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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127582 | OPTICAL SYSTEM The optical system of the present invention includes a plurality of lens groups and a variable focus lens. Here, the variable focus lens satisfies the following condition:
| 05/24/2012 |
| 20120081797 | IMAGING DEVICE An imaging device is provided with an imaging sensor having a rectangular imaging surface, an image-forming optical system for forming an image onto the imaging surface, and a prism disposed between the image-forming optical system and the imaging sensor for bending an ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120026600 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising a first lens unit having positive optical power and at least one subsequent lens unit, wherein an interval between the first lens unit and a lens unit which is one of the at least one subseque... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120026601 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising a first lens unit having negative optical power and at least one subsequent lens unit, wherein a second lens unit is located closest to the object side in the subsequent lens units, an interva... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120019925 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA A zoom lens system comprising: a front unit having negative optical power as a whole and including a first lens unit located closest to the object side; and a rear unit having positive optical power as a whole, wherein at least the front unit moves along an optical axis... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020655 | LENS MODULE AND TEMPERATURE-COMPENSATING METHOD THEREOF Embodiments of the present invention disclose a lens module and its temperature-compensating method. The lens module primarily includes several lenses and a compensating lens. The several lenses comprise two plastic lenses and the ratio of the focal length of one plasti... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120013991 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising a first lens unit having positive optical power, a second lens unit having positive optical power, a third lens unit having positive optical power, a fourth lens unit having negative optical p... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120002300 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME A zoom lens, including: a first lens unit and a second lens unit, in which the first lens unit includes: a first lens sub unit which does not move; a second lens sub unit which moves for focusing; and a third lens sub unit which does not move; and in which the following... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110299174 | CHANGER FOR OPTICAL ELEMENTS A changer includes an axis of rotation for at least one optical element for at least one optical path comprising an optical axis. The changer inserts the optical element into the optical path by a rotary motion or removes it from the optical path. The optical path is on... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110285896 | Image forming optical system and electronic image pickup apparatus using the same 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 p... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110261466 | VARIABLE FOCUS LENS AND SPECTACLES The invention provides a variable focus lens formed from a ring with a front surface and a rear surface, a flexible membrane is attached to a radially inner part of the front surface, and a front cover is attached to a radially outer part of the front surface, a rear co... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110242528 | OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM WITH CATOPTRIC OBJECTIVE; BROADBAND OBJECTIVE WITH MIRROR; AND REFRACTIVE LENSES AND BROADBAND OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM HAVING TWO OR MORE IMAGING PATHS An optical system may include an objective having at least four mirrors including an outermost mirror with aspect ratio <20:1 and focusing optics including a refractive optical element. The objective provides imaging at numerical aperture >0.7, central obscuration... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110242675 | ZOOM LENS AND OPTICAL APPARATUS The zoom lens includes a first lens unit being disposed closest to an object and having a positive optical power, and at least one subsequent lens unit being disposed closer to an image than the first lens unit. The first lens unit is moved toward the object during vari... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110181758 | Image forming optical system and electronic image pickup apparatus using the same There is provided an image forming optical system in which, it is possible to achieve both, the small-sizing and slimming of an optical system, and a favorable correction of various aberrations, mainly the chromatic aberration. In an image ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110157714 | IMAGING APPARATUS 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, ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110127697 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING THE SIZE OF A LASER BEAM FOCAL SPOT A method and apparatus is described that allows the width of fine line structures ablated or cured by a focussed laser beam on the surface of flat substrates to be dynamically changed while the beam is in motion over the substrate surface while simultaneously maintainin... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110128416 | Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus equipped with same A zoom lens includes, in order from the object side, an object side lens group having a negative refracting power at the wide angle end and including at least one negative lens unit, and an image side lens group having a positive refracting power at the wide angle end a... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110122383 | MAGNIFICATION CONTROL FOR LITHOGRAPHIC IMAGING SYSTEM In a lithographic projection system, a corrective optic in the form of one or more deformable plates is mounted within telecentric image or object space for making one-dimensional or two-dimensional adjustments to magnification. The deformable plate, which can be initia... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110102639 | Image forming optical system and electronic image pickup apparatus equipped with same A zoom optical system having a lens group I including two single lenses or one lens component, an aperture stop, and a lens group A disposed between the lens group I and the aperture stop, including a lens component made up of a positive lens LA and a negative lens LB t... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110102660 | Lens component, image forming optical system, and electronic image pickup apparatus using the same A lens component of the present invention is made by cementing a lens LA and a lens LB having a refracting power smaller than a refracting power of the lens LA, and satisfies predetermined conditional expressions. Moreover, in an image forming optical system of the pres... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110080648 | IMAGING APPARATUS An imaging apparatus includes an imaging system, a dome cover that houses the imaging system, and a correction lens between the imaging system and the dome cover. The focal length of the dome cover and the focal length of the correction lens are appropriately set based ... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110075269 | PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE FOR MULTIMEDIA AND WALL DISPLAY SYSTEMS A front projection display device includes an optical engine including an illumination system, an imaging system, and projection optics. The projection optics include a first lens group of negative refractive power that has at least one aspheric surface. The projection ... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110063736 | IMAGING OPTICS WITH ADJUSTABLE OPTICAL POWER AND METHOD OF ADJUSTING AN OPTICAL POWER OF AN OPTICS The invention relates to optics comprising adjustable optical elements and, if desired, lenses of fixed focal lens. By use of an appropriate controller for the adjustable optical elements, characteristics of the optics can be advantageously varied. For this purpose, sys... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110058259 | Scanner Lens A scanner lens includes a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens. The first lens is provided with a first focal length. The first, second, and third lenses are sequentially arranged from an object end to an imaging end and are respectively provided with a plus diop... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110043927 | OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM, CAMERA DEVICE, AND HAND-HELD DATA TERMINAL DEVICE An optical imaging system includes a first lens group having a positive or negative optical power, an aperture diaphragm, and a second lens group having a positive optical power arranged in order from an object side. The first lens group includes a first front lens grou... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044673 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS Provided is a photographic lens which prevents lenses disposed in the front and the rear of a prism from physically interfering with each other and in which the optical axes of the prism and the lenses disposed in the front and the rear of the prism are precisely aligne... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110038028 | Optical Imaging Lens systems and components A variable optical system comprises a variable optical assembly including a plurality of deformable layers, selectively operable to vary at least one of: an optical property of at least one of the layers, a physical property of at least one of the layers, and an optical... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20100310243 | RETRACTABLE ZOOM LENS A zoom lens includes a zoom optical system including movable lens groups for zooming which are moved between a ready-to-photograph position and an accommodated position, a diaphragm mechanism, and a lens shutter. One of the movable lens groups serves as an aperture-cont... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100246025 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE ZOOM LENS SYSTEM A zoom lens system, in which chromatic aberration, spherical aberration, and coma may be excellently corrected in a balanced manner so as to obtain excellent optical performance over an entire zoom range, includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a first ... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100231778 | TELEVISION CAMERA SYSTEM AND TELEVISION LENS APPARATUS In S104, it is determined whether an instruction has been input to drive a wiper serving as an optional member. If a wiper driving instruction has been input, the process shifts to S105 to perform wiper driving control. If no wiper driving instruction has ... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100220397 | INTERNALLY FOCUSING LENS SYSTEM An exemplary internally focusing lens system includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens group with positive refractive power, a second lens group with negative refractive power, and a third lens group with positive refractive power. The thir... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100202771 | LENS DEVICE A CPU 20 of a lens device 10 controls an iris 22 based on iris control commands which are supplied from a CPU 40 of a camera body 12 by serial communication. In doing this, the CPU 20 changes a proportional gain for proportional... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100195995 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM Provided is a zoom lens system including a compact focusing lens unit and having a suppressed change in image magnification at the time of movement of the focusing lens unit. The zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, includes a first lens unit... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100194964 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM Provided is a zoom lens system including a compact focusing lens unit and having a suppressed change in image magnification at the time of movement of the focusing lens unit. The zoom lens system of the present invention, in order from an object side to an image side, i... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100188553 | Image forming optical system and electronic image pickup apparatus using the same It is preferable that for an image forming optical system a basic structure which includes a first lens group having a negative refracting power, which is made of one cemented lens component, a second lens group having a positive refracting power, a third lens group hav... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100166403 | Camera and Lens System A camera assembly, preferably a cinematographic camera assembly, comprises a camera housing and a plurality of interchangeable lenses which can be attached to the camera housing for capturing an image. Each lens has a body and a lens system comprising at least one lens ... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100149652 | Zoom lens having diffraction-type optical element and image pickup apparatus using the same A zoom lens is provided with, in order from the object side, at least, a positive first group with a diffraction-type optical element, a positive second group, and a negative third group. A space between the first and second groups and a space between the second and thi... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100128360 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power and a second lens unit having a positive refractive power. In the zoom lens, an interval between the first and second lens units becomes smaller at ... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100103531 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS USING THE SAME A zoom lens includes a first lens unit with a negative refractive power, a second lens unit with a positive refractive power, and a third lens unit with a positive refractive power in order from the object side to the image side. The first lens unit includes a negative ... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100091170 | 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 comprises a plura... | 04/15/2010 |
