G03B 5/04
Vertical adjustment of lens
Official title: Vertical adjustment of lens; Rising fronts
G03B5/04 (Vertical adjustment of lens) appears on 365 US grants and 456 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G03B- Granted patents
- 365
- Published applications
- 456
- Assignees
- 104
- Inventors
- 640
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 4 | 0 |
| 1998 | 3 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 |
| 2002 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 2 | 0 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 3 |
| 2006 | 1 | 3 |
| 2007 | 3 | 2 |
| 2008 | 1 | 3 |
| 2009 | 5 | 3 |
| 2010 | 4 | 2 |
| 2011 | 1 | 7 |
| 2012 | 4 | 3 |
| 2013 | 3 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 4 |
| 2015 | 5 | 5 |
| 2016 | 5 | 9 |
| 2017 | 4 | 13 |
| 2018 | 10 | 29 |
| 2019 | 25 | 56 |
| 2020 | 29 | 50 |
| 2021 | 36 | 47 |
| 2022 | 46 | 43 |
| 2023 | 47 | 43 |
| 2024 | 44 | 54 |
| 2025 | 37 | 34 |
| 2026 | 37 | 39 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Optical system29 Sep 2026US 12,748,305 B2Actutek Corporation
- Lens apparatus and image pickup apparatus15 Sep 2026US 12,736,853 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Camera module and electronic device including the same25 Aug 2026US 12,717,157 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Magnetic structure of voice coil motor, voice coil motor, zoom lens and photographic equipment11 Aug 2026US 12,704,765 B2Zhongshan Union Optech Research Institute Co., Ltd.
- Actuators28 Jul 2026US 12,692,847 B2Cambridge Mechatronics Limited
- Optical device and image pickup system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310046 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Lens driving device, camera module, and optical device24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287975 A1LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
- Camera module with a lens driving apparatus17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276941 A1Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
- Lens driving device, camera device and optical device10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267202 A1LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
- Lens driving device, camera device and optical device3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259474 A1LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Dual voice coil motor structure in a dual-optical module camera22US 10,288,897 B2Corephotonics Ltd. · 2019
- Camera module17US 10,317,651 B2Denso Corporation · 2019
- Automatic parallax correction in deploying lens camera16US 5,173,726 AEastman Kodak Company · 1992
- Adapter having a tilt and shift mechanism16US 6,318,912 B1Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 2001
- Oblique projection optical system16US 6,450,648 B1Minolta Co., Ltd. · 2002