The present disclosure relates to die field of lens imaging technologies, and more particularly, to an optical lens, a camera module and a front camera.
Currently, with the popularization of portable electronic devices (for example, smart phones, tablets, and cameras), as well as the popularity of social, video, and live broadcast software, people have greater and greater passion for photography. Camera lens has become a standard configuration for the electronic devices, and has even become the primary consideration for consumers at the time of buying an electronic device.
With the continuous development of the mobile information technology, the portable electronic devices such as the mobile phones also develop towards a direction of ultra-thin body, full-screen, ultra-high-definition imaging, and the like. This puts forward higher requirements for the camera lens equipped on the portable electronic devices. In recent years, the consumers increasingly favor the mobile phones with a full screen, which mobile phones are searching for visual simplicity in addition to high resolution. However, “Notch” occurs in the mobile phones with a full screen, due to a large outer diameter of the head and a large overall volume of the existing camera lens. The notch occupies a large aera, that is, a non-display area on the mobile phone screen is large. Thus, the screen-to-body ratio cannot be further increased.
In view of the above, embodiments of the disclosure provide an optical lens, a camera module and a front camera.
The technical solutions provided by embodiments of the present disclosure are as follows.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure provides an optical lens. From an object side to an Imaging plane along an optical axis, the optical lens includes: a stop, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens. The first lens has a positive focal power, an object side surface of the first lens is convex. The second lens has a negative focal power, an image side surface of the second lens is concave. The third lens has a positive focal power, an object side surface of the third lens is convex and an image side surface of the third lens is concave. The fourth lens has a positive focal power, an object side surface of the fourth lens is concave and an image side surface of the fourth lens is convex. The fifth lens has a negative focal power, a paraxial region of an object side surface of the fifth lens is concave, a paraxial region of an image side surface of the fifth lens is concave. An entrance pupil diameter EPD of the optical lens is smaller than 1.58 mm, and a distance of the projection of an entrance pupil and an edge of an effective optical portion of the object side surface of the first lens on the optical axis is greater than 0.17 mm.
In another embodiment of the present disclosure provides an imaging device, which may include an imaging element and the optical lens provided as mentioned above. The imaging element is configured to convert an optical image formed by the optical lens into an electrical signal.
In further another embodiment of the present disclosure, a camera module is provided, which may include the optical lens as mentioned above, a barrel, a holder, an image sensor, and a printed circuit board. The optical lens is received in the barrel, and the barrel is engaged with the holder. The image sensor is substantially accommodated in the holder and opposite to the optical lens. The image sensor is configured for converting light signals into electrical signals, thereby the images formed by the optical lens can be converted and transmitted to a processor.
In still another embodiment of the present disclosure, a front camera is provided, which may include the camera module as mentioned above, a processor, and a memory, wherein the camera module is configured to capture images, the processor is configured to process the captured images, and the memory is configured to store the captured images.
The following embodiments will further illustrate the present disclosure with reference to the above drawings.
In order to facilitate the understanding of the present disclosure, embodiments of the present disclosure will be described more fully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings. Several embodiments of the disclosure are presented in the drawings. However, the disclosure may be embodied in many different forms and is not limited to the embodiments described herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided only for the purpose of illustrating this disclosure more thoroughly and comprehensively.
Unless defined otherwise, all technical terms and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this disclosure belongs. The terminologies used in the description of the disclosure are only for the purpose of describing specific embodiments, and are not intended to limit the disclosure.
Embodiments of the disclosure provides an optical lens. From an object side to an Imaging plane along an optical axis, the optical lens includes: a stop, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens. The first lens has a positive focal power, an object side surface of the first lens is convex. The second lens has a negative focal power, an image side surface of the second lens is concave. The third lens has a positive focal power, an object side surface of the third lens is convex and an image side surface of the third lens is concave. The fourth lens has a positive focal power, an object side surface of the fourth lens is concave and an image side surface of the fourth lens is convex. The fifth lens has a negative focal power, a paraxial region of an object side surface of the fifth lens is concave, a paraxial region of an image side surface of the fifth lens is concave. An entrance pupil diameter EPD of the optical lens is smaller than 1.58 mm, and the maximum distance between the projection of an entrance pupil and the projection of the object side surface of the first lens on the optical axis is greater than 0.17 mm.
The common optical lens on the market, which are used in the mobile phones, generally has a minimum head outer diameter of ø3 mm. In contrast, due to the reasonable arrangement of the stop and the various lenses, the optical lens provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure has a small entrance pupil diameter, and a small head outer diameter of ø2 mm, satisfying the demand for a high screen-to-body ratio, and better satisfying the needs of the full screen of the mobile phones. Moreover, the optical lens may at least have advantages of for example a small outer diameter of the head, a small volume and high resolutions, satisfying the demand for a high screen-to-body ratio of the mobile phones.
Different from the related art, the optical lens provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure adopts five lenses with a specific refractive power, which lenses present a specific arrangement of the surface shapes and a reasonable distribution of focal power; as such a more compact structure of the optical lens is obtained while offering high resolution, thereby achieving compromise between miniaturization and the high resolution of the optical lens. Furthermore, a photographic field of a larger area can be obtained, which brings great convenience to the post-editing. In addition, the optical lens according to embodiments of the present disclosure enables the sense of depth and space for the imaged picture to be enhanced, providing better imaging quality.
In some embodiments, the optical lens may satisfy the following expression:
1.1<TC1/ET1<1.6 (1)
where TC1 represents a center thickness of the first lens, and ET1 represents an edge thickness of the first lens. When the above expression (1) is satisfied, the depth of view of the optical system may decrease to about 0.95, which is conducive to reduction of the size of the head outer diameter of the optical lens. In particular, the head outer diameter of the optical lens may be minimized to ø2 mm. Thus, the needs of the full screen of the mobile phones can be better satisfied.
In some embodiments, the optical lens may satisfy the following expression:
0.5<TC1/DM1<0.6 (2)
where TC1 represents a center thickness of the first lens, and DM1 represents a diameter of the first lens. When the above expression (2) is satisfied, the first lens may be enabled to have a larger positive focal power, which is conducive to the shortening of the total length of the optical lens and the miniaturization of the optical lens.
In some embodiments, the optical lens may satisfy the following expression:
0.7<f1/f<2.1 (3)
where f1 represents an effective focal length of the first lens, and f represents an effective focal length of the optical lens. When the above expression (3) is satisfied, the first lens may be enabled to have a larger positive focal power, which is conductive to the shortening of the total length of the optical lens.
In some embodiments, the optical lens may satisfy the following expression:
0.8<f123/f<1.4 (4)
where f123 represents an effective focal length from the first lens to the third lens, and f represents an effective focal length of the optical lens. When the above expression (4) is satisfied, the focal power of the first lens, the optical focal power of the second lens and the optical focal power of the third lens can be reasonably assigned, to slow down the trend of deflection of light, reduce the correction of high-order aberrations, and thus reduce the difficulty of performing aberration correction on the overall optical lens.
In some embodiments, the optical lens may satisfy the following expression:
0.1 mm<SAG11−SAG12<0.3 mm (5)
where SAG11 represents a vector height of the object side surface of the first lens, and SAG12 represents a vector height of the image side surface of the first lens. When the above expression (5) is satisfied, the depth of view of the optical system can be effectively reduced; accordingly, the size of a window provided for the optical lens in the screen of the mobile phone may be reduced, and particularly down to 1.85 mm. This may effectively alleviate the technical problem in the related art that the size of the window provided for the optical lens in the screen of the mobile phone cannot be made smaller.
In some embodiments, the optical lens may satisfy the following expressions:
V1/(V2−V3)<−10 (6)
V2=23.52 (7)
where V1 represents an Abbe number of the first lens, V2 represents an Abbe number of the second lens, and V3 represents an Abbe number of the third lens. When the above expression (6) and (7) are satisfied, it is beneficial to improve the correction of chromatic aberration and the resolving power of the optical lens.
In some embodiments, the optical lens may satisfy the following expression:
0<R31/R32<1 (8)
where R31 represents a curvature radius of the object side surface of the third lens, and R32 represents the curvature radius of the image side surface of the third lens. When the above expression (8) is satisfied, the third lens is enabled to have a positive focal power and thus play a role in converging the light; in this way, the total length of the system may be reduced, and the miniaturization of the system may be facilitated.
In some embodiments, the optical lens may satisfy the following expression:
1.2<R31/DM31<2.6 (9)
where R31 represents a curvature radius of the object side surface of the third lens, and DM31 represents a diameter of the object side surface of the third lens. When the above expression (9) is satisfied, it is beneficial for the moulding of the optical lens with a high yield.
In some embodiments, the optical lens may satisfy the following expression:
0.1<R11/R12<0.6 (10)
where R11 represents a curvature radius of the object side surface of the first lens, and R12 represents a curvature radius of the image side surface of the first lens. When the above expression (10) is satisfied, the effective diameter of the first lens may be reduced, and thus the size of the head may be reduced.
In some embodiments, the first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens and the fifth lens are all plastic aspherical lenses. That is, each lens adopts an aspherical lens. The aspherical lens may provide at least the following three advantages: 1. a better imaging quality of the optical system; 2. a more compact structure of the optical lens; and 3. a smaller total optical length of the optical lens.
The surface shapes of the various plastic aspherical lenses in the embodiments of the disclosure all satisfy the following equation:
where z represents a vector height of a distance from the apex of an aspheric surface to a position of the aspherical surface where the height is h along the optical axis, c represents a paraxial curvature of the surface, K is a quadratic surface coefficient, and A2i is a 2i-th order aspheric profile coefficient.
In the following embodiments, the thickness, the curvature radius, and the material of the lens in the optical lens may be selected to have some differences among different lenses. Details may be referred to parameter tables provided in the following embodiments.
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The first lens L1 may be a plastic aspheric lens with a positive focal power, where an object side surface S1 of the first lens L1 may be a convex surface, and an image side surface S2 of the first lens L1 may be a concave surface.
The second lens L2 may be a plastic aspheric lens with a negative focal power, where an object side surface S3 of the second lens L2 may be a convex surface, and an image side surface S4 of the second lens L2 may be a concave surface.
The third lens L3 may be a plastic aspheric lens with a positive focal power, where an object side surface S5 of the third lens may be a convex surface, and an image side surface S6 of the third lens L3 may be a concave surface.
The fourth lens L4 may be a plastic aspheric lens with a positive focal power, where an object side surface S7 of the fourth lens L4 may be a concave surface, and an image side surface S8 of the fourth lens L4 may be a convex surface.
The fifth lens L5 may be a plastic aspheric lens with a negative focal power; where an object side surface S9 of the fifth lens L5 may be configured to be concave at a position adjacent to the optical axis, and an image side surface S10 of the fifth lens L5 may be configured to be concave at a position adjacent to the optical axis.
In this embodiment, an entrance pupil diameter EPD of the optical lens 100 may be smaller than 1.58 mm, and the maximum distance between the projection of an entrance pupil EP and the projection of the object side surface S1 of the first lens L1 on the optical axis is greater than 0.17 mm. The maximum distance P between the projections is illustrated in
In some embodiments, the first lens L1, the second lens L2, the third lens L3, the fourth lens L4 and the fifth lens L5 may all be glass lenses, or may also be a combination of plastic lenses and glass lenses. The distance between the first lens L1 and the second lens L2 is smaller than the distance between any two adjacent lenses of the second lens L2, the third lens L3, the fourth lens L4 and the fifth lens L5. The thickness of the fifth lens L5 at a position adjacent to the optical axis is smaller than the edge thickness of the fifth lens L5.
The profile coefficients of the various aspheric surfaces of the optical lens 100 in this embodiment are shown in Table 2-1 and Table 2-2.
In this embodiment, the field curvature curves, distortion curves, longitudinal aberration curves, and lateral chromatic aberration curves of the optical lens 100 are respectively shown in
Referring to
Related parameters of the various lenses of the optical lens 200 provided in this embodiment are shown in Table 3.
The profile coefficients of the various aspheric surfaces of the optical lens 200 of this embodiment are shown in Table 4-1 and Table 4-2.
In this embodiment, the field curvature curves, distortion curves, longitudinal aberration curves, and lateral chromatic aberration curves of the optical lens 200 are respectively shown in
Referring to
Related parameters of the various lenses of the optical lens 300 provided in this embodiment are shown in Table 5.
The profile coefficients of the various aspheric surfaces of the optical lens 300 of this embodiment are shown in Table 6-1 and Table 6-2.
In this embodiment, the field curvature curves, distortion curves, longitudinal aberration curves, and lateral chromatic aberration curves of the optical lens 300 are respectively shown in
Referring to
Related parameters of the various lenses of the optical lens 400 provided in this embodiment are shown in Table 7.
The profile coefficients of the various aspheric surfaces of the optical lens 400 of this embodiment are shown in Table 8-1 and Table 8-2.
In this embodiment, the field curvature curves, distortion curves, longitudinal aberration curves, and lateral chromatic aberration curves of the optical lens 400 are respectively shown in
Table 9 shows optical characteristics corresponding to the above four embodiments, mainly including the focal length f of the system, the aperture number F# of the system, the total optical length TTL of the system, the field of view 2θ of the system, and values corresponding to terms in the various expressions mentioned above. In Table 9, it can be seen that the maximum of the total optical length TTL of the system is 4.82 mm, so that the volume of the optical lens is effectively smaller, which can better meet the development trend of portable smart electronic products, such as mobile phones.
In summary, the optical lenses provided in the embodiments may provide at least advantages as follows.
(1) The common optical lens on the market, which are used in the mobile phones, generally has a minimum head outer diameter of ø3 mm. In contrast, due to the reasonable arrangement of the stop and the various lenses, the optical lens provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure may have a small entrance pupil diameter, and the head outer diameter of the optical lens may be reduced to ø2 mm, satisfying the demand for a high screen-to-body ratio, and better satisfying the needs of the full screen of the mobile phones.
(2) The optical lens provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure adopts five lenses with a specific refractive power, and specific surface shapes and arrangement thereof are adopted for the lenses; as such, a more compact structure of the optical lens is obtained while satisfying a wild angle of view, thereby, achieving compromise between miniaturization and the wild angle of view of the optical lens can be better realized.
(3) A photographic field of a larger area can be obtained, which brings great convenience to the post-editing. In addition, the optical lens of such design enables the sense of depth and space for the imaged picture to be improved, providing better imaging quality.
The optical lenses provided in the various embodiments mentioned above may be applied to terminals, such as mobile phones, tablets, and cameras.
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The imaging device 500 may be a smart phone, a Pad, or any other type of portable electronic device equipped with the optical lens 100.
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The above-mentioned embodiments are merely illustrative of several embodiments of the present disclosure, and the specific and detailed description thereof should not to be construed as limiting the scope of the disclosure. It should be noted that various variations and modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the disclosure. The scope of the disclosure should be determined by the appended claims.
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201911097437.0 | Nov 2019 | CN | national |
This disclosure is a continuation-in-part of a PCT Application No. PCT/CN2020/122855, filed on Oct. 22, 2020. The PCT application claims priority to a Chinese patent application No. 201911097437.0, filed on Nov. 12, 2019. The entirety of the above-mentioned applications is hereby incorporated by reference herein.
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Parent | PCT/CN2020/122855 | Oct 2020 | US |
Child | 17198294 | US |