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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 9350919 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016

Filed:

Apr. 28, 2015

Image pickup apparatus

Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Shinji Yamasaki, Utsunomiya, JP;

Assignee:

CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

Carter, DeLuca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

Primary Examiner:

Evelyn A Lester

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 15/14 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G03B 13/34 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); G02B 15/20 (2006.01); G02B 15/177 (2006.01); G02B 13/00 (2006.01); G02B 13/04 (2006.01); G02B 15/163 (2006.01); G02B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23296 (2013.01); G03B 13/34 (2013.01); H04N 5/2253 (2013.01); H04N 5/2254 (2013.01); G02B 5/005 (2013.01); G02B 13/009 (2013.01); G02B 13/0045 (2013.01); G02B 13/04 (2013.01); G02B 15/163 (2013.01); G02B 15/177 (2013.01); G02B 15/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

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.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Yamasaki, Shinji. (2016). Image pickup apparatus (U.S. Patent No. 9350919). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9350919

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