axis, a second optical path conversion unit configured to reflect or refract light incident on the second optical axis in a direction of a third optical axis that respectively intersects the first optical axis and the second optical axis, and an optical imaging system disposed between the first optical path conversion unit and the second optical path conversion unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Hyuk HUH, Jin Se KIM, Yong Joo JO, So Mi YANG
  • Publication number: 20240019673
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens having refractive power, a second lens including a first reflective region formed on an object-side surface of the second lens, a third lens having a second reflective region formed on an image-side surface of the third lens, and a fourth lens having refractive power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hag Chul KIM, Yong Joo JO
  • Patent number: 11874446
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens sequentially disposed on an optical axis from an object side toward an image side. A distance from an object-side surface of the first lens to an imaging plane of an image sensor is TTL, an overall focal length of an optical system including the first to sixth lenses is F, and TTL/F?0.83. An optical axis distance between the second lens and the third lens is D23, an optical axis distance between the third lens and the fourth lens is D34, and 2.2<D23/D34<5.4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ju Hwa Son, Young Su Jin, Dong Shin Yang, Yong Joo Jo
  • Publication number: 20240012224
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth lenses each having a refractive power. The first to sixth lenses are sequentially disposed in ascending numerical order along an optical axis of the optical imaging system from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optical imaging system, and are the only lenses having a refractive power in the optical imaging system. A radius of curvature of an object-side surface of the fourth lens at the optical axis is greater than a radius of curvature of an object-side surface of the second lens at the optical axis and a radius of curvature of an image-side surface of the second lens at the optical axis. A thickness of the third lens is greater than a distance from an image-side surface of the third lens to the object-side surface of the fourth lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae Youn LEE, Yong Joo JO
  • Patent number: 11867975
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens sequentially disposed in ascending numerical order along an optical axis of the optical imaging system from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging surface of an image sensor, wherein a conditional expression f/f2+f/f3<?0.4 is satisfied, where f is a focal length of the optical imaging system, f2 is a focal length of the second lens, and f3 is a focal length of the third lens, and a conditional expression TTL/(2*IMG HT)<0.69 is satisfied, where TTL is a distance along the optical axis from an object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging surface of the image sensor, and IMG HT is one-half of a diagonal length of the imaging surface of the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Hyuk Huh, Jae Hyun Baik, Yong Joo Jo
  • Patent number: 11867885
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens sequentially arranged along an optical axis from an object side toward an image side. The fifth lens has a positive refractive power, a focal length of the fifth lens is smaller than an overall focal length of the optical imaging system, and ?0.38?R10/f??0.32, where R10 is a radius of curvature of an image-side surface of the fifth lens and f is the overall focal length of the optical imaging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ju Hwa Son, In Gun Kim, Yong Joo Jo, Ju Sung Park
  • Publication number: 20240004164
    Abstract: An imaging lens system includes a first lens having refractive power, a second lens having refractive power, a third lens having refractive power, a fourth lens having refractive power, a fifth lens having refractive power, a sixth lens having refractive power and having a convex object-side surface, a seventh lens having refractive power, and an eighth lens having refractive power, wherein a field of view (FOV) of the imaging lens system is 78-85 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ju Hwa SON, Hyo Jin HWANG, Yong Joo JO, Sang Hyun JANG, Jong Gi LEE
  • Publication number: 20240004166
    Abstract: There are provided a subminiature optical system having a miniature size and capable of obtaining a narrow view angle using only five sheets of lenses, and a portable device having the same. The subminiature optical system includes a first lens convex toward the object side and having positive refractive power. a second lens concave toward an image side and having negative refractive power, a third lens convex toward the object side and having positive refractive power, a fourth lens concave toward the image plane and having negative refractive power, and a fifth lens convex toward the image plane and having negative or positive refractive power, sequentially from an object side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Joo JO, Young Suk KANG
  • Patent number: 11860449
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens sequentially disposed in ascending numerical order along an optical axis of the optical imaging system from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging surface of an image sensor, wherein a conditional expression f/f2+f/f3<?0.4 is satisfied, where f is a focal length of the optical imaging system, f2 is a focal length of the second lens, and f3 is a focal length of the third lens, and a conditional expression TTL/(2*IMG HT)<0.69 is satisfied, where TTL is a distance along the optical axis from an object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging surface of the image sensor, and IMG HT is one-half of a diagonal length of the imaging surface of the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Hyuk Huh, Jae Hyun Baik, Yong Joo Jo