G02B 27/0075
Optical systems or apparatus not provided for by any of the groups
Official title: {with means for altering, e.g. increasing, the depth of field or depth of focus}
G02B27/0075 (Optical systems or apparatus not provided for by any of the groups) appears on 954 US grants and 1,135 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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| 2026 | 27 | 24 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Systems and methods for parallax detection and correction in images captured using array cameras that contain occlusions using subsets of images to perform depth estimation414US 8,619,082 B1Pelican Imaging Corporation · 2013
- Dual aperture zoom digital camera370US 9,185,291 B1Corephotonics Ltd. · 2015
- Extended depth of field optical systems303US 5,748,371 AThe Regents of the University of Colorado · 1998
- Microscopy arrangements and approaches303US 7,723,662 B2The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · 2010
- Methods and apparatus for light-field imaging300US 8,290,358 B1Adobe Systems Incorporated · 2012