G02B 7/285
Including two or more different focus detection devices
Official title: {including two or more different focus detection devices, e.g. both an active and a passive focus detecting device}
G02B7/285 (Including two or more different focus detection devices) appears on 174 US grants and 168 published applications in this corpus.
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Recent patents
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- Control apparatus, lens apparatus, optical apparatus, and storage medium15 Jul 2025US 12,360,336 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Lens control device, imaging apparatus, operation method of lens control device, and program7 Jan 2025US 12,189,208 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Control method and optical device for detecting a position of a lens and accordingly move the lens into an allowable range27 Aug 2024US 12,075,158 B2Qisda Corporation
- Hybrid Auto-Focus System with Robust Macro Object Priority Focusing7 May 2026US 2026/0129292 A1Google Inc.
- Image based autofocus of optical systems26 Feb 2026US 2026/0055442 A1Element Biosciences, Inc.
- Control method and optical device for moving a lens into an allowable range19 Oct 2023US 2023/0336868 A1Qisda Corporation
- Primary-Subordinate Camera Focus Based On Lens Position Sensing14 Sep 2023US 2023/0288664 A1Apple Inc.
- Control apparatus, lens apparatus, optical apparatus, and storage medium7 Sep 2023US 2023/0280565 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical lens system with electro-active lens having alterably different focal lengths247US 6,619,799 B1E-Vision, LLC · 2003
- System, apparatus, and method for correcting vision using an electro-active lens133US 6,918,670 B2E-Vision, LLC · 2005
- System, apparatus, and method for correcting vision using an electro-active lens78US 7,475,985 B2PixelOptics, Inc. · 2009
- Auto focus detecting device comprising both phase-difference detecting and contrast detecting methods56US 5,597,999 AMinolta Co., Ltd. · 1997
- System, apparatus and method for correcting vision with an adaptive optic53US 7,188,948 B2E-Vision, LLC · 2007