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7453652 Member switching apparatus, lens switching apparatus, laser repair apparatus, and laser inspection apparatus  
A linear motor table is provided in a lens switching apparatus of a laser repair apparatus. The linear motor table is fixed with respect to a table and a laser oscillator and moves a lens holder in...
7447426 Optical apparatus and lens control method  
An optical apparatus is disclosed, which is capable of suppressing an image blur at the start of zooming. The optical apparatus comprises a memory storing data indicating the position of a second...
7446963 Lens actuating device  
A lens actuating device is applicable in a lens module. The lens module has at least a housing and a lens support in the space formed by the housing. The lens actuating device has at least a base...
7443618 Motor structure with built-in lens  
A motor structure with a built-in lens includes a lens mount ( 10 ), a motor ( 30 ) received in the lens mount, and a lens unit ( 50 ) received in the lens mount. The lens unit is drove by the...
7440201 Lens driving device and portable equipment with camera  
A lens driving device includes a moving body having a lens and a drive magnet that is moveable with the lens in an optical axis direction of the lens, and a fixed body that moveably supports the...
7436602 Lens barrel  
A lens barrel includes a helicoid ring provided with a helicoid; a retractable rotational ring which is guided by the helicoid to move along an optical axis while rotating, wherein the retractable...
7426081 Lens transfer device  
The invention provides a lens transfer device including at least one lens and a lens barrel. The lens barrel has a lens receiving part with the lens arranged in an inner space thereof and an...
7423824 Actuator, optical apparatus using actuator, and method of manufacturing actuator  
An actuator includes a holder having a movement hole, a lens barrel which moves within the movement hole, and driving means for driving the lens barrel. Each of the driving means is provided with...
7423815 Adjustable lens device  
An adjustable lens device includes a fixing seat, an adjusting seat sleeved on the fixing seat, and first and second lens modules mounted to the fixing seat. The fixing seat is formed with a...
7423814 Camera lens focus-setting mechanism  
A camera lens focus-setting mechanism enabling easy and precise focusing includes a first and a second rack member, and a first and a second adjusting assembly. The first and the second rack member...
7420753 Rotatable lens set  
A lens set assembly comprises an object side facing an object, an image side facing an image generated by the lens set, and a plurality of lens sets disposed from the object side to the image side...
7417803 Focusing mechanism for a vision detector  
A machine vision image acquisition system is provided with a housing or enclosure that protects the acquisition system components from an industrial environment. The machine vision image...
7408721 Zoom lens  
A zoom lens includes a housing, a rotatable adjustment member, a spring member and a lens barrel. The rotatable adjustment member has a ring body rotatably coupled to an inner bottom surface of the...
7405892 Lens module  
A lens module including a base, a sleeve, a lens, a magnetic permeable column, a coil supporter, a coil, and a magnet set is provided. A bottom of the base has a plurality of bumps. The sleeve is...
7403342 Lens device  
A lens device comprises: at least one driven member including an optical system and a lens frame holding the optical system; a plurality of guides that guide the driven member in a direction of an...
7401987 Photographing lens having an eccentricity adjusting device  
A photographing lens includes an eccentricity adjusting frame which holds an eccentricity adjusting lens group serving as a part of a photographing optical system of the photographing lens; a lens...
7397611 Image capturing apparatus, image composing method and storage medium  
In a digital camera 1 , when the halfway depression operation of the shutter button is detected, the lens position which is in focus for each capture area is detected and stored. On the other...
7394603 Lens driving apparatus  
A lens driving apparatus includes: a first yoke having an inner peripheral wall and an outer peripheral wall placed to be concentric with each other and forming a rectangular U-shape cross section...
7391579 Minature zoom lens  
A miniature zoom lens comprises a front housing, a rear housing communicated with the front housing to form a receiving space, a connecting plate for connecting the front housing with the rear...
7388719 Camera system  
Disclosed is a camera system equipped with a pair of photographing systems and a drive mechanism. Each of the pair of photographing systems of the camera system is equipped with an image pickup...
7388718 Lens holding device, lens-barrel, and imaging device  
A lens holder includes a third group frame that serves as a holding member which holds lenses, a guide shaft that supports the third group frame when the third group frame is moved along the...
7372638 Lens barrel  
There is disclosed a lens barrel including a fixed frame, a rotary frame rotatable with respect to the fixed frame to advance or retract in an optical axis direction, and a rectilinear guide frame...
7365922 Optical devices  
An optical device. A lens module is movably disposed in a lens housing. A drive mechanism is connected to the lens module, driving the lens module along an optical axis of the lens module. A brake...
7365914 Actuator  
An actuator comprises: an electro-mechanical conversion element; a driving frictional member that is mounted onto one side in an extension/contraction direction of the electro-mechanical conversion...
7365826 Projection optical system, exposure apparatus and method using the same  
A projection optical system includes an optical element that includes and locally uses a reflective or refractive area that is substantially axially symmetrical around an optical axis, the optical...
7362521 Lens module and electronic device using the same  
A lens module includes a frame, a guide bar, a lever, a first lens and a second lens. The frame is for carrying an image sensor with a photosensitive surface. The guide bar is disposed on one side...
7362512 Lens apparatus and image-pickup apparatus  
A lens apparatus mounted to a camera including an image-pickup element, including: a focus lens means movable in an optical axis direction for focusing; a zoom lens unit; a zoom detector; an...
7356252 Auto-focusing zoom lens mechanism  
An auto-focusing zoom lens mechanism includes a base unit forming a space; an auto-focusing (AF) lens unit located in the base unit and having a trajectory bar engaged therewith; a zoom lens unit...
7356251 Assembly-stage focus adjustment mechanism of a zoom lens  
An assembly-stage focus adjustment mechanism of a zoom lens barrel including a plurality of lens groups which are moved while distances therebetween are changed to perform a zooming operation, the...
7352516 Lens apparatus and camera  
A lens apparatus is disclosed which allows a reduced overall length when it is put into a barrel body while a high magnification of taken images is realized. The lens apparatus includes a first...
7352515 Rotational-to-linear coaxial mechanical drive  
A linear mechanical drive has an outer housing, a drive sleeve that is conformably and slidably received within the outer housing, a mount sleeve conformably and slidably received within the drive...
7345835 Lens barrel  
A lens barrel is provided which has a compact inner lens mechanism and is able to be manufactured in a small size at low cost. In the lens barrel according to the present invention, a number of...
7342733 Lens actuating device and image pickup apparatus  
A lens actuating device moves a movable lens held by a lens holder in predetermined directions. The lens actuating device has a power transmitting shaft connected to the lens holder for movement in...
7339756 Lens driving device  
A lens driving device includes a focus lens frame, first and second shafts, a rack member, a lead screw and a spring member. One or more lenses are attached to the focus lens frame. The first and...
7336884 Adaptive device for shifting imaging axis across fiber-optic endfaces in multi-fiber connector for inspection  
A device for shifting the imaging axis of a microscope across the endfaces of a multi-fiber connector for inspecting the fiber-optic endfaces through the microscope comprises a supporting body for...
7330317 Lens system and image capturing apparatus  
A lens system 3 is provided with a plurality of lens units including a first lens unit 9 , and has a condition changing structure 6 that is capable of changing the condition of the first lens...
7324290 Variable focus optic module and optic system  
A variable focus optic module is provided with a housing, a lens assembly, and a protrusion and recess system. The lens assembly is movably disposed in operable relationship with the housing. The...
7321472 Optical apparatus such as digital still camera, video camera, and interchangeable lens  
An optical apparatus having a first member and a second member rotating about an optical axis with respect to the first member. One of the members has a cam portion; the other has a cam follower...
7321471 Lens barrel and lens system  
The invention is directed to a lens barrel and a compact lens system incorporating the lens barrel where notches defined in a cam barrel to serve as bolt holes and disengage the studs are reduced...
7321470 Camera  
A camera having a lens barrel housed therein includes a reflection optical member for reflecting a light beam incident along a first optical axis (O 1 ) from a subject so as to reflect the light...
7321108 Dynamic focusing method and apparatus  
A method and apparatus for dynamically focusing an imaging mechanism on a moving target surface having a variable geometry is herein disclosed. Apparatus for focusing an imaging mechanism may...
7307798 Multi-step locking eye cup twist up device  
The present invention is a Twist Up device that consists of multiple pin-movement sections and pin-stopping sections. The pin-movement sections have Twist Up adjustment grooves in multiple steps,...
7307797 Zoom lens system, lens barrel, imaging device and camera  
A zoom lens system comprising a plurality of lens units each composed of at least one lens element, wherein an interval between at least any two lens units is changed so that an optical image is...
7304806 Lens retraction mechanism and method of the same  
A lens retraction mechanism slantways retracts a lens from a shooting position to a receiving space. The lens retraction mechanism includes a base body, which includes a substrate, a guide wall...
7295390 Lens actuating device, camera module and portable electronic equipment  
Power from a focusing motor ( 14 ) is transmitted via a gear ( 35 a ) to a focusing lead screw ( 15 ) so that a first lens holder ( 4 ) is moved in a direction of an optical axis. Power from a...
7295388 Lens module  
A lens module using electromagnetic force to drive the focus-adjusting lens is disclosed. The lens module includes a base, two steel plates, four springs, a bottom plate, a lens holder, a coil, a...
7295382 Image pickup device and method of controlling a lens unit  
An image pickup device includes a collapsible lens barrel which is held in a main body of the device in non-picture-taking mode, and a shutter unit which is arranged behind a rearmost one of a...
7286301 Camera zoom device and method for a mobile communication terminal  
A camera zoom device and method for a mobile communication terminal. The camera zoom device includes a zoom dial rotating about a rotation axis; a zoom dial rotation sensing unit for sensing a...
7277237 AF control apparatus for zoom lens system  
An AF control apparatus for a zoom lens system includes a movable lens group serving as a zooming lens group and a focusing lens group in the zoom lens system; a focusing table which stores...
7265914 Lens device and photographing apparatus including the same  
In a lens device, when a lens is subjected to speed control and when initialization in which an absolute position of the lens is initialized after a power supply is turned on is completed, the lens...