Patents by Inventor Shunji Iwamoto
Shunji Iwamoto 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).
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Publication number: 20240061224Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an 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, and a rear unit having a plurality of lens units, and distances change between adjacent lens units during zooming. A predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventor: Shunji Iwamoto
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Publication number: 20240061225Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative power, and a rear unit having a positive refractive power as a whole and including one or more lens units. A distance between adjacent lens units changes during zooming. The first lens unit includes a first subunit having a positive refractive power and a second subunit disposed on the image side of the first subunit. The first subunit includes a first positive lens having the smallest absolute value of a focal length among lenses included in the first subunit. The second subunit includes a second positive lens and a first negative lens having the smallest absolute value of a focal length among negative lenses included in the second subunit. A predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventor: Shunji Iwamoto
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Publication number: 20240053591Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having positive refractive power, a second lens unit having negative refractive power, and a rear group including at least four lens units that move during zooming. Distances between adjacent lens units change during zooming. The first lens unit is fixed relative to an image plane during zooming and during focusing. The first lens unit includes at least three lenses having positive refractive powers. A predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventor: Shunji IWAMOTO
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Patent number: 11860348Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative power, and a rear unit having a positive refractive power as a whole and including one or more lens units. A distance between adjacent lens units changes during zooming. The first lens unit includes a first subunit having a positive refractive power and a second subunit disposed on the image side of the first subunit. The first subunit includes a first positive lens having the smallest absolute value of a focal length among lenses included in the first subunit. The second subunit includes a second positive lens and a first negative lens having the smallest absolute value of a focal length among negative lenses included in the second subunit. A predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shunji Iwamoto
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Patent number: 11841489Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an 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, and a rear unit having a plurality of lens units, and distances change between adjacent lens units during zooming. A predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shunji Iwamoto
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Publication number: 20230384570Abstract: A zoom lens consists of, in order from an object side to an image side, a front lens unit, intermediate and rear groups. The front lens unit has positive refractive power. The intermediate group includes a plurality of lens units and has a negative combined focal length at a wide-angle end. The rear group includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first rear lens unit having positive refractive power, a second rear lens unit having negative refractive power, and a third rear lens unit having positive refractive power, and a fourth rear lens unit having negative refractive power. A distance between adjacent lens units changes during zooming. During zooming, the front lens unit, the first rear lens unit, and the third rear lens unit are fixed relative to an image plane. During focusing, the second rear lens unit moves relative to the image plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventor: Shunji IWAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230305277Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens unit having negative refractive power, a second lens unit having positive refractive power, and a rear lens group including one or more lens units. The zoom lens includes an aperture stop. The rear lens group includes a focus lens unit having negative refractive power that is moved to an image side in focusing from an infinite to a close distance and at least one lens unit arranged on the image side of the focus lens unit. The first lens unit includes three or more negative lenses. The focus lens unit includes a cemented lens or a single lens. The zoom lens satisfies a predetermined inequality.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2022Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Hiroki Ebe, Shunji Iwamoto
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Publication number: 20230266583Abstract: An optical system includes a plurality of lens units. The lens units consisting of, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit, a second lens unit having positive refractive power, a third lens unit, a fourth lens unit having positive refractive power, and a fifth lens unit. During focusing, the first lens unit, the third lens unit, and the fifth lens unit are fixed, and the second lens unit and the fourth lens unit move. The second lens unit consists of one lens component. The third lens unit includes at least one positive lens and one negative lens. The fourth lens unit includes at least two positive lenses and one negative lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2023Publication date: August 24, 2023Inventor: Shunji IWAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230213734Abstract: An optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having positive refractive power, a second lens unit having negative refractive power, a third lens unit having positive or negative refractive power, a fourth lens unit having positive refractive power, and a fifth lens unit having negative refractive power. During focusing from infinity to the shortest distance, the second lens unit and the fourth lens unit move, the first lens unit, the third lens unit, and the fifth lens unit do not move. A predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2022Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventor: SHUNJI IWAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230139677Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, and two or more additional lens units. In zooming, the first lens unit moves, and an interval between adjacent lens units changes. The refractive index of a negative lens A disposed on a most object side of negative lenses included in the first lens unit is higher than or equal to 1.89, and the negative lens A and a lens B disposed adjacent to an image side of the negative lens A satisfy a predetermined relationship.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Hiroki Ebe, Shunji Iwamoto
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Publication number: 20230010047Abstract: An optical system 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 positive refractive power. During image stabilization, the second lens unit is moved in a direction including a component in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis of the optical system, and the first lens unit and the third lens unit are fixed. A predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2022Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventor: Shunji Iwamoto
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Patent number: 11513313Abstract: The lens apparatus includes an optical system, a voltage transformation unit, and an actuator. A first lens unit of the optical system is moved toward the object side during zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end. The voltage transformation unit includes coils. The actuator is configured to be driven by a voltage output from the voltage transformation unit and to move a part of the lens units in the optical system during focusing. The coil is disposed at a position that is separated from a position of a most object-side surface of the optical system at the wide-angle end, toward the image side by a maximum or more moving amount of the first lens unit, and is closer to the object side than a most image-side surface of the optical system at the wide-angle end.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideki Sakai, Tadanori Okada, Shunji Iwamoto
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Patent number: 11448862Abstract: A zoom lens L0 includes a first lens unit L1 having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit L2 having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit L3 having a positive refractive power, an intermediate lens group LM including a plurality of lens units, and a last lens unit LR having a negative refractive power. An interval between the adjacent lens units changes during zooming. The zoom lens L0 includes an aperture stop SP. The intermediate lens group LM includes a negative lens unit LN having a negative refractive power. Both the negative lens unit LN and the last lens unit LR move to an object side during zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end. The zoom lens L0 satisfies predetermined conditional inequalities.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Makoto Nakahara, Shunji Iwamoto, Masato Katayose
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Patent number: 11307382Abstract: An optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having positive refractive power, and a second lens unit having negative refractive power, wherein the first lens unit moves and the second lens unit does not move during focusing, wherein the first lens unit includes a positive lens arranged closest on the object side of the first lens unit, wherein the second lens unit includes three or more lenses including at least two negative lenses, wherein the first lens unit consists of a first subunit having positive refractive power, a second subunit having negative refractive power, and a third subunit having positive refractive power arranged in order from the object side to the image side, and wherein predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shunji Iwamoto
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Patent number: 11300763Abstract: An optical system includes one or more positive lenses and one or more negative lenses. The first positive lens is a positive lens disposed closest to an object among the one or more positive lenses. The first negative lens is a negative lens that is disposed on an image side of the first positive lens and disposed closest to the object among the one or more negative lenses. At least one of an object side surface and an image side surface of the first positive lens is an aspherical surface. At this time, a relationship between a total lens length of the optical system L0, a focal length of the optical system L0, and a distance Dpn on an optical axis from the image side surface of the first positive lens to an object side surface of the first negative lens is defined.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shunji Iwamoto
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Publication number: 20220043243Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an 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, and a rear unit having a plurality of lens units, and distances change between adjacent lens units during zooming. A predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventor: Shunji Iwamoto
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Publication number: 20220035144Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative power, and a rear unit having a positive refractive power as a whole and including one or more lens units. A distance between adjacent lens units changes during zooming. The first lens unit includes a first subunit having a positive refractive power and a second subunit disposed on the image side of the first subunit. The first subunit includes a first positive lens having the smallest absolute value of a focal length among lenses included in the first subunit. The second subunit includes a second positive lens and a first negative lens having the smallest absolute value of a focal length among negative lenses included in the second subunit. A predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventor: Shunji Iwamoto
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Patent number: 11181717Abstract: An optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a third lens unit having a negative refractive power. The second lens unit moves during focusing and a distance between adjacent lens units changes. The second lens unit includes a cemented lens closest to an object. The cemented lens includes a positive lens and a negative lens disposed on the image side of the positive lens. A predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2020Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shunji Iwamoto
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Patent number: 11131829Abstract: The zoom lens according to the present invention includes a plurality of lens units consisting of front and rear groups having negative and positive refractive powers at a wide angle end (WAE), respectively. An interval between front and rear groups on an optical axis is longest among all intervals between adjacent ones of plurality of lens units at WAE. The rear group is disposed at an image side of front group and includes a plurality of lens units including a negative lens unit LN (LULN) disposed closest to image side. The LULN includes negative and positive lenses disposed closest to object and image sides in LULN, respectively. A focal length of LULN, a focal length of zoom lens at WAE, a distance on optical axis between a lens surface closest to object side and that closest to image side in LULN, and a back focus at WAE are appropriately set.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shunji Iwamoto
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Publication number: 20210096342Abstract: A zoom lens L0 includes a first lens unit L1 having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit L2 having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit L3 having a positive refractive power, an intermediate lens group LM including a plurality of lens units, and a last lens unit LR having a negative refractive power. An interval between the adjacent lens units changes during zooming. The zoom lens L0 includes an aperture stop SP. The intermediate lens group LM includes a negative lens unit LN having a negative refractive power. Both the negative lens unit LN and the last lens unit LR move to an object side during zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end. The zoom lens L0 satisfies predetermined conditional inequalities.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Makoto Nakahara, Shunji Iwamoto, Masato Katayose