Patents by Inventor Lin An

Lin An 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: 20210247584
    Abstract: An imaging lens system has an optical axis and includes a plastic lens barrel and an imaging lens assembly disposed in the plastic lens barrel. The plastic lens barrel surrounds the optical axis and includes an object-side surface, an image-side surface, an inner annular portion and an outer annular portion. The object-side and image-side surfaces are oppositely disposed and substantially perpendicular to the optical axis. The inner and outer annular portions are connected to the object-side and image-side surfaces. The inner annular portion has an inner parallel annular surface, and the outer annular portion has a first outer annular surface and a gate trace. The imaging lens assembly includes a plurality of imaging lens elements. One of the imaging lens elements has an outer diameter larger than ?2 millimeters. The one of the imaging lens elements has an outer edge in physical contact with the inner parallel annular surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lin An CHANG, Ming-Ta CHOU
  • Publication number: 20210173168
    Abstract: An imaging lens assembly has an optical axis, and includes a plastic carrier element and an imaging lens element set. The plastic carrier element includes an object-side surface, an image-side surface, an outer surface and an inner surface. The object-side surface includes an object-side opening. The image-side surface includes an image-side opening. The inner surface is connected to the object-side opening and the image-side opening. The imaging lens element set is disposed in the plastic carrier element, and includes at least three lens elements, each of at least two adjacent lens elements of the lens elements includes a first axial assembling structure, the first axial assembling structures are corresponding to and connected to each other. A solid medium interval is maintained between the adjacent lens elements and the inner surface. The solid medium interval is directly contacted with the adjacent lens elements and the inner surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Jyun-Jia CHENG, Lin-An CHANG, Ming-Ta CHOU, Cheng-Feng LIN
  • Publication number: 20210088752
    Abstract: An imaging lens assembly includes a plastic lens barrel, an optical lens element set and a light-absorbing layer. The plastic lens barrel includes a minimum opening. The optical lens element set includes a plurality of optical lens elements, wherein the optical lens elements includes a first optical lens element closest to an object side of the optical lens element set, and the first optical lens element includes an effective optical surface, a peripheral surface and an annular step structure. At least one portion of the light-absorbing layer is coated on the annular step structure, and at least another one portion of the light-absorbing layer is connected to the minimum opening of the plastic lens barrel. The light-absorbing layer is for retaining the first optical lens element on the plastic lens barrel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Hsiang-Chi TANG, Lin-An CHANG, Ming-Ta CHOU
  • Publication number: 20210080684
    Abstract: A camera module includes a unitary element, an optical image lens assembly, a fixed member and a driving member. The unitary element has an object-side opening. The optical image lens assembly is disposed in a containing space and has an optical axis. The fixed member is for accommodating the unitary element and includes a base and a cover, and the cover has a through hole and is connected with the base. The driving member is for driving the unitary element to move relative to the fixed member. The unitary element includes a reverse inclined structure including at least two annular concave structures. The at least two annular concave structures are arranged in order from the object-side opening to an image side, wherein a sectional surface of each of the annular concave structures passing through the optical axis includes a valley point and two concave ends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Cheng-Feng LIN, Lin-An CHANG, Ming-Ta CHOU
  • Publication number: 20210080706
    Abstract: A camera module includes an imaging lens system, an image sensor and a plurality of light-folding elements. The imaging lens system is configured to focus imaging light onto an image surface. The image sensor is disposed on the image surface. The plurality of light-folding elements includes at least one image-side light-folding element disposed on an image side of the imaging lens system, and each of the light-folding elements is configured to fold the imaging light from an entrance optical path thereof to an exit optical path thereof. At least one light-shielding mechanism is arranged on at least one of the entrance light path and the exit light path of the at least one image-side light-folding element. The at least one light-shielding mechanism has a minimal opening, and the minimal opening surrounds the imaging light in the at least one of the entrance optical path and the exit optical path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: LARGAN PRECISION CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Cheng-Feng Lin, Lin An Chang, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Publication number: 20210067668
    Abstract: A camera module includes a housing, a unitary element, an optical lens assembly, an image-side light blocking assembly and a driving device. The unitary element is one-piece formed from a lens carrier and a lens barrel and movably disposed in the housing. The optical lens assembly is disposed in the unitary element. The image-side light blocking assembly includes at least one light blocking sheet, and the image-side light blocking assembly does not contact the optical lens assembly. The driving device is disposed between the housing and the unitary element. The driving device drives the unitary element, the optical lens assembly and the image-side light blocking assembly to move in an optical axis direction parallel to an optical axis of the optical lens assembly by electromagnetic force. A minimal inner opening of the unitary element is located between the optical lens assembly and the image-side light blocking assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: LARGAN DIGITAL CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Lin An CHANG, Ming-Ta CHOU
  • Publication number: 20210048733
    Abstract: A plastic barrel, which surrounds a central axis, includes an object-side portion and a tubular portion. The object-side portion includes an object-side opening and a reverse inclined structure. The reverse inclined structure surrounds the object-side opening and includes a reverse inclined surface and at least one annular concave structure. The at least one annular concave structure is disposed on an object side of the reverse inclined surface and recessed from the object-side opening along a direction away from the central axis, wherein a sectional surface of the at least one annular concave structure passing through the central axis includes a valley point and two concave ends, and the two concave ends are disposed on an object side and an image side of the valley point, respectively. The tubular portion is connected to the object-side portion and extends to the image side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Cheng-Feng LIN, Lin-An CHANG, Hsiang-Chi TANG
  • Publication number: 20210026225
    Abstract: An imaging lens assembly module has an optical axis, and includes a lens barrel and an optical element set. The lens barrel includes an object-side portion, a tubular portion and a tip-end minimal aperture. The object-side portion includes a first assembling surface. The tubular portion includes a plurality of second assembling surfaces. The optical element set includes at least one light blocking sheet and at least one optical lens element. The light blocking sheet includes an object-side surface, an image-side surface and an inner opening surface. The optical lens element includes an optical effective portion and a peripheral portion. The object-side portion of the lens barrel includes a first reversing inclined surface gradually enlarged from the tip-end minimal aperture to the image side of the lens barrel, and the first reversing inclined surface is not contacted with the optical element set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Kuan-Ming CHEN, Hsiang-Chi TANG, Lin-An CHANG, Cheng-Chen LIN, Ming-Ta CHOU
  • Publication number: 20200363603
    Abstract: A plastic lens barrel includes an object-side portion, an image-side portion and a tube-shaped portion. The object-side portion is located close to an object side of the plastic lens barrel. The object-side portion includes an object-side opening and an object-side annular surface. The object-side annular surface surrounds the object-side opening and faces toward the object side. The image-side portion is located close to an image side of the plastic lens barrel and includes an image-side opening. The tube-shaped portion surrounds an optical axis. The tube-shaped portion is connected between the object-side portion and the image-side portion, and configured to define an inner space. The object-side annular surface includes a groove structure area. The groove structure area includes a plurality of groove structures. The groove structures are disposed in at least one of an arranging manner and an extending manner along a sagittal direction away from the optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Chun-Hua TSAI, Ming-Ta CHOU, Lin-An CHANG
  • Publication number: 20200366817
    Abstract: A camera module includes a housing, a unitary element, an optical lens assembly, an image-side light blocking assembly and a driving device. The unitary element is one-piece formed from a lens carrier and a lens barrel and movably disposed in the housing. The optical lens assembly is disposed in the unitary element. The image-side light blocking assembly includes at least one light blocking sheet, and the image-side light blocking assembly does not contact the optical lens assembly. The driving device is disposed between the housing and the unitary element. The driving device drives the unitary element, the optical lens assembly and the image-side light blocking assembly to move in an optical axis direction parallel to an optical axis of the optical lens assembly by electromagnetic force. A minimal inner opening of the unitary element is located between the optical lens assembly and the image-side light blocking assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: LARGAN DIGITAL CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Lin An CHANG, Ming-Ta CHOU
  • Patent number: 10841471
    Abstract: A camera module includes a housing, a unitary element, an optical lens assembly, an image-side light blocking assembly and a driving device. The unitary element is one-piece formed from a lens carrier and a lens barrel and movably disposed in the housing. The optical lens assembly is disposed in the unitary element. The image-side light blocking assembly includes at least one light blocking sheet, and the image-side light blocking assembly does not contact the optical lens assembly. The driving device is disposed between the housing and the unitary element. The driving device drives the unitary element, the optical lens assembly and the image-side light blocking assembly to move in an optical axis direction parallel to an optical axis of the optical lens assembly by electromagnetic force. A minimal inner opening of the unitary element is located between the optical lens assembly and the image-side light blocking assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: LARGAN DIGITAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lin An Chang, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Publication number: 20200341228
    Abstract: An imaging lens module has an optical axis, an object side and an image side. The imaging lens module includes a plastic barrel, an optical lens assembly, an image-side assembled element and a light blocking element assembly. The plastic barrel includes a first contacting surface, which is close to an image-side end of the plastic barrel. The image-side assembled element is disposed close to the image-side end of the plastic barrel. The image-side assembled element is in a tube shape and extends from the object side to the image side. The image-side assembled element includes a second contacting surface and an inner protruding portion, and the second contacting surface is disposed close to an object-side end of the image-side assembled element and correspondingly to the first contacting surface. The plastic barrel and the image-side assembled element contact each other via the first contacting surface and the second contacting surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Chien-Hsun WU, Lin-An CHANG, Ming-Ta CHOU
  • Publication number: 20200310073
    Abstract: An imaging lens module includes at least one plastic lens element having an optical axis, an object side and an image side. The plastic lens element includes, in order from a center to a peripheral region thereof, an optical effective portion and an outer peripheral portion. The outer peripheral portion surrounds the optical effective portion, wherein the outer peripheral portion includes, on at least one of the object side and the image side, a plurality of groove structures and a contacting surface. The contacting surface is an annular plane and perpendicular to the optical axis. The groove structures and the contacting surface are located on the same side. There is an air gap between the groove structures and at least one optical element adjacent thereto. The groove structures and the contacting surface located on the same side are not overlapped along a direction parallel to the optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Ming-Ta CHOU, Lin-An CHANG, Ruei-Yang LUO
  • Publication number: 20200310074
    Abstract: An imaging lens module includes a plastic lens barrel, a first optical element assembly and a second optical element assembly, wherein both of the first optical element assembly and the second optical element assembly are disposed in the plastic lens barrel. The plastic lens barrel includes a first inner annular surface and a second inner annular surface. The first inner annular surface forms a first receiving space. The second inner annular surface forms a second receiving space. The first optical element assembly is disposed in the first receiving space and includes a plurality of optical lens elements and a first retainer. The second optical element assembly is disposed in the second receiving space and includes a first light blocking sheet and a second retainer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Chien-Hsun WU, Lin-An CHANG, Ming-Ta CHOU
  • Patent number: 10743763
    Abstract: Methods for improved acquisition and processing of optical coherence tomography (OCT) angiography data are presented. One embodiment involves improving the acquisition of the data by evaluating the quality of different portions of the data to identify sections having non-uniform acquisition parameters or non-uniformities due to opacities in the eye such as floaters. The identified sections can then be brought to the attention of the user or automatically reacquired. In another embodiment, segmentation of layers in the retina includes both structural and flow information derived from motion contrast processing. In a further embodiment, the health of the eye is evaluating by comparing a metric reflecting the density of vessels at a particular location in the eye determined by OCT angiography to a database of values calculated on normal eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, INC.
    Inventors: Lin An, Mary K. Durbin, Sophie Kubach, Utkarsh Sharma
  • Publication number: 20200249447
    Abstract: A camera module includes an imaging lens assembly and an image sensor. An image is formed on the image sensor via the imaging lens assembly, the image sensor is disposed on an image side of the imaging lens assembly, and the imaging lens assembly includes a lens barrel, a plurality of plastic lens elements and a first light blocking sheet. The plastic lens elements are disposed in the lens barrel. The first light blocking sheet is disposed in the lens barrel and has a non-circular opening. A portion of the image formed via the imaging lens assembly is a defocused image, and a shape of at least one portion of the defocused image is non-circular and corresponding to a shape of the non-circular opening of the first light blocking sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Shih-Han CHEN, Lin-An CHANG, Ming-Ta CHOU
  • Publication number: 20190320895
    Abstract: Methods for improved acquisition and processing of optical coherence tomography (OCT) angiography data are presented. One embodiment involves improving the acquisition of the data by evaluating the quality of different portions of the data to identify sections having non-uniform acquisition parameters or non-uniformities due to opacities in the eye such as floaters. The identified sections can then be brought to the attention of the user or automatically reacquired. In another embodiment, segmentation of layers in the retina includes both structural and flow information derived from motion contrast processing. In a further embodiment, the health of the eye is evaluating by comparing a metric reflecting the density of vessels at a particular location in the eye determined by OCT angiography to a database of values calculated on normal eyes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Lin AN, Mary K. DURBIN, Sophie KUBACH, Utkarsh SHARMA
  • Patent number: 10368734
    Abstract: Methods and systems in ophthalmic imaging are presented that increase the sensitivity of automated diagnoses by the use of a combination of both functional and structural information derived from a variety of ophthalmic imaging modalities. An example method to analyze image data of an eye of a patient includes processing a first image dataset to obtain one or more functional metrics; processing a second image dataset to obtain one or more structural metrics; comparing the one or more structural metrics to the one or more functional metrics; and processing the results of said comparison to derive the probability of a disease or normality of the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, INC.
    Inventors: Mary K. Durbin, Shamika Gune, Lin An, Utkarsh Sharma
  • Patent number: 10264963
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for improved OCT angiography imaging are described. An example method of identifying intraretinal fluid in optical coherence tomography (OCT) image data of an eye includes collecting OCT image data using an OCT system. The data includes at least one cluster scan containing OCT image data collected at approximately same set of locations on the sample. A first motion contrast image is generated by applying a first OCT angiography processing technique to the cluster scan to highlight motion contrast in the sample. A second motion contrast image is generated by applying a second OCT angiography processing technique to the cluster scan to highlight motion contrast in the sample. An image displaying intraretinal fluid in the eye is generated using the first and second motion contrast images and then displayed or stored or a further analysis thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignees: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, INC., CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
    Inventors: Lin An, Homayoun Bagherinia, Mary Durbin, Vincent Michael Patella
  • Patent number: 10238284
    Abstract: Methods for improved acquisition and processing of optical coherence tomography (OCT) angiography data are presented. One embodiment involves improving the acquisition of the data by evaluating the quality of different portions of the data to identify sections having non-uniform acquisition parameters or non-uniformities due to opacities in the eye such as floaters. The identified sections can then be brought to the attention of the user or automatically reacquired. In another embodiment, segmentation of layers in the retina includes both structural and flow information derived from motion contrast processing. In a further embodiment, the health of the eye is evaluating by comparing a metric reflecting the density of vessels at a particular location in the eye determined by OCT angiography to a database of values calculated on normal eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.
    Inventors: Lin An, Mary K. Durbin, Sophie Kubach, Utkarsh Sharma