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Document | Title | Date |
20080218604 | Image Pickup Apparatus, Image Pickup Lens, and Data Writing Method to Image Pickup Lens - To enable to display a scale indicative of a reference length on a screen of a display at an accurate length even when exchanging the lens in an image pickup apparatus to any lens. | 09-11-2008 |
20080218605 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - This invention can perform a developing process or editing process, with a high response, for raw image obtained by image sensing by a digital camera or the like. When, therefore, raw image data is input, an extraction area in the raw image data is determined on the basis of the size of an image display area in which a processed image is displayed and a magnification set at this time. A developing process is then performed for partial raw image data in the determined area, and the resultant data is displayed in the image display area. | 09-11-2008 |
20080225139 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device includes an imaging optical system including at least one movable optical element; an image sensor, an imaging surface of which lies on an image-forming plane of the imaging optical system; a circuit board on which the image sensor is mounted; and an image processing circuit for processing an image signal output from the image sensor and a drive circuit for the movable optical element, both of the image processing circuit and the drive circuit are mounted on the circuit board. The image processing circuit and the drive circuit are disposed on the circuit board in that order from a side closer to the image sensor. | 09-18-2008 |
20080291297 | Imaging system - The invention relates to an imaging system in which, while high image quality is maintained with the influence of diffraction minimized, the quantity of light is controlled, and which enables the length of the zoom lens to be cut down. The imaging system comprises a zoom lens comprising a plurality of lens groups G | 11-27-2008 |
20080309798 | Zoom Lens System and Image Pick-Up Apparatus - There is provided a zoom lens system, compact and light in weight and having high image formation performance over the zoom entire range irrespective of object lens while covering the range from the broad angle side up to the telescopic end state side, which is used in video camera and/or digital still camera. A zoom lens system at least includes a first lens group GR | 12-18-2008 |
20080309799 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP METHOD - Disclosed herein is an image pickup apparatus, including: image inputting portion configured to capture an image; optical portion configured to adjust a capture magnification; a rotatable table for adjusting a capture angle; storage portion configured to store a displacement amount between the center of a reading region of the image inputting portion and an optical axis of the optical portion; and control portion configured to calculate correction values and carry out angular control of the rotatable table so as to cancel the displacement amount based on the correction amounts. | 12-18-2008 |
20090128665 | IMAGING SYSTEM, IMAGING APPARATUS, PORTABLE TERMINAL APPARATUS, ONBOARD APPARATUS, MEDICAL APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE IMAGING SYSTEM - An imaging system is provided and includes: an imaging lens; an imaging device; a coefficient storage section; and a signal processing section. When a maximum diameter of an effective region of a point image projected onto a light receiving surface of the imaging device through the imaging lens | 05-21-2009 |
20090207282 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, METHOD FOR IMAGE CAPTURING, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A control unit controls an image capture unit to perform a plurality of image captures of an object and acquires a plurality of mutually different image data based on a positional change of an image capturing device. Then, the control unit extracts a specified object image common to each of the acquired plurality of image data. The control unit synthesizes the acquired plurality of image data using the extracted specified object image as a reference, and thereby creates synthesized image data. The synthesized image data is an image equivalent to a captured image having a shallow depth of field such that only the specified object image is clearly photographed and the other portions are blurred. | 08-20-2009 |
20100060752 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND REPRODUCTION CONTROL APPARATUS - Image pickup means is capable of picking up an image at a first frame rate and a second frame rate that is higher than the first frame rate. A highlight scene is detected by detection means. When detecting the highlight scene, image pickup operation is performed at a high speed mode and an image signal at high frame rate (240 fps) is produced for a period of predetermined time. When detecting no highlight scene, image pickup operation is performed at a normal mode and an image signal at normal frame rate (60 fps) is produced. It is possible to save time and labor for performing a switchover operation of a frame rate when imaging a highlight scene. It is also possible to save power consumption and a capacity of a storage medium. | 03-11-2010 |
20100066864 | LENS BARREL AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A lens barrel includes a correction lens to move along an optical axis to perform zoom tracking, a correction lens driver to drive the correction lens, a zoom lens, a zoom ring to be turned by a user, a zoom lens driver to mechanically move the zoom lens according to an amount of turn of the zoom ring, a position detector to detect a position of the zoom lens, a rate detector to detect a change rate of the position of the zoom lens, a storage unit to store relational information which associates the position of the zoom lens with a focus position of the correction lens, and a controller to control the correction lens driver. The controller determines a focus position of the correction lens corresponding to a position more distant by a predetermined amount from the position of the zoom lens detected by the position detector, by referring to the relational information, and controls the correction lens driver to drive the correction lens with a target position set to the determined focus position. The predetermined amount is changed according to the change rate of the position of the zoom lens detected by the rate detector. | 03-18-2010 |
20100097496 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - An object is to provide: a zoom lens system that has a reduced overall length, a high resolution, and a variable magnification ratio as high as 9 or greater and that is satisfactorily adaptable for wide-angle image taking where the view angle at a wide-angle limit is 70° or greater; an imaging device employing this zoom lens system; and a thin and compact camera. The zoom lens system has a plurality of lens units each consisting of at least one lens element, and, in order from the object side to the image side, comprises a first lens unit having positive optical power, a second lens unit having negative optical power, a third lens unit having positive optical power, a fourth lens unit and a fifth lens unit. In zooming from a wide-angle limit to a telephoto limit at the time of image taking, at least the first lens unit and the second lens unit move in an optical axis direction, while the fourth lens unit and the fifth lens unit are each consists of one lens element. An imaging device and a camera employ this zoom lens system. | 04-22-2010 |
20100097497 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - An object is to provide: a zoom lens system that has a reduced overall length, a high resolution, and a variable magnification ratio as high as 9 or greater and that is satisfactorily adaptable for wide-angle image taking where the view angle at a wide-angle limit is 70° or greater; an imaging device employing this zoom lens system; and a thin and compact camera. The zoom lens system has a plurality of lens units each consisting of at least one lens element, and, in order from the object side to the image side, comprises a first lens unit having positive optical power, a second lens unit having negative optical power, a third lens unit having positive optical power, a fourth lens unit and a fifth lens unit. In zooming from a wide-angle limit to a telephoto limit at the time of image taking, at least the first lens unit and the second lens unit move in an optical axis direction, while the fourth lens unit and the fifth lens unit are each consists of one lens element. An imaging device and a camera employ this zoom lens system. | 04-22-2010 |
20100103291 | Image-Sensing Apparatus - An image-sensing apparatus has: an image sensor sequentially acquiring source images by sequential shooting; an optical zoom control portion varying the size of the subject image on the source images by optical zooming; a particular subject detection portion detecting the position and size of a particular subject on the source images based on the image data of the source images; a narrow-angle image extraction portion setting, in each of the source images, a narrow-angle image including the particular subject based on the result of detection by the particular subject detection portion, to set the position and size of the narrow-angle image on image; a wide-angle image extraction portion extracting, from each of the source images, a wide-angle image that includes the narrow-angle image, that has a larger angle of view than the narrow-angle image, and that has a reference number of pixels; a resolution enhancement processing portion cutting out, from a plurality of temporally consecutive wide-angle images, a plurality of narrow-angle images according to a setting in the narrow-angle image extraction portion, to generate, from the plurality of narrow-angle images, a narrow-angle high-resolution image having a number of pixels greater than the number of pixels of the narrow-angle image; and a recording portion recording the image data of the individual wide-angle images. The optical zoom control portion controls the factor of the optical zooming such that the ratio of the reference number of pixels to the number of pixels of the narrow-angle image approaches the factor of enlargement by the resolution enhancement processing portion. | 04-29-2010 |
20100110232 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING SOUNDS WITH AUXILIARY INFORMATION FROM CAMERA SYSTEM - The invention provides an electronic apparatus. In one embodiment, the electronic apparatus comprises a video camera, a video processing module, an array microphone, and an audio processing module. The video camera adjusts a focal length according to a zoom-in/out control signal and captures an image of a plurality of target objects according to the focal length to generate a raw video signal. The video processing module generates the zoom-in/out control signal to adjust the focal length of the video camera. The array microphone comprises a plurality of microphones converting sounds of the target objects into a plurality of raw audio signals. The audio processing module adjusts a beamwidth for beamforming according to the zoom-in/out control signal, and performs a beamforming process according to the beamwidth on the raw audio signals to generate a first audio signal comprising mainly voice components of the target objects. | 05-06-2010 |
20100110233 | Imaging Device and Imaging Method - Provided are an imaging device and an imaging method which can realize an appropriate modulation pattern in accordance with a zoom position without requiring a modulation element switching mechanism in a depth extension optical system. The imaging device has: a zoom optical system | 05-06-2010 |
20100141801 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes an optical system including a focus lens, an imaging unit operable to capture a subject image formed by the optical system to generate image data, a driver operable to drive the focus lens along an optical axis of the optical system, and an autofocus adjusting unit operable to adjust a subject image formed on the imaging unit to be in focus by evaluating the image data generated by the imaging unit and by controlling the driver to drive the focus lens. When adjusting the subject image to be in focus anew after previously adjusting the subject image to be in focus, the autofocus adjusting unit estimates a focus position and controls the driver to drive the focus lens according to a driving method used for evaluating the image data generated by the imaging unit, and different driving methods are used for different results of the estimation. | 06-10-2010 |
20100141802 | Light Field Data Acquisition Devices, and Methods of Using and Manufacturing Same - Certain light field data acquisition devices and methods of using and manufacturing such devices. In one aspect, a light field imaging device for acquiring light field image data of a scene, the device comprises optics, wherein the optics includes an optical path and a focal point, wherein the focal point is associated with a focal length of the optics. A light field sensor to acquire light field image data in response to a first user input and located at a substantially fixed, predetermined location relative to the focal point of the optics, wherein the predetermined location is substantially independent of the scene. The optical depth of field of the optics with respect to the light field sensor extends to a depth that is closer than optical infinity. Processing circuitry, coupled the user interface, to: (a) determine a first virtual focus depth of the light field image data, wherein the first virtual focus depth is different from the optical focus depth of the light field image data, (b) automatically generate data which is representative of a first image of the scene using the light field image data, wherein the first image includes a focus which corresponds to the first virtual focus depth, (c) output the data which is representative of the first image, and, after outputting the data which is representative of the first image and in response to the second user input, (d) determine a second virtual focus depth of the light field image data using data which is representative of the second user input, wherein the second user input is indicative of the second virtual focus depth, and (e) generate data which is representative of a second image of the scene which includes a focus that corresponds to the second virtual focus depth. | 06-10-2010 |
20100141803 | TERMINAL HAVING CAMERA AND METHOD OF PROCESSING AN IMAGE IN THE SAME - A terminal having a camera and a method of processing an image in the camera are disclosed. The method includes collecting, using a camera, a user image captured at a user focal length and a link image captured at a selective focal length, and storing the user image and the link image by linking the link image with the user image. Using this method, a user can capture a subject and circumstances around the subject when the image is captured. | 06-10-2010 |
20100149382 | DRIVING METHOD FOR ZOOM LENS DEVICE, IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE USING THE METHOD, AND MOBILE INFORMATION DEVICE - When focal lengths are discretely set, zoom positions are set, relative to a focal length fr at a position at which a movement direction of a correction group, is reversed, such that a difference value between a focal length which is the closest to the focal length fr and falling between a focal length fw at a wide angle end and the focal length fr, and a next focal length is larger than a difference value between any remaining adjacent focal lengths. By moving from the zoom position of the closest focal length directly to the zoom position of the next focal length, a movement range of the correction group can be made smaller than a movement range in the case where the lens position of the focal length fr is set as the zoom position. | 06-17-2010 |
20100149383 | IMAGER FOR PHOTOGRAPHING A SUBJECT WITH A PROPERLY SIZE - An imager is provided having an image-capturing device, a display, and a view angle controller. The image-capturing device captures a subject image and outputs an image signal. The display displays a through image consisting of multiple images continuously displayed. The view angle controller controls a view angle of an image so that a ratio of an area of a subject in an area of an image is maintained at a certain value when the display displays a through image. | 06-17-2010 |
20100157104 | Image pickup apparatus - An apparatus includes a zoom lens and an image pickup element. The zoom lens includes an optical path reflecting lens group including a reflecting member and having a positive refracting power, a movable negative lens group that is disposed in the optical path on the image side of the optical path reflecting lens group, has a negative refracting power, and moves during zooming, a movable positive lens group that is disposed in the optical path on the image side of the movable negative lens group, has a positive refracting power, and moves during zooming, and an aperture stop disposed in the optical path between the movable negative lens group and the movable positive lens group. The optical path reflecting lens group is a lens group located closest to the object side in the zoom lens. | 06-24-2010 |
20100157105 | Image Sensing Apparatus - A clipping processing portion is provided with: a main subject detection portion which detects the location of a main subject from an input image; a clip region setting portion which sets the clip region that is a region including the main subject; and a clipping portion which clips an image of the clip region from the input image to produce a clipped image. There is further provided a zoom control portion which controls the optical zoom magnification of the image sensing portion based on the clip region set by a clip region setting portion, and the optical zoom magnification is controlled such that the input image has an appropriate angle of view. | 06-24-2010 |
20100157106 | Zoom lens system and image pickup apparatus using the same - A zoom lens system includes in order from an object side, a first lens unit having a negative refracting power, a second lens unit having a positive refracting power, a third lens unit having a positive refracting power, and a fourth lens unit having a negative refracting power. At the time of zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, the second lens unit moves such that a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit decreases, and distances between the other lens units change. The first lens unit includes in order from the object side, one negative lens component having an aspheric surface at least on one surface, and one positive lens component, the fourth lens unit includes one negative lens component having a surface on the object side as a concave surface, and satisfies the following conditional expression ( | 06-24-2010 |
20100171849 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising a first lens unit of positive power, a second lens unit of negative power, a third lens unit of positive power, and a fourth lens unit of positive power, wherein the first lens unit is composed of three or fewer lens elements, wherein the second lens unit is composed of three lens elements, wherein in zooming, the first to the fourth lens units are moved individually along an optical axis such that air spaces should vary, so that variable magnification is achieved, and wherein the conditions are satisfied: tan 2ω | 07-08-2010 |
20100171850 | ZOOMS LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising a first lens unit of positive power, a second lens unit of negative power, a third lens unit of positive power, and a fourth lens unit of positive power, wherein the first lens unit is composed of three or fewer lens elements, wherein the second lens unit is composed of three lens elements, wherein in zooming, the first to the fourth lens units are moved individually along an optical axis such that air spaces should vary, so that variable magnification is achieved, and wherein the conditions are satisfied: 5.50≦f | 07-08-2010 |
20100177217 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A zoom lens system according to the present invention, from an object side to an image side, comprises a first lens unit having positive optical power, a second lens unit having negative optical power, a third lens unit having positive optical power, and a fourth lens unit having positive optical power. In zooming, the first to the fourth lens units all move along the optical axis. The condition (8): 0.1507-15-2010 | |
20100194928 | ZOOMING OPTICAL SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A zooming optical system having six lens groups includes in order from an object side, a first lens group having a positive refracting power, which is fixed at the time of zooming, a second lens group having a negative refracting power, which is movable at the time of zooming, a third lens group having a positive refracting power, which is fixed at the time of zooming, a fourth lens group having a positive refracting power, which is movable at the time of zooming, a fifth lens group having a negative refracting power, which is movable at the time of zooming, and a sixth lens group having a positive refracting power, which is fixed at the time of zooming, and the first lens group includes a reflecting optical element for folding an optical path, and the third lens group includes an aperture stop, and the fifth lens group includes a single lens, and the zooming optical system satisfies the following conditional expression | 08-05-2010 |
20100194929 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A zoom lens system according to the present invention, from an object side to an image side, comprises a first lens unit having positive optical power, a second lens unit having negative optical power, a third lens unit having positive optical power, and a fourth lens unit having positive optical power. In zooming, the first to the fourth lens units all move along the optical axis. The conditions (1): 0<√(f | 08-05-2010 |
20100194930 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM - Provided is a zoom lens system including a compact focusing lens unit and having a suppressed change in image magnification at the time of movement of the focusing lens unit. The zoom lens system of the present invention includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit G | 08-05-2010 |
20100238326 | Zoom System for An Optical Stereo Device - A zoom system ( | 09-23-2010 |
20100265362 | Zoom optical system and image pickup apparatus provided with the same - A zoom optical system comprising, in order from the object side, a first lens unit with negative power, a second lens unit with positive power, a third lens unit with positive power, and a fourth lens unit, wherein spacing between the first lens unit and the fourth lens unit is fixed to an image surface, and the second lens unit and the third lens unit are moved on an optical axis so as to change spacings between the respective lens units when the magnification of the zoom optical system is changed. The third lens unit comprises lens elements more than three, including an aperture stop, at least a lens element with positive power and at least a lens element with negative power, and the most image-side lens element of the third lens unit is a meniscus lens element with a concave surface facing the image side. | 10-21-2010 |
20100265363 | ZOOM LENS OPTICAL SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a zoom (magnification variable) lens optical system that is used for a mobile phone camera or a digital camera. The zoom lens optical system includes, along a light axis in order of arrangement from an object side, a first lens group having a negative refractive power and comprising a prism provided with a reflective surface for bending a light path by reflecting light passed through the first lens at an angle of 90°, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, a third lens group having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power, and a stop, wherein the variation of magnification is performed by moving at least two of the second to fourth lens groups. | 10-21-2010 |
20100289926 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A zoom lens includes a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, a third lens group having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power, which are arranged in this order from an object side. The gap between the lens groups is changed to change power. The third lens group includes at least two partial lens groups. One of the partial lens groups is a camera shake correction group and is moved in a direction vertical to an optical axis to correct a camera shake. The camera shake correction group includes two single lenses, and at least one of the single lenses is a plastic lens. | 11-18-2010 |
20100295970 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An imaging unit outputs a video signal at a frame rate higher than a standard frame rate. During a zoom operation period or a period including the zoom operation period and periods before and after the zoom operation, a video signal from the imaging unit is recorded in a recording medium at a high recording frame rate. Other than this period, a video signal is recorded in the recording medium at the standard frame rate. The recording frame rate and zoom operation information is recorded as metadata in the recording medium. During reproduction, based on a set reproduction mode, thinning processing is carried out on a video signal recorded during a zoom operation, and the processed signal is output at the standard frame rate. In this way, it is possible to change a frame rate in view of a photographer's intention and assure compatibility with existing viewing and reproduction environments. | 11-25-2010 |
20100309338 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A zoom lens system of the present invention has a plurality of lens units each composed of at least one lens element and, in order from the object side to the image side, comprises: a first lens unit having negative optical power and composed of two lens elements; a second lens unit having positive optical power; and a third lens unit having positive optical power, wherein in zooming, at least the first lens unit and the second lens unit move along an optical axis, on the image side relative to the second lens unit, an aperture diaphragm is arranged that moves along the optical axis integrally with the second lens unit during zooming, the second lens unit is, in order from the object side to the image side, composed of a first cemented lens element by cementing two lens elements and a second cemented lens element by cementing two lens elements, and the condition is satisfied: 2.0012-09-2010 | |
20100309339 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A zoom lens system of the present invention has a plurality of lens units each composed of at least one lens element and, in order from the object side to the image side, comprises: a first lens unit having negative optical power and composed of two lens elements; a second lens unit having positive optical power; and a third lens unit having positive optical power, wherein in zooming, the lens units are moved such that an interval between the first lens unit and the second lens unit should decrease and that an interval between the second lens unit and the third lens unit should increase, so that magnification change is achieved, wherein the first lens unit is, in order from the object side to the image side, composed of a first lens element having negative optical power and a second lens element having positive optical power, and wherein the condition is satisfied: 0.5012-09-2010 | |
20100315537 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A zoom lens includes a focus cam for converting a first rotation amount given upon a focus operation into a movement of the focus lens group and further converting a second rotation amount given upon a zoom operation into the movement of the focus lens group, and a focus cam follower engaged with the focus cam and operable to move in the focus cam. The focus cum follower rotates in the focus cum according to the rotation amount of the zoom driving unit to move the focus lens group. A lift amount of the focus cam is defined so that a rotation amount of the focus driving unit from a far end position to an infinite position when the rotation position of the zoom driving unit is at a wide-angle end becomes larger than the rotation amount when the rotating position of the zoom driving unit is at a telephoto end. | 12-16-2010 |
20100315538 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A zoom lens system of the present invention has a plurality of lens units each composed of at least one lens element and, in order from the object side to the image side, comprises: a first lens unit having negative optical power and composed of two lens elements; a second lens unit having positive optical power; and a third lens unit having positive optical power, wherein in zooming, the lens units are moved such that an interval between the first lens unit and the second lens unit should decrease and that an interval between the second lens unit and the third lens unit should increase, so that magnification change is achieved, and wherein the condition is satisfied: 1.512-16-2010 | |
20100328500 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A zoom lens system of the present invention has a plurality of lens units each composed of at least one lens element and, in order from the object side to the image side, comprises: a first lens unit having negative optical power and composed of two lens elements; a second lens unit having positive optical power; and a third lens unit having positive optical power, wherein in zooming from a wide-angle limit to a telephoto limit during image taking, the individual lens units are moved along an optical axis such that an interval between the first lens unit and the second lens unit should decrease and that an interval between the second lens unit and the third lens unit should increase, so that magnification change is achieved, and wherein on the image side relative to the second lens unit, an aperture diaphragm is arranged that moves along the optical axis integrally with the second lens unit during zooming. | 12-30-2010 |
20110001847 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, ZOOM CORRECTION INFORMATION CREATION METHOD AND PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - According to the apparatus, the method, the program, and the recording medium of the present invention, the amount of feed of a first zoom lens and the amount of feed of a second zoom lens corresponding to a magnification of the first zoom lens and a magnification of the second zoom lens which are close to each other are associated, and the amounts of feed of the first zoom lens and the second zoom lens corresponding to an arbitrarily designated magnification are set. Accordingly, the magnifications of the first zoom lens and the second zoom lens can be accurately made almost equal over the entire zoom range. Since the magnifications of the first zoom lens and the second zoom lens are made equal on the basis of the amounts of feed, effective pixels do not decrease, unlike magnification correction using an electronic zoom. | 01-06-2011 |
20110007190 | ILLUMINATION MODULE AND PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME - An illumination module and a portable electronic device using the same are provided. The illumination module comprises a shell, a light source and an optical lens. The shell has an opening, the light source is disposed within the shell to provide an illumination beam transmitted through the opening, and the optical lens is disposed within the shell and in a transmission path of the illumination beam. A power source is applied to the optical lens to adjust a reflective index of the optical lens, so as to adjust an irradiation angle of the transmitted illumination beam transmitted through the optical lens. | 01-13-2011 |
20110013049 | USING A TOUCH SENSITIVE DISPLAY TO CONTROL MAGNIFICATION AND CAPTURE OF DIGITAL IMAGES BY AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a touch sensitive display device, a camera device, and a processor that executes computer readable program code embodied in a computer readable storage medium. Some of the computer readable program code is configured to control magnification of a digital image from the camera device to generate a magnified digital image that is displayed on the display device in response to distance between at least two touch points detected relative to a surface of the display device. Some other computer readable program code is configured to initiate capture of the magnified digital image in response to cessation of detection of at least one of the two touch points. | 01-20-2011 |
20110019033 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGING APPARATUS - Disclosed are a zoom lens and an imaging apparatus having a high zoom ratio, a small total length, and a small overall size. | 01-27-2011 |
20110037878 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens including in order from an object side to an image side: a positive first lens unit which does not move for zooming; a negative second lens unit for magnification, and a rear lens group including two or more lens units, in which: the first lens unit includes a first subunit not moving for focusing and a second subunit moving for focusing, and the first subunit includes two or more negative lenses and one or more positive lenses; and an average Abbe number and an average partial dispersion ratio of materials of the negative lenses included in the first subunit, average Abbe number and average partial dispersion ratio of materials of the one or more positive lenses included in the first lens unit, combined focal length of the negative lenses included in the first subunit, and focal length of the zoom lens at telephoto end are appropriately set. | 02-17-2011 |
20110037879 | ZOOM CAMERA MODULE - Disclosed herein is a zoom camera module, the zoom camera module concluding an optic zoom lens part which includes a plurality of lenses and alters the disposition of the plurality of lenses for change to the magnification, and an imaging sensor which converts light transmitted through the optic zoom lens part into an electric signal, the disclosed zoom camera module controlling the focus of a subject using an EDOF (Extended Depth of Field) technology. | 02-17-2011 |
20110037880 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH SAME - A zoom lens comprises first and fourth units which don't move for zooming, and second and third units moved during zooming. The first unit includes a front side partial unit which don't move for focusing, a movable partial unit moved for focusing, and a rear side partial unit which don't move for focusing, the rear side partial unit includes positive lenses and one or more negative lenses, and the following conditions are satisfied: −1.2×10−3<(θpa−θn)/(νpa−νn), and νn<30, where νn is the smallest Abbe number of the material of the negative lenses, θn is the partial dispersion ratio of the material of the negative lens of the smallest Abbe number, νpa is the average of the Abbe numbers ν of the materials of positive lenses, and θpa is the average of the partial dispersion ratio θ of the materials of the positive lenses. | 02-17-2011 |
20110043663 | IMAGING TERMINAL, DISPLAY TERMINAL, DISPLAY METHOD, AND IMAGING SYSTEM - An imaging unit sequentially outputs original image data into which a light flux incident on an imaging area has been photoelectrically converted in a frame. An image processing unit generates image data of a first image size from original image data of a portion corresponding to a first area within the imaging area. A magnification generation unit generates image data of a second image size from original image data of a portion corresponding to a second area as a partial area within the first area. A transmission image generation unit extracts a part from the image data of the first image size and the image data of the second image size in the frame unit. A WLAN interface wirelessly sequentially transmits image data of the first image size and image data of the second image size extracted. | 02-24-2011 |
20110043664 | Image forming optical system and electronic image pickup apparatus equipped with same - An image forming optical system comprising, in order from the object side: a first lens group G | 02-24-2011 |
20110050964 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP METHOD - An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup unit which forms a subject image on an image pickup device through an optical system to generate an image pickup signal; an adjustment unit which changes an optical zoom magnification with respect to the subject image; and a control unit which records image data as a moving image in a memory in response to a moving image recording command, the image data being obtained based on the image pickup signal, and stops recording the moving image for a time period during which the zoom magnification is changed. | 03-03-2011 |
20110058068 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A zoom lens system of the present invention has a plurality of lens units each composed of at least one lens element and, in order from the object side to the image side, comprises: a first lens unit having negative optical power and composed of two lens elements; a second lens unit having positive optical power; and a third lens unit having positive optical power, wherein in zooming, at least the first lens unit and the second lens unit move along an optical axis, on the image side relative to the second lens unit, an aperture diaphragm is arranged that moves along the optical axis integrally with the second lens unit during zooming, the second lens unit moves in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis, and the condition is satisfied: 1.00<(1−m | 03-10-2011 |
20110063479 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A zoom lens system comprising a plurality of lens units each composed of at least one lens element, wherein the zoom lens system, in order from the object side to the image side, comprises: a first lens unit having positive optical power and comprising four lens elements; a second lens unit having negative optical power; and a third lens unit having positive optical power; wherein in zooming from a wide-angle limit to a telephoto limit at the time of image taking, at least the first lens unit is moved along an optical axis direction so as to achieve variable magnification, and wherein the conditions are satisfied: 0.3003-17-2011 | |
20110074978 | IMAGING DEVICE - There is provided an imaging apparatus which can prevent a privacy zone from being shifted from a mask when a magnification converting lens is switched. The imaging unit ( | 03-31-2011 |
20110096203 | LENS BARREL AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS THAT REALIZE INCREASED SHOOTING MAGNIFICATION AND SLIMMING DOWN - A lens barrel that can realize increased shooting magnification and slimming down of an image pickup apparatus without increasing drive load and optical accuracy error in driving the lens barrel along an optical axis. A cam follower follows cam grooves in a cam cylinder to move along the optical axis, and engages with a lens holding frame to move the same from a retracted state to a shooting state. A compression coil spring urges the cam follower and the lens holding frame in such a direction as to draw them away from each other, and when the cam follower moves from the shooting state to the retracted state, engages with the lens holding frame to move the same toward an image plane. A fixed portion coming into abutment with the lens holding frame restricts movement of the lens holding frame toward the image plane. | 04-28-2011 |
20110102639 | Image forming optical system and electronic image pickup apparatus equipped with same - A zoom optical system having a lens group I including two single lenses or one lens component, an aperture stop, and a lens group A disposed between the lens group I and the aperture stop, including a lens component made up of a positive lens LA and a negative lens LB that are cemented together, and having a negative refracting power as a whole. The distance between the lens group I and the lens group A on the optical axis changes for zooming, and the lens component has an aspheric cemented surface. When the shape of the aspheric surface is expressed by a certain equation, the shape of the air-contact surface of the positive lens LA and its aspheric components etc. satisfy conditional expressions (3a) and (3b). | 05-05-2011 |
20110102640 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising a first lens unit having negative optical power, a second lens unit having positive optical power, a third lens unit having positive optical power, and a fourth lens unit having positive optical power, wherein in zooming, the intervals between the respective lens units vary, and the condition (I-1): 1.3<|f | 05-05-2011 |
20110109771 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPRATUS AND IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - An image capturing apparatus is provided which can continuously keep track of an object even under changes of the angle of view during enlarged live-view display, as well as an image capturing method for such an image capturing apparatus. Acquisition range of image signals is controlled by the CPU to crop a portion of an object image formed on the image pickup device. Subsequently, the enlarged live-view display is performed in which the image based on the obtained image signals is enlarged and displayed on the display unit. If a zooming operation is performed during the enlarged live-view display, the CPU obtains information regarding the angle of view and updates the acquisition range of the image signals according to the information regarding the angle of view after the change. | 05-12-2011 |
20110115946 | 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: a first lens unit having a negative refractive power; a second lens unit having a positive refractive power; and a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, all the lens units moving during zooming; and a secondary aperture having a constant aperture diameter disposed on the image side of the second lens unit, in which the second lens unit includes lens components having a positive refractive powers disposed at a position closest to the object side and a position closest to the image side, and a distance (dd) on an optical axis between a lens surface closest to the image side in the second lens unit and the secondary aperture, and a focal length (fw) of the entire zoom lens at a wide angle end are appropriately set. | 05-19-2011 |
20110128416 | Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus equipped with same - A zoom lens includes, in order from the object side, an object side lens group having a negative refracting power at the wide angle end and including at least one negative lens unit, and an image side lens group having a positive refracting power at the wide angle end and including at least one positive lens unit including a cemented doublet lens component. The distance between the two lens groups is smaller at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end. The cemented doublet lens component includes, in order from the object side, a negative object side lens having a concave surface facing the image side, and positive image side lens having a meniscus shape with a concave surface facing the image side. The cemented doublet lens component is located closest to the image side in the positive lens unit. The zoom lens satisfies specific conditions. | 06-02-2011 |
20110128417 | IMAGE PICK-UP APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICK-UP METHOD - An apparatus includes a processing portion having a first mode in which one piece of pixel information is output per m-square light receiving portion(s) among light receiving portions in a first region and a second mode in which one piece of pixel information is output per light receiving portions as many as a number calculated by multiplying a square of m by a square of n among light receiving portions in a second region which is a similar figure to the first region at a scaling factor of n times. The apparatus accepts an operation to switch between wide-angle and telephoto, switches the processing portion to the second mode when an operation to switch to wide-angle is accepted and the processing portion to the first mode when an operation to switch to telephoto is accepted, and outputs image information based on the pixel information output from the processing portion. | 06-02-2011 |
20110128418 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising a first lens unit having negative optical power, a second lens unit having positive optical power, a third lens unit having positive optical power, and a fourth lens unit having positive optical power, wherein in zooming, the intervals between the respective lens units vary, and the condition (I-1): 2ω | 06-02-2011 |
20110134284 | IMAGING DEVICE - Provided are: an imaging sensor that captures subject light via a photographic optical system provided with a zoom lens and a focus lens; a display unit that displays a through image based upon an imaging signal from the imaging sensor; a predetermined area setting unit that sets a predetermined area on the through image displayed on a display surface of the display unit in a state which is set to a first angle of view or a second angle of view different from the first angle of view by driving the zoom lens; a movement control unit that moves positions of the zoom lens and the focus lens by controlling drive of the zoom lens and the focus lens, so as to change from a first state, which is set to the first angle of view and serves as an in-focus state focused on the predetermined area set by the predetermined area setting unit to a second state, which is set to the second angle of view and serves as an out-of-focus state defocused on the predetermined area, or from the second state to the first state over a predetermined time; and a movie image data creation unit that creates movie image data, which includes a movie image changed from the first state to the second state by the movement control unit over the predetermined time, based upon the imaging signal from the imaging sensor. | 06-09-2011 |
20110134285 | Image Processing Method, Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Program, and Image File Format - In a learning process, first, images having different resolutions are obtained from a target region of the subject (S | 06-09-2011 |
20110141320 | PHOTOGRAPHING MODULE WITH OPTICAL ZOOM - This invention provides a photographing module with optical zoom, which at least includes a focusing lens assembly, a zoom lens assembly, a focusing lens actuator, a zoom lens actuator, a photo sensor and a vibration sensor. The focusing lens actuator at least includes a first movable member, a first fixed member and a first electric unit, wherein the first electric unit can drive the first movable member to proceed axial displacement and incline at an angle with respect to at least one axis. The zoom lens actuator at least includes a second movable member, a second fixed member and a second electric unit, wherein the second electric unit can drive the second movable member to proceed axial displacement. Alternatively, the axial inclination driven by the first electric unit of the focusing lens actuator may be driven by the second electric unit of the zoom lens actuator. | 06-16-2011 |
20110149119 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - A zoom lens includes: a first lens group having a positive refracting power; a second lens group having a negative refracting power; a third lens group having a positive refracting power; a fourth lens group having a positive refracting power; and a fifth lens group having a positive or negative refracting power; the first, second, third, fourth and fifth lenses being disposed in order from the object side to the image side of the zoom lens. | 06-23-2011 |
20110157429 | Zoom lens and image pickup device - Disclosed herein is a zoom lens including a first lens group, a second lens group, a third lens group, a fourth lens group, and a fifth lens group. The zoom lens satisfies following conditional expressions (1) and (2), | 06-30-2011 |
20110157430 | Image pickup apparatus having optical path reflecting zoom lens - An image pickup apparatus includes a zoom lens, and an image pickup element having an image pickup surface which receives optically an image formed by the zoom lens, and which converts the image received to an electric signal. The image pickup apparatus satisfies the following conditional expressions (1), (2), and (3). | 06-30-2011 |
20110164153 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A high-performance zoom lens system which is compact and has a wide view angle at a wide-angle limit and a high zooming ratio in a balanced manner, 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, a third lens unit having positive optical power, and a fourth lens unit having positive optical power, wherein the first lens unit is composed of at most two lens elements, the second lens unit is composed of two lens elements, the third lens unit is composed of three lens elements, in order from the object side to the image side, including an object side lens element having positive optical power, a lens element having negative optical power, and an image side lens element having positive optical power, and the conditions: −2.307-07-2011 | |
20110181758 | Image forming optical system and electronic image pickup apparatus using the same - There is provided an image forming optical system in which, it is possible to achieve both, the small-sizing and slimming of an optical system, and a favorable correction of various aberrations, mainly the chromatic aberration. | 07-28-2011 |
20110205402 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM CHARACTERIZATION FOR IMAGE SHARPENING - A method for sharpening an input digital image captured using a digital camera having a zoom lens, determining a parameterized representation of lens acuity of the zoom lens as a function of at least the lens focal length and lens F# by fitting a parameterized function to lens acuity data for the zoom lens at a plurality of lens focal length and lens F/#; using a processor to sharpen the input digital image responsive to the particular lens focal length and lens F/# corresponding to the input digital image using the parameterized representation of the lens acuity. | 08-25-2011 |
20110216225 | IMAGING CONTROL DEVICE, SUBJECT DETECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An imaging control device for an imaging apparatus or an imaging system having an imaging section which performs imaging of a subject and an imaging field changing section of the imaging section, includes: a determination section which determines whether or not a subject detecting section detects a predetermined target subject by analyzing a captured image signal acquired by the imaging section, in a subject detection processing; and an imaging field change control section which controls the imaging field changing section to change an angle of view in the imaging section, wherein when the determination section determines that the subject detecting section does not detect a target subject in the subject detection processing, the imaging field change control section controls the imaging field changing section to change the angle of view in the imaging section and then the image control device controls the subject detecting section to perform the subject detection processing. | 09-08-2011 |
20110221934 | Ground-Based Instrumentation Operating with Airborne Wave Reflectors - An imaging system incorporates an elevated reflector mounted on a tall ground structure or a means for air flight to reflect a target area onto an imaging device, thus projecting the line-of-sight of said imaging device and enabling the imaging device to view target areas that are beyond the imaging device's direct line-of-sight. | 09-15-2011 |
20110249150 | IMAGING APPARATUS - A camera includes an imaging device; a phase difference detection unit configured to, in parallel with receipt of the light from the subject by the imaging device, perform phase difference detection using the light to detect a defocus amount of the subject; a focus lens group; a body control section configured to move the focus lens group based on the defocus amount detected by the phase difference detection unit to bring the subject into focus; and an image display section for selecting a subject to be in focus from subjects included in an image signal. The body control section is configured to, when the subject to be in focus is selected, move the focus lens group to bring the selected subject into focus. The body control section adjusts a focusing time depending on the defocus amount detected before the movement of the focus lens group. | 10-13-2011 |
20110261232 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A zoom lens system comprising a first lens unit having positive optical power, a second lens unit having negative optical power, a third lens unit having positive optical power, a fourth lens unit having negative optical power, and a fifth lens unit having positive optical power, wherein the third lens unit includes at least one lens element having positive optical power and at least one lens element having negative optical power, at least the first to third lens units are moved along an optical axis in zooming so that air spaces between the respective lens units vary, thereby performing magnification change, a lens unit positioned on the image side relative to an aperture diaphragm is moved along the optical axis in focusing, and the conditions: 8.110-27-2011 | |
20110267504 | Image forming optical system and electronic image pickup apparatus using the same - An image forming optical system comprising four or five lens groups in total, wherein during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end, the distance between the first lens group and the second lens group increases, the distance between the second lens group and the third lens group decreases, and the distance between the third lens group and the fourth lens group changes, the first lens group comprises three lenses including a negative meniscus lens, a positive meniscus lens, and a positive lens, the second lens group includes a negative meniscus lens having a convex surface directed toward the object side and a concave surface directed toward the image side, the negative meniscus lens being located closest to the object side in the second lens group, the position of the second lens group at the telephoto end is closer to the object side than that at the wide angle end, the image forming optical system has an aperture stop that moves integrally with the third lens group, the third lens group includes a positive lens component and a negative lens component, and the fourth lens group comprises one lens. | 11-03-2011 |
20110317040 | DETECTION DEVICE - A detection device includes an image capture element, a control signal generator, and a processor. The image capture element is used for capturing an optical signal, and outputting an image signal. The control signal generator is used for generating a control signal. The processor selectively converts the image signal into an object feature or an image feature in response to the control signal. Such a detection device can appropriately convert an operation mode, so as to have both efficacies of reducing the amount of transferred data and processing complex image data. | 12-29-2011 |
20120033106 | IMAGE-CAPTURING APPARATUS AND IMAGE-CAPTURING METHOD - An image-capturing apparatus includes an imaging unit that generates RAW image data by capturing an object image, an image processing unit that generates color image data by implementing image processing on the RAW image data, a processing mode setting unit capable of setting a filter effect mode for artificially reproducing an image effect obtained by image-capturing using an optical filter, a display unit that displays the color image data, a ring type or dial type rotary operating unit, a rotation operation detection unit that detects a rotation operation of the rotary operating unit, and a control unit that, when a rotation operation of the rotary operating unit is detected in a case where the filter effect mode has been set, controls the image processing unit to perform image processing for varying the image effect in conjunction with the rotation operation. | 02-09-2012 |
20120044387 | IMAGE CORRECTION APPARATUS AND IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD - A line memory stores sequentially image data captured through optical lenses. A distortion correction value storage stores distortion correction values used in the correction of optical distortion occurring in the image data due to distortion aberration present in the optical lens. An image data control unit selects pixels of image data stored in the line memory as pixels to be corrected for the correction of optical distortion respectively. Then the image data control unit determines a region for use in correction, having the fixed number of pixels horizontally and the fixed number of lines vertically, based on the positions of the pixels to be corrected and the distortion correction values obtained from the distortion correction value storage. Here, the region contains a plurality of pixels for use in correction of the pixels to be corrected. Then the image data control unit reads out the image data from the line memory. A distortion correction unit determines pixel values for the pixels to be corrected, based on (1) the pixels for use in correction, which are contained in the image data, within the region for use in correction, and (2) the distortion correction values. | 02-23-2012 |
20120044388 | LENS APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - The lens apparatus includes an aperture stop (SP) forming an aperture, a first lens (A or B) disposed on a first side further than the aperture stop, the first side being one of an object side and an image side, and a second lens (B or A) disposed on a second side further than the aperture stop, the second side being the other of the object side and the image side. In zooming or focusing, the aperture stop is moved independently of the first and second lenses. The first lens and the aperture stop are brought into a first state where an aperture stop side lens surface of the first lens is located away from the aperture stop on the first side and a second state where at least part of the aperture stop side lens surface (RA or RB) of the first lens protrudes through the aperture to the second side further than the aperture stop. | 02-23-2012 |
20120062770 | HIGH ZOOM-RATIO ZOOM LENS SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC IMAGING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A high zoom-ratio zoom lens system includes a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a positive third lens group and a positive fourth lens group. Upon zooming, the distance between the first and second lens groups increases, the distance between the second and third lens groups decreases, and the distance between the third and fourth lens groups increases. The first lens group includes a negative lens element, and two positive lens elements. The absolute value of the radius-of-curvature of the image-side surface of the negative lens element within the first lens group is smaller than the absolute value of the radius-of-curvature of the object-side surface of the positive lens element on the object side within the first lens group. The following condition (1) is satisfied: | 03-15-2012 |
20120069223 | CAMERA DEVICE WITH ROTARY BASE - A camera device with a rotary base has an automatic panning function of imaging a predetermined zone while reciprocating in a preset panning direction. The camera device includes: an imaging unit configured to image a subject and output a video signal; a rotary base configured to cause the imaging unit to rotate in a panning direction and a tilting direction; a motion and face detecting unit configured to detect the motion or face of the subject based on the video signal output from the imaging unit; and a tilt control instruction creating unit configured to create a tilt control instruction based on the detection result from the motion and face detecting unit and give the tilt control instruction to the rotary base to cause the imaging unit to rotate in the tilting direction. | 03-22-2012 |
20120092531 | AUTOFOCUSING OPTICAL IMAGING DEVICE - An optical imager includes: an image sensor for capturing images of targets and outputting image signals; a lens for focusing the target on the image sensor as a function of lens position; a memory for storing predetermined lens positions determined from predetermined target sizes; and a controller for determining current target size based on captured images and positioning the lens at a predetermined lens position by correlating current target size with predetermined target sizes. | 04-19-2012 |
20120099003 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A high-performance zoom lens system which is compact and has a wide view angle at a wide-angle limit and a high zooming ratio in a balanced manner, 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, a third lens unit having positive optical power, and a fourth lens unit having positive optical power, wherein the first lens unit is composed of at most two lens elements, the second lens unit is composed of two lens elements, the third lens unit is composed of three lens elements, in order from the object side to the image side, including an object side lens element having positive optical power, a lens element having negative optical power, and an image side lens element having positive optical power, and the conditions: −2.004-26-2012 | |
20120099004 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND CAMERA BODY - An imaging apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains lens information including information indicating resolution of an optical system with respect to a position of a zoom lens, an imaging sensor that captures a subject image formed through the optical system to output image information, an image processor that performs digital zoom to electronically enlarge a subject image by performing image processing on the image information outputted from an imaging sensor, and a controller that determines, based on the obtained lens information, whether the zoom lens is located in a predetermined position and controls the image processor to perform the digital zoom on the image information outputted from the imaging sensor, when the zoom lens is located in the predetermined position. The predetermined position is a position of the zoom lens where resolution of the optical system is larger than a predetermined value. | 04-26-2012 |
20120105683 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, LENS BARREL, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM - Compact and lightweight zoom lens systems having less aberration fluctuation in association with focusing, lens barrels, interchangeable lens apparatuses, and camera systems are provided. The zoom lens system comprises: a first lens unit having positive optical power; a first focusing lens unit which is located on an image side relative to the first lens unit, has negative optical power, and moves along an optical axis in zooming and focusing; and a second focusing lens unit which is located on the image side relative to the first focusing lens unit, has positive optical power, and moves along the optical axis in the zooming and the focusing, and satisfies the condition: |d | 05-03-2012 |
20120105684 | DIGITAL CAMERA - This invention includes an imaging device that photographs a subject, a display device that has a display screen displaying image data photographed by the imaging device, a zoom device that varies the display screen, an extraction device that extracts a predetermined feature portion from image data photographed by the imaging device, a directive device that directs the display device so as to display a predetermined feature portion extracted by the extraction device in a predetermined form, and a controller that controls the directive device so as not to direct a display on the display device in accordance with the varying magnification of the zoom device. Namely, an icon of the extraction result is not displayed while the zoom is in action, so that it can avoid an inappropriate display in which the icon display does not correspond to a photographed subject due to the subject's quick movement or a sudden change in its size within a picture frame. | 05-03-2012 |
20120105685 | IMAGE-PICKUP APPARATUS AND A ZOOM LENS FOR THE IMAGE-PICKUP APPARATUS, WITH DISTORTION CORRECTION - An image-pickup apparatus includes an image-pickup element that photoelectrically converts an optical image formed by an image-pickup optical system having a zoom function, and a correcting part that performs correction processing for a distortion component in image data generated based on an output from the image-pickup element, the distortion component corresponding to a distortion of the image-pickup optical system. The image-pickup optical system provides a first zoom range in which a distortion amount at a certain image height is larger than a predetermined value and a second zoom range in which a distortion amount at the certain image height is smaller than the predetermined value. The correcting part performs the correction processing so that the distortion component remains in a first corrected image data in the first zoom range is larger than the distortion component remaining in a second corrected image data in the second zoom range. | 05-03-2012 |
20120140095 | Zoom Lens System, Imaging Device and Camera - A zoom lens system having a plurality of lens units, each lens unit being composed of at least one lens element, the zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising: a first lens unit having negative optical power and being composed of at least two lens elements; and a second lens unit having positive optical power, wherein in zooming from a wide-angle limit to a telephoto limit at the time of image taking, the lens units are individually moved along an optical axis to vary magnification such that an interval between the first lens unit and the second lens unit decreases, and the conditions: f | 06-07-2012 |
20120194709 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image pickup apparatus includes an input image generating portion that generates an input image from an optical image of a subject entering through a zoom lens, and an output image generating portion that generates an output image by adjusting a focused state of the input image by image processing when an optical zoom magnification is changed by a positional change of the zoom lens. | 08-02-2012 |
20120200745 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens includes a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power and configured to move during a zooming operation, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power and configured to move during a zooming operation. The first lens unit has a negative lens closest to an object side, and includes at least five lenses. | 08-09-2012 |
20120200746 | ZOOM LENS, OPTICAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ZOOM LENS - With comprising, in order from an object side: a first lens group G | 08-09-2012 |
20120229680 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING OPERATING PORTION - An electronic device according to the invention includes an operating mechanism, wherein the operating mechanism includes an operating member that is attached so as to reciprocate on a straight line or a circular arc line with respect to a casing, and an elastic member that is interposed between the casing and the operating member to apply an elastic repulsion force to operation of the operating portion, and the elastic member is attached to the operating member by a detachment prevention portion that prevents detachment from the operating member. | 09-13-2012 |
20120236182 | CAMERA SYSTEM, CAMERA BODY, AND LENS UNIT - A camera system includes a lens unit, a mount, a camera body, and a control unit. The lens unit includes at least one lens unit operation portion and changes the magnification of an optical image electrically. The mount supports removably the lens unit. The camera body includes at least one camera body operation portion. The control unit controls the lens unit so as to change the magnification of an optical image electrically in response to either one of the operation of the camera body operation portion or the operation of the lens unit operation portion. The control unit controls the lens unit so as to execute an operation that is different from the operation which changes the magnification of an optical image, in response to the other of the operation of the camera body operation portion or the operation of the lens unit operation portion. | 09-20-2012 |
20120262608 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens includes a first lens unit having a positive refractive power which does not move for zooming; a second lens unit having a negative refractive power which moves during zooming; a third lens unit having a negative refractive power which moves during zooming; a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power which moves during zooming; and a fifth lens unit having a positive refractive power which does not move for zooming. Air intervals (L | 10-18-2012 |
20120287312 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens system comprises, from an object side to an image side: a first lens unit; a second lens unit; a third lens unit; a fourth lens unit; and a fifth lens unit having positive refractive power, wherein: in zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, the first, the second, the third, and the fourth lens units move so that an interval between the first and the second lens units is larger at the telephoto end than that at the wide angle end, an interval between the second and the third lens units is smaller at the telephoto end than that at the wide angle end, and a distance between the third and the fourth lens units varies; and a focal length of the first lens unit, and focal lengths of an entire system at the wide angle end and the telephoto end are appropriately set. | 11-15-2012 |
20120327276 | Image Pickup Apparatus Equipped with Zoom Lens with Bent Optical Path - A zoom lens with a bent optical path includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens unit including the reflecting member and having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, a third lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power. During zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end, the second lens unit moves closer to the first lens unit only toward the object side, the third lens unit moves in such a way that it becomes closest to the second lens unit at an intermediate focal length position in the course of zooming as compared to the state at the wide angle end and the state at the telephoto end, and the fourth lens unit moves. The zoom lens satisfies a certain condition. | 12-27-2012 |
20130021500 | OPTICAL DEVICE - An optical device includes a rotary member. A rotary member is rotated across a first angle range and a second angle range lined up in a direction in which an angle is increased. An activator activates a power source when a rotation angle of the rotary member is increased to a first specific angle belonging to the first angle range. An adjuster adjusts a setting of an optical system with reference to a rotation of the rotary member in the second angle range. A notifier generates a notification when the rotation angle of the rotary member remains within the first angle range in a state where the power source is activated. | 01-24-2013 |
20130021501 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A zoom lens system comprises: a negative first lens unit being composed of two lens elements; a positive second lens unit; and a positive third lens unit, wherein the lens units are moved such that an interval between the first lens unit and the second lens unit decreases and an interval between the second lens unit and the third lens unit increases in zooming, so that magnification change is achieved, wherein the first lens unit is composed of a negative first lens element and a positive second lens element, and wherein the condition is satisfied: 0.5001-24-2013 | |
20130033620 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTING THE LEVELS OF ILLUMINATION SOURCES IN AN OPTICAL MEASUREMENT MACHINE - A process for pre-calibrating illumination sources permits illumination light intensities to be set to a near optimal level during training of an optical inspection system. Applicants have found that the illumination source intensities for a category of illuminators are sufficiently constant from machine to machine that the data collected during calibration of an illumination source on a machine using a particular type of source may be used on other machines of the same type using the same type of illumination source when combined with the reticle light intensity data for different zoom magnification's of the particular machine being used. That is, using known data for particular machine and the illumination source light intensity data for the same type of machine and illumination source permits accurate presetting of an illumination source. | 02-07-2013 |
20130033621 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGING DEVICE - Disclosed herein is a zoom lens including a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group having negative refractive power, a third lens group having positive refractive power, a fourth lens group having positive refractive power, and a fifth lens group having negative refractive power. The respective lens groups move in magnification variation from a wide angle end to a telephoto end. The fourth lens group is moved in optical axis direction to correct variation of an imaging position in association with magnification variation and perform correction of the imaging position in association with object distance change. Condition expression (1) is satisfied. | 02-07-2013 |
20130050535 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A zoom lens includes: a first lens group having positive power and fixed during zooming operation; a second lens group having negative power; a third lens group having positive power; a fourth lens group having positive power; and a fifth lens group having positive power sequentially arranged from a side where an object is present, wherein the zooming operation is performed by moving at least the second lens group and the fourth lens group, the first lens group includes a reflective member that deflects an optical path, the fifth lens group includes a first lens partial group having negative power and a second lens partial group having positive power sequentially arranged from the object side, and the zoom lens satisfies the following conditional expressions. | 02-28-2013 |
20130050536 | COMPOUND-EYE IMAGING DEVICE - A compound-eye imaging device includes a first optical system that has a first zoom lens, a second optical system that has a second zoom lens, a first imaging sensor, a second imaging sensor, a zoom manipulation component, an interface, and a zoom controller. The first imaging sensor captures a subject image formed by the first optical system and outputs data. The second imaging sensor captures a subject image formed by the second optical system and outputs data. The zoom manipulation component is configured to be manipulated to drive either the first or the second zoom lens. The interface is configured to receive a particular input to select either the first or the second zoom lens as an active zoom lens. The particular input dictates manipulation of the zoom manipulation component. The zoom controller is configured to drive the active zoom lens according to how the zoom manipulation component is manipulated. | 02-28-2013 |
20130057732 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image pickup apparatus includes a taking optical system and an image pickup element. The taking optical system includes at least two zoom optical systems having the same focal length range. The distance between the optical axes of any two zoom optical systems among the plurality of zoom optical systems is substantially constant over a range from an incidence surface to an image pickup surface of the image pickup element. The plurality of zoom optical systems are arranged in such a way as to form images of an object respectively in different regions on the image pickup surface of the same image pickup element. | 03-07-2013 |
20130070123 | Temperature-Compensated Zoom Lens System - A zoom lens system used in a spectrum region including visible light has movable lens groups moved for zooming, and has, in a movable lens group, a negative lens element made of a material fulfilling the conditional formulae Vd<55 and 0.0018×Vd+P<0.65 and, in a movable lens group, a positive lens element made of a material fulfilling the conditional formulae 6003-21-2013 | |
20130070124 | LENS BARREL, IMAGING PICKUP DEVICE, AND CAMERA - A lens barrel comprises a first zoom/focus lens group and a second zoom/focus lens group configured to respectively vary a focal distance and imaging distance by moving in an optical axis, a first actuator configured to drive the first zoom/focus lens group, a second actuator configured to drive the second zoom/focus lens group, and a drive controller configured to independently control the first actuator and the second actuator. The drive controller is configured to wobble the first zoom/focus lens group by reciprocating only the first zoom/focus lens group out of the first and second zoom/focus lens groups in a optical axis direction. | 03-21-2013 |
20130083222 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit that generates image data of a subject image obtained via a lens unit, a display unit that displays an image corresponding to the image data generated by the imaging unit, an input unit that receives input for specifying an area of a portion of the image displayed by the display unit, and a display controller that controls a display mode for confirming a specified image corresponding to the area of which input is received by the input unit. | 04-04-2013 |
20130147992 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC IMAGING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - A zoom lens system includes a negative first lens group, positive second and third lens groups, wherein upon zooming from the short to the long focal length extremities, the distance between the first and second lens groups decreases and the distance between the second and third lens groups changes. The second lens group includes a biconvex positive lens element with an aspherical surface on each side, and a negative meniscus lens element with an aspherical surface, and a concave surface on the image side. The following condition (1) is satisfied: | 06-13-2013 |
20130155294 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP UNIT - A zoom lens includes: a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group having negative refractive power, a third lens group having positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group having positive refractive power, the first to fourth lens groups being arranged in order from an object side, in which zooming is performed through varying a distance between adjacent lens groups of the first to fourth lens groups, and the fourth lens group includes a first positive lens, a first negative meniscus lens, and a cemented lens which are arranged in order from the object side, the cemented lens being configured of a second negative meniscus lens with a convex surface facing the object side and a second positive lens. | 06-20-2013 |
20130162868 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS HAVING FUNCTION OF READING CAPTURED IMAGE, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND IMAGING APPARATUS - During a zoom operation of an imaging optical system, a read position is decided in units of less than one pixel and set sequentially. Also, when the zoom operation has stopped, the read position is moved so to be an integer multiple of one pixel, if the read position at the time when the zoom operation stopped is not an integer multiple of one pixel. Smooth image display during zoom operation and suppression of sharpness reduction in an image displayed when zooming has stopped are thereby both achieved, in an image processing apparatus that controls the read position of a captured image according to a zoom position of the imaging optical system and a control method thereof. | 06-27-2013 |
20130182150 | Image Pickup Apparatus - An image pickup apparatus includes a plurality of optical systems, each having a different focal length, an image pickup element which picks up an image of an object by the optical system, and a zoom control section which changes an angle of field of an output image by at least one optical system from among the plurality of optical systems, and a part of the angle of field which changes is same as an angle of field of another optical system, and the image pickup apparatus further includes a control section which changes a control position of a display image at the time of zooming to be directed toward an optical-axial center of the another optical system for which the part of the angle of field is same. | 07-18-2013 |
20130222650 | Copying Device that Converts Images on Films into Digital Images - A copying device that converts images on films to digital images has a film clip slot between the top and bottom thereof for the insertion of a film. The body thereof has a zooming optical lens group for an electronic device to copy the film on a film clip. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222651 | DRIVE UNIT, CAMERA SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY MACHINE READABLE MEDIUM - Provided is a drive unit which, if an amount of driving to rotate the imaging optical system during the preset mode is smaller than a threshold value in accordance with an imaging field angle of the imaging optical system, the control unit is further configured to control the driving to rotate at a speed in accordance with a change rate per unit time of imaging field angle and the imaging field angle by the zooming of the imaging optical system and, if the amount of driving to rotate the imaging optical system during the preset mode is greater than the threshold value, the control unit is further configured to control the driving to rotate at a speed irrespective of a change rate per unit time of the imaging field angle and the imaging field angle by the zooming of the imaging optical system. | 08-29-2013 |
20130242142 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising: a first lens unit having positive optical power; and a second lens unit having negative optical power, wherein the first lens unit is composed of two or less lens elements, in zooming from a wide-angle limit to a telephoto limit at the time of image taking, at least the first lens unit is fixed with respect to an image surface, and the conditions: L | 09-19-2013 |
20130258140 | Miniature MEMS Autofocus Zoom Camera Module - An autofocus zoom miniature MEMS camera module includes a housing with an aperture for capturing digital images, an image sensor, and an optical assembly. The optical assembly includes at least one fixed lens group, at least one movable lens group, and a MEMS actuator that is configured to move the movable lens group along an optical axis of the camera module relative to the image sensor and the fixed lens group. The MEMS actuation of the movable lens group automatically focuses an object at a determined zoom disposed an arbitrary distance from the camera module onto the image sensor. | 10-03-2013 |
20130286257 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A zoom lens includes first to fifth lens unit having negative, positive, positive, negative, and positive refractive powers, in an order from an object side to an image side, an interval of each lens unit is configured to be changed in zooming, the first lens unit, in order from the object side to the image side, consists of one or two negative lenses and one positive lens, the second lens unit consists of one lens component that moves to the image side in focusing on an object at an infinite distance to a short distance object, and an interval D23, combined focal lengths D23w, f23w, and f4Rw, and a length D2 are appropriately set. | 10-31-2013 |
20130329089 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD THEREFOR - Provided is an imaging apparatus including a display device for suppressing a motion blur during a panning operation and displaying a picture with high simultaneity. An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging unit including a lens and an imaging element; a display device including a pixel whose light emission period is adjustable, for displaying an image of a target object to be imaged; an angular velocity sensor for detecting a movement of the imaging element; a panning speed detection unit for detecting a panning speed based on an output from the angular velocity sensor; a light emission period ratio determination unit for determining a light emission period ratio of the pixel based on the panning speed; and a display device driving unit for driving the display device by using the light emission period ratio determined by the light emission period ratio determination unit. | 12-12-2013 |
20140022416 | 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 negative refractive power, a second lens unit having positive refractive power, a third lens unit having negative refractive power, and a fourth lens unit having positive refractive power. During zooming, a distance between every adjacent lens unit from the first to fourth lens units varies. A focal length fw of the entire zoom lens at a wide-angle end, a focal length f1 of the first lens unit, and a focal length f4 of the fourth lens unit are appropriately set according to predetermined mathematical conditions. | 01-23-2014 |
20140063296 | LENS BARREL - A lens barrel includes a lens retaining member retaining a lens group and having a retaining-side cam follower, a moving member being movable in an optical axis direction with respect to the lens retaining member and having a moving-side cam follower, a rotary barrel having a retaining-side cam groove and a moving-side cam groove and being configured to rotate, thereby giving the lens retaining member and the moving member moving force; an elastic member giving the lens retaining member and the moving member relatively pushing force in the optical axis direction, and a rotating load restraining mechanism retaining rotating load of the rotary barrel generated by the pushing force. The rotating load restraining mechanism includes the moving-side cam groove provided such that the angle made by the part on which the moving-side cam follower abuts and the plane orthogonal to the optical axis becomes small, in a sharply inclined area. | 03-06-2014 |
20140085513 | ZOOM LENS, IMAGE-PICKUP APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME, AND IMAGE PROJECTION APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - The zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a rear unit including one or more lens units, a distance between every adjacent lens units varies during zooming, and an aperture diaphragm on the image side of the first lens unit, a combined focal length of the rear unit at a wide-angle end being positive. One lens unit LG on the object side of the aperture diaphragm is made of a solid material, and includes an optical element GnNL having a negative refractive power and another optical element having a positive refractive power, and the predetermined conditions are satisfied. | 03-27-2014 |
20140253762 | IMAGING APPARATUS HAVING OPTICAL ZOOM MECHANISM, VIEWING ANGLE CORRECTION METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In the present invention, when a backlash control operation is being performed, the position of a zoom lens at the time of image capturing and the captured image are stored in association with each other. Subsequently, an image processing section trims the periphery of the captured image in accordance with the focal length of a target position (WIDE end) and the focal length of the position of the zoom lens associated with the captured image, and enlarges the trimmed image to a normal size (size for use in a live view or a size of the image before being trimmed). Then, a display section displays the image subjected to the image processing as a live view image. | 09-11-2014 |
20140300781 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens includes first, second, and third lens units respectively having negative, positive, and negative refractive powers in this order from an object side to an image side. The lens units move during zooming such that the spacing between adjacent lens units changes, the second and third lens units are positioned on the object side at a telephoto end when compared to a wide angle end, and the third lens unit moves during focusing. A lateral magnification of the second lens unit at the wide angle end, a lateral magnification of the second lens unit at the telephoto end, a lateral magnification of the third lens unit at the wide angle end, a lateral magnification of the third lens unit at the telephoto end, a focal length of the first lens unit, and a focal length of the second lens unit are appropriately set. | 10-09-2014 |
20140300782 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens includes, in order from the object side to the image plane side, first to fifth lens units having positive, negative, positive, negative and positive refractive powers. At least the second lens unit and the fourth lens unit move during zooming such that at the telephoto end, in comparison with the wide angle end, the interval between the first lens unit and the second lens unit increases, the interval between the second lens unit and the third lens unit decreases, the interval between the third lens unit and the fourth lens unit changes, and the interval between the fourth lens unit and the fifth lens unit increases, and the fifth lens unit does not move. The zoom lens further includes a reflection unit for bending a light path, between the fourth lens unit and the fifth lens unit. | 10-09-2014 |
20140320702 | OBJECT DETECTION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An apparatus includes a first operation unit configured to instruct to change an angle of view, an object detection unit configured to detect an object from an image, and a control unit configured to control the angle of view. In response to a first operation via the first operation unit, the control unit executes a first mode. In the first mode, if the object is detected in a first area set within the image, the control unit changes the angle of view to a first angle of view, and sets the angle of view before the change as a second angle of view, and if, at the first angle of view, the object is detected in a second area, the control unit changes the angle of view to the second angle of view. | 10-30-2014 |
20140320703 | Zoom Lens Having Optical Path Bending Member and Image Pickup Apparatus Equipped with same - A zoom lens includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a third lens unit including a lens. The distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit is smaller at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end, and the distance between the second lens unit and the third lens unit changes during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end. The first lens unit consists, in order from the object side, of a front sub lens unit having a negative refractive power, an optical path bending member, and a rear sub lens unit having a positive refractive power. The front sub lens unit includes a biconcave single lens, and the rear sub lens unit includes one or two single lenses. | 10-30-2014 |
20140340544 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side thereof, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a rear lens group including one or more lens units. A distance between adjacent ones of the lens units changes during zooming. The second lens unit and the third lens unit each include a resin lens element. A focal length f2p of the resin lens element included in the second lens unit, a focal length f3p of the resin lens element included in the third lens unit, and a focal length ft of the zoom lens at a telephoto end are set to satisfy predetermined mathematical conditions. | 11-20-2014 |
20140340545 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A zoom lens system comprising: a positive first lens unit composed of three or more lens elements; a negative second lens unit; a positive third lens unit; a negative fourth lens unit; and a positive fifth lens unit, wherein at least the first, second and third lens units move with respect to an image surface in zooming, a focusing lens unit, which moves with respect to the image surface in focusing and is composed of one lens element, is provided, and the conditions: 3.211-20-2014 | |
20140347522 | Zoom Lens and Imaging Apparatus - The zoom lens includes at least, in order from an object side: a first lens group G | 11-27-2014 |
20140347523 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING ZOOM LENS - A zoom lens includes, in order from object side to image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power and a second lens unit having a positive refractive power. During zooming, the first lens unit and the second lens unit move so that the distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit changes. The first lens unit includes at least one positive lens and at least one negative lens. The total length of the zoom lens at the wide angle end, the back focal length at the wide angle end, the focal length of the zoom lens at the telephoto end, the focal length of the first lens unit, the focal length of the second lens unit, and the refractive index of the material of the at least one positive lens included in the first lens unit are each appropriately set according to mathematical conditions. | 11-27-2014 |
20140347524 | Zoom Lens and Imaging Apparatus - The zoom lens is composed of: an object side lens group at least including, in order from an object side: a first lens group G | 11-27-2014 |
20140347525 | Zoom Lens and Imaging Apparatus - A zoom lens includes a first lens group having positive refracting power, a second lens group having negative refracting power, a third lens group having positive refracting power, a fourth lens group having negative refracting power and a fifth lens group having negative refracting power in order from an object side, in which the lens groups move in magnification change from a wide angle end to a telephoto end such that a gap between the first lens group and the second lens group increases and a gap between the second lens group and the third lens group decreases, a negative lens group disposed closer to an image focusing side than a diaphragm among all lens groups is set as a focusing lens group, and the focusing lens group moves toward the image focusing side at focusing from infinity to a close object, and the fifth lens group includes at least a single lens block of a meniscus shape provided with a concave surface at an object side, the single lens block of the meniscus shape has a negative focal distance. The zoom lens and the fifth lens group each satisfies a respective conditional expression. | 11-27-2014 |
20140354856 | MEMS-BASED ZOOM LENS SYSTEM - The present application provides a micromechanical (MEMS) based zoom lens system, for use in miniature device applications, such as miniature electronic imaging devices. The MEMS-based zoom lens system comprises at least four optical elements, or two Alvarez or Lohmann lenses, that are configured for passage of optical signals therethrough along an optical signal path. Each optical element is MEMS-driven and displaceable in a direction substantially transverse to the optical signal path. In use, the transverse displacement of the optical elements vary an overall focal length of the MEMS zoom lens system such as to provide an optical zoom function. A method of manufacturing a MEMS zoom lens system is also provided in a further aspect. | 12-04-2014 |
20140354857 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A zoom lens includes a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group having negative refractive power, a third lens group having positive refractive power, a fourth lens group which has negative refractive power and is configured with only a single lens, and a fifth lens group having positive refractive power, which are arranged in order from an object side to an image side. During zooming, at least the first lens group, the second lens group, the third lens group, and the fourth lens group are movable in an optical axis direction. Focusing from infinity to a close range is performed by the fourth lens group being moved in the optical axis direction. At least one of following conditional expressions (1) and (2) is satisfied. | 12-04-2014 |
20140354858 | Zoom Lens and Image Pickup Apparatus Using the Same - A zoom lens includes a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a third lens unit having a negative refractive power. At the time of zooming, distances between the lens units change, and a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit at a telephoto end is shorter than at a wide angle end. An aperture stop is disposed on the image side of an image-side surface of the first lens unit, and on the object side of an image-side surface of the second lens unit. The second lens unit includes two sub lens units. The object-side sub lens unit in the second lens unit includes one lens component. The following conditional expressions are satisfied. | 12-04-2014 |
20140362259 | Variable-Magnification Optical System, Imaging Optical Device, And Digital Appliance - A variable-magnification optical system has five lens groups, namely, from object side, positive, negative, positive, positive, and negative lens groups, and achieves magnification variation by varying all axial distances between the lens groups. Focusing is achieved by moving the fourth lens group in optical axis direction. Vibration correction is achieved by moving all or part of the fifth lens group perpendicularly to optical axis. Fulfilled are formulae 4.0<|f1/f2|<6.0, 1.012-11-2014 | |
20140375844 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A zoom lens system having at least five lens units, each lens unit being composed of at least one lens element, the zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising: a positive first lens unit; and a negative second lens unit, and in order from the image side to the object side, comprising: a positive lens unit γ; a negative lens unit β; and a positive lens unit α, wherein the first lens unit is composed of only optical elements having optical power, and in zooming from a wide-angle limit to a telephoto limit, at least the positive first lens unit is fixed with respect to an image surface, the positive lens unit α moves with respect to the image surface separately from an aperture diaphragm, and the negative lens unit β moves to the object side. | 12-25-2014 |
20150009367 | IMAGE ELEMENT, AND IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING METHOD USING THE SAME - An imaging element which outputs a pair of image signals corresponding to a pair of luminous fluxes which pass through different pupil areas of a photographing optical system, the imaging element includes a first pixel cell group including a plurality of first pixel cells for obtaining the pair of image signals and a second pixel cell group including a plurality of second pixel cells for obtaining the pair of image signals. The first pixel cell includes a first photoelectric converting unit and a first micro lens which is provided above the first photoelectric converting unit. The second pixel cell includes a second photoelectric converting unit and a second micro lens which is provided above the second photoelectric converting unit. The first micro lens and the second micro lens are disposed with different regularities. | 01-08-2015 |
20150022695 | Optical Zooming Apparatus for Miniature Imaging System - An optical apparatus is provided that includes a reflective component that reflects light from an optical axis to an optical plane substantially perpendicular to the optical axis. The apparatus further includes first and second lens units disposed within the optical plane, and an actuator mechanically coupled with the first and second lens units to cause concurrent first and second displacements, respectively. Light transmitted through the first and second lens units prior to the first and second displacements is imaged with a first magnification at a respective focal plane and light transmitted through the first and second lens units after the first and second displacements is image with a second magnification different from the first magnification at the respective focal plane, thereby effecting an optical zoom effect. | 01-22-2015 |
20150022696 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING CAMERA MODULE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device including a camera module that operates intuitively and an operating method thereof are provided. In a method for operating an electronic device, a rotation event of a zoom ring is detected for a predetermined time. A zoom speed of a barrel is determined in response to the detected rotation event. A zoom-in function or a zoom-out function is performed with the determined zoom speed. | 01-22-2015 |
20150042846 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side: a negative first lens unit which does not move for zooming; a positive second lens unit which moves during the zooming; a negative third lens unit which moves during the zooming; and a positive fourth lens unit, wherein the following expressions are satisfied: | 02-12-2015 |
20150054988 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens is provided which has a wide angle of view and is bright and in which the entire lens system is compact and which can achieve high optical characteristic over the entire zoom range. | 02-26-2015 |
20150054989 | Zoom Lens, Image Sensing Optical Device and Digital Appliance - In a zoom lens, at least a first group of negative optical power and a second group of positive optical power are included from an object side, when zooming is performed from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, a distance between the first and the second groups is reduced and an aperture is moved together with the second group. The first group is formed with a front group composed of only negative lenses and a rear group which is composed of two lenses, a positive and a negative from the object side and which has a positive optical power as a whole and the zoom lens satisfies a conditional formula: 0.0602-26-2015 | |
20150062385 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having positive refractive power, a second lens unit having negative refractive power, a third lens unit having positive refractive power, a fourth lens unit having negative refractive power, and a fifth lens unit having positive refractive power. At least the first, second, and third lens units move during zooming so that the first lens unit is located closer to an object side than an image side, the second lens unit is located closer to the image side, and the third lens unit is located closer to the object side at a telephoto end than a wide-angle end. Movement, focal length, and positioning parameters of first to third lens units, during zooming from the wide-angle end toward the telephoto end, are appropriately set based on mathematical conditions. | 03-05-2015 |
20150070534 | ZOOM LENS, IMAGING OPTICAL APPARATUS, AND DIGITAL DEVICE - A zoom lens includes, in an order from an object side, four groups of a positive group, a negative group, a positive group, and a negative group. For varying magnification from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, the first group is configured to be moved toward the object side, the second group is configured to be moved toward an image side, the third group is configured to be moved toward the object side, and the fourth group is configured to be moved toward the object side, and conditional equations of −0.6303-12-2015 | |
20150077593 | LENS CONTROL APPARATUS, LENS CONTROL METHOD, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A lens control apparatus includes an operation input unit, a communication unit, and a control unit. The operation input unit is configured to accept a user operation. The communication unit is configured to perform communication with an external apparatus. The control unit is configured to perform driving control of a zoom lens in response to a zoom operation accepted by the operation input unit or a zoom control signal received by the communication unit. The control unit is also configured to selectively set a zoom position changing speed for driving control performed in response to the zoom operation and a zoom position changing speed for driving control performed in response to the zoom control signal, the zoom position changing speeds being different from each other. | 03-19-2015 |
20150077594 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - The zoom lens includes: a positive first lens unit; a positive second lens unit disposed in an image side of the first lens unit, at least a part of the second lens unit constituting an image stabilizing lens unit configured to move with a component perpendicular to an optical axis; the zoom lens being configured to change an interval between neighboring lens units during zooming; and an aperture stop arranged in the image side of the first lens unit, wherein a focal length of the first lens unit, a focal length of the image stabilizing lens unit, a focal length at a wide angle end of an optical system Lr arranged on the image side of the image stabilizing lens unit, and a focal length of an entire system at the wide angle end are appropriately set. | 03-19-2015 |
20150085165 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens group having a positive refractive power; a second lens group having a negative refractive power; a third lens group having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens group having a negative refractive power; and a fifth lens group having a negative refractive power. During zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, air spacing between the first and second lens groups increases, air spacing between the second and third lens groups decreases, spacing between the third and fourth lens groups changes, and spacing between the fourth and fifth lens groups changes. Thus, all the lens groups are moved in an optical axis direction. The zoom lens satisfies the following Conditional Expression (1). | 03-26-2015 |
20150092085 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device includes an imaging unit, a signal processing unit, a frequency dividing unit, a noise processing unit, a noise frequency unifying unit, an edge processing unit, an edge frequency unifying unit, a synthesizing unit, and a control unit. The control unit controls the rates of the noise processing results of respective frequency components unified by the noise frequency unifying unit, and the rates of the edge processing results of the respective frequency components unified by the edge frequency unifying unit in accordance with control of operations of constituent elements included in the imaging device. | 04-02-2015 |
20150097989 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A zoom lens system comprising: a negative first lens unit; a positive second lens unit; a negative third lens unit; and a positive fourth lens unit, wherein in zooming, the first lens unit moves with locus of a convex to the image side and the second lens unit moves to the object side, and the conditions: 0<(D | 04-09-2015 |
20150109484 | ZOOM RELATED METHODS AND APPARATUS - Methods and apparatus for performing zoom in and zoom out operations are described using multiple optical chains in a camera device. At least one optical chain in the camera device includes a moveable light redirection device, said light redirection device being one of a substantially plane mirror or a prism. Different zoom focal length settings correspond to different scene capture areas for the optical chain with the moveable light redirection device. Overlap between scene areas captured by different optical chains increases during zoom in and decreases during zoom out. Images captured by different optical chains are combined and/or cropped to generate a composite image corresponding to a zoom focal length setting. | 04-23-2015 |
20150109485 | Zoom Lens And Image Pickup Device - A first lens group includes a plano-concave and negative first lens, a catoptric element having a flat object side surface and a flat image side surface, and a first cemented lens, for example. Here, the first cemented lens includes a negative second lens and a positive third lens in order from an object side. A second lens group includes an aperture stop and a positive second cemented lens, for example. The second cemented lens includes a positive fourth lens, a negative fifth lens, and a positive sixth lens in order from the object side. A zoom lens satisfies a conditional expression 1.5904-23-2015 | |
20150124126 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens group that has a positive refractive power; a second lens group that has a negative refractive power; a third lens group that has a positive refractive power; and a fourth lens group that has a positive refractive power. During zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, the first lens group is stationary relative to an imaging surface, and the second lens group is moved to the image side in an optical axis direction so as to decrease a space between the second lens group and the third lens group. The third lens group includes a positive lens, a negative lens, and a cemented lens. The zoom lens satisfies −0.9505-07-2015 | |
20150124127 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A zoom lens system comprising a plurality of lens units each being composed of at least one lens element, and comprising, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having positive optical power, a second lens unit having negative optical power, a third lens unit having positive optical power, a fourth lens unit having positive optical power, and a fifth lens unit having negative optical power, wherein the first lens unit is composed of two or less lens elements, the third lens unit is composed of five or more lens elements, and the condition: 5.005-07-2015 | |
20150130968 | 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: a first lens unit having a positive refractive power which does not move for zooming; a second lens unit having a negative refractive power which moves during zooming; and an N-th lens unit having a positive refractive power which does not move for zooming and is arranged closest to the image side. In the zoom lens, the N-th lens unit includes in order from an object side: a first sub-lens unit; and a second sub-lens unit which is movable, and a lateral magnification at a wide angle end of the N-th lens unit and a lateral magnification at a wide angle end of the second sub-lens unit of the N-th lens unit when an axial ray enters from infinity in a state in which focus is at the infinity are appropriately set. | 05-14-2015 |
20150130969 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens includes in order from object side to image side: a positive first lens unit that does not move for zooming; a negative second lens unit that moves during zooming; and a positive N-th lens unit that does not move for zooming, the N-th lens unit being arranged closest to the image side. The first lens unit includes, in order from object side to image side: a negative first sub-lens unit that does not move for focusing; a positive second sub-lens unit that moves along an optical axis during focusing; and a positive third sub-lens unit that does not move for focusing. Focal length of the first lens unit, focal length at wide angle end of the zoom lens, and lateral magnification at wide angle end satisfy predetermined conditions. | 05-14-2015 |
20150130970 | Zoom Lens and Image Pickup Apparatus Using the Same - A zoom lens comprises a first lens unit G1 having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit G2 having a negative refractive power, and a plurality of lens units G3 and G4. Zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end is carried out by changing a distance between the lens units. One of the first lens unit G1 and the second lens unit G2 has, or both the first lens unit G1 and the second lens unit G2 have a specific arrangement. | 05-14-2015 |
20150138400 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having positive refractive power, a second lens unit having negative refractive power, a third lens unit having positive refractive power, and a rear lens group including one or more lens units. The distance between adjacent lens units changes during zooming. The first lens unit is closer to the object side at a telephoto end than at the wide-angle end. The second lens unit includes a first negative lens, a second negative lens, and a third negative lens in this order from the object side. The focal lengths of the zoom lens at the wide-angle end and at the telephoto end, the focal length of the first lens unit, and the focal length of the second lens unit are appropriately set based on predetermined mathematical conditions. | 05-21-2015 |
20150138401 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A zoom lens including: a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a fifth lens unit having a positive refractive power in this order from an object side to an image side. During zooming, the lens units move such that an interval between adjacent lens units varies. The third lens unit includes at least two positive lenses. A partial dispersion ratio (θgF3P) of a material and the Abbe number (νd3P) of a positive lens included in the third lens unit satisfy the following conditional expressions, | 05-21-2015 |
20150138402 | Light Field Data Acquisition - A light field data acquisition device includes optics and a light field sensor to acquire light field image data of a scene. In at least one embodiment, the light field sensor is located at a substantially fixed, predetermined distance relative to the focal point of the optics. In response to user input, the light field acquires the light field image data of the scene, and a storage device stores the acquired data. Such acquired data can subsequently be used to generate a plurality of images of the scene using different virtual focus depths. | 05-21-2015 |
20150146044 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided is a zoom lens, including, in order from object side to image side: first and second lens units having positive and negative powers, respectively; and three or more lens units. An interval between adjacent ones of the lens units is changed during zooming. An N-th lens unit, where 5≦N holds, counted from object side has negative refractive power, and moves to image side during focusing from infinite object to a close distance object. The N-th lens unit includes, in order from object side to image side, negative, positive, negative, and positive lenses. A focal length (f | 05-28-2015 |
20150146045 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having positive refractive power, a second lens unit having negative refractive power, a third lens unit having positive refractive power, and a rear lens group including one or more lens units. An interval between adjacent lens units is changed in zooming, the first lens unit is moved closer to the object side at a telephoto end than at a wide-angle end. The first lens unit includes at least four lenses. An Abbe number and a material of a positive lens included in the first lens unit satisfy predetermined values. And, a focal length f1 of the first lens unit, and an amount of movement M1 of the first lens unit at zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end are appropriately set. | 05-28-2015 |
20150304529 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Provided are an image processing device, an imaging device, a program, and an image processing method which can suppress a reduction in the visibility of a split image when distortion is corrected. A first display image which is used as a live view image and a second display image which is used to check a focus are generated on the basis of an image signal output from an imaging element including first and second pixel groups on which an object image that passes through first and second regions of an imaging lens and is pupil-divided is formed (S | 10-22-2015 |
20150304569 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH ZOOM LENS - Disclosed is an electronic device having a display unit exposed on a front surface and a lens module disposed on a rear surface. The electronic device includes: a motor unit positioned at one side of the lens module and configured to provide a driving force to the lens module; and a side key positioned at the other side of the lens module which is opposite to the one side of the lens module, the side key being positioned on any one of side end parts of the electronic device. The lens module may be positioned between the side key and the motor unit. | 10-22-2015 |
20150309291 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A five-group zoom lens including, in order from the object side, positive, negative, negative, positive, and positive groups. The first group includes a negative meniscus lens with the concave surface toward the image side, a positive lens and a positive lens. The second group includes a negative lens with the image-side surface having an absolute value of curvature radius smaller than that of the object side surface, a biconcave lens, and a biconvex lens. The third group includes a negative lens with the object side surface having an absolute value of curvature radius smaller than that of the image-side surface, and is moved during focusing on a closer object. The fifth group includes a positive fifth-A group including a biconvex lens, and a negative fifth-B group including a biconcave lens and a biconvex lens, wherein condition expression (1) is satisfied: | 10-29-2015 |
20150312484 | ZOOM-TRACKING METHOD PERFORMED BY IMAGING APPARATUS - Provided is an improved zoom-tracking method. A point or two points between a Wide point and a Tele point are chosen, histogram information is stored, and a distance to a subject is estimated based on the stored histogram information. A locus curve is selected based on the estimated distance to the subject, and zoom-tracking is performed along the locus curve after a zoom lens reaches a specific point. | 10-29-2015 |
20150319368 | Optical Zoom Imaging Systems And Associated Methods - An optical zoom imaging system includes (1) first and second image sensors disposed on a common substrate, and (2) first and second optical blocks in optical communication with the first and second image sensors, respectively. The first and second optical blocks have different respective magnifications. An array includes a plurality of the optical zoom imaging systems. A method for imaging a scene includes the following steps: (1) generating first image data representing the scene at a first zoom level using a first optical block in optical communication with a first image sensor, (2) generating second image data representing the scene at a second zoom level using a second optical block in optical communication with a second image sensor, the second zoom level being different from the first zoom level, and (3) selecting between the first image data and the second image data based on a desired zoom level. | 11-05-2015 |
20150323762 | IMAGING DEVICE - There is provided an imaging device including an outer case in which a photographic lens is disposed inside. The outer case includes a cylindrical portion in which an external shape of a cross-section perpendicular to an optical axis of the photographic lens is formed into a substantially circular shape, and a rolling prevention portion provided to protrude outside the cylindrical portion in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis. The rolling prevention portion is provided on a lower surface side of the cylindrical portion. A central portion of the rolling prevention portion in a horizontal direction is positioned off to left or right of a central portion of the cylindrical portion in the horizontal direction. | 11-12-2015 |
20150326792 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - Provided is an image pickup apparatus including a zoos lens and a solid-state image pickup element. The zoom lens includes a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, an aperture stop, and a second lens unit having a positive refractive power. The first lens unit consists of a first lens sub-unit having a negative refractive power, which consists of two negative lenses, and a second lens sub-unit having a positive refractive power. The first lens unit and the second lens unit are configured to move in different loci for zooming. Each of a full-open f-number (Fnow) of the zoom lens, a focal length of the zoom lens, a focal length of the first lens sub-unit, and a pixel pitch (P) of the solid-state image pickup element is appropriately set. | 11-12-2015 |
20150338622 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A zoom lens system comprising a positive first lens unit; a negative second lens unit; and subsequent five or six lens units, wherein an aperture diaphragm is provided, intervals between the adjacent lens units vary in zooming, the first lens unit moves in zooming and is fixed in focusing, and the conditions: BF/f | 11-26-2015 |
20150350557 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING OPTICAL DEVICE, AND DIGITAL APPARATUS - In a zoom lens system, a distance between a first lens group and a second lens group is increased, a distance between the second lens group and a third lens group is reduced, and a distance between the third lens group and a fourth lens group is reduced. The third lens group includes, in order from an object side, a front lens group and a rear lens group separated from each other by a widest air gap on an optical axis in the third lens group. Camera-shake correction is performed by moving whole or part of the front lens group as a camera-shake correction lens group perpendicularly to the optical axis. Conditional formula below is satisfied: −3.012-03-2015 | |
20150355436 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A five-group zoom lens includes, in order from the object side, positive, negative, positive, positive, and positive groups. During magnification change, the first and fifth groups are fixed relative to the image plane, and the second, third, and fourth groups are moved to change distances therebetween. During magnification change from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end, the second group is moved from the object side toward the image plane side, the fourth group is moved from the image plane side toward the object side, and a third-fourth combined lens group, which is the combination of the third group combined and the fourth group, and the second group simultaneously pass through their respective points at which the imaging magnification is −1×. The third-fourth combined lens group includes at least one negative lens, and satisfies the condition expression (1) below: | 12-10-2015 |
20150362710 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens including, in order from an object side: a positive first lens unit not moving for zooming; a negative second lens unit moving during zooming; a negative third lens unit moving during zooming; and a fourth lens unit not moving for zooming and including an aperture stop, the fourth lens unit including first and second sub-lens units arranged on object side and image plane side of the aperture stop, respectively, in which a relationship between a maximum height of an axial ray from an optical axis in the first sub-lens unit when focusing at infinity at a wide angle end, and a maximum height of an axial ray at the aperture stop when focusing at infinity at the wide angle end and of full open aperture, and a lateral magnification of the fourth lens unit when focusing at infinity at the wide angle end are appropriately set. | 12-17-2015 |
20150370051 | Zoom Lens and Image Pickup Apparatus Using the Same - A zoom lens comprising, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a fifth lens unit having a positive refractive power. Each distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit, between the third lens unit and the fourth lens unit, and between the fourth lens unit and the fourth lens unit at the telephoto end is longer than at the wide angle end, and a distance between the second lens unit and the third lens unit at the telephoto end is shorter than at the wide angle end, and the following conditional expressions are satisfied. | 12-24-2015 |
20160037078 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH MAGNIFYING ELEMENT - An electronic device includes a magnifying element. The magnifying element includes a camera module and a lens module. The camera module includes an image sensor and a lens related to the image sensor. The lens module is mounted on the lens and used as back projection to ensure that the light exit aperture of the lens module is opposite to the entrance aperture of the camera module. The power of magnification of the electronic device with a magnifying element is determined by the design features of the lens module. | 02-04-2016 |
20160037079 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image pickup apparatus includes: an optics system that forms an optical image of a subject on an imaging surface; a variable magnification lens that is part of the optics system, that is provided to be movable in a direction of an optical axis of the optics system, and that enlarges or reduces the optical image formed on the imaging surface in association with a movement of the variable magnification lens; a position detection unit that detects a position of the variable magnification lens in the direction of the optical axis; a storage unit that stores output characteristic information about a characteristic of an output of the position detection unit according to a position of the variable magnification lens in the direction of the optical axis; and a driving control unit that performs a control for moving the variable magnification lens on the basis of the output characteristic information. | 02-04-2016 |
20160044247 | ZOOM DUAL-APERTURE CAMERA WITH FOLDED LENS - Zoom digital cameras comprising a fixed-focus or auto-focus Wide sub-camera and a folded fixed-focus or auto-focus Tele sub-camera. The folded Tele sub-camera may be auto-focused by moving either its lens or a mirror inserted in an optical path between its lens and a respective image sensor. In some embodiments, a camera includes a third, Mid camera that has a field of view (FOV) intermediate to the FOVs of the Wide and Tele sub-cameras. | 02-11-2016 |
20160044250 | ZOOM DUAL-APERTURE CAMERA WITH FOLDED LENS - Zoom digital cameras comprising a Wide sub-camera and a folded fixed Tele sub-camera. The folded Tele sub-camera may be auto-focused by moving either its lens or a reflecting element inserted in an optical path between its lens and a respective image sensor. The folded Tele sub-camera is configured to have a low profile to enable its integration within a portable electronic device. | 02-11-2016 |
20160050374 | DUAL APERTURE ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA - A dual-aperture zoom digital camera comprising a Wide imaging section and a Tele imaging section, each section including a lens with a respective FOV, image sensor and image signal processor, and a camera controller coupled to the Wide and Tele imaging sections and operative to process Wide and Tele sensor data to obtain a fused image of the object in a capture or stills mode, and to process without fusion Wide and Tele sensor data to obtain, in a video mode, images with an output resolution and a smooth transition when switching between a lower zoom factor (ZF) value and a higher zoom factor value or vice versa, wherein at the lower ZF the output resolution is determined by the Wide sensor and wherein at the higher ZF value the output resolution is determined by the Tele sensor. | 02-18-2016 |
20160054550 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE, AND CAMERA - A zoom lens system includes a first lens group having a positive power, a second lens group that has a negative power and includes one lens element, a third lens group that has a positive power and includes at least two lens elements, and a subsequent lens group that has a positive power as a whole and includes at least two lens groups in order from an object side to an image side. In zooming operation, at least the first lens group to the third lens group move along an optical axis, and a condition of −9.002-25-2016 | |
20160062091 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided is a compact zoom lens having a high aperture ratio and high optical performance over an entire zoom range. The zoom lens includes, in order from object side to image side: first, second, and third lens units respectively having positive, negative, and positive refractive powers; an aperture stop; a middle lens group; and a final lens unit. An interval between adjacent lens units is changed during zooming. The third lens unit includes at least two positive lenses and at least one negative lens. A combined focal length (f | 03-03-2016 |
20160062092 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens including, in order from an object side: a positive first lens unit that does not move for zooming; a negative second lens unit that moves during the zooming; a negative third lens unit that moves along a locus convex to the object side during the zooming; an aperture stop; and a positive fourth lens unit that does not move for the zooming. The third lens unit includes a cemented lens formed by cementing a single negative lens and a single positive lens and a single negative lens. A focal length (fn | 03-03-2016 |
20160062096 | 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: a first lens unit having a positive refractive power; a second lens unit having a negative refractive power; and a rear unit including a plurality of lens units and having a positive refractive power as a whole, in which an interval between adjacent lens units is changed during zooming. The rear unit includes a focus unit having a positive refractive power, which is configured to move during focusing. An optical system arranged on the image side of the focus unit has a negative refractive power at a telephoto end. A focal length (ft) of the zoom lens at the telephoto end and a combined focal length (fpt) of an optical system arranged on the object side of the focus unit are each appropriately set. | 03-03-2016 |
20160105616 | THIN DUAL-APERTURE ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA - A dual-aperture zoom camera comprising a Wide camera with a respective Wide lens and a Tele camera with a respective Tele lens, the Wide and Tele cameras mounted directly on a single printed circuit board, wherein the Wide and Tele lenses have respective effective focal lengths EFL | 04-14-2016 |
20160124200 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A zoom lens includes sequentially from an object side a first lens group having a negative refractive power; a second lens group having a positive refractive power; a third lens group having a negative refractive power; and a fourth lens group having a negative refractive power. The first lens group, the second lens group, the third lens group, and the fourth lens group are moved along an optical axis to zoom from a wide angle end to telephoto end and such that an interval between the first lens group and the second lens group decreases and distances that the second lens group and the fourth lens group are moved are equivalent. The third lens group is moved along the optical axis, toward an image side to focus from a focused state at infinity to a focused state at a minimum object distance. | 05-05-2016 |
20160139376 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided is a zoom lens, comprising, 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; a third lens unit having a negative refractive power; and a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power. The second lens unit and the third lens unit are configured to move along loci different from each other during zooming. At least one lens unit of the first lens unit, the second lens unit, the third lens unit, or the fourth lens unit includes a positive lens and a negative lens that are arranged adjacent to each other, and materials for the positive lens and the negative lens are appropriately set, respectively. | 05-19-2016 |
20160142639 | CONTROL DEVICE, IMAGING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - On a display screen of a display unit which displays an image captured by an imaging unit, the image capturing direction and the zoom magnification for a specified imaging region to be captured by the imaging unit are determined. If the determined image capturing direction is out of a range of the image capturing direction of the imaging unit that can be changed, the zoom magnification of the imaging unit is restricted to be lower than the zoom magnification determined in the determination. | 05-19-2016 |
20160142640 | IMAGING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An imaging apparatus receives a command including a first coordinate value and a second coordinate value, from a client apparatus. A determination unit determines whether or not a target region exists at or near a boundary of an imaging range corresponding to the first coordinate value and the second coordinate value. In a case in which the determination unit determines that the target region exists at the boundary of the imaging range, a control unit adjusts an imaging range to include the target region. In a case in which the determination unit determines that the target region does not exist at the boundary of the imaging range, the control unit sets an imaging range to be captured, to the imaging range corresponding to the first coordinate value and the second coordinate value. | 05-19-2016 |
20160182838 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING A VIDEO STREAM | 06-23-2016 |
20160381282 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are provided. The image processing apparatus includes an image capturer configured to capture a plurality of images having different zoom levels, a storage configured to store the plurality of image, a display configured to display a first image among the plurality of images, and a processor configured to control the display to display a second image among the plurality of images based on a control input, the second image having a zoom level different from a zoom level of the first image. | 12-29-2016 |
20160381301 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING ZOOM USING ONE OR MORE MOVEABLE CAMERA MODULES - Methods and apparatus for implementing a camera device including multiple camera modules and which supports zoom operations are described. A plurality of moveable camera modules are included with the position of the moveable camera modules being controlled as a function of a zoom setting. One or more fixed camera modules are also included to facilitate image combining. A fixed camera module having a smaller focal length than the movable camera modules is used in some embodiments to capture a scene area including scene area portions which will be captured by movable camera modules. The image captured by the fixed camera module, with the small focal length, is used in aligning images captured by the movable camera modules during generation of a composite image. The camera may also include another fixed camera module, e.g., having the same focal length as the movable camera modules, for capturing the center of a scene. | 12-29-2016 |
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