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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2004
Gung-hsuan Ho, Hsinchu, TW;
Chir-weei Chang, Hsinchu, TW;
Gung-Hsuan Ho, Hsinchu, TW;
Chir-Weei Chang, Hsinchu, TW;
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A zoom lens for digital image capturing apparatus is a shared lens of digital static cameras and digital video cameras. It contains three lens groups. From the object plane to the image plane, the first lens group has a negative refractive power, the second lens group has a positive refractive power, and the third lens group has a positive refractive power. As the focal length of the zoom lens changes from long (telescope) to short (wide-angle), the second lens group moves from the object plane to the image plane. The third lens group and the first lens group move with the second lens group.