Patents Examined by Alicia M. Harrington
  • Patent number: 12032134
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens, including 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 sequentially arranged along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, is provided. Each of the first lens element to the seventh lens element includes an object-side surface and an image-side surface. An optical axis region of the object-side surface of the first lens element is convex. A periphery region of the image-side surface of the second lens element is concave. The fourth lens element has positive refracting power, and an optical axis region of the object-side surface of the fourth lens element is concave. An optical axis region of the image-side surface of the fifth lens element is convex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL (XIAMEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jia-Sin Jhang, Baina Chen
  • Patent number: 12025781
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a zoom lens assembly. The zoom lens assembly comprises, sequentially along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, a first lens group comprising a first lens and a second lens; a second lens group having a positive refractive power and comprising a third lens, a fourth lens and a fifth lens; a third lens group having a negative refractive power and comprising a sixth lens; and a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power and comprising a seventh lens and an eighth lens. At least one of the first lens to the eighth lens is an aspheric lens. By changing positions of at least two lens groups in the second lens group, the third lens group and the fourth lens group on the optical axis, the zoom lens assembly switches between a wide-angle state and a telephoto state, and a focal length of the zoom lens assembly changes linearly when the zoom lens assembly switches from the wide-angle state to the telephoto state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yabin Hu, Liefeng Zhao, Fujian Dai
  • Patent number: 12019237
    Abstract: A display device and a vehicle including the display device, a vehicle-mounted display system and a method of manufacturing a holographic lens are provided. The display device includes a display array generation device and a first lens layer. The display array generation device is configured to provide a plurality of collimated light beams parallel to each other and spaced from each other; the first lens layer is arranged at a light exiting side of the display array generation device. The first lens layer includes a plurality of first microlenses arranged in array, and is configured to receive a plurality of collimated light beams. The plurality of collimated light beams correspond to the plurality of first microlenses, to achieve a plurality of scanning imaging, respectively. The display device can be applied to head-up display systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bingchuan Shi
  • Patent number: 12007540
    Abstract: A zoom lens consists of, in order from an object side to an image side: 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 negative refractive power; and a sixth lens group having a positive refractive power. During zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end, the distance between the adjacent lens groups in the optical axis direction changes, and the third lens group and the fifth lens group move integrally along the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Taiga Noda, Ryosuke Nagami
  • Patent number: 12007576
    Abstract: An optical system may include an emitter array to emit a plurality of beams of light, and a lens array. The lens array may be arranged to collimate and direct each of the plurality of beams of light. A pitch between lenses of the lens array may be larger than a pitch between emitters of the emitter array in order to cause the plurality of beams of light to be directed such that they diverge after exiting the lens array. The optical system may include a diffractive optical element to distribute each of the plurality of beams of light into a plurality of beamlets in association with creating a light pattern. The divergence of each of the plurality of beams of light may cause a plurality of zero-order beamlets, each corresponding to one of the plurality of beams of light, to diverge after exiting the diffractive optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Lumentum Operations LLC
    Inventors: Jihua Du, Yonghong Guo
  • Patent number: 12000998
    Abstract: A magnification-variable optical system having a small size, a wide angle of view, and high optical performance, an optical apparatus including the magnification-variable optical system, and a method for manufacturing the magnification-variable optical system are provided. A magnification-variable optical system ZL used for an optical apparatus such as a camera 1 includes a first lens group G1 having a negative refractive power and including at least two lenses, and a rear group GR including at least one lens group disposed on an image side of the first lens group G1, and is configured so that a distance between lens groups adjacent to each other changes at magnification change and a condition expressed by predetermined condition expressions is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Fumiaki Ohtake, Azuna Nonaka
  • Patent number: 11994653
    Abstract: A transparent member according to the present invention is formed by providing at least a substrate or a layer on the substrate, and has a surface section in which the contact angle with respect to water continuously changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kento Hasegawa, Yasushi Mizumachi
  • Patent number: 11994747
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens having negative refractive power; a third lens having negative refractive power; a fourth lens having positive refractive power; a fifth lens; a sixth lens; a seventh lens; an eighth lens; and a ninth lens having negative refractive power, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The ninth lens is formed in a shape so that a surface thereof on the image plane side has an aspherical shape having an inflection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hitoshi Hirano
  • Patent number: 11988817
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes five lens elements, the five lens elements being, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element having positive refractive power; a second lens element having negative refractive power; a third lens element having positive refractive power; a fourth lens element having positive refractive power; and a fifth lens element having negative refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsun Wu, Tzu-Chieh Kuo, Kuan-Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 11982793
    Abstract: A lens module includes a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens comprising a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface. The lens module also includes a fourth lens including a concave object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, a fifth lens including a concave object-side surface, and a sixth lens including an inflection point formed on an image-side surface thereof. The first to sixth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side to an image side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ho Sik You
  • Patent number: 11977273
    Abstract: An optical lens system includes, in order from the object side to the image side: a stop, a first lens with positive refractive power, a second lens with positive refractive power, a third lens with negative refractive power, wherein a distance from an image-side surface of the third lens to an image plane along an optical axis is BFL, a distance from an object-side surface of the first lens to the image plane along the optical axis is TL, following condition is satisfied: 0.38<BFL/TL<0.58. Such arrangements can meet the requirement of miniaturization under the condition of longer back focal length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Inventors: Chi-Chang Wang, Kun-Rui Wu
  • Patent number: 11966100
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens including a concave object side surface, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens sequentially disposed from an object side toward an image side. The optical imaging system satisfies 0.7<TL/f<1.0 and F No.<2.1, where TL is a distance from an object side of the first lens to an imaging plane, f is a total focal length of the optical imaging system, and F No. is the F No. of the optical imaging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Hwa Jung, Yong Joo Jo, Young Suk Kang
  • Patent number: 11966011
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an optical imaging lens assembly, which includes sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens and at least one subsequent lens having refractive power. A distance TTL along the optical axis from an object-side surface of the first lens to an image plane of the optical imaging lens assembly and a distance P along the optical axis from a to-be-captured object to the object-side surface of the first lens satisfy 0.6<TTL/P*10<1.8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Mengna Tang, Saifeng Lyu
  • Patent number: 11966030
    Abstract: The zoom lens consists of, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens group having a negative refractive power, a middle group, and a final group. During zooming, a spacing between the first lens group and the middle group changes, and a spacing between the middle group and the final group changes. During focusing, at least a part of the middle group moves, and the first lens group and the final group remain stationary with respect to an image plane. The zoom lens satisfies predetermined conditional expressions about a back focal length, a focal length, and a maximum half angle of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Ryosuke Nagami
  • Patent number: 11960083
    Abstract: Light-field projector for projecting a near-eye projected image to the eyes of a user, comprising: a light source comprising a plurality of illumination point-lights configured for sequentially emitting a plurality of incident light fields; a spatial light modulator configured for providing a sequence of source images; the spatial light modulator being further configured for modulating each of the incident light-fields in accordance with the source images such as to project sequentially a plurality of pinhole-aperture light-fields, each pinhole-aperture light-fields carrying a light-field component from the source image; wherein each sequentially projected pinhole-aperture light-field forms an intersection virtual pinhole through which the component from the source image can be seen, each virtual pinholes having an aperture stop which is determined by the size of the illumination point-light and being spatially shifted in relation with each other, the near-eye projected image being seen through the plurality
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Creal SA
    Inventor: Tomas Sluka
  • Patent number: 11947186
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an optical imaging lens assembly and a fingerprint identification device with the optical imaging lens assembly. The optical imaging lens assembly sequentially comprises, from an object side to an image side along an optical axis: a first lens with a negative refractive power, an object-side surface thereof being a concave surface; a second lens with a positive refractive power, an object-side surface thereof being a convex surface; and a third lens with a positive refractive power, an object-side surface thereof being a convex surface while an image-side surface being a convex surface. EPD is an entrance pupil diameter of the optical imaging lens assembly, and a total effective focal length f of the optical imaging lens assembly and EPD meet f/EPD<1.65. FOV is a maximum field of view of the optical imaging lens assembly, and FOV meets 125°<FOV<140°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Li Xie, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11947074
    Abstract: An optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first unit and a second unit. The first unit includes a first substrate, and a first lens having a negative refractive power and disposed on the image side of the first substrate. The second unit includes a second substrate, and a second lens having a positive refractive power and disposed on the image side of the second substrate. An absolute value of the refractive power on an optical axis of the second lens is larger than that of the first lens. A surface on the image side of the first lens is an aspheric surface. In the aspheric surface of the first lens, a refractive power at an outermost peripheral portion of an effective area is smaller than a refractive power on the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Mikio Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11940601
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an optical imaging lens assembly including, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens. The first lens has negative refractive power; the second lens has negative refractive power; the third lens has positive refractive power; the fourth lens has positive refractive power; the fifth lens has refractive power, and an object-side surface thereof is a concave surface; the sixth lens has refractive power; and the seventh lens has negative refractive power. An effective focal length f1 of the first lens and a total effective focal length f of the optical imaging lens assembly satisfy ?3.5<f1/f<0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Zhejiang Sunny Optical Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Xinquan Wang, Lin Huang
  • Patent number: 11933949
    Abstract: A freeform folded optical system that include two freeform prisms with optical power. At least one of the freeform prisms is configured to fold the optical axis twice. Thus, embodiments of the freeform folded optical system fold the optical axis three or four times. Folding the optical axis three or four times in the freeform prisms allows for long focal lengths required for telephoto lens applications without requiring additional lens elements between the prisms. In addition, the configuration of the freeform folded optical system provides reduced Z-axis height when compared to conventional folded lens systems with similar optical characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Takeyoshi Saiga
  • Patent number: 11927318
    Abstract: A headlamp optical element with a III-region light shape forming structure that comprises a light collecting portion, a first light emitting portion, a reflecting portion, and optionally a second light emitting portion. The light collecting portion converges incident light and emits light via the first light emitting portion. Some light may be directly emitted to the second light emitting portion. The rest of the light may be reflected by the reflecting portion and emitted to the second light emitting portion. The reflecting portion is connected to the lower portion of the first light emitting portion, with a lower beam cut-off line structure at the other end thereof. The light emitting surface of the first light emitting portion comprises multiple step surfaces with segment differences or is a single curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HASCO VISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: He Zhu, Zhiping Qiu, Wenhui Sang