Abstract: The application provides a monitoring method, electronic device and storage medium. The method includes determining a target area to be monitored from an acquired image of a monitored scene; determining a target capture posture and a target capture focal length according to the target area; and controlling a Pan Tilt Zoom (PTZ) camera to capture according to the target capture posture and the target capture focal length. The application can monitor any object within the monitored scene using the PTZ camera with a good capture effect.

Abstract: A folded telephoto lens system may include multiple lenses with refractive power and a light path folding element. Light entering the camera through lens(es) on a first path is refracted to the folding element, which changes direction of the light on to a second path with lens(es) that refract the light to form an image plane at a photosensor. At least one of the object side and image side surfaces of at least one of the lens elements may be aspheric. Total track length (TTL) of the lens system may be 14.0 mm or less. The lens system may be configured so that the telephoto ratio (TTL/f) is less than or equal to 1.0. Materials, radii of curvature, shapes, sizes, spacing, and aspheric coefficients of the optical elements may be selected to achieve quality optical performance and high image resolution in a small form factor camera.

Abstract: A variable magnification optical system includes, in order from an object side, a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; and a third lens group 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 and a distance between the second lens group and the third lens group being varied. The variable magnification optical system further includes a V lens group GV having negative refractive power and being moved to have a component in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis, and an F lens group GF having positive refractive power and being moved along the optical axis upon focusing from an infinitely distant object to a close object, the V lens group GV being disposed on the more object side than the F lens group GF.

Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side along an optical axis, a first lens group G1 having positive refractive power, a second lens group G2 having negative refractive power, and a third lens group G3 having positive refractive power. Upon zooming from a wide-angle end state W to a telephoto end state T, a distance between the first lens group G1 and the second lens group G2 increases, and a distance between the second lens group G2 and the third lens group G3 decreases. Given conditions are satisfied. Accordingly, a zoom lens having high optical performance with suppressing variations in aberrations, an optical apparatus equipped therewith, and a method for manufacturing the zoom lens are provided.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a lens system. The lens system includes three lens elements, which are, in order from an outer side to an inner side: a first lens element, a second lens element and a third lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an outer-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element has positive refractive power.

Abstract: An optical image capturing system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. The first, the second and the third lens elements all have refractive power. The fourth lens element with refractive power has both surfaces being aspheric. The fifth lens element with refractive power has both surfaces being aspheric. The sixth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface having at least one convex shape at a peripheral region thereof and both surfaces being aspheric. The seventh lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface having at least one convex shape at a peripheral region thereof, wherein both surfaces being aspheric, and at least one surface has at least one inflection point thereon.

Abstract: The zoom lens includes, as lens groups, in order from the object side, only a first lens group having a positive power, a second lens group having a negative power, a third lens group having a positive power, a fourth lens group having a negative power, and a fifth lens group having a positive power. An aperture stop is disposed between a lens surface closest to the image side in the second lens group and a lens surface closest to the object side in the fourth lens group. During zooming, at least the first lens group, the second lens group, the third lens group, and the fourth lens group move. The first lens group consists of a negative lens, a positive lens, and a positive lens in order from the object side. The zoom lens satisfies predetermined conditional expressions.

Abstract: A variable magnification optical system includes, in order from an object side, a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; and a third lens group 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 and a distance between the second lens group and the third lens group being varied. The variable magnification optical system further includes a V lens group GV having negative refractive power and being moved to have a component in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis, and an F lens group GF having positive refractive power and being moved along the optical axis upon focusing from an infinitely distant object to a close object, the V lens group GV being disposed on the more object side than the F lens group GF.

Abstract: The invention relates to a correction objective (10), comprising a first lens group (12) of positive optical power, a second lens group (14) of positive optical power, a third lens group (16) of negative optical power, and a fourth lens group (18) of positive optical power, which are arranged in this order from the object side, the second lens group (14) being movable along the optical axis (O) in such a way that the sum of the distance (V1) between the second lens group (14) and the first lens group (12) and the distance (V2) between the second lens group (14) and the third lens group (16) is constant. The image scale of the second lens group (14) lies in a range of ?0.9 to ?1.1.

Abstract: Systems and methods for analyzing recorded data from one recording device, or a subset of recording devices to identify redactions that should be made to the recorded data. The identified redactions may be in accordance with a redaction policy. The identified redactions may be applied to recorded data recorded by other devices that recorded data the same incident. The redactions may be made to recorded data that was not analyzed prior to performing the redactions, so the redactions identified in one recorded data are performed in other recorded data that was not used to identify the types of redactions that should be made. Applying redactions to data that was not analyzed to determine what types of redactions should be made reduces the amount of time required to analyze recorded data for redaction.

Abstract: One embodiment of an iris recognition camera system comprises: an optical unit for collecting optical information of an iris; and an imaging unit for outputting the optical information of the iris obtained by the optical unit, wherein the optical unit comprises: a first group having a first thickness and refracting light incident from an object; and a second group disposed on the back surface of the first group and comprising at least one lens, wherein the first group comprises a holographic optical element (HOE).

Abstract: An electronic device and method are disclosed. The device includes a display, a plurality of cameras, a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor. The processor implements the method, including: displaying on the display, a preview of a first image acquired using a first camera from among the plurality of cameras, receiving a first input while the preview is displayed, wherein the first input is received before reception of a second input adjusting a magnification level of the preview, in response to receiving the first input, activating a second camera from among the plurality of cameras, receiving the second input for adjusting the magnification of the preview when a second image, distinct from the first image, is acquired using the activated second camera, and displaying the preview, based on at least a part of the second image and at least partially based on receiving the second input.

Abstract: A folded telephoto lens system may include multiple lenses with refractive power and a light path folding element. Light entering the camera through lens(es) on a first path is refracted to the folding element, which changes direction of the light on to a second path with lens(es) that refract the light to form an image plane at a photosensor. At least one of the object side and image side surfaces of at least one of the lens elements may be aspheric. Total track length (TTL) of the lens system may be 14.0 mm or less. The lens system may be configured so that the telephoto ratio (TTL/f) is less than or equal to 1.0. Materials, radii of curvature, shapes, sizes, spacing, and aspheric coefficients of the optical elements may be selected to achieve quality optical performance and high image resolution in a small form factor camera.

Abstract: A microscope objective includes three groups that are in a positive-negative-positive configuration. The first lens group includes a plurality of cemented lenses, and includes, closest to the object, a meniscus lens having its concave surface on the object side. The second lens group includes a first meniscus lens component having its concave surface on the image side and a second meniscus lens component having its concave surface on the object side. At least one of the lens components of the third lens group is a cemented lens.

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 a third lens unit having a positive refractive power. The first lens unit does not move and the second lens unit and the third lens unit move in mutually different loci during zooming. Conditional expressions are satisfied as follows: 0.05<|f2/m2|<0.59, and 0.20<|f3/m3|<1.95, where f2 is a focal length of the second lens unit, f3 is a focal length of the third lens unit, m2 is a moving amount of the second lens unit during zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, and m3 is a moving amount of the third lens unit during zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end.

Abstract: An optical image capturing system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. The first, the second and the third lens elements all have refractive power. The fourth lens element with refractive power has both surfaces being aspheric. The fifth lens element with refractive power has both surfaces being aspheric. The sixth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface having at least one convex shape at a peripheral region thereof and both surfaces being aspheric. The seventh lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface having at least one convex shape at a peripheral region thereof, wherein both surfaces being aspheric, and at least one surface has at least one inflection point thereon.

Abstract: Systems and methods for analyzing recorded data from one recording device, or a subset of recording devices to identify redactions that should be made to the recorded data. The identified redactions may be in accordance with a redaction policy. The identified redactions may be applied to recorded data recorded by other devices that recorded data the same incident. The redactions may be made to recorded data that was not analyzed prior to performing the redactions, so the redactions identified in one recorded data are performed in other recorded data that was not used to identify the types of redactions that should be made. Applying redactions to data that was not analyzed to determine what types of redactions should be made reduces the amount of time required to analyze recorded data for redaction.

Abstract: The disclosure provides an approach for mimicking human camera operation with an autonomous camera system. In one embodiment, camera planning is formulated as a supervised regression problem in which an automatic broadcasting application receives one video input captured by a human-operated camera and another video input captured by a stationary camera with a wider field of view. The automatic broadcasting application extracts feature vectors and pan-tilt-zoom states from the stationary camera and the human-operated camera, respectively, and learns a regressor which takes as input such feature vectors and outputs pan-tilt-zoom settings predictive of what the human camera operator would choose. The automatic broadcasting application may then apply the learned regressor on newly captured video to obtain planned pan-tilt-zoom settings and control an autonomous camera to achieve the planned settings to record videos which resemble the work of a human operator in similar situations.

Abstract: A zoom lens system includes: a primary image forming lens group that forms light from an object side into an intermediate image and a relay lens group that forms light from the intermediate image into a final image. The primary image forming lens group includes, in order from the object side, a first fixed lens group G1 with negative refractive power, a stop St, and a second fixed lens group G2 with positive refractive power, and the relay lens group includes, in order from the object side, a third fixed lens group G3 with negative refractive power, a first moving lens group G4 with positive refractive power, and a second moving lens group G5 with positive refractive power.

Abstract: An imaging lens and imaging apparatus are disclosed. In one example, an imaging lens includes a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group having a positive refractive power, and a third lens group having positive or negative refractive power, the first lens group being fixed with respect to an image plane, the second lens group traveling along an optical axis to the object side, and the third lens group being fixed with respect to the image plane. The first lens group may include two positive lenses and a negative lens. The second lens group may include a second a-lens component having negative refractive power and a second b-lens component having positive refractive power. The third lens group may include a third a-lens component having positive refractive power and a third b-lens component having negative refractive power.

Abstract: A zoom lens system includes: a first lens group having a positive refractive power; a second lens group having a negative refractive power; a third lens group having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power; a fifth lens group having a positive refractive power; and a sixth lens group having a positive refractive power, wherein the first to sixth lens groups are sequentially arranged along an optical axis from an object side to an image plane side, and zooming is performed by moving at least one of the second lens group, the fourth lens group and the fifth lens group along the optical axis. A distance between a focal point of light having a first wavelength and a focal point of light having a second wavelength is about 50 ?m or less at a wide-angle position and a telephoto position. The first wavelength corresponds to green light, the second wavelength corresponds to near infrared (NIR) light.

Abstract: An optical zoom including a movable pupil that moves according to a movement law, comprises four successive groups of lenses, the first group and the fourth group being fixed, the second group and the third group being movable and placed between the first and fourth groups, the second group being a convergent group and the third group being a divergent group. In a first variant, the diameter of the movable pupil varies according to a variation law, depending on the movement law of the movable pupil. In a second variant, the optical zoom includes a movable stop, the movable stop moving according to a second movement law, the diameter of this stop varying according to a second variation law, depending on the second movement law of the movable stop.

Abstract: Composing, in order from an object side, a first lens group G1 having negative refractive power, a second lens group G2 having positive refractive power and at least one lens group G3; upon varying magnification, a distance between the first lens group G1 and the second lens group G2, a distance between the second lens group G2 and a lens group G3 at an image side of the second lens group G2 and adjacent thereto, being varied; and a given conditional expression being satisfied; thereby providing a variable magnification optical system having a superb optical performance upon focusing, an optical device and a method for manufacturing the variable magnification optical system.

Abstract: A variable magnification optical system includes, in order from an object side, a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; and a third lens group 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 and a distance between the second lens group and the third lens group being varied. The variable magnification optical system further includes a V lens group GV having negative refractive power and being moved to have a component in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis, and an F lens group GF having positive refractive power and being moved along the optical axis upon focusing from an infinitely distant object to a close object, the V lens group GV being disposed on the more object side than the F lens group GF.

Abstract: A telephoto lens includes in order from an object side, a first unit having a positive refractive power, a second unit having a negative refractive power, and a third unit having a positive refractive power, and a focusing from an infinite object point to an object point at a short distance is carried out by moving the second unit toward an image side, and the following conditional expression (17) is satisfied: 0.2<Y2/Y1a<0.32??(17) where, Y2 denotes a maximum height of an axial light ray on a surface of incidence of the second lens unit, and Y1a denotes a maximum height of an axial light ray on a surface of incidence of the first lens unit.

Abstract: Provided is a compact zoom lens having a high aperture ratio and high optical performance over an entire zoom range. The zoom lens includes, in order from object side to image side: first, second, and third lens units respectively having positive, negative, and positive refractive powers; an aperture stop; a middle lens group; and a final lens unit. An interval between adjacent lens units is changed during zooming. The third lens unit includes at least two positive lenses and at least one negative lens. A combined focal length (f12t) of first lens unit and second lens unit at telephoto end, a focal length (fn) of a lens unit (N) having a largest absolute value of the negative refractive power of the lens unit forming middle lens group, a focal length (f3) of third lens unit, and a focal length (ft) of zoom lens at telephoto end are appropriately set.

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; and a third lens unit having a positive refractive power. In the zoom lens, during zooming, the first lens unit is configured not to move, and the second lens unit and the third lens unit are configured to move along mutually different loci, and a focal length (fw) of the zoom lens at a wide angle end, a focal length (ft) of the zoom lens at a telephoto end, a focal length (f2) of the second lens unit, and a focal length (f3) of the third lens unit are appropriately set.

Abstract: The disclosure provides an approach for mimicking human camera operation with an autonomous camera system. In one embodiment, camera planning is formulated as a supervised regression problem in which an automatic broadcasting application receives one video input captured by a human-operated camera and another video input captured by a stationary camera with a wider field of view. The automatic broadcasting application extracts feature vectors and pan-tilt-zoom states from the stationary camera and the human-operated camera, respectively, and learns a regressor which takes as input such feature vectors and outputs pan-tilt-zoom settings predictive of what the human camera operator would choose. The automatic broadcasting application may then apply the learned regressor on newly captured video to obtain planned pan-tilt-zoom settings and control an autonomous camera to achieve the planned settings to record videos which resemble the work of a human operator in similar situations.

Abstract: A zoom lens comprises four lens unit, and at the time of zooming, each of a distance between a first positive lens unit and a first negative lens unit and a distance between a second negative lens unit and a second positive lens unit changes, and a distance between the first positive lens unit and the second negative lens unit widens more at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end, and the first positive lens unit includes an object-side sub-lens unit and an image-side sub-lens unit, and an aperture stop is disposed between the object-side sub-lens unit and the image-side sub-lens unit, and the first negative lens unit includes a negative lens and a positive lens, and a refracting surface nearest to an image in the first negative lens unit is concave toward the image side, and a refracting surface nearest to an object in the second positive lens unit is concave toward the object side, and a refracting surface nearest to the image in the second positive lens unit is convex toward the image side, and the z

Abstract: The imaging optical system makes magnification conjugate side and reduction conjugate side predetermined positions conjugate to each other and forms an intermediate image conjugate to both the predetermined positions. The optical system includes a magnification side positive lens as a first lens disposed on the magnification conjugate side further than an intermediate imaging position, a reduction side positive lens as a third lens disposed on the reduction conjugate side further than the intermediate imaging position, and a negative lens as a second lens disposed between these positive lenses. Conditions of 5<?2??1<80, 5<?2??3<80, 0.03<N1?N2<1.0 and 0.03<N3?N2<1.0 are satisfied where ?1, ?2 and ?3 represent Abbe numbers of materials of the first, second and third lenses, N1, N2 and N3 represent refractive indices of the materials of the first, second and third lenses.

Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens group having positive refracting power, a second lens group having negative refracting power, a third lens group having positive refracting power, a fourth lens group having negative refracting power and a fifth lens group having negative refracting power in order from an object side, in which the lens groups move in magnification change from a wide angle end to a telephoto end such that a gap between the first lens group and the second lens group increases and a gap between the second lens group and the third lens group decreases, a negative lens group disposed closer to an image focusing side than a diaphragm among all lens groups is set as a focusing lens group, and the focusing lens group moves toward the image focusing side at focusing from infinity to a close object, the zoom lens satisfies a conditional expression.

Abstract: An imaging lens includes first to fifth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. Through designs of surfaces of the lens elements and relevant lens parameters, a short system length of the imaging lens may be achieved while maintaining good optical performance.

Abstract: A zoom lens consists of a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group having negative refractive power, a third lens group having positive refractive power, a fourth lens group having negative refractive power, and a fifth lens group having positive refractive power in this order from an object side. Distances between the lens groups change during magnification change, and the first lens group is positioned closer to the object side in a telephoto end state than its position in a wide angle end state. Further, the first lens group consists of three lenses of an 11th lens having negative refractive power, a 12th lens having positive refractive power and a 13th lens having positive refractive power in this order from the object side. Further, the following conditional expressions are satisfied: 1.75<Nd11??(1); 28<?d11<44??(2); 63<?d12??(3); and 0.020<|f2|/ft<0.050??(4).

Abstract: The zoom lens including an object side lens group at least including, in order from an object side: a first lens group G1 having positive refractive power; and a second lens group G2 having negative refractive power; and an image focusing side lens group including, in order from the object side: a negative lens group A having negative refractive power; and a negative lens group B arranged by facing the negative lens group A across an air distance, having negative refractive power. In the zoom lens, focusing from infinity to a close object is achieved by moving just the negative lens group A toward an image focusing side to satisfy a conditional expression.

Abstract: There is provided an eyepiece lens which has a long length from an image display surface to a first lens, a high observation magnification, and a large apparent field of view. An eyepiece lens used to observe an image displayed on the image display surface includes a first lens with a positive refractive power, a second lens with a negative refractive power, and a third lens with a positive refractive power sequentially from the image display surface side to the observation side. The lens surface of the first lens on the image display surface side has a convex shape on the image display surface side. The lens surface of the second lens on the observation side has a concave shape on the observation side. The focal length of the eyepiece lens, the focal length of the lens surface, and the focal length of the lens surface are set appropriately.

Abstract: A zoom lens and a photographing apparatus including the zoom lens are provided. The zoom lens includes a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, a third lens group having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power, all of which are arranged sequentially from an object side to an image side. The second lens group may include a first negative lens, a second negative lens, and a first positive lens. The second lens group may also satisfy 5.6?|fG2n2/fw|?10.0, where fG2n2 is a focal length of the second negative lens therein and fw is an overall focal length of the zoom lens at a wide-angle position.

Abstract: In a zoom lens system, an optical apparatus, and a manufacturing method, there are provided, in order from an object side: a first lens group having positive power, a second lens group having negative power, a third lens group having positive power, a fourth lens group having negative power, a fifth group having positive power, and an aperture stop disposed to an image side of the second lens group. Upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, a distance between the first lens and second lens groups increases, a distance between the second and third lens groups decreases, a distance between the third and fourth lens groups varies, and a distance between the fourth and fifth lens groups varies. With given conditions being satisfied, high optical performance with suppressing variation in aberrations are achieved.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for processing a video sequence formed by at least two video images, said method comprising: obtaining said at least two video images using a first capture module with a first field of view, each video image representing a same scene captured at different instants or from different points of view, wherein said method comprises: determining luminance information from at least one overall image obtained by a second capture module with a second field of view greater than said first field of view, said overall image representing the scene captured at different instants or from different points of view, down-converting a dynamic range of said video images taking into account said luminance information.

Abstract: An imaging lens consists of a first lens-group consisting of a positive lens with its surface that has the smaller absolute value of a curvature-radius facing an object-side, a positive lens in meniscus-shape with its convex-surface facing the object-side, a positive lens with its surface that has the smaller absolute value of a curvature-radius facing the object-side, and a negative lens with its surface that has the smaller absolute value of a curvature-radius facing an image-side, an aperture stop, a second lens-group consisting of a negative lens with its surface that has the smaller absolute value of a curvature-radius facing the object-side, a positive lens with its surface that has the smaller absolute value of a curvature-radius facing the image-side, and a positive lens, and a third lens-group consisting of a positive lens and a negative lens in this order from the object-side. A predetermined conditional expression is satisfied.

Abstract: A zoom lens comprising, 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 negative refractive power, and a fifth lens unit having a positive refractive power. Each distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit, between the third lens unit and the fourth lens unit, and between the fourth lens unit and the fourth lens unit at the telephoto end is longer than at the wide angle end, and a distance between the second lens unit and the third lens unit at the telephoto end is shorter than at the wide angle end, and the following conditional expressions are satisfied. 2<mg3t/mg3w<6 1.2<mg5t/mg5w<4 0.02<f5/ft<0.

Abstract: An objective optical system consists of, from an object side to an image side: a first lens group having positive optical power; a second lens group having negative optical power; and a third lens group having positive optical power, wherein the first lens group includes, from the object side to the image side, a first lens having negative optical power and a second lens having positive optical power, and the second lens group is moved according to a change in an object distance to perform focusing, and the following conditional expressions are satisfied: ?19<f2/f1<?3.5 0.5<v/f<1.1 where f2 is a focal length of the second lens, f1 is a focal length of the first lens, v is an amount of movement of the second lens group, and f is a focal length of an entire system during the most distant view observation.

Abstract: An imaging hypercentric lens assembly comprising of a First Lens Group that includes: 1) At least a first high NA (0.40 or greater) aspheric lens element followed by 2) at least a second lens element that converges the light emitted from the first element to a small spot. It is further comprised of a Second Lens Group whose entrance pupil is placed at the same position as said small light spot. The Second Lens Group serves to refocus the light and form an image of an object placed in front of the First Lens Group. In this combination, the present invention allows high NA aspheric lens elements to produce good quality images of objects whose size is not limited to being considerably smaller than the diameter of the clear aperture of the high NA aspheric lens element.

Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group having negative refractive power, a third lens group having positive refractive power, a fourth lens group which has negative refractive power and is configured with only a single lens, and a fifth lens group having positive refractive power, which are arranged in order from an object side to an image side. During zooming, at least the first lens group, the second lens group, the third lens group, and the fourth lens group are movable in an optical axis direction. Focusing from infinity to a close range is performed by the fourth lens group being moved in the optical axis direction. At least one of following conditional expressions (1) and (2) is satisfied. ?11.0<Fno—w×Y/{(1??4—w2)×?5—w2}<?7.0 and??(1) ?11.0<Fno—t×Y/{(1??4—t2)×?5—t2}<?7.

Abstract: A zoom lens comprising, 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 negative refractive power, and a fifth lens unit having a positive refractive power. Each distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit, between the third lens unit and the fourth lens unit, and between the fourth lens unit and the fourth lens unit at the telephoto end is longer than at the wide angle end, and a distance between the second lens unit and the third lens unit at the telephoto end is shorter than at the wide angle end, and the following conditional expressions are satisfied. 2<mg3t/mg3w<6 1.2<mg5t/mg5w<4 0.02<f5/ft<0.

Abstract: An optical element Oc comprising, in order from an object side: a first segment group Gr1 having positive refractive power; a second segment group Gr2 having positive refractive power; a third segment group Gr3 having negative refractive power; and a fourth segment group Gr4 having positive refractive power; focusing on a near-distance object point from an infinite-distance object point being conducted by moving said first segment group Gr1 along an optical axis, said third segment group Gr3 being moved in a direction including a component perpendicular to the optical axis, and said optical element having positive refractive power on the whole, thereby providing an optical element including both of the focusing lens and the vibration reduction lens and capable of downsizing an imaging optical system including this optical element and acquiring a high image forming performance.

Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from the object side to the image plane side, first to fifth lens units having positive, negative, positive, negative and positive refractive powers. At least the second lens unit and the fourth lens unit move during zooming such that at the telephoto end, in comparison with the wide angle end, the interval between the first lens unit and the second lens unit increases, the interval between the second lens unit and the third lens unit decreases, the interval between the third lens unit and the fourth lens unit changes, and the interval between the fourth lens unit and the fifth lens unit increases, and the fifth lens unit does not move. The zoom lens further includes a reflection unit for bending a light path, between the fourth lens unit and the fifth lens unit.

Abstract: In a vibration proof zoom lens 100, a third lens group G3 has a positive lens 7, a positive cemented lens 8, a negative cemented lens 9, which are arranged in order from an object side. In variable-magnifying from a wide angle limit to a telephoto limit, a clearance between a first lens group G1 and a second lens group G2 is increased and at the same time, a clearance between the second lens group G2 and a third lens groupG3 is decreased, a focusing from an infinity side to a close side is performed by moving the positive lens 7 toward an image, and a vibration proof is performed by moving the cemented lens 9 in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis to change an image position.

Abstract: Provided is a zoom lens system including: a first lens group having a positive refractive power; a second lens group having a negative refractive power; a third lens group having a positive refractive power; and a fourth lens group having a negative refractive power sequentially from an object side to an image side, wherein a zooming operation is performed by moving the second lens group and the fourth lens group.

Abstract: A superwide-angle lens system includes a positive front lens group and a negative rear lens group, in that order from the object side, wherein the negative rear lens group serves as a focusing lens group that is moved in the optical axis direction when focusing on an object at infinity to an object at a finite distance. The following condition (1) is satisfied: 1.1<mR<2.0??(1), wherein mR designates the lateral magnification of the negative rear lens group when focusing on an object at infinity.

Abstract: Disposing from an object side in the order of a positive first lens group which is fixed at the time of zooming, a negative second lens group which is moved at the time of zooming, an aperture stop, a positive third lens group which is fixed at the time of zooming, and a fourth lens group which is moved along the optical axis at the time of zooming to correct a change in image plane position arising from the zooming for focusing. The zoom lens is configured to simultaneously satisfy, when a focal length of the overall lens system at the telephoto end, an overall optical length, and an Abbe number of the second group first lens with respect to d-line are taken as ft, TL, and ?d21 respectively, conditional expressions (1): 0.62<TL/ft<0.88 and (2): 30<?d21<48.