IP Library Granted Patent US 7,239,457
Granted Patent B2
US 7,239,457 · App. 11/360,887 · Granted Jul 3, 2007

Wide angle lens system and camera

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Patent No.
US 7,239,457
App. No.
11/360,887
Granted
Jul 3, 2007
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is provided a wide angle lens system configured to obtain excellent image forming performance even in a half field angle region of 40 degrees to 50 degrees. A wide angle lens system is constituted of a first lens having a negative refractive power, a light path bending member having no refractive power, a second lens having a positive refractive power, an aperture which adjusts a light amount, a first cemented lens formed by cementing a third lens having a positive refractive power and a fourth lens having a negative refractive power, a fifth lens having a positive refractive power, and an optically equivalent member which functions as a faceplate of an optical low-pass filter and a solid state imaging element.

Claims (12)

1. A wide angle lens system, comprising, in order from an object side:

a first lens having a negative refractive power and at least one aspherical surface;

a bending member for bending an optical path;

a second lens having a positive refractive power;

an aperture which adjusts a light amount;

a first cemented lens formed by cementing a third lens having a positive refractive power and a fourth lens having a negative refractive power; and

a fifth lens having a positive refractive power;

wherein a surface of at least one lens arranged on an image plane side of the aperture is aspherical; and

wherein the wide angle lens system has a half field angle of approximately 40 degrees to 50 degrees.

2. The wide angle lens system according to claim 1 wherein said aspherical surface of at least one lens arranged on the image plane side of the aperture is arranged in a last lens closest to the image plane and has a shape with which a positive refractive power is gradually weakened or a negative refractive power is gradually intensified from the optical axis toward the periphery.

3. The wide angle lens system according to claim 1 wherein the last lens which constitutes the wide angle lens system and is arranged at a position closest to the image plane is formed of a resin lens.

4. A camera comprising: a wide angle lens system defined in claim 1 and a solid state imaging element arranged on an image forming surface side of the wide angle lens.

Assignments (6)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Aug 15, 2023
From: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 83 LLC
To: MONUMENT PEAK VENTURES, LLC
Reel/Frame 064599/0304 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 9, 2017
From: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 83 LLC
To: MONUMENT PEAK VENTURES, LLC
Reel/Frame 041941/0079 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 12, 2013
From: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
To: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 83 LLC
Reel/Frame 030208/0098 →
PATENT RELEASE Recorded Feb 1, 2013
From: CITICORP NORTH AMERICA, INC.; WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
To: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY; EASTMAN KODAK INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL COMPANY, INC.; FAR EAST DEVELOPMENT LTD.; KODAK (NEAR EAST), INC.; KODAK AMERICAS, LTD.; KODAK PORTUGUESA LIMITED; KODAK REALTY, INC.; LASER-PACIFIC MEDIA CORPORATION; KODAK AVIATION LEASING LLC; KODAK PHILIPPINES, LTD.; NPEC INC.; FPC INC.; KODAK IMAGING NETWORK, INC.; PAKON, INC.; QUALEX INC.; CREO MANUFACTURING AMERICA LLC
Reel/Frame 029913/0001 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Feb 21, 2012
From: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY; PAKON, INC.
To: CITICORP NORTH AMERICA, INC., AS AGENT
Reel/Frame 028201/0420 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 17, 2006
From: KUSHIDA, TARO; KAMBAYASHI, NOBUMASA
To: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
Reel/Frame 017787/0862 →