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20080231743 | IMAGE SENSOR PACKAGE AND IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE WITH SAME - An image sensor package is provided. The image sensor package includes a basic body, an image sensor chip, a carrier, and at least one passive component. The image sensor chip is electrically and structurally connected to the basic body, the image sensor package including a sensitive region. The carrier positioned on a supporting portion of the image sensor package spacially surrounding the sensitive region of the image sensor chip. The at least one passive component carried by the carrier and electrically connected to the basic body. | 09-25-2008 |
20090009654 | Apparatus, method, and medium for generating image - An apparatus, method, and medium for generating an image is provided. The apparatus includes an optical module, a filter module which includes a wide-band filter area that allows transmission of optical signals within a wavelength band corresponding to a color of a predetermined color, a narrow-band filter area that allows transmission of optical signals within a wavelength band corresponding to the predetermined color, and an all-pass filter area that allows transmission of optical signals in all wavelength bands, and an image generation module which generates an image by processing optical signals that transmit through the filter module, wherein the image generation module applies different weights to optical signals according to which of the wide-band filter area, the narrow-band filter area, and the all-pass filter area the optical signals respectively transmit through. | 01-08-2009 |
20090009655 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD - An apparatus suitably detects a recording trigger even in a low-brightness or low-light-intensity environment, and acquires, from a recorded image, a high-quality image from which a person or the like can be easily recognized. When a recording trigger is to be detected, this apparatus disables an infrared reduction filter, so a recording trigger can be suitably detected even in an environment in which the brightness or light intensity is low. When an image is to be recorded, this apparatus records a color image by enabling the infrared reduction filter. | 01-08-2009 |
20090033788 | INTEGRATED OPTICAL CHARACTERISTIC MEASUREMENTS IN A CMOS IMAGE SENSOR - Methods and systems for forming a chief ray angle (CRA) profile of an imaging lens having a field of view (FOV) are provided. At least one CRA sensor is positioned between an edge of a pixel array and an edge of the FOV, at one or more predetermined lens height percentages. Light is transmitted through the imaging lens and detected by multiple detectors included in the at least one CRA sensor. Each detector is configured to detect a different predetermined CRA. For each CRA sensor, a largest amplitude of detected light among the multiple detectors is selected. The largest amplitude of light represents a CRA of the transmitted light. At least one data point of the CRA profile is determined, by using the selected predetermined CRA at the one or more predetermined lens height percentages. | 02-05-2009 |
20090096915 | ANTI-ALIASING SPATIAL FILTER SYSTEM - A filter system for an imaging apparatus including a high resolution mode of operation and a low resolution mode of operation is provided. The filter system includes a low pass filter associated with an optical path of the imaging apparatus. The low pass filter is moveable into the optical path of the imaging apparatus when the imaging apparatus is in the low resolution mode of operation and is moveable out of the optical path of the imaging apparatus when the imaging apparatus is in the high resolution mode of operation. | 04-16-2009 |
20090128684 | Method for Assembling a Camera Module, and Camera Module - A method for manufacturing a camera module is provided, the camera module including a lens and an image sensor chip, the image sensor chip being electrically contacted to a circuit board. After a first fitting part that surrounds the image sensor chip is positioned and secured on the circuit board, the first fitting part is joined to a second fitting part disposed on the housing of the camera module, forming an overlap region. A focus position between the housing-side lens and the image sensor chip is produced, and a materially attached connection is then generated between the fitting parts within the overlap region, in the focus position. | 05-21-2009 |
20090147126 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image pickup apparatus is provided with an imaging optical system (imaging lens), an image sensor for picking up a subject image formed by the imaging optical system, and a view division optical system (first mirror) which divides a view picked up by the image sensor into an environment imaging side view and an eyeball imaging side view. | 06-11-2009 |
20090153726 | Camera Module - Disclosed is a camera module. The camera module includes a lens unit including a first reflective member that reflects and corrects incident light, a second reflective member that reflects the light passing through the lens unit, an image sensor that converts the light reflected from the second reflective member into an electric signal, a PCB electrically connected with the image sensor, and a holder that fixes the lens unit, the second reflective member, the image sensor and the PCB thereto. | 06-18-2009 |
20090161001 | Camera and method for operating same | 06-25-2009 |
20090161002 | Lens-interchangeable digital photographing apparatus and method for controlling the same - Provided are a lens-interchangeable digital photographing apparatus that can use a suitable lens according to a photographing circumstance, a method of controlling the lens-interchangeable digital photographing apparatus, and a recording medium having recorded therein a program for the method. The lens-interchangeable digital photographing apparatus includes a photographing circumstance analysis unit, a lens suitability determination unit for determining whether a lens installed in the digital photographing apparatus is suitable for a photographing circumstance, a lens search unit for searching for lenses suitable for a photographing circumstance, and a display unit. If the lens suitability determination unit determines that the installed lens is not suitable for the photographing circumstance, lenses suitable for the photographing circumstance analyzed by the photographing circumstance analysis unit from among lenses searched by the lens search unit are displayed on the display unit to be recommended. | 06-25-2009 |
20090161003 | LENS APPARATUS AND IMAGING APPARATUS - In a lens apparatus, light entering a lens barrel from an external source is incident to an optoelectric converting element for image recording. The light passing through an optical path of the lens apparatus is filtered by a filter that absorbs a specific range of optical wavelengths and is provided in a filter frame. The filter frame is moved to position the filter at a first position that is on the optical path or at a second position that is away from the optical path. A filter housing structure is provided establishing a frame moving region in which the filter frame is arranged and moves, and blocking the incidence of light from a source other than the optical path to the filter frame moving region. | 06-25-2009 |
20090190024 | Image pickup apparatus - An image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup lens section having an aperture stop; an image pickup device obtaining image pickup data on the basis of light detected; and a microlens array section arranged on a focal plane of the image pickup lens section, and including a plurality of microlenses, each of the microlenses being provided corresponding to a plurality of image pickup pixels of the image pickup device, wherein the following formula (1) is satisfied: | 07-30-2009 |
20090219435 | COMPOSITE LENS AND LENS MODULE HAVING SAME - A unitary composite lens includes a body and an optical filter. The optical filter is embedded within the body. | 09-03-2009 |
20090244360 | Camera System And Camera Body Composing The Same - A camera system includes a controller operable to control operations of a camera body and an interchangeable lens. When supply of power from a power supply of the camera body is requested to be stopped, the controller performs control to adjust an aperture of the diaphragm such that an amount of light passing through the diaphragm is no greater than a predetermined value, and thereafter, to stop the supply of power. | 10-01-2009 |
20090268082 | CAMERA BODY, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS, AND IMAGING APPARATUS - There are provided a camera body capable of operating a drive unit of an interchangeable lens at a low drive sound level, an interchangeable lens, and an imaging apparatus including such a camera body and an interchangeable lens. The camera body to which an interchangeable lens is mountable, the interchangeable lens including an optical member operable to change an optical condition and a drive unit operable to drive the optical member at a drive speed within a predetermined range, the camera body have: a receiving unit operable to receive silent speed information from the interchangeable lens, the silent speed information indicating a setting value related to a silent operation of the drive unit, the setting value being a value of a drive speed within the predetermined range; and a control unit operable to generate a control signal for driving the drive unit based on the received silent speed information, when attempting to drive the drive unit of the interchangeable lens with a suppressed drive sound of the interchangeable lens, and send the generated control signal to the interchangeable lens. | 10-29-2009 |
20100045850 | CAMERA MODULE WITH SWITCHING LENSES - An exemplary camera module includes a printed circuit board, an image sensor, a spacer and a lens holder. The image sensor and the spacer are both mounted on the printed circuit board. The lens holder is arranged on and is rotatable relative to the spacer. The lens holder includes spaced lens receiving through holes each receiving a lens therein. Each of the lens receiving through holes together with the at least one lens is capable of aligning with the image sensor by rotation of the lens holder. | 02-25-2010 |
20100079660 | Lens driver, camera module, imaging apparatus, and camera-equipped mobile terminal - A lens driver includes: an imaging lens; a housing accommodating the lens; a spring member provided between the lens and the housing and holding the lens in the housing movably in the optical axis direction; a coil moving the lens in the optical axis direction; a magnet spaced apart from the coil and moving the lens in the optical axis direction; and a yoke fixed to the magnet and having an L-shaped cross-section when taken along a plane including the optical axis, wherein the yoke is disposed in such a way that an L-shaped corner side is located on the opposite side to the position of the lens where the reaction force of the spring member resulting from the movement of the lens is maximized. | 04-01-2010 |
20100103309 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPRESSED IMAGING - An imaging system and method are presented for use in compressed imaging. The system comprises at least one rotative vector sensor, and optics for projecting light from an object plane on said sensor. The system is configured to measure data indicative of Fourier transform of an object plane light field at various angles of the vector sensor rotation. | 04-29-2010 |
20100110274 | TRANSACTION PRODUCT WITH CAMERA - A transaction product includes a digital camera assembly, a housing and an account identifier. The digital camera assembly includes a lens assembly, an image sensor aligned with the lens assembly, and a memory electrically coupled with the image sensor. The digital camera assembly is configured to capture images through the lens assembly using the image sensor and to digitally store the captured images to the memory. The housing substantially encloses the image sensor and the memory. The account identifier links the transaction product to an account or record and is machine readable by a point-of-sale terminal such that value can be added to or deducted from the account or record using the account identifier. Other product, cards, assemblies and associated methods are also disclosed. | 05-06-2010 |
20100110275 | LARGE DEPTH-OF-FIELD IMAGING SYSTEM AND IRIS RECOGNITON SYSTEM | 05-06-2010 |
20100110276 | Imaging apparatus - An imaging apparatus includes a main body, a handle, and a pad unit. The main body includes therein an imaging element which converts incident light coming through a lens into an electric signal. The handle is attached to a top face of the main body. The pad unit is attached to the handle and includes a case, a speaker incorporated in the case, a sound emitting part formed on the case to externally emit sound from the speaker, and an ear pad attached to the case. The pad unit is attached to the handle so as to turn around a rotation axis which is positioned not to pass the center of the sound emitting part. The sound emitting part is configured to move in the direction of an optical axis of the lens according to the turn of the pad unit. | 05-06-2010 |
20100110277 | CAMERA BODY AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A camera body includes an imaging unit operable to generate image data by capturing an object image, an acquisition unit operable to acquire optical data of the interchangeable lens from the interchangeable lens, a correction unit operable to correct the image data generated by the imaging unit based on the optical data acquired by the acquisition unit, a detection unit operable to detect state of mounting/demounting the interchangeable lens to/from the camera body, and a display unit operable to display an image based on the image data. After detecting that the interchangeable lens is completely mounted to the camera body, when the detection unit detects that the interchangeable lens is being demounted from the camera body, the display unit stops displaying the image based on the image data. When the detection unit subsequently detects that the interchangeable lens is completely demounted from the camera body, the correction unit stops correcting the image data and the display unit displays the image based on the image data. | 05-06-2010 |
20100123819 | PORTABLE CAMERA HAVING LENS ASSEMBLY SWITCHING MECHANISM - A portable camera having a lens assembly switching mechanism is provided. The portable camera includes a camera main body, a camera module, a slab module and a coupling structure. The camera main body has a camera opening formed in a first surface thereof. The camera module is disposed within the camera main body and includes a lens assembly exposed through the camera opening. The slab module is used for carrying one or more selective lens assemblies with different shooting angles. The coupling structure is disposed between the first surface of camera main body and the camera module. The slab module is movable with respect to the coupling structure while the slab module is parallel with the first surface of the camera main body, so that one of the selective lens assemblies is aligned with the camera opening for providing an adjustable shooting angle. | 05-20-2010 |
20100128164 | IMAGING SYSTEM WITH A DYNAMIC OPTICAL LOW-PASS FILTER - A filter system for use with an image capture device having an imager with a plurality of imaging elements, the filter system having: a filter element for movably directing light to different imaging elements on the imager; and a manipulator for changing the orientation of the filter element during an exposure to achieve an optical low-pass filter. | 05-27-2010 |
20100171872 | Optical device, imaging device, and method for manufacturing optical device - An optical device comprises a vibration member | 07-08-2010 |
20100208128 | CAMERA SYSTEM AND CAMERA BODY - A camera system having a camera body and an interchangeable lens is made more convenient to use. A camera system | 08-19-2010 |
20100253832 | LENS SHIELDING STRUCTURES FOR DIGITAL IMAGE SENSORS - Camera modules are provided using wafer level optics structures. Wafers of optical stack components such as spacers, lenses, filters, and aperture layers may be combined to form optical stacks for camera modules. Each optical stack may be formed from pieces of the lens and spacer wafers. The optical stacks may be mounted above digital image sensors to form compact camera modules for devices such as cellular telephones and digital cameras. To reduce lens flare, a lens hood structure may be mounted above the outermost lens in the optical stack structure. The lens hood structure may be formed from a layer of opaque plastic having an inner surface and an outer surface. The layer of plastic may be provided as part of a camera module housing or as a separate structure. A noncircular lens hood aperture may be formed in the outer surface of the lens hood layer. A corresponding inner aperture may be formed in the inner surface of the lens hood layer adjacent to the optical stack structure. The noncircular exterior surface aperture of the lens hood may have a barrel shape, a rectangular shape, an oval shape, a pincushion shape, or other suitable shapes that help reduce flare for digital image sensors with rectangular active areas. | 10-07-2010 |
20100295987 | IMAGE STABILIZATION CIRCUITRY FOR LIQUID LENS - A method of controlling a liquid lens in an imaging device, the liquid lens including a liquid-liquid interface between first and second immiscible liquids deformable by electrowetting; a chamber containing the first and second liquids, the first liquid being an insulating liquid and the second liquid being a conducting liquid; and a first electrode in contact with the second liquid and at least one second electrode insulated from the second liquid by an insulating layer, the first and second electrodes being arranged to allow a plurality of voltages levels to be applied between the first and second electrodes to control the curvature of the liquid-liquid interface, the method including: determining motion data representative of a movement of the imaging device; determining focusing data representative of a desired focus of the imaging device; determining the plurality of voltage levels to be applied between the first and second electrodes, wherein each of the voltage levels is a function of the motion data, the focusing data and at least one parameter relating to the liquid lens and preliminary determined in a calibration phase. | 11-25-2010 |
20100309368 | WAFER-LEVEL LENS MODULE AND IMAGE PICKUP MODULE INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided are a wafer-level lens module and an image pickup module including the same. The wafer lens module includes a plurality wafer-scale lenses. At least one of the plurality of wafer-scale lenses, such as a wafer-scale lens positioned toward an object side, includes a substrate and a glass lens element formed on one side of the substrate. The glass lens element may be a one-sided lens or a double-sided lens. When the glass lens is a double-sided lens, the substrate may have a through hole. The remaining wafer-scale lenses each include a substrate and polymer lens elements made of UV curable polymer and formed on both sides of the substrate. Also, spacers are interposed between the wafer-scale lenses, along the edge portions of the substrates, so as to maintain predetermined intervals between the wafer-scale lenses. | 12-09-2010 |
20100321558 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING SPATIAL MOVEMENT OF OBJECT - An apparatus for detecting spatial movement of an object, includes a rotatable light emitting diode, first and second camera modules, and an image processor. The light emitting diode is configured for emitting light to the object. The first and second camera modules are arranged on opposite sides of the light emitting diode and configured for capturing the light reflected by the object, thus respectively forming a first image signal and a second image signal associated with the object. The image processor is configured for processing the first and second image signals and analyzing spatial position of the object relative to the first and second camera modules based on the first and second image signals, thereby determining spatial movement of the object. | 12-23-2010 |
20100328522 | OPTICAL UNIT AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An optical unit includes: a first lens group; and a second lens group, which are arranged in order from an object side toward an image surface side, wherein the first lens group includes a first lens element, a first transparent body, and a second lens element, which are arranged in order from the object side toward the image surface side, and the second lens group includes a third lens element, a second transparent body and a fourth lens element, which are arranged in order from the object side toward the image surface side. | 12-30-2010 |
20110001871 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus capable of performing phase difference detection while allowing light to enter an imaging device is provided. | 01-06-2011 |
20110007203 | ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR ALIGNING AN OPTICAL SYSTEM - An assembly for aligning an optical system over an image sensor is described. The assembly may include a lens structure positioned over an image sensor and a lens holder positioned over the lens structure and secured onto a substrate. The lens structure may incorporate an optical section and a structural section extending from the optical section and may rest directly on an image sensor with one or more stoppers that may serve to elevate the optical system with respect to the image sensor at a distance corresponding to a near optimal focal length distance. A lip also included in the structural section of the lens structure may abut two or more opposing sides to secure the lens structure over the image sensor in a centered position with respect to the image sensor. | 01-13-2011 |
20110013074 | Biometric authentication apparatus - The present invention provides a biometric authentication apparatus realizing reduction in thickness while holding high authentication precision. The biometric authentication apparatus includes: a light source emitting light in a wavelength range including a wavelength range for authentication toward a living body; a microlens array condensing light from the living body and selectively transmitting light in the wavelength range for authentication; an imaging device obtaining image data of the living body on the basis of the light condensed by the microlens array; and an authentication unit authenticating the living body on the basis of the image data obtained by the imaging device. | 01-20-2011 |
20110025904 | FOCUS DETECTION DEVICE AND IMAGING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A focus detection device having imaging pixels and focus-detecting pixels using a phase-difference focus detection method implements high-precision focus detection. In the focus detection device, a plurality of pixels each having a photoelectric conversion unit for converting an incident light flux into signal charges, and a microlens having a focus position near the photoelectric conversion unit are arranged. The plurality of pixels include a plurality of imaging pixels for generating a shot image, and a plurality of focus-detecting pixels for generating an image signal for focus detection by the phase-difference focus detection method. An opening for giving a pupil division function to the focus-detecting pixel is formed using electrodes arranged to read out signal charges from the photoelectric conversion unit. | 02-03-2011 |
20110063496 | CAMERA MODULE - An camera module includes a holder defined a space, a barrel positioned in the space of the holder, a first pillar extended from an outer surface of the barrel, a first spring connected adjacent ends of the barrel and the holder such that the barrel is hung in the holder, and a first piezoelectric actuator. The first piezoelectric actuator is fixed on an internal surface of the holder and capable of deforming along a central axis of the holder. The first piezoelectric actuator is coupled with the first pillar so as to move the barrel along the central axis of the holder. | 03-17-2011 |
20110075019 | LENS APPARATUS TO BE MOUNTED ONTO CAMERA AND CAMERA SYSTEM WITH LENS APPARATUS - A lens apparatus | 03-31-2011 |
20110109789 | IMAGING SYSTEM - An imaging system includes: a body unit; at least one type of interchangeable lens unit; and at least one type of external unit, wherein in the case where the body unit and one of the at least one type of interchangeable lens unit are connected integrally, the imaging system becomes an imaging device capable of shooting a photographic subject, and in the case where the body unit and one of the at least one type of external unit are connected integrally, the imaging system becomes a device having a specific function of the external unit connected to the body unit, and wherein when the interchangeable lens unit or the external unit is connected to the body unit, the body unit obtains information on the type of unit connected to the body unit, and is capable of changing control of an entire device including the body unit and the unit connected to the body unit based on the type of unit connected to the body unit. | 05-12-2011 |
20110164170 | IMAGE-PICKUP APPARATUS, LENS APPARATUS AND IMAGE-PICKUP SYSTEM - An image-pickup system is disclosed which is capable of performing highly accurate back focus adjustment for each combination of an image-pickup apparatus and a lens apparatus. The system includes a first memory provided in the image-pickup apparatus and stores first identification information unique to a combination of the image-pickup apparatus and a certain lens apparatus, a second memory provided in the lens apparatus and stores second identification information unique to a combination of the lens apparatus and a certain image-pickup apparatus. A comparator compares the first identification information with the second identification information. The generator generates, when the comparison results that the first identification information does not match the second identification information, identification information unique to the combination of the image-pickup apparatus and the lens apparatus. The controller causes the first memory and the second memory to store the identification information generated by the generator. | 07-07-2011 |
20110164171 | IMAGING DEVICE - The imaging apparatus includes a lens mount | 07-07-2011 |
20110194019 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS AND ARRAY THEREOF - A single-piece optical imaging lens and an array thereof are revealed. The optical imaging lens includes a lens and an image sensor arranged at an image-side surface of the lens. The lens includes an object-side surface, an image-side surface, an optical area, and a non-optical area. The optical imaging lens satisfies the following conditions: BFL/TTL=0.55˜0.81, OH/OD=1.0˜3.6. TTL is total length from the object-side surface of the lens on the optical axis to the image sensor. BFL is back focal length of the imaging lens. OD is the distance between an object on the optical axis and the object-side surface of the lens. OH is the largest height of an object vertical to the optical axis of OD. The single-piece optical imaging lens array is used to produce a plurality of single-piece optical imaging lenses by cutting. | 08-11-2011 |
20110205424 | LENS DRIVING DEVICE AND CAMERA MODULE MOUNTING LENS DRIVING DEVICE - A lens driving device includes a holder which holds a lens and is movable in the direction of an optical axis of the lens and a plurality of magnets which is fixed to the holder so as to be separated from each other in a circumferential direction. Cut-out portions are provided on the holder and the magnets which are adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction are communicated with each other through the cut-out portions. When an adhesive is filled into the cut-out portions, the adhesive bonds the magnets which are adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. | 08-25-2011 |
20110234888 | Digital camera and interchangeable lens - A digital camera includes: a mirror box that defines a space in which a light flux from a photographic lens is guided to an imaging unit; a mirror unit that is arranged inside the mirror box and is configured to rotate between a viewing position in which the mirror unit is inserted in a photographic light path from the photographic lens to the imaging unit to reflect the light flux and a photographing position in which the mirror unit is retracted from the photographic light path; and an opening section that discharges from the mirror box air that is moved when the mirror unit is rotated. | 09-29-2011 |
20110242403 | DRIVE DEVICE, IMAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A drive device in which the frequency of a drive waveform applied to a piezoelectric element is easily settable with less obligation to consider resonance in a stationary member. The device includes a piezo element that expands and contracts according to a drive voltage, a transmission shaft that receives vibration produced by the element, a stationary member that holds the transmission shaft in a slidable state along the longitudinal direction of the transmission shaft, and a lens holder that is displaced together with the piezo element and transmission shaft relative to the stationary member according to drive of the piezo element. The piezo element and the transmission shaft move in the moving direction of the lens holder in synchronization with the lens holder according to drive of the piezo element in the state where the piezo element is spaced from the stationary member. By employing this structure, the frequency of the drive waveform applied to the piezo element can be set easily without considering resonance in the stationary member. | 10-06-2011 |
20110242404 | LENS BARREL AND IMAGING DEVICE - The lens barrel includes a first lens unit, a second lens unit, and a drive unit. The first lens unit includes a first lens element and a first lens support frame supporting the first lens element. The second lens unit includes a second lens element and a second lens support frame supporting the second lens element. The second lens unit is supported by the first lens unit to be movable in the optical axis direction of the first lens element with respect to the first lens unit. The drive unit is arranged to be used to drive the second lens unit with respect to the first lens unit, and is fixed to the first lens unit. When viewed in the optical axis direction, the drive unit is fixed to the first lens unit so that a first profile line formed by the first lens unit and the drive unit is substantially circular. | 10-06-2011 |
20110242405 | LENS BARREL AND IMAGING DEVICE - The lens barrel includes a first lens unit, a second lens unit, and a drive unit. The first lens unit includes a first lens element and a first lens support frame supporting the first lens element. The second lens unit includes a second lens element and a second lens support frame supporting the second lens element. The second lens unit is supported by the first lens unit to be movable in the optical axis direction of the first lens element with respect to the first lens unit. The drive unit is arranged to be used to drive the second lens unit with respect to the first lens unit, and is fixed to the first lens unit. When viewed in the optical axis direction, the drive unit is fixed to the first lens unit so that a first profile line formed by the first lens unit and the drive unit is substantially circular. | 10-06-2011 |
20110242406 | LENS BARREL AND IMAGING DEVICE - The lens barrel includes a first lens unit, a second lens unit, and a drive unit. The first lens unit includes a first lens element and a first lens support frame supporting the first lens element. The second lens unit includes a second lens element and a second lens support frame supporting the second lens element. The second lens unit is supported by the first lens unit to be movable in the optical axis direction of the first lens element with respect to the first lens unit. The drive unit is arranged to be used to drive the second lens unit with respect to the first lens unit, and is fixed to the first lens unit. When viewed in the optical axis direction, the drive unit is fixed to the first lens unit so that a first profile line formed by the first lens unit and the drive unit is substantially circular. | 10-06-2011 |
20110249174 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image pickup apparatus includes a photographic lens including a photographic optical system, a photographic camera configured to be attachable to and detachable from the photographic lens and including an image sensor configured to receive light from the photographic lens, and a receiving device connected to the photographic lens via a cable and configured to receive an operation signal for controlling the photographic lens or the photographic camera from a remote operation device, wherein the receiving device is configured to be fixable to the photographic lens or the photographic camera by a plurality of different methods. | 10-13-2011 |
20110254996 | LENS BARREL AND IMAGING DEVICE - The lens barrel includes a first lens unit, a second lens unit, and a drive unit. The first lens unit includes a first lens element and a first lens support frame supporting the first lens element. The second lens unit includes a second lens element and a second lens support frame supporting the second lens element. The second lens unit is supported by the first lens unit to be movable in the optical axis direction of the first lens element with respect to the first lens unit. The drive unit is arranged to be used to drive the second lens unit with respect to the first lens unit, and is fixed to the first lens unit. When viewed in the optical axis direction, the drive unit is fixed to the first lens unit so that a first profile line formed by the first lens unit and the drive unit is substantially circular. | 10-20-2011 |
20110254997 | LENS BARREL AND IMAGING DEVICE - The lens barrel includes a first lens unit, a second lens unit, and a drive unit. The first lens unit includes a first lens element and a first lens support frame supporting the first lens element. The second lens unit includes a second lens element and a second lens support frame supporting the second lens element. The second lens unit is supported by the first lens unit to be movable in the optical axis direction of the first lens element with respect to the first lens unit. The drive unit is arranged to be used to drive the second lens unit with respect to the first lens unit, and is fixed to the first lens unit. When viewed in the optical axis direction, the drive unit is fixed to the first lens unit so that a first profile line formed by the first lens unit and the drive unit is substantially circular. | 10-20-2011 |
20110285898 | IMAGING ELEMENT AND IMAGING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An imaging element includes a light receiving surface having pixels, and a low-pass filter device configured to focus predetermined light on a predetermined pixel of the pixels of the light-receiving surface. | 11-24-2011 |
20110285899 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - An image capturing apparatus comprises an image sensor on which a plurality of pixels are two-dimensionally arranged, and which has a plurality of image forming pixels and a plurality of types of focus detecting pixels that are discretely arranged among the plurality of image forming pixels and respectively have different distributions of received light, and selection means for, when the plurality of pixels are read out from the image sensor while thinning out the plurality of pixels, selecting one thinning-out read-out mode from a plurality of thinning-out read-out modes having different thinning-out phases of the plurality of pixels, wherein the plurality of types of focus detecting pixels are arranged so that in each thinning-out read-out mode, only signals of the focus detecting pixels of one type of focus detecting pixels are read out, and signals of the focus detecting pixels of other types are not read out. | 11-24-2011 |
20110317062 | DIGITAL CAMERA AND INTERCHANGEABLE LENS UNIT - A circuit board is arranged on an end face of a lens barrel on a lens mount side and installed with an electronic circuit device, a plurality of connection terminals which are arranged in an electrically insulating state in the lens mount and serve to connect the electronic circuit device on the circuit board with an electronic circuit device inside a camera body, and a wiring member is for connecting the plurality of connection terminals with the circuit board, where the wiring member is provided with a ground connection section which is connected to a ground pattern of the circuit board and also electrically connected to a connection terminal that is to be a ground terminal among the plurality of connection terminals, and an extended wiring pattern is for electrically grounding the ground connection section on a metal portion of the lens mount. | 12-29-2011 |
20120008039 | IMAGE SENSORS WITH GRADED REFRACTIVE INDEX MICROLENSES - An image sensor has an array of image sensor pixels. Each image sensor pixel may have a gradient index lens formed in a passivation layer. The gradient index lens may be a converging or diverging gradient index lens. The gradient index lens may have a gradient index profile that is smooth or a gradient index profile having distinct regions of lower or higher refractive index. Regions of lower refractive index may be formed from ion implantation in the passivation layer. Each pixel may also have a polymer microlens, a color filter, a dielectric stack, and a photosensitive element in a substrate. | 01-12-2012 |
20120013787 | High Resolution Image Capture Device and the Lens Set thereof - A high resolution image capturing device comprises a lens; an image sensor; a resolution enhancing element formed on said image sensor and between said lens and said image sensor to improve resolution; wherein an index of reflection of said resolution enhancing element is greater than one. The resolution enhancing element includes liquid or solid material which has said index of reflection greater than one of air. | 01-19-2012 |
20120026388 | 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 refractive power, including a convex surface facing the object side; a second lens with a negative refractive power, including a concave surface facing the image side; a third lens with a positive or negative refractive power; a fourth lens with a positive refractive power, including a convex surface facing the image side; and a fifth lens with a negative refractive power, including a concave surface facing the image side. The image-side surface of the fifth lens has an aspheric shape, and includes an inflection point at a position excluding an intersection point with the optical axis. | 02-02-2012 |
20120105711 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND ACCESSORY, AND METHOD AND SYSTEM OF THE SAME, AND MEDIUM - An imaging apparatus to which an accessory is detachably attached includes an imaging unit configured to convert an object image into an electrical signal, a signal generation unit configured to generate a vertical synchronizing signal that is synchronized with a timing of exposure of the imaging unit and output the generated vertical synchronizing signal, a control unit configured to control communication with the accessory based on the vertical synchronizing signal, a first terminal configured to send a clock signal generated by the control unit to the accessory, and a second terminal configured to communicate data with the accessory based on the clock signal, in which the control unit controls a signal level at the first terminal to a predetermined level when the communication of the data ends, and then changes the signal level in synchronization with the output of the vertical synchronizing signal. | 05-03-2012 |
20120105712 | LENS BARREL - A lens barrel includes a lens group having at least two lenses, a lens holding frame configured to hold the lens group, a holding cylinder configured to hold the lens holding frame movably in an optical axis direction of the lens group, a forward-backward moving mechanism configured to move the lens holding frame forward and backward with respect to the holding cylinder, first to third guide shafts fixed on the holding cylinder so as to surround the lens holding frame and each extend in the optical axis direction, and a biasing mechanism configured to be held by the lens holding frame between the first guide shaft and the lens holding frame and bias the lens holding frame in a direction so as to separate the lens holding frame from the first guide shaft toward the second and third guide shafts on a plane orthogonal to the optical axis direction. | 05-03-2012 |
20120182463 | CAMERA MODULE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A camera module | 07-19-2012 |
20120182464 | Objective optics with interference filter - Optical apparatus includes an image sensor and an optical assembly, which is configured to focus optical radiation via an aperture stop onto the image sensor. The optical assembly includes a plurality of optical surfaces, consisting of a first, curved surface through which the optical radiation enters the assembly, a final surface through which the rays exit the assembly toward the image sensor, and at least two intermediate surfaces between the first and final surfaces. An interference filter, which has a center wavelength and a passband no greater than 4% of the center wavelength, and includes a coating formed on one of the optical surfaces. All rays of the optical radiation passing through the aperture stop are incident on the coating over a range of incidence angles with a half-width that is no greater than three fourths of the numerical aperture of the optical assembly. | 07-19-2012 |
20120188438 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING EXTERNAL LENS - A method and a system for controlling an external lens, applicable to a main device to control a lens module connected thereto, are provided. The main device provides power and storage medium for the lens module to use. In the present method, the lens module is connected to the main device, and a control program is downloaded from a memory unit of the lens module and installed in the main device. The control program is used to allow the main device to receive a control operation, accordingly control the lens module to execute a camera function, and finally display an execution result of the lens module executing the camera function. | 07-26-2012 |
20120206641 | OPTICAL UNIT AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - [Object] To provide an optical unit and an image pickup apparatus that are capable of realizing a high-resolution and high-performance image pickup system. | 08-16-2012 |
20120218463 | MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGING - Multi-spectral imaging technique embodiments are presented which involve an active imaging approach that uses wide band illumination of known spectral distributions to obtain multi-spectral reflectance information in the presence of unknown ambient illumination. In general, a reflectance spectral distribution of a captured scene is computed by selecting a number of different illumination spectra and capturing multiple images of the scene. Each of these images is captured when the scene is illuminated by a different one of the selected illumination spectra in addition to the ambient light. The reflectance spectral distribution of the scene is computed for each pixel location based on the relative response between pairs of the radiometric responses of the corresponding pixels in the captured images, given a set of parameters including the added illumination spectra used to capture each of the images and the response function and spectral sensitivity of the camera used to capture the images | 08-30-2012 |
20120229695 | IMAGE PICKUP LENS, IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE USING SAME, AND PORTABLE DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE - An image pickup lens compatible with small high-pixel image pickup elements (e.g., from CCD and CMOS image sensors having a pixel pitch of 1.75 μm and a pixel count of 5 mega pixels to CCD and CMOS image sensors having a pixel pitch of 1.4 μm and a pixel count of 8 mega pixels) is provided. An image pickup lens | 09-13-2012 |
20120229696 | Image Capturing Apparatus - An image capturing apparatus comprises: an image sensor having image forming pixels for receiving light that has passed through an entire pupil area of an imaging lens which forms an object image, and focus detection pixels, which are arranged discretely among the image forming pixels, for receiving light that has passed through part of the pupil area of the imaging lens; a detection unit configured to detect an edge direction of an object based on an image signal acquired by the image sensor; an averaging unit configured to average image signals, while shifting a phase of the image signals, which are acquired respectively from each of the focus detection pixels, based on the edge direction detected by the detection unit; and a calculation unit configured to calculate a defocus amount of the imaging lens using the image signal averaged by the averaging unit. | 09-13-2012 |
20120257100 | Inner Focus Lens, Interchangeable Lens Apparatus and Camera System - An inner focus lens, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising: a first lens unit having positive optical power; a second lens unit having negative optical power; and a third lens unit having positive optical power, wherein the second lens unit is moved along an optical axis so that focusing from an infinite-distance object side to a short-distance object side is achieved, the first lens unit includes a bi-convex air lens, and the following conditions: 0.65<|f | 10-11-2012 |
20120262624 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image pickup apparatus includes: a lens apparatus; and a camera apparatus that can be attached and removed from the lens apparatus, wherein the camera apparatus includes: an image pickup element; and an optical element configured to be inserted and removed from an optical path, the optical element is a ND filter, and the ND it has a surface with positive refractive power. A ratio of a thickness of the optical element on an optical axis and a thickness of the optical length adjustment unit on the optical axis is appropriately set. | 10-18-2012 |
20120268648 | ADAPTIVE LENS MODULE AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - An adaptive lens module is disclosed for connecting to a camera. The camera has a zooming lens. The adaptive lens module includes a first magnetic unit, an adapter and a lens unit. The first magnetic unit is arranged on the camera. The adapter has a second magnetic unit for detachably connecting to the first magnetic unit, and a through hole for passing through the zooming lens. The lens unit is arranged on the adapter and optical connects with the zooming lens. | 10-25-2012 |
20120274836 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image pickup apparatus, which is mountable a lens apparatus thereon, obtains information of a mounted lens apparatus and if the lens apparatus is identified as the interchangeable lens which fails in firmware update based on the obtained information, controls to restrict an operation in which an interchangeable lens is used and to enable an operation which does not use the interchangeable lens. | 11-01-2012 |
20120274837 | CAMERA - A camera to which a lens unit is exchangeably attached includes a phase difference detection type focus detection unit, a contrast detection type focus detection unit, and a processor configured to acquire correction information used to correct a shift amount between a focus detecting light flux and an image-pickup light flux from the image pickup lens. The contrast detection type focus detection unit performs scanning in a single direction from a focus position detected by the phase difference detection type focus detection unit, the single direction being set based on the correction information. | 11-01-2012 |
20120287331 | IMAGE-CAPTURING DEVICE - An image-capturing device includes: a plurality of micro-lenses disposed in a two-dimensional pattern near a focal plane of an image forming optical system; an image sensor that includes a two-dimensional array of element groups each corresponding to one of the micro-lenses and made up with a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements which receive, via the micro-lenses light fluxes from a subject having passed through the photographic optical system and output image signals; and a synthesizing unit that combines the image signals output from the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements based upon information so as to generate synthetic image data in correspondence to a plurality of image forming areas present on a given image forming plane of the image forming optical system, the information specifying positions of the photoelectric conversion elements output image signals that are to be used for generating synthetic image data for each image forming area. | 11-15-2012 |
20120300117 | ADAPTER OPTICAL SYSTEM AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided is an adapter optical system attachable between an image pickup lens and a camera body, the adapter optical system including, in order from an object side: a first optical unit having negative refractive power; a second optical unit that is insertable in and removable from an optical path; and a third optical unit having positive refractive power, in which the following expression is satisfied: 0.03<|αa | 11-29-2012 |
20120300118 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens including, in order from object side: a positive first unit fixed for zooming; a negative second unit moving for zooming; a zoom unit including at least one unit moving for zooming; a stop; and a fixed unit. The first unit includes a negative first sub-unit not moving for focusing, and a positive second sub-unit and a positive third sub-unit moving toward image side and object side, respectively, when focusing from infinity object to proximity object. A focal lengths of the first and second units, a distance from a vertex of a surface closest to the image side in the first unit to an image side principal point position of the first unit, a thickness of the first unit on an optical axis, and lateral magnifications of the second and third sub-units when focusing on infinity object are appropriately set. | 11-29-2012 |
20120307134 | IMAGING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE IMAGING APPARATUS, LENS UNIT, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE LENS UNIT - An imaging apparatus on which a lens unit having a photographic optical system including a focus lens and capable of controlling driving of the photographic optical system based on information received from the imaging apparatus is mountable includes a filter driving unit configured to insert or retract an optical filter on an optical path of the photographic optical system, a detection unit configured to detect an insertion state of the optical filter, and a control unit configured to calculate, based on a change of the insertion state of the optical filter detected by the detection unit, a movement amount of an image forming position of an object image, and to transmit information on the movement amount of the image forming position of the object image and information indicating the insertion state of the optical filter to the lens unit. | 12-06-2012 |
20120307135 | IMAGE PICKUP LENS, IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE USING SAME, AND PORTABLE APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH THE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE - The present invention provides an image pickup lens with a large focal depth from the center to the outer part of an image plane formed on an image sensor and capable of maintaining its focal depth within a practical range and thus suppressing a decline in the resolution. An image pickup lens | 12-06-2012 |
20120314122 | PLASTIC LENS, PHOTOGRAPHING LENS, IMAGING DEVICE, AND PORTABLE DEVICE - A plastic lens includes a flange portion on an outer circumference of a lens effective-diameter portion and manufactured by injecting a resin into a mold via a gate portion. The plastic lens is characterized by having a shape satisfying conditions of s/t≦0.61 and E.D/D≧0.4 when s [mm] and t [mm] represent a peripheral thickness, a central thickness of the lens effective-diameter portion, E.D [mm] represents a lens effective diameter, and D [mm] represents a lens diameter. | 12-13-2012 |
20120320259 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS HAVING WIRELESS TRANSMITTER-RECEIVER UNIT - An image pickup apparatus is provided that is capable of avoiding an image pickup device and control system devices thereof from being affected by heat generated by a wireless transmitter-receiver unit, whereby the control system devices can stably be operated, while avoiding the quality of photographed image from being deteriorated. In the image pickup apparatus, a power unit has an upper limit of guaranteed temperature higher than that of the image pickup device and higher than those of an image processing unit and a control unit which are the control system devices, and is mounted on a mounting surface of a board together with the image processing unit and the control unit. A wireless transmitter-receiver unit is disposed parallel to and facing the mounting surface of the board so as to cover the power unit mounted on the board. | 12-20-2012 |
20120320260 | Image Sensor and Method for Packaging Same - An image sensor includes a ceramic base with a cavity therein, the ceramic base including a sidewall forming a conductive layer embedded therein. A protrusion extends from the sidewall toward the center of the cavity. An infrared filter is mounted on the upper surface of the protrusion with a most upper surface of the infrared filter not higher than the upper surface of the ceramic base; and an image unit is mounted in a recess of a bottom plate assembled with a lower surface of the ceramic base. | 12-20-2012 |
20120320261 | Imaging Lens and Imaging Device - Disclosed is an imaging lens by which astigmatism and field curvature are satisfactorily corrected by arranging on a first surface a concave surface having an appropriate radius of curvature. Condition (1) defines the radius of curvature of the concave surface arranged on the object-side surface of a bonded compound lens. By fulfilling condition (1), a lens can be obtained in which astigmatism and field curvature are satisfactorily corrected. Condition (1): −1.5< | 12-20-2012 |
20120327292 | Integrated imaging system - An imaging system having a front side and rear side enveloping a light transmitting space formed therebetween A front lens situated on the front side forms a portal through which light from an object enters into the light transmitting space wherein at least one optical element composed of glass or elastic material, liquid lenses or liquid crystal elements, and an image sensor are positioned to develop a folded beam path between the front lens and the image sensor, and a real image of the object on the image sensor. Electrically driving at least one optical element enables alteration of the focal length within the system in a manner switchable between at least two values. The change in focal length is realized with the aid of electrically controlled piezo-actuators or by an electric field applied to at least one variable optical element. | 12-27-2012 |
20130002937 | LENS BARREL AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - Provided is a lens barrel comprising a lens holding member that holds a lens; a guide axle that extends in a direction parallel to an optical axis of the lens; and an oil-retaining bearing that is fixed to the lens holding member, and into which the guide axle is slidably inserted. In the lens barrel, the guide axle and the oil-retaining bearing may be made of metal, and at least a portion of the lens holding member to which the oil-retaining bearing is fixed may be made of resin. | 01-03-2013 |
20130002938 | LENS ASSEMBLY AND CAMERA MODULE HAVING THE SAME - The present invention discloses a lens assembly and a camera module having the lens assembly. An aspect of the present invention provides a lens assembly that can include: a barrel arranged having a space inside thereof; a first lens accommodated in the space; a second lens stacked over the first lens and arranged to be separated from the first lens; and a cap installed over the barrel and configured to provide a load to support the second lens to the barrel. | 01-03-2013 |
20130002939 | LENSES FOR COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Some embodiments disclosed herein relate to a lens component having one or more lenses attached to a retainer portion configured to removably attach to communication devices such as mobile phones, tablet computers, media players, and the like. The retainer portion may be configured so as not to interfere with a user's view of a display panel of the communication device. In some embodiments, a plurality of lenses may be provided, and the lenses may be removably attached to the retainer portion and may be interchangeable. A structure for providing a flash may also be provided. In some embodiments, additional features may be provided, such as attachment components to facilitate attachment to stability devices, such as tripods, and to user-wearable accessories. | 01-03-2013 |
20130002940 | System And Method For Image Capture Device - A system and method for stabilization of an image capture device are disclosed. Also disclosed are a system and method for autofocus of an image capture device. | 01-03-2013 |
20130010180 | CATADIOPTRIC LENS SYSTEM AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A catadioptric lens system includes, in order of light travel: a first lens group that includes a concave mirror and a convex mirror and has a positive refractive power; a second lens group that is positioned on the image side of the concave mirror and has a negative refractive power; and a third lens group that has a positive refractive power, wherein the first lens group has a plurality of lenses on the image side of the concave mirror, and some lenses of the plurality of lenses are formed as a vibration-proof group so as to be movable in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis. | 01-10-2013 |
20130010181 | OPTICAL UNIT AND IMAGING APPARATUS - The present invention relates to an optical unit and an imaging apparatus, which can realize a lens element that has a high MTF, is small, bright, and optimal to a fixed-focus camera while having an advantage of a three-group configuration that the depth of field is deep. | 01-10-2013 |
20130010182 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD - An imaging unit obtains image data. An imaging controller controls the imaging unit to obtain a plurality of pieces of image data having different exposure values. A standard image decision unit decides the image data with the shortest length of exposure time of the plurality of pieces of image data as standard image data. A correlation quantity detection unit detects a correlation quantity between the standard image data and the plurality of pieces of image data. A first combination processing unit generates first combined image data by combining the plurality of pieces of image data in accordance with the correlation quantity. A second combination processing unit combines the standard image data and the first combined image data. | 01-10-2013 |
20130016278 | Imaging Lens, Imaging Optical Device, and Digital EquipmentAANM Matsusaka; KeijiAACI Osaka-shiAACO JPAAGP Matsusaka; Keiji Osaka-shi JPAANM Tanaka; HiroakiAACI Sakai-shiAACO JPAAGP Tanaka; Hiroaki Sakai-shi JPAANM Sano; EigoAACI Hino-shiAACO JPAAGP Sano; Eigo Hino-shi JP - An imaging lens system has, from an object side, at least one positive lens element convex to the object side, a negative lens element, and at least one lens element having an aspherical surface. The positive and negative lens elements are arranged next to each other. The formulae 0.101-17-2013 | |
20130021521 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device includes phase difference detection pixels. The imaging device receives an image formed by an optical system and includes a plurality of pixels that are two-dimensionally arranged. Each of the plurality of pixels include a micro lens; a photoelectric conversion unit positioned below the micro lens; and an optical aperture disposed between the micro lens and the photoelectric conversion unit and that is eccentric with respect to an optical axis of the micro lens, wherein the plurality of pixels of the imaging device output a signal for obtaining phase difference. The imaging device performs phase difference detection on the entire surface of a captured image without addition of pixels. | 01-24-2013 |
20130038782 | METHOD TO IMPROVE FILTER WHEEL IMAGING SYSTEM DATA CAPTURE RATE AND ADD FUNCTIONALITY THROUGH THE USE OF AN IMPROVED FILTER WHEEL DESIGN - This disclosure describes a method of improving filter wheel imaging data capture and other functionality through use of an improved filter wheel design with pie shaped filter segments, continuously rotating image capture, multiple filtered images, and easily removable and attachable filter segments. | 02-14-2013 |
20130038783 | CAMERA MODULE, MANUFACTURING APPARATUS, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD - A camera module includes an imaging sensor, a conductive member, a plate-like member, and a sealing member. The imaging sensor includes a light-receiving surface configured to receive light gathered by a lens unit, the lens unit including a lens and a drive section driving the lens. The conductive member is connected to the drive section for supply of power to the drive section. The plate-like member is provided with the imaging sensor and the conductive member. The sealing member is formed by sealing the imaging sensor and the conductive member, the conductive member being exposed at a connection part for connection to the drive section, the imaging sensor being exposed at the light-receiving surface. | 02-14-2013 |
20130038784 | LENS APPARATUS AND IMAGING SYSTEM USING THE SAME - An imaging system includes at least a first imaging apparatus and at least a second imaging apparatus where each apparatus includes a camera apparatus including an image sensor and a lens apparatus configured to guide an object image to the image sensor, where the lens apparatus is attached to the camera apparatus. | 02-14-2013 |
20130044256 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing method includes the steps of obtaining an input image that is an image in which information of an object space is obtained from a plurality of points of view using an image pickup apparatus that includes an image pickup element having a plurality of pixels and an imaging optical system, calculating a first position of a virtual imaging plane that corresponds to a specified focus position, setting the virtual imaging plane to a second position that is in a range of a depth of focus of the imaging optical system with reference to the first position so that a maximum value of an apparent pixel pitch that is formed by reconstructing the input image is decreased, and generating an output image in a state where the virtual imaging plane is set to the second position. | 02-21-2013 |
20130070150 | LENS BARREL AND IMAGING DEVICE - The lens barrel is a lens barrel for forming an optical image of a subject on an imaging element, comprising a first lens unit, a second lens unit, a focus lens unit, a zoom mechanism, and a focus actuator. The focus lens unit is movably supported by the second lens unit in the optical axis direction. The operating force inputted to the zoom control is mechanically transmitted to at least one of the first lens unit and the second lens unit. The focus actuator is fixed to the second lens unit and electrically drives the focus lens unit relative to the second lens unit in the optical axis direction. The second lens unit or the focus lens unit is disposed nearest to the image plane in the optical system including the first lens element, the second lens element, and the focus lens. | 03-21-2013 |
20130076971 | OPTICAL ELEMENT, IMAGING LENS UNIT, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An optical element includes an effective diameter area that is centered on an optical axis and transmits an effective light beam, and a flange portion having, on a side surface around the effective diameter area, a slope that is not perpendicular to a direction of the optical axis. | 03-28-2013 |
20130076972 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - The image pickup apparatus includes an image sensor having plural pixels each being constituted by a microlens causing light fluxes from mutually different areas in an exit pupil of an image capturing optical system to form two object images and two photoelectric conversion portions photoelectrically converting the two object images, a signal reader performing a first reading operation that adds signals from the two photoelectric conversion portions to read the added signal as a pixel signal and a second reading operation that independently reads the signal from each of the two photoelectric conversion portions as the pixel signal, and a phase difference detector detecting a phase difference between the two object images by using the pixel signal read by the second reading operation. The signal reader performs, when the phase difference is detected, the second reading operation on pixel lines located discretely among plural pixel lines in the image sensor. | 03-28-2013 |
20130083233 | IMAGE PICKUP UNIT - An image pickup unit includes: an image pickup lens; a perspective splitting device splitting a light beam that has passed through the image pickup lens into light beams corresponding to a plurality of perspectives different from one another; an image pickup device having a plurality of pixels, and receiving the light beams that have passed through the perspective splitting device, by each of the pixels, to obtain pixel signals based on an amount of the received light; and a correction section performing correction for suppressing crosstalk between perspectives with use of a part or all of the pixel signals obtained from the plurality of pixels. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083234 | IMAGE PICKUP INFORMATION OUTPUT APPARATUS AND LENS APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH SAME - Image pickup information output apparatus which outputs information about image pickup condition derived from combination of positions/states of condition decision members serving as optical members that affect fulfillment of the condition, comprising: setting unit for setting a condition setting value as the condition to be fulfilled; controller for driving one of the condition decision members to control its position/state based on the condition setting value, condition calculator for calculating information about the condition as calculated condition based on the combination of positions/states of the condition decision members; determination unit for determining whether or not the condition setting value changed; decision unit for determining the information about condition to be output, based on the calculated condition and the determination made by the determination unit as to whether or not the condition setting value changed; and output unit for outputting information about the condition to be output determined by the decision unit. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083235 | Single Actuator Configuration for a Camera Module - Systems and methods for camera modules having a movable lens barrel, allowing a maximum lens diameter with minimal outside dimensions are disclosed. At least one single linear actuator is moving the lens barrel. Each actuator is deployed in an own corner of the camera module. The moving lens barrel is guided by rolling elements bearings. The actuator comprises a stator, comprising one or more coils wrapped around a rod of magnetic metal and an anchor comprising one or more permanent magnets, which are tightly attached to the lens barrel. An offset between the longitudinal center line of magnets of the anchor and the center of the stator generates a permanent force pushing the lens barrel in direction of the stator of the motor and consequently pushes protrusions on the lens barrel onto the rolling elements bearings, thus preventing the bearings to fall apart in case of a mechanical shock. | 04-04-2013 |
20130088637 | Lens Stack Arrays Including Adaptive Optical Elements - Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention incorporate adaptive optical elements into optical channels in a lens stack array. In one embodiment, an array camera module includes a lens stack array, that includes at least two lens stacks, where at least one lens stack includes an adaptive optical element that can adjust the characteristics of the transmission of light in the optical channel defined by the corresponding lens stack in response to at least one electrical signal, a sensor including a focal plane for each lens stack within the lens stack array, and circuitry configured to control at least one adaptive optical element, where the lens stack array and the sensor are configured so that each lens stack can form an image on a corresponding focal plane. | 04-11-2013 |
20130093944 | IMAGE PICKUP UNIT, IMAGE GENERATION SYSTEM, SERVER, AND ELECTRONIC UNIT - In an example embodiment, an image pickup unit includes an image pickup lens, a perspective separation device separating light beams passing through the image pickup lens into light beams from a plurality of perspectives different from one another, an image pickup device including a plurality of pixels and receiving light beams passing through the perspective separation device in the pixels to output multi-perspective image pickup data, based on an amount of light received, and a data compression section performing reversible compression on the image pickup data. | 04-18-2013 |
20130107108 | CAMERA MODULE HAVING A SWITCHABLE FOCAL LENGTH | 05-02-2013 |
20130120646 | LENS UNIT - A 3D adapter ( | 05-16-2013 |
20130141633 | IMAGE OPTICAL LENS SYSTEM - An image optical lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element with positive refractive power is made of plastic material and has a convex image-side surface, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the third lens element are aspheric. The fourth lens element with negative refractive power is made of plastic material, and has a concave object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, wherein the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fourth lens element are aspheric, and the image-side surface of the fourth lens element changes from concave at the paraxial region to convex at the peripheral region. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141634 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device includes: a lens optical system including a first region and a second region having different optical properties; an imaging element including first pixels and second pixels; an arrayed optical element which is provided between the lens optical system and the imaging element, allows light passing through the first region to enter the first pixels, and allows light passing through the second region to enter the second pixels; a signal processing unit configured to generate object information using pixel values obtained from the first pixels and the second pixels; and a diffractive optical element provided between the arrayed optical element and the lens optical system and including a diffraction grating symmetrical about an optical axis of the lens optical system. | 06-06-2013 |
20130148012 | IMAGING LENS AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging lens, including in order from an object side to an image side, an aperture stop, a first lens formed in a biconvex shape having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power with a surface on the image side formed to be a concave surface, a third lens having a positive refractive power with a convex surface faced to the image side, and a fourth lens having a negative refractive power with a surface on the image side formed to be a concave surface. | 06-13-2013 |
20130155314 | LENS MODULE AND IMAGE APPARATUS - A lens module for capturing an object light-beam from an object-side is provided. The lens module includes a first lens group, a second lens group, a third lens group, a fourth lens group and a fifth lens group sequentially-arranged from the object-side to an image-side. The five lens groups respectively have at least one lens with positive refractive-power and at least one lens with negative refractive-power. The first, third and fifth lens groups are fixed groups, while the second and fourth lens groups are movable groups. An image apparatus including the lens module is also provided. | 06-20-2013 |
20130162891 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE - An image capturing device is provided. The image capturing device includes a lens device including a first housing; and a sapphire lens directly connected to the first housing for protecting the lens device, wherein the sapphire lens includes a crystal structure and has a crystal axis, the crystal structure is a single-crystal structure, and the crystal axis includes one selected from a group consisting of c-axis (0001), a-axis (1 | 06-27-2013 |
20130162892 | COG PACKAGE AND CAMERA MODULE HAVING THE SAME - There is provided a COG package. The COG package includes: a transparent circuit board formed of a light transmitting material; an imaging device fixedly disposed on the transparent circuit board; a solder part formed on the transparent circuit board so as to be disposed outwardly of the imaging device; and a light shielding member mounted on a bottom surface of the imaging device to prevent light from being incident on the bottom surface of the imaging device and being transmitted through the imaging device. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162893 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS HAVING IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE PACKAGE MOUNTED THEREON - A mechanism enabling reduction of the size of a structure for mounting an image pickup device without affecting the amount of movement of an optical system even when screw insertion holes of a sensor plate are arranged closer to the optical axis. The sensor plate of an image pickup apparatus is mounted to a lens barrel with screws, and includes an attachment surface to which the image pickup device is attached and contact surfaces which are fixed to the lens barrel. The attachment surface is protruded from the contact surfaces. By bringing the attachment surface to the lens barrel in the optical axis direction, the device has an image pickup surface positioned with respect to the lens barrel in the optical axis direction. The sensor plate has an opening formed between the attachment surface and each contact surface, for absorbing deformation of the sensor plate. | 06-27-2013 |
20130182174 | RETRACTABLE LENS BARREL AND IMAGING APPARATUS - In an imaging apparatus, during an utilization state, optical elements and an image sensor are arranged on the same optical axis. During a retracted state, the optical elements in include at least one optical element that is moved from an optical axis position on the optical axis to a first retraction position that differs from the optical axis position; the image sensor is moved from the optical axis position to a second retraction position that differs from the first retraction position; and the moved optical element and the image sensor are arranged such that at least one portion of the move optical element and of the image sensor overlap in a plane substantially orthogonal to the optical axis. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182175 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, LENS UNIT, AND METHODS OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An image pickup apparatus detachably mounting a lens unit including a plurality of optical members includes an image pickup unit that accumulates charge in synchronization with a vertical synchronizing signal to generate an image signal, and a control unit that generates control information for each of the plurality of optical members of the mounted lens unit and communicates the control information with the lens unit in synchronization with the vertical synchronizing signal. The control unit is configured to perform a first communication in synchronization with the vertical synchronizing signal, and to perform a second communication, for controlling an optical member different to the optical before a next first communication that is performed in synchronization with a next vertical synchronizing signal. The first communication and the second communication are predetermined packet communications in which optical members to be controlled among the plurality of optical members are different from each other. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182176 | Drive Device - A drive device ( | 07-18-2013 |
20130194487 | IMAGE PICKUP OPTICAL SYSTEM AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - An image pickup optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit that does not move for focusing and has a positive optical power, a second lens unit that moves during focusing, an aperture diaphragm, and a third lens unit that does not move for focusing. The image pickup optical system includes a diffractive optical element, and an optical element NLF made of a solid material on the object side of an intersection between a paraxial chief ray and an optical axis. The predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194488 | IMAGE-FORMING LENS, AND CAMERA DEVICE AND PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL DEVICE WITH THE IMAGE-FORMING LENS - An image forming lens consists of from an object side to an image side in the following order: a first group with a positive refractive power; an aperture stop; and a second group with a positive refractive power, wherein the second group includes, from the object side to the image side in the following order, a biconvex lens, a biconcave lens, a negative meniscus lens a convex surface of which faces the image side, a biconvex lens, and a positive meniscus lens a convex surface of which faces the image side. | 08-01-2013 |
20130201388 | OPTICAL SENSING APPARATUS AND OPTICAL SETTING METHOD - An optical sensing apparatus includes an optical sensing pixel array and a plurality of micro-optical device sets. The optical sensing pixel array has a plurality of array elements, and each of the array elements has one or multiple of a plurality of optical sensing pixels. The micro-optical device sets are configured corresponding to the optical sensing pixels respectively. Each of the micro-optical device sets has a shifting vector with respect to one of the optical sensing pixels. The optical sensing pixel array has a reference original point. Two shifting vectors of two of the micro-optical device sets with respect to corresponding two of the optical sensing pixels at the same radial distance on two polar axes from the reference original point and along opposite directions are asymmetric. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201389 | MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A motor control device includes a counter that counts pulses output from a one-phase encoder according to rotation of a DC motor, and a controller that recognizes rotation number of the DC motor based on the number of pulses counted by the counter. After the DC motor is braked, the controller starts applying a predetermined voltage to the DC motor at first timing before the DC motor stops, and stops applying the predetermined voltage at second timing after the DC motor stops. The controller subtracts the number of pulses generated after the second timing from a value counted by the counter. The predetermined voltage is lower than a lowest voltage necessary for driving a driven object, and is higher than a lowest voltage necessary for rotating the DC motor against an attracting force between a magnet and a coil in the DC motor. | 08-08-2013 |
20130208178 | IMAGING LENS SYSTEM - An imaging lens system includes a first lens group having a positive refractive power and a second lens group having a positive refractive power, the first lens group and the second lens group are sequentially arranged from an object side to an image surface. The first lens group includes a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a positive refractive power, and a third lens having a negative refractive power and having a concave surface toward the image surface, which are sequentially arranged from the object side to the image surface. The second lens group includes a cemented lens of a fourth lens that has a concave surface toward the object side and is a negative lens and a fifth lens that is a positive lens, which are sequentially arranged from the object to the image surface. | 08-15-2013 |
20130215321 | IMAGE FORMING LENS, CAMERA DEVICE, AND HANDHELD TERMINAL - An image forming lens including an aperture stop, a first lens group, and a second lens group having a positive power, the first lens group including a first F lens group having a negative power and a first R lens group having a positive power, the first F lens group including at least two negative lenses, the first R lens group including at least one positive lens, the second lens group including a second F lens group having a positive power and a second R lens group, the second F lens group including a first positive lens, a first negative lens, a second negative lens, and a second positive lens, and the second R lens group including at least one lens. | 08-22-2013 |
20130222679 | LENS MODULE AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING LENS MODULE - A lens module includes a lens holder, a lens barrel, and an image sensor. The lens barrel is received in the lens holder and includes a top surface and a bottom surface opposite to the top surface. At least three positioning poles extend downward from the bottom surface. Each of the positioning poles includes an end surface facing away the bottom surface, and center points of the at least three positioning poles form a positioning circle. A center of the positioning circle is coaxial to an optical axis of the lens barrel. The image sensor module supports the lens holder, and the center of the positioning circle is located in an optical axis of the image sensor module. | 08-29-2013 |
20130229566 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - There is provided an image pickup apparatus that is capable of being reduced in size when a barrel unit including a dimming device is used. An image pickup apparatus | 09-05-2013 |
20130229567 | Image Pickup Lens, Image Pickup Apparatus, and Mobile Terminal - An image pickup lens includes: a first lens with a positive power, including a convex surface facing the object side; an aperture stop; a second lens with a negative power, including a concave surface facing the image side; a third lens with a positive or negative power; a fourth lens with a positive power, including a convex surface facing the image side; and a fifth lens with a negative power, including a concave surface facing the image side. The surface of the fifth lens facing the image side is an aspheric surface and includes an inflection point. The image pickup lens satisfies the predetermined condition relating to a focal length of the first lens. | 09-05-2013 |
20130235255 | OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM FOR MULTISPECTRAL IMAGING - An optical imaging system for multispectral imaging. A filter arrangement for selecting particular spectral ranges is located in a beam path coming from an object to be imaged, and at least one detection device is provided for receiving the selected spectral ranges. The imaging system comprises optical assemblies for generating an imaging beam path of polychromatic light coming from the object to be imaged, a filter arrangement for sequentially or simultaneously selecting particular spectral ranges provided for imaging the object from the imaging beam path, at least one detection device for the light of the selected spectral ranges, and an image display and/or image analysis device connected to the detection device, wherein the filter arrangement comprises a plurality of individual filter areas disposed adjacent to each other and lateral to the extension direction of the imaging beam path, said areas being designed for selecting different spectral ranges, and a deflecting device for aligning the imaging beam path to individual filter areas. | 09-12-2013 |
20130235256 | MULTIBAND CAMERA, AND MULTIBAND IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - A multiband camera comprises: a band-pass filter having four or more optical filters; a microlens array having arrayed microlenses; a photoelectric conversion element including a plurality of pixels; and a measurement unit for measuring spectral intensity. The multiband camera satisfies the expression below, where Pl is a pitch between the microlenses, Ps is a pitch between the pixels, n is a number of pixels corresponding to one microlens, u is an effective dimension in a prescribed direction of the pixels, t is a dimension in the prescribed direction of a real image that the band-pass filter forms on a plurality of two-dimensionally arrayed pixels, Na is a number of microlenses arrayed in the prescribed direction, L is a distance from an exit pupil to the microlens, and f is a focal length of the microlens. | 09-12-2013 |
20130242175 | INNER FOCUS LENS, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS DEVICE AND CAMERA SYSTEM - There are provided an inner focus lens consisting of a first lens group, an aperture diaphragm, and a second lens group in order from an object side. The first lens group has a positive first lens element, a positive second lens element, and a negative third lens element, or has a positive first lens element, a positive second lens element, a positive third lens element, and a negative fourth lens element, in order from the object side. One lens element in the second lens group is moved with respect to an image surface in focusing. The second lens group has five or more lens elements, and has a configuration including a negative lens element, a positive lens element, and a positive lens element in order from the object side. | 09-19-2013 |
20130250166 | High-Speed Wide-Angle Lens Construction - Embodiments are disclosed herein related to the construction of optical elements for an RGB camera system. One disclosed embodiment provides a wide-angle lens construction, comprising a first, negative stage, and a second, positive stage positioned behind the first, negative stage along an optical axis of the lens construction. The second, positive stage further comprises a first positive lens substage, a first negative lens substage, a second positive lens substage, and a second negative lens substage. | 09-26-2013 |
20130250167 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image capturing apparatus includes: an imaging element; a main lens that condenses light from a subject toward the imaging element; a micro lens array that is configured by a plurality kinds of micro lenses with different focal lengths that is disposed between the imaging element and the main lens and causes light transmitted through the main lens to form an image on the imaging element; and a CPU that, in response to receiving a designation of a distance to a side of a subject that is photographed, performs weighting for each image that is imaged by the plurality kinds of micro lenses of the imaging element based on the distance so as to constitute one captured image. | 09-26-2013 |
20130258173 | PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD OF ROTATIONAL ANGLE POSITION OF POLARIZED LIGHT FILTER - A photographing device includes a photographing optical system having an image sensor, a polarizing filter which rotates about an optical axis of the photographing optical system and is positioned in an optical path thereof, a rotation driver which preliminarily rotates the polarizing filter at a predetermined cycle pattern, a detector which detects an object luminance signal of object-emanating light transmitting through the polarizing filter and captured by the image sensor when the polarizing filter preliminarily rotates the polarizing filter at the predetermined cycle pattern, a signal generator which generates a rotation control signal by eliminating any frequency component of a cycle pattern that is different from the predetermined cycle pattern from the object luminance signal, and a controller which controls a rotational angle position of the polarizing filter based on the rotation control signal generated by the signal generator. | 10-03-2013 |
20130265485 | PLENOPTIC CAMERA APPARATUS - A plenoptic camera apparatus includes a main lens unit configured to collect rays emitted from a subject. The plenoptic camera apparatus includes an image sensor unit adapted to capture images formed from the collected rays through one or more convertible lens device units. The convertible lens device units are positioned between the main lens unit and the image sensor unit and configured to provide individual curvature adjustment. The plenoptic camera apparatus includes a control unit configured to control the convertible lens device units to switch to a high-resolution imaging lens or a plenoptic imaging lens array, based on a user's selection, and control driving of the convertible lens device units to compensate for a partial aberration caused by the main lens unit. | 10-10-2013 |
20130271647 | SOUND PICKUP DEVICE AND IMAGING DEVICE - A sound pickup device includes a detector configured to detect attachment of an external apparatus, a sound pickup unit configured to pick up a sound and output a sound signal, and a noise processor configured to, in response to the detection of attachment of an external appliance, add a noise signal to the sound signal output from the sound pickup unit and output the sound signal including the noise signal added thereto. | 10-17-2013 |
20130278818 | Curved sensor system - Methods and apparatus for a Curved Sensor System are disclosed. The present invention includes a wide variety of generally curved, aspheric or non-planar arrangement of sensors and their equivalents. The curved surfaces, edges or boundaries that define the geometry of the present invention may be continuous, or may be collections or aggregations of many small linear, planar or other segments which are able to approximate a curved line or surface. | 10-24-2013 |
20130286278 | LENS APPARATUS AND IMAGING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A lens apparatus includes an imaging optical system including a movable lens unit, a drive unit configured to drive the movable lens unit, and a control unit configured to cause the movable lens unit to perform a wobbling motion in an optical axis direction by alternatively outputting to the drive unit a first drive command for driving the movable lens unit at a first driving speed and a stop command for stopping driving of the movable lens unit, and to move the movable lens unit based on contrast information obtained from an image pickup unit during the wobbling motion of the movable lens unit, wherein, at least one of before and after outputting the first drive command to the drive unit, the control unit outputs to the drive unit a second drive command for driving the movable lens unit at a second driving speed lower than the first driving speed. | 10-31-2013 |
20130300919 | CELLSCOPE APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR IMAGING - An improved system and methods for enhancing the imaging of cameras included with wireless mobile devices, such as cellular phone or tablets. The imaging system includes a releasable optical attachment for imaging skin surfaces and cavities of the body. The releasable optical attachment comprises optical enhancement elements such as magnifying lenses, illumination diverting elements, and filters. Images can be viewed and analyzed on the mobile device, or transmitted to another location/device for analysis by a person or software. The results can be used to provide diagnosis, or for a variety of other applications including image comparison over time and product recommendations. | 11-14-2013 |
20130300920 | LENS-INTERCHANGEABLE CAMERA SYSTEM, LENS DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND LENS DATA ACQUISITION PROGRAM - A lens-interchangeable camera system includes: an interchangeable lens unit storing lens characteristic data corresponding to parameters of lenses in a discrete manner; and a camera body unit to which the lens characteristic data is transmitted from the interchangeable lens unit when the interchangeable lens unit is mounted. The camera body unit includes an acquisition data storage unit storing the transmitted lens characteristic data, a closest data acquisition processing unit, a close data acquisition processing unit, and an unacquired data acquisition processing unit. Processing is performed in the order from the closest data acquisition processing unit, the close data acquisition processing unit and the unacquired data acquisition processing unit. | 11-14-2013 |
20130300921 | IMAGE SENSOR MODULE HAVING CURVED INFRARED CUT-OFF FILTER - An image sensor module includes: an image sensor having an image surface; a plurality of lenses arranged sequentially from an object side to the image surface side, each of the lenses refracting an incident light; and at least one infrared cut-off filter configured to cut off an infrared component from the incident light. At least one surface of the infrared cut-off filter has a concave shape in relation to the object side. | 11-14-2013 |
20130308041 | OPTICAL SYSTEM AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - An optical system (OL) includes a magnification conversion optical unit (EXT) configured to be insertable and removable at a position between an aperture stop (SP) and an image plane (IP) of the optical system in order to change a focal length of the optical system, a total lens length of the optical system is constant before and after insertion of the magnification conversion optical unit, and a length Lp on an optical axis from the aperture stop to the image plane of the optical system, and a length Le on the optical axis from a lens surface closest to an object side of the magnification conversion optical unit to the image plane when the magnification conversion optical unit is inserted are appropriately set. | 11-21-2013 |
20130308042 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, LENS APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM - An image pickup system includes a lens apparatus, and an image pickup apparatus to which the lens apparatus is detachably attached. The image pickup apparatus controller changes a cycle of a control reference signal for internal processing of the image pickup apparatus, and sends a command of changing the cycle of the control reference signal to the lens controller in synchronization with a post-change control reference signal. The lens controller that has received the command changes the cycle of the control reference signal when the lens apparatus is ready to change the cycle of the control reference signal, and sends to the image pickup apparatus controller information representing whether the lens controller has been able to follow the change of the cycle of the control reference signal. | 11-21-2013 |
20130308043 | 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 positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, an aperture stop, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a rear lens group including at least one lens unit, the first lens unit is positioned closer to the object side at a telephoto end than at a wide-angle end, the third lens unit includes at least one positive lens, and a partial dispersion ratio θgF3P of a material of one positive lens in the third lens unit, Abbe's number νd3P, focal lengths fW and fT of a total system at the wide-angle end and the telephoto end respectively, a focal length f1 of the first lens unit, and a focal length f3 of the third lens unit are appropriately set. | 11-21-2013 |
20130314588 | TELEPHOTO LENS SYSTEM - A telephoto lens system including a first lens group having a positive refractive power and including a negative lens that is disposed closest to an object side and has a meniscus shape that is convex toward the object side; a second lens group having a negative refractive power and including a single negative lens that moves along an optical axis and performs focusing; and a third lens group having a positive refractive power, wherein the first through third lens groups are disposed sequentially from the object side toward the image side, and the telephoto lens system satisfies the following condition, 0.5<|f | 11-28-2013 |
20130314589 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image pickup apparatus, including: a filter including transmittance variable element and adjusting amount of incident light from lens; a photoelectric transducer; and guide optical system guiding the incident light from the filter to the photoelectric transducer. The guide optical system includes color separation optical system including, in order from object side, first prism having first dichroic film, second prism having second dichroic film, and third prism, to separate the incident light into red, green, and blue. The first or second dichroic film is blue reflection dichroic film. Rotational position of the transmittance variable element about optical axis is such a position that ratio of transmittance for blue to transmittance for green of marginal ray entering the blue reflection dichroic film at incident angle smaller than principal ray of axial ray to the blue reflection dichroic film is smaller than such ratio of the principal ray of axial ray. | 11-28-2013 |
20130314590 | CAMERA SYSTEM, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING INTERCHANGEABLE LENS - A camera system having a predetermined image circle, comprises: an interchangeable lens having a lens mount portion; and a camera body having an image sensor that is disposed within that image circle, and a body mount portion, wherein, when a radius of circular portion at a maximum internal diameter part of an opening portion of the lens mount portion is termed rM, a flange back that is a distance from the lens mount portion to a light reception surface of an image sensor in a state that the interchangeable lens and the camera body are mutually engaged is termed da, and the diameter of the image circle is termed D, the following equations are satisfied: | 11-28-2013 |
20130314591 | Optically Refracting Surfaces - A method includes producing a first layer of optical liquid, shaping contactlessly the first layer of the optical liquid according to a desired form, and curing the shaped first layer of the optical liquid with electromagnetic radiation to generate a first optically refracting surface. | 11-28-2013 |
20130329126 | LENS BARREL MECHANICAL INTERFERENC PREVENTION MEASURES FOR CAMERA MODULE VOICE COIL MOTOR DESIGN - A camera module has an image sensor and a lens assembly that includes a lens barrel having a first cylindrical portion that includes an externally threaded portion and a second cylindrical portion that has a larger diameter than the externally threaded portion. A lens moving mechanism includes a movable sleeve having internal threads that receive the externally threaded portion of the lens assembly. The lens moving mechanism is coupled to the image sensor such that the second cylindrical portion of the lens assembly is closest to the image sensor. The camera module is assembled by inserting the lens assembly into the lens moving mechanism from the side closest to the image sensor. An installation tool may engage the second cylindrical portion to rotate the lens assembly and engage the threaded portions. Features may be provided to retain the lens assembly in the lens moving mechanism before joining the threaded portions. | 12-12-2013 |
20130335621 | GEOMETRICALLY DISTORTED LUMINANCE IN A MULTI-LENS CAMERA - Spatial resolution can be improved in multi-lens digital cameras. Each lens can have the same or similar field of view, but can be associated with different geometric distortions defining, for example, a magnification at various field of view portions. A final image can be generated based on an initial image captured by each lens Luminance information from the magnified portions of the initial images can be combined to form final image luminance information. Chrominance information from the initial images can be combined to form final image chrominance information. The final image can be generated based on the final image luminance information and the final image chrominance information. | 12-19-2013 |
20130335622 | IMAGING LENS - Disclosed herein is an imaging lens suitable for a camera module using a high resolution imaging sensor, decreasing a flare phenomenon and reducing the sensitivity. The imaging lens comprises, in order from the object side, a first lens having positive (+) refractive force; a second lens having negative (−) refractive force; a third lens having positive (+) refractive force; a fourth lens having positive (+) refractive force; and a fifth lens having negative (−) refractive force, wherein an object side plane of the third lens is convexly formed. | 12-19-2013 |
20130342755 | HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING SYSTEM - The invention relates to a high-resolution imaging system for recording images of the same scene, that are sampled in a complementary manner. To this end, an image filter ( | 12-26-2013 |
20140022447 | Image Pickup Apparatus and Zoom Lens Used in Image Pickup Apparatus - The 1st positive lens unit is located closer to the object side at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end. The distance between the 1st negative lens unit and the 1st positive lens unit is larger at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end. The distance between the image side lens unit group and the 1st negative lens unit varies during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end. The image side lens unit group comprises a 2nd positive lens unit and a 3rd positive lens unit. The distance between the 2nd positive lens unit and the 1st negative lens unit is smaller at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end. The distance between the 3rd positive lens unit and the 2nd positive lens unit varies during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end. | 01-23-2014 |
20140028900 | LENS BARREL ASSEMBLY AND PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A lens barrel assembly includes: a lens barrel that is rotatable about an optical axis and is movable in a direction along the optical axis; a moving plate that is combined with the lens barrel so that the moving plate is rotated together with the lens barrel and is movable with respect to the lens barrel in the direction along the optical axis; a power transmission unit that is installed on the moving plate and transmits an outside rotation force to the lens barrel via the moving plate; and a stopper that is disposed on a path on which the moving plate moves in the direction along the optical axis and that limits a movement of the moving plate in the direction along the optical axis in a partial section of the path on which the lens barrel is moved. | 01-30-2014 |
20140028901 | IMAGE CAPTURING LENS AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - Arranging a negative first lens, a positive second lens, a negative third lens, a positive fourth lens, and a positive fifth lens from the object side, in which the image side surface of the fifth lens has an aspherical shape with one or more inflection points and a concave shape toward the image side in a paraxial region, and, when the overall optical length, focal length of the entire lens system, focal length of the first lens, distance between image side surface of the second lens and object side surface of the third lens, refractive index of the second lens, and refractive index of the third lens are taken as TL, f, f1, Dg | 01-30-2014 |
20140043526 | ENCODER, LENS APPARATUS, AND CAMERA CAPABLE OF DETECTING POSITION OF OBJECT - An encoder includes a base, a cylinder rotatable in a circumferential direction with respect to the base, at least three supporting portions rotatably supporting the cylinder with respect to the base, a connecting portion provided on the cylinder and rotatable within a first range between two supporting portions of the at least three supporting portions, a scale attached to the cylinder, and a detector configured to detect a position of the cylinder with respect to the base by using the scale, and the detector is arranged within a second range different from the first range. | 02-13-2014 |
20140049683 | Dynamically Curved Sensor for Optical Zoom Lens - The subject disclosure is directed towards an image sensor that is controllable curved to adapt for differences in lens focal lengths. Variable data such as focal length data, measured curvature data and/or image quality data is received at a curve controller that curves the sensor based upon the variable data. In one aspect, a camera is provided with a lens having a variable focal length and a sensor capable of being dynamically curved. A curve controller receives image quality data and iteratively uses the image quality data to adjust the curvature to attempt to increase the image quality of a subsequent image to be captured. | 02-20-2014 |
20140055663 | Imaging Lens and Electronic Apparatus Having the same - An imaging lens includes first, second, third, and fourth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. The first lens element has a positive refractive power, and a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has a negative refractive power, and an image-side surface with a convex portion. The third lens element has a convex image-side surface. The fourth lens element has an object-side surface with a convex portion, and a curved image-side surface with a concave portion and a convex portion. | 02-27-2014 |
20140055664 | IMAGING DEVICE - An image capture device according to the present disclosure includes: a lens optical system L; an image sensor N on which light that has passed through the lens optical system L is incident and which includes at least a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels; and an array of optical elements K which is arranged between the lens optical system and the image sensor. The lens optical system has a first optical region D | 02-27-2014 |
20140063332 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING INFORMATION ABOUT LIGHT-FIELD DATA - An apparatus to acquire information about light-field data includes: a beam splitter configured to split light, through a lens unit which is connected to the apparatus, from an object into a first light beam and a second light beam; an image sensor configured to detect the first light beam to form an image of the object; and a light-field sensor, including a lenslet array and a detecting unit to detect the second light beam through the lenslet array, configured to acquire information about the light-field data, the lenslet array including a plurality of lenslets, wherein a first position where the detecting unit is provided is conjugate to a second position of a pupil of the lens unit. | 03-06-2014 |
20140071333 | IMAGING LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An imaging lens includes: a movable lens group configured to travel to allow the imaging lens to come into focus; and a rearmost lens group arranged at a most-image-sided fixed position, and having negative refractive power. Following conditional expression is satisfied, | 03-13-2014 |
20140071334 | IMAGING LENS AND IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging lens is constituted of, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element having a positive refractive power and having a convex surface toward the object side; a second lens element of a meniscus shape having a negative refractive power and having a concave surface toward an image side; a third lens element having a positive refractive power and having a convex surface toward the image side; a fourth lens element of a meniscus shape having a negative refractive power and having a convex surface toward the image side; and a fifth lens element of a meniscus shape and having a concave surface toward the image side. | 03-13-2014 |
20140071335 | LENS BARREL AND DIGITAL CAMERA HAVING THE SAME - A lens barrel projects out of a main body of a camera during photographing and is accommodated in the main body of the camera during non-photographing and includes a plurality of lens assemblies including an escape lens assembly to be movable along a reference optical axis of the camera, and an escape unit to control the escape lens assembly to escape from the reference optical axis while the escape lens assembly moves from a photographing position to a non-photographing position, wherein lenses of the escape lens assembly have an optical axis that is in a skew position with respect to the reference optical axis in a position where the escape lens assembly has escaped. | 03-13-2014 |
20140071336 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND LENS UNIT - In an imaging apparatus including a reset instruction unit configured to instruct a lens unit to reset an optical member thereof, a first communication system is used for communication for acquiring individual information of the lens unit, and a second communication system different from the first communication system is used for communication for instructing the lens unit to reset an optical member by a reset instruction unit. | 03-13-2014 |
20140078379 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM - An image capturing device and an image capturing system are provided. The image capturing device includes an optical system, a first filter provided near a diaphragm position of the optical system, a sensor, and a lens array. The first filter includes a plurality of filters respectively having different spectral characteristics. The sensor includes a plurality of filters respectively having different spectral characteristics. The lights from an object pass through the respective filters of the first sensor and the respective filters of the second sensor to simultaneously form a plurality of types of spectral image of the object on an image plane of the sensor. | 03-20-2014 |
20140085532 | Corrective optical systems and methods - A corrective optical system for an imaging optical system is disclosed, wherein the imaging optical system has an objective having a working space, and whose imaging performance is not corrected for one or more plane parallel plates located in the working space. The corrector optical system resides in the working space between the one or more plane parallel plates and objective and serves to reduce the aberrations introduced by the one or more plane parallel plates. The corrector optical system enables objectives originally designed for film to be used with digital cameras. | 03-27-2014 |
20140146224 | Mobile Terminal Device Having Camera System - The present invention is a camera system which is usable with a mobile terminal. The camera system includes a lens module and at least one mechanism for changing optical properties by interacting with the lens module. The camera system may be built into the mobile terminal or attached thereto as an external module | 05-29-2014 |
20140152887 | ZOOM LENS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens includes, sequentially from an object side, a first lens group having negative refractive power, a second lens group having positive refractive power, a third lens group having negative refractive power; and a fourth lens group having positive refractive power. When zoom is varied from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, positions of the first lens group and the fourth lens group are fixed on an optical axis. The second lens group includes, sequentially from the object side, a second A lens group having positive refractive power and a second B lens group having positive refractive power, and the second B lens group is moved in the optical axis direction to perform a focusing function from an object disposed in a close range to an object disposed at infinity. The third lens group is shifted in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis to correct image blur. | 06-05-2014 |
20140176787 | AUXILIARY CAMERA LENS ATTACHMENT AND LIGHT PIPE FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic computing device including a processor, a memory element, a camera module, and a housing including an alignment structure associated therewith for aligning a lens with the camera module. The electronic computing devices further includes a housing attachment structure associated with the alignment structure for attaching the lens to the housing. The lens includes a first structure portion including a lens attachment structure, and an image transformation portion coupled to the first structure. The lens attachment structure is configured to engage the housing attachment structure, and the alignment structure is configured to position the image transformation portion in a predetermined alignment with the camera module. | 06-26-2014 |
20140184893 | INTERCHANGEABLE LENS - An interchangeable lens includes: an attachment section to which a camera body is to be attached; a photographic optical system that includes a plurality of driven members whose driven state changes; a driven information transmission unit that transmits a plurality of items of driven information to the camera body according to a clock signal outputted from the camera body, the plurality of items of driven information being related to positions of the plurality of driven members; and a type information transmission unit that transmits type information via a first transmission unit, the type information representing a type of driven information which can be transmitted by the driven information transmission unit; wherein the driven information transmission unit transmits the driven information for each of the plurality of driven members via a second transmission unit that is different from the first transmission unit. | 07-03-2014 |
20140192252 | Array camera - Disclosed is an array camera. The array camera includes an array camera comprising an image sensor sectioned into at least two channels and at least two lens modules each positioned on a top of one of the channels. Each channel consists of an active sensor area and a dead space. Each lens module has a barrel. Each barrel of the lens modules has an inner sidewall facing the adjacent lens modules and an outer sidewall opposite to the inner surface. Wherein, a projection of the inner sidewall of each barrel along the optical axis is an inner line on the corresponding channel of the image sensor and the inner line is substantially superposed with a part of the outline of the active sensor. The array camera has a small size. | 07-10-2014 |
20140192253 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CAPTURING AND/OR PROCESSING IMAGES - Methods and apparatus for capturing or generating images using multiple optical chains operating in parallel are described. Pixel values captured by individual optical chains corresponding to the same scene area are combined to provide an image with at least some of the benefits which would have been provided by capturing an image of the scene using a larger lens than that of the individual lenses of the optical chain modules. By using multiple optical chains in parallel at least some benefits normally obtained from using a large lens can be obtained without the need for a large lens. Furthermore in at least some embodiments, a wide dynamic range can be supported through the use of multiple sensors with the overall supported dynamic range being potentially larger than that of the individual sensors. Some lens and/or optical chain configurations are designed for use in small handheld devices, e.g., cell phones. | 07-10-2014 |
20140192254 | QUASI-MONOCENTRIC-LENS-BASED MULTI-SCALE OPTICAL SYSTEM - Optical systems based on an objective lens comprising one or more plastic lens elements are disclosed. The inclusion of plastic lens element reduces one or more of system cost, size, weight, and/or complexity. The chromatic performance of some imaging systems in accordance with the present invention is improved by incorporation of a diffractive surface into the entry surface of the objective lens. | 07-10-2014 |
20140218597 | IMAGING LENS - A five element lens system for use with an imaging sensor includes first, second, third, fourth, and fifth lens elements and an optical filter that are arranged sequentially in order from an object side to an imaging side. The lens elements are coated with an anti-reflective film. The lens system further includes an optical filter that is disposed at a distance from the imaging sensor. The lens elements are relatively positioned to each other to satisfy specific conditions. The lens elements further include thickness to diameters ratios that satisfy specific conditions. The lens system is capable of focusing images of objects located from a range of 10 cm to infinity from the lens system. | 08-07-2014 |
20140218598 | LENS ASSEMBLY APPLICABLE TO AN IMAGE SENSOR - A lens assembly includes a first lens including a first convex surface facing the object side, a first concave surface with an aperture stop facing the image side; a second lens including a second convex surface facing the object side and a second concave surface facing the image side; a first lens further including. Defining that f, f | 08-07-2014 |
20140253789 | LENSES FOR COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Some embodiments disclosed herein relate to a lens component having one or more lenses attached to a retainer portion configured to removably attach to communication devices such as mobile phones, tablet computers, media players, and the like. The retainer portion may be configured so as not to interfere with a user's view of a display panel of the communication device. In some embodiments, a plurality of lenses may be provided, and the lenses may be removably attached to the retainer portion and may be interchangeable. A structure for providing a flash may also be provided. In some embodiments, additional features may be provided, such as attachment components to facilitate attachment to stability devices, such as tripods, and to user-wearable accessories. | 09-11-2014 |
20140267881 | SINGLE-PIXEL CAMERA ARCHITECTURE WITH SIMULTANEOUS MULTI-BAND ACQUISITION - A system is provided comprising: a light field emanating from a scene and a positive imaging lens focusing light from the light field onto a DMD array. A first collector lens directs the spatially modulated light to a first photodetector having a spectral sensitivity to a first spectral band. The first photodetector senses the directed light from the first pixel-wise multiplication and produces a signal representing a first inner product between the light incident on the DMD and the first basis function for the first spectral band. A second collector lens directs the spatially modulated light to a second photodetector having a spectral sensitivity to a second spectral band. The second photodetector senses the directed light from the first pixel-wise multiplication and produces a signal representing a first inner product between the light incident on the DMD and the first basis function for the second spectral band. | 09-18-2014 |
20140267882 | REMOVABLE LENSES FOR MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICES - In some embodiments, an auxiliary optical system for a mobile electronic device has a mounting component that is configured to be selectively attachable and detachable from the mobile electronic device. The mounting component is configured to be coupled to and decoupled from a multi-lens component with a plurality of lenses. When the multi-lens component is coupled to the mounting component, the multi-lens component can be prevented from moving, such as sliding or rotating. In some embodiments, an auxiliary optical system for a mobile electronic device comprises a removable onboard camera lens or onboard camera of a mobile electronic device. The onboard lens or onboard camera can be removed and/or replaced with another onboard lens or onboard camera with different optical qualities. | 09-18-2014 |
20140285708 | SOLID STATE IMAGING DEVICE, PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A solid state imaging device according to an embodiment includes: a liquid crystal optical element including a first electrode having a first recess and a projecting portion surrounding the first recess on a first surface, a second electrode facing the first surface of the first electrode, a filling film located between the first recess of the first electrode and the second electrode, and a liquid crystal layer located between the filling film and the second electrode; an imaging lens facing the second electrode to form an image of a subject on an imaging plane; and an imaging element facing the first recess, the imaging element having a pixel block having a plurality of pixels. | 09-25-2014 |
20140293122 | INTERCHANGEABLE LENS CAMERA, CAMERA BODY, AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING MOUNTING OF LENS - An interchangeable lens camera includes a camera body and a lens unit. The camera body includes: a body-side mount section; a mounting determination section; a body-side communication section; and a body control section. The lens unit includes a lens-side mount section and a lens-side communication section. A specific body-side signal terminal among plural body-side signal terminals of the camera body is connected to a power supply through a pull-up resistor, and a specific lens-side signal terminal, which is capable of coming into contact with the specific body-side signal terminal, among plural lens-side signal terminals of the lens unit is grounded through a pull-down resistor. The mounting determination section determines that the lens unit is mounted on the body-side mount section when resistance values of both the specific body-side signal terminal at time of non-communication and a body-side detection terminal of the camera body are at low levels. | 10-02-2014 |
20140300803 | IMAGE-CAPTURING SYSTEM - An image-capturing system for automatically adjusting divergence angle includes an image-capturing unit, an auxiliary lighting unit and a control unit. The image-capturing unit includes an image sensor and a zoom lens adjacent to the image sensor. The image sensor is applied to capture images of at least one body through the zoom lens, and the zoom lens has a first variable focus. The auxiliary lighting unit includes at least one light-emitting element for generating light beams and at least one electrically-controlled zoom lens module adjacent to the light-emitting element, and the electrically-controlled zoom lens module has a second variable focus. The light beams generated by the light-emitting element can pass through the electrically-controlled zoom lens module to form a projection light source that can be projected onto the body. The control unit includes a voltage controlling module electrically connected between the image-capturing module and the auxiliary lighting device. | 10-09-2014 |
20140300804 | TELEPHOTO LENS SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A telephoto lens system and an electronic apparatus having the same are provided. The telephoto lens system includes a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, and a third lens group. The third lens group includes a (3-1)-th lens group having a positive refractive power, a (3-2)-th lens group having a negative refractive power, and a (3-3)-th lens group having a positive refractive power. | 10-09-2014 |
20140307152 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens includes a front unit including one lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a rear unit including an aperture stop and one or more lens units and having a positive refractive power as a whole, and an interval between adjacent lens units changes during zooming such that an interval between the front unit and rear unit decreases at a telephoto end when compared to a wide angle end. The front unit includes a negative lens G | 10-16-2014 |
20140313399 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, first and third lens units having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a rear lens group. The first lens unit is closer to the object side at a telephoto end than at a wide angle end. The second lens unit is closer to the image side at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end. A distance between the second lens unit and the third lens unit at the telephoto end, focal lengths at the wide angle end and the telephoto end, respectively, a focal length of the second lens unit, and an amount of movement of the second lens unit in an optical axis direction during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end are appropriately set. | 10-23-2014 |
20140327814 | CAMERA BODY, INTERCHANGEABLE-LENS CAMERA, AND METHOD OF DETERMINING MOUNTING OF LENS - A main CPU (a mounting determination part) in a camera body makes a determination by detecting voltage, at a lens detection terminal, n1 consecutive times at time intervals of dl, at the time of turning on a power supply with a power switch. After a result of the determination turns out to be non-mounting, the main CPU makes a determination by detecting voltage, at the lens detection terminal, n2 consecutive times at time intervals of d2 (where n2 and d2 are equal to or greater than to n1 and d1, respectively) on condition that any one of conditional expressions d111-06-2014 | |
20140340568 | Image Pick-Up Lens, Image Pick-Up Device, Portable Terminal And Digital Instrument - Provided is an image pickup lens that despite being small is favorably corrected for aberrations and has a five element configuration that is wide angle and has a bright F-number also provided is an image pickup device and a portable terminal using the image pickup lens. The image surface side of the fifth lens has an aspherical shape, has an inflection point at a position other than a position that intersects with the light axis, and satisfies the following formulae: −5.0<(r1+r2)/(r1−r2)≦−1.0 (1); 0.9011-20-2014 | |
20140354876 | IMAGING LENS SYSTEM - An imaging lens system includes a first lens to a fifth lens sequentially disposed from an object side to an image side. The first lens has a positive refractive power and an object side lens surface that is convex toward the object side. The second lens has a negative refractive power and a meniscus shape that is concave toward the image side. The third lens has a positive refractive power. The fourth lens has a negative refractive power and a meniscus shape that is concave toward the object side. The fifth lens has a negative refractive power and a meniscus shape that is concave toward the image side near an optical axis. The imaging lens system satisfies the following condition: f34/f<−5, where f denotes a focal length of the imaging lens system, and f34 denotes an effective focal length of the third lens and the fourth lens. | 12-04-2014 |
20140354877 | CAMERA MODULE WITH COMPACT SPONGE ABSORBING DESIGN - An interior housing of a compact camera module is insulated from external shocks in a direction along the optical path to an external housing that is spaced from the interior housing by a compression distance of one or more shock absorbing sponges that are disposed between the outer housing and the interior housing and that are configured to compress to absorb external physical shocks in two or three spatial dimensions. | 12-04-2014 |
20150009395 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device according to one mode of the present invention includes a taking lens formed of two or more physically separated lenses and having a plurality of regions each having an individual focal distance corresponding to a combination of the two more lenses, an image pickup element having a plurality of light-receiving sensors provided to correspond to the plurality of regions, the plurality of light-receiving sensors each selectively receiving a light beam passing through any of the plurality of regions, and an image generating unit which generates an image of a subject from an imaging signal outputted from the image pickup element. | 01-08-2015 |
20150015772 | Imaging Lens, and Electronic Apparatus Including the Same - An imaging lens includes a first lens element, an aperture stop, and second to fifth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. Through designs of surfaces of the lens elements and relevant optical parameters, a short system length of the imaging lens may be achieved while maintaining good optical performance. | 01-15-2015 |
20150022714 | IMAGE CAPTURING LENS SYSTEM - An image capturing lens system includes five lens elements with refractive power, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has negative refractive power. The fourth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof, wherein the surfaces thereof are aspheric. The fifth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof, wherein the image-side surface of the fifth lens element has at least one inflection point, and the surfaces thereof are aspheric. | 01-22-2015 |
20150070568 | IMAGE SENSOR MODULE AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - An image sensor module has a filler of a low refractive index and thus prevents deterioration of image quality due to a flare and a ghost image. The image sensor module includes an image sensor, a housing covering the image sensor, a filter coupled to the housing and disposed on the image sensor, and a filler filled in between the image sensor and the filter inside the housing and having a refractive index that is less than a refractive index of the filter. | 03-12-2015 |
20150077622 | IMAGING LENS AND SOLID STATE IMAGING DEVICE - According to one embodiment, an imaging lens includes a first optical system and a microlens array. The first optical system includes an optical axis. The microlens array is provided between the first optical system and an imaging element. The microlens array includes microlens units provided in a first plane. The imaging element includes pixel groups. Each of the pixel groups includes pixels. The microlens units respectively overlap the pixel groups when projected onto the first plane. The first optical system includes an aperture stop, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens. The first lens is provided between the aperture stop and the microlens array. The second lens is provided between the first lens and the microlens array. The third lens is provided between the second lens and the microlens array. The fourth lens is provided between the third lens and the microlens array. | 03-19-2015 |
20150092102 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING IMAGES - Systems and methods for capturing images are disclosed. An image capture device includes two or more apertures for directing light to an image sensor device. In some embodiments, each of the apertures admits light from a different direction relative to the image sensor device. Some embodiments include one or more electrically switchable mirror elements configured for directing light from at least one of the one or more apertures to the image sensor. Upon application of a first signal, a first electrically switchable mirror element enters a reflective mode for reflecting light from a first aperture of the one or more apertures to the image sensor device. Upon application of a second signal, the first electrically switchable mirror element enters a transmissive mode for transmitting light from a second aperture of the one or more apertures to the image sensor device. | 04-02-2015 |
20150098009 | OPTICAL LENS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING THE LENS - An imaging optical system includes, in order from the object side to the image side, an aperture stop, a first lens element with a positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, a second lens element with a negative refractive power having a convex image-side surface in the vicinity of an outer circumference, a third lens element with a positive refractive power having a concave object-side surface in a vicinity of an optical axis and a convex image-side surface in the vicinity of the optical axis, and a fourth lens element having a concave image-side surface in the vicinity of the optical axis and a convex image-side surface in the vicinity of the outer circumference. The sum of thicknesses of the first, second, third, and fourth lens elements and the sum of total air gaps therebetween satisfy specific conditions. | 04-09-2015 |
20150098010 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE LENS - An imaging optical lens includes, in order from object side to image side, an aperture stop, first, second, third, fourth, and fifth lens elements, each of the five lens elements having an object side surface and an image side surface. The object side surface of the first lens element is convex along an optical axis. The image-side surface of the second lens element concave in the vicinity of an outer circumference. The object side of the fourth lens element is convex in the vicinity of the outer circumference. The image side surface of the fifth lens element is concave in the vicinity of the optical axis and convex in the vicinity of the outer circumference. The first, second, third, fourth, and fifth lens elements have a refractive power. The thicknesses of the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth lens elements and the air gaps between them satisfy specific conditions. | 04-09-2015 |
20150098011 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS ASSEMBLY, OPTICAL IMAGING DEVICE AND MOBILE TERMINAL - An optical imaging lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element with positive refractive power has a convex image-side surface. The fifth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof, wherein the image-side surface of the fifth lens element has at least one convex shape in an off-axis region thereof, and the surfaces thereof are aspheric. The optical imaging lens assembly has a total of five lens elements with refractive power. | 04-09-2015 |
20150109519 | Single Focal Length Lens System and Image Pickup Apparatus Using the Same - A single focal length lens system includes a front lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a rear lens unit. The front lens unit includes a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, and both the first lens unit and the second lens unit include a positive lens and a negative lens. The rear lens unit includes a focusing lens unit and a first predetermined lens unit. The first predetermined lens unit has a refractive power having a sign different from a refractive power of the focusing lens unit, and does not move at the time of focusing. The front lens unit does not include a lens which moves, and the rear lens unit does not include a lens which moves except at the time of focusing. | 04-23-2015 |
20150109520 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image capturing apparatus includes: an imaging element; a main lens that condenses light from a subject toward the imaging element; a micro lens array that is configured by a plurality kinds of micro lenses with different focal lengths that is disposed between the imaging element and the main lens and causes light transmitted through the main lens to form an image on the imaging element; and a CPU that, in response to receiving a designation of a distance to a side of a subject that is photographed, performs weighting for each image that is imaged by the plurality kinds of micro lenses of the imaging element based on the distance so as to constitute one captured image. | 04-23-2015 |
20150130992 | IMAGE CAPTURING LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND MOBILE TERMINAL - An image capturing lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element with refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The third lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The fourth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fourth lens element are aspheric. The image capturing lens system has a total of four lens elements with refractive power. | 05-14-2015 |
20150130993 | INTERCHANGEABLE LENS - According to an aspect of the present invention, the camera body can switch the present version, which is an original version, to specifications of an older version. Thus, even if the present versions of the camera body and the interchangeable lens doe not have compatibility, if an old version has compatibility, a minimum operation can be ensured by the specifications of the old version without updating the firmware, although the functions may have possibility of being restricted. | 05-14-2015 |
20150138431 | PHOTOGRAPHING LENS GROUP AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A photographing lens group and an electronic apparatus including the same are provided. The photographing lens group includes a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a positive or negative refractive power, a fourth lens having a positive or negative refractive power, a fifth lens having a negative refractive power, and a sixth lens having a positive refractive power. The first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth lenses are sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side of the photographing lens group. The photographing lens group satisfies an inequality of 1.005-21-2015 | |
20150146082 | SPECULAR AND DIFFUSE IMAGE GENERATOR USING POLARIZED LIGHT FIELD CAMERA AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image generator is provided which obtains a specular image and a diffuse image from an image acquired by a polarized light field camera by separating two reflection components of a subject, and a control method thereof. The image generator may include a main lens, a polarizing filter part, a photosensor, a microlens array, and a controller that generates a single image in response to the electrical image signal and extracts, from the generated image, a specular image and a diffuse image that exhibit different reflection characteristics of the subject. | 05-28-2015 |
20150146083 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An electronic apparatus includes a mount unit configured to fasten one of an interchangeable lens and an external speaker, and a controller configured to control lens driving of the interchangeable lens when the interchangeable lens is fastened to the mount unit and control audio output of the external speaker when the external speaker is fastened to the mount unit. | 05-28-2015 |
20150146084 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus is disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes: an imaging device which converts light into an image signal; a lens unit positioned in front of the imaging device to form an image on the imaging device from light incident from an object; a shutter unit interposed between the lens unit and the imaging device to expose the imaging device to the light incident from the object based on a predetermined exposure time and that includes a shutter curtain that regulates the light incident from the object; and a measurement unit which measures an actual exposure time of the shutter unit. The measurement unit is positioned behind the shutter curtain and includes a light-receiving sensor which receives light incident on the measurement unit from the light incident from the object other than the light of the effective image area incident on the imaging device. | 05-28-2015 |
20150146085 | OPTICAL SYSTEM AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - In an optical system including, in order from an object side to an image side: a front unit (LF) having a negative refractive power; an aperture stop; and a rear unit (LR) having a positive refractive power, the front unit (LF) includes a meniscus-shaped negative lens (g1) closest to the object side, and a focal length (fw) of the entire optical system, a focal length (fg1) of the meniscus-shaped negative lens (g1), and a curvature radius (R2) of a lens surface on the image side of the meniscus-shaped negative lens (g1) are appropriately set. | 05-28-2015 |
20150146086 | SIX-PIECE OPTICAL LENS FOR CAPTURING IMAGE AND SIX-PIECE OPTICAL MODULES FOR CAPTURING IMAGE - The invention discloses a six-piece optical lens for capturing image and a six-piece optical module for capturing image. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis comprises a first lens element having a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a second lens element having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface; a third lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a fourth lens element with refractive power; a fifth lens element having a convex image-side surface; and a sixth lens element having a concave image-side; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the six lens elements are aspheric. The optical lens can reduce the sensitivity for use in compact cameras with camera functionalities. | 05-28-2015 |
20150146087 | IMAGING APPARATUS HAVING BENDING OPTICAL ELEMENT - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging optical system, a bending optical element and an image sensor; an inclination adjusting plate which mounts the image sensor onto a housing with a pair of opposed sides of the image sensor extending in a direction orthogonal to a pre-bending optical axis, of the imaging optical system; a pair of end portions formed on the inclination adjusting plate and positioned outside the pair of opposed sides of the image sensor; a swing fulcrum formed between an inner end portion, which is closest to the pre-bending optical axis, and the housing; and an inclination adjuster provided between an outer end portion, which is farthest from the pre-bending optical axis out, and the housing, to make the inclination adjustment plate swing about the swing fulcrum to adjust the inclination adjustment plate. | 05-28-2015 |
20150146088 | INTERCHANGEABLE LENS CAMERA, CAMERA BODY, LENS UNIT, AND BUSY SIGNAL CONTROL METHOD - An aspect of the present invention provides an interchangeable lens camera having a camera body and a lens unit that is freely attachable and detachable to the camera body. In the interchangeable lens camera, a communications unit in the camera body sends via communications terminals (MT_MOSI and MT_MISO) an INTR_BUSY control instruction that instructs whether to make notification with a busy signal (INTR_BUSY signal) for any operation out of a plurality of types of operations that can be executed, and the lens unit or camera body communications unit sets the busy signal (INTR_BUSY) to an ON state (low level) only during the period of operation of the type indicated by the INTR_BUSY control instruction. | 05-28-2015 |
20150301238 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - The image capturing apparatus includes an optical low-pass filter configured to separate one incident ray into multiple rays to form multiple point images, and an image sensor configured to photoelectrically convert the multiple point images. The optical low-pass filter satisfies a condition of 0.4<2×σ/P<0.9. P represents a pixel pitch of the image sensor, and σ represents a standard deviation of a distribution of the multiple point images. | 10-22-2015 |
20150301318 | LENS ASSEMBLY FOR OPTICAL IMAGING - The invention provides an optical imaging lens assembly comprising, in order from an object-side to an image side, a first aspherical positive lens element and a second aspherical negative lens element, each comprising an object-side surface and an image-side surface. Elements of the optical imaging lens assembly may be configured to satisfy the relations (i) T<1.2 f, (ii) 1.110-22-2015 | |
20150309285 | IMAGING APPARATUS HAVING A CURVED IMAGE SURFACE - Provided is an imaging apparatus, including: an imaging optical system including a plurality of lenses; and an image plane which is disposed on an image side of the imaging optical system and is curved so that a concave surface thereof faces an object side of the imaging optical system. The imaging optical system includes an aperture stop. In the imaging optical system, a lens closer to the object side than the aperture stop and a lens closer to the image side than the aperture stop have different positive powers. A focal length of the imaging optical system is substantially equal to a distance from an exit pupil of the imaging optical system to the image plane. A radius of curvature of the image plane is substantially equal to the focal length of the imaging optical system. | 10-29-2015 |
20150309393 | INNER FOCUS LENS SYSTEM, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM - An inner focus lens system, in order from an object side, comprising: a first lens unit including a most-object-side negative first lens element; a positive second lens unit; and a negative third lens unit, wherein an aperture diaphragm is included, the first lens unit, the third lens unit, and the aperture diaphragm are fixed relative to an image surface in focusing, the second lens unit moves relative to the image surface in the focusing, and the conditions: BF/Y<1.7 and TH/f>1.6 (BF: distance from an apex of an image-side surface of a most-image-side lens element to the image surface; Y: maximum image height; TH: distance from an apex of an object-side surface of a most-object-side lens element to the apex of the image-side surface of the most-image-side lens element; f: focal length of the lens system) are satisfied. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312454 | LENS SYSTEM, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A lens system including: a positive most-object-side lens unit; a first most-image-side lens element; and a second most-image-side lens element, wherein the most-object-side lens unit is fixed in focusing, at least one of the first and second most-image-side lens elements has negative optical power, and the conditions: 0.510-29-2015 | |
20150319348 | CAMERA MODULE AND CAMERA APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - Disclosed is a camera module and a camera apparatus having the same. The camera apparatus includes: a substrate; and a camera module passing through the substrate, and including a lens disposed forward of the substrate and a sensor unit disposed rearward of the substrate. An optical axis is not bent in the camera apparatus so that the accuracy of an image signal is improved. | 11-05-2015 |
20150323709 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCTION OF DRIFT IN A VISION SYSTEM VARIABLE LENS - This invention provides a vision system that is arranged to compensate for optical drift that can occur in certain variable lens assemblies, including, but not limited to, liquid lens arrangements. The system includes an image sensor operatively connected to a vision system processor, and a variable lens assembly that is controlled (e.g. by the vision processor or another range-determining device) to vary a focal distance thereof. A positive lens assembly is configured to weaken an effect of the variable lens assembly over a predetermined operational range of the object from the positive lens assembly. The variable lens assembly is located adjacent to a front or rear focal point of the positive lens. The variable lens assembly illustratively comprises a liquid lens assembly that can be inherently variable over approximately 20 diopter. In an embodiment, the lens barrel has a C-mount lens base. | 11-12-2015 |
20150323764 | OPTICAL SYSTEM AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided is an optical system, which retains enhanced optical performance at any object distance, and has compact and light-weight focus lens units. Provided is an optical system including a plurality of lens units, in which an interval between adjacent lens units changes during focusing, the optical system including: a positive lens unit arranged closest to an object side; first and second focus lens units having negative refractive powers configured to move during focusing; and an intermediate lens unit having a positive refractive power and arranged between the first and second focus lens units. The first and second focus lens units are configured to move toward an image side during focusing. | 11-12-2015 |
20150326766 | Integrated Image Sensor and Lens Assembly - An integrated image sensor and lens assembly comprises a lens barrel adhered to a lens holder or a lens barrel adhered to an image sensor assembly using an adhesive. The lens barrel and lens holder or the lens barrel and the image sensor assembly are bonded based on the sheer strength of the adhesive. Thus, adhesive expansion does not substantially affect the distance between the lens and the image sensor and therefore does not affect the focal plane of the assembly. | 11-12-2015 |
20150334282 | IMAGING MODULE AND READER FOR, AND METHOD OF, ILLUMINATING AND IMAGING TARGETS TO BE READ OVER AN EXTENDED RANGE OF WORKING DISTANCES - Targets to be read by image capture are illuminated and imaged over an extended range of working distances. A near imager captures return light over a relatively wide imaging field of view from a target located in a close-in region of the range. A far imager captures return light over a relatively narrow imaging field of view from a target located in a far-out region of the range. A single illuminating light assembly is shared by both the near and far imagers. An illumination light source emits illumination light, and an illuminating lens assembly optically modifies the emitted illumination light, and simultaneously illuminates a wide illumination field to illuminate the target located in the close-in region of the range, and a narrow illumination field to illuminate the target located in the far-out region of the range. | 11-19-2015 |
20150338608 | IMAGING LENS AND IMAGING UNIT - It includes: a first lens having a convex shape on an object side and having positive refractive power; a second lens having a concave shape on an image plane side and having negative refractive power; a third lens having, in a paraxial region, one of a biconvex shape and a plano-convex shape that is provided with a convex surface facing toward the image plane side, the third lens having positive refractive power; a fourth lens having aspherical shapes on both surfaces thereof and having negative refractive power; and a fifth lens having aspherical shapes on both surfaces thereof, having a concave shape in a paraxial region on the image plane side, and having negative refractive power, the first to fifth lenses being arranged in order from the object side. The following conditional expressions are satisfied, where ν2 is an Abbe number of the second lens, and ν4 is an Abbe number of the fourth lens. | 11-26-2015 |
20150338610 | IMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEM, IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND MOBILE TERMINAL - An imaging optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region. The second lens element with positive refractive power has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region. The third lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region. The fourth lens element with positive refractive power has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region and having a convex shape in an off-axial region thereof. | 11-26-2015 |
20150346455 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND LENS UNIT - A first lens unit performing communication with an image pickup apparatus with a first voltage and a second lens unit performing communication with the image pickup apparatus with a second voltage are selectively attached to the image pickup apparatus. The image pickup apparatus includes a controller configured to operate with a third voltage different from at least one of the first and second voltages to output a signal for the communication with the first and second lens units, and a determiner configured to determine the type of the lens unit attached to the image pickup apparatus. The controller is configured to produce, as a voltage of the signal for the communication, from the third voltage, one of the first and second voltages corresponding to a determination result of the determiner. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350501 | OPTICAL ADAPTER FOR MOBILE MEDIA DEVICES WITH A CAMERA - An optical adapter for secure and adjustable mounting of a mobile media device having a camera lens to an optical eyepiece of an optical device. The adapter having the ability to quickly and reliably attach a mobile media device such as smart phone, iPhone, Droid, etc. to a wide range of various diameter optical devices such as binoculars, birding scopes, excavation scopes, microscopes and telescopes. The optical adapter comprises a flat base plate having a central aperture for passing light and a plurality of aligned openings, an adjustable strap which is woven within the plurality of aligned openings in order to secure the mobile media device, and an adjustable optical eyepiece attachment assembly which provides secure attachment to an optical eyepiece. | 12-03-2015 |
20150355437 | REAR CONVERSION LENS - A rear conversion lens includes: a chassis including two opposite ends, the chassis including light-transmitting holes on the ends, respectively; a first coupler configured to detachably couple one of the ends of the chassis with an image field side of an image-pickup lens of a three-chip camera including three first image sensors, the image-pickup lens being designed based on an assumption that the image-pickup lens is to be used with a color-separation prism in combination; a second coupler configured to detachably couple the other end of the chassis with a single-chip color camera including a second image sensor, the second image sensor including an image field larger than an image field of the first image sensors of the three-chip camera; and an optical system including a first lens group, a second lens group, and a third lens group arranged in the chassis in this order from an object side, the first lens group having a negative compound focal length, the second lens group being configured to correct a spherical aberration, the third lens group being configured to form an image. | 12-10-2015 |
20150358516 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - There is provided an imaging apparatus including: a lens group including one or more lens elements; and an image sensor having a light-receiving surface onto which an image of an object is formed by the lens group. The light-receiving surface of the image sensor is curved concavely toward the lens group. A distance from a lens surface closest to the light-receiving surface of the lens group to the light-receiving surface is a half or more of a distance from a lens surface closest to the object of the lens group to the light-receiving surface. | 12-10-2015 |
20150362698 | Image Sensor for Depth Estimation - An apparatus for acquiring intensity and depth information images may comprise: an image sensing unit having first radiation-sensitive elements and groups of second radiation-sensitive elements in a flat or curved plane having at least two directions, the first radiation-sensitive elements and groups of second radiation-sensitive elements to receive, respectively, an intensity image and a depth information image, at least two groups of second elements extending in each of the two directions of the plane; first micro-lenses, each of which is arranged to convey radiation to a corresponding one of the first elements; and second micro-lenses, each of which is arranged to convey radiation to a corresponding group of the second elements. | 12-17-2015 |
20150362699 | OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM, CAMERA, AND IN-VEHICLE CAMERA - An optical imaging system having a single focus includes a negative first lens group, an aperture stop, and a positive second lens group arranged in order from an object side. The first lens group includes a positive first front lens group including a positive single lens and a negative first rear lens group including a negative meniscus lens and at least one positive lens, arranged in order from the object side. The second lens group includes a positive second front lens group including a cemented lens of a negative lens and a positive lens and a positive second rear lens group including at least one positive lens, arranged in order from the object side. All of the lenses of the optical imaging system are spherical glass lenses. | 12-17-2015 |
20150365568 | VOICE COIL MOTOR OPTICAL IMAGE STABILIZATION WIRES - Some embodiments provide an apparatus for controlling the motion of a camera component. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes an actuator module. The actuator module includes a plurality of magnets. Each magnet of the plurality of magnets is poled with magnetic domains substantially aligned in the same direction throughout each magnet. The apparatus further includes a coil rigidly disposed around a lens. Each magnet of the plurality of magnets contributes to the forces to adjust focus of the lens based on Lorentz forces generated from the coil. | 12-17-2015 |
20150370049 | Image Pickup Apparatus and Zoom Lens Used in Image Pickup Apparatus - The 1st positive lens unit is located closer to the object side at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end. The distance between the 1st negative lens unit and the 1st positive lens unit is larger at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end. The distance between the image side lens unit group and the 1st negative lens unit varies during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end. The image side lens unit group comprises a 2nd positive lens unit and a 3rd positive lens unit. The distance between the 2nd positive lens unit and the 1st negative lens unit is smaller at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end. The distance between the 3rd positive lens unit and the 2nd positive lens unit varies during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370150 | AUXILIARY OPTICAL COMPONENTS FOR MOBILE DEVICES - A multi-lens system can be configured to be selectively attachable to a mobile electronic device having a user-facing onboard camera lens and an outward-facing onboard camera lens. The multi-lens system can attach to the mobile electronic device in at least a first position and a second position. The first lens component in the first position is configured to be in optical alignment with the user-facing onboard camera lens and simultaneously the second lens component is configured to be in optical alignment with the outward-facing onboard camera lens. The first lens component in the second position is configured to be in optical alignment with the outward-facing onboard camera lens and simultaneously the second lens component is configured to be in optical alignment with the user-facing onboard camera lens. A portable attachment accessory can be configured to be selectively attachable to a lens system that is configured to receive a portion of a mobile electronic device. | 12-24-2015 |
20150373239 | IMAGE SENSOR MODULE AND CAMERA MODULE INCLUDING THE SAME - In an image sensor module, a board may be provided with an accommodating groove and an image sensor may be disposed in the accommodating groove to decrease a space occupied by the image sensor. In addition, a side wall of the accommodating groove may be provided as an inclined surface and a bonding pad may be formed on the inclined surface to decrease a length of a bonding wire for electrically connecting the image sensor and the board to each other, whereby the overall size of the image sensor module may be decreased. | 12-24-2015 |
20160004143 | OPERATION APPARATUS, LENS APPARATUS, LENS SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE LENS SYSTEM - An operation apparatus mountable/dismountable to/from a lens apparatus including a movable optical element, including: a detector detecting a position signal corresponding to a position of the optical element in a state of being mounted to the lens apparatus; a memory storing a reference position signal; i.e., a position signal at a time when the optical element is located at a reference position while being mounted to the lens apparatus; a determiner determining whether or not being dismounted from the lens apparatus after the reference position signal is stored; and a controller switching between an adjustment mode where the reference position signal is stored in the reference memory and a normal mode where the reference position signal is not stored, and controlling the operation apparatus to operate in the adjustment mode when the determiner determines the operation apparatus being dismounted from the lens apparatus after storing the reference position signal. | 01-07-2016 |
20160006934 | Sliding Accessory Lens Mount with Automatic Mode Adjustment - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus is provided with: an accessory lens mount configured to movably attach to a camera, the camera having an objective; a plurality of different optical elements attached to the accessory lens mount such that each of the different optical elements is movable to a co-operating position with the objective by the accessory lens mount to a corresponding position by a user; and an optical mode indicator configured to enable automatic optical mode adjustment of the camera to suit with the optics formed by the objective and the optical element that is moved to the co-operating position with the objective. | 01-07-2016 |
20160025953 | OPTICAL SYSTEM - There is provided an optical system including: a first lens having positive refractive power and having a convex object-side surface; a second lens having positive refractive power; a third lens having refractive power; a fourth lens having refractive power; a fifth lens having refractive power; a sixth lens having refractive power; and a seventh lens having negative refractive power and having a concave image-side surface, wherein the first to seventh lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side, whereby an aberration improvement effect may be increased and a high degree of resolution may be realized. | 01-28-2016 |
20160037034 | NEAR-INFRARED-RAY-ABSORBING COMPOSITION, NEAR-INFRARED-RAY CUT FILTER USING SAME, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, CAMERA MODULE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - Provided are a near-infrared-ray-absorbing composition having strong near-infrared shielding properties when a cured film is produced, a near-infrared-ray cut filter, a manufacturing method therefor, a camera module, and a manufacturing method therefor. The near-infrared-ray-absorbing composition includes a copper complex obtained by reacting a compound (A) having at least two coordination sites with a copper component. | 02-04-2016 |
20160044216 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND LIGHT FIELD IMAGE PICKUP LENS - An image pickup device including an imaging lens, an image sensor, and a multiple aperture optical element is provided. The multiple aperture optical element is disposed on a light path between the imaging lens and the image sensor, and includes aperture elements arranged in an array. The image pickup device satisfies: | 02-11-2016 |
20160044221 | IMAGING DISPLAY DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An imaging display device includes a lens unit, an imaging unit that outputs an imaging signal obtained by imaging, an image signal generating unit that generates an image signal by performing image processing in accordance with optical properties of the lens unit, a display unit that displays an image based on the image signal, and a timing control unit that controls the phase difference from the frame start of the imaging signal to the frame start of the image signal so as to be changed in accordance with a predetermined time required for the image processing. | 02-11-2016 |
20160062082 | IMAGE SENSOR MODULES INCLUDING PRIMARY HIGH-RESOLUTION AND SECONDARY IMAGERS - An optoelectronic module includes one or more image sensors including photosensitive regions. The module includes a first imager including a first stack of beam shaping elements disposed over the image sensor(s) to direct incoming light to a first photosensitive region, and a second imager including a second stack of beam shaping elements disposed over the image sensor(s) to direct incoming light to a second photosensitive region. Each particular stack includes a respective high-dispersion beam shaping element, where the high-dispersion beam shaping element of the first stack forms part of an achromatic doublet at an object side of the first stack. The high-dispersion beam shaping element in the second stack is part of a laterally contiguous array of beam shaping elements that does not include the high-dispersion beam shaping element that forms part of the achromatic doublet at the object side of the first stack. | 03-03-2016 |
20160062105 | EYEPIECE LENS, OBSERVATION APPARATUS, AND IMAGING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - One or more eyepiece lenses, one or more observation apparatuses and one or more imaging apparatuses are discussed herein. In at least one embodiment, an eyepiece lens comprises, in order from an object side to an observation side, a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens having a negative refractive power, and a fifth lens having a positive refractive power, wherein a focal length of the fifth lens is shorter than a focal length of the third lens, and the focal length of the third lens is shorter than a focal length of the first lens. | 03-03-2016 |
20160067932 | INFRARED ABSORPTION FILM, INFRARED ABSORPTION FILM MANUFACTURING METHOD AND CAMERA MODULE COMPRISING THE INFRARED ABSORPTION FILM - An infrared absorption film includes a polymer resin substrate, a polymer dispersant and an infrared absorption material. The infrared absorption material has a plurality of tungsten oxide and/or composite tungsten oxide nanoparticles dispersed in the polymer resin substrate by the polymer dispersant, wherein a weight ratio of the polymer dispersant to the infrared absorption material is between 0.3 and 0.6. | 03-10-2016 |
20160080617 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE - An image capturing device includes at least one lens unit and an image sensor. The at least one lens unit includes a main lens, a first reflective lens and a second reflective lens. The first reflective lens has a first reflective surface that is configured to receive light which passes through the main lens into the image capturing device. The second reflective lens has a second reflective surface that is configured to receive light reflected from the first reflective surface. The image sensor is configured to receive and sense light reflected from the second reflective surface. The second reflective surface and the first reflective surface are non-parallel to each other. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080657 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND DIGITAL ZOOM METHOD - The present invention discloses an image capturing device and a digital zoom method. The image capturing device comprises a first lens module, a second lens module, a feature extraction unit, an image zooming-deformation unit and an image merging unit. The first lens module and the second lens module are applied to capture a first image and a second image, respectively. The feature extraction unit extracts a plurality of first image features and second image features from the first image and the second image, respectively, and generating pixel offset characteristics. Based on a zoom factor and the pixel offset characteristics, the image zooming-deformation unit zooms and deforms the first and second images to generate a third image and a fourth image. The image merging unit bases the zoom factor to merge the third image and the fourth image for obtaining a combined image. | 03-17-2016 |
20160094786 | METHOD TO CONTROL LENS OF A CAMERA MODULE, A LENS CONTROL TERMINAL AND A STORAGE MEDIA - Some embodiments in this disclosure provide a method to control lens of a camera module, a lens control terminal and a storage media, wherein the method to control lens of a camera module includes receiving power-off signal of the camera module; controlling the lens moving towards a zero position gradually, till the lens moves back to the zero position; powering off the camera module. | 03-31-2016 |
20160100105 | INTERCHANGEABLE LENS, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM - The interchangeable lens is detachably attachable to an image capturing apparatus. The lens includes an electronic display to display information, and a lens controller to control an operation of the lens. The lens controller is capable of setting an operation state of the lens to a normal operation state where the interchangeable lens communicates with the image capturing apparatus and displays the information on the electronic display and to a first low power consumption state in which the interchangeable lens displays the information on the electronic display with a power consumption of the interchangeable lens lower than that in the normal operation state. The lens controller transfers the operation state from the normal operation state to the first low power consumption state, in response to receipt of a power lowering instruction for lowering the power consumption of the interchangeable lens from the image capturing apparatus. | 04-07-2016 |
20160103298 | OPTICAL IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM - A five-piece optical lens for capturing image and a five-piece optical module for capturing image includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; a second lens with refractive power; a third lens with refractive power; a fourth lens with refractive power; and a fifth lens with negative refractive power. An image-side surface of the fifth lens can be concave, and both surfaces thereof are both aspheric, wherein at least one surface thereof has an inflection point. The first to the fifth lenses of the five-piece optical lens have refractive power. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras. | 04-14-2016 |
20160119538 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR SENSING LENS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - A method for operating an electronic device includes detecting at least one lens module that is mounted on a camera module, wherein the at least one lens module is removable and recognized by a sensor module. The method further includes selectively activating a first operating system and a second operating system in accordance with the detected at least one lens module, wherein the second operating system is activated when a processor determines that a camera function has been performed. The method further includes changing the operating system that is being used in accordance with a change of the detected at least one lens module. | 04-28-2016 |
20160124190 | OPTICAL SYSTEM - An optical system includes: a first lens having refractive power and comprising an object-side surface which is convex in a paraxial region; a second lens having refractive power and comprising an object-side surface which is convex in the paraxial region; a third lens having refractive power; a fourth lens having refractive power; and a fifth lens having refractive power. The first to fifth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side. An Abbe number of the first lens is between 30 and 50. Deteriorations in resolution at high temperatures and/or low temperatures may be decreased, MTF performance may be maintained even during temperature changes, and changes in focusing positions may be decreased. In addition, an aberration improvement effect, a wide field of view and a high degree of resolution may be implemented. | 05-05-2016 |
20160127623 | VIBRATION-TYPE ACTUATOR, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AND AUTOMATIC STAGE - The present invention provides a vibration-type actuator that makes it possible to improve and stabilize yields. | 05-05-2016 |
20160130394 | ISOFLAVONE-BASED POLYMER, LENS AND CAMERA MODULE USING THE SAME - An isoflavone-based polymer, a lens containing the isoflavone-based polymer, and a camera module including the lens are provided. The isoflavone-based polymer includes an isoflavone-based skeleton in a main chain thereof, and includes at least one linking group selected from the group consisting of an ester group and a carbonate group. Whereby, the isoflavone-based polymer exhibits excellent optical properties. | 05-12-2016 |
20160139360 | OPTICAL IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM - A five-piece optical lens for capturing image and a five-piece optical module for capturing image, includes, in order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis, a first lens with positive refractive power, wherein an object-side surface thereof can be convex; a second lens with refractive power; a third lens with refractive power; a fourth lens which can have refractive power; and a fifth lens with negative refractive power, wherein an image-side surface of the fifth lens can be concave, both surfaces of each of the aforementioned lenses are aspheric, and at least one surface of the fifth lens has an inflection point whereby the optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras. | 05-19-2016 |
20160139365 | OPTICAL IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM - A five-piece optical lens for capturing image and a five-piece optical module for capturing image, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, include a first lens with positive refractive power having an object-side surface which can be convex; a second lens with refractive power; a third lens with refractive power; a fourth lens with refractive power; and a fifth lens which can have negative refractive power, wherein an image-side surface thereof can be concave, and wherein at least one surface of the fifth lens has an inflection point and both surfaces of each of the five lenses are aspheric whereby the optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras. | 05-19-2016 |
20160147046 | PHOTOGRAPHING OPTICAL LENS ASSEMBLY, IMAGING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A photographing optical lens assembly includes, in order form an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, and a fourth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element with refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, and the object-side surface and an image-side surface are both aspheric. The fourth lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, and an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region, the object-side surface and the image-side surface are both aspheric. | 05-26-2016 |
20160150141 | CAMERA APPARATUS AND MOUNT ADAPTER - A camera apparatus includes: a camera main body having a single plate type imaging section; and a handle mounting section for mounting a handle on an upper portion of the camera main body, wherein a lens for a three-plate type imaging section can be mounted on a lens mount section of a front portion of the camera main body via a mount adapter, and the handle mounting section mounts the handle on the upper portion of the camera main body so as to be able to move in a front-back direction. | 05-26-2016 |
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20160161707 | OPTICAL IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM - The invention discloses a four-piece optical lens for capturing image and a four-piece optical module for capturing image. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis comprises a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; a third lens with refractive power; and a fourth lens with refractive power; and wherein at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the four lens elements is aspheric whereby the optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras. | 06-09-2016 |
20160161709 | IMAGE CAPTURING OPTICAL LENS ASSEMBLY, IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - This disclosure provides an image capturing optical lens assembly including, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with refractive power having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof; a second lens element having positive refractive power; a third lens element with refractive power having an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof; a fourth lens element with refractive power having an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein both surfaces thereof being aspheric; a fifth lens element with refractive power having an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof; and a sixth lens element with refractive power having an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein both surfaces thereof being aspheric, and the image-side surface having at least one convex shape in an off-axis region thereof. | 06-09-2016 |
20160161710 | OPTICAL IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM - A three-piece optical lens for capturing image and a three-piece optical module for capturing image, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, include a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; and a third lens with refractive power; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the three lens elements are aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras. | 06-09-2016 |
20160161711 | OPTICAL IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM - A three-piece optical lens for capturing image and a three-piece optical module for capturing image, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, include a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; and a third lens with refractive power; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the three lens elements are aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras. | 06-09-2016 |
20160161733 | PERISCOPE LENS AND TERMINAL DEVICE - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a terminal device. The terminal device includes a periscope lens. The periscope lens includes a filter, a reflective prism module, a zoom lens, and a sensor, where the filter is configured to filter a light ray transmitted from the outside, and the reflective prism module is configured to reflect twice the light ray into the sensor in combination with the zoom lens, where the light ray is obtained after the filtering by the filter. According to the terminal device in the present invention, a limitation on a thickness of the periscope lens imposed by a width of the sensor can be reduced. | 06-09-2016 |
20160170176 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS ASSEMBLY, IMAGE CAPTURING UNIT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | 06-16-2016 |
20160170178 | OPTICAL IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM | 06-16-2016 |
20160182786 | HYBRID LIGHT-FIELD CAMERA | 06-23-2016 |
20160191771 | Component Attachment Devices and Related Systems and Methods for Machine Vision Systems - In some aspects, camera systems can include a camera enclosure, a lens disposed in or along the camera enclosure along an optical axis of the camera system, and an optical accessory attached to camera enclosure, where the optical accessory is attached using a magnetic retention force that is provided by at least one magnetic element. | 06-30-2016 |
20160198087 | MULTI-CAMERA SYSTEM USING FOLDED OPTICS FREE FROM PARALLAX AND TILT ARTIFACTS | 07-07-2016 |
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20160381260 | ARRAY IMAGING SYSTEM HAVING DISCRETE CAMERA MODULES AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An array imaging apparatus having discrete camera modules is disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a substrate; and heterogeneous camera modules attached to the substrate and in a geometric relationship with each other, the heterogeneous camera modules having a substantially similar photometric response. | 12-29-2016 |
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