Patents Examined by Alicia M. Harrington
  • Patent number: 9958646
    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: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Ability Opto-Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu, Yeong-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: 9958637
    Abstract: An optical device whose impact resistance against an impact improved without increasing the size thereof. A first-group lens barrel holds has radially protruding follower pins formed thereon. A cam ring is disposed outside the first-group lens barrel, and has cam grooves formed therein for engagement with the follower pins. A diaphragm unit disposed rearward of the first-group lens barrel and a second-group lens barrel disposed rearward of the diaphragm unit move in the optical axis direction. When the diaphragm unit and the second-group lens barrel move in the optical axis direction, the optical device is switched between a wide angle position in which first protrusions formed on the diaphragm unit are positioned inside the follower pins and a telephoto position in which third protrusions formed on the second-group lens barrel are positioned inside the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akihiko Masuki
  • Patent number: 9952411
    Abstract: An optical image lens system 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 a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface. The second lens element, the third lens element, and the fourth lens element have refractive power. The fifth lens element with positive refractive power is made of plastic, and has a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, wherein the surfaces thereof are aspheric. The sixth lens element with refractive power is made of plastic, and has a concave image-side surface, wherein the image-side surface thereof changes from concave at a paraxial region to convex at a peripheral region, and the surfaces thereof are aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lin-Yao Liao, Tsung-Han Tsai, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 9939616
    Abstract: A wide angle lens system, from an object side to an image plane side, includes: a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a positive refractive power and an exit surface that is convex toward the image plane side; a third lens having a negative refractive power and an exit surface that is concave toward the image plane side; a fourth lens having a positive refractive power and an exit surface that is convex toward the image plane side; a fifth lens having a negative refractive power and an exit surface that is concave toward the image plane side; and a sixth lens having a positive refractive power. The wide angle lens system satisfies the following formulas: 75<FOV<85 2.0<Fno<2.3 where FOV is a field of view of the wide angle lens system in degrees (°) and Fno is an F-number of the wide angle lens system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: KOLEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chan Goo Kang, Jong Jin Lee, Seong Hee Bae
  • Patent number: 9939606
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lens driving apparatus. The lens driving apparatus includes a base, a yoke coupled to the base, having an upper surface formed with a hole, a closed side surface, and an opened bottom surface, a bobbin movably installed in an inner portion of the yoke, a lens module coupled to the bobbin to go in and out the hole according to movement of the bobbin, a magnet fixed to an inner portion of the yoke, a coil fixed to an outer portion of the bobbin while facing the magnets, and springs coupled to the bobbin to provide restoration force to the bobbin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ji Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 9939641
    Abstract: A combiner head-up display (HUD) system includes a combiner mirror and a combiner holder supporting the combiner mirror. The combiner holder includes first and second holder arms. The HUD system also includes a combiner HUD body supporting a first knob. The combiner HUD system includes an elevation link connecting the first knob and the first holder arm. A rotation of the first knob causes the combiner mirror to move from a stowed position to a display position or from a display position to a stowed position. A second knob is supported by the combiner HUD body and is disposed substantially opposite the first knob. A threaded rod connects the second knob and the second holder arm. When the combiner mirror is in the display position, a rotation of the second knob causes the combiner mirror to adjust a display angle between the fore-aft axis and the combiner mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Luis Ernesto Quiroz de la mora, Johan Gomez Martinez
  • Patent number: 9921387
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lens driving apparatus. The lens driving apparatus includes a base, a yoke coupled to the base, having an upper surface formed with a hole, a closed side surface, and an opened bottom surface, a bobbin movably installed in an inner portion of the yoke, a lens module coupled to the bobbin to go in and out the hole according to movement of the bobbin, a magnet fixed to an inner portion of the yoke, a coil fixed to an outer portion of the bobbin while facing the magnets, and springs coupled to the bobbin to provide restoration force to the bobbin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ji Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 9924122
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device including a photoelectric conversion portion photoelectrically converting incident light into signal charge and accumulate the signal charge, a plurality of signal lines including a transfer signal line to which a transfer signal for reading the signal charge accumulated in the photoelectric conversion portion to a floating diffusion region is input, a driver circuit inputting a plurality of desired signals into the plurality of signal lines including the transfer signal line, and a terminal circuit connected to a side opposite to a side of the transfer signal line where the driver circuit is connected and to which a control signal for securing the transfer signal line at a constant voltage is input before a desired signal of the plurality of desired signals with respect to a signal line adjacent to the transfer signal line of the plurality of signal lines is input to the signal line adjacent to the transfer signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Kudoh, Hiroaki Ebihara
  • Patent number: 9917423
    Abstract: Provided herein is a laser beam combination system. The laser beam combination system includes a laser emitter array including a plurality of laser emitters arranged therein, a first combination lens, through which a plurality of laser beams emitted from the laser emitters are concentrated in a first axis direction, so that the plurality of laser beams are converted to each have an oval cross-section having a long axis that is parallel to a second axis, and a second combination lens disposed at a focal point of the first combination lens to combine the plurality of laser beams converted by the first combination lens at a predetermined target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Jung Ho Song
  • Patent number: 9910239
    Abstract: In one aspect, the present invention provides a wafer level optical assembly comprising a first wafer level optical element, the first wafer level optical element comprising a first alignment structure and a second wafer level optical element, the second wafer level optical element comprising a second alignment structure, wherein the first alignment structure contacts the second alignment structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: FLIR Systems Trading Belgium BVBA
    Inventors: David Ovrutsky, William Hudson Welch, Roman C. Gutierrez, Robert J. Calvet
  • Patent number: 9912895
    Abstract: A solid-state image pickup device includes: comparators; counters; and a control portion for carrying out control in such a way that in a phase of an addition mode, the two comparators and the two counters corresponding to the two pixel columns, respectively, are set as a unit, 1 is added to a second digit of one counter of the two counters when both the comparison results from the two comparators has a first logic, 1 is added to a first digit of the one counter when one of the comparison results from the two comparators has the first logic, and 1 is added to none of the first digit and the second digit of the one counter when both the comparison results from the two comparators has a second logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwasa, Satoshi Ogata
  • Patent number: 9910242
    Abstract: Universal electronic exchange system for eyepieces, especially for coupling to telescopes or similar, which comprises: an automated rotary device provided with a rotary plate of the revolver type provided with a plurality of eyepiece holders intended to receive different sizes of eyepieces, and actuation means for said rotary plate, an electronic unit for selecting the eyepiece to be used capable of receiving a selection signal generated by a user, determining the aligned position in respect to the optical axis and sending a command signal to an electronic unit for controlling the rotation and stopping of the rotary plate, which in turn is capable of processing the speed, angular path of rotation, and stopping position of the eyepiece to be used, and sending a command signal to the actuation means of said rotary plate for positioning and aligning with precision said eyepiece with the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Inventors: Álvaro Martínez Morales, Fernando López Alcalá-Galiano
  • Patent number: 9897784
    Abstract: A camera lens includes, arranged sequentially from an object side to an image side: a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with negative refractive power; a third lens with negative refractive power; fourth lens with positive refractive power; a fifth lens with positive refractive power; and a sixth lens with negative refractive power. The camera lens satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE, LTD.
    Inventors: Jianming Wang, Hiroyuki Teraoka
  • Patent number: 9891415
    Abstract: A zoom lens is constituted by, in order from the object side to the image side: a positive first lens group; a positive second lens group; a negative third lens group; a negative fourth lens group; and a positive fifth lens group. The first lens group and the fifth lens group are fixed with respect to an image formation plane while the second lens group, the third lens group, and the fourth lens group move to change the distances among adjacent lens group when changing magnification. Conditional Formula (1) below is satisfied. 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Daiki Komatsu
  • Patent number: 9874750
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jeong Eun Seo
  • Patent number: 9874726
    Abstract: A camera lens is disclosed. The camera lens includes a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with negative refractive power; a third lens with positive refractive power; a fourth lens with negative refractive power; and a fifth lens with negative refractive power. The camera lens further satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Teraoka
  • Patent number: 9864160
    Abstract: An annular optical spacer includes a first side portion, a second side portion, an outer annular portion and an inner annular portion. The second side portion is disposed opposite to the first side portion. The outer annular portion connects the first side portion and the second side portion. The inner annular portion connects the first side portion and the second side portion, wherein the inner annular portion is closer to a central axis of the annular optical spacer than the outer annular portion. The inner annular portion includes a plurality of annular grooves, wherein the annular grooves are disposed coaxially to the central axis, and each of the annular grooves includes a plurality of stepped surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheng-Feng Lin, Wei-Che Tung, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 9864172
    Abstract: An optical lens system with a wide field of view includes, in order from the object side to the image side: a stop, a first lens element with a negative refractive power, a second lens element with a positive refractive power, a third lens element with a negative refractive power, a fourth lens element with a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens element with a negative refractive power. Such arrangements can provide a five-piece optical lens system which has a wide field of view, high resolution, short length and less distortion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: NEWMAX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fei-Hsin Tsai, Shu-Tzu Lai, Chun-Sheng Lee
  • Patent number: 9857560
    Abstract: An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens. At least one lens among the first to the fifth lenses has positive refractive force. The fifth lens can have negative refractive force, wherein both surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one surface thereof has an inflection point. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the fifth lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yao-Wei Liu, Nai-Yuan Tang, Yeong-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: 9857573
    Abstract: A zoom lens is constituted by, in order from the object side: a positive first lens group; a negative second lens group; a positive third lens group; a positive fourth lens group; a negative fifth lens group, and a positive sixth lens group. The distances among adjacent lens groups change when changing magnification from the wide angle end to the telephoto end. The first lens group is constituted by, in order from the object side, a negative lens, a positive lens, and a positive lens. The second lens group has a negative 2R lens group constituted by a cemented lens formed by cementing a negative lens and a positive lens, provided in this order from the object side, together, and a negative single lens. The fifth lens group is constituted by, in order from the object side, a negative lens, a negative lens, and a positive lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Taiga Noda