Abstract: A variable aperture module includes a blade assembly including movable blades, a positioning element including positioning structures and a driving part including a rotation element. The movable blades are disposed around an optical axis to form a light passable hole with adjustable size for different hole size states and each have an inner surface to define the contour of the light passable hole in each hole size state. The positioning structures correspond to the movable blades. The rotation element is rotatable with respect to the positioning element and is configured to rotate the movable blades to adjust a size of the light passable hole. There are matte structures disposed on each inner surface. Each matte structure is single structure extending towards the optical axis, such that at least part of the contour of the light passable hole has an undulating shape at least in several hole size states.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an imaging optical lens assembly, including, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with negative refractive power having an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, a second lens element with positive refractive power, a third lens element with negative refractive power, a fourth lens element with positive refractive power, and a fifth lens element with negative refractive power having an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region and at least one convex shape in an off-axial region on the image-side surface, wherein the imaging optical lens assembly has a total of five lens elements.

Abstract: An image capturing optical system includes four lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical path: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth 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 positive refractive power. The third lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The image capturing optical system further includes an aperture stop located between the second lens element and the third lens element.

Abstract: An optical lens module includes an adjustable aperture assembly including rotatable blades, a driving part and an attractive force mechanism. The rotatable blades surround an optical axis of a lens element and form a light pass aperture. The driving part includes a rotatable component, a fixed component, a driving magnet and a coil. The rotatable component rotates the rotatable blades for adjusting an aperture size of the light pass aperture. The driving magnet is disposed on the rotatable component. The coil corresponds to the driving magnet to rotate the rotatable component. The attractive force mechanism provides an attractive force between the rotatable component and the fixed component and provides a driving force exerted on the rotatable blades for maintaining the light pass aperture in an enlarged state. The attractive force includes a magnetic force exerted by the rotatable component on a first magnetic element fixed on the fixed component.

Abstract: A lens driving apparatus includes a holder, a cover, a carrier, a first magnet, a coil, a spring, two second magnets and a hall sensor. The holder includes an opening hole. The cover is made of metal material and coupled to the holder. The carrier is movably disposed in the cover, and for coupling to a lens. The first magnet is connected to an inner side of the cover. The coil is wound around an outer side of the carrier, and adjacent to the first magnet. The spring is coupled to the carrier. The second magnets are disposed on one end of the carrier which is toward the holder. The hall sensor is for detecting a magnetic field of any one of the second magnets, wherein the magnetic field is varied according to a relative displacement between the hall sensor and the second magnet which is detected.

Abstract: An optical imaging system assembly includes seven lens elements, which are, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical path, 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 second lens element has negative refractive power. An object-side surface of the third lens element is convex in a paraxial region thereof. An image-side surface of the fifth lens element is convex in a paraxial region thereof. The sixth lens element has negative refractive power, an object-side surface of the sixth lens element is convex in a paraxial region thereof, an image-side surface of the sixth lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof. The seventh lens element has negative refractive power.

Abstract: An imaging lens module has an optical axis, an object side and an image side. The imaging lens module includes a plastic barrel, an optical lens assembly, an image-side assembled element and a light blocking element assembly. The plastic barrel includes a first contacting surface, which is close to an image-side end of the plastic barrel. The image-side assembled element is disposed close to the image-side end of the plastic barrel. The image-side assembled element is in a tube shape and extends from the object side to the image side. The image-side assembled element includes a second contacting surface and an inner protruding portion, and the second contacting surface is disposed close to an object-side end of the image-side assembled element and correspondingly to the first contacting surface. The plastic barrel and the image-side assembled element contact each other via the first contacting surface and the second contacting surface.

Abstract: An imaging lens includes a light blocking sheet that includes an inner ring surface, a plurality of tapered light blocking structures, and a nanostructure layer. The inner ring surface surrounds an optical axis and defines a light passage opening. The tapered light blocking structures are disposed on the inner ring surface, and each tapered light blocking structure protrudes from the inner ring surface and tapers off towards the optical axis. The tapered light blocking structures are periodically arranged to surround the optical axis. The contour of each tapered light blocking structure has a curved part in a view along the optical axis. The curved part forms a curved surface on the inner ring surface. The nanostructure layer is disposed on the curved surface and has a plurality of ridge-like protrusions that extend non-directionally, and the average structure height of the nanostructure layer ranges from 98 nanometers to 350 nanometers.

Abstract: An imaging lens assembly includes three lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical path: a first lens element, a second lens element and a third lens element. Each of the three lens elements has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side. The object-side surface of the second lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof. At least one surface of at least one lens element in the imaging lens assembly has at least one inflection point.

Abstract: An imaging lens system includes a lens barrel element and an imaging lens assembly disposed on the lens barrel element and including a first imaging lens element, a spacer element and a second imaging lens element. The spacer element has a second object-side contact surface corresponding to a first image-side contact surface of the first imaging lens element. The second imaging lens element has a third object-side contact surface corresponding to a second image-side contact surface of the spacer element. The lens barrel element and the spacer element form a buffer structure closer to an optical axis than the first image-side contact surface and including a first gap and a second gap located closer to the optical axis than the first gap. The first gap overlaps the third object-side contact surface in a direction parallel to the optical axis. A step difference is between the first and second gaps.

Abstract: A photographing optical lens assembly includes, in order from object side to 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 lens element has positive refractive power. The second, third, fourth and fifth lens elements have refractive power. The sixth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element are both aspheric, and the image-side surface has at least one inflection point. The seventh lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the seventh lens element are both aspheric, and the image-side surface has at least one inflection point.

Abstract: An optical 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 positive refractive power. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has negative refractive power. The fourth lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface being aspheric. The fifth lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface being aspheric. The sixth lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface being aspheric, wherein at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element includes at least one inflection point.

Abstract: A light-folding element includes an object-side surface, an image-side surface, a reflection surface and a connection surface. The reflection surface is configured to reflect imaging light passing through the object-side surface to the image-side surface. The connection surface is connected to the object-side, image-side and reflection surfaces. The light-folding element has a recessed structure located at the connection surface. The recessed structure is recessed from the connection surface an includes a top end portion, a bottom end portion and a tapered portion located between the top end and bottom end portions. The top end portion is located at an edge of the connection surface. The tapered portion has two tapered edges located on the connection surface. The tapered edges are connected to the top end and bottom end portions. A width of the tapered portion decreases in a direction from the top end portion towards the bottom end portion.

Abstract: An optical lens system includes nine lens elements which are, 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, a seventh lens element, an eighth lens element and a ninth lens element. At least one lens surface of the seventh lens element, the eighth lens element and the ninth lens element has at least one critical point in an off-axis region thereof, and each of the seventh lens element, the eighth lens element and the ninth lens element has at least one lens surface being aspheric.

Abstract: A photographing optical lens assembly includes seven lens elements which are, 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 lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element has negative refractive power. The sixth lens element has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The seventh lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The image-side surface of the seventh lens element has at least one critical point in an off-axis region thereof. There is an air gap in a paraxial region between all adjacent lens elements of the seven lens elements.

Abstract: An optical imaging system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element with positive refractive power, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, and a fifth lens element. Each of the fourth lens element and the fifth lens element includes at least one aspheric surface. The fourth lens element and the fifth lens element are made of plastic. The fifth lens element includes a concave image-side surface and at least one inflection point. An axial distance is formed between each of the first lens element, the second lens element, the third lens element, the fourth lens element, and the fifth lens element, and the optical imaging system further comprises a stop.

Abstract: An optical imaging lens assembly includes seven lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical path: 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. Each of the seven lens elements has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The object-side surface of the third lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof. The fourth lens element has positive refractive power. The image-side surface of the fifth lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof. The sixth lens element has positive refractive power, and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element is convex in a paraxial region thereof.

Abstract: An imaging optical lens system includes eight lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical path: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element and an eighth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The seventh lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, and the image-side surface of the seventh lens element has at least one convex critical point in an off-axis region thereof.

Abstract: An imaging lens assembly includes optical elements and a light path folding mechanism. The light path folding mechanism is disposed on the optical axis to fold an optical axis at least once, and includes a light folding element, a light blocking structure and a nanostructure layer. The light folding element includes a reflecting surface, an incident surface and an exit surface. The reflecting surface is configured to fold an incident light path towards an exit light path. The light blocking structure is disposed on at least one of the incident surface and the exit surface, and includes a main light blocking portion located on a peripheral portion closest to the optical axis on a cross section passing through the optical axis. The nanostructure layer is continuously distributed over at least one of the incident surface and the exit surface and the main light blocking portion.

Abstract: An optical lens assembly includes, from an object side to an image side, at least four optical lens elements. At least one of the at least four optical lens elements includes an anti-reflective coating. The at least one optical lens element including the anti-reflective coating is made of a plastic material. The anti-reflective coating is arranged on an object-side surface or an image-side surface of the at least one optical lens element including the anti-reflective coating. The anti-reflective coating includes at least one coating layer. One of the at least one coating layer at the outer of the anti-reflective coating is made of ceramics. The anti-reflective coating includes a plurality of holes, and sizes of the plurality of holes adjacent to the outer of the anti-reflective coating are larger than sizes of the plurality of holes adjacent to the inner of the anti-reflective coating.