Four Components Patents (Class 359/771)
  • Patent number: 8599499
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed herein related to the construction of optical elements for an RGB camera system. One disclosed embodiment provides a wide-angle lens construction, comprising a first, negative stage, and a second, positive stage positioned behind the first, negative stage along an optical axis of the lens construction. The second, positive stage further comprises a first positive lens substage, a first negative lens substage, a second positive lens substage, and a second negative lens substage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Zhiqiang Liu
  • Publication number: 20130308208
    Abstract: The invention provides an ocular lens well corrected for aberrations through a sufficiently large angle of view and having a sufficient eye relief while ensuring avoidance of increasing the overall length and suppression of an increase in lens diameter, and provides an optical device including this ocular lens. An ocular lens 3 includes, in order from an object side, a first lens group G1 including a first lens component G1A in meniscus form having a convex surface facing the object side, a second lens group G2 including a lens component L21 having a convex surface facing a viewing eye side, and a third lens group G3 having a positive refractive power. An object-side focal plane I of the third lens group G3 is positioned between the second lens group G2 and the third lens group G3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Inventor: Satoshi Fukumoto
  • Publication number: 20130265657
    Abstract: A first lens unit performing communication with an image pickup apparatus with a first voltage and a second lens unit performing communication with the image pickup apparatus with a second voltage are selectively attached to the image pickup apparatus. The image pickup apparatus includes a controller configured to operate with a third voltage different from at least one of the first and second voltages to output a signal for the communication with the first and second lens units, and a determiner configured to determine the type of the lens unit attached to the image pickup apparatus. The controller is configured to produce, as a voltage of the signal for the communication, from the third voltage, one of the first and second voltages corresponding to a determination result of the determiner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Hasegawa, Tatsuyuki Tokunaga, Tetsuya Nishio, Azusa Sugawara, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Yoshihiko Konno
  • Patent number: 8531578
    Abstract: Provided are a wide angle optical system having better optical performance, low in cost, and compact in size, an imaging lens device having the wide angle optical system, a monitor camera, and a digital apparatus. The wide angle optical system (1) has, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens (11) having a negative optical power, a second lens (12) having a negative optical power, a third lens (13) having a positive optical power, an aperture (15), and a fourth lens (14) having a positive optical power. The wide angle optical system satisfies the conditional expression of 3<f34/f<10, where f34 is the composite focal length of the third and fourth lenses (13, 14) and f is the focal length of the entire system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.
    Inventors: Keiji Matsusaka, Toru Nakatani
  • Patent number: 8498064
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes: an aperture stop; a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power which is formed in a concave shape on both sides thereof; a third lens having a positive refractive power which is formed in a meniscus shape in which a concave surface is directed toward the side of an object; and a fourth lens having a negative refractive power in which a convex surface is directed toward the object side, which are sequentially disposed from the object side to the image side, wherein the imaging lens satisfies the following conditional expressions (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5): 0.40<f1/|f2|<0.80??(1) 0.80<|f2|/f3<1.50??(2) 0.90<f/|f4|<2.00??(3) 2.60<|(R2?R3)/f1|<4.00??(4) ?d1??d2>25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hideaki Okano
  • Patent number: 8456749
    Abstract: Provided is a zoom lens for imaging an object on an imaging surface. The zoom lens includes, in the order from an object side to an image side thereof, a first lens group with positive refraction power, a second lens group with negative refraction power, a third lens group with positive refraction power, and a fourth lens group with positive refraction power. The first lens group includes a first surface. The zoom lens satisfies the formula: 0.15<|L3|/Lt<0.25, where L3 is a distance of the movement of the third lens group along an optical axis of the zoom lens when the zoom lens is switched between a wide-angle state and a telephoto state, and Lt is a distance from the first surface to the imaging surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fang-Ying Peng, Hai-Jo Huang, Sheng-An Wang, Xiao-Na Liu, An-Tze Lee
  • Patent number: 8456766
    Abstract: This invention provides a photographing optical system, in order from an object side to an image side comprising: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and concave image-side surface; a second lens element with negative refractive power; a third lens element with positive refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; and a fourth lens element with negative refractive power having a concave image-side surface and both the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric; wherein the photographing optical system has four lens elements with refractive power. By such arrangement, the total track length and photosensitivity of the photographing optical system can be effectively reduced, and high image resolution can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsiang Chi Tang, Hsin Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 8441744
    Abstract: An optical image system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element with positive refractive power and having a convex object-side surface, a second lens element with positive refractive power, a third lens element with negative refractive power and having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, and a fourth lens element with refractive power and having a concave image-side surface. By such an arrangement, the total track length and photosensitivity of the image capturing lens assembly can be effectively reduced while retaining a high image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 8432620
    Abstract: A lens optical system having first to fourth lenses sequentially arranged from an object, and between the object and an image sensor on which an image of the object is formed. The first lens has a positive refractive power and is convex toward the object. The second lens has a negative refractive power and is biconcave. The third lens has a positive refractive power and is convex toward the image sensor. The fourth lens has a negative refractive power and at least one of an incident surface and an exit surface of the fourth lens is an aspherical surface. An aperture may be arranged between the first and second lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Kolen Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyoung Bae Park
  • Patent number: 8432622
    Abstract: An image capturing lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element. The first lens element with negative refractive power has a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface. The second lens element with positive refractive power has a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface. The third lens element with negative refractive power is made of plastic material, and has a concave image-side surface, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the third lens element are aspheric. The fourth lens element with positive refractive power is made of plastic material, wherein an object-side surface and an image-side surface of the fourth lens element are aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsin-Hsuan Huang, Tsung-Han Tsai
  • Patent number: 8416511
    Abstract: An imaging lens is provided and includes: in order from the object side, a negative first lens, a negative second lens, a positive third lens, a stop, and a positive fourth lens. In the lens, each of the second lens, the third lens, and the fourth lens has at least one aspheric surface, and an Abbe number of a material of the third lens at the d-line is 35 or less. In addition, the imaging lens satisfies the following Conditional Expression (1): ?0.2<(R3+R4)/(R3?R4)<0.2??(1) where R3 is a paraxial radius of curvature of the object side surface of the second lens, and R4 is a paraxial radius of curvature of the image side surface of the second lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Taro Asami
  • Patent number: 8405919
    Abstract: An optical image lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has refractive power. The third lens element with refractive power is made of plastic material, wherein an object-side surface and an image-side surface of the third lens element are aspheric. The fourth lens element with negative refractive power is made of plastic material, and has a concave image-side surface, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fourth lens element are aspheric, and the fourth lens element has at least one inflection point formed on at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Publication number: 20130021675
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lens or objective for a camera, more particularly for a digital camera, comprising a housing, an actuating element arranged on the housing, and a lens element system that can be set into a plurality of settings, wherein the lens element system is embodied in such a way that in at least one setting an f-number is F?3. The lens element system is furthermore embodied in such a way that an actuation of the actuating element brings about a movement of two optical elements relative to one another, such that an intersection length difference of the lens element system can be set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Inventors: Dirk Jahn, Vladan Blahnik
  • Patent number: 8358410
    Abstract: An apparatus consisting of two pairs of identical lenses which is suitable as a compound objective lens for high numerical aperture imaging is disclosed. The compound lens also has a wide field of view as a fraction of the compound lens focal length. By suitable choice of lens materials, well corrected near infrared imaging can be achieved. When two such compound lenses together with a diffraction grating are assembled into a spectrometer, excellent wavelength resolution in the near infrared can also be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: C8 Medisensors Inc.
    Inventors: Sascha Hallstein, Donald A. Ice
  • Patent number: 8351135
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes: a first lens with a meniscus shape having a concave surface facing an object side; a second positive lens; a third negative lens with a meniscus shape having a convex surface facing an image side; and a fourth negative lens. The first to fourth lenses are arranged in this order from the object side. The imaging lens is configured such that a normal line of an object-side surface of the fourth lens at a point where the outermost light beam of an on-axis light flux passes intersects the optical axis on the image side of the object-side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Masao Mori
  • Patent number: 8315000
    Abstract: Provided are a small image pickup lens which ensures a wide angle of view, permits various aberrations to be excellently corrected and is applicable to an image pickup element having a high pixel density, an image pickup apparatus using the image pickup lens, and a mobile terminal using the image pickup apparatus. The image pickup lens employs a structure which includes, in order from the object side, an aperture stop, a first lens with positive refractive power, a second lens with negative refractive power, a third lens with positive refractive power, and a fourth lens with negative refractive power, and the image pickup lens is designed to satisfy predetermined conditional expressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.
    Inventor: Yuki Naoi
  • Patent number: 8300326
    Abstract: A miniaturized optical head provided to equip the distal end of a beam of flexible optical fibers scanned by a laser beam, is designed to come in contact with a sample and to excite the sample confocally. This optical head includes elements for correcting spherical aberrations and focusing members. The focusing members include: at least a first lens (L4) of high convergence associated with a spherical or hemispherical lens (L5) arranged at the distal end of the optical head, and elements for correcting the axial and lateral chromatic aberration provided with a single divergent lens (3b) whose curvature is substantially centered on the pupil of the optical fiber beam and arranged at the exact distance for this pupil for which the conditions of lateral achromatization coincide with the conditions of axial achromatization; this divergent lens being associated with a second convergent lens (L3a) in the form of a doublet (L3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Mauna Kea Technologies
    Inventors: Magalie Genet, Gilles Mathieu, Bertrand Viellerobe, François Doussoux, Nicolas Boularot, Nicolas Lavillonniere
  • Publication number: 20120229921
    Abstract: A photographic optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive or negative refractive power, and a third lens unit having a positive or negative refractive power, focusing being performed by moving the second lens unit, wherein at least one diffractive optical element and at least one optical element made of solid material are provided closer to the object side than a position where a paraxial chief ray intersects an optical axis, and wherein a focal length obtained by only a diffraction component of the diffractive optical element, a focal length of the optical element made of solid material, a focal length of the first lens unit, and a relative anomalous partial dispersion of a material forming the optical element made of solid material are appropriately set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kaoru Eguchi
  • Patent number: 8243129
    Abstract: An objective lens includes, in order from an object side, a front group having negative refractive power, an aperture stop, and a rear group having positive refractive power, wherein the front group includes, in order from the object side, a first lens which is a negative meniscus lens with a convex surface turned to the object side and a second lens which is a negative lens with a concave surface turned to the object side; the rear group includes, in order from the object side, a positive third lens and a fourth lens made up of a positive lens and a negative lens cemented together, and the objective lens satisfies conditional expression (1) below: ?0.8<f—F/f—R<?0.3 ??(1), where f_F is a focal length of the front group, and f_R is a focal length of the rear group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Uzawa
  • Patent number: 8228621
    Abstract: An image pickup lens LN includes four blocks of lens blocks Ci (i=0 to 4). Lens substrate Li2 is different in material from lens portions Li1 and Li3. First lens block C1 has positive power, second lens block C2 has negative power, and fourth lens block C4 has a concave shape facing an image side in a paraxial region. At least one of lens portions with a concave shape in the paraxial region satisfies the conditional expression ?n<40 (where ?n is an Abbe number of a lens portion having a concave shape in the paraxial region), and first lens block C1 satisfies the conditional expression 0.5<f1/f<1.5 (where f1 is a composite focal length of the first lens block and f is a composite focal length of the total system).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.
    Inventor: Yasunari Fukuta
  • Patent number: 8199416
    Abstract: Disclosed is an imaging lens having a small F-number, high resolution, a sufficiently wide angle of view, and a small size. An imaging lens includes: a first lens with a meniscus shape having a concave surface facing an object side; a second positive lens; a third negative lens with a meniscus shape having a convex surface facing an image side; and a fourth lens having a convex surface facing the object side. The first to fourth lenses are arranged in this order from the object side. The imaging lens satisfies the following conditional expression: 0.25<D/f<4.0 (where D indicates the distance between the first lens and the second lens on the optical axis and f indicates the focal length of the entire system).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Masao Mori
  • Patent number: 8194333
    Abstract: The present invention provides an imaging lens composed of four lenses that can be made compact (downsized, thinned), allows a reduction in cost and is compatible with a high pixel imaging element having a megapixel or more incorporated in a small mobile product such as a mobile phone. The imaging lens 7 includes, in order from the object side to the image surface side: an aperture stop 5; a first lens 1 having positive power; a second lens 2 composed of a meniscus lens having negative power whose lens surface facing the image surface side is concave; a third lens 3 composed of a meniscus lens having positive power whose lens surface facing the image surface side is convex, and a fourth lens 4 having negative power whose lens surfaces are both aspheric and lens surface facing the image surface side is concave in the vicinity of the optical axis. A diffractive optical element is formed on one of the lens surfaces of the first lens 1 or one of the lens surfaces of the second lens 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takumi Iba, Masatoshi Yamashita, Nami Nagamori
  • Patent number: 8189272
    Abstract: An optical lens assembly for image taking, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis comprises: the first lens element with refractive power, a bi-convex second lens element with positive refractive power, the third lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, the fourth lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface. All four lenses may be made of plastic with bi-aspherical surfaces. Additionally, the optical lens assembly for image taking satisfies conditions to shorten the total length and reduce the sensitivity in order to achieve the goal of a fine aberration correction and ready for its use in cameras and camera mobile phones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co.
    Inventors: Hsin-Hsuan Huang, Tsung-Han Tsai
  • Patent number: 8189274
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging optical system installed in a mobile communications terminal and a personal digital assistant (PDA) or utilized in a surveillance camera and a digital camera. The imaging optical system including, sequentially from an object side in front of an image plane: a first lens having positive refractive power and two convex surfaces; a second lens having negative refractive power and two concave surfaces; a third lens having positive refractive power and a meniscus shape; and a fourth lens having a concave object-side surface. The fourth lens has a shape satisfying following condition 1: 10<|R8/F|<50??condition 1, where R8 is a radius of curvature of the object-side surface of the fourth lens, and F is an overall focal length of the imaging optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Il Yong Park
  • Patent number: 8184384
    Abstract: An imaging lens is provided and includes: in order from the object side, a first lens having a concave surface on an image side thereof; a second lens of a negative lens having a concave surface on the image side and having at least one aspheric surface; a third lens having at least one aspheric surface; and a fourth lens of a positive lens having a convex surface on the image side and having at least one aspheric surface. A stop is disposed between the third lens and the fourth lens. In addition, assuming that a focal length of the whole system is f and a focal length of the first lens L1 is f1, the following Conditional Expression (1) is satisfied. 15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Taro Asami
  • Patent number: 8179616
    Abstract: An optical lens assembly for image taking, sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side, comprises: the first lens element with refractive power, the second lens element with positive refractive power, the third lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, the fourth lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface. The optical lens assembly further comprises a stop and an image sensor on an image plane. Each of the third and the fourth lens elements can have at least one aspherical surface. When the optical lens assembly utilizes the thickness conditions provided in the present invention, along with a favorable entrance pupil diameter ratio, fine aberration corrections, wide-angle of view, and functionalities for common image pickup cameras or those used with infrared settings can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Largan Precision, Co.
    Inventors: Po-Lun Hsu, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 8159532
    Abstract: An electronic image pickup apparatus includes a zoom lens system which is a taking optical system, an electronic image pickup element which is disposed at an image side of the taking optical system (zoom lens system), and which converts an image formed by the taking optical system (zoom lens system) to an electric signal, and an image restoring section which restores electrically a photographed image according to a difference in occurrence of an aberration by the taking optical system (zoom lens system) in an air environment photography and in a underwater environment photography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kodama, Masahito Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8125719
    Abstract: A lens unit includes a first lens having positive power, a second lens having positive power, an aperture stop, a third lens having negative power, and a fourth lens. The first lens, the second lens, the aperture stop, the third lens, and the fourth lens are arranged in order from an object side toward an image side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuma Aoi
  • Patent number: 8089698
    Abstract: A wide-angle optical lens assembly comprises, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with a negative refractive power having concave image-side surface, a second lens element with a positive refractive power, a third lens element with a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens element with a positive refractive power having convex image-side surface, at least one surface of the fourth lens element thereof being aspheric. By such arrangement, total track length and photosensitivity of the wide-angle optical lens assembly can be effectively reduced while retaining large field of view and superb image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsiang-Chi Tang, Tsung-Han Tsai, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 8068290
    Abstract: This invention provides an image pick-up optical lens assembly comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a second lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a third lens element with positive refractive power having an object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, at least one of the surfaces thereof being aspheric; and a fourth lens element with negative refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, at least one of the surfaces thereof being aspheric. The image pick-up optical lens assembly further comprises an aperture stop disposed between an object and the first lens element. Such arrangement facilitates a significant reduction in size and sensitivity of the lens assembly while providing superb image quality with higher resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung Han Tsai, Hsin Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 8031413
    Abstract: A single focus wide-angle lens module includes a fixed aperture diaphragm, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens and a fourth lens arranged from an object side to an image side in a sequence of: the first lens, the diaphragm, the second lens, the third lens and the fourth lens. The first lens has a concave surface on the image side and at least one aspheric surface. The second lens has a positive refractive power, a concave surface on the object side and at least one aspheric surface. The third lens has a meniscus shape, a negative refractive power, a concave surface on the object side and at least one aspheric surface. The fourth lens has a positive refractive power, a convex surface on the object side and at least one aspheric surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Newmax Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Fei-Hsin Tsai
  • Patent number: 8018663
    Abstract: An image forming lens includes: a first optical system positioned in an object side, a second optical system positioned in an image side, and an aperture stop interposed between the first optical system and the second optical system, wherein the first lens system includes a first F lens group which is positioned in the object side and has at least two negative lenses, and a first R lens group which is positioned in the aperture stop side and has at least one lens, wherein a distance between the first F lens group and the first R lens group is set to be largest, and wherein the second optical system includes a second F lens group in which, in the order from the aperture stop side, a first positive lens, a first negative lens, a second negative lens, and a second positive lens are arranged, and a second R lens group positioned in the aperture stop side and having at least one positive lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyasu Ohashi, Yoshifumi Sudoh
  • Patent number: 8014080
    Abstract: This invention provides an optical photographing system comprising four lens elements with refractive power, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element; a second lens element with positive refractive power, and at least one of the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric; a third lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, and both of the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric; a fourth lens element with positive refractive power, and both of the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric; wherein the optical photographing system further comprises an aperture stop positioned between an object and the second lens element. By such arrangement, total track length of the optical photographing system can be effectively reduced. Wide view-angle and high image resolution are also obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun Shan Chen, Tsung Han Tsai, Hsin Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 7995285
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a first lens has a positive refractive power, a second lens has a positive refractive power, a third lens has a negative refractive power, a fourth lens has a negative refractive power, an image sensor and a driving device. The first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens and the image sensor are arranged in the order written along an optical axis of the imaging apparatus from the object side to the image side thereof. The driving device is connected to the second lens and configured for driving the second lens to move toward the object side to perform a zoom-in function of the imaging apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsung-Yu Lin
  • Patent number: 7986467
    Abstract: This is addressed to provide a zoom lens which has a good optical performance for imaging device having a large number of pixels even with its simple construction, and which can also be small and thin in structure, and an imaging apparatus using the zoom lens. A zoom lens 1 is composed by arranging, in the following order from an object side, a first lens group GR1 having a weak refractive power, a second lens group GR2 having a negative refractive power, a third lens group GR3 having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group GR4 having a positive refractive power, and is configured to perform zooming by moving the second lens group and the third lens group. The first lens group is composed by arranging, in the order from an object side, a single lens G1 having a a negative refractive power, a prism G1 for folding an optical path, and a single lens G3 having a a positive refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masaki Tamura
  • Publication number: 20110158636
    Abstract: A lens assembly includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens and a fourth lens. The first lens has a first flange on a surface thereof, with the first flange having a first receiving groove. The second lens has a second flange on a surface thereof and a positioning protrusion on the other surface opposite to the second flange. The positioning protrusion is received in the first receiving groove. The second flange defines a second receiving groove. The third lens has a third flange on a surface thereof and a positioning protrusion on the other surface opposite to the third flange. The positioning protrusion is received in the second receiving groove. The fourth lens has a fourth flange on a surface thereof, and the fourth flange defines a fourth receiving groove for receiving the third flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: HUNG-LUNG HO
  • Patent number: 7969664
    Abstract: This invention provides an imaging lens assembly comprising: in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a second lens with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface; a third lens with positive refractive power having a convex image-side surface, at least one of both surfaces thereof being aspheric; and a fourth lens with negative refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface on which at least one inflection point is formed; wherein there are four lenses with refractive power, an on-axis spacing between an aperture stop and an electronic sensor provided therein is SL, an on-axis spacing between the object-side surface of the first lens and the electronic sensor is TTL, they satisfy the relation: 0.75<SL/TTL<0.90.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsiang Chi Tang, Tsung Han Tsai
  • Patent number: 7961406
    Abstract: An optical lens system for taking image comprises, in order from the object side to the image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; an aperture stop; a second lens element with negative refractive power; a third lens element having a convex object-side surface; and a fourth lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface, an image-side surface of the fourth lens element being aspheric and formed with inflection points. A distance from the image-side surface of the fourth lens element to an image plane along an optical axis being BFL, a total track length of the optical lens system for taking image being TTL, and they satisfy the relation: BFL/TTL>0.12. In the optical lens system for taking image, the number of lens elements with refractive power being limited to four.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsiang-Chi Tang, Ming-Ching Lin
  • Publication number: 20110124373
    Abstract: An image pickup lens LN includes four blocks of lens blocks Ci (i=0 to 4). Lens substrate Li2 is different in material from lens portions Li1 and Li3. First lens block C1 has positive power, second lens block C2 has negative power, and fourth lens block C4 has a concave shape facing an image side in a paraxial region. At least one of lens portions with a concave shape in the paraxial region satisfies the conditional expression ?n<40 (where ?n is an Abbe number of a lens portion having a concave shape in the paraxial region), and first lens block C1 satisfies the conditional expression 0.5<f1/f<1.5 (where f1 is a composite focal length of the first lens block and f is a composite focal length of the total system).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventor: Yasunari Fukuta
  • Publication number: 20110090577
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optical system (10) that comprises a plurality of lenses (12) distributed into a first group (13) including at least two lenses (12) and a second group (14) including at least two lenses (12), wherein at least one lens (12) of the first group (13) is provided over a corresponding lens (12) of the second group (14). The optical system (10) is provided with a means (20) for guiding the light rays (11) entering inside any lens (12) of the first group (13) towards the corresponding lens (12) of the second group (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUES
    Inventors: Maryline Thorailler, Pierre Louis Tassy
  • Publication number: 20110080655
    Abstract: Disclosed is an imaging lens having a small F-number, high resolution, a sufficiently wide angle of view, and a small size. An imaging lens includes: a first lens with a meniscus shape having a concave surface facing an object side; a second positive lens; a third negative lens with a meniscus shape having a convex surface facing an image side; and a fourth lens having a convex surface facing the object side. The first to fourth lenses are arranged in this order from the object side. The imaging lens satisfies the following conditional expression: 0.25<D/f<4.0 (where D indicates the distance between the first lens and the second lens on the optical axis and f indicates the focal length of the entire system).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Inventor: Masao MORI
  • Publication number: 20110069398
    Abstract: Optical assemblies for use in medical or other devices so as to image an object under examination onto an image sensor include a plurality of lens elements that can be retained in lens barrel. The lens elements and the lens barrel can be sealed with a compressible gasket. In one example, at least one lens element is made of an injection-moldable plastic and at least one lens element is made of a relatively dispersive optical glass. A lens barrel diameter or lens diameter can be selected to permit access to the object under examination with surgical or other tools. Aperture plates can be situated so as to reduce flare in the object image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Inventors: Alexander Ning, Robert Lu, William Lucas Churchill, Sergey S. Grigoryants
  • Patent number: 7911714
    Abstract: Disclosed is an imaging lens having both high heat resistance that enables the imaging lens to be mounted on a printed circuit board by a reflow mounting method and a high optical performance. The imaging lens includes: a first positive lens group; a second negative lens group; a third positive lens group; and a fourth positive or negative lens group. Each of the first to fourth lens groups includes a parallel plane glass plate and a resin lens that has heat resistance and is arranged on the parallel plane glass plate so as to be integrated with the parallel plane glass plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Fujinon Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Shinohara
  • Patent number: 7911715
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes in order from an object side: a first lens including a positive lens having a convex surface directed to the object side; a stop; a second lens including a positive lens having a convex surface directed to an image side; a third lens including a negative meniscus lens with a concave surface directed to the object side; and a fourth lens including, near an optical axis, a positive meniscus shape with a convex surface directed to the object side. An air space between the second lens and the third lens is smaller in a periphery than near the optical axis. And f1>f2>|f3| and 1.0<f/f2<1.5 are satisfied where f1, f2 and f3 are focal lengths of the first lens, the second lens, and the third lens, respectively and f is an focal length of the whole lens system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Fujinon Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Shinohara
  • Patent number: 7898744
    Abstract: Providing a close-up lens with superb optical performance capable of focusing from infinity to a close distance allowing a life-size magnification by an internal focusing system with small moving amounts of focusing lens groups, an imaging apparatus, and a method for focusing a close-up lens. The close-up lens includes four lens groups, and is able to focus an object with an imaging magnification from ?=0 through at least ?=?0.5, wherein upon focusing, a first lens group and a fourth lens group are fixed with respect to an image plane, and a second lens group and a third lens group are moved along an optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Mitsuaki Wada
  • Patent number: 7889442
    Abstract: An imaging lens is provided and includes: a stop; and a lens group disposed between the stop and an imaging plane of the imaging lens and having a positive power as a whole. The lens group has an air lens formed by an air gap between lenses adjacent to each other, and the imaging lens satisfies conditional expression (1): ?8<L×(1/Ra2?1/Ra1)<?3 ??(1) Ra1 represents a radius of curvature of an object-side surface of the air lens which has a convex shape and is closest to an image side of the imaging lens in the lens group, Ra2 represents a radius of curvature of an image-side surface of the air lens, and L represents a distance on an optical axis of the imaging tens from an object-side surface of a lens closest to an object side in the imaging lens to an imaging plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Fujinon Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Taro Asami
  • Publication number: 20100328522
    Abstract: An optical unit includes: a first lens group; and a second lens group, which are arranged in order from an object side toward an image surface side, wherein the first lens group includes a first lens element, a first transparent body, and a second lens element, which are arranged in order from the object side toward the image surface side, and the second lens group includes a third lens element, a second transparent body and a fourth lens element, which are arranged in order from the object side toward the image surface side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, ANTERYON BV
    Inventors: Tomohiko Baba, Louis Sander
  • Patent number: 7859771
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes an imaging lens system and an image sensor. The imaging lens system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens. The imaging module satisfies the formulas (1) D/T?1.1, (2) ?3.5<R2/F1<?1.5, (3) ?2.5<R3/F2<?0.5, and (4) 1.5<|R7/F4|<3.5, wherein D is the diagonal length of the sensing area of the image sensor, T is the length from the object surface of the first lens to the sensing surface of the image sensor, R2 is the radius of curvature of the image side surface of the first lens, R3 is the radius of curvature of the object side surface of the second lens, R7 is the radius of curvature of the object side surface of the fourth lens, F1, F2, F4 are the corresponding focal length of the first lens, the second lens, and the third lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun-Yi Yin, Chun-Hsiang Huang
  • Patent number: 7826149
    Abstract: An optical lens system for taking image comprises, in order from the object side to the image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; an aperture stop; a second lens element with negative refractive power; a third lens element having a convex object-side surface; and a fourth lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface, an image-side surface of the fourth lens element being aspheric and formed with inflection points. A distance from the image-side surface of the fourth lens element to an image plane along an optical axis being BFL, a total track length of the optical lens system for taking image being TTL, and they satisfy the relation: BFL/TTL>0.12. In the optical lens system for taking image, the number of lens elements with refractive power being limited to four.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsiang-Chi Tang, Ming-Ching Lin
  • Patent number: 7796349
    Abstract: A miniature image capture lens is disclosed, comprising an aperture diaphragm having an aperture through which an image is captured and a wafer-level lens system, comprising a first lens group including a first substrate, a first lens disposed on a first side of the first substrate and a second lens disposed on a second side of the first substrate, and a second lens group including a second substrate, a third lens disposed on a first side of the second substrate and a fourth lens disposed on a second side of the second substrate. The first lens, the second lens, the third lens and the fourth lens are aspherical and the miniature image capture lens meets the following condition: L/fe<1.6; f1/fe=0.5˜1.5; f2/fe=?1˜?3; Tgroup2/TBFL=0.8˜1.2; Tair/Tgroup2=0.4˜0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: VisEra Technologies Company Limited
    Inventors: Jau-Jan Deng, Wei-Chung Chang, Min-Chih Liao