Patents Examined by Darryl J. Collins
  • Patent number: 11892609
    Abstract: A lens including a first lens group including three positive singlets and an achromatic doublet for collecting all field rays received at the first lens group while making initial corrections of spherical and color aberrations, a second lens group including a near-symmetrical group including two positive meniscus elements and two negative meniscus elements, wherein the second lens group is configured to correct distortions, a third lens group including two positive lenses with an air gap disposed between the two positive lenses, wherein the third lens group is configured to correct field curvature and astigmatism and a fourth lens group including a triplet and a positive meniscus element, wherein the fourth lens group is configured to correct spherical, coma, axial color and lateral color aberrations, wherein the lens is disposed in an order of the first lens group, the second lens group, the third lens group and the fourth lens group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MLOptic Corp.
    Inventors: Pengfei Wu, Wei Zhou
  • Patent number: 11886043
    Abstract: A modular wearable optics device including: at least one wearable support element; one or more active optical elements adapted in use to display an image to a user; one of a plurality of bridging elements selected to position or orientate the one or more active optical elements in a predetermined location based on one or more anthropometric characteristics of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS plc
    Inventors: Rory Thomas Alexander Mills, Ian Thomas Macken
  • Patent number: 11886038
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an imaging optical lens assembly, including, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with negative refractive power having an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, a second lens element with positive refractive power, a third lens element with negative refractive power, a fourth lens element with positive refractive power, and a fifth lens element with negative refractive power having an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region and at least one convex shape in an off-axial region on the image-side surface, wherein the imaging optical lens assembly has a total of five lens elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuan-Ming Chen, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 11880023
    Abstract: A zoom lens according to the present invention includes sequentially from an object side: a first lens group having negative refractive power, and a second lens group having positive refractive power, and performs a magnification change operation by changing a gap between the adjacent lens groups. The zoom lens has specific optical characteristics represented by four expressions relating to the second lens group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Tamron Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Sato, Yuki Mori, Hironori Taguchi
  • Patent number: 11874594
    Abstract: A camera module includes a housing, a movable body configured to move in a direction of an optical axis of the housing; a reinforcing member formed integrally on one surface of the movable body, and configured to increase a rigidity of the movable body; and a first buffer member formed in the reinforcing member, and configured to reduce an impactive force between the housing and the movable body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Hyuk Lee, Soo Cheol Lim, Byung Woo Kang, Young Bok Yoon, Jong Woo Hong, Jung Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 11874448
    Abstract: Proposed is a lens system capable of providing, to a user, a high-definition image in which generation of concentric circles is reduced. The lens system has one or more Fresnel lenses. A lens surface of each of the Fresnel lenses has a plurality of grooves that is concentrically formed. Both a pitch which is the distance between two adjacent grooves and the depth of each of the plurality of grooves vary with the distance from an optical axis that passes through the center of the lens system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Manabu Ishioka, Yasutoshi Katsuda, Shotaro Tada
  • Patent number: 11867926
    Abstract: An optical unit that corrects a shake of an optical module includes: a movable portion having a holder that holds the optical module; and a fixed portion that rotatably supports the movable portion. The movable portion is rotatable relative to the fixed portion in first-third rotation directions correspondingly centered on first-third axes which correspondingly extend in first-third directions. The first direction is parallel to an optical axis direction of the optical module in a state in which the movable portion is stationary. The first direction, the second direction, and the third direction are perpendicular to each other. The movable portion further includes a protrusion protruding toward the fixed portion from an end of the holder closer to the fixed portion in the optical axis direction. The fixed portion includes a support portion that rotatably supports the protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Soichiro Kimura, Kazuhiro Sazai, Keishi Otsubo, Tomohiro Egawa, Genki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11867987
    Abstract: A heterodyne phase-controlled beam-combiner system includes a laser source, a first beam splitter, a plurality of phase modulators, a tiled array and an optical mixer. The laser source generates a light beam, and the first beam splitter splits the light beam into multiple beamlets. A phase modulator tags each beamlet with an arbitrary phase dither signal corresponding to an arbitrary phase setpoint or offset, and a tiled array, including a number of lenslets, combines the tagged beamlets and directs the combined light to a second beam splitter. The optical mixer generates a heterodyne light including tagging information. A first output light of the second beam splitter is a target light directed to a target, and the arbitrary phase offset enables achieving a nonflat phase profile for beamlets to obtain the desired on-axis far-field intensity of the target light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bruce G. Tiemann, Philip Gatt
  • Patent number: 11867982
    Abstract: A nose pad for the nosepiece of a pair of eyeglasses, which is made of material that is at least partially transparent and defines a resting surface which can be rested directly on the nose of a user includes a connecting portion, which is fixed to the nose pad and is provided with a through hole for connection to a supporting pin which is integral with the frame of the pair of eyeglasses. The nose pad also includes an insert, which is at least partially embedded within the nose pad and is visible from the outside through a transparent portion of the resting surface of the nose pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: LUXOTTICA S.R.L.
    Inventors: Alessandro Donoli, Fabio Borsoi
  • Patent number: 11867985
    Abstract: A contact lens includes a central region, an annular region and a peripheral region. The central region includes a central point of the contact lens. The annular region symmetrically surrounds the central region. The peripheral region symmetrically surrounds the annular region. The peripheral region includes at least one color pattern portion. The annular region includes at least one power of critical point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: LARGAN MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: En-Ping Lin, I-Wei Lai, Chun-Hung Teng
  • Patent number: 11860344
    Abstract: A method for comparing first and second optical lenses such that when a control module receives a selection suggesting the first optical lens for the first time, a suggestion for the second optical lens is selected on a selection screen and no validation symbol is selected on the selection screen; when the control module receives the selection of the suggested second optical lens, the suggested first optical lens is selected on the selection screen and first and second validation symbols is selected on the selection screen, the first symbol indicating that the first and second optical lenses are identical, and the second symbol indicating that the second optical lens is better than the first optical lens; when the control module receives the selection of the suggested first optical lens for the second time or more, the suggested second optical lens is selected on the selection screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SIVIEW
    Inventors: Laure Pichereau, Nathalie Guillemain
  • Patent number: 11860512
    Abstract: A camera module includes a carrier supported on a housing and movable in an optical axis direction, at least one frame supported on the carrier and movable, relative to the carrier, in at least one direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction, and a lens module supported on the frame. The frame is supported on the carrier such that attractive force acts in the at least one direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo Sung Seo, Hong Joo Lee, Young Bok Yoon, Jung Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 11860448
    Abstract: This disclosure provides an image capturing optical lens assembly including, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with refractive power having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof; a second lens element having positive refractive power; a third lens element with refractive power having an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof; a fourth lens element with refractive power having an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein both surfaces thereof being aspheric; a fifth lens element with refractive power having an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof; and a sixth lens element with refractive power having an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein both surfaces thereof being aspheric, and the image-side surface having at least one convex shape in an off-axis region thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD
    Inventors: Chun-Che Hsueh, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 11860452
    Abstract: The spectacle lens has at least a lens base material, and a multilayer film positioned on an eyeball-side surface of the lens base material, in which an average reflectance Rm (280-380) in a wavelength region of 280 to 380 nm, measured on the eyeball-side surface of the spectacle lens, is 10.0% or less, and a chroma C*, measured on the eyeball-side surface of the spectacle lens under a CIE standard illuminant D65, is 0.5 or more but 5.0 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventor: Sou Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 11852889
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lens, comprising a container (100) defining a volume (V) which is filled with a transparent liquid (2), wherein the container (10) comprises a transparent and elastically deformable membrane (20) and a rigid member (30), wherein the membrane (20) and the rigid member (30) delimit said volume (V), and a lens shaping element (200) that contacts the membrane (20) and defines an area (21) of said membrane (20), which area (21) has an adjustable curvature for adjusting the focal length of the lens (1). According to the invention, the lens (1) is configured to compensate a thermal expansion of the liquid (2) and/or a change of the refractive index of the liquid (2) due to an increased temperature of the liquid (2) in order to reduce an unwanted thermally induced change of the focal length of the lens (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Inventors: Roman Patscheider, David Niederer, Pit Gebbers, Daniel Borer, Christopher Laning, Stephan Smolka
  • Patent number: 11852849
    Abstract: A camera device includes a plurality of lenses and an annular body. The annular body is disposed between the object side and the plurality of lenses, between the plurality of lenses, or between the plurality of lenses and the image side. The annular body includes an annular main body, an outer circumferential portion, and an inner circumferential portion, wherein the annular main body connects to the outer circumferential portion and the inner circumferential portion, the annular main body is disposed between the outer circumferential portion and the inner circumferential portion, and the inner circumferential portion is non-circular and surrounds the optical axis to form a hole. The camera device satisfies: Dx>Dy; where Dx is a maximum dimension of the hole through which the optical axis passes, and Dy is a minimum dimension of the hole through which the optical axis passes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., ASIA OPTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventors: Ming-Wei Shih, Hsi-Ling Chang, Chien-Hung Chen
  • Patent number: 11852896
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens sequentially disposed along an optical axis from an object-side surface of the first lens toward an imaging plane of an image sensor, wherein 3.5?TTL/IMG HT, f1+f2|<2.0 mm, and 0.7?L1S1es/L1S1el<1.0 are satisfied, where TTL is a distance along the optical axis from the object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging plane of the image sensor, IMG HT is one-half of a diagonal length of the imaging plane of the image sensor, f1 is a focal length of the first lens, f2 is a focal length of the second lens, L1S1el is a maximum effective radius of the object-side surface of the first lens, and L1S1es is a minimum effective radius of the object-side surface of the first lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Hyuk Huh, Jin Se Kim, Yong Joo Jo, Hyo Jin Hwang
  • Patent number: 11852890
    Abstract: A near-eye display system comprising an image source, a modulation stack, and an imaging assembly. The modulation stack, in one embodiment, comprises one or more digital light path length modulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Avegant Corp.
    Inventors: Aaron Matthew Eash, Allan Thomas Evans, Andrew John Gross, D. Scott Dewald, Eamon Han O'Connor, Forrest Foust, Warren Cornelius Welch, III
  • Patent number: 11852897
    Abstract: An assembly (10) of a lens (16, 18) and a component (24, 26). The lens (12, 14) defines a mounting aperture (32) and the component (24, 26) defines amounting protrusion (36) inserted in the mounting aperture (32). The lens (16,18) and mounting protrusion (36) together define a threaded bore (34) receiving a threaded fastener (30) therein into. Part of the circumference of the threaded bore (34) is defined by the lens (16, 18) and part of the circumference of the threaded bore (34) is defined by the mounting protrusion (36).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Inventor: Michael Toulch
  • Patent number: 11846830
    Abstract: A photographing lens assembly includes five lens elements, 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 and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region. The second lens element has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region. The third lens element has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region. The fourth lens element has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, wherein two surfaces thereof are both aspheric. The fifth lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface being both aspheric. At least one surface of the lens elements has at least one inflection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu-Tai Tseng, Tung-Yi Hsieh, Hsin-Hsuan Huang