The present disclosure relates to the field of optical imaging technologies, and more particularly, to an optical lens, an imaging module, an imaging device, and a vehicle camera.
Optical lens is usually composed of several lenses and are widely used in all aspects of social life. Lenses that combine high performance with low manufacturing costs are always the goal of product development. However, the current optical lens can not meet the requirements, so there is an urgent demand to provide an optical lens that meets the requirements of low manufacturing costs and high performance.
The present disclosure aims to provide an optical lens, an imaging module, an imaging device and a vehicle camera to solve the above problems.
In the first aspect, the present disclosure provides an optical lens, from an object side to an imaging surface thereof, the optical lens sequentially includes: a first lens having a negative refractive power, an object side surface being a convex surface and an image side surface being a concave surface; a second lens having a negative refractive power, an object side surface being a concave surface; a third lens having a positive refractive power, an object side surface being a convex surface; a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, a fifth lens having a positive refractive power, an object side surface and an image side surface each being convex surfaces; a sixth lens having a negative refractive power, an object side surface and an image side surface each being concave surfaces, the fifth lens and the sixth lens being cemented into an cemented body; a seventh lens having a positive refractive power, and the optical lens further includes a stop, disposed between the second lens and the third lens.
In the second aspect, the present disclosure provides an imaging device, the imaging device includes the optical lens provided in the first aspect and an imaging element for converting optical images formed by the optical lens into electrical signals.
In the third aspect, the present disclosure provides an imaging module, the imaging module includes 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 and the printed circuit board are substantially accommodated in the holder. The image sensor is located on an imaging surface of the optical lens and is mounted on the printed circuit board. The image sensor and the optical lens cooperated to capture one or more images and the images maybe transmitted to a processor via the printed circuit board.
In the fourth aspect, the disclosure provides a vehicle camera mounted on a vehicle, the vehicle camera includes the imaging module as describe above, the imaging module is configured to capture images of the surroundings of the vehicle. The vehicle camera can be applied to a driverless vehicle system, so that the driverless vehicle system can control the direction or the speed of the vehicle according to the captured images of the surroundings.
Compared with the related art, the optical lens and imaging device provided in the present disclosure have low manufacturing costs and high performance, wherein the first lens and the second lens are configured for light collection and distortion correction, the third lens is configured to eliminate aberrations and converge the lights to reduce the aperture of the lens, the fourth lens and the cemented body formed by the fifth lens and the six lens can eliminate heat difference, secondary spectrum and achromatic, the seventh lens can eliminate aberrations and control the exit angle of the chief ray.
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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, 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 so that this disclosure will be thorough and comprehensive.
According to production practice, the applicant found that the driverless driving technology needs to be equipped with an optical lens with a field of view (FOV) of larger than 70° and capable of monitoring middle and long distance ranges. Since the complexity of the driving environment, the optical lens needs to be safe and reliable. Therefore, the performance of the optical lens needs to meet some special requirements, for example, a strong light transmission ability which is capable of adapting to brightness/darkness changes in the external environment, a high imaging clarity which can effectively distinguish details of the road environment such as highway signs, pedestrians and vehicles in distance, a good thermal stability which enables the lens has good resolution in high and low temperature environments, and a good resolution for the objects that emit or reflect monochromatic lights of different wavelengths such as signal indicators, highway signs, etc, so as to meet the requirements of a driverless vehicle system.
The present disclosure provides an optical lens, from an object side to an imaging surface thereof, the optical lens sequentially includes: a first lens having a negative refractive power, an object side surface of the first lens being a convex surface and an image side surface of the first lens being a concave surface; a second lens having a negative refractive power, an object side surface of the second lens being a concave surface; a third lens having a positive refractive power, an object side surface of the third lens being a convex surface; a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, a fifth lens having a positive refractive power, an object side surface and an image side surface of the fifth lens each being convex surfaces; a sixth lens having a negative refractive power an object side surface and an image side surface of the sixth lens each being concave surfaces, the fifth lens and the sixth lens being cemented into an cemented body; a seventh lens having a positive refractive power. The optical lens further includes a stop disposed between the second lens and the third lens, and a filter disposed between the seventh lens and the imaging surface.
In some embodiments, the fourth lens and the fifth lens satisfy the following expression:
(dn/dt)4+(dn/dt)5<−3×10−6/° C.;
where (dn/dt)4 represents a temperature coefficient of refractive index of the fourth lens, (dn/dt)5 represents a temperature coefficient of refractive index of the fifth lens.
When the temperature coefficients of refractive index of the fourth lens and the fifth lens are both negative values, the focal length of the optical lens can be increased at high temperature and decreased at low temperature, thereby effectively compensating the thermal expansion of the lens components, such as a lens barrel, a lens holder, and ensuring the optical lens has a good performance at high and low temperatures.
In some embodiments, the fourth lens and the fifth lens satisfy the following expressions:
Vd4−Vd5>100:
ΔPg·F4+ΔPg·F5≥0.01:
where Vd4 represents the abbe number of the fourth lens, Vd5 represents the abbe number of the fifth lens, ΔPg,F4 represents a deviation of relative partial dispersion from the abbe empirical formula of the fourth lens. ΔPg,F5 represents a deviation of relative partial dispersion from the abbe empirical formula of the fifth lens.
When the materials of the fourth lens and the fifth lens has the low dispersion and high relative partial dispersion, the fourth lens and the fifth lens can effectively correct the secondary spectrum, reduce the difference in focus distance between different wavelengths of lights, and effectively improve the MTF value of different monochromatic lights in the visible light range, so that the lenses of the present disclosure have good effect on monochromatic lights of respective wavelength in the wide visible light range. It is beneficial to improve the resolution of the optical lens for objects that emit or reflect monochromatic lights of different wavelengths such as signal lights, highway signs, etc.
In some embodiments, in order to enable the optical lens to control the distortion and reduce the imaging deformation caused by the distortion, the optical lens satisfies the following expression:
IH/θ<0.15:
where θ represents half-FOV of the optical lens, and IH represents an image height when the half-FOV is θ. By controlling the f-θ distortion can increase the magnification of the FOV of the lens, thereby improving the resolution of the edge of the lens, so that it has sufficient resolution after the image of the FOV is flattened and expanded.
In some embodiments, in order to effectively eliminate the ghost caused by the second reflection between the first lens and the second lens, and avoid the ghosting of the lenses to interfere with the machine or human eyes recognition, the optical lens satisfies the following expression:
0.5<|r2+r3|<5;
where r2 represents a radius of curvature of an image side surface of the first lens, r3 represents a radius of curvature of an object side surface of the second lens.
In some embodiments, the first lens satisfies the following condition can converge the lights well, which is beneficial to reduce the incident angle of the light thereby reducing partial aberration:
−3<f1/(r1+r2)<0:
where f1 represents a focal length of the first lens, r1 represents a radius of curvature of an object side surface of the first lens, r2 represents a radius of curvature of an image side surface of the first lens.
In some embodiments, the fourth lens satisfies the following expression can converge the lights well, facilitate to reduce the rear lens diameter, thereby reducing the size of the lens:
0<|f4/r5|<3;
where f4 represents a focal length of the fourth lens, r8 represents a radius of curvature of an image side surface of the fourth lens.
In some embodiments, the seventh lens satisfies the following expression can correct aberrations well, beyond the range of the expression, the difficulty of lens processing and the correction of the aberrations will be increased:
−2<f7/r13<0;
where f7 represents a focal length of the seventh lens, r represents a radius of an image side surface of the seventh lens.
In some embodiments, the seventh lens is a glass aspheric lens, the fifth lens and the sixth lens are glass spherical lenses.
In some embodiments, the fifth lens and the sixth lens cemented into an cemented body, and the difference between the abbe number Vd of the fifth lens and the sixth lens is greater than 35.
Satisfying the above configuration is beneficial to ensure that the optical lens has good thermal stability and excellent wide-spectrum imaging performance. In addition, in some embodiments, f-θ distortion is controlled to increase the magnification of the FOV of the lens, thereby improving the resolution of the edge of the lens, so that it has sufficient resolution after the image of the FOV is flattened and expanded.
Further, the present disclosure provides an imaging device including the optical lens provided in any one of the above embodiments and an imaging element for converting optical images formed by the optical lens into electrical signals. The imaging element can be a Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor or a Charge Coupled Device (CCD) image sensor.
The present disclosure further provides an imaging module, the imaging module includes 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 and the printed circuit board are substantially accommodated in the holder. The image sensor is located on an imaging surface of the optical lens and is mounted on the printed circuit board. The image sensor and the optical lens cooperated to capture one or more images and the images maybe transmitted to a processor via the printed circuit board.
The present disclosure further provides a vehicle camera mounted on a vehicle, the vehicle camera includes the imaging module as describe above, the imaging module is configured to capture images of the surroundings of the vehicle. The vehicle camera can be applied to a driverless vehicle system, so that the driverless vehicle system can control the direction or the speed of the vehicle according to the captured images of the surroundings.
The shapes of aspheric surfaces of the optical lens provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure satisfy the following equation:
where z represents a vector height between a position on the surface and a vertex of the surface along an optical axis of the lens, c represents a curvature of the vertex of the surface, K is a quadratic surface coefficient, h is a distance between the position on the surface and the optical axis. B is a fourth order surface coefficient. C is a sixth order surface coefficient, D is an eighth order surface coefficient, E is a tenth order surface coefficient, F is a twelfth order surface coefficient.
In the following embodiments, the thickness, radius of curvature, and material selection of each lens in the imaging lens are different. For specific differences, see the parameter table of each embodiment.
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The first lens L1 has a negative refractive power; an object side surface S1 of the first lens L1 is a convex surface, an image side surface S2 of the first lens L1 is a concave surface, and the first lens L1 is a glass aspheric lens. In other embodiments of the disclosure, the first lens L1 can be a glass spherical lens.
The second lens L2 having a negative refractive power, an object side surface S3 of the second lens L2 is a concave surface, an image side surface S4 of the second lens L2 is a convex surface and the second lens L2 is a glass spherical lens.
The third lens L3 has a positive refractive power, an object side surface S5 and an image side surface S6 of the third lens L3 are both convex surfaces, and the third lens L3 is a glass spherical lens.
The fourth lens L4 has a positive refractive power, an object side surface S7 and an image side surface S8 of the fourth lens L4 are both convex surfaces, and the fourth lens L4 is a glass aspheric lens. In other embodiments of the disclosure, the fourth lens L4 can be a glass aspheric lens.
The fifth lens L5 has a positive refractive power, an object side surface S9 and an image side surface S10 of the fifth lens L5 are both convex surfaces.
The sixth lens L6 has a negative refractive power, an object side surface S10 and an image side surface S11 of the sixth lens L6 are both concave surfaces, and the fifth lens L5 and the sixth lens L6 cemented into an cemented body, and both are glass spherical lenses. Specifically, the image side surface S10 of the fifth lens L5 is matched with and bonded to an object side surface S10 of the sixth lens L6, in other words, the fifth lens L5 and the sixth lens L6 are bonded together to form the cemented body also called an achromatic doublet lens.
The seventh lens L7 has a positive refractive power, an object side surface S12 of the seventh lens L7 is a convex surface, an image side surface S13 of the seventh lens L7 is also a convex surface at a position adjacent to the optical axis 1 and the seventh lens L7 is a glass aspheric lens.
The stop ST is disposed between the second lens L2 and the third lens L3, the filter G1 is disposed between the seventh lens L7 and the imaging surface.
Related parameters of each lens in the optical lens 100 are shown in Table 1-1.
The parameters of the aspheric surfaces of the lenses of this embodiment are shown in Table 1-2.
In this embodiment, the field curvature, the distortion and the axial chromatic aberration are respectively shown in
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The parameters of the aspheric surfaces of the lenses of this embodiment are shown in Table 2-2.
In this embodiment, the field curvature, the distortion and the axial chromatic aberration are respectively shown in
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The parameters of the aspheric surfaces of the lenses of this embodiment are shown in Table 3-2.
In this embodiment, the field curvature, the distortion and the axial chromatic aberration are respectively shown in
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The parameters of the aspheric surfaces of the lenses of this embodiment are shown in Table 4-2.
In this embodiment, the field curvature, the distortion and the axial chromatic aberration are respectively shown in
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The parameters of the aspheric surfaces of the lenses of this embodiment are show in Table 5-2.
In this embodiment, the field curvature, the distortion and the axial chromatic aberration are respectively shown in
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The parameters of the aspheric surfaces of the lenses of this embodiment are shown in Table 6-2.
In this embodiment, the field curvature, the distortion and axial chromatic aberration are respectively shown in
Table 7 shows the above six embodiments and their corresponding optical characteristics. Table 7 includes the system focal length f, the aperture number F #, the FOV 2θ and the system optical total length TTL, and values corresponding to each of the preceding conditional expressions.
In the above embodiments, the optical lens provided by the present disclosure can achieve the following optical index: (1) FOV 2θ>70°; (2) optical total length: TTL<35 mm, (2) applicable spectral range: 400 nm˜700 nm.
In the optical lens provided in the present disclosure, the first lens L1 and the second lens L2 are configured for light collection and distortion correction, the third lens L3 is configured to eliminate aberrations and converge the lights to reduce the aperture of the lens, the fourth lens L4 and the cemented body formed by the fifth lens L5 and the six lens L6 can eliminate heat difference, secondary spectrum and achromatic, the seventh lens L7 can eliminate aberrations and control the exit angle of the chief ray.
Further, when each lens are glass lenses, the optical lens has good thermal stability; when at least one of the fourth lens L4 and the fifth lens L5 is selected to the glass having low dispersion and high relative partial dispersion and the temperature coefficients of refractive index is negative, it can not only minimize the focus shift of the imaging lens caused by changes in ambient temperature, effectively solve the problem of thermal drift, but also can well correct the secondary spectrum, and make the focal positions of monochromatic light with different wavelengths closer. The optical lens provided in present disclosure not only has reliable thermal stability, but also has have good effect on monochromatic lights of respective wavelength in the wide visible light range, which is beneficial to the resolution of the optical lens for objects that emit or reflect monochromatic lights of different wavelengths such as signal lights, highway signs, etc.
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The imaging element 71 is located on an imaging surface of the optical lens. The imaging element 71 may be a Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor or a Charge Coupled Device (CCD) image sensor.
The imaging device 700 may be a device such as a vehicle-mounted device, a monitoring device, and the like, and has beneficial effects that the optical lens provided in present disclosure can bring.
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The above-mentioned embodiments are merely illustrative of several embodiments of the present disclosure, and the description thereof is more specific and detailed, however is 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. Therefore, the scope of the disclosure should be determined by the appended claims.
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This application is a continuation of International Application No. PCT/CN2019/106773, filed on Sep. 19, 2019, titled “OPTICAL LENS AND IMAGING DEVICE”. The International Application No. PCT/CN2019/106773 claims priority to a Chinese application NO. 2018113686031 filed on Nov. 16, 2018, titled “OPTICAL LENS AND IMAGING DEVICE.” The entirety of the above-mentioned applications is hereby incorporated by reference herein.
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