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7453788 Optical head, optical information recording/reproducing apparatus, computer, video recording/reproducing apparatus, video reproducing apparatus, server and car navigation system  
An optical head is provided that increases the light utilization efficiency and that can be adapted to high-speed recording and double-layer disks. A beam-shaping lens that shapes an elliptical...
7453653 Low height imaging system and associated methods  
Low height imaging systems may include one or more optical channels and a detector array. Each of the optical channels may be associated with one or more detectors of the array, have one or more...
7443609 Optical lens, optical module having the same, and backlight assembly having the same  
An optical module includes a point light source device and an optical lens. The point light source device generates light. The optical lens includes an inner curved surface and an outer curved...
7440197 Image forming lens and portable information terminal  
The image forming lens comprises a stop and a single lens placed in this order from the object side, wherein if the object-side surface of the single lens having paraxial curvature radii to form...
7433133 Optical system  
The present invention provides an optical system for illuminating and viewing a target in which an illumination element and a receiving means are disposed behind a single optical window, and which...
7423816 Solid immersion lens and microscope  
A solid immersion lens 1 comprises a spherical portion 2 and a bottom surface portion 3 . The bottom surface portion 3 is attached in close contact with a substrate 10 of a semiconductor...
7418199 Imaging apparatus  
An imaging apparatus including a first lens unit with positive power in which the most object-side surface is concave and the most image-side surface is convex, an aperture stop, a second lens unit...
7414791 Eye detection apparatus and image display apparatus  
What is disclosed is an eye detection apparatus which can detect the pupil position accurately. The apparatus has an image taking unit that picks up an image of an eye and a pupil detection unit...
7412158 Deeper depth of field for video  
A digital camera apparatus has a sensing surface that captures images at a first resolution. A derivative of the captured image is displayed at a viewfinder or stored in a memory, after encoding,...
7411742 Focusing lens for LED  
A focusing lens for an LED is provided. The focusing lens for an LED, which concentrates light emitted from the LED so as to have directionality parallel to an optic axis, comprises: a transparent...
7411740 Zoom lens  
Disclosed is a zoom lens, which includes, in sequence from an object side to an image side, a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a positive third lens group, a positive fourth...
7400456 Lens having seamless profile defined by cubic polynomial function  
A lens includes a surface that includes a seamless profile. The seamless profile is defined by at least one cubic polynomial function to provide a filtering surface that produces a controlled...
7391459 Imaging apparatus and arranging method for the same  
An optical system for a CMOS sensor includes an aspherical lens with which an exit pupil distance appears short in a central region of an imaging plane and long in a peripheral region of the...
7387448 Optical component, method for connecting the same, and optical module having the optical component  
There are provided a substantially cylindrical optical component, a method for connecting the same, and an optical module having the optical component, whereby adequate gripping force can be...
7379411 Beam shaping device  
In a beam shaping device for converting the laser light emitted from a semiconductor laser light source from an elliptic beam to a circular beam, the light-entrance-side and light-exit-side...
7370994 Collimating lens for LED lamp  
A collimating lens includes a first end face with an LED accommodation hole for accommodating an LED lamp, a second end face, which is disposed opposite to the first end face and has an area...
7367693 Vehicular lamp and projection lens for decreasing an amount of blocked light  
A vehicular lamp that decreases the amount of light blocked by the extension towards the inside of the vehicle and increases the diffused light radiated toward the outside of the vehicle. The...
7362514 Imaging system, in particular a projection objective of a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus  
Imaging systems, in particular a projection objectives of a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus, are provided. The imaging systems can have an optical axis and produce an image field...
7355801 Image pickup lens assembly  
An image pickup lens assembly comprises three lens groups, from the object side to the image side: a first lens group, a second lens group, and a third lens group. The first lens group includes two...
7349163 High-heat-dissipation lighting module  
There is provided a lighting module of the type having a solid-state light source, in particular a LED, a supporting plate, and a lens; the lens has a recess housing the light source; the lens is...
7345829 Objective lens  
Lens aberration in an objective lens for recording and reproducing optical information, which is composed of a molded aspherical single lens, is inhibited while at the same time good lens...
7345828 Refractive-diffractive hybrid lens, in particular for beam shaping of high power diode lasers  
A cylindrical lens having a refractive optical element and a diffractive optical element is provided. The cylindrical lens can be fabricated cost effectively and precisely, and optical aberrations...
7345824 Light collimating device  
A collimating device and a transflector for use in a system having a backlight is disclosed herein. In one embodiment of the application, the collimating device and the transflector each include an...
7339752 Image pick-up lens system  
An image pick-up lens system from an object side to an image side includes an aperture stop ( 10 ), and a meniscus-shaped lens ( 20 ) having a concave surface on the object side and a convex...
7336430 Extended depth of field using a multi-focal length lens with a controlled range of spherical aberration and a centrally obscured aperture  
An extended depth of field is achieved by a computational imaging system that combines a multifocal imaging subsystem for producing a purposefully blurred intermediate image with a digital...
7336423 Hybrid lens  
A hybrid lens ( 10 ) includes a plastic lens ( 12 ) and a glass coating film ( 14 ). The plastic lens is manufactured by injection molding. The glass coating film is formed on an outer surface of...
7327525 Optical system  
The present invention provides an optical system for illuminating and viewing a target in which an illumination element and a receiving means are disposed behind a single optical window, and which...
7317580 Zoom lens  
In this invention, to provide a compact zoom lens having a small number of optical element groups to be driven and a simple moving mechanism, at least one of a plurality of optical element groups...
7317578 Imager to imager relay lens system  
A lens system for use in a two-stage projection system that relays light output from a first imager on a pixel-by-pixel basis onto a second imager (e.g. an LCOS). The lens system includes a double...
7307791 Head mounted device  
A head-mounted display (HMD) comprises a frame for hanging on a user's head, and a display device affixed to the frame. The display device comprises alight source, a driving circuit for generating...
7302181 Single lens multiple light source device  
An optical communication device having multiple light sources under a single lens. The optical communication device has two light sources. The optical communication device has a lens optically...
7301706 Complex lens  
An embodiment of a complex lens ( 1 ) includes a central substrate ( 10 ), two opposite glass layers ( 12 ), and two opposite IR-cut layers ( 13 ). The substrate is made of transparent plastic,...
7286302 Optical system, image pickup device and digital apparatus  
A wide angle of view optical system, suitable for monitor cameras such as an in-vehicle camera and a security camera, having a reduced optical entire length and aberration correction for forming an...
7283702 Method and apparatus for optimizing the target intensity distribution transmitted from a fiber coupled array  
Encircled far field energy is substantially increased by modifying the near field energy distribution of radiation from each fiber in an emitting array. Each beamlet output from a fiber is modified...
7271963 Bi-curvature lens for light emitting diodes and photo detectors  
A bi-curvature lens for diodes in an infrared wireless communication transceiver is disclosed. Devices having such a bi-curvature lens, such as a light emitting device, a light detecting device,...
7262924 Optical system and image pickup apparatus including the same  
At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an optical system which includes a compound optical element including a lens element and a resin layer having different optical characteristics and...
7236314 Compact lens system  
A compact lens system includes, in succession from an object side to an image side, an aspheric first lens element ( 1 ) having a positive power, an aperture stop ( 4 ), an aspheric second lens...
7230770 Projection lenses having color-correcting rear lens units  
Projection lenses for use with pixelized panels (PP) are provided. The projection lenses have a first unit (U 1 ) separated from a positive second unit (U 2 ). The lenses are telecentric on the...
7227703 Aspheric lens and method for making same  
An aspheric lens ( 1 ) includes a substrate ( 10 ) and an aspheric film ( 12 ). The substrate ( 10 ) is made of glass, and has a spherical surface ( 102 ). The aspheric film ( 12 ) is formed on a...
7215477 Zoom lens and image display apparatus including the zoom lens  
Provided is a projection lens, including: a plurality of moving lens units that move on an optical axis for zooming; and a plurality of plastic lenses containing plastic, in which when a focal...
7212354 Lens system for digital camera  
A lens system ( 46 ) for a digital camera consecutively includes a first lens element ( 20 ), a second lens element ( 30 ), and a third lens element ( 40 ). The first lens element is biconvex and...
7180673 Mechanically-adjustable optical phase filters for modifying depth of field, aberration-tolerance, anti-aliasing in optical systems  
An optical system with mechanical adjustment provides for the rotation and/or translation of one or more optical phase filters to variably select an extended depth of field, aberration-tolerance,...
7177098 Image pickup lens  
An image pickup lens can form an excellent optical image on a compact image pickup element having a large number of pixels. The image pickup lens includes, sequentially from the object side, an...
7154678 Projection objective having adjacently mounted aspheric lens surfaces  
A projection objective has at least five lens groups (G 1 to G 5 ) and has several lens surfaces. At least two aspheric lens surfaces are arranged so as to be mutually adjacent. These mutually...
7149040 Scanning device including an objective lens formed of two materials  
An optical scanning device ( 1 ) for scanning an information layer ( 4 ) of an optical record carrier ( 2 ), the information layer ( 4 ) being covered by a transparent layer ( 3 ) of thickness t d ...
7149037 Zoom lens system and image-taking apparatus having the same  
A zoom lens system includes plural optical units each of which includes plural optical elements each having a rotationally asymmetrical surface, and changes optical power as the optical elements in...
7145734 Windowed optical system having a tilted optical element to correct aberrations  
A system includes a dome window and an optical system having a central optical path that passes through the dome window. The optical system includes a refractive optical element having an axis of...
7145729 Foldable projection lenses  
Projection lenses for use with pixelized panels (PP) are provided. The projection lenses have a first unit (U 1 ) separated from a positive second unit (U 2 ) by a distance sufficient to accept a...
7142374 Optical system for laser riflescope  
An optical system for a laser riflescope includes, an objective lens group ( 1 ), an eyepiece lens element ( 3 ) defining an optical axis with the objective lens group, and an erector lens group (...
7130127 Terrestrial telescope with digital camera  
A terrestrial telescope with digital camera has an imaging optical system having a group of objective lenses and an imaging element disposed at a position at which an optical image is formed by the...