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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120038923 | COLLECTION OPTICS FOR A COLOR SENSOR An optical system includes a lens, a pupil relay, and an aperture stop positioned at a focal point of the lens between the lens and the pupil relay. The lens is configured to collect a plurality of light bundles. Each light bundle emanates from a field point of an objec... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20110285963 | LOW THERMAL STRESS BIREFRINGENCE IMAGING SYSTEM An imaging system having reduced susceptibility to thermally induced stress birefringence, comprising; a relay lens, which images the object plane onto an intermediate image plane; a projection lens, which images the intermediate image plane onto the display surface. Th... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110205621 | Optical lens system Wide-angle, deep-field, close-focusing optical systems are disclosed. According to one aspect, the optical system comprises a negative lens unit and a relay lens. The negative lens unit accepts radiation from an object in space. The relay lens is coupled to the negative... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110199471 | Endoscope optical system and endoscope Provided is an endoscope optical system including first deflecting means that deflects light incident along an incident optical axis in a direction along a first axis perpendicular to the incident optical axis and emits the light; second deflecting means having two refl... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110176191 | SCANNING OPTICAL DEVICE A scanning optical device that scans a light beam through a relay optical system, the relay optical system comprising: front group lenses arranged at a light source side; rear group lenses arranged at a side of a surface to be scanned; and first and second minors arrang... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110169994 | SUPER LIGHT-FIELD LENS Light field imaging systems, and in particular light field lenses that can be mated with a variety of conventional cameras (e.g., digital or photographic/film, image and video/movie cameras) to create light field imaging systems. Light field data collected by these ligh... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110069381 | SPHERICAL ABERRATION CORRECTION FOR AN OPTICAL MICROSCOPE USING A MOVING INFINITY-CONJUGATE RELAY An infinity-conjugate lens relay with a moving first lens is used to select a plane of interest from an image volume. This plane can be selected so that the image is corrected for spherical aberration due to non-ideal imaging conditions. This effectively will allow for ... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110002034 | MAGNIFIED-PROJECTION OPTICAL SYSTEM AND DIGITAL TYPE PLANETARIUM DEVICE Provided is a magnified-projection optical system, which can retain a considerably long back focus although a focal length is short and which has a small chromatic aberration. The optical system comprises a projecting optical system, a relay optical system and a display... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100309279 | Optical System for Direct Imaging of Light Markable Media An imaging system. An array of light sources and an array of lenses corresponding to the light sources and having optical axes substantially parallel to one another are provided. The lenses produce collimated output beams. An afocal optical relay having an optical axis ... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100238543 | Single Prism Aberration Compensation System and method for utilizing two prisms spatially separated is provided. The two prisms spatially separated allows the two prisms typically found in a TIR optical relay system to be spatially separated. In an embodiment, one or more optical relay lenses are interpose... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100172022 | PROJECTING LENS AND PROJECTING APPARATUS USING THE SAME A projecting lens for projecting a light of an image generating device onto a screen is provided. The image generating device has a light valve. The projecting lens includes a first lens group and a second lens group. The first lens group has an imaging optical axis and... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100128240 | CHROMATICALLY CORRECTED OBJECTIVE AND PROJECTION EXPOSURE APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME An objective having a plurality of optical elements arranged to image a pattern from an object field in an object surface of the objective to an image field in an image surface region of the objective at an image-side numerical aperture NA>0.8 with electromagnetic ra... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100123883 | PROJECTION OPTICAL SYSTEM, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD An object is to provide a projection optical system, for example, capable of improving the throughput of scanning exposure in application to scanning exposure apparatus. A projection optical system for forming an image of a first surface and an image of a second surface... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100014161 | Rigid endoscope The invention provides a rigid endoscope relay optical system that can be fabricated at lower costs while its brightness is kept intact by reducing parts count. The rigid endoscope optical system has an elongate insert and is adapted to implement image transfer using re... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090316256 | CHROMATICALLY CORRECTED OBJECTIVE AND PROJECTION EXPOSURE APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME An objective having a plurality of optical elements arranged to image a pattern from an object field in an object surface of the objective to an image field in an image surface region of the objective at an image-side numerical aperture NA>0.8 with electromagnetic ra... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090244701 | Wide Angle Lens System Having a Distorted Intermediate Image The wide angle lens system described herein allows projection devices (e.g., rear projection display devices) to be more compact than would otherwise be possible. The lens system includes a wide angle lens stage and a relay lens stage. When operating as a projection dev... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090231556 | PROJECTING SYSTEM AND LENS COMBINATION THEREOF The invention discloses a projecting system. The projecting system includes two sets of lens. The first set of lens has a first focal length for focusing an incident ray of light to form a first image. The second set of lens has a second focal length for projecting the ... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090168163 | OPTICAL LENS SYSTEMS Wide-angle, deep-field, close-focusing optical systems are disclosed. According to one aspect, the optical system comprises a negative lens unit and a relay lens. The negative lens unit accepts radiation from an object in space. The relay lens is coupled to the negative... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090161087 | PROJECTION OPTICAL SYSTEM, ALIGNER, AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING DEVICE A refractive projection optical system in which a large image side numerical aperture can be ensured by interposing liquid in the optical path to the image plane, and an image having good planarity can be formed while suppressing radial upsizing. The projection optical ... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090067043 | OPTICAL SYSTEM HAVING SELECTABLE FIELD FOR INSPECTION An optical system for viewing an object has a plurality of lenses and a main optical axis coincident with the centers of the lenses. The optical system further comprises a low magnification optical subsystem that is operative to view the object at a first magnification ... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090015916 | Light receiving optical system, and spectrophotometer incorporated with the same A light receiving optical system includes: a relay optical system for converging light to be measured which has been converged on an image plane of an objective optical system on a view angle defining aperture for incidence through the view angle defining aperture. The ... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20080285121 | CATADIOPTRIC PROJECTION OBJECTIVE A catadioptric projection objective for imaging a pattern provided in an object plane of the projection objective onto an image plane of the projection objective comprises: a first objective part for imaging the pattern provided in the object plane into a first intermed... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080259450 | ILLUMINATION OPTICAL APPARATUS, RELAY OPTICAL SYSTEM, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD An illumination optical apparatus guides to an illumination object a light beam emitted from a light source. The illumination optical apparatus includes an enlarging optical system, disposed between the light source and the illumination object, and a reduction optical s... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080247048 | Optical Device For Superposing Electronic Images in Front of an Objective The field of the invention is that of optical devices allowing the superposition of an electronic image on an image coming from an external scenery. The subject of the invention is an optical device for superposing images, designed to be positioned in front of an optica... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080130106 | Wide angle lens system having a distorted intermediate image The wide angle lens system described herein allows projection devices (e.g., rear projection display devices) to be more compact than would otherwise be possible. The lens system includes a wide angle lens stage and a relay lens stage. When operating as a projection dev... | 06/05/2008 |
| 20080013170 | Laser irradiation apparatus and laser irradiation method The present invention provides a laser irradiation apparatus and a laser irradiation method which can reduce displacement of entrance point of laser light into a diffractive optical element, when laser light enters the diffractive optical element through a beam expander... | 01/17/2008 |
| 20070070498 | Observation apparatus and observation method An observation apparatus includes an incident-light illumination optical system, a transmitting illumination optical system, an imaging unit, an input device, a storage unit, an imaging controller, a microscope controller, an imaging information management unit. The ima... | 03/29/2007 |
| 20060291048 | Multi-axis imaging system with single-axis relay A single-axis optical system is introduced in the imaging channel of an array microscope in order to relay the image of the sample object onto a detector placed apart from the array. Because of the relatively large size of the single-axis system, sufficient space is ava... | 12/28/2006 |
| 20060193041 | Integrated optical system for endoscopes and the like Optical systems for endoscopes, borescopes, dental scopes, and the like which are characterized by having three groups of lenses of positive optical power and an external entrance pupil. Typically, all three groups of lenses are displaced from the pupil and focal planes... | 08/31/2006 |
| 20050200947 | Microscope system and objective unit A microscope system includes a light source and an objective unit. The objective unit includes an objective optical system, including a small-diameter distal optical system arranged at an end brought near to or into contact with a specimen, for focusing light from the l... | 09/15/2005 |
| 20050088735 | Multi-axis imaging system with single-axis relay A single-axis optical system is introduced in the imaging channel of an array microscope in order to relay the image of the sample object onto a detector placed apart from the array. Because of the relatively large size of the single-axis system, sufficient space is ava... | 04/28/2005 |