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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8436931 | Camera module A camera module is disclosed. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the camera module includes a lens unit, an image sensing unit, which converts light received through the lens unit to an electrical signal, and a shield can, which supports the ... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8427572 | Camera head and camera device Provided is a camera head capable of further size reduction. A camera head of a camera device is provided with an imaging unit having three image sensors, a flexible substrate connected to the three image sensors, and a chassis in which the imaging unit is accommoda... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8421903 | Staggered contact image sensor imaging system A method and an apparatus for imaging a biologic sample is provided. The apparatus includes at least one light source, at least one lens array, at least one image detector, a positioning system, and an image processor. The lens array has a plurality of lengthwise ex... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8421904 | Lens apparatus and image pickup apparatus The lens apparatus includes an aperture stop (SP) forming an aperture, a first lens (A or B) disposed on a first side further than the aperture stop, the first side being one of an object side and an image side, and a second lens (B or A) disposed on a second side f... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8411194 | Methods for combining camera and projector functions in a single device Described are handheld devices with combined image capture and image projection functions. One embodiment includes modulating and capturing a light beam along the same optic path. In another embodiment, the optical components are operable to switch between projectio... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8405756 | Optical element, optical element wafer, optical element wafer module, optical element module, method for manufacturing optical element module, electronic element wafer module, method for manufacturing electronic element module, electronic element module and electronic information device An optical element according to the present invention includes: an optical surface at a center portion thereof; a spacer section having a predetermined thickness on an outer circumference side of the optical surface; a support plate including one or a plurality of t... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8405758 | Lens barrel A lens barrel is a lens barrel that can be mounted to a camera body, including a lens element, a lens support frame, an actuator, an electrical contact, and an electrical substrate. The lens support frame supports the lens element. The actuator is arranged to drive ... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8405757 | Imaging device An imaging device includes a light source; a prism having an imaging surface to be contacted with an object; and an image-forming optical system that forms an image of the object. The image-forming optical system includes a front lens group having a first optical ax... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8400552 | Cameras and video players having image projection capabilities Projection capabilities are provided in consumer electronic devices that are used for the capture or reproduction of images, such as digital still image cameras, digital video cameras, cellular telephones, DVD players and other digital video players. Such devices ca... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8400554 | Lens barrel and imaging device A lens barrel is a lens barrel that can be mounted to a camera body, including a lens element, a lens support frame, an actuator, and an electrical contact. The lens support frame supports the lens element. The actuator is arranged to drive the lens support frame in... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8400553 | Image pickup lens and image pickup device using the same An image pickup lens capable of providing an angle of view of up to 70° or higher is provided. The image pickup lens can also be reduced in size and various aberrations associated with the lens can be corrected favorably, so that the image pickup lens is compatible... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8395693 | Image pickup apparatus and semiconductor circuit element An image pickup apparatus of the present invention includes: a lens array having a plurality of lenses; a plurality of image pickup regions disposed to correspond to the plurality of lenses one-to-one and each having a light receiving surface substantially perpendic... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8395692 | Solid-state imaging device, manufacturing method thereof, and electronic apparatus A solid-state imaging device includes: a plurality of photoelectric conversion units disposed on an imaging surface of a substrate; and a plurality of inner-layer lenses that are disposed in correspondence with each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion units... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8390726 | Solid-state imaging device with pixels having first and second optical waveguides with shifted positions, and imaging apparatus including the solid-state imaging device An imaging device includes a basic cell having two or more the pixels that share floating diffusion. The imaging device also includes a transistor shared by the two or more pixels in the basic cell and arranged on the outside of the two or more pixels. The imaging d... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8390725 | Camera module, electronic device including the same, and method for positioning lenses of camera module In a camera module, the position of image pickup lenses at an end at infinity is defined by contact between a bottom surface of a lens barrel and a surface of a sensor cover. This makes it possible to realize a camera module having image pickup lenses positioned wit... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8384819 | Electromagnetic shielding coating and lens module utilizing the same An electromagnetic shielding coating covers a lens coated with an optical coating. A light shielding coating covers the optical coating. The electromagnetic shielding coating covers the light shielding coating. The electromagnetic shielding coating includes a first ... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8379133 | Photographic device and holder thereof A holder is disclosed, wherein the holder is situated on a circuit board and is used for connecting with an electronic component. The holder comprises an upper surface, a lower surface, and an opening. The upper surface comprises a recess used for laying a flat comp... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8363150 | Lens control apparatus An autofocus and motion control apparatus is provided. According to one embodiment, the autofocus and motion control apparatus comprises a lens control apparatus having an imaging lens unit and a lens holder and a plurality of actuators configured to move the lens h... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8363149 | Lens barrel and imaging device A lens barrel is a lens barrel that can be mounted to a camera body, including a lens element, a lens support frame, an actuator, and an electrical contact. The lens support frame supports the lens element. The actuator is arranged to drive the lens support frame in... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8355072 | Solid-state image capture device, manufacturing method therefor, and electronic apparatus A solid-state image capture device includes: at least one photoelectric converter provided at an image capture surface of a substrate to receive incident light at a light-receiving surface of the photoelectric converter and photoelectrically convert the incident lig... | 01/15/2013 |
| 8350952 | Image sensors with improved angle response An image sensor includes a substrate having a plurality of photosensitive areas, a light shield positioned spanning the photosensitive areas in which light shield a plurality of apertures are formed, and a plurality of microlens each disposed centered on one of the ... | 01/08/2013 |
| 8345144 | Methods and apparatus for rich image capture with focused plenoptic cameras Methods and apparatus for rich image capture using focused plenoptic camera technology. A radiance camera employs focused plenoptic camera technology and includes sets of modulating elements that may be used to modulate the sampling of different aspects of the range... | 01/01/2013 |
| 8339502 | Imaging device manufacturing method and imaging device Provided are a method for manufacturing an imaging device at low cost while ensuring easiness in manufacturing, and the imaging device. In the imaging device, a diaphragm 14a can be used as a diaphragm by insert molding a metal plate material MP in a t... | 12/25/2012 |
| 8334922 | Imaging lens, imaging apparatus and portable terminal device An imaging lens is provided and includes: in order from the object side, a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a concave surface on the image side near the optical axis and having a pos... | 12/18/2012 |
| 8330847 | Solid-state imaging device with improved light use efficiency Provided is a solid-state imaging device capable of reducing occurrence of noise resulting from reflected light to improve light use efficiency in a case where a solid-state imaging device is constructed to have a structure in which incident light passing through a ... | 12/11/2012 |
| 8325267 | Image pickup apparatus comprising an image pickup optical system including an optical element having optical incident and optical emergent surfaces and a fine textured structure having a mean pitch shorter than a wavelength of visible light, and an image pickup unit configured to receive an image formed by the image pickup optical system, and meeting a specified diameter condition An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup optical system and an image pickup unit configured to receive an image formed by the image pickup optical system. The image pickup optical system includes an optical element having optical incident and optical emerg... | 12/04/2012 |
| 8325266 | Method of forming thin camera A thin camera having sub-pixel resolution includes an array of micro-cameras. Each micro-camera includes a lens, a plurality of sensors of size p, and a plurality of macro-pixels of size d having a feature of size q. The feature size q smaller than p and provides a ... | 12/04/2012 |
| 8319880 | Dual beam optic with dichroic filter An apparatus and method for generating co-registerable images for processing is disclosed. The apparatus includes a dichroic filter that splits an electro-magnetic beam into first and second split beams, and a mirror that reflects the second split beam. The dichroic... | 11/27/2012 |
| 8319881 | Image capture system with adjustment mechanism An image capture system comprises a lens module, a ball joint, and a location element. The ball joint has a spherical joint seat and a hollow socket. The top of the spherical joint seat is coupled to the lens module, and the bottom of the spherical joint seat is cou... | 11/27/2012 |
| 8314878 | Image pickup apparatus with impact resistance An image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup substrate on which an image pickup device is mounted on an object side; an optical unit having a lens for imaging an object light on the image pickup device; a blade member adjusting an amount of the object light e... | 11/20/2012 |
| 8310583 | Lens unit, image pickup apparatus, electronic device and an image aberration control method A lens unit using an aberration control module is disclosed. The lens unit can be operable to intentionally produce aberration. In the lens unit, a point-spread-function of a light beam passing through the lens unit becomes substantially circular. ... | 11/13/2012 |
| 8310584 | Image sensing device having thin thickness An image sensing device includes an image sensing chip, an optical module and a protecting element. The image sensing chip has a front surface defining an image sensing region thereon. The optical module includes a barrel and at least one transparent element. The ba... | 11/13/2012 |
| 8305480 | Synthetic image formation via signal processing for vignetted optoelectronic arrays, lensless cameras, and integrated camera-displays Algorithms and methods for performing electronic image formation and refinement from overlapping measurement vignettes captured by an array of image sensors and associated micro-optics are presented. The invention is directed to a new type of image formation system ... | 11/06/2012 |
| 8294807 | Imaging system with variable opto-mechanical system, aberrated optics and compensating filter bank A weighted sum of a set of component filters is used to effectively apply different “composite” FIR filters to compensate for aberrations resulting from different opto-mechanical settings. The FIR filters are “composite” in the sense that they are a weighted... | 10/23/2012 |
| 8289437 | Image pickup optical system and image pickup apparatus using the same An image pickup optical system made of five lenses, includes in order from an object side, an aperture stop, a first lens L1 having a positive refracting power, a second lens L2 having a negative refracting power, a third lens L3 having a positi... | 10/16/2012 |
| 8284290 | Synthetic image formation signal processing hardware for vignetted optoelectronic arrays, lensless cameras, and integrated camera-displays Hardware arrangement performing electronic image formation and refinement from overlapping measurement vignettes captured by an array of image sensors and associated micro-optics are presented. The invention is directed to a new type of image formation system that c... | 10/09/2012 |
| 8284291 | Photographing optical lens assembly A photographing optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, a second lens element with negative refractive, a third lens element, a fourth len... | 10/09/2012 |
| 8274594 | Image-capturing module for simplifying optical component An image-capturing module for simplifying optical component includes a first substrate unit, an image-capturing unit, an optical imaging unit, a second substrate unit, a light-emitting unit and a cover unit. The second substrate unit is disposed on the outer surface... | 09/25/2012 |
| 8274595 | Optical zoom camera module A camera module includes a circuit board, an image sensor mounted on the circuit board, and a first lens module and a second lens module aligned with the image sensor. The first lens module includes a fixing member, a first barrel rotatably supported by the fixing m... | 09/25/2012 |
| 8269878 | Image pickup lens, image pickup apparatus and mobile terminal Provided is a small-sized five-element image pickup lens which ensures a sufficient lens speed of about F2 and exhibits various aberrations being excellently corrected. The image pickup lens is composed of, in order from the object side, a first lens with a positive... | 09/18/2012 |
