Abstract:
A near-eye display device includes (a) a display unit for displaying a display image, (b) a viewing unit for presenting the display image to the eye and transmitting ambient light from an ambient scene toward the eye, and (c) an eye imaging unit including (i) an illumination module for generating at least three infrared light beams propagating along at least three different, non-coplanar directions, respectively, (ii) a first beamsplitter interface, disposed between the display unit and the viewing unit, for merging at least a portion of each of the infrared light beams with visible display light to direct each portion toward the eye via the viewing unit, and (iii) a camera for imaging, via the viewing unit and the first beamsplitter interface, pupil of the eye and reflections of the infrared light beams incident on the eye, to form one or more images indicative of gaze direction of the eye.
Abstract:
A six-aspheric-surface lens has six coaxially aligned lenses including, in order, a positive first lens, a negative second lens, a negative third lens, a negative fourth lens, a negative fifth lens, and a plano-gull-wing sixth lens. The six-aspheric-surface lens also includes a first biplanar substrate between the first lens and the second lens, a second biplanar substrate between the third lens and the fourth lens, and a third biplanar substrate between the fifth lens and the sixth lens. The first lens may have an Abbe number exceeding 48, the second lens and the third lens each may have an Abbe number less than 35. The first lens may have a focal length f1 and the second lens may have a focal length f2 such that −0.27
Abstract:
In an embodiment, a slim imager is disclosed. The slim imager includes a substrate including an aperture, an image sensor, and an optics unit. The image sensor is on a bottom side of the substrate, spans the aperture, and has an aperture-facing top surface. The optics unit is on a top side of the substrate, spans the aperture, and includes a transmissive optical element having an aperture-facing bottom surface. A volume partially bound by the aperture-facing top surface and the aperture-facing bottom surface has a refractive index less than 1.01 at visible wavelengths.
Abstract:
A compact three-surface wafer-level lens system for imaging a scene onto an image plane includes a one-sided wafer-level lens and a two-sided wafer-level lens disposed between the one-sided wafer-level lens and the image plane. The total track length of the wafer-level lens system is no more than 2.2 millimeters. The maximum transverse extent (in dimensions transverse to the optical axis) of the lens system and associated light propagating therethrough is no greater than 1.8 millimeters. The field of view angle of the lens system is at least 100 degrees.
Abstract:
A near-infrared hybrid lens system for imaging a wide field-of-view scene onto an image plane includes (a) a first cast lens positioned closest to the scene and at least partly transmissive to near-infrared light, (b) a second cast lens positioned closest to the image plane and at least partly transmissive to near-infrared light, and (c) a wafer-level lens at least partly transmissive to near-infrared light and disposed between the first cast lens and the second cast lens, wherein the wafer-level lens has (i) a planar substrate with a first surface facing away from the image plane and a second surface facing the image plane, (ii) a first lens element disposed on the first surface, and (iii) a second lens element disposed on the second surface.
Abstract:
A low-profile hybrid lens system, for imaging a scene onto an image plane, includes (a) a wafer-level lens with (i) a planar substrate having opposing first and second surfaces, (ii) a first lens element of a first material and disposed on the first surface, and (iii) a second lens element of a second material and disposed on the second surface; (b) a first cast lens; and (c) a second cast lens; wherein the wafer-level lens, the first cast lens, and the second cast lens are optically coupled in series. A method for manufacturing a low-profile hybrid lens system includes mounting a wafer-level lens, a first cast lens, and a second cast lens in a fixture to optically couple, in series, the wafer-level lens and the first and second cast lenses.
Abstract:
A wafer-level lens system includes one or more wafer-level lenses, each of the one or more wafer-level lenses having a substrate with opposing first and second surfaces, a first lens element of a first material and disposed on the first surface, and a second lens element of a second material and disposed on the second surface, wherein, for at least one of the one or more wafer-level lenses, the first material is different from the second material. Another wafer-level lens system includes three wafer-level lenses optically coupled in series with each other, each of the three wafer-level lenses having a substrate with opposing first and second surfaces, a first lens element disposed on the first surface and having an aspheric surface facing away from the first surface, and a second lens element disposed on the second surface and having an aspheric surface facing away from the second surface.
Abstract:
A three-piece all-aspheric adapter fisheye lens includes a negative meniscus lens, a biconvex lens, and a biconcave lens positioned between the negative meniscus lens and the biconvex lens. The lenses are coaxial and are arranged with an exit pupil to cooperatively generate an image with a camera lens that has greater field of view than the camera lens alone when the exit pupil is coplanar and coaxial with an entrance pupil of the camera lens. Each lens has an aspheric object-side surface and an aspheric image-side surface.
Abstract:
A three-piece all-aspheric adapter fisheye lens includes a negative meniscus lens, a biconvex lens, and a biconcave lens positioned between the negative meniscus lens and the biconvex lens. The lenses are coaxial and are arranged with an exit pupil to cooperatively generate an image with a camera lens that has greater field of view than the camera lens alone when the exit pupil is coplanar and coaxial with an entrance pupil of the camera lens. Each lens has an aspheric object-side surface and an aspheric image-side surface.
Abstract:
An apparatus includes an image sensor that is bonded to a spacer. The spacer has a thinned wall that defines a step and a recess in an interior wall at a first end of the spacer. The image sensor is bonded to the step within the recess of the spacer such that the image sensor is accepted completely within the recess of the spacer. A glass wafer is mounted on a second end of the spacer. A lens is mounted on the glass wafer such that light is to be directed through the lens to the image sensor.