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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8267602 | Lens assembly, lens moving device and assembling method A lens assembly in a digital still camera has a lens housing. First and second movable lenses/lens groups are contained in the lens housing, and supported in respectively first and second lens holders. A guide rod guides movement of the first and second lenses/lens ... | 09/18/2012 |
| 8142085 | Aperture unit and lens barrel including the same An aperture unit includes three or more diaphragm blades, a base plate that supports the diaphragm blades, a drive lever connected to the diaphragm blades, and an aperture motor that rotates the drive lever, wherein, in a range from a reference aperture value to a s... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8070370 | Gear mechanism and blade drive device A gear mechanism includes a pair of gears including first and second gears overlapped with each other in an axial direction. The first and second gears include first and second tooth portions, respectively. The first tooth portion slightly projects outwardly from th... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8052340 | Imaging apparatus A light quantity adjuster includes: a blade member forming an aperture; a stepping motor that moves the blade member to open/close the aperture; and a control section that controls driving of the stepping motor, and increases a rotational speed of the stepping motor... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8011839 | Lens barrel and imaging apparatus A lens barrel includes: a barrel body; a mount that is attached to an end of the barrel body and has a connection portion to be connected to an imaging apparatus body; and a substrate that is disposed on an attachment surface of the mount that is attached to the bar... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7997811 | Camera module A camera module including a lens system with at least one lens is capable of capturing a still image and a moving picture. The camera module includes a housing containing the lens system with an opening on a surface thereof facing an object of the lens system. An ap... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7934878 | Diaphragm driving device of a camera system using an interchangeable lens A diaphragm driving device for a camera including a camera body and an interchangeable lens which is detachably attached to the camera body, wherein the interchangeable lens includes a diaphragm mechanism having an in-lens spring device for performing a stop-down op... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934877 | Diaphragm blade, method of manufacturing the same, and light quantity controller having the same A diaphragm blade includes a light-shielding, thin-plate blade base made of laser absorptive resin to regulate an aperture, and a first shaft portion made of laser transmissive resin and provided on one surface of the blade base. The first shaft portion includes a c... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7798731 | Diaphragm driving device of a digital camera system using an interchangeable lens A diaphragm driving device is provided in a camera body of a digital camera to which an interchangeable lens is detachably attached, the interchangeable lens including a diaphragm mechanism having a diaphragm control bar for changing an aperture size by a rotation o... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7780364 | Apparatus and method for reducing glare in images Glare is reduced by acquiring an input image with a camera having a lens and a sensor, in which a pin-hole mask is placed in close proximity to the sensor. The mask localizes the glare at readily identifiable pixels, which can then be filtered to produce a glare red... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7661893 | Lens barrel A lens barrel includes a light amount adjuster capable of adjusting a light amount of a lens system and which can be moved in the optical axis direction of the lens system, an adjacent member adjacent to the light amount adjuster and which can be moved relatively in... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7654757 | Diaphragm A diaphragm comprising a single plate, the single plate comprising: a first plate portion having an aperture; and a second plate portion formed at an outer side of the first plate portion, wherein a first thickness of the first plate portion is thinner than a second... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7637675 | Imaging apparatus and method for controlling the same A first cam gear (a shutter cam gear) and a second cam gear (a mirror cam gear) are driven to successively realize a first phase (a stop phase), a second phase (a live view phase), and a third phase (a shooting phase). ... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7625141 | Lens barrel including a flexible printed wiring board A lens barrel includes an electronic component provided in the lens barrel so that a position of the electronic component in the lens barrel is adjustable; a flexible printed wiring board connected to the electronic component and installed to extend along a surface ... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7611296 | Optical apparatus including diaphragm device A lens apparatus includes a lens barrel, an image-capturing optical system, and a diaphragm device disposed in an optical path of the image-capturing optical system. The diaphragm device includes a plurality of diaphragm blades and an electroactive polymer actuator ... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7568849 | Light quantity adjusting device A light quantity adjusting device prevents possible violent vibration resulting from an external force. The light quantity adjusting device includes a substrate having an optical path aperture, a blade movably placed on the substrate to restrict the quantity of ligh... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7559708 | Optical unit and imaging apparatus Provided is a compact thin type optical unit provided also with a housing 2 having an mounting surface 31 for mounting an imaging device 18 on, an optical system driving device 5 for driving the optical system 3, a light quantity c... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7426342 | Digital still camera module with light optimization mechanism A lens module includes a barrel (40), a plurality of lenses (42), and a light guide plate (60). The barrel is covered at one end thereof with a transparent board (50). The lenses are received in the barrel. The light guide plate, which is... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7367723 | Fast switching camera aperture A camera aperture includes a first polarizer and a second polarizer with a polarization 90° with respect to the first polarizer. The second polarizer has a through hole at a center. A polarizing rotator is disposed between the first polarizer and the second polariz... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7352387 | Camera with positioning device used to capture magnified and demagnified images To provide a camera that is suited to shoot both a demagnified image and a magnified image. The camera includes a housing body 11 containing a CCD 15, and a lens barrel 12. An abutted member 20 having an objective lens 40 th... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7338222 | Aperture apparatus An aperture apparatus includes a substrate having a lens opening, a first aperture sector having a first aperture opening, a second aperture sector having a second aperture opening, and a drive pin that is engaged in cam openings respectively formed in the first ape... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334950 | Quick-change shutter assembly A shutter assembly for an optical system includes a shutter housing that maintains optical alignments with adjoining parts of the optical system and a shutter mechanism that can be removed and replaced within the shutter housing without disturbing the optical alignm... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330214 | Diaphragm apparatus of lens for CCTV camera A diaphragm apparatus of a lens for a CCTV camera includes a diaphragm blade which opens and closes a stop aperture of the diaphragm apparatus; and an ND filter which is attached to the diaphragm blade, the ND filter having a spectral transmittance so that the trans... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7316514 | Light controller and image pickup device including the same A light controller includes a substrate that has an optical path opening; at least a pair of blades that is reciprocally supported on the substrate and opens and closes the optical path opening; and a driver unit that drives the opening and closing of the pair of bl... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7248225 | Vehicle mirror housing antenna assembly An antenna assembly is disclosed. The antenna assembly includes an externally-located vehicular mirror housing and an antenna assembly. The externally-located vehicular mirror housing includes a cable exit passage. The antenna assembly includes at least one antenna ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7189014 | Production process of light amount-adjusting member, light amount-adjusting member, light amount-adjusting device and photographing apparatus A process for producing a light amount-adjusting member, such as an ND filter, that comprises the steps of providing a transparent base material and a coloring liquid; and applying a coloring liquid to the base material by ejecting the coloring liquid to the base ma... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7172349 | Light amount control device and optical apparatus with guard portion to protect ND filter from lever member Provided is a light amount control device eliminating a deviation in image forming position over the entire area of the variable range of an aperture due to an ND filter and assuring smooth stopping operation. The light amount control device of the present invention... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7158323 | Apparatus for switching optical low pass filters for use in optical instrument Disclosed is an optical filter switching apparatus used in an optical instrument for converting externally input image information into video image information and outputting the video image information. The apparatus comprises: an optical filter holding section hol... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7133277 | Electronic device A miniaturized electronic device including a battery storing container having an opening for placing a battery in and out, a recording medium storing part for storing a recording medium detachably, and a plurality of circuit boards constituting predetermined circuit... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7092030 | Image pickup apparatus with prism optical system An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup apparatus body, an image recording/reproducing section placed on the right-hand side within the image pickup apparatus body when viewed in a photographing direction, an image-displaying monitor disposed on the left-... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7079186 | Diaphragm device of a television camera lens for a CCTV surveillance camera A diaphragm device of a lens for a CCTV camera includes a lens barrel, a diaphragm, a base plate which supports the diaphragm, a diaphragm driver for driving the diaphragm to adjust a size of an aperture formed by the diaphragm, an optical filter, and a filter drive... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7070344 | Production process of light amount adjustment member, light amount adjustment device and photographing apparatus A light amount adjustment member, which causes little deterioration of image quality by diffraction at a grain boundary between ink dots in a colored portion, can be simply produced at low production cost and high yield. The light amount adjustment member has a dens... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6935793 | Manufacturing method of light shielding blade material A light shielding blade material is provided for an optical apparatus and has at least three prepreg sheets each being comprised of an epoxy resin of a thermosetting type as a matrix resin and containing a fiber drawn in an alignment direction within the matrix resi... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6924946 | Lens diaphragm device, video camera incorporated with the same, and lens for the video camera The present invention is directed to a lens diaphragm device that can avoid a degradation of an image due to both diffraction of a light beam and flares. The diaphragm device includes two diaphragm vanes (2 and 4) that respectively have notches (28 ... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6922525 | Camera and modular lens system A control module between to a lens barrel and a camera body contains a focus driver and an iris and associated aperture control. The control module interacts electronically and mechanically with the camera body and the lens barrel to position lens systems within the... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6912097 | Iris diaphragm An iris diaphragm comprising an annular base, an annular rotatable element and a number of leaves which can be mounted to form a variable aperture, each leaf extending between the base and element and being connected thereto in a pivotal relationship, is characteris... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6866431 | Light amount adjustment apparatus, manufacturing method, and photographing apparatus There is disclosed a light amount adjustment apparatus for adjusting a state of a flux passed through an aperture having a predetermined aperture diameter, the apparatus comprising: a light amount adjustment member in which a first region having a predetermined tran... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6817788 | Diaphragm device To aim at achieving reduction in size and weight of a diaphragm device provided with an optical filter insertable into and retractable from a light path, so that the diaphragm device can be easily installed into a lens tube of a CCTV camera. The diaphragm dev... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6701070 | Aperture stop changing device for camera A camera includes a preset open aperture for introducing object light to photo film. A taking lens is disposed in a light path of the object light, and has two lens elements. In the camera, an aperture stop changing device is provided. An aperture changin... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6618561 | Stop changing device for a camera A lens-fitted photo film unit is provided with a movable stop plate formed with small and middle stop apertures. The small stop aperture has a smaller diameter, and the middle stop aperture is larger than the small stop aperture. A fixed large stop apertu... | 09/09/2003 |
