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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2015
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Masaharu Hosoi, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 15/14 (2006.01); G02B 15/177 (2006.01); G02B 27/64 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 15/177 (2013.01); G02B 15/14 (2013.01); G02B 27/646 (2013.01); H04N 5/23296 (2013.01);
Abstract
A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side, a first lens group having a negative refractive power, a second lens group having a positive refractive power, a third lens group having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group having a negative refractive power, the fourth lens group having at least two positive lenses, the zoom lens satisfying a conditional expression (a) of −2.0<f3/f4<−0.35 where f3 indicates a focal length of the third lens group and f4 indicates a focal length of the fourth lens group.