US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Aug. 5 for "Optical system, image projection apparatus, and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,579, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical system, image projection apparatus, and imaging apparatus" was invented by Takuya Imaoka (Kanagawa, Japan), Qinghua Zhao (Nara, Japan) and Katsu Yamada (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to an optical system internally having an intermediate imaging position that is conjugate to magnification and reduction conjugate points, respectively, the optical system including: a magnification optical system having a plurality of lens elements, positioned on the magnification side with r...