Patents Examined by Thong Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9810889
    Abstract: A zoom lens consists of a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group having negative refractive power, a third lens group having positive refractive power, a fourth lens group having positive refractive power, and a fifth lens group having positive refractive power in this order from an object side. The third lens group consists of a 3-1st lens group having positive refractive power and a 3-2nd lens group having negative refractive power in this order from the object side. A hand shake blur is corrected by moving the 3-2nd lens group in a direction perpendicular to optical axis. Magnification is changed by changing distances between the lens groups while the fifth lens group is fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ori, Michio Cho
  • Patent number: 9804368
    Abstract: A near-infrared hybrid lens system for imaging a wide field-of-view scene onto an image plane includes (a) a first cast lens positioned closest to the scene and at least partly transmissive to near-infrared light, (b) a second cast lens positioned closest to the image plane and at least partly transmissive to near-infrared light, and (c) a wafer-level lens at least partly transmissive to near-infrared light and disposed between the first cast lens and the second cast lens, wherein the wafer-level lens has (i) a planar substrate with a first surface facing away from the image plane and a second surface facing the image plane, (ii) a first lens element disposed on the first surface, and (iii) a second lens element disposed on the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tingyu Cheng, Jau-Jan Deng
  • Patent number: 9804362
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes first to fifth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. Through designs of surfaces of the lens elements and relevant lens parameters, a short system length of the imaging lens may be achieved while maintaining good optical performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONICS OPTICAL (XIAMEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sheng-Wei Hsu, Tzu-Chien Tang
  • Patent number: 9798127
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tube for a surgical microscope. The tube has a base part, an intermediate part, which is pivotable about a rotational axis on the base part, and an ocular part which is pivotable about a rotational axis on the intermediate part. The imaging beam path is guided through the base part, the intermediate part and the pivotable ocular part. The tube has a tube lens system which transfers a parallel imaging beam paths into an intermediate image. The parallel imaging beam path enters via an opening in a connecting piece of the base part. The tube has a first displaceable mirror element which can be moved about the rotational axis on the base part. The tube lens system is a telesystem which has a lens unit having positive refractive power and a lens unit having negative refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Christian Luecke, Hartmut Gaertner, Andre Mueller, Martin Schneider, Alfons Abele, Nadine Kolster, Dirk Holzmann, Wolfgang Robra, Bernd Rudisile, Michael Czerwinski
  • Patent number: 9785038
    Abstract: A tilt-type anti-shake compensation structure for auto-focus module includes an auto-focus module having a lens assembly held thereto and driving the latter to move forward and rearward in a light entering path, i.e. in z-axis direction, so as to focus a captured image; an outer frame enclosing the auto-focus module therein, and having an elastic supporting member provided therein to connect to and between upper ends of the outer frame and the auto-focus module; and a compensation driving unit arranged behind the auto-focus module for driving the auto-focus module to tilt leftward and rightward on x-axis, or forward and rearward on y-axis, within the outer frame, so as to compensate any image deviation due to shake caused by hands. The anti-shake structure is simple and can quickly compensate shake caused by hands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: TDK Taiwan Corporation
    Inventors: Fu-Yuan Wu, Chao-Chang Hu, Yi-Liang Chan
  • Patent number: 9775494
    Abstract: An oblique-viewing objective optical system includes in order from an object side, a front-side lens group which includes a negative lens, an optical path converting element, an aperture stop, and a rear-side lens group having a positive refractive power, wherein the rear-side lens group includes a positive lens and a cemented lens having a positive refractive power, and the cemented lens includes in order from the object side a positive lens and a negative lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiharu Takasugi
  • Patent number: 9772470
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes first to fourth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. Through designs of surfaces of the lens elements and relevant optical parameters, a short system length of the imaging lens may be achieved while maintaining good optical performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL (XIAMEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sheng-Wei Hsu, Tzu-Chien Tang
  • Patent number: 9753247
    Abstract: A photographing lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, and a fourth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element having positive refractive power has an image-side surface being concave, and an object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof being aspheric. The fourth lens element has an object-side surface being concave, and the object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof being aspheric. The photographing lens system further includes an aperture stop, and no lens elements are disposed between the aperture stop and the first lens element. The photographing lens system has a total of four lens elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 9726979
    Abstract: A catadioptric projection objective has a first objective part, defining a first part of the optical axis and imaging an object field to form a first real intermediate image. It also has a second, catadioptric objective part forming a second real intermediate image using the radiation from the first objective part. The second objective part has a concave mirror and defines a second part of the optical axis. A third objective part images the second real intermediate image into the image plane and defines a third part of the optical axis. Folding mirrors deflect the radiation from the object plane towards the concave mirror; and deflect the radiation from the concave mirror towards the image plane. The first part of the optical axis defined by the first objective part is laterally offset from and aligned parallel with the third part of the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventors: Aurelian Dodoc, Wilhelm Ulrich, Alexander Epple
  • Patent number: 9720214
    Abstract: In a zoom lens system, a distance between a first lens group and a second lens group is increased, a distance between the second lens group and a third lens group is reduced, and a distance between the third lens group and a fourth lens group is reduced. The third lens group includes, in order from an object side, a front lens group and a rear lens group separated from each other by a widest air gap on an optical axis in the third lens group. Camera-shake correction is performed by moving whole or part of the front lens group as a camera-shake correction lens group perpendicularly to the optical axis. Conditional formula below is satisfied: ?3.0<fis/f3<?0.9, where f3 represents a focal length of the third lens group and fis represents a focal length of the camera-shake correction lens group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9720212
    Abstract: A variable focal length lens system includes: first to fourth lens groups alternately having negative and positive refractive power; and an aperture stop; the first to fourth lens group being arranged to allow a space between the first and second lens groups to be decreased and spaces between the second and third lens groups and between the third and fourth lens groups to be varied, the third lens group travelling to allow image-plane position variation caused by subject position variation to be compensated and satisfying a following conditional expression, 0.05<Da/R3a<0.5??(1) where Da is a distance from the aperture stop to a most image-sided lens surface in the third lens group in the wide end state, and R3a is a curvature radius of the most-image sided lens surface in the third lens group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motoyuki Otake, Naoki Miyagawa
  • Patent number: 9720442
    Abstract: A case, for an electronic device such as a mobile phone, containing an insert located near a camera, still image recorder, or video recorder and a flash of the device is disclosed. The placement, material, color and properties of the insert helps reduce and/or eliminate problems associated with the case affecting the resultant flash/light from the camera, causing and adding erroneous colors, effects, and information on the resulting pictures, images, sensors, or videos.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Samsonite IP Holdings S.ár.l.
    Inventors: Ryan Hill Mongan, Bryan Lee Hynecek, Jarret Weis
  • Patent number: 9715083
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes: a first, second and third lens element. The first lens element has a positive refracting power, and has an object-side surface with a convex part in a vicinity of the optical axis, and a convex part in a vicinity of its periphery. The second lens element has a positive refracting power, and has an object-side surface with a concave part in a vicinity of the optical axis, and a concave part in a vicinity of its periphery, and has an image-side surface with a convex part in a vicinity of the optical axis. The third lens element has negative refracting power, and has an image-side surface with a concave part in a vicinity of the optical axis, and a convex part in a vicinity of its periphery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sheng-Wei Hsu, Chih-Yang Yeh
  • Patent number: 9715125
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens group having positive refracting power, a second lens group having negative refracting power, a third lens group having positive refracting power, a fourth lens group having negative refracting power and a fifth lens group having negative refracting power in order from an object side, in which the lens groups move in magnification change from a wide angle end to a telephoto end such that a gap between the first lens group and the second lens group increases and a gap between the second lens group and the third lens group decreases, a negative lens group disposed closer to an image focusing side than a diaphragm among all lens groups is set as a focusing lens group, and the focusing lens group moves toward the image focusing side at focusing from infinity to a close object, the zoom lens satisfies a conditional expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Tamron Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuhiko Obikane
  • Patent number: 9715090
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes: a first lens unit having a positive refractive power; a second lens unit having a negative refractive power; a third lens unit having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power; and a fifth lens unit having a positive refractive power or a negative refractive power, in which the first lens unit and the fifth lens unit do not move for zooming, and the second lens unit and the fourth lens unit move during zooming, in which a focal length fw of the zoom lens at a wide angle end, a focal length f2 of the second lens unit, and a focal length of a positive lens, which is included in the second lens unit are suitably set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirofumi Abe
  • Patent number: 9706091
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes first to fifth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. Through designs of surfaces of the lens elements and relevant lens parameters, a short system length of the imaging lens may be achieved while maintaining good optical performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sheng-Wei Hsu, Tzu-Chien Tang
  • Patent number: 9703073
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes first to fifth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. Through designs of surfaces of the lens elements and relevant lens parameters, a short system length of the imaging lens may be achieved while maintaining good optical performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shih-Han Chen, Chung-Chih Chang, Feng Chen
  • Patent number: 9703112
    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 a plurality of lens units. A distance between adjacent lens units changes during zooming. An aperture stop is arranged on an image side of the first lens unit. An image stabilizing unit Ls comprising at least part of the second lens unit moves in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis during blurring correction. The predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Maetaki
  • Patent number: 9690083
    Abstract: A zoom lens system includes first through fourth lens groups. Upon zooming from the short to long focal length extremities, the second and third lens groups move while the distance between the first and second lens groups increases, and the distance between the second and third lens groups decreases. The fourth lens group includes a positive lens element having a convex surface on the object side; a cemented lens having a positive lens element and a negative lens element; a biconvex positive lens element, and a negative meniscus lens element having a convex surface on the image side. The following condition (1) is satisfied: 1.6<f1/f4<3.0. . . ??(1), wherein f1 and f4 designate the focal lengths of the first and fourth lens groups, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH IMAGING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Masakazu Saori
  • Patent number: 9664885
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from object side to image side, a first lens unit having positive refractive power; a second lens unit having negative refractive power; a third lens unit having positive refractive power; and a rear lens group including one or more lens units. During zooming, three or more lens units move to change an interval between adjacent lens units. The third lens unit includes, in order from object side to image side, a first lens subunit having positive refractive power, a second lens subunit having negative refractive power, and a third lens subunit having positive refractive power. The second lens subunit moves in a direction having a component perpendicular to the optical axis regarding image blurring correction, a focal length of the zoom lens at the telephoto end and a focal length of the third lens unit are set to satisfy specific mathematical conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasuaki Hagiwara