Patents Examined by Alberto J Betancourt
  • Patent number: 11199699
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera lens assembly. The camera lens assembly has an effective focal length f and an entrance pupil diameter EPD, and includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens in sequence from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens has a negative refractive power, and an image-side surface thereof is a concave surface. The second lens has a positive refractive power or a negative refractive power. The third lens has a positive refractive power. The fourth lens has a positive refractive power or a negative refractive power, and an image-side surface thereof is a convex surface. An effective radius DT11 of an object-side surface of the first lens and half of a diagonal length ImgH of an effective pixel area on an electronic photosensitive element of the camera lens assembly satisfy: 1.2<DT11/ImgH<2.6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuanlin Jia
  • Patent number: 11191431
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus to examine an examinee's eye includes: a first optometry unit to perform a first examination of the examinee's eye; a second optometry unit to perform a second examination of the examinee's eye; a drive unit to cause relative movement of the first and second optometry units in three-dimensional manner relative to the examinee's eye; a controller to control the drive unit; a selection receiving unit to receive a selection signal representing at least one selected from the first second examinations; and a face photographing unit to photograph a face image including at least one of examinee's right and left eyes. The controller switches, according to the selection signal, between a first path for alignment of the first optometry unit with the eye detected from the face image and a second path for alignment of the second optometry unit with the eye detected from the face image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunari Shimizu, Kenji Nakamura, Toru Arikawa
  • Patent number: 11194229
    Abstract: A lens barrel 10 comprises a holding frame 51, a guide pole 53 supported by the holding frame 51, a focus lens unit 52 that moves along the guide pole 53, a first actuator (a yoke 21, a coil 22, and a driving magnet 23) that relatively moves the focus lens unit 52 along the guide pole 53 with respect to the holding frame 51, and a second actuator (a gear 55 and a stepping motor 56) that rotationally drives the guide pole 53 around the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Fujinaka
  • Patent number: 11169399
    Abstract: Lenses and methods for adjusting the focus of a lens include dividing multiple light sensors in a lens into four quadrants. A position of the lens relative to occlusion along a top and bottom edge of the lens is determined based on numbers of bits in respective bit sequences from light sensors in respective regions of the lens. An optimal focal length for the lens is determined based on the position of the lens. The focal length of the lens is adjusted to match the optimal focal length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Emily R. Kinser, John U. Knickerbocker, Roy R. Yu
  • Patent number: 11143845
    Abstract: An optical imaging 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. Each of the seven lens elements of the optical imaging lens assembly has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side. At least one lens element of the optical imaging lens assembly has at least one aspheric lens surface having at least one inflection point. The object-side surface of the seventh lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Po-Lun Hsu, Tzu-Chieh Kuo
  • Patent number: 11143842
    Abstract: An optical lens includes a first lens, a second lens and a third lens in an order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens is a lens having negative refractive power, and an object-side surface of the first lens is concave; the second lens is a lens having positive refractive power, and an image-side surface of the second lens is convex; the third lens is a lens having positive refractive power, and an image-side surface of the third lens is convex. The optical lens satisfies a condition. i.e., 3<D1/f<6, wherein D1 is an optical effective diameter of the first lens and f is effective focal length of the optical lens. The optical lens is characterized by wide-angle and short distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignees: SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., ASIA OPTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventor: An-Kai Chang
  • Patent number: 11137568
    Abstract: Provided is a lens holder driving device having the fixing part including a base member, the driving mechanism including a yoke, the position detection part including a sensor magnet attached on a corresponding outer peripheral surface of the lens holder in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis. A magnetic detection device provided to the fixing part such that the magnetic detection device is opposite to the sensor magnet. The yoke includes an outer cylinder part having a cylindrical shape. The outer cylinder part includes a plurality of plate parts which are opposite to each other in the direction orthogonal to the optical axis. The plate parts having cutout parts at positions opposite to the sensor magnet. The lens holder driving device includes a foreign matter intrusion prevention member configured to prevent intrusion of foreign matters from the cutout part of the plate part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiko Osaka, Takashi Ishizawa
  • Patent number: 11137571
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera lens assembly. The camera lens assembly includes, sequentially along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens. An object-side surface of the first lens and an object-side surface of the second lens are convex surfaces. An image-side surface of the third lens is a convex surface. An image-side surface of the fourth lens is a concave surface. Each of the first lens and the third lens has a positive refractive power. Each of the second lens and the fourth lens has a positive refractive power or a negative refractive power. A total effective focal length f of the camera lens assembly and an entrance pupil diameter EPD of the camera lens assembly satisfy: f/EPD<1.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xinquan Wang
  • Patent number: 11137572
    Abstract: A six-piece optical image capturing system is provided. In order from an object side to an image side along the optical axis, the optical image capturing system includes 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 least one of the first lens element through the fifth lens element has positive refractive power. The sixth lens element has negative refractive power. At least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface thereof is aspheric. At least one of the surfaces of the sixth lens element has an inflection point. The six lenses have refractive power. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the image quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 11099354
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical lens system for a camera comprising in an order from an end at the object side to an end at the image side a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens having a negative refractive power, wherein the second and third lenses are each designed as meniscus lenses, wherein the surface of the second lens at the object side is convex and the surface of the third lens at the object side is concave. The invention further relates to an imaging system having an image sensor that has a plurality of light-sensitive elements arranged in rows and columns and having such an optical lens system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Leica Camera AG
    Inventors: Marcus Deschauer, Achim Zirkel, Jakob Bleicher, Stephan Albrecht
  • Patent number: 11073693
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a head mounted display is provided, comprising a light guide, at least first and second diffraction gratings, alignment marks A1 and B1 associated with the first diffraction grating, and alignment marks A2 and B2 associated with the second diffraction grating. The first diffraction grating may be disposed on a first surface of the light guide, the first surface facing away from a light input. The second diffraction grating may be disposed on a second surface of the light guide, the second surface facing towards the light input. The second diffraction grating may be adapted to diffract at least some of the light input into the light guide, and the first diffraction grating may be adapted to diffract at least some light transmitted through the light guide back into the light guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Akutsu, Hideo Nagasaka, Yusuke Kajio, Takashi Mizusawa, Daisuke Tsukuda, Kazutatsu Tokuyama
  • Patent number: 11054670
    Abstract: A flexible eyewear assembly is described. The assembly includes first and second rigid frame portions each having an opening therein. The assembly also includes a flexible component. The flexible component includes first and second lens retainers configured to engage the first and second rigid frame portions along an inner edge thereof adjacent the respective opening, and sized to retain first and second lenses therein; and a flexible bridge portion connecting the first lens retainer to the second lens retainer, to connect the first and second rigid frame portions with separation therebetween, when the first and second lens retainers are engaged with the flexible component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventor: Brent Sheldon
  • Patent number: 11042009
    Abstract: A photographing optical 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 with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element has refractive power. The fourth lens element has refractive power. The fifth lens element with refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The sixth lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof, and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The photographing optical lens assembly has a total of six lens elements with refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 11042010
    Abstract: A lens module includes a first lens, an object-side surface thereof being convex; a second lens, both surfaces thereof being convex; a third lens, both surfaces thereof being concave; a fourth lens having positive refractive power, both surfaces thereof being convex; a fifth lens, an object-side surface thereof being concave; and a sixth lens, an object-side surface thereof being convex. The first to sixth lenses are sequentially disposed in numerical order from the first lens to the sixth lens from an object side of the lens module toward an image side of the lens module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jin Hwa Jung
  • Patent number: 11039123
    Abstract: An electrically controlled spectacle includes a spectacle frame and optoelectronic lenses housed in the frame. The lenses include a left lens and a right lens, each of the optoelectrical lenses having a plurality of states, wherein the state of the left lens is independent of the state of the right lens. The electrically controlled spectacle also includes a control unit housed in the frame, the control unit being adapted to control the state of each of the lenses independently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Inventors: Kenneth Martin Jacobs, Ronald Steven Karpf
  • Patent number: 11002890
    Abstract: An optical element includes a Fresnel surface including valleys between Fresnel segments. Compensation trenches disposed in the valleys are configured to accept excess of an optical layer received in the valleys during a deposition of the optical layer. The compensation trenches are filled with the optical layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Evan M. Richards, Kurt Allen Jenkins
  • Patent number: 10989898
    Abstract: An optics system, a telescope system, and an optics system for a telescope are provided. The optics system may include a plurality of mirrors arranged around and centered about four orthogonal, rotational axes in a quad-axis Coudé optical path. The rotational axes are consecutively dependent on one another, and the plurality of mirrors direct light to a predetermined region irrespective of an orientation of an incident beam directed to the plurality of mirrors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventor: Kevin S. Scheiman
  • Patent number: 10976522
    Abstract: An imaging optical system includes a positive or negative first lens group, a diaphragm and a positive second lens group. The first lens group includes a positive lens element, provided closest to the object side, that has an aspherical surface on the object side thereof, the aspherical surface including a paraxial convex surface convexing toward the object side. This aspherical surface has a curvature that is positive along a meridional cross-section at the paraxial portion thereof, and the curvature of the meridional cross-section changes from a positive value to a negative value in an area within 75% of an effective aperture from the paraxial portion toward the periphery of the aspherical surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka Takakubo, Eijiroh Tada
  • Patent number: 10962684
    Abstract: An ophthalmic lens incorporating an optically functional wafer having improved adhesion to a polymerized polyurea-urethane bulk lens resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Vision Ease, LP
    Inventors: Hannah Vu, David Olund, Sarawuth Seewattanangkoon, Ladawan Chantharadet, Harjit Bhambra, Tim Reynolds, Robin Kezar, Jeff Brown, Richard Blacker
  • Patent number: 10952609
    Abstract: An imaging system for an optical element, the imaging system comprising means for illuminating a targeted optical element with at least one incident light beam and means for directing at least two light beams returning from at least one surface of the illuminated optical element onto a detector; the detector adapted to measure relative light characteristics of the at least two returning light beams and to calculate at least one parameter of the optical element using the measured characteristics of the at least two returning light beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Inventors: Eugene Ng, Alexander Goncharov, Patrick Collins