First Component Positive Patents (Class 359/772)
  • Patent number: 12345857
    Abstract: An optical system consists of a front unit and a rear unit. The front unit consists of a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens disposed on an image side of the first lens and having a positive refractive power, and a third lens. Each of the first lens and the second lens has a refractive index of 1.7 or higher for d-line. The rear unit consists of two or more and four or fewer lenses and includes a fourth lens having a positive refractive power and a fifth lens adjacent to the fourth lens and having a negative refractive power. Each of the fourth lens and the fifth lens is made of an organic material. A predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Ebe, Shinichiro Saito
  • Patent number: 12332409
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optical system (10) sequentially comprising, from an object side to an image side, a first lens (L1) having a positive refraction power, a second lens (L2), a third lens (L3) and a fourth lens (L4). An image side surface (S8) of the fourth lens (L4) is a concave surface on an optical axis, both an object side surface (S7) and the image side surface (S8) of the fourth lens (L4) are aspheric surfaces, and at least one of the object side surface (S7) and the image side surface (S8) of the fourth lens (L4) has a point of inflexion. The optical system (10) comprises a stop (STO), the stop (STO) being arranged between the object side of the first lens (L1) and the fourth lens (L4), and the optical system (10) satisfies: 0.5<SL/TTL<0.9, and ?1<SAG31/CT3<0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: JIANGXI JINGCHAO OPTICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jinhua Zou, Binbin Liu, Ming Li
  • Patent number: 12196926
    Abstract: An optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a front unit having positive refractive power, an aperture stop, and a rear unit having positive refractive power. The front unit includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first aspheric lens, a first negative lens, and a first positive lens. The rear unit includes, in order from the image side to the object side, a second aspheric lens, a second negative lens, and a second positive lens. The first aspheric lens includes an aspheric surface having an inflection point in a section including an optical axis. A predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Kajiyama, Naoto Doujou
  • Patent number: 12019212
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element. The first lens element has negative refracting power, the periphery region of the object-side surface of the second lens element is concave and the optical-axis region of the object-side surface of the third lens element is concave. The Abbe number of the first lens element is ?1, the Abbe number of the second lens element is ?2, the Abbe number of the third lens element is ?3 and the Abbe number of the fourth lens element is ?4 to satisfy ?1+?2+?3+?4?150.000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hung-Chien Hsieh, Qingzhi Zhu, Fensha Cai
  • Patent number: 11614674
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera with folded optics and lens shifting capabilities. In some examples, a folded optics arrangement of the camera may include one or more lens elements and one or more light path folding elements (e.g., a prism). Some embodiments include voice coil motor (VCM) actuator arrangements, carrier arrangements, and/or suspension arrangements to provide autofocus (AF) and/or optical image stabilization (OIS) movement. Furthermore, some embodiments include position sensor arrangements for position sensing with respect to AF and/or OIS movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alfred N. Mireault, Scott W. Miller
  • Patent number: 11243455
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera with folded optics and lens shifting capabilities. In some examples, a folded optics arrangement of the camera may include one or more lens elements and one or more light path folding elements (e.g., a prism). Some embodiments include voice coil motor (VCM) actuator arrangements, carrier arrangements, and/or suspension arrangements to provide autofocus (AF) and/or optical image stabilization (OIS) movement. Furthermore, some embodiments include position sensor arrangements for position sensing with respect to AF and/or OIS movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alfred N. Mireault, Scott W. Miller
  • Patent number: 11079588
    Abstract: A relay optical system includes a cemented lens in which a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens having are cemented. The first lens is a meniscus lens which is adjacent to the third lens, and a dispersion and a partial dispersion ratio differ for the first lens and the third lens. In a rectangular coordinate system in which a horizontal axis is set to be ?dLA and a vertical axis is set to be ?gFLA, when a straight line expressed by ?gFLA=?×?dLA+?LA (where, ?=?0.00163) is set, ?gFLA and ?dLA of medium of the first lens are included in an area determined by the following conditional expression (1) and conditional expression (2), and the following conditional expression (3) is satisfied: 0.67??LA??(1) ?dLA<50??(2) ?1.4<mg<?0.6??(3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Amanai
  • Patent number: 11067788
    Abstract: A relay optical system includes an object-side lens which is disposed nearest to an object, an image-side lens which is disposed nearest to an image, and a cemented lens having a positive refractive power. The object-side lens has a positive refractive power and is disposed such that a convex surface is directed toward an object side. The image-side lens has a positive refractive power and is disposed such that a convex surface is directed toward an image side. A plurality of the cemented lenses is disposed between the object-side lens and the image side lens and the following conditional expression (1) is satisfied: 0.04<Gce/Drel<0.4??(1) where, Gce denotes the smallest of intervals of adjacent cemented lenses, and Drel denotes a distance from an object plane up to an image plane of the relay optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Amanai, Tsutomu Uzawa
  • Patent number: 11061213
    Abstract: A folded camera that includes two light folding elements such as prisms and an independent lens system, located between the two prisms, which includes an aperture stop and a lens stack. The lens system may be moved on one or more axes independently of the prisms to provide autofocus and/or optical image stabilization for the camera. The shapes, materials, and arrangements of the refractive lens elements in the lens stack may be selected to capture high resolution, high quality images while providing a sufficiently long back focal length to accommodate the second prism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuhong Yao, Miodrag Scepanovic
  • Patent number: 10901175
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes a first lens element to a fourth lens element. A periphery region of the image-side surface of the first lens element is convex, the second lens element has positive refracting power, an optical axis region of the object-side surface of the second lens element is convex, a periphery region of the image-side surface of the second lens element is convex, the third lens element has positive refracting power, a periphery region of the image-side surface of the third lens element is concave and a periphery region of the image-side surface of the fourth lens element is convex. EFL is an effective focal length, AAG is a sum of three air gaps along the optical axis, T3 is a thickness of the third lens element and G12 is an air gap between the first lens element and the second lens element to satisfy (EFL+AAG)/(G12+T3)?3.800.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Feng Chen, Huifeng Pan
  • Patent number: 10705315
    Abstract: A slim lens assembly in accordance with the invention in order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, comprises a first lens, a second lens, a third lens and a fourth lens. The first lens is with positive refractive power, which includes a convex surface facing an image side. The second lens is with positive refractive power, which includes a concave surface facing the image side. The third lens is with positive refractive power, which includes a concave surface facing the object side and a convex surface facing the image side. The fourth lens is with positive refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignees: SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., ASIA OPTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventors: Chien-Hung Chen, Hsi-Ling Chang
  • Patent number: 10151903
    Abstract: A telephoto lens includes, from an object-side to an image-side: a first lens having a positive refractive power, wherein an object-side surface of the first lens is convex, an image-side surface of the first lens is convex; a second lens having a refractive power; a third lens having a refractive power, wherein the third lens includes plastic material, each of an object-side and an image-side surface of the third lens is aspheric; a fourth lens having a refractive power, wherein an object-side surface of the fourth lens is convex, the fourth lens includes plastic material, and each of the object-side and image-side surfaces of the fourth lens is aspheric; wherein, the telephoto lens satisfies: 0.7<TTL/f<0.95, and |f4/f|?1.2; where TTL is distance from the first lens' object-side surface to an imaging plane; f is effective focal length of the telephoto lens, and f4 is effective focal length of the fourth lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lin Huang, Faguan Lin
  • Patent number: 9772470
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes first to fourth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. Through designs of surfaces of the lens elements and relevant optical parameters, a short system length of the imaging lens may be achieved while maintaining good optical performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL (XIAMEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sheng-Wei Hsu, Tzu-Chien Tang
  • Patent number: 9541731
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mobile device and an optical imaging lens thereof. The optical imaging lens comprises an aperture stop, first, second, third and fourth lens elements positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. The first lens element with positive refracting power has a surface facing toward the object side. The second lens element with negative refracting power has a convex surface facing toward the object. The third lens element has a positive refracting power. The fourth lens element has a surface facing toward the object side with a concave portion in the vicinity of the optical axis and a surface facing toward the image side with a convex portion in the peripheral vicinity. The optical imaging lens of the present invention is capable of shortening the total length of the optical imaging lens efficiently and has good optical characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shih-Han Chen, Yan-Bin Chen, Long Ye
  • Patent number: 9057866
    Abstract: Present embodiments provide for a mobile device and an optical imaging lens thereof. The optical imaging lens comprises four lens elements positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. Through controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces and/or the refractive power of the lens elements, the optical imaging lens shows better optical characteristics and the total length of the optical imaging lens is shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jih-Chung Huang
  • Patent number: 8976467
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mobile device and an optical imaging lens thereof. The optical imaging lens comprises an aperture stop, first, second, third and fourth lens elements positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. The first lens element with positive refracting power has a surface facing toward the object side. The second lens element with negative refracting power has a convex surface facing toward the object. The third lens element has a positive refracting power. The fourth lens element has a surface facing toward the object side with a concave portion in the vicinity of the optical axis and a surface facing toward the image side with a convex portion in the peripheral vicinity. The optical imaging lens of the present invention is capable of shortening the total length of the optical imaging lens efficiently and has good optical characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shihhan Chen, Yanbin Chen, Long Ye
  • Patent number: 8953263
    Abstract: An optical unit and an image pickup unit are provided that allow a full angular field to be increased in spite of small size and low cost. An image pickup lens 100 has a first lens 111 with a positive power, a second lens 113 with a positive power, a third lens 114 with a positive power, and a fourth lens 115 with a negative power that are arranged in order from an object side OBJS toward an image surface side, that are arranged in order from the object side toward the image surface side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiko Baba
  • Patent number: 8896937
    Abstract: An image capturing 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 in a paraxial region thereof and a convex image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element with negative refractive power has a concave object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof and a convex image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof. The third lens element with positive refractive power has a concave object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof and a convex image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof. The fourth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof. The image capturing lens assembly has a total of four lens elements with refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun-Che Hsueh, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 8848298
    Abstract: An image capturing optical lens assembly includes, 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 concave image-side surface, a second lens element with negative refractive power, a third lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, and a fourth lens element with refractive power having a concave image-side surface. The object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fourth lens element are aspheric. Either or both of the object-side surface and the image-side surface have at least one inflection point formed thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Publication number: 20140285910
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes plastic-made first, second, third, and fourth lens elements arranged in the given order from an object side to an imaging side. The first lens element has a positive focusing power and is biconvex. The second lens element has a negative focusing power, is biconcave, and has an abbe number not greater than 30. The third lens element has a positive focusing power and has a convex imaging-side surface facing toward the imaging side. The fourth lens element has an imaging-side surface formed with a concave area in a vicinity of an optical axis of the fourth lens element. The imaging lens further includes an aperture stop disposed between the first and second lens elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Poche Lee, Kuo-Wen Chang, Long-Sheng Liao
  • Patent number: 8842378
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens having negative refractive power; a third lens having negative refractive power; and a fourth lens having negative refractive power, arranged from an object side to an image plane side. In the first lens, a curvature radius on an object-side surface is positive and a curvature radius of an image-side surface is negative. In the third lens, curvature radii of an object-side surface and an image-side surface are both negative. In the fourth lens, curvature radii of an object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof are both positive. When the whole lens system has a focal length f and a distance from the object-side surface of the first lens to an image-side surface of the fourth lens is L14, the imaging lens satisfies the following expression: 0.5<L14/f<0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignees: Optical Logic Inc., Kantatsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoji Kubota, Kenichi Kubota, Hitoshi Hirano, Ichiro Kurihara
  • Patent number: 8817386
    Abstract: This invention provides an image capturing lens system in order from an object side to an image side comprising four non-cemented lens elements with refractive power: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; a second lens element with negative refractive power having a concave image-side surface; a plastic third lens element having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, both the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric; and a plastic fourth lens element with negative refractive power having a concave image-side surface, both the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric, and at least one inflection point is formed on at least one of the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof; wherein the image capturing lens system comprises a stop positioned between the first lens element and the second lens element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Chih-Wen Hsu, Tsung-Han Tsai, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 8804252
    Abstract: An optical 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 positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element has positive refractive power, wherein an object-side surface and an image-side surface of the third lens element are aspheric. The fourth lens element with 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: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dung-Yi Hsieh, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 8792188
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes first, second, third, and fourth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. The first lens element has a positive refractive power. The second lens element has a negative refractive power, and concave object-side and image-side surfaces. The third lens element has a positive refractive power. The fourth lens has a curved object-side surface with a convex portion and a concave portion. The imaging lens satisfies AAG/CT3?1.3, where AAG is a sum of distances between any adjacent two of the lens elements, and CT3 is a thickness of the third lens element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: GeniuS Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shih-Han Chen, Feng Chen, Guan-Ning Huang
  • Patent number: 8767307
    Abstract: Provided is an objective optical system comprising, in order from an object side: an aperture stop; a positive first group; a second group; a positive third group; and a fourth group, wherein the first group is formed of a single meniscus lens or plano-convex lens, whose convex surface faces an image side, the second group is formed of a single lens, the third group is formed of a cemented lens consisting of a positive lens and a negative lens, the fourth group is formed of a single lens, and Conditional Expressions (7) and (8) below are satisfied, where f is a focal length of an entire system, f4 is a focal length of the fourth group, and f2 is a focal length of the second group. ?0.5<f/f4<?0.001??(7) 0.1?|f4/f2|?5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Minoru Nakamura, Yasuaki Ushio
  • Publication number: 20140132829
    Abstract: Present embodiments provide for a mobile device and an optical imaging lens thereof. The optical imaging lens comprises four lens elements positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. Though controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces, the refracting power and/or the ratio or difference among the parameters of the lens element(s), the optical imaging lens shows better optical characteristics and the total length of the optical imaging lens is shortened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shih Han Chen, Chung Chih Chang, Hung Chien Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20140098431
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an imaging lens, the imaging lens including, in an ordered way from an object side, a first lens having positive (+) refractive power, a second lens having negative (?) refractive power, a third lens having negative (?) refractive power, a fourth lens having negative (?) refractive power, wherein the imaging lens meets a conditional expression of ?0.5<f/f3<0 and ?0.5<f/f4<0, where f is an entire focus distance of the imaging lens, f3 is a focus distance of the third lens, and f4 is a focus distance of the fourth lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dukkeun Kwon
  • Publication number: 20140071340
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mobile device and an optical imaging lens thereof. The optical imaging lens comprises an aperture stop, first, second, third and fourth lens elements positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. The first lens element with positive refracting power has a surface facing toward the object side. The second lens element with negative refracting power has a convex surface facing toward the object. The third lens element has a positive refracting power. The fourth lens element has a surface facing toward the object side with a concave portion in the vicinity of the optical axis and a surface facing toward the image side with a convex portion in the peripheral vicinity. The optical imaging lens of the present invention is capable of shortening the total length of the optical imaging lens efficiently and has good optical characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shihhan Chen, Yanbin Chen, Long Ye
  • Publication number: 20140055663
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes first, second, third, and fourth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. The first lens element has a positive refractive power, and a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has a negative refractive power, and an image-side surface with a convex portion. The third lens element has a convex image-side surface. The fourth lens element has an object-side surface with a convex portion, and a curved image-side surface with a concave portion and a convex portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuo-Wen Chang, Poche Lee, Wei-Yu Lo
  • Publication number: 20140049844
    Abstract: An optical device is to be disposed between a test screen and a test camera that captures an image on the test screen through the optical device. The optical device includes first, second, third and fourth lenses arranged from a camera side to a screen side in the given order. The first lens has a shape factor ranging from ?10 to 5, the second lens is a positive lens and has a shape factor ranging from ?15 to 2, the third lens is a positive lens and has a shape factor ranging from ?30 to 1, and the fourth lens is a positive lens and has a shape factor ranging from ?30 to 1. A ratio of a focal length of the optical device to that of the test camera ranges from 1 to 80.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: National Chiao Tung University
    Inventor: Jui-Wen Pan
  • Publication number: 20140043697
    Abstract: A thin imaging lens assembly with four lenses, having one defined as an object side and an opposite end defined as an image side, and comprising: a lens set, including a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens that are arranged from the object side to the image side in sequence so as to form an optical structure; and a fixed aperture, deposited between the object side and the image side, wherein the first lens has a positive refractive power around an optical axis thereof; the second lens has a negative refractive power around an optical axis thereof; the third lens has a positive refractive power around an optical axis thereof; and the fourth lens comprises a seventh surface, a convex surface around an optical axis thereof, and an eighth surface, a wavy and concave surface around an optical axis thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Ability opto-electronics technology co., ltd
    Inventors: Kuo-Yu LIAO, Chao Hsiang Yang
  • Publication number: 20140022651
    Abstract: Present embodiments provide for a mobile device and an optical imaging lens thereof. The optical imaging lens comprises four lens elements positioned in an order from the object side to the image side. Through controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces of the lens elements, the thickness of the at least one lens element, an air gap between two lens elements, and a sum of all air gaps between all four lens elements along the optical axis satisfying the relations: (T3/G34)>4 and (Gaa/T3)>1, wherein T3 is the thickness of the third lens element, G34 is the air gap between the third lens element and the fourth lens element, and Gaa is the sum of all air gaps between all four lens elements, the optical imaging lens shows better optical characteristics and the total length of the optical imaging lens is shortened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Shih Han CHEN, Yan Bin CHEN, Long YE
  • Publication number: 20140022648
    Abstract: An image lens, in order from an object side to an image side thereof, includes a first lens including a first surface and a second surface, a second lens including a third surface and a fourth surface, a third lens including a fifth surface and a sixth surface, a fourth lens including a seventh surface and a eighth surface, and an image plane. The image lens satisfies the following formulas: D/TTL>1.11; D/L>1.13; Z/Y>0.076; wherein D is the maximum image diameter of the image plane; TTL is a total length of the image lens; L is a distance from an outermost edge of the eighth surface to an optical axis of the image lens; Z is a distance from a central point of the sixth surface to an outermost edge of the sixth surface; and Y is a distance from the outermost edge of the sixth surface to the optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: CHUN-CHENG KO
  • 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
  • Patent number: 8576503
    Abstract: An image capturing optical lens assembly includes, 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 concave image-side surface, a second lens element with negative refractive power, a third lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, and a fourth lens element with refractive power having a concave image-side surface. The object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fourth lens element are aspheric. Either or both of the object-side surface and the image-side surface have at least one inflection point formed thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 8514503
    Abstract: When an optical image is formed through an imaging lens on an imaging surface that is convex toward a light incident side, the imaging lens is constructed in such a manner that a defocus MTF peak position at an arbitrary image height in a range of from 70% to 100% of a maximum image height of the optical image is located further in a light-traveling direction than a same kind of defocus MTF peak position on an optical axis of the imaging lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Minoru Taniyama
  • Patent number: 8508648
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes an aperture stop ST, a first lens L1 that is shaped to form a meniscus lens that directs a convex surface to the object side near an optical axis and has positive refractive power, a second lens L2 that is shaped to form a meniscus lens that directs a convex surface to the object side near the optical axis and has negative refractive power, a third lens L3 that is shaped to form a meniscus lens that directs a concave surface to the object side near the optical axis and has positive refractive power, and a fourth lens L4 that is shaped to form a meniscus lens that directs a convex surface to the object side near the optical axis, arranged in this order from an object side to an image side. When the first lens L1 has a focal length f1 and the second lens L2 has a focal length f2, the imaging lens is configured such that a relationship 0.3<|f1/f2|<0.7 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignees: Optical Logic Inc., Kantatsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoji Kubota, Kenichi Kubota, Hitoshi Hirano, Ichiro Kurihara, Yoshio Ise, Sumio Fukuda
  • Patent number: 8503112
    Abstract: An image capturing lens assembly comprises, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, a second lens element with refractive power, a third lens element with positive refractive power having a convex image-side surface, and a fourth lens element with refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface. The object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fourth lens element are aspheric and have at least one inflection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Po-Lun Hsu, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • 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: 8472124
    Abstract: In an image forming optical system which includes in order from an object side, a first lens group G1 having a positive refractive power, a second lens group G2 having a negative refractive power, a third lens group G3 having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group G4, and which includes maximum of five lens groups, and at the time of zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, when a focal length of the overall image forming optical system is in a range of 1.2 fw to 1.8 fw, the first lens group G1 moves to be positioned more toward the object side than a position at the wide angle end, in a rectangular coordinate system in which, a horizontal axis is let to be ?d(LA) and a vertical axis is let to be nd(LA), when a straight line expressed by nd(LA)=a×?d(LA)+b(LA)(provided that a=?0.0267) is set, the image forming optical system satisfies a predetermined conditional expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichi Mihara
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20130100323
    Abstract: An image forming optical system of four lenses includes in order from an object side, a first lens having a positive refractive power, which is a biconvex lens, a second lens having a negative refractive power, of which, an image-side surface is a concave surface, a third lens having a positive refractive power, which is meniscus-shaped with a concave surface directed toward the object side, a fourth lens having a negative refractive power, of which, an image-side surface is a concave surface, and an aperture stop which is disposed nearest to the object side. The image forming optical system satisfies predetermined conditional expressions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
  • 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: 20130070348
    Abstract: An image pickup lens for a solid-state image pickup element includes a first lens having a positive refractive power with a convex surface facing the object side, a second lens with concave surfaces facing the object side and an image side, a third lens of a meniscus shape having a positive refractive power with a convex surface facing the image side, and a fourth lens with concave surfaces facing the object side and the image side, wherein the image pickup lens satisfies the following conditional expressions (1),(2),(5), and (7); ?1.3<r1/r2<0.03 ??(1) 0.09<r6/r5<1.0 ??(2) ?0.16270?r8/r7??0.0049871 ??(5) 0.38659694?f3/f?0.565293 ??(7) where r1, r2: curvature radius of the first lens; r5, r6: curvature radius of the third lens; r7, r8: curvature radius of the fourth lens; f: composite focal length of an overall image pickup lens system; and f3: focal length of the third lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
  • Patent number: 8400717
    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; a second lens element with negative refractive power having a concave image-side surface and an object-side surface cemented to an image-side surface of the first lens element; a third lens element with negative refractive power; a fourth lens element with positive refractive power having a concave image-side surface and at least one inflection point; and an aperture stop located between an object to be photographed and the third lens element. In the optical lens system for taking image, the number of the lens elements with refractive power being limited to four. A focal length of the optical lens system for taking image is f, a focal length of the first lens element is f1, they satisfy the relation: 0.8<f/f1<2.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun-Shan Chen, Tsung-Han Tsai
  • Patent number: 8358475
    Abstract: A photographing optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side: the first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, the second lens element with positive refractive power, the third lens element with positive refractive power, and the fourth lens element with positive refractive power. By such arrangement, the total track length of the photographing optical lens assembly would be suitable for compact electronics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 8351136
    Abstract: This invention provides an optical imaging lens system in order from an object side to an image side including: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, a second lens element with negative refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, a third lens element with positive refractive power, and a fourth lens element having a concave image-side surface, and at least one of the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric; wherein the optical imaging lens system further comprises an aperture stop and an electronic sensor on which an object is imaged, and the aperture stop is positioned between an object and the first lens element; wherein there are four lens elements with refractive power. By such arrangement, total track length and photosensitivity of the optical imaging lens system can be effectively reduced while retaining high image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung Han Tsai, Hsin Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 8351132
    Abstract: An image pickup optical system having five lenses includes in order from an object side, a first lens having a biconvex shape, and a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a meniscus shape with a concave surface thereof directed toward the object side, and a negative refractive power, a fourth lens having a meniscus shape with a concave surface thereof directed toward the object side, and a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power. The third lens and the fourth lens are cemented, and the negative refractive power at a central portion of the third lens increases gradually toward a peripheral portion thereof, and the positive refractive power at a central portion of the fourth lens decreases gradually toward a peripheral portion thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Uchida
  • Publication number: 20120321293
    Abstract: A compact camera lens composed of the following five lenses in this sequence proceeding from the object side: a first positive meniscus lens, wherein the concave surface of the first positive meniscus lens faces away from the object side; a second negative lens, wherein the object-side surface of the second negative lens is concave; a third positive lens, wherein the image-side surface of the third positive lens is convex; a fourth biconvex lens; and a fifth negative lens. The fourth biconvex lens and the fifth negative lens are in each case cemented with one another. The object-side surface of the third positive lens and the image-side surface of the fifth negative lens are of aspherical form. The objective is particularly robust, compact, has a large aperture and very good imaging characteristics. It is suitable for example as an objective of an exterior mirror replacement camera in the automotive field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: Jos. Schneider Optische Werke GmbH
    Inventors: Udo Schauss, Ralf Linn
  • Patent number: RE44773
    Abstract: An optical imaging system is provided comprising a first lens group having a positive refractive power; a second lens group having a negative refractive power; a third lens group having a positive or negative power; and a fourth lens group having a positive or negative power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong-Ha Park, Ki-Tae Kim