Six-Lens Camera Optical Lens Aberration Correction

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Problem

Conventional six-lens camera optical lens structures fail to meet design requirements for ultra-thin structure, wide angle, and high luminous flux due to unsatisfactory Abbe number, focal power, and lens spacing, leading to suboptimal imaging quality.

Innovation Solution

A six-lens camera optical lens design with specific refractive power configurations and curvature radii relationships between lenses, including aspheric surfaces, to correct aberrations and achieve an ultra-thin, wide-angle structure with improved optical performance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a conventional six-lens structure is used, then good optical performance is achieved, but the structure cannot meet ultra-thin, wide angle, and high luminous flux requirements

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoptical performanceVSAvoidultra-thin structure adaptability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies parameter changes by optimizing the Abbe number, focal power, distance between lenses, and shapes of lenses. Specifically, it sets the Abbe number of the first lens between 20-40, the second lens between 50-70, and establishes specific focal power relationships (0.3<f1/|f2|<0.6, 0.1<|f2|/f3<0.3) to achieve ultra-thin structure while maintaining good optical performance and wide angle characteristics

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces aspheric surfaces on multiple lenses (first, second, third, fourth, and sixth lenses) to dynamically correct aberrations. The aspheric coefficients are specifically designed to adjust the light path and improve imaging quality, allowing the lens system to adapt to wide angle requirements while maintaining compact dimensions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Measurement precision

If pixel area of photosensitive elements is decreased, then higher resolution is achieved, but increasingly higher requirements are imposed on imaging quality

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimaging resolutionVSAvoidimaging quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by assigning different Abbe numbers to different lenses to correct chromatic aberrations at specific locations in the optical path. The first lens has Abbe number 20-40 and the second lens has Abbe number 50-70, creating localized optical correction zones that collectively improve overall imaging quality for high-resolution sensors

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces traditional spherical lens surfaces with aspheric surfaces on multiple lenses. This substitution of geometric form allows for better correction of spherical aberrations and field curvature, enabling the system to maintain high imaging quality when using smaller pixel size photosensitive elements

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Length of moving object

If lens structure is made ultra-thin, then device thickness is reduced, but aberration correction becomes more difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelens thicknessVSAvoidaberration correction
Core Design Contradiction:
Length of moving objectVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses aspheric surfaces on the first, second, third, fourth, and sixth lenses to correct aberrations within a compact thickness. The aspheric coefficients (e.g., K1=-0.5 to 0.5, A4=0.001 to 0.01) are specifically designed to provide the necessary optical power and aberration correction without increasing lens thickness, enabling ultra-thin structure while maintaining good optical performance

Inventive Principle:
Principle #14Spheroidality (Curvature)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The design effectively corrects system aberrations, achieving better optical performance and suitability for high-resolution portable imaging, with a wide angle and ultra-thin structure while maintaining high luminous flux.

Implementation Method 1

a first lens L1 having positive refractive power, a second lens L2 having negative refractive power, a third lens L3 having positive refractive power, a fourth lens L4 having negative refractive power, a fifth lens L5 having positive refractive power, and a sixth lens L6 having negative refractive power

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectRefraction: Refraction

Data Source

PatentUS10935769B2Camera optical lens
Publication Date: 2021.03.02 AAC OPTICS SOLUTIONS PTE LTD
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AI summary

An camera optical lens is disclosed. The camera optical lens includes, in sequence from an object side to an image side: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. A focal length of the first lens is f1, an Abbe number of the first lens is v1, a focal length of the second lens is f2, an Abbe number of the second lens is v2, a curvature radius of an object side of the second lens is R3, a curvature radius of an image side of the second lens is R4, an on-axis distance from an image side of the first lens to the object side of the second lens is d2, a total optical length of the camera optical lens is TTL, and the following conditions are satisfied: −15.0≤f2/f1≤−4.9, 25.0≤TTL/d2≤47.0, 3.0≤v1/v2≤7.0, and 6.0≤(R3+R4)/(R3−R4)≤20.0.