Abstract: An optical system including: a distal optical assembly; a proximal optical assembly; and an image sensor; wherein the distal and proximal optical assemblies define a beam path; the distal optical assembly couples incident beams of light from a field of view located in an object space in the proximal optical assembly; the proximal optical assembly directs the incident beams of light onto a light-sensitive surface of the image sensor; and at least one of the distal and proximal optical assemblies comprise, at least one prism arranged in the beam path, such that the at least one prism limits the field of view of the optical system on at least one side.

Abstract: In an endoscope objective lens which includes a reflective member that bends an optical path substantially at a right angle inserted between the last lens surface and an image sensor disposed on the image plane, the effective diameter of the last lens surface is made smaller than the size of the image sensor in a direction corresponding to the optical path bending direction and the endoscope objective lens is made so as to satisfy a conditional expression given below. h1<V+0.

Abstract: A viewing instrument having a variable direction of view is disclosed generally comprising a shaft, a sensor mounted in the distal end of the shaft such that the image plane of the sensor is substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the shaft, and a reflecting element that rotates about an axis substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the shaft. In some embodiments, a negative lens is mounted adjacent the reflecting element, and in certain embodiments, a positive lens is positioned adjacent the image sensor.

Abstract: An imaging device with a short length and small aberration is provided. A total length D of an image-forming optical system is less than 3.6 mm. A maximum incidence angle of a principle ray on an image forming plane exceeds 33°. Conditions f/fL<?1.50 or f/fL<?0.9, and D/f<1.10 are satisfied where f denotes a focal length of the entire image-forming optical system and fL denotes a focal length of a last lens.

Abstract: Ring-field, catoptric and catadioptric, unit-magnification, projection optical systems having non-concentric optical surfaces are disclosed. Each system has a system axis with object and image planes on opposite sides of the system axis. The non-concentric surfaces allow for working distances of the object and image planes in excess of 100 millimeters to be achieved, with a ring-field width sufficient to allow a rectangular object-field having a long dimension in excess of 100 mm to be projected.

Abstract: An optical lens includes a lens group and a diaphragm. The diaphragm is located in front of the lens group. The lens group includes three lenses, respectively the first, the second and the third lens, which are sequentially arranged as a “negative-positive-positive” separated focal power system, wherein the first lens is a negative meniscus lens, the second lens is a positive meniscus lens, the third lens is a positive meniscus lens, all the curved surfaces of the first lens, the second lens and the third lens are bent in the direction towards the diaphragm, and the focal length of the entire optical system is f, the focal lengths of the first, the second and the third lens are respectively f1, f2, and f3, and the ratio between the focal length of each lens and the focal length f of the entire optical system satisfies the following requirement: ?0.7 f?0.,4; 0.9 f f0.9.

Abstract: A prism type of lens includes a first reflection lens, at least a first lens group, a second reflection prism, at least a second lens group, a third reflection prism, and at least a third lens group sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side. Light is reflected by the reflection prisms to form a bent light axis. Therefore, the optical axis has three sections for the lens groups to move respectively. The bent light axis has a longer distance that the lens of the present invention may have a great zoom range.

Abstract: A projection apparatus has a spatial light modulator to modulate illumination from a laser light source. A base projection lens has, from its long conjugate side to its short conjugate side, a first lens group with negative focal length and with a first lens element that has a negative focal length and a second lens element of positive focal length, a second lens group of negative focal length and spaced apart from the first lens group and having one or more cemented lens elements, and a third lens group spaced apart from the second lens group and having a lens with a positive focal length. The base projection lens has a first field of view and is telecentric in its short conjugate. An afocal attachment to the base projection lens alters the first field of view by the same amount in both of two orthogonal directions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical ocular system having imaging optics that map an image generated in an object plane such that a user can perceive the same in an image plane, wherein the imaging optics comprise a first lens having negative refractive power, and a deflection element having positive refractive power, which is connected downstream of the first lens, effecting a folding of the optical path by means of a single reflection, wherein the first lens and the object plane form a first optical group, and a displacement unit is provided, which can change the distance between the first optical group and the displacement element for the correction of spherical ametropia of the user.

Abstract: A fixed-focus lens includes a first, a second, and a third lens groups arranged in sequence from the enlarged side to the reduced side and having positive refractive powers. The first lens group includes a first, a second, and a third lenses from the enlarged side to the reduced side. The second lens group includes a fourth, a fifth, and a sixth lenses from the enlarged side to the reduced side. The third lens group includes a seventh lens. The lens of the first lens group closest to the enlarged side in the fixed-focus lens has a concave surface. The distance between the lens surface of the second lens group closest to the reduced side and the lens surface of the third lens group closest to the enlarged side is L1. The overall length of the fixed-focus lens is L. The fixed-focus lens satisfies 0.1<L1/L<0.5.

Abstract: A lens barrel including a first moving lens group for advancing light of a subject onto an image plane, a second moving lens group for advancing light of the subject onto the image plane, a shaft section for guiding the first moving lens group and the second moving lens group in a direction of an optical axis, an intermediate positioning section for supporting the shaft section at an intermediate portion of the shaft section, and an end positioning section for supporting one end of the shaft section, wherein the first moving lens group slides on a portion of the shaft section that is closer to the subject than the intermediate positioning section is, and wherein the second moving lens group slides on a portion of the shaft section that is closer to the image plane than the intermediate positioning section is.

Abstract: A compact imaging lens system includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens (1) of negative refractive power, a free-form surface prism (2) of positive refractive power and a second lens (3) of positive refractive power. The free-form surface prism has an incidence surface (S3), a reflection surface (S4) and an exit surface (S5). The first lens is disposed on the side of the incidence surface, and the second lens is disposed on the side of the exit surface. The free-form surface prism functions equivalent to a right-angle prism with aspheric surfaces.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an imaging device and a camera realizing simultaneously a high magnification zoom lens system and the miniaturization of the device. The imaging device (2) includes a first lens group (G1), a second group frame unit (42), a first group frame unit (41), a motor unit (32), a third lens group (G3), and a CCD unit (33). The first lens group (G1) takes in a light flux incident along a first optical axis (A1). The second group frame unit (42) bends the light flux incident along the first optical axis (A1) to a direction along a second optical axis (A2). The first group frame unit (41) retains the first lens group (G1), and moves the first lens group (G1) in the direction along the first optical axis (A1). The motor unit (32) drives the first group frame unit (41).

Abstract: The present invention concerns a lens system. More specifically, it concerns a lens system comprising a first lens (3), a deflection element (5) and a second lens (6), wherein the deflection element (5) is arranged between the first lens (3) and the second lens (6). The deflection element comprises at least a first annular zone and a second annular zone, the annular zones being arranged in a concentric fashion and wherein the deflection angle of each annular zone is different from the deflection angle of every other annular zone. Furthermore, the present invention concerns a temperature analysis system comprising a lens system and the use of a temperature analysis system.

Abstract: An optical system operable to transmit an energy flux is described. A first substantially spherical lens includes first and second substantially hemispherical portions joined at an interface. The interface includes a partially reflective material on a first substantially planar surface of at least one of the first and second hemispherical portions. A second lens has a convex surface and a second substantially planar surface. A portion of the second substantially planar surface of the second lens is secured to the first lens to form an optical axis. The first and second lenses are operable to transmit a first portion of the energy flux along the optical axis. The partially reflective surface is operable to reflect a second portion of the energy flux at an angle to the optical axis.

Abstract: A compact and light-weighted projection lens system that is capable of projecting an image at an angle as wide as 75 degrees with sufficient field angle and brightness as represented by F number of approximately 2.4, that is capable of effectively correcting chroic aberration of magnification and aberration of distortion and exhibiting optical stability against environmental variations, and that is suitable for obtaining an extraordinarily fine image by the magnification and projection.

Abstract: Disclosed is a lens system installed in a mobile communication terminal, comprising: a first lens including at least one aspherical plane and having a positive refractivity; a perforated iris separated from the first lens by a designated distance for preventing unnecessary incident light from being incident onto an optical system; a second lens separated from the perforated iris by a designated distance, including at least one aspherical plane and having a positive refractivity; and a third lens separated from the second lens by a designated distance, including at least one aspherical plane and having a negative refractivity, wherein the first lens, the perforated iris, the second lens and the third lens are arranged sequentially from a subject, and the perforated iris is located between the first lens and the second lens.

Abstract: A stereoscopic-vision endoscope of the present invention comprises a tubular elongated insertional part, an objective optical system situated in the insertional part, a relay optical system situated in the insertional part for transmitting an object image formed by the objective optical system, a pupil dividing stop for dividing a light beam emanating from an object image formed by the relay optical system into a plurality of portions, an image formation optical system for receiving light beams from the pupil dividing stop so as to form a plurality of object images having parallax, and imaging devices for picking up the object images formed by the image formation optical system. The relay optical system satisfies the condition .phi..sup.2 /L>0.43 (where .phi. denotes an outer diameter of a system of relay lenses, and L denotes a relay length of the relay optical system).

Abstract: The invention provides a compact zoom lens system which has an angular coverage from wide angle to moderate telephoto and makes a relatively bright and parallax-free TTL finder possible and in which a first unit 11 having a positive power as a whole is located on the side proximate to the object. The lens system includes a reflective means 13c located more closely to the image side than the first unit 11 for guiding incident light to a finder subsystem and a movable lens unit that moves for zooming. The movable lens unit comprises a sub-unit 13a having a positive power as a whole and located on the object side of the reflective means 13c and a sub-unit 13b having a negative power as a whole and located on the images side of the reflective means 13c, or alternatively a sub-unit having a negative power as a whole and located on the object side of the reflective means and a sub-unit having a positive power as a whole and located on the image side of the reflective means.