Optical: systems and elements – Lens – With variable magnification
Reexamination Certificate
2006-05-09
2006-05-09
Epps, Georgia (Department: 2873)
Optical: systems and elements
Lens
With variable magnification
C359S682000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07042652
ABSTRACT:
A zoom lens system for forming an optical image of a subject on the image-sensing surface of an image sensor has three lens units, namely, from the object side thereof, a first lens unit having a negative optical power, a second lens unit having a positive optical power, and a third lens unit having a positive optical power, and achieves zooming by varying the distances between the individual lens units in such a way that, during zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end, the distance between the first and second lens units decreases. The first lens unit is composed of two or more lens elements, and the first lens element, i.e., the lens element disposed at the object-side end of the first lens unit, and the last lens element, i.e., the lens element disposed at the image-side end of the third lens unit, are plastic lens elements. Moreover, a prescribed conditional formula is fulfilled.
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Masui Atsuo
Nose Hiromichi
Terada Mamoru
Choi William
Epps Georgia
Konica Minolta Photo Imaging Inc.
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP
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