Finder optical system and image capturing apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9420186-B2
Application number	US-201314081316-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 15, 2013
Priority date	Dec 6, 2012
Publication date	Aug 16, 2016
Grant date	Aug 16, 2016

Abstract

A finder optical system includes, in the order from a display device side to an eye point side, a first lens group to increase a light beam height of a light beam bundle incident from a display device side and to emit the light beam bundle to the eye point side, and a second lens group having an image formation action.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A finder optical system, comprising in the order from a display device side to an eye point side:
a first lens group to increase a light beam height of a light beam bundle incident from a display device side and to emit the light beam bundle to the eye point side, wherein
a first lens group to increase a light beam height of a light beam bundle incident from a display device side and to emit the light beam bundle to the eye point side, wherein
the first lens group includes:
a bioconcave lens; and
a bioconvex lens adhered at an eye point side of the bioconcave lens, and wherein

the first lens group satifies the following conditional equations (1), (2). (3) and (4):
KH 7/ KH 9>1.65  (1)

KH 7/ KH 9<1.9  (2)

f ×(−0.1)< f 45  (3)

f× 0.7 >f 45  (4)

where KH7 denotes a paraxial light beam height of a lens surface of the first lens group at the eye point side, and KH9 denotes a paraxial light beam height of a lens surface of the first lens group at the display device side, and where f denotes an omnifocal distance, and f45 denotes a focal distance of the first lens group; and
a second lens group having an image formation action, wherein
the second lens group includes, in the order from the display device side of the eye point side:
a plastic both-surface aspherical convex lens to correct Seidel aberration;
a bioconvex lens; and
a concave meniscus lens having a concave face at the eye point side to correct color aberration.

2. The finder optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the first lens group corrects image field curvature aberration.

3. The finder optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the finder optical system is telecentric at the display device side.

4. An image capturing apparatus, including:
an image capturing device;
a signal processing unit to convert a signal provided by the image capturing device into an image signal;
a display device to display an image based on the image signal; and
a finder optical system, including in the order from a display device side to an eye point side,
a first lens group to increase a light beam height of a light beam bundle incident from a display device side and to emit the light beam bundle to the eye point side, wherein
the first lens group includes:
a bioconcave lens; and
a bioconvex lens adhered at an eye point side of the bioconcave lens, and wherein

the first lens group satisfies the following conditional equations (1), (2). (3) and (4):
KH 7/ KH 9>1.65  (1)

KH 7/ KH 9<1.9  (2)

f ×(−0.1)< f 45  (3)

f× 0.7 >f 45  (4)

where KH7 denotes a paraxial light beam height of a lens surface of the first lens group at the eye point side, and KH9 denotes a paraxial light beam height of a lens surface of the first lens group at the display device side, and where f denotes an omnifocal distance, and f45 denotes a focal distance of the first lens group; and
a second lens group having an image formation action, wherein
the second lens group includes, in the order from the display device side to the eye point side:
a plastic both-surface aspherical convex lens to correct Seidel aberration;
a bioconvex lens; and
a concave meniscus lens having a concave face at the eye point side to correct color aberration.

5. The image capture apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the first lens group corrects image field curvature aberration.

6. The image capture apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the finder optical system is telecentric at the display device side.

7. A finder optical system, comprising in the order from a display device side to an eye point side:
a first lens group to increase a light beam height of a light beam bundle incident from a display device side and to emit the light beam bundle to the eye point side; and wherein
a second lens group having an image formation action,
wherein the second lens group includes, in the order from the display device side to the eye point side,
a plastic both-surface aspherical convex lens to correct Seidel aberration;
a bioconvex lens; and
a concave meniscus lens having a concaver face at the eye point side to correct color aberration, and

wherein the finder optical system is telecentric at the display device side.

8. The tinder optical system according to claim 7 , wherein the first lens group includes
a bioconcave lens; and
a bioconvex lens adhered at an eye point side of the bioconcave lens.

9. The finder optical system according to claim 7 , wherein the first lens groups satisfies the following conditional equations (1) and (2):
KH 7/ KH 9>1.65  (1)

KH 7/ KH 9<1.9  (2)

where KH7 denotes a paraxial light beam height of a lens surface of the first lens group at the eye point side, and KH9 denotes a paraxial light beam height of a lens surface of the first lens group at the display device side.

10. The finder optical system according to claim 7 , wherein the first lens groups satisfies the following conditional equations (3) and (4):
f ×(−0.1)< f 45  (3)

f× 0.7 >f 45  (4)

where f denotes an omnifocal distance, and f45 denotes a focal distance of the first lens group.

11. The finder optical system according to claim 7 , wherein the first lens groups corrects image field curvature aberration.

Assignees

• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Kikuchi Masahito

Classifications

• G02B13/18 Primary

  with lenses having one or more non-spherical faces, e.g. for reducing geometrical aberration {(G02B13/002 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• G02B27/0172

  characterised by optical features · CPC title

• G02B13/003

  having two lenses · CPC title

• G03B13/02

  Viewfinders · CPC title

• G02B13/22 Primary

  Telecentric objectives or lens systems · CPC title