Patents Examined by Alicia M. Harrington
  • Patent number: 10185127
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens having a negative refractive power, a fifth lens having a negative refractive power, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens having a positive refractive power. The first lens to seventh lens are sequentially disposed in a direction from an object side toward an imaging plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Hwa Jung, Yong Joo Jo
  • Patent number: 10185126
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens, disposed in order from an object side to an imaging plane. One or any combination of the first lens to the seventh lens are formed of glass. One or both surfaces of one or more of the first lens to the seventh lens are aspherical. A pair of lenses, among the first lens to the seventh lens, allows paraxial areas opposing each other to be bonded to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyuk Joo Kim, Jin Su Seok
  • Patent number: 10185114
    Abstract: The optical lens 10 having an optical function portion 12 having optical functions; and a flange portion 14 formed around the optical function portion 12. The flange portion 14 has, on a side surface thereof, a cut section 42 which is formed by cutting a gate portion 16. In a case where the following are viewed from the optical axis direction of the optical lens 10, a thinnest portion 18 in a region 44 surrounded by lines L1 and L2, which respectively connect both ends 42a and 42b of the cut section 42 to the optical axis center O of the optical lens 10, and a line L3, which connects both ends 42a and 42b, is present in the optical function portion 12. The flange portion 14 has a concave portion 40 outside the region 44.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hidekane Ito
  • Patent number: 10175462
    Abstract: A wafer level lens system includes a target lens and a wafer level lens group. The target lens includes a first surface, a second surface, and a first fitting structure. The second surface is opposite to the first surface. The first fitting structure is disposed at the second surface. The wafer level lens group includes a first transparent plate and a second fitting structure. The first transparent plate has a third surface and a fourth surface opposite to the third surface. The second fitting structure is disposed on the third surface. The first fitting structure is fitted into the second fitting structure, and there is a space encapsulated between the second surface and the third surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Yin-Dong Lu, Han-Ching Lin
  • Patent number: 10175456
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an imaging lens assembly including, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof; a second lens element with negative refractive power having an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof; a third lens element; a fourth lens element; a fifth lens element having an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, both of the object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof being aspheric; and a sixth lens element having an object-side surface and an image-side surface being both aspheric. The imaging lens assembly has a total of six lens elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsun Wu, Hsiang Chi Tang, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 10156700
    Abstract: A six-piece optical lens for capturing image and a six-piece optical module for capturing image are provided. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis includes a first lens with refractive power, a second lens with refractive power, a third lens with refractive power, a fourth lens with refractive power, a fifth lens with refractive power and a sixth lens with refractive power. At least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the six lens elements is aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Nai-Yuan Tang, Yeong-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: 10156699
    Abstract: The invention discloses a four-piece optical lens for capturing image and a four-piece optical module for capturing image. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis comprises a first lens with refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; a third lens with refractive power; and a fourth lens with refractive power; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the four lenses are aspheric. The optical lens may increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 10149606
    Abstract: An optical unit 1 includes a voice coil motor 10 which can relatively move a movable part 3 with respect to a fixed part 2 in the axis C direction by using a coil 11 arranged on the fixed part 2 and a magnet 12 arranged on the movable part 3, wherein the movable part 3 includes a movable-side sliding surface which can slide over an inner periphery of the fixed part 2, and a distance L1 from a position closest to an object side to a position closest to an image side of the movable-side sliding surface in the axis C direction of the movable part 3 is greater than a distance from an emission surface of the object-side fixed lens group Gf held by the fixed part 2 to an incident surface of the image-side fixed lens group Gb held by the fixed part 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takehiko Iguchi
  • Patent number: 10146028
    Abstract: A zoom/focus apparatus and corresponding zoom lens assembly are provided. The zoom/focus apparatus may include a first focus lens barrel (101), a first zoom lens barrel (102), a first ultrasonic motor and a second ultrasonic motor which are disposed coaxially. The first focus lens barrel and the first zoom lens barrel are radially unmovable. The caliber of the first zoom lens barrel is larger than that of the first focus lens barrel. The two ultrasonic motors are used to drive the two lens barrels to move axially by the rotation of the rotors (103, 104), respectively. Because the zoom lens barrel which needs to be moved is disposed at outside of the focus lens barrel, by driving the lens barrels using the ultrasonic motors, the telescoping of the zoom lens barrel and the adjusting of the zoom position can be achieved simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Bolymedia Holdings Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiaoping Hu
  • Patent number: 10133069
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle display device capable of simplifying a configuration for a passenger. A ring member is provided to be closer to the front side (opposite to the passenger) than a half mirror, and thus the configuration for the passenger can be further simplified than the half mirror, thereby achieving a simple appearance. The ring member is visually confirmed through the half mirror thereby to display the ring member and an image in combination like a configuration in which a decorative member is provided to be closer to the passenger than the display as conventionally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gosei Sato, Kiyokazu Yoneyama, Yoshiharu Matsuo
  • Patent number: 10133034
    Abstract: A projection lens assembly includes a first lens group, a second lens group, a third lens group and a fourth lens group, all of which are arranged in order from a projection side to an image source side along an optical axis. The first lens group is with negative refractive power. The second lens group is with positive refractive power and includes a projection side surface and an image source side surface, wherein both of the projection side surface and the image source side surface are convex surfaces. The third lens group includes a convex surface facing the projection side. The fourth lens group is with positive refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the image source side. The projection lens assembly satisfies: 1.4<F<3.5, wherein F is an F-number of the projection lens assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignees: SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., ASIA OPTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventor: Chia-Hung Sun
  • Patent number: 10133028
    Abstract: A lens assembly includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens, all of which are arranged in sequence from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens is a meniscus lens with negative refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the object side. The second lens is with negative refractive power and includes a concave surface facing the object side. The third lens is with positive refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the image side. The fourth lens is with positive refractive power. The fifth lens is with positive refractive power. The sixth lens is with negative refractive power. The seventh lens is with refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignees: SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., ASIA OPTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventor: Ching-Chung Yeh
  • Patent number: 10130248
    Abstract: A method by which fundus photographs that are corrected for scattered light can be realised by using a digital fundus camera. The fundus is illuminated and a photograph of the fundus is realized. The photographed area is greater than the illuminated are. The scattered light intensity is determined and is used for correction. Measurement points for determining the scattered light intensity are defined in the non-illuminated area. Values of the scattered light intensity determined at the measurement points are averaged. Average-scattered light intensity thus determined is subtracted from the intensity values of the photograph to correct the photograph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Thomas Mohr, Michael Kieweg
  • Patent number: 10114229
    Abstract: A lens driving device according to an embodiment comprises: a bobbin wherein at least one lens is installed inside thereof and a first coil is installed on the outer circumferential surface thereof; a first magnet arranged around the bobbin so as to be opposite to the first coil; a housing for supporting the first magnet; upper and lower elastic members coupled with the bobbin and the housing; a first sensor for sensing displacement of the bobbin in the first direction; a second magnet arranged so as to be opposite to the first sensor; a base arranged to be spaced apart from the housing by a certain distance; a second coil arranged so as to be opposite to the first magnet; a circuit board whereon the second coil is installed; a plurality of support members for supporting the housing so as to be movable in the second and third directions which are orthogonal to the first direction with respect to the base and for connecting at least one of the upper and lower elastic members to the circuit board; and a second
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Jin Jung, Sang Jun Min, Sung Guk Lee
  • Patent number: 10114232
    Abstract: A fluid lens assembly including a front rigid lens, a semi-flexible membrane that is adapted to be expanded from a minimum inflation level to a maximum inflation level, and a fluid layer therebetween. The front lens of the fluid lens assembly is configured to have a negative optical power. In an embodiment, the fluid lens assembly may be configured to have an overall negative optical power when the membrane is expanded to the maximum inflation level. In an embodiment, the fluid lens assembly can be configured to have an overall negative optical power when the membrane is expanded between the minimum inflation level and the maximum inflation level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Adlens Beacon, Inc.
    Inventors: Amitava Gupta, William Egan, Lisa Nibauer, Frank Stangota, Bruce Decker, Thomas M. McGuire, Urban Schnell, Karim Haroud, Hans Jaeger, Matthew Wallace Peterson, Daniel Senatore
  • Patent number: 10101587
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a display method are disclosed. The display apparatus includes a left eye block and a right eye block. Each of the left eye and right eye block includes a relay unit and an eyepiece unit. Relay unit including at least one first optical lens is configured to receive light beams of input image, and generate a relay image by enlarging input image through the at least one first optical lens. The eyepiece unit including at least one second optical lens is configured to receive light beams of relay image, and generate an output image for a user to see by converging light beams of relay image through the at least one second optical lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventor: June-Jei Huang
  • Patent number: 10101568
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from the object side: 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, and a fourth lens group (G4) having positive refractive power. Upon zooming from the wide angle end state to the telephoto end state, the interval between each lens group changes and the fourth lens group (G4) moves to the image side after having once moved to the object side. The third lens group (G3) has, in order from the object side, a positive lens, a positive lens, and a negative lens. The zoom lens satisfies the following conditional expression: 2.50<TLt/(fw*ft)1/2<3.30, where TLt is the total length of the zoom lens in the telephoto state, fw is the focal distance of the total zoom lens system in the wide angle state, and ft is the focal distance of the total zoom lens system in the telephoto state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Keiichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10095013
    Abstract: An objective optical system includes in order from an object side a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, and a third lens group having a positive refractive power, wherein focusing is carried out by moving the second lens group with respect to a change in an object-point distance, and the following conditional expressions (2) and (3) are satisfied: 3<|?|??(2), and 60°<???(3), where, ? denotes a lateral magnification of the overall objective optical system at the time of focusing to an object point at a close distance, and ? denotes the maximum half angle of view at the time of focusing to an object point at a long distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideyasu Takato
  • Patent number: 10095041
    Abstract: A laser beam expander has at least two negative lenses with adjustable collimation. The amount of required motion can be reduced by an order of magnitude over single negative lens approaches by splitting the input lens in two and adjusting the small remaining air gap between the lenses. The change in collimation may be accomplished by heating/cooling (i.e., thermal), mechanical motion (e.g., motors), electro-optical means (e.g., applying or reducing an electric current), any combination thereof, or any other suitable mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventors: Luis A. Ramos-Izquierdo, Xiaoli Sun
  • Patent number: 10088620
    Abstract: A light guide for a virtual image device to guide and emit image light output from an image display element to display a virtual image. The light guide includes a light-guide member and an optical member. The light-guide member includes an incidence portion to receive the image light and an exit portion to emit the image light to an outside, and a reflective portion inclined relative to the incidence portion to guide the image light received by the incidence portion into the light guide. The light-guide member also includes an extraction portion including first planes each inclined relative to the exit portion and second planes each parallel with the exit portion, to guide the image light from each first plane to the exit portion and extract the image light. The optical member includes a parallel plane and an inclined portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shiori Ohsugi, Takashi Kubota, Takanobu Osaka, Naoki Nakamura