Patents Examined by Kuei-Jen L Edenfield
  • Patent number: 12372737
    Abstract: Autofocus (AF) optical arrangements and assemblies including a voice coil motor (VCM) are disclosed. An example optical assembly for a focusing lens includes: a front lens group disposed along an optical axis configured to receive light from the object of interest and configured to correct for aberrations of a first image projected by the front lens group; an aperture disposed along an optical axis configured to receive light from the front lens group therethrough along the optical axis; a moveable focus lens to receive light through the aperture; a VCM configured to move the focus lens to focus the optical assembly; and a back lens group disposed along the optical axis configured to receive light from the focus lens and further configured to correct for field curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Igor Vinogradov, David T. Shi, Chinh Tan, Vladimir Gurevich
  • Patent number: 12372761
    Abstract: A variable magnification optical system which comprises, in order from an object side, a first lens group having negative refractive power, a second lens group having positive refractive power and a third lens group; upon varying magnification, distances between the neighboring respective lens groups being varied; upon focusing, the first lens group and the second lens group being moved along the optical axis; and predetermined conditional expression(s) being satisfied, whereby the variable magnification optical system is made in small in size, and can correct superbly various aberrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Keisuke Tsubonoya
  • Patent number: 12372750
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an optical imaging lens assembly including, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens having negative refractive power; a prism having an incident surface, a reflecting surface, and an exit surface, and an angle between the reflecting surface and the optical axis being 45°; a stop; a second lens having positive refractive power; a third lens having refractive power; a fourth lens having positive refractive power; and a fifth lens having negative refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Long Li, Jianke Wenren, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 12372764
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit with a positive refractive power, a second lens unit with a negative refractive power, a third lens unit with a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens unit with a positive refractive power. During zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, the first lens unit moves, the second lens unit is fixed, a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit is widened, a distance between the second lens unit and the third lens unit is narrowed, and a distance between the third lens unit and the fourth lens unit is narrowed. The first lens unit includes a positive lens and a negative lens. Each of the second, third, and fourth lens units consists of two lenses or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Nakahara, Akira Mizuma
  • Patent number: 12366721
    Abstract: An imaging lens consists of: a first lens group having positive power, the first lens group including a positive lens closest to an object within the first lens group; an aperture stop; and a second lens group having positive power. The first lens group, the aperture stop, and the second lens group are disposed in that order from an object side toward an image side. Only two negative air lenses of a first biconvex air lens and a second biconvex air lens are provided within the imaging lens. The first lens group includes the first biconvex air lens, and the second lens group includes a second biconvex air lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuyasu Ohashi
  • Patent number: 12360339
    Abstract: An optical system includes in order from an object side to an image side: a front lens unit having a positive refractive power; and a rear lens unit including a lens having a positive refractive power, in which the front lens unit includes a lens arranged closest to the object side has a negative refractive power, an interval between the front lens unit and the rear lens unit changes for focusing, a radius of curvature of an object-side surface of the lens having the positive refractive power arranged closest to the image side a radius of curvature on an object-side surface of the lens having the positive refractive power arranged closest to the image side are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takumi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12339427
    Abstract: An equirectangular lens is provided and is used in connection with a video camera to record in virtual reality without requiring post-recording software editing to put the video footage in virtual reality format. The lens is a compound camera lens with an aspherical (i.e. not spherical) and rotationally asymmetrical (such as a rounded square with irregular topography) lens element configured to capture a 180° field of view. This type of lens produces an equirectangular image on the camera sensor which is optimal and required for filming virtual reality video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Foshan Limited
    Inventors: Trevor Childs, Matthew Loucks
  • Patent number: 12339440
    Abstract: A correction optical element (COE) for a multi-channeled coherent beam combining (CBC) system that uses a fiber array comprising multiple optical fibers and a single collimation array comprising multiple collimating lenses, for coherent combining of a corresponding array of optical beams directed through the fiber array. The COE is configured for customized and segmented correction of collimation-based optical aberrations, caused at least due to misalignments between each corresponding optical fiber's Lij output end and a center of a corresponding collimating lens Lij.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: ELBIT SYSTEMS ELECTRO-OPTICS—ELOP LTD.
    Inventors: Zeev Schiffer, Daniel Levy, Ran Zvi Marom
  • Patent number: 12339467
    Abstract: A display assembly is provided. The display assembly includes a fixing housing, a plurality of first lens structures, and a plurality of display modules. The fixing housing is provided with a plurality of through holes. The plurality of first lens structures one-to-one correspond to the plurality of through holes, and the plurality of display modules one-to-one correspond to the plurality of first lens structures. The plurality of display modules include at least two display modules being spliced with each other, and light emitted by each of the display modules is emitted through a corresponding first lens structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haoran Jing, Zhenxing Zhou
  • Patent number: 12339428
    Abstract: A zoom optical system (ZL) comprises, in order from an object: a first lens group (G1) having a positive refractive power; and a second lens group (G2) having a negative refractive power, wherein upon zooming, a distance between the adjacent lens groups changes. The zoom optical system further comprises an aperture stop (S) disposed closer to an image than the second lens group (G2, and satisfies the following conditional expression: 0.10<Df/Dr<0.90 where Df: a distance to the aperture stop from a lens surface of the zoom optical system closest to an object in a wide angle end state, and Dr: a distance from the aperture stop to a lens surface of the zoom optical system closest to the image in the wide angle end state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Ayumu Makida, Tomoki Ito, Satoshi Miwa
  • Patent number: 12329452
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus is provided that includes: an optical head unit; an information obtaining unit that, using a learned model obtained by learning information of a position relating to at least one of an eye to be examined and an optical head unit, obtains information of a position relating to at least one of an eye to be examined and the optical head unit from an image relating to an eye to be examined that is obtained using the optical head unit; and a drive controlling unit that controls driving of at least one of a supporter that supports a face of a subject and the optical head unit; in which, based on the obtained information of the position, the drive controlling unit controls the driving to cause at least one of the eye to be examined and the optical head unit to move to the position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Ono, Ritsuya Tomita
  • Patent number: 12329453
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for improving accuracy of visual field testing in head-mounted displays. The method includes retrieving a visual field testing pattern for a head-mounted display, the visual field testing pattern including stimuli displayed at respective locations in a visual field of the head-mounted display. The visual field testing pattern is generated on the head-mounted display. Data is retrieved from a tilt sensor, located at the head-mounted display, for detecting degrees of head tilt of a user wearing the head-mounted display and the degree of head tilt is determined. A comparison is made between the degree of head tilt of the user to a first threshold degree. In response to the degree of head tilt of the user meeting or exceeding the first threshold degree, a recommendation to the user is generated for display on the head-mounted display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: University of Miami
    Inventor: Rashed Kashem
  • Patent number: 12321034
    Abstract: An optical lens, in order from an object side to an image-forming side, includes: a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens having refractive power, a third lens having refractive power, a fourth lens having negative refractive power, a fifth lens having negative refractive power, a sixth lens having positive refractive power, a seventh lens having negative refractive power, an eighth lens having negative refractive power, a ninth lens having refractive power and a tenth lens having positive refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: ABILITY ENTERPRISE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jung-Yao Chen
  • Patent number: 12320963
    Abstract: A zoom lens L0 includes a first lens group L1 and a rear group LR disposed in order from an object side to an image side, the first lens group L1 having a negative refractive power and the rear group LR having a positive refractive power as a whole. The rear group LR includes a partial group LP, a partial group LN, and two or more lens groups between which distances change in zooming. When image blur is corrected, the partial group LN moves in a direction including a component of a direction perpendicular to an optical axis. A lens surface closest to the object side among lens surfaces of the partial group LN and a lens surface closest to the image side among the lens surfaces of the partial group LN are both concave surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takahiro Hatada
  • Patent number: 12313858
    Abstract: A camera assembly comprises a support structure and an image sensor mounted on a carrier that is suspended on the support structure by at least one plain bearing that allows movement of the carrier and the image sensor relative to the support structure in any direction laterally to the light-sensitive region of the image sensor. An actuator arrangement comprising plural shape memory alloy wires is arranged to move the carrier and the image sensor relative to the support structure for providing optical image stabilisation of the image captured by the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS LIMITED
    Inventor: Andrew Benjamin David Brown
  • Patent number: 12313820
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a technical field of optical lenses, and discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes six lenses. An order of the six lenses is sequentially from an object side to an image side, which is shown as follows: a first lens having a negative refractive power, and a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens having a negative refractive power, a fifth lens having a positive refractive power, and a sixth lens having a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens provided by the present disclosure has excellent optical characteristics, and further has characteristics of large aperture, wide-angle, and ultra-thin, especially suitable for mobile phone camera lens assemblies and WEB camera lenses, which are composed of camera components having high pixels, such as CCD and CMOS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: AAC Optics (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Sakaguchi, Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: 12298653
    Abstract: A pair of optical prisms arranged in a complementary relationship provides for anamorphic magnification and cooperates with a refractive or diffractive element having at least one axis of effective cylindrical curvature, wherein each at least one axis of effective cylindrical curvature and the apexes of the pair of optical prisms are all substantially parallel to one another. The refractive or diffractive element generates an aberration as a result of rotation thereof about an axis parallel to the at least one axis of effective cylindrical curvature that at least partially compensates a corresponding aberration generated by the pair of optical prisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Inventor: Shawn L. Kelly
  • Patent number: 12276775
    Abstract: A wide angle MWIR F-theta lens with an F# of 2. The lens is deployed on airborne platforms for remote sensing applications. The lens is corrected for monochromatic and chromatic aberrations over the wavelength range 5000 nm-3300 nm. The image of the remote target is formed on a focal plane which may constitute CCD or CMOS with micro lenses. The lens comprises four groups of optical elements with a cold shield/aperture stop located behind the last group. One embodiment of the lens includes five types of optical materials and while another embodiment of the lens includes only two types of optical materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Mark L. Oskotsky, Michael J. Russo, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12276779
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a wide-angle lens, a camera module and a camera. The wide-angle lens sequentially includes a first group, a stop, a second group, a third group and a filter. The first group sequentially includes a first lens with a negative refractive power, a second lens with a negative refractive power, and a third lens with a refractive power. The first lens is a meniscus lens. The second lens has a concave image side surface. The second group sequentially includes a fourth lens with a positive refractive power and a fifth lens with a positive refractive power, an image side surface of the fourth lens and an image side surface of the fifth lens are both convex. The third group sequentially includes a cemented doublet and an eighth lens. The eighth lens is a bi-convex lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: JIANGXI LIANCHUANG ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenzhe Wei, Xuming Liu, Jiyong Zeng
  • Patent number: 12262949
    Abstract: A solution for imaging an eye of a patient is described. An illumination device can illuminate a linear volume of aqueous fluid of the eye of the patient with visible and/or infrared light from a location in a range between 25 to 65 degrees from a line of sight of the eye. At least one imaging device can acquire image data of the eye while it is being illuminated by the illumination device. The image data can be evaluated to determine one or more attributes of an aqueous fluid in an anterior segment of the eye delimited by the posterior surface of the cornea and the most anterior surfaces of the iris or lens and/or one or more attributes of the iris, eye, or surrounding tissues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Konan Medical USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles Wm. Stewart