+ - Arrangement Patents (Class 359/692)
  • Patent number: 11762177
    Abstract: The zoom lens includes, in order from object side to image side, a positive first lens unit, a negative second lens unit, a positive third lens unit, and a rear lens group including at least one lens unit, in which intervals between adjacent lens units are changed during zooming. The third lens unit includes at least two negative lenses and at least three positive lenses. An average value of partial dispersion ratios of two negative lenses having strongest refractive powers of the at least two negative lenses, an average value of partial dispersion ratios of three positive lenses having strongest refractive powers of the at least three positive lenses, an average value of Abbe numbers of the two negative lenses, an average value of Abbe numbers of the three positive lenses, a back focus, and a focal length of zoom lens at wide angle end are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenta Sudo
  • Patent number: 11736785
    Abstract: A camera module includes a circuit board, a bracket arranged on the circuit board, and at least one electronic component embedded in the bracket and/or arranged on an inner side wall of the bracket. The electronic component is electrically coupled to the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: TRIPLE WIN TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Ming-Hsun Lee
  • Patent number: 11681129
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power and a second lens unit having a positive refractive power. A distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit changes during zooming. The second lens unit includes an aperture stop and two or more negative lenses. The zoom lens satisfies specified conditional expressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masakazu Kodaira
  • Patent number: 11543634
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an optical imaging lens group including, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a refractive power; a fourth lens having a refractive power, and an image-side surface thereof being a concave surface; a fifth lens having a refractive power; a sixth lens having a refractive power, and an object-side surface thereof being a convex surface; and a seventh lens having a negative refractive power. A distance TTL along the optical axis from an object-side surface of the first lens of the optical imaging lens group to an imaging plane of the optical imaging lens group and a total effective focal length f of the optical imaging lens group satisfy TTL/f<1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Zhejiang Sunny Optical Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Xule Kong, Yabin Hu, Jianke Wenren
  • Patent number: 11480774
    Abstract: An optical system includes a front lens group consisting of at least one lens unit that moves during focusing and having a positive refractive power, and a rear lens group consisting of a lens unit that is immobile during focusing and having a negative refractive power. The rear lens group includes at least two negative lenses and one positive lens. The front lens group and the rear lens group satisfy a predetermined inequality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kana Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11175481
    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 plastic material, the third lens is made of glass material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of glass material, and the sixth lens is made of plastic material. The camera optical lens further satisfies the following conditions: ?3?f1/f??1; v3?60; 1.7?n5?2.2; 0.03?d3/TTL?0.058. The camera optical lens has the advantage of high performance and satisfies the design requirement of low TTL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki Teranishi, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Yingnan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11106011
    Abstract: A photographing lens system includes seven lens elements, the seven lens elements being, 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, and a seventh lens element. Each of the seven lens elements has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The image-side surface of the seventh lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof and has at least one inflection point in an off-axis region thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 11009676
    Abstract: The imaging lens consists of, in order from the object side, a positive first lens group that moves to the object side during focusing from a long distance to a short distance, and a second lens group that does not move during focusing. The first lens group has a first-B sub-lens group. The first-B sub-lens group consists of, in order from the object side, a positive b1 lens, a negative b2 lens concave toward the image side, an aperture stop, a negative b3 lens concave toward the object side, and a positive b4 lens. The second lens group consists of, in order from the object side, a negative lens, a positive lens, and a negative lens. Predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Okada
  • Patent number: 10841475
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a camera assembly and an electronic device. The camera assembly and the electronic device may both include a first plate, a second plate, a first electromagnetic component, a second electromagnetic component and an elastic component. The elastic component is connected between the second plate and the second electromagnetic component. The first electromagnetic component may be configured to generate or eliminate electromagnetic force between the first electromagnetic component and the first plate. The second electromagnetic component may be configured to generate or eliminate electromagnetic force between the second electromagnetic component and the second plate. The camera module may be driven to move under the generation or elimination of the electromagnetic force and the elastic force of the elastic component. Thus, the adaptability of the camera assembly may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10409039
    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 glass 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: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Oinuma, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Yang Zhang
  • Patent number: 9726853
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an auto-focus camera module. The auto-focus camera module comprises a lens module equipped with at least one lens and including an cylindrical insertion unit formed therein; and a carrier formed with a hollow portion, into which the insertion unit of the lens module is inserted in an optical axis direction of the lens, wherein the lens module includes a first rotation prevention portion, the carrier includes a second rotation prevention portion formed at a position corresponding to the first rotation prevention portion, and in a state where the insertion unit of the lens module is inserted into the hollow portion of the carrier, the first rotation prevention portion and the second rotation prevention portion are engaged with each other so as to prevent the lens module from being rotated with respect to the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Taehyok Kim, Youngbok Yu, Sunggoo Her, Youngkwon Yoon
  • Patent number: 9678306
    Abstract: A compact, low-profile, low-cost imaging lens with an F-value of 2.5 or less and a wide field of view which corrects aberrations properly. Its elements are arranged from an object side to an image side: a first positive optical element group including a first positive lens having a convex object-side surface, a second negative lens having a concave image-side surface, and a third positive lens having a convex object-side surface; a second positive optical element group including a fourth positive lens having a convex image-side surface; and a third negative optical element group including a fifth negative double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image-side surface. The fifth lens image-side surface has at least one pole-change point off an optical axis. A double-sided aspheric aberration correction optical element with virtually no refractive power is located in an air gap nearer to the image plane than the first optical element group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 9671596
    Abstract: A plurality of imaging optical systems includes at least two imaging optical systems, and each imaging optical system includes an identical diaphragm member. Each imaging optical system includes in order from an object side, a front lens unit having a positive refractive power, a focusing lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a rear lens unit having a positive refractive power. The diaphragm member is disposed near the focusing lens unit. At the time of focusing, only the focusing lens unit moves on an optical axis. Each imaging optical system satisfies the following conditional expression (1), and the plurality of imaging optical systems satisfies the following conditional expressions (2) and (3). 0.5<fff/ffb<1.9??(1) 1?AP?max/AP?min?1.15??(2) 1.02<ffoLA/ffoSM<2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuteru Kawamura, Kazuyuki Iwasa
  • Patent number: 9625687
    Abstract: The 1st positive lens unit is located closer to the object side at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end. The distance between the 1st negative lens unit and the 1st positive lens unit is larger at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end. The distance between the image side lens unit group and the 1st negative lens unit varies during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end. The image side lens unit group comprises a 2nd positive lens unit and a 3rd positive lens unit. The distance between the 2nd positive lens unit and the 1st negative lens unit is smaller at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end. The distance between the 3rd positive lens unit and the 2nd positive lens unit varies during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Takahashi, Hiroshi Kodama
  • Patent number: 9557540
    Abstract: A plurality of imaging optical systems includes at least two imaging optical systems having different focal lengths. Each imaging optical system includes in order from an object side, a front lens unit having a positive refractive power, a diaphragm member, a focusing lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a rear lens unit. The front lens unit includes one of a positive lens and a negative lens as a common lens, and each of at least two imaging optical systems from among the plurality of imaging optical systems includes at least one common lens. At the time of focusing, only the focusing lens unit moves on an optical axis. Each imaging optical system satisfies the following conditional expression (1), and the plurality of imaging optical systems satisfy the following conditional expression (2). 0.06<|ffo/f|<0.4??(1) 1.02<ffoLA/ffoSM<2.50??(2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuteru Kawamura, Kazuyuki Iwasa
  • Patent number: 9507117
    Abstract: There is provided a lens module including: a first lens group including a plurality of lenses mounted in a lens barrel in a state in which optical axes thereof are aligned with each other by coupling therebetween; and a second lens group including a plurality of lenses sequentially mounted in the lens barrel, such that optical axes thereof are aligned with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kwang Yun Choi
  • Patent number: 9435986
    Abstract: An optical image capturing system 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 and a seventh lens element. The first, the second and the third lens elements all have refractive power. The fourth lens element with refractive power has both surfaces being aspheric. The fifth lens element with refractive power has both surfaces being aspheric. The sixth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface having at least one convex shape at a peripheral region thereof and both surfaces being aspheric. The seventh lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface having at least one convex shape at a peripheral region thereof, wherein both surfaces being aspheric, and at least one surface has at least one inflection point thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 9325908
    Abstract: An image-capturing apparatus includes an image-capturing device having an image-capturing surface, a shutter unit having an aperture configured to allow light from an object to pass through the aperture, and a controller that controls the shutter unit. The shutter unit includes a curtain unit that selectively executes an opening operation of opening the aperture and a closing operation of closing the aperture, and an actuator that drives the curtain unit. The controller is operable to control the shutter unit to execute: an image-capturing operation in which the shutter unit executes the closing operation after resetting an electric charge stored in the image-capturing device; and a pre-driving operation in which the actuator drives the curtain with a small motion before executing the image-capturing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dai Shintani, Takahiro Ikeda
  • Patent number: 9297985
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a rear lens group having a positive refractive power as a whole and including at least one lens unit. An interval between the first lens unit and the rear lens group at the telephoto end is smaller than that at the wide angle end. The first lens unit includes a first aspheric lens having a positive aspheric amount, and a second aspheric lens having a negative aspheric amount on the image side of the first aspheric lens. The predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Patent number: 9213168
    Abstract: An optical image capturing system 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 and a seventh lens element. The first, the second and the third lens elements all have refractive power. The fourth lens element with refractive power has both surfaces being aspheric. The fifth lens element with refractive power has both surfaces being aspheric. The sixth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface having at least one convex shape at a peripheral region thereof and both surfaces being aspheric. The seventh lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface having at least one convex shape at a peripheral region thereof, wherein both surfaces being aspheric, and at least one surface has at least one inflection point thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 9201223
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens group having a positive refractive power on an object side and including at least three positive lenses and at least two negative lenses, and a second lens group having a negative refractive power on an image side and having a negative lens, the first and second lens groups arranged in this order from the object side with a widest air space in-between, wherein in focusing an object from infinity to a close range, only the first lens group is moved to the object side and the second lens group is fixed relative to an image plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuyasu Ohashi
  • Patent number: 9140888
    Abstract: An objective lens for an endoscope, comprising a first lens group having a negative power, an aperture stop, and a second lens group having a positive power arranged in this order from an object side, wherein the first lens group comprises at least a negative front group lens having a concave surface facing an image side, and a positive front group lens having a convex surface facing the image side arranged in this order from the object side, and the second lens group comprises at least a positive rear group lens having a convex surface facing the image side and a cemented lens formed by cementing together a negative lens and a positive lens being arranged in this order from the object side, and wherein the objective lens for an endoscope is configured to satisfy a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sachiko Fujii
  • Patent number: 9122045
    Abstract: The projection zoom lens substantially consists of a first lens group having negative refractive power, a second lens groups through a fourth lens group all having positive refractive power, a fifth lens group having positive or negative refractive power, and a sixth lens group having positive refractive power, arranged in this order from the magnification side; wherein the reduction side is telecentric. Further, the first lens group and the sixth lens group are fixed and the second lens group through the fifth lens group move along the optical axis while changing magnification. The fourth lens group substantially consists of only one positive meniscus lens with a concave surface toward the reduction side. The projection zoom lens satisfies conditional expression (1) below: 1.2<f3/f4<10.0??(1), where f3 is the focal length of the third lens group, and f4 is the focal length of the fourth lens group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaru Amano
  • Patent number: 9083885
    Abstract: A camera apparatus includes an image sensor to output an image signal, a stop aperture, a lens assembly, and a controller. The lens assembly is disposed between the image sensor on an image side of the lens assembly and the stop aperture on an object side of the lens assembly. The lens assembly includes a plurality of lens elements that collectively induce axial chromatic aberration between red, green, and blue light. The controller is coupled to receive red, green, and blue channels of the image signal. The controller includes logic that causes the controller to use the blue channel without the red or green channels of the image signal to perform image recognition on objects captured in a near-field of the lens assembly and to use the blue, red, and green channels collectively when capturing images in a far-field of the lens assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Xi Chen, Lu Gao, Xiaoyu Miao
  • Patent number: 9030750
    Abstract: An objective lens OL comprises: a first lens group G1 disposed on an object side, having positive refractive power as a whole and having a positive lens (plano-convex lens L1) which is disposed closest to the object and of which lens surface closest to the object is a plane or a surface having a low curvature, and at least one cemented lens (cemented lens CL12 or the like); a second lens group G2 disposed on an image side, having negative refractive power as a whole, and having a concave surface facing the image and a concave surface facing the object, which face each other; and a diffractive optical element GD in which two diffractive element constituents made from different optical materials are cemented, which has a diffractive optical surface D formed with diffraction grating grooves on the cemented surface, and which is disposed closer to the object than a position where a principal ray crosses the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Miwako Yoshida, Akiko Miyakawa
  • Patent number: 9019631
    Abstract: An optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element and a second lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex at a paraxial region and an image-side surface being concave at a paraxial region. The second lens element with negative refractive power is made of plastic material and has an image-side surface being concave at a paraxial region and being convex at a peripheral region, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the second lens element are aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dung-Yi Hsieh, Tsung-Han Tsai, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 8953252
    Abstract: A zoom lens comprises a first lens unit G1 having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit G2 having a negative refractive power, and a plurality of lens units G3 and G4. Zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end is carried out by changing a distance between the lens units. One of the first lens unit G1 and the second lens unit G2 has, or both the first lens unit G1 and the second lens unit G2 have a specific arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventors: Akinori Nishio, Masahiro Imamura
  • Patent number: 8953071
    Abstract: Provided is a lens optical unit, including at least one lens arranged at an object side of a solid-state image sensor. An imaging plane of the image sensor has a non-planar shape causing a sag amount in an optical axis direction to increase as a distance from an optical axis increases, and satisfies the expression: ?×Sag>0, where ? represents a Petzval curvature of an optical unit represented by ?: ? = ? k ? ? 1 r k · ( 1 n k ? - 1 n k ) , rk represents a curvature radius of a kth lens surface from the object side, nk represents a refractive index of a medium before being incident to the kth lens surface from the object side, n?k represents a refractive index of a medium after being emitted from the kth lens surface from the object side, and Sag represents a sag amount in the optical axis direction related to a given point other than the optical axis on the imaging plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki Yamano
  • Patent number: 8873154
    Abstract: A tele-side converter lens including a first unit having a positive refractive power and a second unit having a negative refractive power, in which: the first unit includes one or two positive lenses; the second unit includes one negative lens and one or two positive lenses; and average Abbe constant and partial dispersion ratio of materials of positive lenses constituting the first unit, average Abbe constant and partial dispersion ratio of materials of positive lenses constituting the second unit, an Abbe constant and a partial dispersion ratio of materials of the negative lenses constituting the second unit, combined Abbe constants of materials of the lenses constituting the respective first and second units, focal lengths of the first and second units, a refractive index of a material of a positive lens disposed closest to the object side, and a magnification of the tele-side converter lens are appropriately set, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shoichi Takemoto
  • Patent number: 8616711
    Abstract: A projection type image display apparatus in which shortening of the projection distance (widening of the angle of view) and miniaturization of the projection optic system are realized is provided. It comprises, in a traveling direction of the light, an image display element, a lens group including a plurality of lenses, a first lens, a second lens, and a mirror to reflect light emitted from the second lens to be projected obliquely on a screen in this order. The refractive power of the first lens is positive and the refractive power of the second lens is negative. The first and the second lenses are moved in an interlocked relationship with each other along an optical axis of the lens group and a movement amount of the first lens is made larger than a movement amount of the second lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiko Yatsu
  • Patent number: 8611016
    Abstract: A zoom lens system comprising a plurality of movable lens units which individually move along an optical axis at the time of zooming from a wide-angle limit to a telephoto limit during image taking, wherein at least two of the movable lens units are focusing lens units which move along the optical axis at the time of focusing from an infinity in-focus condition to a close-object in-focus condition in at least one zooming position, and among the focusing lens units, a lens unit having the absolute value, which is not the greatest absolute value, of a wobbling value at a wide-angle limit is a wobbling lens unit which senses a moving direction of the focusing lens units at the time of focusing by wobbling itself in a direction along the optical axis; an interchangeable lens apparatus; and a camera system are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Imaoka, Kyoichi Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20130265649
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens group having a positive refractive power on an object side and including at least three positive lenses and at least two negative lenses, and a second lens group having a negative refractive power on an image side and having a negative lens, the first and second lens groups arranged in this order from the object side with a widest air space in-between, wherein in focusing an object from infinity to a close range, only the first lens group is moved to the object side and the second lens group is fixed relative to an image plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Inventor: Kazuyasu OHASHI
  • Publication number: 20130258458
    Abstract: A varioscope optical unit has a positive member (9) with a positive refractive power and a negative member (11) with a negative refractive power arranged along an optical axis (OA) so that the negative member follows the positive member along an observation direction (B). At least one of the members is displaceable along the optical axis. Each member has a first termination lens surfaces (23, 27) counter to the observation direction (B) and second termination lens surface (25, 29) in the observation direction. The second termination lens surface of the positive member and the first termination lens surface of the negative member are concave when viewed in the observation direction (B) and have radii of curvature of at most 500 mm. The second termination lens surface of the negative member is convex when viewed in the observation direction (B) and has a radius of curvature of at most 70 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Artur Högele, Jürgen Liegel, Fenny Nauli
  • Publication number: 20130222925
    Abstract: A close-distance correcting lens system includes a positive first lens group and a negative second lens group, wherein traveling distances of the first lens group and the second lens group toward the object side differ from each other when carrying out a focusing operation on an object at infinity to an object at a close distance. The first lens group includes a positive first sub lens group, a negative second sub lens group, a diaphragm, and a positive third sub lens group, in that order from the object side. The second sub lens group includes an image-stabilizing lens group which is arranged to move in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis to change an imaging position of the object image to thereby correct any image shake of the object image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: PENTAX RICOH IMAGING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: PENTAX RICOH IMAGING COMPANY, LTD.
  • Publication number: 20130215294
    Abstract: A zoom lens comprises a first lens unit G1 having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit G2 having a negative refractive power, and a plurality of lens units G3 and G4. Zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end is carried out by changing a distance between the lens units. One of the first lens unit G1 and the second lens unit G2 has, or both the first lens unit G1 and the second lens unit G2 have a specific arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP.
    Inventor: Olympus Imaging Corp.
  • Publication number: 20120275035
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens unit having a positive refractive power and arranged closest to an object side. 0.50<Ym5/Yw30<1.00 is satisfied at a predetermined zoom position except for a wide-angle end and a telephoto end where Yw30 denotes an image height that provides a relative illumination of 0.3 at the wide-angle end, and Ym5 denotes an image height that provides the relative illumination of 0.05 at a predetermined zoom position except for a wide-angle end and a telephoto end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 8300320
    Abstract: A zoom lens, including: a first lens unit and a second lens unit, in which the first lens unit includes: a first lens sub unit which does not move; a second lens sub unit which moves for focusing; and a third lens sub unit which does not move; and in which the following expression is satisfied, ?2.27×10?3<(?p??na)/(?p??na)<?1.9×10?3, where ?na and ?na represent an average value of an Abbe number ? and an average value of a partial dispersion ratio ? of negative lenses included in the first lens sub unit, respectively, ?p and ?p represent an Abbe number and a partial dispersion ratio of a positive lens having a smallest Abbe number among lenses constituting the first lens sub unit, respectively, ?=(Ng?NF)/(NF?NC), and Ng, NF and NC denote refractive indexes at the g-line, the F-line and a C-line, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masakazu Kodaira
  • Patent number: 8203799
    Abstract: A lens component of the present invention is made by cementing a lens LA and a lens LB having a refracting power smaller than a refracting power of the lens LA, and satisfies predetermined conditional expressions. Moreover, in an image forming optical system of the present invention which includes a lens group B having a negative refracting power, a lens group C having a positive refracting power and which moves only toward an object side at the time of zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, and one or two more lens groups additionally, one of the lens components of the present invention is used in the lens group B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventors: Shinichi Mihara, Hisashi Goto, Masaki Arakawa, Toyoki Kon
  • Patent number: 8203644
    Abstract: An image capturing device may include a detector including a plurality of sensing pixels, and an optical system adapted to project a distorted image of an object within a field of view onto the sensing pixels, wherein the optical system expands the image in a center of the field of view and compresses the image in a periphery of the field of view, wherein a first number of sensing pixels required to realize a maximal zoom magnification {circumflex over (Z)} at a minimum resolution of the image capturing device is less than a square of the maximal zoom magnification times a second number of sensing pixels required for the minimum resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Digitaloptics Corporation Europe Limited
    Inventors: Gal Shabtay, Ephraim Goldenberg
  • Patent number: 8072697
    Abstract: An imaging lens system with two lenses is provided. The imaging lens system with two lenses, along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, includes an aperture stop; a first lens having positive refractive power and being a plano-convex lens with a convex surface on the image side; and a second lens having negative refractive power and being a meniscus lens with a concave surface on the object side and a convex surface on the image side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: E-Pin Optical Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo-Yuan Shih, San-Woei Shyu
  • Patent number: 8007116
    Abstract: A video projection device has one of a plurality of types of projection lenses replaceably loaded and projects a video on a screen at a fixed position. The video projection device includes: a converter lens which is composed of a plurality of lenses, which is afocal as a whole, and which is detachably provided in front of the projection lens to convert projection magnification; and a gap adjustment mechanism changing a predetermined gap in the converter lens to a setting in accordance with at least one of a projection distance to the screen and the type of the projection lens loaded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.
    Inventors: Tokuji Matsuda, Shigeru Sawamura
  • Patent number: 8000026
    Abstract: An zoom lens includes a front unit having positive refractive power, an aperture stop, and a rear unit. The front unit has a positive lens Gp1 and the rear unit has a negative lens Gn1. When an Abbe number of a material of the positive lens Gp1, and a partial dispersion ratio of the material thereof for a g-line and an F-line is defined as ?dp1 and ?gFp1 respectively, and a refractive index and an Abbe number of a material of the negative lens Gn1 for a d-line, and a partial dispersion ratio of the material thereof for the g-line and the F-line is defined as Ndn1 ?dn1 and ?gFn1 respectively, satisfying the following conditions: 75<?dp1<99, 0.020<?gFp1?0.6438+0.001682×?dp1<0.100, 1.75<Ndn1<2.10, and 0.020<?gFn1?0.6438+0.001682×?dn1<0.100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Patent number: 7944628
    Abstract: An optical element unit is provided comprising an optical element group for projecting light along an optical axis of the optical element group and a housing having an inner housing part partly defining a first space and a light passageway between the inner housing part and a second space. The inner housing part receives the optical element group. The optical element group comprises an ultimate optical element located in the region of the light passageway. A load-relieving device is provided adjacent to the ultimate optical element, the load relieving device partly defining the first space and the second space and at least partly relieving the ultimate optical element from loads resulting from pressure differences between the first space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventor: Johannes Lippert
  • Publication number: 20110102625
    Abstract: An image forming optical system according to the present invention is characterized in that, in an image forming optical system having a positive lens group, a negative lens group, and an aperture stop, the positive lens group is disposed at an object side of the aperture stop, the positive lens group has a cemented lens which is formed by cementing a plurality of lenses, in a rectangular coordinate system in which a horizontal axis is let to be Nd and a vertical axis is let to be ?d, when a straight line indicated by Nd=?×?d+? (where, ?=?0.017) is set, Nd and ?d of at least one lens forming the cemented lens is included in both of areas namely, an area which is determined by a line when a lower limit value is in a range of a following conditional expression (1a), and a line when an upper limit value is in a range of the following conditional expression (1a), and of an area determined by following conditional expressions (2a) and (3a). 1.45<?<2.15??(1a) 1.30<Nd<2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Shinichi Mihara, Kanato Adachi, Keisuke Ichikawa, Yasunobu Iga, Koji Matsumoto, Kazuaki Murayama, Keigo Matsuo, Hideki Nagata
  • Patent number: 7907335
    Abstract: It is possible to use the magnification of an objective lens as is, substantially without changing the observation magnification, even when the working distance of the objective lens is changed. The invention provides a focus-adjusting unit disposed on an optical axis between an objective optical system that collects light from a specimen and an image-forming optical system that images the light collected by the objective optical system at a prescribed position, comprising a front optical system and a back optical system, sequentially disposed along the optical axis direction from a front side, with the objective optical system serving at the front side and the image-forming optical system at the back; and a lens driving part that relatively moves these optical systems in the optical axis direction, wherein the front optical system and the back optical system have refractive powers of different sign and focal lengths of substantially equal absolute value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Tadashi Hirata
  • Patent number: 7808725
    Abstract: The invention relates to an eyepiece-connected taking optical system well fit for TV camera heads using a small-format imaging device. The taking optical system comprises a field direction turning member 1P, 2P, a positive first group and a negative second group. The first group comprises a positive cemented lens convex on its object side, a positive single lens convex on its object side and a positive cemented lens convex on its object side, and the second group comprises a negative single lens. Focus adjustment is implemented by changing a spacing t2 between the first group and the second group. The taking optical system satisfies condition (1) for defining the position of the front focus with respect to the taking lens, condition (2) for defining the refracting power of each lens group, condition (3) for defining the imaging magnification of the second group, and condition (4) for defining the profile of refracting power in the first group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Uzawa
  • Patent number: 7782545
    Abstract: A zoom lens assembly and zoom lens module are provided, including a first lens, a second lens, a plurality of guiding blocks, a sheathing tube, a plurality of linking members and an adjusting tube. The first lens includes a plurality of curved surfaces disposed on a second lens surface toward a first lens surface. The second lens includes a plurality of driving rods disposed on a third lens surface and abutting the curved surfaces. The guiding blocks are respectively fixed on the first lens. The sheathing tube sheathes the first lens and the second lens and comprises a plurality of guiding notches to receive the guiding blocks, and a plurality of slits. The linking members pass through the slits and are fixed on the second lens. The adjusting tube sheathes the sheathing tube and comprises a plurality of driving notches to receive the linking members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Asia Optical Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Tsu-Meng Lee, Hui-Chuan Kuo
  • Publication number: 20090296233
    Abstract: Disclosed is a zoom lens system in which a first lens unit having negative optical power and a second lens unit having positive optical power are arranged in the stated order from an object side to an image side, and in which an interval between the first lens unit and the second lens unit changes in zooming. In such a zoom lens system, the first lens unit includes a first lens component having negative optical power, a second lens component joined to a lens surface of the first lens component, and a third lens component having positive optical power so as to provide the zoom lens system having excellent optical performance by appropriately setting a material forming the first lens component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Tashiro
  • Publication number: 20090279184
    Abstract: In an image forming optical system having a positive lens group, a negative lens group, and an aperture stop, the negative lens group is disposed at an image side of the of the aperture stop, the negative lens group has a cemented lens which is formed by cementing a plurality of lenses, and in a rectangular coordinate system in which, a horizontal axis is let to be Nd and a vertical axis is let to be ?d, when a straight line indicated by Nd=?×?d+? (where, ?=?0.017) is set, Nd and ?d of at least one lens forming the cemented lens are included in both of areas namely, an area which is determined by a line when a lower limit value is in a range of a following conditional expression (1), and a line when an upper limit value is in a range of the following conditional expression (1), and an area determined by following conditional expressions (2) and (3). 1.45<??2.15??(1) 1.30<Nd<2.20??(2) 3<?d<12??(3) Here, Nd denotes a refractive index, and ?d denotes an Abbe's number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: Shinichi Mihara, Kanato Adachi, Keisuke Ichikawa, Yasunobu Iga, Koji Matsumoto, Kazuaki Murayama, Keigo Matsuo, Hideki Nagata
  • Publication number: 20090279183
    Abstract: An image forming optical system according to the present invention is characterized in that, in an image forming optical system having a positive lens group, a negative lens group, and an aperture stop, the positive lens group is disposed at an image-plane side of the aperture stop, the positive lens group has a cemented lens which is formed by cementing a plurality of lenses, in a rectangular coordinate system in which, a horizontal axis is let to be Nd and a vertical axis is let to be ?d, when a straight line indicated by Nd=?×?d+? (where, ?=?0.017) is set, Nd and ?d of at least one lens forming the cemented lens are included in both of areas namely, an area which is determined by a line when a lower limit value is in a range of a following conditional expression (1), and a line when an upper limit value is in a range of the following conditional expression (1), and in an area determined by following conditional expressions (2) and (3) 1.45<??2.15??(1) 1.30<Nd<2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: Shinichi Mihara, Kanato Adachi, Keisuke Ichikawa, Yasunobu Iga, Koji Matsumoto, Kazuaki Murayama, Keigo Matsuo, Nagata Hideki