This application claims priority to Taiwan Application Serial Number 106121110, filed Jun. 23, 2017, which is herein incorporated by reference.
The present invention relates to an optical lens and electronic device using the same. In particular, the optical lens and electronic device have broader field of view and are capable of capturing images in a different medium.
Recently, with an upsurge of sports photography, small size optical lenses are required, and thus invoking development of image capturing devices to achieve high image quality and small occupied volume. These image capturing devices are mainly applied to real-time outdoor photography, and the lens of the image capturing device requires properties such as short total track length (TTL) and wide field of view (FOV).
General image capture devices used in a normal environment lack flexibility for photographing parameters adjustment. For example, when refractive indexes of the ambient medium change, the FOV and modulation transfer function (MTF) of the image capture device are weakened, and further result in a reduction of image quality. The aforementioned problem is insurmountable for known devices, and thus making the image capture devices extremely difficult to achieve a stable image quality and an ultra-wide FOV. As above, there is an imperative to provide a new optical lens and electronic device, which is capable to achieve a good MTF as the environment change, and maintain or enlarge the FOV at the same time.
One aspect of the present invention provides an optical lens. The optical lens from an object side to an image-forming side includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, and an eighth lens. The second lens and the third lens have negative refractive powers. The fourth lens, the sixth lens, and the eighth lens have positive refractive powers. An object-side surface of the first lens is a convex surface, and/or an image-side surface of the first lens is a concave surface.
Another aspect of the present invention provides an optical lens. The optical lens from an object side to an image-forming side includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, and an eighth lens. The second lens and the third lens have negative refractive powers. The fourth lens, the sixth lens, and the eighth lens have positive refractive powers. An equivalent refractive power of the first lens, the second lens, the third lens, and the fourth lens is a negative refractive power. An equivalent refractive power of the fifth lens, the sixth lens, the seventh lens, and the eighth lens is a positive refractive power.
Yet another aspect of the present invention provides an optical lens. The optical lens from an object side to an image-forming side includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, and an eighth lens. The second lens and the third lens have negative refractive powers. The fourth lens, the sixth lens, and the eighth lens have positive refractive powers. The first lens is a plastic lens, and/or the sixth lens and the seventh lens are made into a doublet lens.
Still another aspect of the present invention provides an optical lens. The optical lens from an object side to an image-forming side includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, and an eighth lens. The first lens, the second lens, the third lens, and the seventh lens have negative refractive powers. The fourth lens, the fifth lens, the sixth lens, and the eighth lens have positive refractive powers.
The last aspect of the present invention provides an electronic device, which includes two sets of the optical lenses mentioned above.
It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are by example, and are intended to provide further explanation of the invention as claimed.
The invention can be more fully understood by reading the following detailed description of the embodiment, with reference made to the accompanying drawings as follows:
Reference will now be made in detail to the present embodiments of the invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Wherever possible, the same reference numbers are used in the drawings and the description to refer to the same or like parts.
In one embodiment, the optical lens OL1 from an object side to an image-forming side includes a first lens group G1 and a second lens group G2, in which the first lens group G1 has a negative refractive power, and the first lens group G1 includes a plurality of lenses; the second lens group G2 has a refractive power, which may be a negative refractive power or a positive refractive power for example, and the second lens group G2 includes a plurality of lenses. Each of the lenses may be arranged along an optical axis OA of the optical lens OL1.
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In one embodiment, the first lens group G1 may include four lenses, in which at least two lenses have negative refractive powers, at least one lens has a positive refractive power, and the other has a refractive power, which may be a negative refractive power or a positive refractive power for example; in another embodiment, the second lens group G2 may include four lenses, in which at least two lenses have positive refractive powers, and the others have refractive powers, which may be a positive refractive power and/or a negative refractive power respectively, for example.
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In one embodiment, the second lens L2 and the third lens L3 may have a negative refractive power; the fourth lens L4, the sixth lens L6, and the eighth lens L8 may have a positive refractive power; and the first lens L1, the fifth lens L5, and the seventh lens L7 may respectively have a positive refractive power or a negative refractive power. In one practical embodiment, the first lens L1 has a negative refractive power, the fifth lens L5 has a positive refractive power, and the seventh lens L7 has a negative refractive power, but the invention is not limited thereto.
In addition, in one embodiment, an equivalent refractive power of the sixth lens L6 and the seventh lens L7 is a negative refractive power, which means a combination of the sixth lens L6 and the seventh lens L7 is equivalent to a lens having a negative refractive power. In particular, as shown in
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The optical lens OL1 has a field of view (FOV). In one embodiment, the optical lens OL1 may satisfy at least one of the following conditions: 200°≤FOV, 190°≤FOV, 185°≤FOV, 175°≤FOV, 170°≤FOV, 180°≤FOV, FOV≤210°, FOV≤220°, and FOV≤230°.
In another embodiment, the first lens L1 of the optical lens OL1 may satisfy at least one of the following conditions: 0<|Rr|, 0.05≤|Rr|, |Rr|≤0.7, |Rr|≤0.75, |Rr|≤0.8, |Rr|0.85, in which Rr=(a curvature radius of the image-side surface S2 of the first lens L1)/(a curvature radius of the object-side surface S1 of the first lens L1).
In yet another embodiment, an optical effective diameter of the first lens L1 is larger than or equal to an optical effective diameter of any one of the following lens: the second lens L2, the third lens L3, the fourth lens L4, the fifth lens L5, the sixth lens L6, the seventh lens L7, and the eighth lens L8.
In addition, the first lens L1, the second lens L2, the third lens L3, the fourth lens L4, the fifth lens L5, the sixth lens L6, the seventh lens L7, and the eighth lens L8 may respectively be implemented as a plastic lens or a glass lens. The glass lens may be made of a glass material, and the plastic lens may be made of a plastic material, in which the plastic material may include but not limit to polycarbonate, cycloolefin copolymer (APEL for example), polyester resin (OKP4 or OKP4HT for example) and else, or may include a mixture material and/or a compound material including at least one of the aforementioned materials.
In one embodiment, the first lens L1 is implemented as a plastic lens or a glass lens, the second lens L2, the third lens L3, the fourth lens L4, the fifth lens L5, the sixth lens L6, the seventh lens L7, and the eighth lens L8 may all be implemented as glass lenses, or at least one of which is implemented as a glass lens; in yet another embodiment, the first lens L1 is implemented as a plastic lens, the eighth lens L8 is implemented as a glass lens, and any one of the second lens L2, third lens L3, the fourth lens L4, the fifth lens L5, the sixth lens L6, and the seventh lens L7 may be implemented as a plastic lens or a glass lens.
In one embodiment, the first lens L1, the second lens L2, the third lens L3, the fourth lens L4, the fifth lens L5, the sixth lens L6, the seventh lens L7, and the eighth lens L8 may respectively be a spherical lens, a free-form lens, or an aspherical lens. For example, the second lens L2, the third lens L3, the fourth lens L4, the fifth lens L5, the sixth lens L6, and the seventh lens L7 are spherical lens, and the first lens L1 and the eighth lens L8 are an aspherical lens or a free-form lens respectively; or, the first lens L1, the second lens L2, the third lens L3, the fourth lens L4, the fifth lens L5, the sixth lens L6, and the seventh lens L7 are spherical lenses, and the eighth lens L8 is an aspherical lens or a free-form lens.
In particular, every free-form lens has at least one free-form surface, which means an object-side surface or/and an image-side surface of the free-form lens is a free-form surface; and every aspherical lens has at least one aspherical surface, which means an object-side surface or/and an image-side surface of the aspherical lens is an aspherical surface. In addition, every aspherical surface satisfies the following formula:
where Z is a coordinate value on the optical axis OA, positive value denotes for light propagating direction; Ai is an aspherical constant, in which i=4, 6, 8, 10, or 12; K is a quadratic surface coefficient; C is a reciprocal of curvature radius r (C=1/r); Y is a coordinate value in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis OA. Furthermore, every parameter or coefficient of the aspherical surface formula may be independent from each other.
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Object-side surfaces S7, S11, S15 of the fourth lens L4, the sixth lens L6, and the eighth lens L8 may have positive refractive powers respectively, in which the object-side surfaces S7, S11, S15 may be convex surfaces protruding towards the object side; and image-side surfaces S8, S12, S16 may have negative refractive powers respectively, in which the image-side surfaces S8, S12, S16 may be convex surfaces protruding towards the image-forming side. For example, the fourth lens L4, the sixth lens L6, and the eighth lens L8 may be implemented as a biconvex glass lens or a biconvex plastic lens respectively. The object-side surfaces S7, S11, S15 and the image-side surfaces S8, S12, S16 may all be spherical surfaces, or at least one of which is an aspherical surface or a free-form surface. In one embodiment, the object-side surface S15 and the image-side surface S16 of the eighth lens L8 may be an aspherical surface or a free-form surface respectively.
An object-side surface S9 and an image-side surface S10 of the fifth lens L5 may have negative refractive powers. The object-side surface S9 may be a concave surface recessing towards the image-forming side. For example, the fifth lens L5 may be implemented as a concave-convex glass lens or a concave-convex plastic lens having a positive refractive power or a negative refractive power. In one embodiment, the fifth lens L5 is implemented as a concave-convex glass spherical lens having a positive refractive power.
An object-side surface S13 of the seventh lens L7 may have a negative refractive power, in which the object-side surface S13 may be a concave surface recessing towards the image-forming side; an image-side surface S14 may have a positive refractive power, in which the image-side surface S14 may be a concave surface recessing towards the object side. For example, the seventh lens L7 may be implemented as a biconcave glass spherical lens or a biconcave plastic spherical lens having a negative refractive power.
In addition, the optical lens OL1 may further include an aperture stop St and/or a protection cover C; the image plane I may be further disposed with an image capture unit (not shown), in which light passing through the optical lens OL1 may be converted into electric signals by the image capture unit. The aperture stop St may be disposed between any two lenses of the first lens L1 to eighth lens L8 in the optical lens OL1, at object side of the first lens L1, or between the eighth lens L8 and the image plane I. In one embodiment, the aperture stop St is disposed between the first lens group G1 and the second lens group G2, but the invention is not limited thereto; in addition, the protection cover C may be disposed between the eighth lens L8 and the image plane I.
In other aspect, the optical lens OL1 may further include a filter F, which may be disposed between the eighth lens L8 and the protection cover C. In addition, in another embodiment, the protection cover C may protect the image capture unit and filter out infrared light at the same time, and thus the filter F may be omitted.
The difference between the optical lens OL2 and the optical lens OL1 lies in that the first lens L1 of the optical lens OL1 is different from the first lens L1′ of the optical lens OL2. At least one physical property of the first lens L1 of the optical lens OL1 is different from that of the first lens L1′ of the optical lens OL2, such as the refractive power of the object-side surface S1, the refractive power of the image-side surface S2, the thickness, the refractive power, Abbe number, and so on, and thus the optical lens OL1 and optical lens OL2 exhibit different optical performance and functionality.
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Further, the electronic device may include plural optical lenses. In one embodiment, the electronic device includes at least two sets of optical lenses OL1, at least two sets of optical lenses OL2, at least two sets of optical lenses OL3, or at least two sets of optical lenses OL4; in another embodiment, the electronic device includes at least one set of optical lens OL1 and at least one of the optical lens OL2, OL3, and OL4, or the electronic device at least includes one set of optical lens OL2 and optical lens OL3 or OL4.
Furthermore, in one embodiment, the first lens L1 of the optical lenses OL1, OL2 and the first lens L1′ of the optical lens OL2, OL4 applied to the electronic device may satisfy at least one of the following conditions: 0.5≤|F1′/F1|, 0.6≤|F1′/F1|, 0.7≤|F1′/F1|, 0.75≤|F1′/F1|, 0.76≤|F1′/F1|, |F1′/F1|≤0.92, |F1′/F1|≤0.93, and |F1′/F1|≤0.95, in which F1 is the focal length of the first lens L1, and F1′ is the focal length of the first lens L1′.
In another embodiment, the first lens L1, L1′ of the electronic device may satisfy at least one of the following conditions: 0<|R1/R1′|, 0.01≤|R1/R1′|, 0.02≤|R1/R1′|, 0.03≤|R1/R1′|, |R1/R1′|≤0.55, |R1/R1′|≤0.6, and |R1/R1′|≤0.7, in which the curvature radius of the object-side surface S1 of the first lens L1 is R1, and the curvature radius of the object-side surface S1′ of the first lens L1′ is R1′.
In yet another embodiment, the first lenses L1, L1′ may satisfy at least one of the following conditions: 0<|R2/R2′|, 0.3≤|R2/R2′|, 0.35≤|R2/R2′|, 0.36≤|R2/R2′|, |R2/R2′|≤0.5, |R2/R2′|≤0.55, |R2/R2′|≤0.65, |R2/R2′|≤0.7, and |R2/R2′|≤0.75, in which the radius curvature of the image-side surface S2 of the first lens L1 is R2, and the radius curvature of the image-side surface S2′ of the first lens L1′ is R2′.
In one embodiment, the first lens L1 of the optical lens OL1, OL3 may satisfy at least one of the following conditions: 0<|R2/R1|, 0.05≤|R2/R1|, 0.4≤|R2/R1|, 0.5≤|R2/R1|, 0.55≤|R2/R1|, 0.56≤|R2/R1|, |R2/R1|≤0.69, |R2/R1|≤0.7, |R2/R1|≤0.75, |R2/R1|≤0.8, and |R2/R1|≤0.85.
In one embodiment, the first lens L1′ of the optical lens OL2, OL4 may satisfy at least one of the following conditions: 0<|R2′/R1′|, 0.02≤|R2′/R1′|, 0.05≤|R2′/R1′|, 0.06≤|R2′/R1′|, |R2′/R1′≤0.62, |R2′/R1′|≤0.65, |R2′/R1′|≤0.7, |R2+/R1′|≤0.75, |R2′/R1′|≤0.8, and |R2′/R1′|≤0.85.
As above, the optical lens OL1, OL3 may provide a better image quality in one medium environment, and the optical lens OL2 may provide a better image quality in another medium environment. The medium environment includes but is not limited to air, ocean, swimming pool, and so on, and the present invention is not limited thereto.
As embodiments mentioned above, it should be understood that in different medium environments, by switching between the first lens L1 and L1′, the optical lenses OL1, OL2, OL3, OL4 may provide wide field of view and clear image quality at the same time.
Although the present invention has been described in considerable detail with reference to certain embodiments thereof, other embodiments are possible. Therefore, the spirit and scope of the appended claims should not be limited to the description of the embodiments contained herein.
It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made to the structure of the present invention without departing from the scope or spirit of the invention. In view of the foregoing, it is intended that the present invention cover modifications and variations of this invention provided they fall within the scope of the following claims.
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