Abstract:
A wide-angle zoom lens system includes a negative first lens group, a positive second lens group, a negative third lens group, and a positive fourth lens group. Upon zooming from the short focal length extremity to the long focal length extremity, the distance between the negative first lens group and the positive second lens group decreases, the distance between the positive second lens group and the negative third lens group increases, and the distance between the negative third lens group and the positive fourth lens group decreases; and the positive second lens group, the negative third lens group and the positive fourth lens group move toward the object. The wide-angle zoom lens system satisfies the following conditions:1.2
Abstract:
An apparatus for forming a pattern has a beam position detector, a fine-section scale corrector, a pulse data selector, and a control pulse signal generator. The beam position detector measures a position of the beam on a scanning-line. The fine-section scale corrector changes a scale of a series of fine-sections to a series of corrected fine-sections, in accordance with a scale-change rate, to change a scale of the pattern. The pulse data selector selects a set of pulse data, corresponding to a length of the corrected fine section that the beam passes, from a series of sets of pulse data. The control pulse signal generator successively generates a sequence of control pulse signals in accordance with the selected set of pulse data.
Abstract:
In a scanning optical system, a partial light blocking member having an annular light blocking part (for blocking off part of the incident laser beam entering the annular area around the central axis of the laser beam) is placed on an optical path between the laser light source and the polygon mirror. The scanning optical system including such a partial light blocking member is installed in a printer. By the effect of the partial light blocking member, the intensity of side lobes (several rings of light accompanying the main beam) is prevented from exceeding a threshold value even when optical surfaces of an imaging optical system of the scanning optical system have certain microscopic undulations, by which black stripes occurring in halftone printing can be eliminated.
Abstract:
There is provided an endoscope system, which is provided with an endoscope that has an image pick-up device having a plurality of cells for accumulating charge in response to an image formed on the plurality of cells, a light source that is capable of emitting excitation light, and a controlling system that controls the image pick-up device so that charges accumulated in two or more of the plurality of cells are added together when the excitation light is used.
Abstract:
A zoom lens camera includes an optical-element drive mechanism for a photographing optical system, and a zooming-associating mechanism for associating a zooming-associated driven member with a zooming operation to be driven by the optical-element drive mechanism in a ready-to-photograph state, and for releasing the association of the zooming-associated driven member with the zooming operation between the ready-to-photograph state and the retracted state. The zooming-associating mechanism includes three rotational members, and includes a master rotational member and a slave rotational member at opposite ends thereof. Opposed surfaces of two adjacent rotational members include rotation transfer portions engaged with each other at predetermined relative angular positions so as to integrally rotate. The slave rotational member rotates together with the master rotational member after relative rotations among the two adjacent rotational members occur in sequence when the photographing optical system changes from the retracted state to the ready-to-photograph state.
Abstract:
A multibeam scanning device includes a deflecting system that deflects a plurality of beams, which are emitted by a light source, in a main scanning direction. On a first imaging optical system, the dynamically deflected beams are incident. A plurality of optical path deflection units deflect the optical paths of the optical beams passed through the first imaging optical system, respectively. Each of the plurality of optical path deflection units is capable of varying the deflection direction of the beam in the auxiliary scanning direction. A plurality of second imaging optical systems converge the beams deflected by the deflection units on target surfaces, respectively. A position adjusting system is provided to adjust a position of each of the second imaging optical systems so that the positional relationship of the second imaging optical system with respect to the beam incident thereon is maintained.
Abstract:
A lens unit for a scanning device includes a frame having a hollow cylindrical shape, the frame being defined with a lens contact portion therein, a lens accommodated in the frame with contacting the lens contact portion defined in the frame, and a retainer accommodated in the frame to retain the lens in position, the retainer having a hollow cylindrical shape, one end side face of the retainer contacting a peripheral portion of the lens received by the frame, an other end portion of the retainer being secured to the frame so that the retainer presses the lens toward the lens contact portion of the frame to fix the lens to the frame. In the lens unit constructed as above, deformation of the frame, lens and retainer due to the load generated as the retainer presses the lens absorbs deformation of the frame, lens and retainer due to temperature change at least within a predetermined temperature range so that a fixed status of the lens with respect to the frame is not released regardless of the temperature change within the predetermined temperature range.
Abstract:
An objective lens for two or more types of optical discs of different standards is provided. A surface of the objective lens is formed with a diffracting structure, and has an inner area including an optical axis and an outer area. The outer area is configured such that part of a first beam (having a first wavelength for a first optical disc of relatively lower data density) passed through the zones will be substantially in phase (within a prescribed phase difference) with part of the first beam that passed through the inner area. A convergence angle null of part of the first beam incident on the outermost part of the inner area measured after emerging from the objective lens and a design numerical aperture NAref for the first optical disc satisfy: 0.9
Abstract:
There is provided a spectacle lens having an outer surface and an inner surface, one of the outer and inner surfaces being configured to be a rotationally-asymmetrical aspherical surface. When a curvature at a coordinate (h,null) of the outer surface is represented by C1(h,null), a curvature at a coordinate (h,null) of the inner surface is represented by C2(h,null), and a difference between curvatures of the outer surface and the inner surface at the coordinate (h,null) is represented by C2-1(h,null)nullC2(h,null)nullC1(h,null), if C2-1(0,null)>0, within the ranges of 10 mmnullhnullmmnullnull20 mm and 30nullnullnullnullnullnullnull150null the spectacle lens satisfying a condition (1): C2-1(h,nullnull180)nullC2-1(h,null)>0 nullnull(1), and if C2-1(0,null)
Abstract:
In a digital still camera body, a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel displays images at both the front and rear of the camera, is provided. In addition, a front back-light attaching space, and a rear back-light attaching space are also formed to attach a back-light unit. To display a subject image as a non-inverted image seen from the rear side, the back-light unit is attached in the front back-light attaching space. On the other hand, to display a subject image as a right to left inverted image seen from the front side, the back-light unit is attached in the rear back-light attaching space.