Lens Patents (Class 359/642)
  • Patent number: 10761298
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens may comprise a first, a second, a third, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth and a seventh lens elements sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, and each of the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh lens elements may have an object-side surface facing toward the object side and allowing imaging rays to pass through as well as an image-side surface facing toward the image side and allowing the imaging rays to pass through. The optical imaging lens may comprise no other lens elements having refracting power beyond the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh lens elements. Through designing concave and/or convex surfaces of the four lens elements, the optical imaging lens may provide improved imaging quality and optical characteristics while the total length of the optical imaging lens may be shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ta-Cheng Fan, Yongfeng Lai, Lihua Lei
  • Patent number: 10760767
    Abstract: An illuminating lens design method and an illuminating lens. The projections of the highest points of an outer surface and an inner cavity surface of the illuminating lens on the horizontal plane are overlapped, and a horizontal profile curve of the outer surface and the inner cavity surface of the illuminating lens obtained from an arbitrary height satisfies: ( | x i | a i ) n i + ( | y i | b i ) n i = 1 where ai is the projection length of a portion of an xz section basic profile curve, which is intercepted by an xiyi plane, on the xiyi plane; bi is the projection length of a portion of a yz basic profile curve, which is intercepted by the xiyi plane, on the xiyi plane; xi, yi are coordinates of certain point on the outer horizontal profile curve and the inner horizontal profile curve; ni is a real number greater than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: YEJIA OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY (GUANGDONG) CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cheng Jiang, Jun She, Jixue Nan
  • Patent number: 10739564
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, in an order from an object side to an image side, an aperture, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: AAC Communication Technologies (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jianming Wang
  • Patent number: 10725269
    Abstract: Present embodiments provide for an optical imaging lens. The optical imaging lens includes a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element and a eighth lens element positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. Through arrangement of convex or concave surfaces of the eight lens elements, the length of the optical imaging lens may be shortened while providing better optical characteristics and imaging quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hung-Chien Hsieh, Jiali Lian, Jing Ning
  • Patent number: 10669367
    Abstract: An embodiment relates to a polythiol composition for a plastic lens. The polythiol composition for a plastic lens according to the embodiment can produce a clear and transparent plastic lens by way of polymerizing such raw materials as a polythiol compound, an isocyanate, a photoactive color correcting agent, and the like, followed by a simple post-process such as irradiation of ultraviolet rays. In addition, since the process for preparing the lens is simple and economical, the lens is advantageously used for manufacturing various plastic lenses such as eyeglass lenses and camera lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: SKC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Mo Hong, Jongmin Shim, Junghwan Shin
  • Patent number: 10663720
    Abstract: An optical lens of the present disclosure assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, an optical filter and a sensor. The optical lens also has an axis. The first lens element, the fourth lens element and the sixth lens element have negative power. The second lens element, the third lens element and the fifth lens element have positive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wan-Chien Yang
  • Patent number: 10648638
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for obtaining a light-scattering assembly in particular for a motor vehicle, the light-scattering assembly comprising a part including first and second sections. The process includes forming, by injection molding, the first section of the light-scattering assembly, the first section forming a transparent scattering screen having microstructures obtained by injection molding and configured to scatter light passing through said first section, and forming, by injection molding, the second section, the second section being devoid of microstructures obtained by injection molding and configured to scatter light. The second section has an external region extending around at least some of the perimeter of the first section, the external region extending beyond a peripheral portion of the first section [and away from the first section, the first and second sections being formed in contact with each other and being united with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Lingxuan Zhu
  • Patent number: 10642003
    Abstract: An optical image capturing module includes a lens assembly and a circuit assembly. The circuit substrate has a through hole. A lower surface of the circuit substrate has multiple circuit contacts. A sensing surface of an image sensing component has multiple image contacts. Each image contact is electrically connected to one of the circuit contacts via a signal transmission element, thereby the sensing surface directly faces the through hole. The lens base made of an opaque material has a receiving hole. The lens assembly includes a lens base disposed on an upper surface of the circuit substrate and a lens group, thereby the sensing surface directly faces the receiving hole via the through hole. The image sensing component is located in the receiving hole. The lens group includes at least two lenses having refractive power, and is disposed on the lens base and is located in the receiving hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Ability Opto-Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 10613338
    Abstract: There are several types of plenoptic devices and camera arrays available on the market, and all these light field acquisition devices have their proprietary file format. However, there is no standard supporting the acquisition and transmission of multi-dimensional information. It is interesting to obtain information related to a correspondence between pixels of a sensor of said optical acquisition system and an object space of said optical acquisition system. Indeed, knowing which portion of the object space of an optical acquisition system a pixel belonging to the sensor of said optical acquisition system is sensing enables the improvement of signal processing operations. The notion of pixel beam, which represents a volume occupied by a set of rays of light in an object space of an optical system of a camera along with a compact format for storing such information is thus introduce.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Laurent Blonde, Valter Drazic, Mozhdeh Seifi
  • Patent number: 10606070
    Abstract: An ocular optical system for imaging of imaging rays entering an eye of an observer via the ocular optical system from a display screen is provided. A side facing towards the eye is an eye-side, and a side facing towards the display screen is a display-side. The ocular optical system includes a first lens element, a second lens element, and a third lens element from the eye-side to the display-side in order along an optical axis. The first lens element, the second lens element, and the third lens element each include an eye-side surface and a display-side surface. The second lens element has positive refracting power, and the display-side surface of the second lens element has a concave portion in a vicinity of the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Matthew Bone
  • Patent number: 10598894
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Setsu Sato, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang
  • Patent number: 10590218
    Abstract: Radiopaque polymer compositions and methods for making the compositions are provided. These radiopaque polymer compositions include polymer compositions comprising a crosslinked polymer network, the network comprising a first repeating unit derived from a monofunctional monomer and a second repeating unit derived from a crosslinker monomer or oligomer having more than two polymerizable groups. Devices formed from radiopaque polymer compositions are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: ENDOSHAPE, INC.
    Inventors: Stephen D. Goodrich, Jeffrey P. Castleberry
  • Patent number: 10584223
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical member comprising a silicone material having excellent antifouling property while having good light transmittance, heat resistance, and strength, and an optical semiconductor device and illumination apparatus having excellent antifouling property. The present invention is an optical member comprising a silicone material containing a fluorinated surface, the proportion of F atoms being from 0.1 to 45 at % and/or the ratio of F atoms relative to C atoms being from 0.01 to 1.00 in the atomic composition percentage according to X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) of the fluorinated surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignees: Dow Toray Co., Ltd., Dow Silicones Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher S. McMillan, Kazutaka Mori, Hiroaki Yoshida, Shin Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10578949
    Abstract: A Fresnel lens includes multiple different zones. At least one of the zones may be an asymmetric zone that is radially asymmetric. The asymmetric zone may redirect light received from a light source located within a focal length of the Fresnel lens to a portion of a field of view of an image sensor. In some embodiments, multiple asymmetric zones may be implemented within the same Fresnel lens, which may have different radial asymmetry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Blake M. Coughenour
  • Patent number: 10545313
    Abstract: An optical assembly for a point action camera with a wide field of view has multiple lens elements configured to provide a field of view in excess of 150 degrees. One or more lens elements has an aspheric surface with an approximately 30 microns or less sag and an approximately 25 microns/millimeter or less aspheric sag slope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Navitar Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Russell Hudyma, Michael Thomas
  • Patent number: 10527762
    Abstract: A device comprises at least one optics member (O) comprising at least one transparent portion (t) and at least one blocking portion (b). The at least one transparent portion (t) is made of one or more materials substantially transparent for light of at least a specific spectral range, referred to as transparent materials, and the at least one blocking portion (b) is made of one or more materials substantially non-transparent for light of the specific spectral range, referred to as non-transparent materials. The transparent portion (t) comprises at least one passive optical component (L). The at least one passive optical component (L) comprises a transparent element (6) having two opposing approximately flat surfaces substantially perpendicular to a vertical direction in a distance approximately equal to a thickness of the at least one blocking portion (b) measured along the vertical direction, and, attached to the transparent element (6), at least one optical structure (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: AMS SENSORS SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Hartmut Rudmann, Susanne Westenhöfer, Bojan Tesanovic
  • Patent number: 10514158
    Abstract: A light source device includes: a holder that has a first surface and a second surface located higher than the first surface, and is an integral structure; a semiconductor light-emitting device on the first surface; an optical element unit that is disposed above the semiconductor light-emitting device, and has a reflective surface that inclines with respect to the first surface and reflects emitted light from the semiconductor light-emitting device; and a phosphor optical element that is disposed on the second surface and irradiated with reflected light from the optical element unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaharu Fukakusa, Hideo Yamaguchi, Hirotaka Ueno, Kazuhiko Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 10513168
    Abstract: A vehicular optical system includes an optical device disposed to acquire information on an environment outside a vehicle cabin, a transparent member disposed on a front surface of the optical device via a predetermined closed space, an anti-fogging sheet disposed in a first region of an inner surface of the transparent member in the closed space, the first region being within an angle of view of the optical device, and a dew condensation portion disposed in a second region of the inner surface of the transparent member in the closed space, the second region being out of the angle of view of the optical device and dew condensation being more likely to occur in the dew condensation portion than in the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Maeta, Takahiro Adachi, Takeki Mori, Kazumi Chida
  • Patent number: 10466435
    Abstract: A dual lens driving apparatus includes a holder, a metal yoke, a carrier, a coil, a first magnet, a first elastic element and a second elastic element. The metal yoke is corresponding to the holder and includes a front end which includes a plate surface and a plurality of step portions, and a level difference is between each of the step portions and the plate surface. The carrier is movably disposed in the metal yoke. The coil is disposed around the carrier. The first magnet is disposed in the metal yoke. The first elastic element is assembled on a side of the carrier facing the front end of the metal yoke. The second elastic element is assembled on another side of the carrier facing the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: LARGAN DIGITAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Te-Sheng Tseng, Wen-Hung Hsu, Yung-Chun Kang
  • Patent number: 10466450
    Abstract: A camera module, which is mounted on an inside of a front windshield of a vehicle and to image an external environment of the vehicle, includes a lens unit and an imager to image the external environment by forming an optical image, which is from the external environment through the lens unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuki Furutake, Takeshi Kazama, Soji Masui
  • Patent number: 10459203
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes: a first lens having a concave image-side surface; a second lens having refractive power; a third lens having a concave image-side surface; a fourth lens having a concave object-side surface or a convex image-side surface; a fifth lens having refractive power; a sixth lens having a concave image-side surface; and a seventh lens having negative refractive power. The first to seventh lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side and 1.62<(N2+N5+N6)/3, where N2 is a refractive index of the second lens, N5 is a refractive index of the fifth lens, and N6 is a refractive index of the sixth lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho Sik Yoo, Dong Shin Yang, Yong Joo Jo, Sot Eum Seo
  • Patent number: 10459258
    Abstract: A method of designing a meta optical device is provided. The method includes: setting, via a processor, design data for arrangement and dimensions of a nanostructure of the meta optical device, according to a function to be implemented by the meta optical device; obtaining a phase change graph with respect to a change in the dimensions; setting a shape dimension region with phase defect in the phase change graph; and substituting a shape dimension with phase defect, which is included in the shape dimension region with phase defect among the dimensions included in the design data, with a substitution value that is outside the shape dimension region with phase defect. Accordingly, a meta optical device having no phase defect is implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chanwook Baik, Changwon Lee, Heejeong Jeong, Jaekwan Kim, Byonggwon Song, Jeongyub Lee
  • Patent number: 10451852
    Abstract: An imaging lens assembly includes a plurality of lens elements, wherein at least one of the lens elements is a dual molded lens element. The dual molded lens element includes a light transmitting portion and a light absorbing portion. The light transmitting portion includes an effective optical section and a first annular surface. The light absorbing portion is located on at least one surface of an object-side surface and an image-side surface of the dual molded lens element, wherein a plastic material and a color of the light absorbing portion are different from a plastic material and a color of the light transmitting portion, and the light absorbing portion includes an opening and a second annular surface. A step surface of the second annular surface is formed by the first annular surface and the second annular surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming-Ta Chou, I-Wei Lai
  • Patent number: 10437012
    Abstract: An optical imaging system leveraging an ultra-thin flat metalens to increase system functionality with a reduced set of imaging sensors. The optical imaging system is particularly adept at reconfiguring to and camouflaging within its external environmental.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Inventor: Michael Gurin
  • Patent number: 10436952
    Abstract: A plastic lens element includes an effective optical portion and a peripheral portion in order from an optical axis to an edge thereof. The peripheral portion includes a plurality of rib structures, wherein each of the rib structures has a strip shape in a radial direction of the optical axis, and the rib structures are arranged around the effective optical portion and indirectly connected to the effective optical portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 10437019
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Oinuma, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang
  • Patent number: 10409331
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cover glass capable of preventing malfunction of an electrostatic touch screen and expressing a design characteristic of unique texture. The cover glass used for an electrostatic touch screen in an electronic device includes: a glass substrate provided with finely curved parts; and a window decoration made of a metallic material and provided on one surface of the glass substrate so as to correspond to the finely curved parts, wherein the window decoration comprises a plurality of metallic thin film figures electrically insulated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: ELK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chul Park
  • Patent number: 10386599
    Abstract: Present embodiments provide for ocular optical systems. An ocular optical system for imaging of imaging rays entering an eye of an observer via the ocular optical system and a pupil of the eye of the observer from a display screen, may comprise four lens elements positioned sequentially from an eye side to a display side. By controlling the refracting power and the surface shape of the lens elements and designing parameters satisfying at least one inequality, the ocular optical system may exhibit better optical characteristics and the half apparent field of view of the ocular optical system may be broadened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Matthew Bone, Maozong Lin, Feng Li
  • Patent number: 10387580
    Abstract: A method for designing freeform surface is provided. An initial surface is established. A plurality of feature rays are selected. A plurality of intersections of the plurality of feature rays with an unknown freeform surface are calculated based on a given object-image relationship and a vector form of the Snell's law. The plurality of intersections are a plurality of feature data points. An unknown freeform surface equation is obtained by surface fitting the plurality of feature data points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tong Yang, Jun Zhu, Guo-Fan Jin, Shou-Shan Fan
  • Patent number: 10359607
    Abstract: An image capturing lens assembly includes five lens elements, which are, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has negative refractive power. The fourth lens element has positive refractive power. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and includes at least one convex critical point in an off-axis region thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Che Hsueh, Chien-Hsun Wu, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 10317651
    Abstract: A camera module, which is mounted on an inside of a front windshield of a vehicle and to image an external environment of the vehicle, includes a lens unit and an imager to image the external environment by forming an optical image, which is from the external environment through the lens unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuki Furutake, Takeshi Kazama, Soji Masui
  • Patent number: 10308755
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sheet-forming body containing a thiourethane bond-having compound and a thiol group-having compound, wherein, in an IR absorption spectrum thereof, the ratio of the peak intensity A of the absorption peak based on the carbonyl group in the thiourethane bond to the peak intensity B of the absorption peak based on the thiol group (A/B) is 20 or more and 250 or less. Using the sheet-forming body, rubber members, especially vulcanized rubber members can be strongly bonded, and the sheet-forming body and an adhesive sheet, which are excellent in handleability and workability, and a laminate produced by bonding rubber layers using the sheet-forming body are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takenobu Ishihara, Shuyou Akama, Atsushi Hara
  • Patent number: 10287491
    Abstract: A coated phosphor comprises phosphor particles, wherein said phosphor particles comprise manganese-activated complex fluoride phosphors; and a coating on individual ones of said phosphor particles, said coating comprising a layer of carboxylic acid material encapsulating the individual phosphor particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Intematix Corporation
    Inventor: Dejie Tao
  • Patent number: 10288847
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is made of glass material, the second lens is made of plastic material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of plastic material, and the sixth lens is made of plastic material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Setsu Sato, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Yanli Xie
  • Patent number: 10274699
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is made of plastic material, the second lens is made of glass material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of plastic material, and the sixth lens is made of glass material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Chunhuan Fang, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Dan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10255389
    Abstract: A method for designing freeform surface off-axial three-mirror imaging system with a real exit pupil is related. An initial system is established. A surface located before the real exit pupil is defined as surface M. A number of feature rays are selected. A number of ideal intersections of the feature rays with surface M are calculated. A number of intersections of the feature rays with each surface before surface M are calculated, and each surface before surface M is obtained by surface fitting. A number of intersections of the feature rays with surface M are calculated, and surface M is obtained by surface fitting. Surface M substitute for an initial surface, and repeating steps above, until the intersections of the feature rays with surface M are close to the ideal intersections, and the intersections of the feature rays with an image surface are close to the ideal image points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tong Yang, Jun Zhu, Guo-Fan Jin, Shou-Shan Fan
  • Patent number: 10255388
    Abstract: A method for designing off-axial optical system with freeform surfaces is provided. An initial system is established. A freeform surface of the off-axial optical system that needs to be solved is defined as a freeform surface. A number of feature rays are selected. A number of intersections of the feature rays with the freeform surface are calculated point by point based on a given object-image relationship and a vector form of Snell's law. A number of first feature data points are obtained from the intersections and surface fitted to obtain the freeform surface. All the freeform surfaces of the off-axial optical system that need to be solved are obtained by the method above to form a before-iteration off-axial optical system. The before-iteration off-axial optical system is used as the initial system for multiple iterations to obtain an after-iteration off-axial optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Zhu, Tong Yang, Xiao-Fei Wu, Guo-Fan Jin, Shou-Shan Fan
  • Patent number: 10254518
    Abstract: A zoom lens with a bent optical path includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens unit including the reflecting member and having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, a third lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power. During zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end, the second lens unit moves closer to the first lens unit only toward the object side, the third lens unit moves in such a way that it becomes closest to the second lens unit at an intermediate focal length position in the course of zooming as compared to the state at the wide angle end and the state at the telephoto end, and the fourth lens unit moves. The zoom lens satisfies a certain condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Ono, Tetsuya Yanai, Masato Katayose
  • Patent number: 10234689
    Abstract: An optic to transform incident light emitted by a light source to form an irradiation pattern on a projection surface has a freeform surface formed by a union of an aspheric lens and a collection of Cartesian ovals. Each Cartesian oval is a lens focusing the incident light to a point and the collection of Cartesian ovals directs the incident light to a collection of points forming a border of the irradiation pattern. The aspheric lens is a portion of a refractive lens directing the incident light to form an interior of the irradiation pattern. The aspheric lens is combined with the collection of Cartesian ovals to form the union, such that each Cartesian oval shares a radiant focus of the refractive lens and makes a tangential contact with the surface of the aspheric lens at a single point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Brand
  • Patent number: 10215968
    Abstract: A curved-type optical lens assembly and an electronic device are provided. The optical lens assembly focuses an image of an object on the image sensor. The optical lens assembly includes a reflector configured to reflect incident light, a lens array including a plurality of lenses arranged between the reflector and the image sensor, a first light blocker arranged at an object side of the reflector to block the light, and a second light blocker arranged at an image side of the reflector to block the light. The optical lens assembly further includes a first optical axis of the light proceeding towards the reflector and a second optical axis of the light reflected by the reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-cheol Bae, Shi-hong Park, Ki-woo Lee
  • Patent number: 10215363
    Abstract: An optical element includes a light receiving surface 101 covering a light source on a plane and an exit surface 103. When the central axis is AX, the intersection of AX with the plane is P0, and in a cross section containing AX, an angle between a line connecting P0 and P on 101 and AX is ?r, an angle between a normal to 103 at Q and AX is ?, a distance from AX to Q is r, the maximum value of r on 103 is rmax, and ?r and ? are positive when measured clockwise with respect to AX, ? has plural positive local maximum and minimum values as a function of r in 0.5rmax?r, in an area of 103 through which a ray travelling from P0 at a positive angle ?r passes, and the shape of 103 is symmetric with respect to AX.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: NALUX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsumoto Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10210289
    Abstract: A method for designing three-dimensional freeform surface is provided. An initial surface and a first three-dimensional rectangular coordinates system are established. A number of feature rays are selected. A number of intersections of the feature rays with a first freeform surface are calculated, wherein the intersections are a number of feature data points. The first freeform surface is obtained by surface fitting the feature data points. An equation of the first freeform surface includes a conic term and a freeform surface term. The first freeform surface is taken as the initial surface for an iteration process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Zhu, Tong Yang, Xiao-Fei Wu, Guo-Fan Jin, Shou-Shan Fan
  • Patent number: 10197237
    Abstract: A lighting device according to an embodiment includes a socket unit, a light emitting unit, and a lid unit. The light emitting unit is provided in an accommodation unit of the socket unit, and includes a light emitting element. The lid unit closes the accommodation unit of the socket unit, and is formed with an opening portion which causes light radiated from the light emitting element to pass through. An end face of the light emitting unit on the opening portion side overlaps with the opening portion in the thickness direction of the lid unit, and is located on the light emitting unit side rather than an end face of the lid unit on a side opposite to the light emitting unit side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: TOSHIBA LIGHTING & TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Kosugi, Ryuji Tsuchiya, Toshihiro Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 10185135
    Abstract: Described herein is a lens having at least one object-side and at least one image-side refractive surface. In order to determine a light intensity of an effective luminous flux propagating through the lens without the need for additional components for coupling light out, the lens includes a reflective surface arranged between the object-side and the image-side refractive surfaces and aligned obliquely to the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Jabil Optics Germany GmbH
    Inventor: Carsten Stelzer
  • Patent number: 10156696
    Abstract: The imaging lens consists of a first lens group G1, an aperture stop St, and a positive second lens group G2, in order from an object side. The first lens group G1 consists of a 1-1st negative meniscus lens L11 with its convex surface toward the object side, a 1-2nd negative lens L12 with its concave surface toward an image side, a 1-3rd positive lens L13 having a biconvex shape, a 1-4th negative meniscus lens L14 with its convex surface toward the object side, and a 1-5th positive lens L15 with its convex surface toward the object side, in order from the object side. Predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied which relate to a focal length of the whole system, a focal length of the first lens group G1, and a distance on an optical axis between the 1-4th negative meniscus lens L14 and the 1-5th positive lens L15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Okada, Michio Cho
  • Patent number: 10139588
    Abstract: The imaging lens includes a first lens group fixed during focusing and a positive second lens group moving to an object side during focusing from a long-distance object to a short-distance object, in order from a side closest to the object. The field curvature is adjusted by moving the first lens group or a sub-lens group within the first lens group including a lens closest to the object side, as an adjustment group. A stop fixed during the adjustment of the field curvature is disposed closer to an image side than the adjustment group. Conditional expressions relating to the focal length of the whole system, the focal length of the adjustment group, and the height of a paraxial on-axis light ray in the adjustment group are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Okada, Takashi Kunugise, Yasunobu Kishine, Michio Cho
  • Patent number: 10101204
    Abstract: An initial system and a constraint condition are established. All freeform surfaces are obtained by surface fitting the feature data points to form a first freeform surface imaging optical system. The first freeform surface imaging optical system is taken as the initial system for multiple iterations to obtain a second freeform surface imaging optical system. The second freeform surface imaging optical system is taken as a first base system. A first surface freedom of the first base system is selected, the values nearby the first surface freedom is selected, and surface positions and tilts of the first base system are changed to obtain a third freeform surface imaging optical system that satisfies the constraint condition. A second base system is selected and the method above is repeated. The freeform surface imaging optical system is obtained until all freedoms for surface positions and tilts have been used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Zhu, Tong Yang, Xiao-Fei Wu, Guo-Fan Jin, Shou-Shan Fan
  • Patent number: 10089777
    Abstract: Graphics processing system configured to perform ray tracing. Rays are bundled together and processed together. When differential data is needed by a shader, the data of a true ray in the bundle can be used rather than processing separate tracker rays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Luke T. Peterson, James Jones, Aaron Dwyer
  • Patent number: 10050159
    Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device are provided. In the method for fabricating the semiconductor device, at first, a dielectric layer is provided. Then, trenches are formed in the dielectric layer. Thereafter, the trenches are filled with spacer material to form a spacer structure in the dielectric layer for defining pixel regions. Then, lens structures are formed on the pixel regions. Each of the lens structures includes a first curved lens layer, a second curved lens layer and a curved color filter layer. The curved color filter layer is disposed on the second curved lens layer or between the first curved lens layer and the second curved lens layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chien-Chih Chen, Su-Yu Yeh, Tzu-Shin Chen, Mu-Han Cheng, Chun-Hai Huang
  • Patent number: 10007034
    Abstract: An auto focusing lens includes an active lens including a lens body including electroactive polymer and a transparent electrode at least partially coated on a surface of the lens body, and a controller controlling the focus of the active lens by applying a voltage to the transparent electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Ki-Uk Kyung, Bong Je Park, Sang-Youn Kim, Sae Kwang Nam, Sun Tak Park, Sung Ryul Yun