Optical apparatus

• US 9,774,770 B2
• Filed: 10/14/2015
• Issued: 09/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Everready Precision Ind. Corp.
• Original Assignee: Everready Precision Ind. Corp.
• Inventors: Chern, Jyh-Long, Yen, Chih-Ming
• Primary Examiner(s): Flohre, Jason
• Application Number:
  US14/883,012
• Publication Number:
  US 20160124196A1
• Time in Patent Office: 713 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 13/0085 employing wafer level optics
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 19/0085 for use with both a detector and a source , e.g. in a transceiver, G02B19/009, G02B19/0095 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 3/0043 Inhomogeneous or irregular arrays, e.g. varying shape, size, height
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/54 Mounting of pick-up tubes, electronic image sensors, deviation or focusing coils
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/55 Optical parts specially adapted for electronic image sensors; Mounting thereof

Abstract

An optical apparatus includes plural optical lens groups, an optical sensor, at least one lighting member and a casing. After a light beam passes through any of the plural optical lens groups, a travelling direction of the light beam is changed. After the light beam passes through at least one of the plural optical lens groups, the light beam is sensed and converted into an image signal by the optical sensor. The lighting member outputs a source beam. The plural optical lens groups, the optical sensor and the lighting member are accommodated within the casing. The optical apparatus has a single optical lens module, and is able to implement different optical functions simultaneously. Consequently, the overall volume of the optical apparatus is minimized, the fabricating cost of the optical apparatus is reduced, the assembling process is simplified, and the number of components to be assembled is reduced.

Claims

1. An optical apparatus, comprising:

plural optical lens groups, wherein after a light beam passes through any of the plural optical lens groups, a travelling direction of the light beam is changed, wherein one of the plural optical lens groups is a center optical lens group, and the other optical lens groups of the plural optical lens groups are peripheral optical lens groups around the center optical lens group;

an optical sensor, wherein after the light beam passes through at least one of the plural optical lens groups, the light beam is sensed by the optical sensor;

at least one lighting member outputting a source beam; and

a casing, wherein the plural optical lens groups, the optical sensor and the at least one lighting member are accommodated and fixed within the casing, wherein the optical apparatus satisfies mathematic formula;

2. The optical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the source beam from the at least one lighting member is a light beam for providing lighting luminance and/or a structured light.

3. The optical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the optical apparatus satisfies a mathematic formula:

4. The optical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each lighting member comprises a light source and an obstructer, and the obstructer is arranged between the light source and the optical sensor, wherein the source beam from the light source is blocked from being transmitted to the optical sensor by the obstructer.

5. The optical apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the light source comprises a laser diode, a light emitting diode and/or an organic light emitting diode, wherein the light source emits the source beam, and the source beam has a wavelength in a visible wavelength range, an invisible wavelength range and/or a thermal band.

6. The optical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an inclined angle between a center optical axis of the center optical lens group and a peripheral optical axis of at least one of the plural peripheral optical lens groups is smaller than 20 degrees.

7. The optical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein reflective optical elements are embedded in the corresponding optical lens group and an inclined angle between a center optical axis of the center optical lens group and a peripheral optical axis of at least one of the plural peripheral optical lens groups is more than 20 degrees.

8. The optical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one lighting member is disposed within at least one of the plural optical lens groups, or the at least one lighting member is arranged between at least one of the peripheral optical lens groups and the optical sensor.

9. The optical apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising at least one filter, wherein the at least one filter is arranged between the plural optical lens groups and the optical sensor, wherein after the light beam passes through any of the plural optical lens groups, a portion of the light beam is filtered and sieved by the at least one filter.

10. The optical apparatus according to claim 9, wherein a visible light beam, an infrared light beam, a near infrared light beam and/or a far infrared light beam is blocked by the at least one filter.

11. The optical apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a light shielding plate, wherein the light shielding plate is located at front sides of the plural optical lens groups, and the light shielding plate has plural perforations corresponding to the plural optical lens groups.

12. The optical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein plural optical lens groups comprise a visible optical lens group and an invisible optical lens group, wherein after at least one visible light beam passes through the visible optical lens group, a travelling direction of the at least one visible light beam is changed, wherein after at least one invisible light beam passes through the invisible optical lens group, a travelling direction of the at least one invisible light beam is changed.

13. The optical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plural optical lens groups comprise a first optical lens group with a first lens and a second optical lens group with a second lens, wherein the first lens and the second lens are integrally formed with each other.

14. The optical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each of the plural optical lens groups comprises a single lens or plural lenses in a stack arrangement, wherein each lens is made of a plastic material, a glass material or a silicon-based material.

15. The optical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the optical apparatus is an optical image capturing apparatus.