Patents Examined by Journey Sumlar
  • Patent number: 9638889
    Abstract: A lens assembly includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens, all of which are arranged in sequence from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens is with negative refractive power. The second, third, fourth and sixth lens are with refractive power. The fifth lens is with positive refractive power. The lens assembly satisfies: 0.078?BFL/TTL?0.4, 0.01?f/TTL?0.61, (Nd1+Nd2+Nd3+Nd4+Nd5+Nd6)/6<(Nd2+Nd3)/2 wherein BFL is a distance from an image side surface of the sixth lens to an image plane along the optical axis, TTL is a distance from the convex surface of the first lens to the image plane along the optical axis, f is an effective focal length of the lens assembly, and Nd1, Nd2, Nd3, Nd4, Nd5 and Nd6 are indexes of refraction of the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignees: SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., ASIA OPTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventors: Po-Yuan Shih, Po-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 9632286
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an optical image capturing system, sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side, comprises 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 an image-side surface and an object-side surface of the fourth lens element are aspheric. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for applying to compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Yao-Wei Liu, Yeong-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: 9632279
    Abstract: A voice coil motor array module includes a carrier frame defining a plurality of receiving spaces and a plurality of magnet-mounting spaces disposed in pairs and in symmetry around the receiving spaces. Any two adjacent receiving spaces have only one magnet-mounting space therebetween. A plurality of magnetic components are respectively disposed in the magnet-mounting spaces. Each magnet-mounting space receives only one magnetic component. The magnetic components surrounding a corresponding receiving space have same magnetic poles facing each other. A plurality of displacement components are respectively disposed in the receiving spaces. Each displacement component includes a lens carrier and a coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignees: Lite-On Electronics (Guangzhou) Limited, Lite-on Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Hsing-Hung Chen
  • Patent number: 9618743
    Abstract: An adaptive optical imaging system for imaging an object including a first polarization sensitive spatial light phase modulator and a second polarization sensitive spatial light phase modulator and a polarization adjustment device that converts the polarization of light that has passed through the first modulator before it irradiates the object and converts the polarization of the reflected light before it passes through the second modulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenichi Saito
  • Patent number: 9618660
    Abstract: An infrared imaging system used for infrared rays of wavelength of 5 micrometers or greater, the system including, from the object side to the image side, an aperture, a lens made of synthetic resin and an imaging element, the object side surface of the lens being convex to the object side in the paraxial area, wherein F-number of the system is 1.4 or smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignees: NALUX CO., LTD., FLIR Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Kayoko Fujimura, Katsumoto Ikeda, Daisuke Seki
  • Patent number: 9612421
    Abstract: A wide-angle lens includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens, all of which are arranged in sequence from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens is with negative refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the object side. The second lens includes a convex surface facing the object side. The third lens is a biconvex lens. The fourth lens is a biconvex lens. The fifth lens is a biconcave lens. The sixth lens is a biconvex lens. The fourth lens and the fifth lens are cemented together to form a cemented lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignees: SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., ASIA OPTICAL INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventor: Zhe-Ming Wu
  • Patent number: 9606370
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a front lens group having a front lens element and a prism, in that order from an object side, light rays exiting from the front lens element along a first optical axis being reflected by the prism to travel along a second optical axis nonparallel to the first optical axis, a rear lens group, and an anti-shake system. The anti-shake system includes a base member supporting the prism, a movable frame supporting the front lens element; and opposing guide members on opposite sides of the prism on both sides of a reference plane, respectively, in which the first and second optical axes lie, to support the movable frame to allow the movable frame to move along the plane orthogonal to the first optical axis relative to the base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinya Suzuka
  • Patent number: 9581793
    Abstract: Provided is a zoom lens, including, in order from an object side to an image side: a positive first lens unit that does not move for zooming; a negative second lens unit that moves during zooming; and a positive N-th lens unit that does not move for zooming and is arranged closest to the image side. Among lenses constructing the second lens unit, two lenses closest to the image side are a positive lens and a negative lens, and partial dispersion ratios for g-line and F-line and Abbe numbers for a d-line of the positive and negative lenses, and an average value of refractive indices of all the lenses of the second lens unit are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nakamura, Kazuya Shimomura
  • Patent number: 9581966
    Abstract: Systems and methods for three-dimensional imaging and viewing are disclosed. A method for generating a three-dimensional image may include producing a pattern in a spatial light modulator based on data representative of an image of an object, illuminating the spatial light modulator so as to yield a projection beam, masking at least one portion of the projection beam such that a portion of the projection beam is selected, and propagating the selected portion to an exit pupil so as to form a virtual 3-D image of the object when viewed at the exit pupil. An apparatus may include a projector comprising a spatial light modulator array that modulates the phase of light to produce a phase modulated beam that is projected to a viewer thereby forming a 3-D image of the object when viewed by the viewer, and processing electronics configured to extract phase information from a signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Integrity Applications Incorporated
    Inventor: James A. Georges, III
  • Patent number: 9563050
    Abstract: A lens cover for a lens equipment includes a tubular cover body for detachably coupling at a lens housing of the lens equipment in front of a lens thereof, a cover module, and a locking mechanism. The cover module includes a cover panel and a joint unit coupled between a sidewall of the cover body and a peripheral edge of the cover panel to enable the cover panel to be moved between a covered position and an uncovered position, wherein in the covered position, the cover panel is supported at a front portion of the cover body for covering the lens, and in the uncovered position, the cover panel is rotated sidewardly about the joint unit for uncovering the lens. The locking mechanism is provided at the sidewall of the cover body for releasably locking the cover panel in the covered position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: N cSTAR, Inc.
    Inventors: Carson Cheng, Jason Michael Cheng, Changan Tian
  • Patent number: 9547110
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a color filter substrate comprising a substrate; and a color filter layer disposed on the substrate. The color filter layer comprises at least two color regions, and at least two alignment marks, corresponding to the at least two color regions respectively, disposed on a perimeter zone of the substrate. Each of the alignment marks is configured to have a block structure, and at least one of the alignment marks is provided with a recess in a top thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dong Wang
  • Patent number: 9529177
    Abstract: An imaging lens is essentially constituted by five lenses, including: a first lens having a positive refractive power and a convex surface toward the object side; a second lens of a biconcave shape; a third lens having a positive refractive power and is of a meniscus shape with a concave surface toward the object side; a fourth lens having a negative refractive power and a concave surface toward the object side; and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power and a concave surface toward the image side, provided in this order from the object side. The imaging lens satisfies predetermined conditional formulae.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hideo Kanda
  • Patent number: 9519125
    Abstract: A zoom lens and a photographing apparatus including the zoom lens are provided. The zoom lens includes a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, a third lens group having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power, all of which are arranged sequentially from an object side to an image side. The second lens group may include a first negative lens, a second negative lens, and a first positive lens. The second lens group may also satisfy 5.6?|fG2n2/fw|?10.0, where fG2n2 is a focal length of the second negative lens therein and fw is an overall focal length of the zoom lens at a wide-angle position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hwan-seon Lee, Jung-hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 9500778
    Abstract: An optical element having an antireflection effect includes an incident plane and an emission plane and a conical microstructure formed on at least one plane of the incident plane and the emission plane. The conical microstructure includes a first structure formed of a plurality of conical microprojections with an average height H1 and a second structure formed of a plurality of conical microrecesses with an average height H2. The average height H1 satisfies an inequality H1?1/3*?/n and the average height H2 satisfies an inequality H2?1/3*?/n. An average pitch P between the first structure and the second structure satisfies following conditions: H1/2?P?1/3*?/n, and H2/2?P?1/3*?/n, in which the use wavelength is defined as ? and the refractive index relative to the use wavelength is n.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chieko Hatashita, Takayuki Nakamura, Kentaroh Hagita, Toshiya Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9482849
    Abstract: An optical photographing lens assembly 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 and a fifth lens element. The first lens element has refractive power. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element with positive refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The fourth lens element has refractive power. The fifth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fifth lens element are aspheric, and at least one of the surfaces of the fifth lens element has at least one inflection point. The optical photographing lens assembly has a total of five lens elements with refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 9477090
    Abstract: Provided are a laminated body which is made to extend and contract to a reduced extent due to humidity so as to reduce the number of the occurrence of crosstalk, a polarization plate having the same, a stereoscopic image display device and a stereoscopic image display system. A laminated body includes a patterned phase difference film having a supporter film and a patterned optical anisotropic layer in which a first phase difference region and a second phase difference region having mutually different in-plane slow axis directions and/or phase differences are disposed in a predetermined pattern on the supporter film, and a stiff body attached to a surface of the patterned optical anisotropic layer through a first attaching layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Makoto Ishiguro
  • Patent number: 9436005
    Abstract: A lens cleaning device includes a piezoelectric member including a first side, a second side, and a central aperture. The piezoelectric member is operably coupled to a power source. A resilient member includes an inner edge and an outer edge. One of the inner edge and the outer edge of the resilient member is operably coupled to the first side of the piezoelectric member. A lens is operably coupled to the other of the inner edge and the outer edge of the resilient member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: GENTEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Luke W. Koops, Kristopher R. Green
  • Patent number: 9423629
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a driver which drives a front lens element, on the object side of a reflector, to reduce image shake. The driver includes voice coil motors, each having a coil and a permanent magnet. A coil-and-magnet combination is positioned on each opposite side of a first reference plane. Centers of each permanent magnet and coil are positioned on one side of a second reference plane, including the first optical axis and orthogonal to the first reference plane, a second optical axis extending on the other side of the second reference plane. Magnetic pole boundary lines of the permanent magnets are inclined to approach the first reference plane away from the second reference plane. The magnetic sensors are positioned on opposite sides of the respective coils from the first lens element side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinya Suzuka
  • Patent number: 9411170
    Abstract: The visual perception of a lens wearer is not only along the gaze direction, but also has a non-zero transverse extension, which is called perceptual span. Perceptual span is skewed to extend further in the reading direction, i.e., the line portion to be read next relative to the line portion that was just read. A technique is provided that determines a pair of progressive ophthalmic lenses that take such perceptual span into account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)
    Inventors: Björn Drobe, Paulyn Ng Hwei Kien, Aude Contet
  • Patent number: 9405133
    Abstract: A shutter eyewear apparatus 10, comprises an orbital frame 12, the orbital frame 12 itself comprising a left orbital aspect 12L and a right orbital aspect 12R, multiple strut members 14 within the orbital aspects, a left wing and right wing, the wings 16 having a width of at least 12 mm at any point along a length of the wings 16, a word element 48 lengthwise along at least one wing, and a franchise logo element. Preferably the wings are approximately 23 mm wide at a folding break 34 of the wings, and preferably the franchise logo element is provided about a neck 28 of at least one wing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Inventor: Jethro Bennett