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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120019800 | LITHOGRAPHY PROJECTION OBJECTIVE, AND A METHOD FOR CORRECTING IMAGE DEFECTS OF THE SAME A lithography projection objective for imaging a pattern to be arranged in an object plane of the projection objective onto a substrate to be arranged in an image plane of the projection objective comprises a multiplicity of optical elements that are arranged along an o... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110299179 | OPTICAL SYSTEM AND OPTICAL APPARATUS INCLUDING THE OPTICAL SYSTEM An optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, an aperture stop, and a rear lens group. In the optical system, the rear lens group includes a second lens unit configured to move during foc... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110273772 | BEAM SPLITTER/COMBINER AND METHOD THEREFORE An optical component is disclosed having a lens including a further optical component therein. The further optical component acts upon light propagating within a portion of the lens but not on light propagating within a second other portion of the lens. A simple configu... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110235013 | PROJECTION OBJECTIVE OF A MICROLITHOGRAPHIC PROJECTION EXPOSURE APPARATUS A projection objective of a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus has a high index refractive optical element with an index of refraction greater than 1.6. This element has a volume and a material related optical property which varies over the volume. Variatio... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110199693 | Method and Apparatus for Scaled Up Reproduction of Detailed Features Producing a scaled multiple parallax compound lens is accomplished by providing an insect eye having multiple ommitidia and creating a polymer mold of the insect eye. A casting is then created from the polymer mold with an expandable polymer which is then linearly expan... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110188242 | Optical Component and Illumination Device An optical component comprises a carrier plate (1) having a first main surface (2) and a second main surface (3) facing away from the first main surface (2), and a first lens structure (4) on the first main surface (2), wherein ... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110124373 | Image Pickup Lens, Image Pickup Apparatus, and Mobile Terminal 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 negat... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110109977 | OPTICAL SYSTEM, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR FORMING IMAGE BY THE OPTICAL SYSTEM Providing an optical system having excellent optical performance with sufficiently correcting spherical aberration and curvature of field, an imaging apparatus, and a method for forming an image by the optical system. The optical system includes a plurality of lens grou... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110109971 | IMAGE DIVERSION SYSTEMS & METHODS FOR IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICES Disclosed herein are systems that divert images for image capture devices. An image diversion system includes a deviating optical element to provide a first view to an imager of an image capture device and to provide at least a second view to the imager. An image divers... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110090576 | OPTICAL SYSTEM AND OPTICAL APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME An zoom lens includes a front unit having positive refractive power, an aperture stop, and a rear unit. The front unit has a positive lens Gp1 and the rear unit has a negative lens Gn1. When an Abbe number of a material of the positive lens Gp1, and... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110090575 | IMAGING LENS AND IMAGING APPARATUS 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 secon... | 04/21/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20100323878 | Method for producing Ca-La-F based transparent ceramic, Ca-La-F based transparent ceramic, optical element, optical system, and ceramic-forming composition A method of producing a Ca—La—F based transparent ceramic, including: mixing CaF2 particles and LaF3 particles that are prepared separately from the CaF2 particles to form a mixed body of particles, and sintering the mixed body of pa... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100296179 | OPTICS FOR AN EXTENDED DEPTH OF FIELD An optical imaging assembly having cylindrical symmetry, comprising a plurality of lenses having surfaces with curvatures and spacings between the surfaces, such that an optical image formed by the plurality of lenses has a defocus aberration coefficient greater than 0.... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100296178 | MINIATURIZED OPTICAL HEAD WITH HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION AND HIGH SENSITIVITY, ESPECIALLY FOR FIBRED CONFOCAL FLUORESCENCE IMAGING A miniaturized optical head provided to equip the distal end of a beam of flexible optical fibres 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 aber... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100277816 | FISHEYE LENS Disclosed is a fisheye lens comprised of the first through the seventh lens elements: wherein a field of view is larger than 180° a calibrated distortion is 10% or less, a relative illumination is 80% or more, all the refractive surfaces of the lens elements are spheri... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100277815 | PROJECTION LENS AND PROJECTION SYSTEM HAVING SAME A projection lens includes, in the order from a large conjugate side to a small conjugate side thereof, a negative lens group having a negative refractive power and a positive lens group having a positive refractive power. The positive lens group includes, in the order ... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100188555 | IMAGING LENS, IMAGING DEVICE, AND MOBILE TERMINAL Provided are a wafer scale lens, which is so short in an optical total length with respect to an image height that it can correct an aberration satisfactory, and an optical system including the wafer scale lens and having a thin lens element on the side closest to the i... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100188556 | IMAGING LENS, IMAGING DEVICE, AND MOBILE TERMINAL The present invention provides a wafer-scale lens in which a total optical length is short in comparison with an image height and astigmatism and other aberrations can be well corrected, and an optical system in which a lens element closest to the object side is thin in... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100123567 | OBJECTIVE, IN PARTICULAR FOR A DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM The invention relates to an objective, particularly for infrared light and/or visible light, for imaging an object in an image plane, wherein the objective comprises an objective lens to be directed toward the object and an image lens directed toward the image plane, wh... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100053774 | SMALL PROJECTION LENS AND PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME A small projection lens includes a first lens, which is a biconvex lens, an aperture, an aperture diaphragm (or an aperture), a second lens, which is a negative meniscus lens having a concave surface facing a magnification side, a third lens, which is a positive meniscu... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20090316279 | Emitting and focusing apparatus, methods, and systems Apparatus, methods, and systems provide emitting, field-adjusting, and focusing of electromagnetic energy. In some approaches the field-adjusting includes providing an extended depth of field greater than a nominal depth of field. In some approaches the field-adjusting ... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090303614 | APOCHROMATIC LENS An apochromatic lens with an aperture and exclusively refractive optical elements, comprising a plurality of lenses arranged in lens groups along an optical axis, wherein lenses of different materials are provided and wherein the lenses respectively comprise one of the ... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090251801 | Super wide angle optical system There is provided a super wide angle optical system including, arranged about an optical axis: a first lens having a negative refractive power and having a meniscus shape with a convex object-side surface; a second lens having a negative refractive power and having a me... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090225444 | LENS SYSTEM, OPTICAL DEVICE WITH LENS SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LENS SYSTEM A lens system has the following components in order from an object side: one negative lens component; a positive lens component; a negative lens component having a concave surface of a large curvature on an image side; an aperture stop; a negative lens component having ... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090168201 | Imaging lens module An imaging lens module includes a fixed diaphragm and an optical module. The optical module includes first, second, third, fourth and fifth lenses arranged from an object side to an image side in a sequence of: the first lens, having a negative refractive power, a conve... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090116125 | LENS SYSTEM The present invention concerns a lens system. More specifically, it concerns a lens system comprising a first lens (3), a deflection element (5) and a second lens (6), wherein the deflection element (5) is arranged between the first lens (... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090052051 | OPTICAL SYSTEM, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR FORMING IMAGE BY THE OPTICAL SYSTEM Providing an optical system having excellent optical performance with sufficiently correcting spherical aberration and curvature of field, an imaging apparatus, and a method for forming an image by the optical system. The optical system includes a plurality of lens grou... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090052058 | OPTICAL ELEMENT MOLDING METHOD AND OPTICAL ELEMENT An optical element is molded by placing at least two glass materials between a pair of molding dies having optical-function transfer surfaces, a total volume of the two glass materials being same as that of the optical element, the two glass materials being made of a sa... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20080283749 | Corrective For Eliminating the Third-Order Aperture Aberration and the First-Order, First-Degree Axial, Chromatic Aberration A corrective for eliminating the third-order aperture aberration and the first-order, first-degree axial chromatic aberration includes two correction pieces, which are arranged one behind the other in the direction of the optical axis, in which each correction piece has... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080254238 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCALED UP REPRODUCTION OF DETAILED FEATURES Producing a scaled multiple parallax compound lens is accomplished by providing an insect eye having multiple ommitidia and creating a polymer mold of the insect eye. A casting is then created from the polymer mold with an expandable polymer mold. A second casting is th... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080212185 | Laser Optical Device In a laser optical device including a beam shaping optical system 3 for shaping a laser beam 2 into a predetermined cross-sectional intensity distribution and converging the light and an image formation optical system 6 for forming an image of a sha... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080174886 | IMAGE PICKUP LENS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AND MOBILE TERMINAL The present invention relates to an image pickup lens, an image pickup apparatus, and a mobile terminal. An image pickup lens relating to the present invention is provided for forming an object image on a photoelectrical converter of a solid-state image pickup element. ... | 07/24/2008 |
| 20080144192 | Optical component and method of manufacturing the same There is provided an optical component. An optical component according to an aspect of the invention includes a lens holder including a first electrode, an insulating structure formed on the first electrode and having a through hole provided as an optical path, and at l... | 06/19/2008 |
| 20080130139 | Optical device An optical device includes a silicon substrate, and multiple columnar members. The columnar members are integrally formed with the silicon substrate and stand on a top surface of the silicon substrate. The columnar members are made of silicon oxide. Light enters the col... | 06/05/2008 |
| 20080117326 | OPTICAL DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR OPTICAL DEVICE, AND PROGRAM An optical device which allows size and cost reductions and enables simultaneous capture of images taken by a first optical system and images taken by a composite optical system composed of the first optical system and a second optical system. A first optical system is ... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080106795 | Immersion microscope objective An immersion microscope objective includes a system of several optical lenses or lens groups between which air spaces are provided and an adjusting device for adapting the immersion microscope objective to different immersion mediums for correcting imaging errors when u... | 05/08/2008 |
| 20080013192 | Projection objective with fixed focal length for digital projection A projection objective having a fixed focal length for digital projection includes the following arrangement of the lenses in the sequence from the image (enlargement side) to the object (reduction and illumination side): a first, negative lens, a second, negative lens,... | 01/17/2008 |
| 20080013193 | Projection objective with fixed focal length formed of several optical subassemblies for digital projection The invention relates to a projection objective with fixed focal length for digital projection, characterized by the following features: a first optical subassembly of several lenses seated in a first objective housing; a second optical subassembly of several lenses sea... | 01/17/2008 |
| 20070268600 | Optical system An optical system includes a negative refraction lens and a compensating element. The negative refraction lens is a flat plate formed by a material exhibiting negative refraction, and a surface on which light is incident and a surface from which the light is emerged are... | 11/22/2007 |
