Patents Examined by Kuei-Jen L Edenfield
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Patent number: 12372737Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: Zebra Technologies CorporationInventors: Igor Vinogradov, David T. Shi, Chinh Tan, Vladimir Gurevich
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Patent number: 12372761Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Keisuke Tsubonoya
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Patent number: 12372750Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Long Li, Jianke Wenren, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
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Patent number: 12372764Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 3, 2022Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Makoto Nakahara, Akira Mizuma
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Patent number: 12366721Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Kazuyasu Ohashi
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Patent number: 12360339Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 2, 2021Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takumi Suzuki
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Patent number: 12339427Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 23, 2020Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: Foshan LimitedInventors: Trevor Childs, Matthew Loucks
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Patent number: 12339440Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 4, 2024Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: ELBIT SYSTEMS ELECTRO-OPTICS—ELOP LTD.Inventors: Zeev Schiffer, Daniel Levy, Ran Zvi Marom
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Patent number: 12339467Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Haoran Jing, Zhenxing Zhou
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Patent number: 12339428Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Ayumu Makida, Tomoki Ito, Satoshi Miwa
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Patent number: 12329452Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mitsuhiro Ono, Ritsuya Tomita
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Patent number: 12329453Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: University of MiamiInventor: Rashed Kashem
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Patent number: 12321034Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: ABILITY ENTERPRISE CO., LTD.Inventor: Jung-Yao Chen
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Patent number: 12320963Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 24, 2021Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takahiro Hatada
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Patent number: 12313858Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 19, 2021Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS LIMITEDInventor: Andrew Benjamin David Brown
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Patent number: 12313820Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 13, 2021Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: AAC Optics (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takayuki Sakaguchi, Lei Zhang
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Patent number: 12298653Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Inventor: Shawn L. Kelly
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Patent number: 12276775Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 20, 2017Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.Inventors: Mark L. Oskotsky, Michael J. Russo, Jr.
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Patent number: 12276779Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: JIANGXI LIANCHUANG ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Wenzhe Wei, Xuming Liu, Jiyong Zeng
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Patent number: 12262949Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Konan Medical USA, Inc.Inventor: Charles Wm. Stewart