Patents by Inventor Keitaro Yokoyama

Keitaro Yokoyama 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).

  • Patent number: 10606045
    Abstract: A zoom lens comprises four lens unit, and at the time of zooming, each of a distance between a first positive lens unit and a first negative lens unit and a distance between a second negative lens unit and a second positive lens unit changes, and a distance between the first positive lens unit and the second negative lens unit widens more at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end, and the first positive lens unit includes an object-side sub-lens unit and an image-side sub-lens unit, and an aperture stop is disposed between the object-side sub-lens unit and the image-side sub-lens unit, and the first negative lens unit includes a negative lens and a positive lens, and a refracting surface nearest to an image in the first negative lens unit is concave toward the image side, and a refracting surface nearest to an object in the second positive lens unit is concave toward the object side, and a refracting surface nearest to the image in the second positive lens unit is convex toward the image side, and the z
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuteru Kawamura, Akiko Naito, Keitaro Yokoyama, Toshio Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20180224641
    Abstract: A zoom lens comprises four lens unit, and at the time of zooming, each of a distance between a first positive lens unit and a first negative lens unit and a distance between a second negative lens unit and a second positive lens unit changes, and a distance between the first positive lens unit and the second negative lens unit widens more at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end, and the first positive lens unit includes an object-side sub-lens unit and an image-side sub-lens unit, and an aperture stop is disposed between the object-side sub-lens unit and the image-side sub-lens unit, and the first negative lens unit includes a negative lens and a positive lens, and a refracting surface nearest to an image in the first negative lens unit is concave toward the image side, and a refracting surface nearest to an object in the second positive lens unit is concave toward the object side, and a refracting surface nearest to the image in the second positive lens unit is convex toward the image side, and the z
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuteru Kawamura, Akiko Naito, Keitaro Yokoyama, Toshio Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9977227
    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 third lens unit having a negative refractive power. At the time of zooming, distances between the lens units change, and a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit at a telephoto end is shorter than a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit at a wide angle end, and an aperture stop is disposed on an image side of an image-side surface of the first lens unit, and on an object side of an image-side surface of the second lens unit, and the zoom lens satisfies the conditional expressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuteru Kawamura, Akiko Naito, Keitaro Yokoyama, Toshio Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9964744
    Abstract: A zoom lens comprises four lens unit, and at the time of zooming, each of a distance between a first positive lens unit and a first negative lens unit and a distance between a second negative lens unit and a second positive lens unit changes, and a distance between the first positive lens unit and the second negative lens unit widens more at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end, and the first positive lens unit includes an object-side sub-lens unit and an image-side sub-lens unit, and an aperture stop is disposed between the object-side sub-lens unit and the image-side sub-lens unit, and the first negative lens unit includes a negative lens and a positive lens, and a refracting surface nearest to an image in the first negative lens unit is concave toward the image side, and a refracting surface nearest to an object in the second positive lens unit is concave toward the object side, and a refracting surface nearest to the image in the second positive lens unit is convex toward the image side, and the z
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuteru Kawamura, Akiko Naito, Keitaro Yokoyama, Toshio Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9638917
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a third lens unit having a negative refractive power. At the time of zooming, distances between the lens units change, and a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit at a telephoto end is shorter than at a wide angle end. An aperture stop is disposed on the image side of an image-side surface of the first lens unit, and on the object side of an image-side surface of the second lens unit. The second lens unit includes two sub lens units. The object-side sub lens unit in the second lens unit includes one lens component. The following conditional expressions are satisfied. 3.0<?D12/ERS<4.5 1.05<|f3/fUN21|<2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuteru Kawamura, Akiko Naito, Keitaro Yokoyama, Toshio Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20160349505
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a third lens unit having a negative refractive power. At the time of zooming, distances between the lens units change, and a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit at a telephoto end is shorter than at a wide angle end. An aperture stop is disposed on the image side of an image-side surface of the first lens unit, and on the object side of an image-side surface of the second lens unit. The second lens unit includes two sub lens units. The object-side sub lens unit in the second lens unit includes one lens component. The following conditional expressions are satisfied. 3.0<?D12/ERS<4.5 1.05<|f3/fUN21|<2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Kazuteru Kawamura, Akiko Naito, Keitaro Yokoyama, Toshio Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9465204
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a third lens unit having a negative refractive power. At the time of zooming, distances between the lens units change, and a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit at a telephoto end is shorter than at a wide angle end. An aperture stop is disposed on the image side of an image-side surface of the first lens unit, and on the object side of an image-side surface of the second lens unit. The second lens unit includes two sub lens units. The object-side sub lens unit in the second lens unit includes one lens component. The following conditional expressions are satisfied. 3.0<?D12/ERS<4.5 1.05<|f3/fUN21|<2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuteru Kawamura, Akiko Naito, Keitaro Yokoyama, Toshio Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20160077318
    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 third lens unit having a negative refractive power. At the time of zooming, distances between the lens units change, and a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit at a telephoto end is shorter than a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit at a wide angle end, and an aperture stop is disposed on an image side of an image-side surface of the first lens unit, and on an object side of an image-side surface of the second lens unit, and the zoom lens satisfies the conditional expressions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Kazuteru Kawamura, Akiko Naito, Keitaro Yokoyama, Toshio Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9235037
    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 third lens unit having a negative refractive power. At the time of zooming, distances between the lens units change, and a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit at a telephoto end is shorter than a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit at a wide angle end, and an aperture stop is disposed on an image side of an image-side surface of the first lens unit, and on an object side of an image-side surface of the second lens unit, and the zoom lens satisfies the conditional expressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuteru Kawamura, Akiko Naito, Keitaro Yokoyama, Toshio Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20160004054
    Abstract: A zoom lens comprises four lens unit, and at the time of zooming, each of a distance between a first positive lens unit and a first negative lens unit and a distance between a second negative lens unit and a second positive lens unit changes, and a distance between the first positive lens unit and the second negative lens unit widens more at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end, and the first positive lens unit includes an object-side sub-lens unit and an image-side sub-lens unit, and an aperture stop is disposed between the object-side sub-lens unit and the image-side sub-lens unit, and the first negative lens unit includes a negative lens and a positive lens, and a refracting surface nearest to an image in the first negative lens unit is concave toward the image side, and a refracting surface nearest to an object in the second positive lens unit is concave toward the object side, and a refracting surface nearest to the image in the second positive lens unit is convex toward the image side, and the z
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Kazuteru Kawamura, Akiko Naito, Keitaro Yokoyama, Toshio Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8988783
    Abstract: A zoom lens comprising, in order from the object side to the image side 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 negative refractive power, and a fifth lens unit having a positive refractive power, wherein the first lens unit is located closest to the object side, the fifth lens unit is located closest to the image side, during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end, the first lens unit, the second lens unit, the third lens unit, and the fourth lens unit move, the fifth lens unit is stationary, and the distances between the lens units vary, the third lens includes a positive lens, and the zoom lens satisfies the following condition (1): 72<?3p<110??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventors: Yasuji Ogata, Yasuharu Yamada, Akiyoshi Tochigi, Keitaro Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20140375870
    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 third lens unit having a negative refractive power. At the time of zooming, distances between the lens units change, and a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit at a telephoto end is shorter than a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit at a wide angle end, and an aperture stop is disposed on an image side of an image-side surface of the first lens unit, and on an object side of an image-side surface of the second lens unit, and the zoom lens satisfies the conditional expressions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Kazuteru Kawamura, Akiko Naito, Keitaro Yokoyama, Toshio Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20140354858
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a third lens unit having a negative refractive power. At the time of zooming, distances between the lens units change, and a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit at a telephoto end is shorter than at a wide angle end. An aperture stop is disposed on the image side of an image-side surface of the first lens unit, and on the object side of an image-side surface of the second lens unit. The second lens unit includes two sub lens units. The object-side sub lens unit in the second lens unit includes one lens component. The following conditional expressions are satisfied. 3.0<?D12/ERS<4.5 1.05<|f3/fUN21|<2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicants: OLYMPUS CORPORATION, OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP.
    Inventors: Kazuteru Kawamura, Akiko Naito, Keitaro Yokoyama, Toshio Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20140139720
    Abstract: A zoom lens comprising, in order from the object side to the image side 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 negative refractive power, and a fifth lens unit having a positive refractive power, wherein the first lens unit is located closest to the object side, the fifth lens unit is located closest to the image side, during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end, the first lens unit, the second lens unit, the third lens unit, and the fourth lens unit move, the fifth lens unit is stationary, and the distances between the lens units vary, the third lens includes a positive lens, and the zoom lens satisfies the following condition (1): 72<?3p<110??(1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventors: Yasuji Ogata, Yasuharu Yamada, Akiyoshi Tochigi, Keitaro Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 8248716
    Abstract: An imaging optical system has, in order from the object side to the image side thereof, a front lens group, an aperture stop, and a rear lens group. A lens located closest to object side in said front lens group always remains fixed in position, with satisfaction of the following conditions (1) and (2): 1.15?fb/IH??1.7 ??(1) ?4.0?fn/f??1.3 ??(2) where f is a focal length of the whole imaging optical system, fn is a focal length of a first negative lens in said front lens group, fb is a back focus of the imaging optical system upon focusing on an object point at infinity, and IH? is a distance from an optical axis of a position where a chief ray from a maximum incident half angle of view (?) upon focusing on an object point at infinity is imaged at the imaging plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventors: Kazuteru Kawamura, Keitaro Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20110235191
    Abstract: An imaging optical system has, in order from the object side to the image side thereof, a front lens group, an aperture stop, and a rear lens group. A lens located closest to object side in said front lens group always remains fixed in position, with satisfaction of the following conditions (1) and (2): 1.15?fb/IH??1.7 ??(1) ?4.0?fn/f??1.3 ??(2) where f is a focal length of the whole imaging optical system, fn is a focal length of a first negative lens in said front lens group, fb is a back focus of the imaging optical system upon focusing on an object point at infinity, and IH? is a distance from an optical axis of a position where a chief ray from a maximum incident half angle of view (?) upon focusing on an object point at infinity is imaged at the imaging plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventors: Kazuteru Kawamura, Keitaro Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 7969658
    Abstract: The invention relates to an eyepiece optical system that, albeit being of small size, works in favor of gaining an angle of field and optical performance, and an electronic view finder incorporating such an eyepiece optical system. Specifically, the invention is characterized by comprising, in order from an object side to an exit side thereof, a first lens group that is a single lens that has positive refracting power and is in a meniscus configuration concave on its object side, a second lens group that is a single lens that has negative refracting power and is in a meniscus configuration concave on its object side, and a third lens group that is a single lens that has positive refracting power, wherein an object-side concave lens surface in the first lens group is an aspheric surface, an object-side concave lens surface in the second lens group is an aspheric surface, and an exit-side lens surface in the third lens group is an aspheric surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventors: Akinori Nishio, Keitaro Yokoyama, Daichi Murakami
  • Patent number: 7855837
    Abstract: The invention provides a viewing optical system comprising: a screen on which an object image by a taking lens is formed, an image erection optical system for erecting the object image formed on the screen, and an eyepiece lens system of positive refracting power for guiding a light beam leaving the image erection optical system to the eyeball of a viewer, wherein: the image erection optical system comprises a plurality of reflecting surfaces, the eyepiece optical system comprises, in order from a screen side to an exit pupil side, a first lens element of negative refracting power, a second lens element convex on both the screen side and the exit pupil side, and a third lens element that is of negative refracting power and has a meniscus shape concave on the exit pupil side, and the third lens element satisfies the following condition (1): 0.13<DL3/fe<0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventor: Keitaro Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20100290129
    Abstract: The invention relates to an eyepiece optical system that, albeit being of small size, works in favor of gaining an angle of field and optical performance, and an electronic view finder incorporating such an eyepiece optical system. Specifically, the invention is characterized by comprising, in order from an object side to an exit side thereof, a first lens group that is a single lens that has positive refracting power and is in a meniscus configuration concave on its object side, a second lens group that is a single lens that has negative refracting power and is in a meniscus configuration concave on its object side, and a third lens group that is a single lens that has positive refracting power, wherein an object-side concave lens surface in the first lens group is an aspheric surface, an object-side concave lens surface in the second lens group is an aspheric surface, and an exit-side lens surface in the third lens group is an aspheric surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Akinori Nishio, Keitaro Yokoyama, Daichi Murakami
  • Publication number: 20100027985
    Abstract: An in-finder display apparatus comprises: a finder optical system adapted to view an object image formed by a taking lens on a focal plane plate by means of an eyepiece lens through a penta roof prism, a display cell located on a display member disposed near an imaging plane for the object image, and an illuminating optical system for illuminating the display cell. The display cell is illuminated by the illuminating optical system so that light reflected off the display cell together with the object image is viewable via the finder optical system. The illuminating optical system comprises: a light emitting means, and a light projecting lens for converging a light beam leaving the light emitting means. The illuminating optical system is positioned such that an illuminating light beam leaving the light emitting means in the illuminating optical system enters the display cell after transmitting through the light projecting lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventors: Keitaro Yokoyama, Ryuji Kamada