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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127575 | LENS APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE LENS APPARATUS A lens apparatus includes: a correction unit moving perpendicularly to an optical axis and including a correction optical system correcting an image blur; a driving unit driving the correction unit; an engaging unit movable between an engaging position where the engagin... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120105960 | OPTICAL DEVICE INCLUDING ADJUSTABLE OPTICAL ELEMENT An optical device includes an optical element through which light is transmitted, a frame that supports the optical element, magnets in the frame around the optical element, a base unit that movably supports the frame, a cover unit to cover the magnets, and magnetic for... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120044369 | IMAGING APPARATUS, ABERRATION CORRECTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM An imaging apparatus includes: a shift lens driven to be shifted; a uniform aberration correction data storing unit storing uniform aberration correction data for correcting uniform aberration; a shift amount calculating unit calculating an amount of aberration correcti... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120038985 | LENS BARREL A lens barrel that includes a first rectilinear motion barrel, a second rectilinear motion barrel whose rotation around an optical axis is restricted by the first rectilinear motion barrel, a first flexible printed circuit board whose electrical connection is performed ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120013753 | IMAGE BLUR CORRECTION APPARATUS MOUNTED ON OPTICAL EQUIPMENT, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS An image pickup apparatus which decreases the number of components to reduce man-hours for assembly. A base plate, which supports a lens holder in such a manner that the lens holder is movable in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis, has an engagement portion ha... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120008208 | Image Stabilization Device An image stabilization device is disclosed. The image stabilization device includes a first linkage assembly and a first flexible element. The first linkage assembly is disposed on a frame. The first linkage assembly includes a first linkage which is disposed in a first... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120002060 | OPTICAL APPARATUS, IMAGE SENSING DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHODS THEREOF An image sensing device includes two, left- and right-eye image sensors, and detects the rotation amount around the optical axis of the image sensing device, and the displacement amounts of the two image sensors in a plane perpendicular to the optical axis. The image se... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110310484 | OPTICAL DEVICE An optical device includes a shake detection unit configured to detect shake of the optical device; a correction unit configured to correct image blur in a sensed image; a position detection unit configured to detect position of the correction unit; a correction control... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110304914 | INTEGRATED LENS BARREL An integrated lens barrel for a miniature camera is disclosed. The lens barrel can include components such as a shutter, an autofocus mechanism, a zoom mechanism, and/or an image stabilization mechanism. These and/or components can define a portion of the lens barrel th... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110299163 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL-CAMERA LENS SYSTEM In each of left and right lens devices used in the three-dimensional camera, an antivibration lens group for preventing image blur caused by vibrations is disposed in an image-pickup optical system. A movement instructing device which adjusts, by manual operation, a ref... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110292509 | IMAGE STABILIZING APPARATUS AND OPTICAL APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME An image stabilizing apparatus for correcting an image shake by moving an optical element arranged in a lens barrel in a plane orthogonal to an optical axis includes a first rolling holder configured to support a first rolling member so as to be capable of rolling in a ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110292510 | OPTICAL APPARATUS HAVING IMAGE SHAKE CORRECTING FUNCTION Provided is an optical apparatus including: an image shake correcting unit for canceling an image shake generated due to a vibration; at least two angular velocity sensors having axes for detecting an angular velocity, the axes being parallel to each other; a vibration ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110273774 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE ZOOM LENS A zoom lens 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 negative refractive power, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens unit having a positi... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110228394 | ZOOM LENS A zoom lens includes a magnification-varying lens unit moving in an optical axis direction; a movable optical unit arranged in an object side of the magnification-varying lens unit; and a controller for moving the optical unit and the zoom lens displacing an image. A mo... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110221657 | OPTICAL STABILIZATION OF DISPLAYED CONTENT WITH A VARIABLE LENS This disclosure concerns an interactive, head-mounted eyepiece with an electrically adjustable liquid lens that adjusts a focus of the displayed content for the user. The electrically adjustable liquid lens may be of the type that uses two liquids, a conducting liquid a... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110199531 | OPTICAL APPARATUS AND IMAGING APPARATUS Provided is an optical apparatus including a filter (102) that includes a first surface (105) intersecting a rotation axis at a predetermined angle and a second surface (106) orthogonal to the rotation axis and rotates around the rotation axis, a fi... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110181636 | PROJECTION APPARATUS AND IMAGE BLUR PREVENTIVE CONTROL METHOD FOR PROJECTION APPARATUS A projection apparatus includes: a projection system which projects an image; a vibration detecting unit which detects vibration given to the main body of the apparatus; an installation condition determining unit which determines the installation condition of the main b... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110134528 | POSITION CONTROLLER FOR OPTICAL ELEMENT A position controller for an optical element includes a movable member and is supported by a support member to be movable from an anti-shake driving range to a removed position, an image-shake correction driver, and an insertion/removal operational member. The insertion... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110109968 | IMAGE STABILIZATION MECHANISM FOR CAMERA MODULE Disclosed herein is an image stabilization mechanism for a camera module. The image stabilization mechanism includes a base, a movable stage receiving a lens barrel therein and having a magnet, and a piezoelectric actuator. The piezoelectric actuator is installed to the... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110032615 | LENS BARREL, METHOD OF ADJUSTING LENS BARREL, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LENS BARREL AND IMAGING DEVICE This object aims to provide a lens barrel that can realize suitable imaging. A lens barrel (100) is characterized in including an imaging optical system (102, 104) having a second optical system (102) that is relatively movable against a first optic... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20100284081 | INTEGRATED LENS BARREL An integrated lens barrel for a miniature camera is disclosed. The lens barrel can include components such as a shutter, an autofocus mechanism, a zoom mechanism, and/or an image stabilization mechanism. These and/or components can define a portion of the lens barrel th... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100271700 | METHOD FOR DRIVING PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR, PIEZOELECTRIC-ACTUATOR CONTROL CIRCUIT, AND IMAGE-STABILIZATION CONTROL CIRCUIT Abnormal noise generated while driving a piezoelectric actuator is prevented. A pulse-generation circuit is capable of selectively generating a displacement pulse and a stationary pulse as a drive pulse for application to a piezoelectric element, the displacement pulse ... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100260492 | IMAGE STABILIZER AND CAMERA MODULE HAVING SAME An exemplary image stabilizer includes an outer housing, an inner housing, an upper cover and a driving assembly. The inner housing is moveably received in the outer housing. The upper cover is fixedly mounted on the inner housing and moveably supported by the outer hou... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100098394 | OPTICAL UNIT WITH SHAKE CORRECTING FUNCTION AND SHAKE CORRECTION CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR An optical unit with shake correcting function may include a movable module on which at least an optical element is mounted, a fixed body which supports the movable module, a shake detection sensor which detects a shake of the movable module, a drive mechanism for shake... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100074605 | IMAGE STABILIZING APPARATUS AND OPTICAL APPARATUS An image stabilizing apparatus is disclosed which is capable of sufficiently correcting shift shakes even with a small and lightweight accelerometer. The apparatus includes an angular velocity detector which detects angular velocity generated by a shake, an angular velo... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100067113 | Apparatus and Method for Displaying Hierarchical Data A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to receive a request for tree node information and apply one or more tree node parameter limits to the request. The tree node parameter limits include a tree node level limit and a sibling node count li... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100033820 | VIBRATION REDUCTION APPARATUS AND OPTICAL APPARATUS A vibration reduction apparatus to stably control the driving of a vibration reduction optical system. A vibration reduction apparatus 30 has a fixed portion 31, a moving portion 25, 32, 34-1, 35-1 having a vibration reduction optical ... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100002204 | Motion responsive devices and systems The present disclosure relates to motion responsive devices and systems that may be configured for projection.... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090303594 | Image stabilizing apparatus for camera module The present invention relates to an image stabilizing apparatus for a camera module capable of effectively stabilizing an image of the camera module, implementing miniaturization and slimness, and reducing a manufacture cost of the camera module by supplying a two-axial... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090296217 | IMAGE BLUR CORRECTION DEVICE An image blur correction device includes a base, a seat disposed on the base, an image detecting unit disposed on the seat, at least one coil, and at least one magnet. The coil is disposed on the seat or the base, has a first length in a first direction and a second len... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090251778 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM A zoom lens system is provided that includes a compactly constructed focusing lens unit and that has a suppressed change in the image magnification at the time of movement of a focusing lens unit. The zoom lens system according to the present invention, in order from an... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090252484 | Image Blur Correction Device and Camera An image blur correction device includes: a blur correction optical system that corrects for image blur by moving in first and second directions on a plane that is orthogonal to an optical axis; a first actuator that drives the blur correction optical system in the firs... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090251777 | OPTICAL APPARATUS The optical apparatus includes an image stabilizing lens shiftable with respect to an optical axis, a movable lens movable in an optical axis direction, first and second actuators shifting the image stabilizing lens, and a third actuator moving the movable lens. The fir... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090237792 | Driving mechanism and optical equipment To provide a driving mechanism with which a reduction in size is possible. A driving mechanism comprising: an optical component that is provided to be movable; a first driving member that is movable in a first direction; a second driving member that is movable in the fi... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090237793 | ACTIVE-ISOLATION MOUNTS FOR OPTICAL ELEMENTS Disclosed are, inter alia, optical components that include an optical element (e.g., mirror) and at least three active-isolation mounts mounting the optical element to a frame (e.g., optical barrel or optical frame). An active-isolation mount has a non-contacting actuat... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090185042 | IMAGE-BLUR CORRECTION DEVICE, IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, AND OPTICAL DEVICE An image-blur correction device includes a vibration detection unit which detects vibrations of two different detection axes in a plane orthogonal to an optical axis, a correction unit which corrects vibration using a correction optical system which is displaced in dire... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090185273 | OPTICAL IMAGE STABILIZER AND OPTICAL APPARATUS The optical image stabilizer shifts an image stabilizing element with respect to an optical axis of an optical system to reduce image shake. The stabilizer includes a lock ring which is rotatable to a lock position to limit shift of the image stabilizing element and to ... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090180183 | Zoom lens system A zoom lens system is provided that includes a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; and at least one lens group disposed between the second lens group and an image side. The first, second, and the at le... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090161118 | Dynamic image recording system with imaging sensors and method In a measuring system comprising an optical image recording system and a relative movement between the measured object and the image recording system, it is provided that the focal point (F) of the image recording system (3) be allowed to oscillate in scanning di... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090141137 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND IMAGING CAPTURING APPARATUS A MCP semiconductor device with an “anti-shake” function includes a driver chip and a logic chip. The logic chip includes a correction signal processing unit which obtains a value for vibration of apparatus based on a vibration detection signal to generate a correct... | 06/04/2009 |
