+ - + + Arrangement Patents (Class 359/687)
  • Patent number: 11868529
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to operate an operation target according to a first operation mode on a basis of biological information about a user, and operate the operation target according to a second operation mode different from the first operation mode on a basis of the biological information about the user in a case where biological information about the user is being measured and the operation target is not operated according to the first operation mode on the basis of the biological information about the user for a predetermined time or longer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Agama-X Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kengo Tokuchi, Masahiro Sato
  • Patent number: 11860348
    Abstract: A 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 power, and a rear unit having a positive refractive power as a whole and including one or more lens units. A distance between adjacent lens units changes during zooming. The first lens unit includes a first subunit having a positive refractive power and a second subunit disposed on the image side of the first subunit. The first subunit includes a first positive lens having the smallest absolute value of a focal length among lenses included in the first subunit. The second subunit includes a second positive lens and a first negative lens having the smallest absolute value of a focal length among negative lenses included in the second subunit. A predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shunji Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 11805233
    Abstract: A lens apparatus includes two optical systems each of which includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a negative first lens unit, a first reflective member, an aperture diaphragm, a second reflective member, and a positive second lens unit. Each optical system satisfies following inequalities: 5.9<DR/f<13.6 0.7<D2/f2<5.2 10.4<DP/f<19.8 DR represents a distance on an optical axis from a reflective surface of the first reflective member to a reflective surface of the second reflective member. f represents a focal length of the optical system. f2 represents a focal length of the second lens unit. D2 represents a distance on the optical axis from the reflective surface of the second reflective member to an image plane. DP represents a distance on the optical axis from the aperture diaphragm to the image plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Maki Yokoya
  • Patent number: 11719918
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a zoom lens assembly including, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens group having refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; a third lens group having refractive power; and a fourth lens group having refractive power. The zoom lens assembly may be continuously zoomed by changing positions of the second lens group and the third lens group along the optical axis. A total effective focal length ft of the zoom lens assembly in a telephoto state, and a total effective focal length fw of the zoom lens assembly in a wide-angle state satisfy: 1.3<ft/fw<3.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Zhejiang Sunny Optics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fujian Dai, Wuchao Xu, Qi Wu, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11663704
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed relating to applying an analytical geometric projection that has been modified by an amplitude function. One example provides a computing device comprising a logic subsystem and a storage subsystem holding instructions executable by the logic subsystem to receive an image of a scene as acquired by an image sensor, apply a mapping to the image of the scene that maps pixels of the image to projected pixels on an analytical projection that is modified by an amplitude function such that the analytical projection achieves a higher zoom effect on pixels closer to a center of the image compared to pixels closer to an edge of the image, thereby obtaining a corrected image, and output the corrected image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Karlton David Powell
  • Patent number: 11635601
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a positive third lens group, and a positive fourth lens group in order from an object side. In a case of magnification, the first lens group, the second lens group, and the third lens group move. The third lens group consists of a third a lens group that does not move in a case of image shake correction, a third b lens group that moves in the case of the image shake correction, and a third c lens group that does not move in the case of the image shake correction in order from the object side. The third b lens group consists of a positive lens and a negative lens. A predetermined conditional expression related to the third b lens group is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Ryoko Tomioka
  • Patent number: 11635592
    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 from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optical imaging system. Four or more lenses among the first to seventh lenses have a refractive index greater than 1.6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Hyun Baik, Yong Joo Jo
  • Patent number: 11614635
    Abstract: A dual-aperture zoom camera comprising a Wide camera with a respective Wide lens and a Tele camera with a respective Tele lens, the Wide and Tele cameras mounted directly on a single printed circuit board, wherein the Wide and Tele lenses have respective effective focal lengths EFLW and EFLT and respective total track lengths TTLW and TTLT and wherein TTLW/EFLW>1.1 and TTLT/EFLT<1.0. Optionally, the dual-aperture zoom camera may further comprise an optical OIS controller configured to provide a compensation lens movement according to a user-defined zoom factor (ZF) and a camera tilt (CT) through LMV=CT*EFLZF, where EFLZF is a zoom-factor dependent effective focal length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Gal Shabtay, Ephraim Goldenberg
  • Patent number: 11526020
    Abstract: A projector assembly includes three coaxially aligned lenses and an aperture stop. The three coaxially aligned lenses include a first lens and, in order of increasing distance therefrom and on a same side thereof, a second lens and a positive meniscus lens. The first lens is a positive lens. The second lens is a negative lens. The second lens is located between the aperture stop and the positive meniscus lens. The projector assembly is one-sided telecentric at a plane proximate the positive meniscus lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tingyu Cheng, Jau-Jan Deng
  • Patent number: 11366297
    Abstract: A variable power optical system (ZL) used for an optical apparatus, such as a camera (1), includes, in order from an object: a first lens group (G1) having positive refractive power; a second lens group (G2) having negative refractive power; a third lens group (G3) having positive refractive power; and a fourth lens group (G4) having positive refractive power. The distance between the respective lens groups changes upon zooming from the wide-angle end state to the telephoto end state. The third lens group (G3) includes: an intermediate group (G3b) constituted by a positive lens, a negative lens, a negative lens, and a positive lens; and an image side group (G3c) having negative refractive power and disposed to an image side of the intermediate group (G3b). Upon focusing, the position of the intermediate group (G3b) with respect to the image plane is fixed and the image side group (G3c) moves along the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Satoru Shibata
  • Patent number: 11156810
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a focus lens unit configured to be moved for focusing on an optical axis; a zoom lens unit configured to be moved for zooming on the optical axis; and a relay lens unit, in which an interval between each pair of adjacent lens units is changed for zooming, and the zoom lens includes an aperture stop arranged between the zoom lens unit and the relay lens unit or within the relay lens unit, the relay lens unit includes an extender lens unit insertable into and removable from an optical path of the relay lens unit, in which the extender lens unit includes a negative lens Lm which is an m-th lens from the object side in the extender lens unit and having a refractive index and an Abbe number that satisfy predetermined conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichi Sakuma
  • Patent number: 11137586
    Abstract: A zoom lens consists of, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power and configured not to be moved for zooming, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power and configured to be moved for zooming, and a rear lens group including at least one lens unit. The first lens unit includes at least six lenses, a lens closest to the object side included in the first lens unit is a negative lens, and the zoom lens satisfies conditional expressions: ?1.65<f1n/f1<?1.10; 37<?1n<48; and 87<?pave<100, where f1n is a focal length of the negative lens, ?1n is an Abbe number of the negative lens with respect to d-line, f1 is a focal length of the first lens unit, and ?pave is an average of Abbe numbers of positive lenses included in the first lens unit with respect to d-line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Shimomura, Naotoshi Ogawa, Masao Hori
  • Patent number: 11061212
    Abstract: A 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 and configured to move for zooming; and at least one lens unit configured to move for zooming. The distance between each pair of the lens units adjacent to each other is changed for zooming. The first lens unit includes a negative lens and an Abbe number and a partial dispersion ratio of the negative lens are properly determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya Yamada, Shoichi Takemoto
  • Patent number: 11042007
    Abstract: An imaging lens assembly 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, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element has negative refractive power. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element has positive refractive power. The fifth lens element has positive refractive power. The sixth lens element has negative refractive power. The imaging lens assembly has a total of six lens elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lin-Yao Liao, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 11009688
    Abstract: An image forming lens includes a first lens group and a second lens group. The first lens group has positive refractive power moved toward the object side when focusing from a long distance to a short distance. The second lens group has positive refractive power arranged closer to the image side than the first lens group. The second lens group includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a negative lens having a concave surface on the image side, a negative meniscus lens having a concave surface on the object side, and a positive lens. The focal length f21 of the negative lens and the focal length f22 of the negative meniscus lens satisfy the following conditional expression: (1) 0.1<f21/f22<0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Sudoh
  • Patent number: 10996430
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens including a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, an aperture, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element is provided. The first lens element is arranged to be a lens element of which refracting power being equal to 0 inverse millimeter (mm?1) in a first order from the object-side to the image-side. The second lens element is arranged to be a lens element having refracting power in a first order from the first lens element to the image-side. The third lens element is arranged to be a lens element having refracting power in a second order from the first lens element to the image-side. The fourth and fifth lens element are respectively arranged to be lens elements having refracting power in a first and a second order from the aperture to the image-side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sheng-Wei Hsu, Pei-Chi Wang
  • Patent number: 10955647
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from the object side, a positive first lens unit not moving for zooming, a negative second lens unit moving for zooming, positive third and fourth lens units moving for zooming, and a positive fifth lens unit not moving for zooming. Intervals between adjacent ones of the first to fifth lens units change for zooming. The third lens unit consists of positive, positive, and negative lenses in order from the object side. Appropriate settings are made to the zoom lens's focal lengths at the wide angle and telephoto ends, the lateral magnifications of the second lens unit at the wide angle and telephoto ends, the focal lengths of the third lens unit and the negative lens in the third lens unit, and the average Abbe number of the positive lenses and the Abbe number of the negative lens in the third lens unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naotoshi Ogawa, Masao Hori, Kazuya Shimomura
  • Patent number: 10882464
    Abstract: Provided are an excellent vehicle-mounted camera to be used by being attached to a windshield or the like of a vehicle, a vehicle-mounted camera apparatus, and a method of supporting a vehicle-mounted camera. The vehicle-mounted camera includes a substrate, an image pickup element mounted on the substrate, an image processing circuit that is mounted on the substrate and processes a captured image by the image pickup element, a light collection optical unit that collects incident light, and a reflection unit that reflects output light from the light collection optical unit to the image pickup element. The vehicle-mounted camera further includes a casing that accommodates the substrate on which at least the image pickup element and the image processing circuit are mounted, the light collection optical unit, and the reflection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yutaro Yamashita
  • Patent number: 10845579
    Abstract: An optical system according to the present invention is an optical system comprises a first lens unit having positive refractive power, a second lens unit having positive refractive power, and a third lens unit having negative refractive power, arranged in order from an object side to an image side. During focusing from infinity to a closest distance, the second lens unit moves to the object side, whereby a distance between adjoining lens units is changed. The second lens unit comprises an aperture stop. The following conditional expression is satisfied: 1.0<D3/BF<3.0, where D3 is a length of the third lens unit on an optical axis, and BF is a back focus distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Junya Ichimura
  • Patent number: 10830991
    Abstract: A single-focus optical system includes a front lens unit and a rear lens unit. The front lens unit either includes a predetermined sub lens unit or includes an enlargement-side sub lens unit and a predetermined sub lens unit. The rear lens unit includes a first sub lens unit, a second sub lens unit, a third sub lens unit, and a fourth sub lens unit. The enlargement-side sub lens unit includes a negative lens component. The predetermined sub lens unit includes an enlargement-side meniscus lens component and a reduction-side meniscus lens component. The first sub lens unit includes positive lenses and a first predetermined negative lens. The second sub lens unit includes a predetermined negative lens component. The third sub lens unit includes a predetermined positive lens component. The fourth sub lens unit includes all lens components positioned on the reduction side of the predetermined positive lens component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Ichikawa, Shinichi Mihara
  • Patent number: 10754127
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a micro-objective lens, comprising the first lens group, the second lens group, the third lens group, the fourth lens group, the fifth lens group, the sixth lens group, the seventh lens group, the eighth lens group, the ninth lens group and the tenth lens group with optical axis arranged in a sequence from the left to the right; the focal length of the first lens group is negative; the second lens group belongs to doublet, in which the focal length of the first and second lens is positive and negative respectively; the focal length of the third lens group is positive; the fourth and fifth lens groups belongs to doublets, in which the focal length of the first and second lens in each group is negative and positive respectively; the focal length of the sixth lens group is positive; the focal length of the seventh and eighth lens groups is negative; the focal length of the ninth and tenth lens groups is positive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhenrong Zheng, Xiao Tao, Wentao Zhang, Chenning Tao, Haifeng Li, Xu Liu
  • Patent number: 10754120
    Abstract: In order to provide a projection lens barrel and a projection display device that are capable of correcting the optical characteristics of a plurality of lens groups, a projection lens barrel, comprising a lens optical system causing light from an image display element to be formed as a projected image on a screen, also comprises correction mechanisms that move each of at least two lens groups along an optical axis and correct the optical characteristics to be corrected, said lens groups each having different optical characteristics for correction in order to suppress reduction in image quality of a projected image caused by changes in optical characteristics caused by temperature changes in the projection lens barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Nittoh Inc.
    Inventors: Takafumi Hanaoka, Takahiko Matsuo, Takuya Fujimatsu
  • Patent number: 10732392
    Abstract: The zoom lens includes, in order from the object side, a first lens group that has a positive refractive power, a second lens group that has a negative refractive power, a third lens group that has a positive refractive power, a fourth lens group that has a positive refractive power and has a stop disposed to be closest to the object side. During zooming, the second lens group and the third lens group move, and the other lens groups remain stationary. The first lens group consists of, in order from the object side, two groups of cemented lenses in which a negative meniscus lens and a positive lens are cemented, and a cemented lens in which a positive lens and a negative lens are cemented. During focusing, only the cemented lens closest to the image side in the first lens group moves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Toshihiro Aoi
  • Patent number: 10706501
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for stretching an image. The method for stretching an image includes: selecting a corresponding stretching mode according to a mode selection parameter; generating a corresponding stretching filter group according to a stretching parameter and the selected stretching mode, and segmenting input image data into blocks; and processing the input image data segmented into blocks by the stretching filter group, to obtain stretched image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoyu Li, Pablo Navarrete Michelini, Ran Duan, Lihua Geng, Xitong Ma
  • Patent number: 10698296
    Abstract: Provided is an interchangeable lens including: a lens position detection unit configured to detect a position of a lens; a motor configured to move a movable lens frame to which the lens is fixed; a driving state detection unit configured to detect a driving state of the motor; and a control unit configured to decide a driving speed of the motor based on a difference between a target speed, which is based on a difference between a target position of the lens acquired from an imaging device and the position of the lens detected by the lens position detection unit, and a speed according to the driving state detected by the driving state detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoomi Ito, Toru Katagiri
  • 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: 10585268
    Abstract: Provided is a zoom lens consisting of: a positive first lens unit; a negative second lens unit; a positive third lens unit; and a rear lens group including at least one lens unit, wherein an interval between each pair of adjacent lens units is changed during zooming. The rear lens group includes a negative lens unit LR including at least one positive lens and at least one negative lens. The at least one negative lens includes a negative lens made of a material having a largest Abbe number of the at least one negative lens. Each of an extraordinary partial dispersion ratio of the material, distances of a lens surface on an image side of the lens unit LR to an image plane at a telephoto end and at a wide angle end, and a focal length of the lens unit LR is appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinya Okuoka
  • Patent number: 10558025
    Abstract: A variable magnification optical system includes, sequentially from an object 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, and a fifth lens unit having a positive refractive power, and each of the lens units makes a different movement relatively to a lens unit that is adjacently positioned at least at one of a time of changing magnification, a time of focusing, and a time of image stabilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuteru Kawamura
  • Patent number: 10495862
    Abstract: A zoom optical system and automated luminaire are provided. The zoom optical system includes a light source, a compensator lens group, a variator lens group, and an objective lens group. The light source illuminates an object located in an object plane. The compensator lens group is optically coupled to the object, has a first positive optical power, and moves relative to the object plane. The variator lens group is optically coupled to the compensator lens group, has a negative optical power, and moves relative to the object plane and the compensator group. The objective lens group is optically coupled to the variator lens group, has a second positive optical power, remains in a fixed position relative to the object plane, and projects an image of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Robe Lighting s.r.o.
    Inventors: Jan Vilem, Josef Valchar
  • Patent number: 10495847
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens group, a second lens group, a third lens group, a fourth lens group and an aperture. The first lens group, the second lens group, the third lens group and the fourth lens group are sequentially arranged in a direction. The aperture is located between the second lens group and the third lens group. When the zoom lens performs a zoom operation, the first lens group and the third lens group are fixed and the second lens group and the fourth lens group are moved, and a moving distance of the fourth lens group on an optical axis of the zoom lens is less than 5 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: YOUNG OPTICS INC.
    Inventors: Ying-Hsiu Lin, Yu-Hung Chou, Bing-Ju Chiang
  • Patent number: 10491363
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), data in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); triggering transmission of a scheduling request (SR); and if a transmission time interval (TTI) for an SR transmission is part of reception of the PDSCH, instructing a physical layer to transmit the SR after the PDSCH reception is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sunyoung Lee, Seungjune Yi
  • Patent number: 10437016
    Abstract: The imaging lens includes, in order from the object side, a first lens group that remains stationary during focusing; a diaphragm; and a positive second lens group that moves to the object side during focusing from a long range to a close range. The first lens group includes, in order from the object side: a negative meniscus lens that has an absolute value of a radius of curvature of an image side surface smaller than that of an object side surface, a negative lens, a positive lens, and a negative lens. The second lens group includes five or less lenses, and includes: a positive Z lens that is formed continuously in order from a most image side; a negative Y lens that has an absolute value of a radius of curvature of an object side surface smaller than that of an image side surface; and a positive X lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Kunugise, Kazuyoshi Okada, Michio Cho
  • Patent number: 10422981
    Abstract: There is provided a lens system includes a first optical system and forms an intermediate image, which has been formed inside the first optical system by light from an input side, into a final image. The first optical system includes a first subsystem, with the first subsystem including a first lens that is disposed at a position closest to the intermediate image on the input side and moves during focusing and a second lens that is disposed at a position closest to the intermediate image on the output side and moves during focusing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignees: NITTOH INC., THEIA TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Oe, Jeffrey Alan Gohman
  • Patent number: 10409043
    Abstract: A variable power optical system (ZL) used for an optical apparatus, such as a camera (1), includes, in order from an object: a first lens group (G1) having positive refractive power; a second lens group (G2) having negative refractive power; a third lens group (G3) having positive refractive power; and a fourth lens group (G4) having positive refractive power. The distance between the respective lens groups changes upon zooming from the wide-angle end state to the telephoto end state. The third lens group (G3) includes: an intermediate group (G3b) constituted by a positive lens, a negative lens, a negative lens, and a positive lens; and an image side group (G3c) having negative refractive power and disposed to an image side of the intermediate group (G3b). Upon focusing, the position of the intermediate group (G3b) with respect to the image plane is fixed and the image side group (G3c) moves along the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Satoru Shibata
  • Patent number: 10386601
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is made of plastic material, the second lens is made of plastic material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of glass material, the fifth lens is made of plastic material, and the sixth lens is made of glass material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Chunhuan Fang, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Wenbo Hu
  • Patent number: 10365458
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, and an eighth lens, sequentially disposed from an object side to an imaging plane. The optical imaging system satisfies the expression BFL/f<0.15, where BFL represents a distance from an image-side surface of the eighth lens to an imaging plane of an image sensor and f represents an overall focal length of the optical imaging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Hwa Jung, Yong Joo Jo
  • Patent number: 10317654
    Abstract: A variable magnification optical system includes: a first lens group having positive refractive power and arranged closest to an object; a negative lens group having negative refractive power; a positive lens group which has positive refractive power, which includes at least one lens that moves integrally with an aperture stop, and which is arranged closer to an image than the negative lens group; and a focusing group arranged between the negative lens group and the positive lens group. When varying magnification, distances between the first lens group and the negative lens group and between the negative lens group and the positive lens group are changed. When focusing, distances between the focusing group and a lens facing an object-side of the focusing group and between the focusing group and a lens facing an image-side of the focusing group are changed. A predetermined conditional expression is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Kensuke Uchida, Akihiko Obama, Norikazu Yokoi, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Taku Matsuo
  • Patent number: 10288896
    Abstract: A dual-aperture zoom camera comprising a Wide camera with a respective Wide lens and a Tele camera with a respective Tele lens, the Wide and Tele cameras mounted directly on a single printed circuit board, wherein the Wide and Tele lenses have respective effective focal lengths EFLW and EFLT and respective total track lengths TTLW and TTLT and wherein TTLW/EFLW>1.1 and TTLT/EFLT<1.0. Optionally, the dual-aperture zoom camera may further comprise an optical OIS controller configured to provide a compensation lens movement according to a user-defined zoom factor (ZF) and a camera tilt (CT) through LMV=CT*EFLZF, where EFLZF is a zoom-factor dependent effective focal length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Gal Shabtay, Ephraim Goldenberg
  • Patent number: 10281692
    Abstract: A zoom lens system includes a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, and positive third and fourth lens groups, in that order from the object side. Upon zooming from the short to long focal length extremities, the first lens group does not move along the optical axis direction, and the second lens group and the third lens group are movable in the optical axis direction. The first lens group includes at least one negative lens element, and the following conditions are satisfied: ?d1n<22.85 and ?8.0<f3/f2<?3.0, wherein ?d1n designates the Abbe number, with respect to the d-line, of the negative lens element, which is provided closest to the object side within the first lens group, and f2 and f3 designate the focal lengths of the second and third lens groups, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH IMAGING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Masakazu Saori
  • Patent number: 10261293
    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 that does not move for zooming; a second lens unit having a negative refractive power that moves during zooming; at least one lens unit that moves during zooming; and a rear lens unit including an aperture stop, in which a focal length of the zoom lens at a wide angle end, a focal length of the first lens unit, a focal length of the second lens unit, and a half angle of field of the zoom lens at the wide angle end are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yotaro Sanjo
  • Patent number: 10197780
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes a positive first unit, a negative second unit, and a rear lens system. The rear lens system includes a positive unit A, a negative unit B, and a positive C. The first unit is not moved for zooming, the unit A is moved for zooming, and intervals between adjacent lens units are changed during zooming. The first unit includes positive and negative lenses, the unit C includes positive and negative lenses, the second unit includes negative lenses, and the unit B includes positive lenses. An Abbe number average value of the positive lenses in the first unit, an Abbe number average value of the negative lenses in the second unit, an Abbe number average value of the positive lenses in the unit B, and an Abbe number average value of the positive lenses in the unit C are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichi Sakuma
  • Patent number: 10191252
    Abstract: A photographing optical lens system includes at least six lens elements, wherein the photographing optical lens system includes at least one cemented lens group cemented by two of the lens elements adjacent to each other. The at least one cemented lens group includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first cemented lens element, a cemented layer and a second cemented lens element. The first cemented lens element has a cemented image-side surface being aspheric. The cemented layer has a cemented object-side surface and a cemented image-side surface. The second cemented lens element has a cemented object-side surface being aspheric. An aspheric coefficient of the cemented image-side surface of the first cemented lens element is different from an aspheric coefficient of the cemented object-side surface of the second cemented lens element. One of the lens elements closest to an imaged object has positive refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hsiang-Chi Tang, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 10156707
    Abstract: Provided is a zoom lens having, in order from an object, a first lens group (G1) having positive refractive power, a second lens group (G2) having negative refractive power, a third lens group (G3) having positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group (G4) having positive refractive power. Upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, a distance between the first lens group and the second lens group changes, a distance between the second lens group and the third lens group changes, a distance between the third lens group and the fourth lens group changes, and at least the first lens group (G1) moves. The first lens group (G1) is constituted by a set of cemented lenses, the third lens group (G3) is constituted by, in order from the object, a positive lens and a negative lens, and the conditional expression 0.50<TL/ft<1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Daisaku Arai, Takamichi Kurashige
  • Patent number: 10151964
    Abstract: An ocular lens consists of a positive first lens group, a positive or negative second lens group, and a positive third lens group, in order from an observation object side. The first lens group consists of a positive meniscus lens with a convex surface toward an eye-point side. The second lens group includes a negative lens and a positive lens, and the number of lenses constituting the second lens group is three or less. The third lens group consists of a positive meniscus lens with a convex surface toward the eye-point side. The following conditional expression relating to a focal length of the whole system and a distance on an optical axis from a lens surface closest to the observation object side to a lens surface closest to the eye-point side is satisfied: 0.8<f/TL<1.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Miyagishima, Hiroki Saito
  • Patent number: 10146031
    Abstract: The zoom lens consists of, in order from the object side, a first lens group that has positive refractive power, a second lens group that has a negative refractive power, a third lens group that has a positive refractive power, a stop, and a fourth lens group that has a positive refractive power. During zooming, the second lens group and the third lens group move, and the other lens groups and the stop remain stationary. The second lens group consists of, in order from the object side, a second A lens group that has a cemented lens at a position closest to the image side, consists of three or less lenses, and has a negative refractive power, a second B lens group that consists of one or more negative single lenses, and a second C lens group that consists of a cemented lens and has a negative refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Ukyo Tomioka
  • Patent number: 10101568
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from the object side: a first lens group (G1) having positive refractive power, a second lens group (G2) having negative refractive power, a third lens group (G3) having positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group (G4) having positive refractive power. Upon zooming from the wide angle end state to the telephoto end state, the interval between each lens group changes and the fourth lens group (G4) moves to the image side after having once moved to the object side. The third lens group (G3) has, in order from the object side, a positive lens, a positive lens, and a negative lens. The zoom lens satisfies the following conditional expression: 2.50<TLt/(fw*ft)1/2<3.30, where TLt is the total length of the zoom lens in the telephoto state, fw is the focal distance of the total zoom lens system in the wide angle state, and ft is the focal distance of the total zoom lens system in the telephoto state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Keiichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10073254
    Abstract: A 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, and a rear lens group including one or more lens units. For zooming, the first to third lens units move, thereby changing intervals between adjacent ones of these lens units. For the zoom lens, a focal length (f1) of the first lens unit, focal lengths (fw, ft) of the zoom lens at a wide angle end and at a telephoto end, respectively, and amounts (M2, M3) by which the second and third lens units, respectively, move when zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end are appropriately defined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toyokatsu Fujisaki
  • Patent number: 9989731
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes first, second, third, and fourth lens elements arranged in order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. Each lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface. The first lens element has positive refracting power. The object-side surface of the first lens element has a convex portion in a vicinity of the optical axis. The second lens element has refracting power. At least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the third lens element is an aspheric surface. The object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fourth lens element are both aspheric surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL (XIAMEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuo-Wen Chang, Wei-Chih Chao, Feng Li
  • Patent number: 9964737
    Abstract: A six-piece optical lens for capturing image and a six-piece optical module for capturing image are provided. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis includes a first lens with refractive power, a second lens with refractive power, a third lens with refractive power, a fourth lens with refractive power, a fifth lens with refractive power and a sixth lens with refractive power. At least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the six lens elements is aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Ability Opto-Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nai-Yuan Tang, Yeong-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: RE48828
    Abstract: A compact optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element and a third lens element. The first lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has refractive power, wherein at least one of two surfaces of the second lens element is aspheric, and the second lens element is made of plastic material. The third lens element has positive refractive power, wherein at least one of two surfaces of the third lens element is aspheric, and the third lens element is made of plastic material. The compact optical system further comprises a stop located between the first lens element and the second lens element. The first, second, and third lens elements are all stationary relative to one another in a paraxial region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuan-Ming Chen, Hsin-Hsuan Huang