Patents by Inventor Duk Keun Kwon

Duk Keun Kwon has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240126046
    Abstract: An optical system disclosed to an embodiment includes first to sixth lenses sequentially disposed from an object side to an image side, the first lens has positive refractive power, and an object-side surface of the first lens is convex; At least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the third lens includes an inflection point, and the sixth lens has negative refractive power and at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface includes an inflection point, the following Equation 1 may satisfy: 1<TTL/BFL<3 (Equation 1), and TTL means a distance from an apex of the object-side surface of the first lens to an upper surface of the image sensor in a direction of the optical axis, and BFL means a distance from an apex of the image-side surface of the sixth lens to the upper surface of the image sensor in the direction of the optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventor: Duk Keun KWON
  • Publication number: 20240103246
    Abstract: The camera device disclosed to an embodiment includes a plurality of lenses which are arranged sequentially along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, and a lens barrel in which the plurality of lenses is received and which has an incident hole formed on an image surface thereof, wherein the lens barrel includes the plurality of lenses. A head part disposed in a region corresponding to a lens closest to an object side of the lens, and an upper portion of the head part may have a smaller length than that of a lower portion of the head part in a vertical direction of the optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventor: Duk Keun KWON
  • Publication number: 20240085673
    Abstract: An optical system disclosed to an embodiment of the invention includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, and an eighth lens sequentially arranged along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, wherein the first lens has a positive refractive power and has a convex object-side surface, the second lens has a negative refractive power and has a concave image-side surface, and at least one of an object-side surface and an image-side surface of the sixth lens has an inflection point, the seventh lens has a positive refractive power and has a convex image-side surface, the eighth lens has a negative refractive power and has an object-side surface and an image-side surface which have at least one inflection point, a center thickness of the seventh lens may be the thickest among thicknesses of centers of the first to eighth lenses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventor: Duk Keun KWON
  • Publication number: 20240019663
    Abstract: An optical system disclosed in the embodiment of the invention includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, an eighth lens and a ninth lens, which are sequentially arranged along an optical axis in a direction from an object side to a sensor side, wherein the first lens has a convex object-side surface convex, the second lens has positive refractive power and has a convex object-side surface, and the third lens has negative refractive power and has a concave sensor-side surface, the eighth lens has positive refractive power, at least one of the object-side surface and the sensor-side surface of the eighth lens has at least one inflection point, and the ninth lens has negative refractive power and has an object-side surface and a sensor-side surface having at least one inflection point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventor: Duk Keun KWON
  • Publication number: 20230314773
    Abstract: The optical system disclosed in the embodiment of the invention includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, and a eighth lens sequentially disposed along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, wherein the second lens has positive refractive power, the third lens has negative refractive power, the seventh lens has positive refractive power, and the eighth lens has negative refractive power, wherein refractive indices of the first, third, and fifth lenses are greater than those of the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth lenses, and have a relationship of 1.2 < F / D 1 < 2.4, where F is a total effective focal length of the optical system, and D1 may be an effective diameter of the first lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventor: Duk Keun KWON
  • Publication number: 20230057429
    Abstract: The present embodiment relates to an imaging lens including: a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens having a positive refractive power; and a sixth lens having a negative refractive power, wherein the first to sixth lenses are sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side, the first to third, the fifth, and the sixth lenses are solid lenses, the fourth lens includes a variable focus lens, and the Conditional Expression 0.7<TTL/imgH<1 is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventor: Duk Keun KWON
  • Publication number: 20220382020
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to an imaging lens comprising: a first lens having positive (+) refractive power; a second lens having negative (?) refractive power; a third lens having negative (?) refractive power; a fourth lens; a fifth lens having negative (?) refractive power; and a sixth lens, wherein the first to sixth lenses are successively arranged from an object side to an image side, the first to third, fifth, and sixth lenses are solid lenses, and the fourth lens comprises a focus-tunable lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Duk Keun KWON
  • Publication number: 20220121011
    Abstract: An imaging lens is provided. An imaging lens according to an aspect of the present invention comprises a first lens having negative (?) refractive power, a second lens having positive (+) refractive power, a third lens having positive (+) refractive power, a fourth lens having negative (?) refractive power, a fifth lens having positive (+) refractive power, and a sixth lens having negative (?) refractive power, which are arranged in the order from an object side to an image side, wherein each of the lenses satisfies the equation tan ?d×D>?0.2 (where ?d is the maximum half-angle of field of view of an optical system, and D is the degree of distortion at the maximum image height).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventor: Duk Keun KWON
  • Publication number: 20220043190
    Abstract: The present exemplary embodiment relates to an imaging lens system according to the present exemplary embodiment comprises: a first lens group comprising at least one solid lens; a second lens group spaced apart from the first lens group and comprising at least one solid lens; and a variable focal lens disposed between the first lens group and the second lens group, wherein the following Conditional Expression is satisfied: 1<THlg1/THlg2<2??[Conditional Expression]
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Duk Keun KWON
  • Patent number: 10203479
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to an image pickup lens including a first lens having both convex surfaces, a second lens in the form of a positive meniscus lens and a third lens in the form of a negative meniscus lens, the first lens to the third lens being arranged in sequence from an object side to an image side. The first lens to the third lens are formed of the same material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Young Kim, Duk Keun Kwon
  • Patent number: 9958639
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an imaging lens, the imaging lens including, in an ordered way from an object side, a first lens having positive (+) refractive power and convexly formed at an object side surface; a second lens having positive (+) refractive power and concavely formed at an object side surface; and a third lens having negative (?) refractive power, wherein the imaging lens meets a conditional expression of 1.6<ND3<1.7, where ND3 is a refractive index of the third lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Duk Keun Kwon
  • Patent number: 9482846
    Abstract: An imaging lens, the imaging lens including in an ordered way from an object side, a first lens having positive (+) refractive power, a second lens having negative (?) refractive power, a third lens having negative (?) refractive power, a fourth lens having positive (+) refractive power, and a fifth lens having negative (?) refractive power, wherein meeting a conditional expression of 0.5<f1/f<1.5, where a focal length is f, and a focal length of the first lens is f1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Duk Keun Kwon, Jong Ha Park
  • Publication number: 20160306139
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to an image pickup lens including a first lens having both convex surfaces, a second lens in the form of a positive meniscus lens and a third lens in the form of a negative meniscus lens, the first lens to the third lens being arranged in sequence from an object side to an image side. The first lens to the third lens are formed of the same material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Jin Young Kim, Duk Keun Kwon
  • Patent number: 9383551
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to an image pickup lens including a first lens having both convex surfaces, a second lens in the form of a positive meniscus lens and a third lens in the form of a negative meniscus lens, the first lens to the third lens being arranged in sequence from an object side to an image side. The first lens to the third lens are formed of the same material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Young Kim, Duk Keun Kwon
  • Publication number: 20150124335
    Abstract: An imaging lens, the imaging lens including in an ordered way from an object side, a first lens having positive (+) refractive power, a second lens having negative (?) refractive power, a third lens having negative (?) refractive power, a fourth lens having positive (+) refractive power, and a fifth lens having negative (?) refractive power, wherein meeting a conditional expression of 0.5<f1/f<1.5, where a focal length is f, and a focal length of the first lens is f1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Duk Keun KWON, Jong Ha PARK
  • Patent number: 8958164
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention relates to an imaging lens, the imaging lens including, in an ordered way from an object side, a first lens having positive (+) refractive power, a second lens having negative (?) refractive power, a third lens having negative (?) refractive power, a fourth lens having positive (+) refractive power, and a fifth lens having negative (?) refractive power, wherein the imaging lens meets a conditional expression of 0.8<?T/((FLD)X2)<1.2, where ?T is a distance from an object side surface of the first lens to an image-forming surface, and FLD is a distance from an optical axis to a maximum image height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Duk Keun Kwon, Jong Ha Park
  • Publication number: 20150029600
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to an image pickup lens including a first lens having both convex surfaces, a second lens in the form of a positive meniscus lens and a third lens in the form of a negative meniscus lens, the first lens to the third lens being arranged in sequence from an object side to an image side. The first lens to the third lens are formed of the same material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Jin Young Kim, Duk Keun Kwon
  • Publication number: 20140247510
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an imaging lens, the imaging lens including, in an ordered way from an object side, a first lens having positive (+) refractive power and convexly formed at an object side surface; a second lens having positive (+) refractive power and concavely formed at an object side surface; and a third lens having negative (?) refractive power, wherein the imaging lens meets a conditional expression of 1.6<ND3<1.7, where ND3 is a refractive index of the third lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Inventor: Duk Keun Kwon
  • Patent number: 7864455
    Abstract: Disclosed is an imaging lens. The imaging lens includes a first lens having positive (+) power, a second lens having negative (?) power, and a third lens having positive (+) power and an inflection point on an imaging surface thereof facing an image side, wherein the first to third lenses are sequentially arranged from an object, and the second lens has power stronger than power of the first and third lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Duk Keun Kwon
  • Publication number: 20090168202
    Abstract: Disclosed is an imaging lens. The imaging lens includes a first lens having positive (+) power, a second lens having negative (?) power, and a third lens having positive (+) power and an inflection point on an imaging surface thereof facing an image side, wherein the first to third lenses are sequentially arranged from an object, and the second lens has power stronger than power of the first and third lenses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventor: DUK KEUN KWON