Patents by Inventor Motoyuki Otake

Motoyuki Otake 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: 20240111129
    Abstract: A lens system for an imaging device is provided, the lens system comprising: a first lens group, having a fixed position along an optical axis Z of the lens system, the first lens group comprising a pair of lenses, each of the pair of lenses having at least one lens surface that is a free-form surface,; and a second lens group, arranged along the optical axis Z of the lens system, comprising a plurality of rotationally symmetrical lenses; wherein a first lens of the pair of lenses of the first lens group is configured to be moveable along a Y-axis of the lens system perpendicular to the optical axis Z of the lens system, and a second lens of the pair of lenses of the first lens group is configured to be moveable in an opposite direction to the first lens of the pair of lenses along the Y-axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Christin WEICHELT, Markus KAMM, Motoyuki OTAKE, Takumi MATSUI, Manabu ISHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20220146799
    Abstract: A first lens unit and a third lens unit are constituted by a lens which is rotationally symmetrical with respect to an optical axis and are disposed on the same optical axis, a first freeform-curved surface lens and a second freeform-curved surface lens have the same shape and are disposed to be rotated at 180 degrees with respect to the optical axis, the first freeform-curved surface lens and the second freeform-curved surface lens are movable in a Y-axis direction when the optical axes of the first lens unit and the third lens unit are set to be a Z-axis, an axis perpendicular to the Z-axis on an image surface is set to be a Y-axis, and an axis perpendicular to the Y-axis and the Z-axis on the image surface is set to be an X-axis, a refractive power of the second lens unit is variable due to the first freeform-curved surface lens and the second freeform-curved surface lens moving in opposite directions, and the first freeform-curved surface lens and the second freeform-curved surface lens are moved in the Y
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: MOTOYUKI OTAKE, TAKUMI MATSUI, MANABU ISHIOKA, CHRISTIN WEICHELT, HIROSHI USHIDA, MARKUS KAMM
  • 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: 9019618
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a variable focal length lens system including: a first lens group having a positive refracting power; a second lens group having a negative refracting power; a third lens group having a negative refracting power; a fourth lens group having a positive refracting power; and a fifth lens group having a positive refracting power; all of the first to fifth lens groups moving, when a positional state of the variable focal length lens system changes from a wide angle end state to a telephoto end state; the fifth lens group being configured from a first sub lens group and a second sub lens group; and the variable focal length lens system satisfying the following expression (1): 0.5<Dsub/fw<0.9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Motoyuki Otake
  • Patent number: 8953093
    Abstract: There is provided An imaging lens including a first lens group having a positive refractive power, an aperture stop, and a second lens group having a positive refractive power that are configured to be arranged sequentially from an object side to an image side. Focus is achieved by fixing the first lens group in an optical axis direction and moving the second lens group from the image side to the object side when a subject distance is changed from infinity to proximity. The first lens group includes an object-side lens group having a negative refractive power and an image-side lens group having a positive refractive power that are configured to be arranged sequentially from the object side to the image side. In an air space of the first lens group, an air space between the object-side lens group and the image-side lens group is set to be maximum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kouji Katou, Yumiko Uehara, Motoyuki Otake
  • Patent number: 8836846
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes: first, second, third and fourth lens groups having negative power, positive power, negative power and positive power, respectively, and sequentially arranged from an object side toward an image side. When the magnification at a wide angle side is changed to the magnification at a telescopic side, the first lens group is so moved along an optical axis that the distance between the first lens group and the second lens group decreases, and the second third and fourth lens groups are moved from the image side toward the object side, the third lens group is moved along the optical axis for focusing, and the zoom lens satisfies the following conditional expression (1) ?2.0<f3/?(fw×ft)<?0.3??(1) where f3, fw and ft represent the focal lengths of the third lens group, the entire lens system at the wide angle end, and the entire lens system at the telescopic end, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Kanai, Motoyuki Otake, Masaharu Hosoi, Toshihiro Sunaga, Masaki Maruyama
  • Patent number: 8810931
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging lens including a fixed first lens group having a positive refractive power and including a plurality of lenses, a second lens group serving as a focus group and including a negative lens, and a third lens group having a positive refractive power that are arranged sequentially from an object side to an image side. A stop is disposed between predetermined lenses of the first lens group, and, on an assumption that a lens group located closer to the object side than the stop of the first lens group is a 1ath lens group and a lens group located closer to the image side than the stop is a 1bth lens group, Condition Equation (1) below is satisfied: 0.7<f/f1b<2.0,??(1) where f is a focal distance of an entire system and f1b is a focal distance of the 1bth lens group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Sunaga, Motoyuki Otake, Masaharu Hosoi
  • Patent number: 8767321
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging lens including a fixed first lens group having a negative refractive power, a second lens group having a positive refractive power, a stop, a third lens group including a cemented lens, a fourth lens group including a positive lens, a fifth lens group serving as a focus group and including a negative lens, and a sixth lens group including a positive lens that are arranged sequentially from an object side to an image side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Sunaga, Motoyuki Otake
  • Publication number: 20140071331
    Abstract: There is provided An imaging lens including a first lens group having a positive refractive power, an aperture stop, and a second lens group having a positive refractive power that are configured to be arranged sequentially from an object side to an image side. Focus is achieved by fixing the first lens group in an optical axis direction and moving the second lens group from the image side to the object side when a subject distance is changed from infinity to proximity. The first lens group includes an object-side lens group having a negative refractive power and an image-side lens group having a positive refractive power that are configured to be arranged sequentially from the object side to the image side. In an air space of the first lens group, an air space between the object-side lens group and the image-side lens group is set to be maximum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouji Katou, Yumiko Uehara, Motoyuki Otake
  • Patent number: 8649107
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes: a first lens group having negative refractive power; a diaphragm; a second lens group having positive refractive power; a third lens group having negative refractive power; and a fourth lens group having positive refractive power, arranged in order from an object side. The first lens group is configured by at least one negative lens and one positive lens. The third lens group is configured by one negative lens. Then power is changed from a wide angle end state to a telephoto end state, the first, second, and third lens groups are moved in the direction of an optical axis, and the fourth lens group is fixed. When focusing, the third lens group is moved in the direction of the optical axis so as to satisfy the following Conditional Equations, ?2.8<f3/fw<?0.5??(1) 2.0<f4/fw<15.0??(2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masaharu Hosoi, Motoyuki Otake, Naoki Miyagawa
  • Publication number: 20140028891
    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 groups 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, thereby transition of the lens system from wide end state to telephoto end state being accomplished, 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: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Inventors: Motoyuki Otake, Naoki Miyagawa
  • Publication number: 20130242165
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a variable focal length lens system including: a first lens group having a positive refracting power; a second lens group having a negative refracting power; a third lens group having a negative refracting power; a fourth lens group having a positive refracting power; and a fifth lens group having a positive refracting power; all of the first to fifth lens groups moving, when a positional state of the variable focal length lens system changes from a wide angle end state to a telephoto end state; the fifth lens group being configured from a first sub lens group and a second sub lens group; and the variable focal length lens system satisfying the following expression (1): 0.5<Dsub/fw<0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Motoyuki Otake
  • Publication number: 20130235251
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes: first, second, third and fourth lens groups having negative power, positive power, negative power and positive power, respectively, and sequentially arranged from an object side toward an image side. When the magnification at a wide angle side is changed to the magnification at a telescopic side, the first lens group is so moved along an optical axis that the distance between the first lens group and the second lens group decreases, and the second third and fourth lens groups are moved from the image side toward the object side, the third lens group is moved along the optical axis for focusing, and the zoom lens satisfies the following conditional expression (1) ?2.0<f3/?(fw×ft)??0.3 ??(1) where f3, fw and ft represent the focal lengths of the third lens group, the entire lens system at the wide angle end, and the entire lens system at the telescopic end, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Kanai, Motoyuki Otake, Masaharu Hosoi, Toshihiro Sunaga, Masaki Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20130033763
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging lens including a fixed first lens group having a negative refractive power, a second lens group having a positive refractive power, a stop, a third lens group including a cemented lens, a fourth lens group including a positive lens, a fifth lens group serving as a focus group and including a negative lens, and a sixth lens group including a positive lens that are arranged sequentially from an object side to an image side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Sunaga, Motoyuki Otake
  • Publication number: 20130033768
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging lens including a fixed first lens group having a positive refractive power and including a plurality of lenses, a second lens group serving as a focus group and including a negative lens, and a third lens group having a positive refractive power that are arranged sequentially from an object side to an image side. A stop is disposed between predetermined lenses of the first lens group, and, on an assumption that a lens group located closer to the object side than the stop of the first lens group is a 1ath lens group and a lens group located closer to the image side than the stop is a 1bth lens group, Condition Equation (1) below is satisfied: 0.7<f/f1b<2.0,??(1) where f is a focal distance of an entire system and f1b is a focal distance of the 1bth lens group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Sunaga, Motoyuki Otake, Masaharu Hosoi
  • Publication number: 20120212842
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes: a first lens group; a diaphragm; a second lens group having positive refractive power; and a third lens group having negative refractive power, which are arranged in order from an object side, wherein the first lens group is configured by at least one positive lens and one negative lens, wherein the second lens group is configured by a negative lens, a positive lens, and a positive lens in order from the object side, and wherein, when focusing is performed, the second lens group is moved in a direction of an optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masaharu Hosoi, Motoyuki Otake
  • Publication number: 20120212833
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes: a first lens group having negative refractive power; a diaphragm; a second lens group having positive refractive power; a third lens group having negative refractive power; and a fourth lens group having positive refractive power, arranged in order from an object side. The first lens group is configured by at least one negative lens and one positive lens. The third lens group is configured by one negative lens. Then power is changed from a wide angle end state to a telephoto end state, the first, second, and third lens groups are moved in the direction of an optical axis, and the fourth lens group is fixed. When focusing, the third lens group is moved in the direction of the optical axis so as to satisfy the following Conditional Equations, ?2.8<f3/fw<?0.5??(1) 2.0<f4/fw<15.0??(2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masaharu Hosoi, Motoyuki Otake, Naoki Miyagawa
  • Patent number: 7990623
    Abstract: An object is to reduce the effect of defocusing due to the movement of an image plane when a shifting lens group movable in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis for correcting hand jiggling is positionally deviated along the optical axis, thereby maintaining high optical performance at the time of correcting hand jiggling. A zoom lens 1 includes a plurality of lens groups with distances between the lens groups being changed for variable power. A final lens group L5 which is positioned most closely to an image side has a sub lens group GS (G8) having a positive refractive power and a sub lens group GR (G9) disposed adjacent to the sub lens group GS (G8) on the image side and having a positive refractive power. The sub lens group GS is shiftable in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis for correcting image blurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Hatakeyama, Daisuke Kuroda, Motoyuki Otake, Yoshito Iwasawa
  • Publication number: 20090324207
    Abstract: An object is to reduce the effect of defocusing due to the movement of an image plane when a shifting lens group movable in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis for correcting hand jiggling is positionally deviated along the optical axis, thereby maintaining high optical performance at the time of correcting hand jiggling. A zoom lens 1 includes a plurality of lens groups with distances between the lens groups being changed for variable power. A final lens group L5 which is positioned most closely to an image side has a sub lens group GS (G8) having a positive refractive power and a sub lens group GR (G9) disposed adjacent to the sub lens group GS (G8) on the image side and having a positive refractive power. The sub lens group GS is shiftable in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis for correcting image blurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Hatakeyama, Daisuke Kuroda, Motoyuki Otake, Yoshito Iwasawa
  • Patent number: 7369313
    Abstract: A zoom lens wherein the image plane movement upon lens shifting is minimized. A power variation section and a final lens group are disposed in order from an object side. The power variation section includes at least two lens groups movable in an optical axis direction to vary a lens position state. The final lens group is fixed in the optical axis direction and includes first to third sub groups having negative, positive and positive refracting powers and disposed in order from the object side. The second sub group is shiftable substantially perpendicularly to the optical axis to shift an image. A conditional expression 0.2<ft/fBt<0.8 is satisfied where ft and fBt are the focal distances of the lens system and entire lens groups disposed on the object side of the third sub group in the telephoto end state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Motoyuki Otake