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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8169720 | Rear focus wide-angle lens system and electronic imaging device using the same A rear focus wide-angle lens system includes a first lens group, a diaphragm, and a second lens group, in this order from the object. The second lens group is moved along the optical axis of the lens system when focusing is performed from infinity to an object at a ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169721 | Lens assembly and lens module incorporating the same A lens assembly comprises a first lens and a second lens. The first lens includes a first central round portion and a first peripheral stepped portion surrounding the first central round portion. The first peripheral stepped portion comprises a downward-facing surfa... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8139297 | Imaging optical system, camera apparatus, and personal digital assistant An imaging optical system, including a first lens group; an aperture stop; a second lens group having a positive power, the first lens group, the aperture stop and the second lens group being arranged from a side of an object sequentially, wherein the second lens gr... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8125720 | Miniature image capture lens A miniature image capture lens is disclosed, comprising a wafer scale lens system, which comprises a first lens group including a first substrate, a first surface disposed on a first side of the first substrate, a second surface disposed on a second side of the firs... | 02/28/2012 |
| RE43089 | Imaging system with a lens having increased light collection efficiency and a deblurring equalizer In one form, an imaging system comprises an imager that forms an image of an object in a field of view, a rotationally symmetric lens assembly disposed between the imager and the object, and an equalizer. The rotationally symmetric lens assembly provides increased c... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089709 | Lens array unit, optical head and information processing apparatus A lens array unit includes first lens array plates, second lens array plates and a support member. Each of the first lens array plate has multiple first lenses thereon. Each of the first lenses has a first optical axis that extends in a first direction and the first... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8068291 | Imaging lens, imaging device, portable terminal, and method for manufacturing imaging lens An imaging lens (LN) includes one or two lens blocks (BK), and an aperture stop (ape). The lens block (BK) includes a plane-parallel lens substrate (LS) and a lens (L) formed of different materials. In the imaging lens (LN), a first lens block (BK1) disposed at the ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8018663 | Image forming lens, camera and portable information terminal An image forming lens includes: a first optical system positioned in an object side, a second optical system positioned in an image side, and an aperture stop interposed between the first optical system and the second optical system, wherein the first lens system in... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7995293 | Image pickup lens, image pickup apparatus, mobile terminal, method for manufacturing image pickup lens, and method for manufacturing image pickup apparatus An image pickup lens includes: a first lens block with a positive power and a second lens block. The first lens block includes a first lens substrate, a lens portion 1a with a positive power, formed on an object-side surface of the first lens substrate... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7978423 | Objective optical system for endoscopes An objective optical system includes, in order from the object side, a first unit having two lenses with negative refracting power and positive refracting power, a stop, and a second unit with positive refracting power to satisfy the following condition: 3... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7869143 | Imaging optical system, camera apparatus, and personal digital assistant An imaging optical system, including a first lens group; an aperture stop; a second lens group having a positive power, the first lens group, the aperture stop and the second lens group being arranged from a side of an object sequentially, wherein the second lens gr... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7864456 | Optical system and optical apparatus including optical system An optical system includes a first optical element and a second optical element on at least one of an enlargement side and a reduction side relative to a point P at which a light axis and a paraxial chief ray intersect. Each of the first optical element and second o... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7839581 | Plastic optical viewer An optical viewer is disclosed which incorporates plastic lenses which reduce the weight and cost of the optical viewer. In accordance with an important aspect of the invention, the optical design of the viewer is configured to compensate for the inferior optical ch... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7813058 | Optical lens group and related lens module An exemplary optical lens group includes a first lens and a second lens. The first lens comprises a first central portion and an annular stepped portion. The annular stepped portion has a first outer step and a second outer step. The first outer step has a first out... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7800843 | Lens system and optical apparatus A lens system includes a first lens which is formed of a medium exhibiting negative refraction and a second lens which is formed of a medium having a positive refractive index. Abbe's number for a material which forms the first lens differs from Abbe's number for a ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7796349 | Miniature image capture lens A miniature image capture lens is disclosed, comprising an aperture diaphragm having an aperture through which an image is captured and a wafer-level lens system, comprising a first lens group including a first substrate, a first lens disposed on a first side of the... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7787197 | Beam-adjusting optics The present invention provides an optical analyzer having illumination optics that include a light source, such as a laser or other source, adapted to emit a collimated, or approximately collimated, light beam, a focusing lens that focuses the beam onto a focus spot... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7773317 | Lens system with symmetrical optics A lens system comprising an inner lens structure and an outer lens structure. The inner lens structure comprises an inner positive lens, a first transparent substrate and an inner negative lens. The outer lens structure comprises an outer positive lens, a second tra... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7768720 | Imaging lens An imaging lens of which optical performance does not deteriorate even in a high temperature environment, various aberrations are well corrected, optical length is short, and back focus is sufficiently secured. This imaging lens comprises a first diaphragm S1 | 08/03/2010 |
| 7742243 | Projection lens with high resolution and reduced overall length An exemplary projection lens includes, in this order from the magnification side to the minification side thereof, a negative lens group of negative fraction power, and a positive lens group of positive fraction power. The projection lens satisfies the formulas of: ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7733584 | Color-corrected optical system An optical device includes an elongated tube configured for insertion into a body and optical members located in the tube. The optical members are configured to have an optical invariant-to-clear aperture semidiameter ratio greater than about 0.05 and an optical pat... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7701650 | Wide-angle lens module and endoscope A wide-angle lens module includes a first lens and a second lens with negative refracting power, a third lens with positive refracting power, a fourth lens with negative refracting power, a fifth lens with positive refracting power, a sixth lens with positive refrac... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7692878 | Optical device and method An article includes an optical device. The optical device includes a first lens and a second lens. The first lens includes an optically active material that responds to an external stimulus that affects a refractive index of at least a portion of the first lens. A m... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7675693 | Optical accessory arranged to change optical characteristic of shooting lens An optical accessory having a high optical performance arranged to change an optical characteristic of a shooting lens and to be attached on the object side of a shooting lens is provided. The optical accessory FE is to be detachably attached to the object side of a... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7643227 | Lens system and optical apparatus A lens system includes a first lens which is formed of a medium exhibiting negative refraction, and a second lens having a positive refractive index. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a lens system in which a negative refractive index medium for which a curvatu... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7643228 | Optical system and optical apparatus including optical system An optical system includes a first optical element and a second optical element on at least one of an enlargement side and a reduction side relative to a point P at which a light axis and a paraxial chief ray intersect. Each of the first optical element and second o... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7626772 | Optical system and optical apparatus having the same An optical system includes a first lens with a functional film having film hardness of equal to or less than H formed on at least on one surface thereof, and a second lens located opposite the surface with the functional film of the first lens and having a diameter ... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7602561 | Optical head apparatus and optical information recording and reproduction apparatus Disclosed is an optical head apparatus comprising: a light source; a collimating means of converting a beam of light emitted from the light source into a substantially parallel beam of light; a focusing means of focusing the light onto an information medium surface;... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7599132 | Wide-angle lens system An exemplary wide-angle lens system includes, in order from the object side to the image side thereof, a first lens element having a negative optical power and crescent-shaped convex to the object side and a second lens element having a positive optical power. The f... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7580206 | Fixed focal length lens system A fixed focal length lens system comprises a first lens unit and a second lens unit. The first lens unit comprises a plastic negative lens, wherein the first lens unit has a negative diopter, and the plastic negative lens comprises at least one non-spherical surface... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7522355 | Lens unit and manufacturing method thereof In the case where a lens unit where two ore more transparent resin lenses are combined is constituted, at least one transparent resin lens contains infrared absorbent. When the lens unit is assembled, an infrared laser is emitted to a joined portion between the tran... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7502182 | Objective lens for endoscope An endoscope objective lens is provided and has a front-group divergent lens system, an aperture stop, and a rear-group convergent lens system in this order from the object side. The back focal length Bf of the whole system is longer than 2.5 times the combined foca... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7457053 | Subminiature imaging optical system A subminiature imaging optical system includes a first lens including a first lens part having a convex object-side surface, a second lens part having an object-side surface in contact with an image-side surface of the first lens part, and a third lens part having a... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7436597 | Projection lens A first lens group having a negative refractive power, an aperture diaphragm, and a second lens group having a positive refractive power are arranged in order from an enlargement side. A reduction side of a projection lens is made essentially telecentric. Further, c... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436587 | Variable focal length constant magnification lens assembly Aspects of the invention can provide an imaging device that can include a first optical element having a first focal length, and a second optical element having a variable second focal length. The second optical element can be located at a fixed first distance of ap... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7428109 | Image pickup lens system and image pickup apparatus An image pickup lens system includes, successively in order from an object side, an aperture stop, a first lens as a double-convex positive lens, and a second lens as a negative meniscus lens having a convex surface on an image side. Each of the first and second len... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7411746 | Wide-angle lens system A wide-angle lens system includes a negative front lens group and a positive rear lens group, in this order from the object. The negative front lens group includes a negative first sub-lens group and a positive second sub-lens group, in this order from the ob... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7385769 | Image forming optical system, and image pickup apparatus and identification apparatus using the system An image forming optical system comprising, in order from an object side: a negative lens unit having one or two negative lenses without including any positive lens; a reflecting member; an aperture stop; and a positive lens unit having one or two positive lenses wi... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7362509 | Zoom lens A zoom lens includes, in sequence from the object side: a first lens group with an overall negative refractive power; and a second lens group with an overall positive refractive power. A zoom factor changes by moving the second lens group. Focal adjustments are made... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355799 | Projection lens and projection display device using the same A projection lens includes two lens groups, arranged as follows from the magnification side: a first lens group of negative refractive power, a mask, an aperture stop, and a second lens group of positive refractive power. The projection lens is telecentric or nearly... | 04/08/2008 |
