Patents Examined by Alicia M. Harrington
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Patent number: 10816770Abstract: 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, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is made of glass 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 plastic material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2018Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Oinuma, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Yi Ji
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Patent number: 10816781Abstract: 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, a fourth lens group (G4) having negative refractive power, and a fifth lens group (G5) having positive refractive power are arranged in order from an object, and zooming is performed by changing distances between each lens group, and the first lens group (G1) is composed of three or more lenses, the fourth lens group (G4) is composed of two or less lenses, and the fifth lens group (G5) is composed of two or less lenses and moves to an image surface side upon zooming from a wide angle end state to a telephoto end state, and the following conditional expression (1) is satisfied. 8.40<f1/(?f2)??(1) where, f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens group (G1), and f2 denotes a focal length of the second lens group (G2).Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2017Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Suzuki, Kenji Ishida, Saburo Masugi
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Patent number: 10816753Abstract: The present disclosure provides a lens driving apparatus comprising: a base comprising insulated first and second conductive terminals; a supporting frame provided with third conductive terminal electrically connected to second conductive terminal; a barrel comprising insulated first and second conductive wires; and elastic members made of memory alloys and comprising first and second elastic members. The first elastic member has one end fixed to supporting frame and electrically connected to third conductive terminal and another end fixed to barrel and electrically connected to first conductive wire to form current loop for driving barrel to move in positive or negative direction of optical axis. The second elastic member has one end fixed to base and electrically connected to first conductive terminal, and another end fixed to barrel and electrically connected to second conductive wire to form current loop for driving barrel to move in negative or positive direction of optical axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2018Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Bingke Zhu, Kaiyan Gao
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Patent number: 10809499Abstract: A compact imaging lens which addresses low-profile and low F value, and corrects aberrations. An imaging lens includes a first lens having positive refractive power and a convex surface on an object side near an optical axis, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens and a eighth lens having a concave surface on an image side near the optical axis as double-sided aspheric lens, wherein the second to seventh lenses each have at least one aspheric surface, and the eighth lens has pole points off an optical axis on the aspheric image-side surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.Inventor: Masaya Hashimoto
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Patent number: 10802290Abstract: A display device assembly adapted to assemble a display unit to a display device includes a frame body, an optical element, and a supporting element connected to the frame body. The frame body fixes the display unit to be inclined to a viewing direction by a first angle. The display unit provides an image beam. The optical element is disposed on the frame body and inclined to the viewing direction by a second angle, and the optical element and the display unit face each other. The optical element has a multi-layer coating and located on a transmission path of the image beam. The image beam is transmitted to the optical element for reflection and transmitted to a user, so that the user observing the optical element in the viewing direction obtains a combination of a virtual image and an environmental image presented by the real world.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2019Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: AMTRAN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Huang-Pin Lin, Pei-Song Wang
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Patent number: 10793068Abstract: A camera monitoring system for a vehicle includes an interior rearview mirror assembly with a video display screen disposed behind the interior mirror reflective element. The video display screen is operable to display video images derived at least in part from image data captured by at least one video camera of a plurality of video cameras of the equipped vehicle. Image data captured by at least a driver-side viewing video camera and a passenger-side viewing video camera is provided to an image processor and is processed by the image processor to detect vehicles present exterior of the equipped vehicle. Responsive at least in part to detection of another vehicle, video images derived at least in part from image data captured by the driver-side viewing video camera, a rear viewing video camera and/or the passenger-side viewing video camera are displayed by the video display screen.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: DONNELLY CORPORATIONInventors: Keith D. Foote, Kevin P. Benthem, Niall R. Lynam
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Patent number: 10795120Abstract: A miniature wide-angle imaging lens has a miniaturization ratio, of a total track length from the center of a first surface to a focal plane by an image circle diameter, with a value less than 3.0. The imaging lens includes, starting from an object side of the lens, a first group of at least three optical elements, a second group including an aperture stop and an optical element immediately in front of or behind the aperture stop, and a third group of at least two optical elements.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: ImmerVision, Inc.Inventors: Jocelyn Parent, Simon Thibault, Patrice Roulet, Hu Zhang, Pascale Nini, Pierre Konen
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Patent number: 10782453Abstract: A display device has a display, operable to generate a real image, and an optical system. In the optical system are at least two free-form reflective surfaces, S I and S2. At least one of the reflective surfaces is convex in one direction at substantially all points of its optically active area. Light rays from the display are reflected on SI before they are reflected on S2. The reflective surfaces SI and S2 are arranged to generate a virtual image from the real image on the display, by projecting light from the display to an eye position. The field of view occupied by the virtual image as seen from the eye position is greater than 50 degrees in at least one direction, preferably the direction linking the two eyes of an intended user.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2016Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: TESSELAND, LLCInventors: Pablo Benitez, Juan Carlos Minano, Dejan Grabovickic, Milena Nikolic
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Patent number: 10775604Abstract: An objective optical system for endoscope consists of, in order from an object side, a first negative lens L1 which is planoconcave, and of which a flat surface is directed toward the object side, a second meniscus lens L2 having a convex surface directed toward an image side, a third positive meniscus lens L3 having a convex surface directed toward the object side, a fourth positive lens L4, and a cemented lens in which fifth positive lens L5 and a sixth negative lens L6 are cemented. Focusing is carried out by the third positive meniscus lens moving along an optical axis AX, and the following conditional expressions (1-1) and (1-2) are satisfied: 0.41<|flp/f2<1??(1-1), and 0.55<d45/flp<1??(1-2).Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroto Matsuura
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Patent number: 10768394Abstract: An electronic device includes at least one optical lens assembly. The optical lens assembly includes four lens elements. The four lens elements are, in order from an outside to an inside, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element. The first lens element has an outside surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and an inside surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The fourth lens element has an inside surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.Inventors: Hung-Shuo Chen, Tzu-Chieh Kuo
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Patent number: 10754158Abstract: A head mounted display (HMD) device includes a stretchable display configured to display an image, and a lens unit provided to face the stretchable display and configured to magnify the image and refract the image in a direction toward a user's eye.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jeong Eun Seo
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Patent number: 10746954Abstract: An optical system retaining system for vision augmenting system prevents the unintended removal of the optical system but does not require disassembly of the augmenting system to remove the optical system.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2016Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Photonis Defense, Inc.Inventors: Robert Joseph McCreight, Jr., James G. Burke, III
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Patent number: 10746993Abstract: Described is a detection device, a head-up display (HUD) and a method for operating a HUD. The detection device, the HUD and the method for operating an HUD are designed to protect an imager of the HUD from damage by incident radiation and to avoid or at least significantly reduce a glare effect of the HUD. The detection device comprises an optical element with a reflecting area and a passband, where the optical transparency of the passband is greater than the optical transparency of the reflecting area. The passband is completely enclosed by the reflecting area, the surface of the passband is smaller than the surface of the reflecting area, and the detection device is optically coupled to the passband. The detection device determines the intensity of a radiation incident on the detection device.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Jabil Optics Germany GmbHInventors: Oliver Zeh, Thomas Beyer
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Patent number: 10746971Abstract: A compact imaging lens which addresses low-profile and low F value, and corrects aberrations. An imaging lens includes a first lens having positive refractive power and a convex surface on an object side near an optical axis, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens and a eighth lens having a concave surface on an image side near the optical axis as double-sided aspheric lens, wherein the second to seventh lenses each have at least one aspheric surface, and the eighth lens has pole points off an optical axis on the aspheric image-side surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.Inventor: Masaya Hashimoto
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Patent number: 10746970Abstract: A compact imaging lens which addresses low-profile and low F value, and corrects aberrations. An imaging lens includes a first lens having positive refractive power and a convex surface on an object side near an optical axis, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens and a eighth lens having a concave surface on an image side near the optical axis as double-sided aspheric lens, wherein the second to seventh lenses each have at least one aspheric surface, and the eighth lens has pole points off an optical axis on the aspheric image-side surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.Inventor: Masaya Hashimoto
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Patent number: 10737621Abstract: A cloaking device includes an object-side, an image-side, an object-side cloaking region (CR) reflection boundary having an outward facing mirror surface, and an image-side CR reflection boundary having an outward facing mirror surface. A cloaking region is bounded by the object-side CR reflection boundary and the image-side CR reflection boundary. An object-side lens, an image-side lens and at least one exterior reflection boundary are included. Light from an object positioned on the object-side of the cloaking device and obscured by the cloaking region is focused by the object-side lens, reflected by the object-side CR reflection boundary, the at least one exterior reflection boundary and the image-side CR reflection boundary, and focused by the image-side lens to form an image of the object on the image-side of the cloaking device such that the light from the object appears to pass through the cloaking region.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2017Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Kyu-Tae Lee, Debasish Banerjee
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Patent number: 10741998Abstract: Provided is a laser system that includes a laser head having a laser holder configured to house a laser beam and a lens for reflecting the laser beam at a predetermined wavelength, and a thermal-mechanical adjustment device disposed on the laser head and configured to adjust a temperature and an alignment of the laser beam, to maintain the predetermined wavelength of the laser beam.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2016Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Sandip Maity, Ying Zhou, David Peter Robinson, Gamal Refai-Ahmed
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Patent number: 10732379Abstract: An interchangeable lens attachable to a camera body, the interchangeable lens including: a focusing optical system configured to vary a focal position of the interchangeable lens; and a transmitter configured to transmit a first value and a second value to the camera body, the first value indicating a relationship between an amount of movement of the focusing optical system and an amount of movement of an image plane at a position to which the focusing optical system has moved, the second value indicating a relationship between an amount of movement of the focusing optical system and an amount of movement of the image plane, the second value being equal to or smaller than the first value.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2015Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroyuki Tomita
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Patent number: 10725271Abstract: A compact imaging lens which addresses low-profile and low F value, and corrects aberrations. An imaging lens includes a first lens having positive refractive power and a convex surface on an object side near an optical axis, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens and a eighth lens having a concave surface on an image side near the optical axis as double-sided aspheric lens, wherein the second to seventh lenses each have at least one aspheric surface, and the eighth lens has pole points off an optical axis on the aspheric image-side surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.Inventor: Masaya Hashimoto
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Patent number: 10712538Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes: first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth lens element, the first lens element has negative refracting power, the third lens element has negative refracting power, and an optical axis region of an image-side surface of the sixth lens element is concave. The lens elements having refracting power included by the optical imaging lens are only the six lens elements described above. In addition, the optical imaging lens satisfies the relationship: (G23+T3+G34+T4+G45)/G12?2.600 and ?3+?4+?5+?6?150.000.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jiayuan Zhang, Fensha Cai, Qingzhi Zhu