US Patent 7586682 Zoom lens and imaging apparatus

Patent 7586682 was granted and assigned to Sony on September, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Patent attributes

Current Assignee

Sony

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7586682

Date of Patent

September 8, 2009

Patent Application Number

11580161

Date Filed

October 13, 2006

Patent Primary Examiner

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Stephone B. Allen

Patent abstract

A zoom lens including a varifocal lens unit having a plurality of movable lens groups, and a prism disposed on an image side of the varifocal lens unit. The prism has an incident plane on which a light flux from the varifocal lens unit enters, and an exit plane from which the light flux is emitted toward an image plane, and is configured such that the incident plane or the exit plane or both planes can be inclined with respect to an optical axis, whereby a field of view is shifted by a predetermined amount by inclining the plane.