Patent Application
20160139371
This application claims the benefit of Korean Patent Application No. 10-2014-0160873, filed on Nov. 18, 2014, in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein in its entirety by reference.
1. Field
One or more exemplary embodiments relate to an optical device, and more particularly, to a lens optical system applied to a camera.
2. Description of the Related Art
Cameras having solid state imaging devices such as a charge-coupled device (CCD) and a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor applied thereto have been widely distributed.
Since a pixel integration degree of a solid state imaging device increases, a resolution is being improved rapidly. In addition, the performance of a lens optical system has been greatly improved, and thus, cameras may have high performance, small sizes, and lightweight.
In a lens optical system of a general small camera, e.g., a camera for a mobile phone, an optical system including a plurality of lenses has one or more glass lenses. However, a glass lens has high unit manufacturing costs, and makes it difficult to miniaturize the lens optics due to limitations in forming/processing the glass lens.
Therefore, a lens optical system capable of achieving high performance/high resolution while addressing the problems of a glass lens is required, wherein the optical lens system has less manufacturing costs and has a compact size.
One or more exemplary embodiments include a lens optical system that is manufactured with low manufacturing costs, is small in size, and lightweight.
One or more exemplary embodiments include a lens optical system of high performances, which is suitable for a high resolution camera.
Additional aspects will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be apparent from the description, or may be learned by practice of the presented embodiments.
According to one or more exemplary embodiments, a lens optical system includes: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens sequentially arranged along a light path between an object and an image sensor on which an image of the object is formed, and an aperture disposed between the object and the image sensor, wherein the first lens has a positive refractive power, the second lens has a negative refractive power, the third lens has a positive refractive power, the fourth lens has a positive refractive power, the fifth lens has a negative refractive power, and the lens optical system satisfies the following Conditions 1 to 4,
60<FOV<90, <Condition 1>
where FOV denotes a diagonal viewing angle of the lens optical system,
0.5<AL/TTL<1.2, <Condition 2>
where AL denotes a distance from an aperture to the image sensor, and TTL denotes a distance along an optical axis from a center of an incident surface of the first lens to the image sensor,
0.5<TTL/ImgH<1.5, <Condition 3>
where ImgH denotes a diagonal length of an effective pixel area of the image sensor
45<(V3+V4)/2<65, <Condition 4>
where V3 denotes an Abbe's number of the third lens and V4 denotes an Abbe's number of the fourth lens.
An incident surface of the first lens may be convex toward the object.
An exit surface of the second lens may be concave from the image sensor.
An exit surface of the first lens may be convex, and an incident surface of the second lens may be plane.
An exit surface of the third lens may be convex toward the image sensor.
An exit surface of the fourth lens may be convex toward the image sensor.
An incident surface of the fifth lens may have one or more inflection points from a center portion to an edge.
At least one of the first to fifth lenses may be an aspheric lens.
One of an incident surface and an exit surface of at least one of the first to fifth lenses may be an aspherical surface.
At least one of the first to fifth lenses may be a plastic lens.
The first to fifth lenses may be aberration correcting lenses.
The aperture may be disposed between the first lens and the second lens.
The aperture may be disposed between the object and the first lens.
The lens optical system may further include an infrared ray blocking unit between the object and the image sensor.
The infrared ray blocking unit may be disposed between the fifth lens and the image sensor.
According to one or more exemplary embodiments, a lens optical system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens sequentially arranged between an object and an image sensor on which an image of the object is formed from the object side, and an aperture disposed between the object and the fifth lens, wherein the first to fourth lenses respectively have positive, negative, positive, positive, and negative refractive powers, and the lens optical system satisfies at least one of following Conditions 1 to 4,
60<FOV<90, <Condition 1>
where FOV denotes a diagonal viewing angle of the lens optical system,
0.5<AL/TTL<1.2, <Condition 2>
where AL denotes a distance from an aperture to the image sensor, and TTL denotes a distance along an optical axis from a center of an incident surface of the first lens to the image sensor,
0.5<TTL/ImgH<1.5, <Condition 3>
where ImgH denotes a diagonal length of an effective pixel area of the image sensor
45<(V3+V4)/2<65, <Condition 4>
where V3 denotes an Abbe's number of the third lens and V4 denotes an Abbe's number of the fourth lens.
An incident surface of the first lens may be convex toward the object side.
An exit surface of the second lens may be concave from the image sensor.
An exit surface of the third lens may be convex toward the image sensor.
An exit surface of the fourth lens may be convex toward the image sensor.
An incident surface of the fifth lens may have one or more inflection points from a center portion to an edge.
These and/or other aspects will become apparent and more readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:
Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout. Expressions such as “at least one of,” when preceding a list of elements, modify the entire list of elements and do not modify the individual elements of the list.
Referring to
The first lens I may have a positive (+) refractive power, and may be convex toward the object OBJ. An incident surface 1 of the first lens I may be convex toward the object OBJ, and an exit surface 2 of the first lens I may be convex toward the image sensor IMG. Therefore, the incident surface 1 and the exit surface 2 may be aspherical surfaces.
The second lens II may have a negative (−) refractive power. An exit surface 5 of the second lens II may be concave from the image sensor IMG.
The third lens III may have a positive (+) refractive power. In detail, an incident surface 6 of the third lens III is concave from the object OBJ, and an exit surface 7 of the third lens III may be convex toward the image sensor IMG.
The fourth lens IV has a positive (+) refractive power. In detail, an incident surface 8 of the fourth lens IV is concave from the object OBJ side, and the exit surface 9 of the fourth lens IV is convex toward the image sensor IMG.
The fifth lens V that is the last lens of the lens optical system may have a negative (−) refractive power, and may be convex toward the image sensor IMG. Here, an incident surface 10 of the fifth lens V is convex toward the object OBJ side, and an exit surface 11 of the fifth lens V may be convex toward the image sensor IMG side.
In such above fifth lens V, at least one of the incident surface 10 and the exit surface 11 may be an aspherical surface. For example, the incident surface 10 of the fifth lens V may be an aspherical surface having at least one or two inflection points from a center portion to an edge thereof. In detail, the exit surface 11 of the fifth lens V may be concave at the center thereof and convex toward the image sensor IMG side to the edge thereof.
At least one of the first to fifth lenses I to V may be an aspheric lens. That is, at least one of the incident surface 1, 4, 6, 8, or 10 and the exit surface 2, 5, 7, 9, or 11 of at least one of the first to fifth lenses I to V may be an aspherical surface.
According to another exemplary embodiment, the incident surface 1, 4, 6, 8, and 10 and the exit surface 2, 5, 7, 9, and 11 of each of the first to fifth lenses I to V may be both aspherical surfaces.
In addition, an aperture S2 and an infrared ray blocking unit VI may be further disposed between the object OBJ and the image sensor IMG. The aperture S2 may be disposed between the object OBJ and the first lens I or between the first lens I and the second lens II. That is, the aperture S2 may be adjacent to the exit surface 2 of the second lens II.
The infrared ray blocking unit VI may be disposed between the fifth lens V and the image sensor IMG. The infrared ray blocking unit VI may be an infrared ray blocking filter. The locations of the aperture S2 and the infrared ray blocking unit VI may vary.
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The lens optical system described above according to the exemplary embodiments may satisfy at least one of Conditions 1 to 4 below.
60<FOV<90 (1)
Here, FOV denotes a diagonal viewing angle of the optical system. The viewing angle is restricted as above in order to implement a wide angle lens system having a small aberration and high resolution.
0.5<AL/TTL<1.2 (2)
Here, AL denotes a distance from the aperture S2 to the image sensor IMG, and TTL denotes an optical distance from the center of the incident surface 1 of the first lens I to the image sensor IMG. The above condition determines a location of the aperture S2 that may be disposed between the object OBJ and the first lens I or between the first lens I and the second lens II in a wide angle lens system so as to form an optimized wide angle optical system.
0.5<TT/ImgH<1.5 (3)
Here, ImgH denotes a diagonal length of an effective pixel region of the image sensor IMG. In the above condition, toward the minimum value, the optical system becomes slim, but it is difficult to correct aberration. In addition, toward the maximum value, it is easy to correct the aberrations, but it is difficult to form a compact optical system.
45<(V3+V4)/2<65 (4)
Here, V3 denotes an Abbe's number of the third lens III, and V4 denotes an Abbe's number of the fourth lens. As such, the lenses may be formed of plastic, and accordingly, manufacturing costs may be reduced and the compact lens optical system may be obtained.
In the above exemplary embodiments (EMB1 to EMB3), Table 1 shows values of the above conditions EQU1 to EQU4.
As shown in Table 1, the exemplary embodiments EMB1 to EMB3 all satisfy the above conditions 1 to 4.
In the lens optical system having the above described structure according to the one or more exemplary embodiments, the first to fifth lenses I to V may be formed of plastic in consideration of shapes and dimensions thereof. That is, all the first to fifth lenses I to V may be plastic lenses.
If a glass lens is used, a lens optical system not only has high manufacturing unit costs, but also is difficult to miniaturize due to restrictions on forming/processing of the glass lens. However, since the first to fifth lenses I to V may be formed of plastic, manufacturing unit costs may be decreased and a lens optical system may be miniaturized.
However, in the exemplary embodiments, the material forming the first to fifth lenses I to V is not limited to plastic. If necessary, at least one of the first to fifth lenses I to V may be formed of glass.
One or more exemplary embodiments #1 to #3 will be described in detail below with reference to lens data and accompanying drawings.
Following Table 2 to Table 4 show a curvature radius, a lens thickness or a distance between lenses, a refractive index, and an Abbe's number of each lens included in the lens optical systems illustrated in
In Table 2 to Table 4, S denotes a number of a lens surface, R denotes a curvature radius, D denotes a lens thickness, a lens interval, or an interval between adjacent elements, Nd denotes a refractive index of a lens measured by using a d-line, and Vd denotes an Abbe's number of a lens with respect to a d-line. A mark ‘*’ besides a lens surface number denotes that a lens surface is aspheric. Also, a unit of values of R and D is mm.
In addition, the aspherical surface of the each lens in the lens optical system according to the above exemplary embodiments satisfies an aspheric formula 5.
Here, x denotes a distance from an apex of a lens in an optical axis direction, H denotes a distance in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis, c′ denotes a reciprocal number of a curvature radius at an apex of a lens (=1/r), K denotes a conic constant, and A, B, C, D, and E each denote an aspheric coefficient.
Tables 5 to 7 below show aspheric coefficients of aspherical surfaces respectively in the lens optical systems according to the exemplary embodiments illustrated in
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As described above, the lens optical system according to the exemplary embodiments include the first to fifth lenses I to V respectively having the positive (+), negative (−), positive (+), positive (+), and negative (−) refractive powers and arranged sequentially from the object OBJ to the image sensor IMG, and may satisfy at least one of Conditions 1 to 4.
Such lens optical systems may have a wide viewing angle and a short total length, and may easily correct various aberrations. Accordingly, the lens optical system that is small in size, have a wide viewing angle, and have high performance and high resolution may be obtained.
In particular, if the incident surface 10 of the fifth lens V is an aspherical surface having at least one inflection point from a center portion thereof to the edge, in particular, two or more inflection points from the center portion to the edge, various aberrations may be easily corrected by using the fifth lens V, and an exit angle of a chief ray may be reduced to prevent vignetting.
Also, since the first to fifth lenses I to V are formed of plastic and opposite surfaces (incident surface and exit surface) of each of the lenses I to V are formed to be aspheric, the lens optical system having high performances with a compact size may be formed with less expenses than that of using the glass lens.
According to the one or more exemplary embodiments, a lens optical system may be small in size and have lightweight, and obtain high performances and high resolution. In particular, the lens optical system according to the exemplary embodiments includes the first to fifth lenses respectively having positive, negative, positive, positive, and negative refractive powers and arranged sequentially from the object to the image sensor, and satisfies at least one of the Conditions 1 to 4. The first lens having the positive refractive power has a strong power, and the negative refractive power is distributed to the second and fifth lenses.
Such above lens optical system has a wide viewing angle and a short total length, and corrects various aberrations easily, and thus, is suitable for the high performance and small-sized camera. In particular, if the incident surface of the fifth lens is an aspherical surface having one or more inflection points from the center portion to the edge, the various aberrations may be easily corrected by using the fifth lens.
In addition, since at least one of the first to fifth lenses is formed of plastic and opposite surfaces of each lens (incident surface and exit surface) are formed to be aspherical surfaces, the lens optical system having high performances with a compact size may be formed with less expenses than that of using the glass lens.
It should be understood that exemplary embodiments described herein should be considered in a descriptive sense only and not for purposes of limitation. For example, it would be obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art that a blocking film may be used as a filter instead of the infrared blocking unit VI. While one or more exemplary embodiments have been described with reference to the figures, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the inventive concept as defined by the following claims.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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| 10-2014-0160873 | Nov 2014 | KR | national |
