Abstract:
An optical low pass filter having an optical axis common to an imaging optical system or configured as a portion of an imaging optical system for contribution to formation of an image, functioning to image components in a longitudinal direction of the image pickup device onto a desired imaging location and having refractive powers, for components in different directions, which are different from that for the components in the longitudinal direction. This optical low pass filter is suited for use with line sensors.
Abstract:
An optical system comprising, in the order from the object side, an objective lens unit having a positive refractive power, a relay lens unit having a positive refractive power and an eyepiece lens unit having a positive refractive power, adapted in such a manner that an inverted image formed by the objective lens unit is inverted once again by the relay lens unit for forming an erect image, using at least one graded refractive index lens element in the relay lens unit, and having a small number of lens elements or a high magnification and favorably corrected aberrations.
Abstract:
An imaging lens system comprising, in the order from the object side, a first lens component having a convex surface on the object side and a positive refractive power, a second lens component having a concave surface on the image side and a negative refractive power, and a third lens component. Through the imaging lens system is of a triplet or Tessar type, the lens system is designed so as to have a high aperture ratio and favorably corrected coma by arranging a radial GRIN lens element having a concave surface on the image side and a positive refractive power at the most image side location in the third lens component.
Abstract:
A high-performance and low-cost image-forming optical system having a minimal number of constituent optical elements and made compact and thin by folding an optical path using reflecting surfaces arranged to minimize the number of reflections. The image-forming optical system has a first prism, a stop, and a second prism. The first prism has a first transmitting surface, a first reflecting surface, a second reflecting surface of positive power, and a second transmitting surface. The second prism has a first transmitting surface, a first reflecting surface, a second reflecting surface of positive power, and a second transmitting surface. The first transmitting surface and second reflecting surface of the first prism are the identical surface, and the first reflecting surface and second transmitting surface of the second prism are the identical surface. The image-forming optical system is approximately telecentric on the image side.
Abstract:
A high-performance real-image finder with a zoom objective optical system wherein a power is given to a reflecting surface of an image-inverting optical system to reduce the size in the direction of the thickness, and at the same time, a rotationally asymmetric surface is used in the image-inverting optical system to correct rotationally asymmetric decentration aberrations. The zoom objective optical system Ob has a first lens unit G1 of negative power, a second lens unit G2 of positive power, and a third lens unit G3 of positive or negative power. The real-image finder further includes an image-inverting optical system PP for erecting an intermediate image formed by the objective optical system Ob, and an ocular optical system Oc having a positive refracting power. At least one of reflecting surfaces S.sub.8 and S.sub.9 of the image-inverting optical system PP is a curved reflecting mirror having an optical power and has a rotationally asymmetric surface configuration that corrects decentration aberrations produced by the curved reflecting mirror.
Abstract:
A compact vari-focal lens system having a high vari-focal ratio, comprising a plurality of lens units including at least one lens unit having a positive refractive power and at least one lens unit having a negative refractive power, and adapted so as to change focal length thereof by moving one of said lens units along the optical axis, the lens unit arranged on the extremely object in said lens system having a positive refractive power and at least one radial GRIN lens being used in a negative lens unit.
Abstract:
A zoom lens system comprising a first lens group having positive refractive power and a second lens group having negative refractive power, and so adapted as to perform zooming from the wide position to the teleposition by narrowing the airspace reserved between the two lens groups. In said zoom lens system, at least one graded refractive index lens component is arranged in the second lens group, or at least one graded refractive index lens component is arranged in the first lens group and at least one aspherical surface is adopted in the second lens group.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an image pickup optical system which can make a sensitive tradeoff between the precision of alignment of a decentration optical prism used as an image formation element for an electronic camera or the like with respect to an image pickup element and ease of fabrication. The invention provides an optical prism 100 comprising three optical surfaces 12 to 14. An entrance surface 14 is suitable for incidence of light from a subject. The incident light is subjected to at least two internal reflections to turn back an optical path. The reflected light leaves the prism through an exit surface 12 to form an image of the subject on an image pickup surface 21 located outside of the prism. At least one of the entrance surface 14 and exit surface 12 is constructed of an optical surface having a combined transmission and internal reflection action. The optical prism is used in combination with a prism frame 30 designed to be well fit therefor. Sides 60L and 60R formed in directions intersecting the directions of the entrance surface 14 and exit surface 12 are provided with protrusions 90L and 90R for mounting the optical prism 100 to the prism frame 30.
Abstract:
The invention provides a compact, lightweight yet low-cost zoom lens system which has a zoom ratio of at least about 2 and is well corrected for various aberrations, and in which sufficient attention is paid to temperature compensation when plastic lenses are used. The zoom lens system comprises in order from an object side a front lens group GF including a plurality of positive lenses containing at least a plastic lens and having a positive refracting power as a whole, and a rear lens group GR composed only of a plurality of negative lenses containing at least a plastic lens, wherein zooming is carried out by varying the spacing between the front and rear lens groups, and all the lenses satisfy the following condition (1): n.sub.d
Abstract:
An optical system comprising a plural number of lens elements at least one of which is designed as a graded refractive index lens element having refractive index distribution in the radial direction, and has aberrations favorably corrected in said optical system as a whole by making most of the correcting functions of the graded refractive index lens element for Petzval's sum and chromatic aberration.