G02B 13/001
Miniaturised objectives for electronic devices
Official title: {Miniaturised objectives for electronic devices, e.g. portable telephones, webcams, PDAs, small digital cameras (G02B23/243 takes precedence)}
G02B13/001 (Miniaturised objectives for electronic devices) appears on 9,604 US grants and 11,704 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Driving mechanism6 Oct 2026US 12,754,390 B2Actutek Corporation
- Optical system6 Oct 2026US 12,754,394 B2LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
- Optical imaging system6 Oct 2026US 12,754,397 B2Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
- Lens module6 Oct 2026US 12,754,398 B2Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
- Imaging optical system and image pickup apparatus having the same6 Oct 2026US 12,754,399 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Optical system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309958 A1Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
- Optical imaging system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309959 A1Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
- Optical system and camera module8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309960 A1LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
- Imaging lens system, image capturing unit and electronic device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309961 A1Largan Industrial Optics Co., Ltd.
- Ophthalmic lens8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309962 A1Young Optics Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for multiple camera devices and method of operating same466US 7,199,348 B2Newport Imaging Corporation · 2007
- Capturing and processing of images using monolithic camera array with heterogeneous imagers431US 8,514,491 B2Pelican Imaging Corporation · 2013
- Dual aperture zoom digital camera370US 9,185,291 B1Corephotonics Ltd. · 2015
- Hermetically sealed distal sensor endoscope283US 8,556,807 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. · 2013
- Camera applications in a handheld device278US 8,439,265 B2Intel Corporation · 2013