To suppress occurrence of flare and ghost while reducing the size or height of an imaging apparatus. The imaging apparatus is configured by mounting a cover structure on a solid-state imaging element. The solid-state imaging element generates a pixel signal by photoelectric conversion according to a light amount of incident light. The cover structure includes a non-flat surface for focusing incident light on a light receiving surface of the solid-state imaging element. The non-flat surface of the cover structure may have either a concave shape or a convex shape. It is assumed that the cover structure includes an inorganic material such as glass, silicon, or germanium.

A near-eye display apparatus is disclosed. The near-eye display apparatus includes a lens and an optical path folding assembly. The lens is configured to receive incident light of a first image, which is projected by a micro-display, and shape the first image; the lens includes a primary optical axis and a first lens face and a second lens face which are opposed in a first direction where the primary optical axis of the lens is positioned, a curvature radius of the first lens face is within a range of 70 to 100 millimeters, and a curvature radius of the second lens face is within a range of 10 to 30 millimeters; and the optical path folding assembly is configured to receive light of the first image shaped by the lens and fold an optical path from the lens to an exit pupil of the near-eye display apparatus.

An optical imaging system is described including first to sixth lenses sequentially disposed from an object side to an image side, and an image sensor configured to convert incident light reflected from a subject, having passed through the first to sixth lenses, into an electrical signal. One of the first to sixth lenses includes a spherical object-side surface and another of the first to sixth lenses includes corresponding aspherical object-side surfaces. The first to sixth lenses include corresponding aspherical image-side surfaces, and a lens of the first to sixth lenses that is closer to the object side than the one of the first to sixth lenses including the spherical object-side surface, has a highest refractive index among the first to sixth lenses.

An optical imaging system includes a first lens having an object-side surface that is convex; a second lens having a refractive power; a third lens having a refractive power; a fourth lens having a refractive power; a fifth lens having a refractive power and an object-side surface that is concave; and a sixth lens having a refractive power and an object-side surface that is concave, wherein the first lens through the sixth lens are sequentially disposed in numerical order from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane, and the optical imaging system satisfies the conditional expressions 0.7<TL/f<1.0 and TL/2<f1, where TL is a distance from the object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging plane, f is an overall focal length of the optical imaging system, and f1 is a focal length of the first lens.

An imaging optical system wherein the number of lenses is three to seven, one to four lenses, each of which is an aspheric lens in which radius of curvature of each of both surfaces is infinity in the paraxial region and which has a power of the third-order aberration region in the peripheral area are provided, the first lens from the object side is a negative lens or the aspheric lens, the relationship

[00001]$0.18<\left(\underset{i=1}{\overset{i=n}{.Math.}}.Math.\frac{1}{f_i}.Math.\right).Math.\frac{f}{n}<0.9$

is satisfied where i represents a natural number, fi represents focal length of the i-th lens from the object side, f represents focal length of the whole system and n represents the number of the lenses, and the relationship

40°<HFOV<80°

is satisfied where HFOV represents angle that the principal ray of bundle of rays that enters the imaging optical system and reaches the maximum value of image height forms with the optical axis.

A photographing optical lens assembly includes, in order from object side to image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second, third, fourth and fifth lens elements have refractive power. The sixth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element are both aspheric, and the image-side surface has at least one inflection point. The seventh lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the seventh lens element are both aspheric, and the image-side surface has at least one inflection point.

An optical lens assembly includes five lens elements and provides a TTL/EFL < 1.0. In an embodiment, the focal length of the first lens element f1 < TTL/2, an air gap between first and second lens elements is smaller than half the second lens element thickness, an air gap between the third and fourth lens elements is greater than TTL/5 and an air gap between the fourth and fifth lens elements is smaller than about 1.5 times the fifth lens element thickness. All lens elements may be aspheric.

A lens unit includes a positive lens element provided with a convex surface on an incident surface and/or an exit surface; and a lens frame supporting the lens element and being provided with a projection that projects in an inner radial direction from inside the lens frame. The lens frame supports the lens element with the projection fixedly fitted into an outer peripheral portion of the lens element. The projection is provided, on an inner peripheral portion thereof, with a first surface positioned on an incident side in an optical axis direction, a second surface positioned on an exit side in the optical axis direction, and a third surface positioned between the first surface and the second surface. The first, second and third surfaces are tapered surfaces that are respectively inclined relative to the optical axis direction. A method of manufacturing the lens unit is also provided.

An imaging lens includes a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens having negative refractive power; a third lens having negative refractive power; a fourth lens having positive refractive power; a fifth lens; a sixth lens; a seventh lens; an eighth lens; and a ninth lens having negative refractive power. The lenses are arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The ninth lens is formed in a shape so that a surface thereof on the image plane side has an aspherical shape having an inflection point.

A light-shielding element, including an object-side mechanical surface facing an object side, an image-side mechanical surface facing an image side, an inner-side surface facing an optical axis, and an outer-side surface facing away from the inner-side surface. The light-shielding element further includes at least one cut. The at least one cut extends from the inner-side surface toward the outer-side surface and penetrates the object-side mechanical surface and the image-side mechanical surface. The inner-side surface surrounds the optical axis and forms a through hole. A contour of the through hole has a shortest distance D1 passing through the optical axis and a longest distance D2 passing through the optical axis. The light-shielding element satisfies the following conditional expression: 1.200≤D2/D1≤3.000. An optical imaging lens is also provided.