Patents Examined by Alicia M. Harrington
  • Patent number: 11782189
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device including the display panel. The display panel has a display region including a first display region and a second display region, and the first display region has a smaller sub-pixel density than the second display region. Light-shielding structures are arranged in the first display region, and one light-shielding structure overlaps a light-emitting region of at least one first sub-pixel. The light-shielding structure group constituted by the light-shielding structures includes main and auxiliary light-shielding structures having the same shape. When viewed from the top at the same viewing angle, the auxiliary light-shielding structure is equivalent to a structure obtained by rotating the main light-shielding structure by a certain angle in a plane where the main light-shielding structure is located. With this design, a light diffraction phenomenon is alleviated and the imaging quality of the under-screen optical device is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: WuHan TianMa Micro-electronics CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiwei He, Yangzhao Ma, Zhiqiang Xia, Ruiyuan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11774715
    Abstract: A lens assembly includes a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens. The first lens is with negative refractive power and includes a concave surface facing an image side. The second lens is with positive refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the image side. The third lens is with positive refractive power and includes a convex surface facing an object side. The first lens, the second lens, and the third lens are arranged in order from the object side to the image side along an optical axis. The lens assembly satisfies the following condition: 3.5?R21/?8; wherein R21 is a radius of curvature of an object side surface of the second lens and f is an effective focal length of the lens assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., ASIA OPTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventor: Rong-Shun Syu
  • Patent number: 11774733
    Abstract: The zoom lens includes, as lens groups, in order from the object side, only a first lens group having a positive power, a second lens group having a negative power, a third lens group having a positive power, a fourth lens group having a negative power, and a fifth lens group having a positive power. An aperture stop is disposed between a lens surface closest to the image side in the second lens group and a lens surface closest to the object side in the fourth lens group. During zooming, at least the first lens group, the second lens group, the third lens group, and the fourth lens group move. The first lens group consists of a negative lens, a positive lens, and a positive lens in order from the object side. The zoom lens satisfies predetermined conditional expressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Daiki Kawamura, Taiga Noda
  • Patent number: 11768349
    Abstract: A four-piece optical image capturing system is disclosed. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical image capturing system along the optical axis includes a first lens with positive 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 image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Ability Opto-Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 11762130
    Abstract: The disclosed optical lens assemblies may include a deformable element, a structural support element, and a compliant interface material that is disposed between and couples at least a portion of the deformable element and the structural support element. The deformable element may, when deformed, alter an optical property of the optical lens assembly. The compliant interface material may be configured to compensate for a difference between a physical property of the deformable element and the structural support element. Related head-mounted displays and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Katherine Marie Smyth, John M. Cooke, Andrew John Ouderkirk
  • Patent number: 11762177
    Abstract: The zoom lens includes, in order from object side to image side, a positive first lens unit, a negative second lens unit, a positive third lens unit, and a rear lens group including at least one lens unit, in which intervals between adjacent lens units are changed during zooming. The third lens unit includes at least two negative lenses and at least three positive lenses. An average value of partial dispersion ratios of two negative lenses having strongest refractive powers of the at least two negative lenses, an average value of partial dispersion ratios of three positive lenses having strongest refractive powers of the at least three positive lenses, an average value of Abbe numbers of the two negative lenses, an average value of Abbe numbers of the three positive lenses, a back focus, and a focal length of zoom lens at wide angle end are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenta Sudo
  • Patent number: 11754800
    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: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ji Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11747605
    Abstract: Microscope imaging system and method for bolus formation and detection. In an exemplary method, immersion fluid may be delivered onto a front end of an objective of the imaging system to form one or more boluses. Each bolus may have a rounded outer surface intersected by an optical axis defined by the objective. At least a portion of each bolus may be illuminated. Light may be detected from each illuminated bolus to create detection data. A value representing a size of each bolus may be determined using the detection data. Delivery of the immersion fluid may be adjusted, if needed, based on the value(s) determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Molecular Devices, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Chan, Steven Luke
  • Patent number: 11740426
    Abstract: An optical element includes: a glass substrate; an optical function portion made of a resin; and a bonding portion that bonds the glass substrate and the optical function portion to each other. The bonding portion has a glass transition point of 85° C. or lower. The glass transition point of the bonding portion may be 50° C. or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Miyasaka, Jin Uemura, Gousuke Yoshida, Kosuke Takayama
  • Patent number: 11740429
    Abstract: A lens assembly can include: a holder; a lens module disposed at an inner side of the holder; an optical module disposed at an upper side of the lens module; and an conductive substrate electrically connected to the optical module. The conductive substrate includes: a body part disposed at an upper side of the holder; and an extension part extended from one end of the body part, and including a terminal part, the holder includes a second lateral surface formed by being recessed inwards from a portion of a first lateral surface, and at least a portion of the extension part is disposed at the second lateral surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Youn Baek Jeong
  • Patent number: 11733486
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens, arranged sequentially from an object side along an optical axis. The first lens through the fourth lens are spaced apart from each other along the optical axis in a paraxial region. A total focal length f of a lens unit including the first lens through the fourth lens and half (IMG HT) of a diagonal length of an imaging surface of an image sensor satisfy f/IMG HT>4.9. An effective aperture radius of an object-side surface of the first lens and an effective aperture radius of an object-side surface of the second lens are both greater than effective aperture radii of an object-side surface and an image-side surface of each of the lenses other than the first lens and the second lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho Sik Yoo, Dong Shin Yang
  • Patent number: 11709346
    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: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsun Wu, Tzu-Chieh Kuo, Kuan-Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 11662560
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a rear unit including one or more lens units. Distances between adjacent lens units change during zooming. The first lens unit includes a negative lens made of resin. The rear unit includes a positive lens made of resin. A predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichi Gyoda, Hiroki Ebe
  • Patent number: 11656443
    Abstract: A photographing 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. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The seventh lens element 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 image-side surface of the seventh lens element includes at least one convex shape in an off-axis region thereof. The object-side surface and the image-side surface of the seventh lens element are aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Che Hsueh, Chun-Yen Chen, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 11650355
    Abstract: A planar lens (100) and a manufacturing method for a planar lens (100) relate to the technical field of lenses, the planar lens (100) being a focusing lens and comprising an acoustic soft material tangible structure (110) and a cover layer (120), the acoustic soft material tangible structure (110) comprises a plurality of combination lenses (130) located in the same plane, each combination lens (130) comprises a circular part (131) and a plurality of concentric annular parts (132) which are continuously arranged around the circular part (131), the thicknesses of each two adjacent annular parts (132) in each combination lens (130) are different, and the thickness of each annular part (132) is related to the focal length of the respective combination lens (130); and the cover layer (120) covers the outer surface of the acoustic soft material tangible structure (110) to form the planar lens (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Hairong Zheng, Xiangxiang Xia, Feiyan Cai, Manzhu Ke, Hui Zhou, Fei Li, Di Xu, Yongchuan Li
  • Patent number: 11644602
    Abstract: By providing a rib portion 40 having a constant height in the range from 50% to 120% of the height of the highest point of a split lens structure between a plurality of split lenses, even when roll forming is performed at a high speed, trapping of air bubbles can be inhibited, and resin flow can be promoted; therefore, an optical element 10 having a surface on which a lens shape is formed and having a special optical effect can be obtained with few structural defects and high productivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koichi Shinoda
  • Patent number: 11644636
    Abstract: An objective lens is used for DNA sequencing. An example system includes a flow cell, the objective lens, and a camera. Light from the flow cell is imaged by the camera through the objective lens. The objective lens can provide a long working distance; a flat field curvature; a high numerical aperture; and/or a wide field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: PACIFIC BIOSCIENCES OF CALIFORNIA, INC.
    Inventors: Donald V. Rosenberry, Dale Buermann
  • Patent number: 11644644
    Abstract: A camera optical lens is provided, including from an object side to an image side: a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens having positive refractive power; and a third lens having negative refractive power, wherein the camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 1.40?f1/f?2.00; 0.65?f2/f?0.90; ?1.50?f3/f??0.85; 2.50?d3/d4?10.00; and 2.00?(R5+R6)/(R5?R6)?4.50. The above camera optical lens can meet design requirements for large aperture, wide angle and ultra-thinness while maintaining good imaging quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: AAC Optics (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chenxiyang Chen, Jia Chen
  • Patent number: 11635598
    Abstract: A telephoto lens having an entrance pupil of between 80 and 110 mm includes a lens head and a focusing component. The lens head, as a first optical assembly, consists of four lens elements with a refractive power sequence that alternates in the light direction. The focusing component is a second optical assembly made of at least two lens elements and has a relative aperture of between 1:4.5 and 1:7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Leica Camera AG
    Inventors: Alexander Martin, Michael Hartmann, Sigrun Kammans
  • Patent number: 11635592
    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 sequentially disposed in ascending numerical order along an optical axis from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optical imaging system. Four or more lenses among the first to seventh lenses have a refractive index greater than 1.6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Hyun Baik, Yong Joo Jo