Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
359354000 | Including continuously variable magnification or focal length (zoom lens, adjustable lens) | 8 |
20090080065 | Ultra-broadband UV microscope imaging system with wide range zoom capability - An ultra-broadband ultraviolet (UV) catadioptric imaging microscope system with wide-range zoom capability. The microscope system, which comprises a catadioptric lens group and a zooming tube lens group, has high optical resolution in the deep UV wavelengths, continuously adjustable magnification, and a high numerical aperture. The system integrates microscope modules such as objectives, tube lenses and zoom optics to reduce the number of components, and to simplify the system manufacturing process. The preferred embodiment offers excellent image quality across a very broad deep ultraviolet spectral range, combined with an all-refractive zooming tube lens. The zooming tube lens is modified to compensate for higher-order chromatic aberrations that would normally limit performance. | 03-26-2009 |
20090296201 | UV-VIS-IR imaging optical systems - Imaging optical systems having good transmission and that are well corrected over the full 315 nm-1100 nm ultraviolet-visible-infrared (UV-VIS-IR) wavelength band are disclosed. A wide variety of apochromatic and superachromatic design examples are presented. The imaging optical systems have a broad range of applications in fields where large-bandwidth imaging is called for, including but not limited to forensics, crime scene documentation, art conservation, forgery detection, medicine, scientific research, remote sensing, and fine art photography. | 12-03-2009 |
20130135713 | Lens for Infrared Cameras - This invention is directed to provide an infrared camera lens that is simple in lens configuration and has lens pieces including only spherical surfaces but no aspheric surfaces. The invention is also directed to provide an infrared camera lens of a design that facilitates and implements an airtight environment within the lens barrel because the foremost or first lens closest to the object stays still during focusing, and the entire length of the lens system is unchanged for focusing. The infrared camera lens comprises the foremost or first single spherical lens piece of positive refractivity, the succeeding or second single spherical lens piece of negative refractivity, and the third single spherical lens piece of positive refractivity. At least the second single spherical lens piece of negative refractivity or the third single spherical lens piece of positive refractivity is to be moved for focusing. | 05-30-2013 |
20140253999 | COMPACT INTERNAL FIELD OF VIEW SWITCH AND PUPIL RELAY - An optical system incorporating a compact internal field of view switch configured to switch the field of view of the optical system between a narrow field of view and a wide field of view while maintaining a constant exit aperture size. In one example the optical system includes an active imaging sub-system optically coupled to the exit aperture, and the field of view switch is positioned between the exit aperture and the active imaging sub-system. In one example the field of view switch is configured as a pupil relay having non-unity magnification. | 09-11-2014 |
20150116818 | INFRARED ZOOM LENS - Provided is a zoom lens that has a four-lens configuration and is capable of having a viewing angle of larger than 180°. Provided is an infrared zoom lens that has a long back focus. The present invention comprises a first lens group that has a negative refractive power, and a second lens group that has a positive refractive power. During zooming, the first lens group and the second lens group move on an optical axis, and each of the first lens group and the second lens group is configured of two single lenses. | 04-30-2015 |
20150116819 | ZOOM LENS - A zoom lens includes sequentially from an object side a first lens group having a negative refractive power; an aberture stop; and a second lens group having a positive refractive power. The second lens group is moved along an optical axis toward the object side to zoom from a wide angle edge to a telephoto edge. The first lens group is moved along the optical axis toward en image side to correct image plane variation accompanying zooming. The second lens group includes sequentially from the object side, a positive lens having at least one aspheric surface, and a cemented lens configured by a negative lens, a positive lens, and a negative lens. The zoom lens satisfies a conditional expression (1) 1.804-30-2015 | |
20160109691 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided is a zoom lens, including, in order from an object side to an image side, first, second, and third lens units having positive, negative, and positive refractive powers, respectively. The second lens unit moves toward image side during zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, and an interval between adjacent lens units is changed during zooming. The first lens unit includes a lens pair of a positive lens (LP | 04-21-2016 |
20160116730 | Optical Alignment System - A coalignment system including wedge-prism assembly that can be attached to a conventional night vision scope, for example. This could allow a standard handheld night vision scope to be deployed in different modes such as on headmounted goggles or as an augmentation scope in front of a day sight a weapon while enabling Line of sight/point of impact (LOS/POI) correction. In order to ensure maximum compatibility, the coalignment system includes diopter adjustment. | 04-28-2016 |