Patents Assigned to Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
  • Patent number: 11662600
    Abstract: A device, a method, and a computer program for producing two point light sources of the same wavelength on a pupil plane of an eye of a user are disclosed, as well as a device, a method, and a computer program for determining a neural transfer function of the visual pathway of the user. The device for determining the neural transfer function includes a coherent light source for generating a light beam; an optical device for separating the light beam into sub-light beams, superpositioning the respective sub-light beams, and adjusting contrast and spatial phase in an interference pattern; and a beam path for guiding the superposed sub-light beams such that two point light sources of the same wavelength are produced. The devices are compact and robust, allow a variable presentation of different interference patterns, and can thus be easily operated in a commercial product in a clinical setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Leube, Nikolai Suchkov, Christina Schwarz, Siegfried Wahl
  • Patent number: 11633928
    Abstract: A spectacle lens, which is manufactured by additive manufacturing, includes interspersing first volume elements and second volume elements. The first and second volume elements are arranged on the grid points of a geometric grid to form a first sub-grid and a second sub-grid, respectively. The first sub-grid forms the first part of the spectacle lens having a dioptric effect for vision for a first object distance and the second sub-grid forms the second part of the spectacle lens having a dioptric effect for vision for a second object distance, which differs from the first object distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Timo Mappes, Matthias Hornauer, Georg Michels, Thomas Glöge
  • Patent number: 11614640
    Abstract: A spectacle lens has, starting from the object-sided front surface of the spectacle lens to the opposite rear-side of the spectacle lens, at least a) one component A including at least one functional layer FA and/or an ultrathin glass, b) one component B including at least one polymer material and, c) one component C, including at least one functional layer F and/or an ultrathin glass. A method, in particular a 3D printing method, for producing the spectacle lens is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Timo Mappes, Gerhard Kelch, Thomas Glöge
  • Patent number: 11586053
    Abstract: A spectacle lens for an eye of a wearer of spectacles has a front surface and a back surface, wherein the front surface of the spectacle lens faces away from the eye and the back surface of the spectacle lens faces the eye. The spectacle lens includes an optical lens substrate made of or containing mineral glass and/or organic glass, wherein the spectacle lens has at least one first antireflection coating and at least one second antireflection coating, wherein the at least one first antireflection coating has a filter effect for blue light. Further, spectacles containing the spectacle lens are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard von Blanckenhagen, Emad Flear Aziz
  • Patent number: 11586054
    Abstract: Information is stored in an optical element in the form of a glass or plastic body embodied as spectacles lens, spectacles lens blank or spectacles lens semi-finished product. The information in the form of data is stored on or in the glass or plastic body by creating at least one marking with a marking system. The marking can be read by a reading apparatus. The marking system has an interface for reading information individualizing the optical element. The marking is created permanently by the marking system on or in the optical element at a definition point of a local body-specific coordinate system set by two points on or in the optical element. In this body coordinate system, the manufacturer specifies the position of the lens horizontal and/or the far and/or the near and/or the prism reference point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Dangelmaier, Simon Holtmann, Roland Schoen, Matthias Hornauer
  • Patent number: 11555239
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for introducing an optical lens into a turning device are disclosed. The apparatus includes a carrier body and a carrier element for receiving the lens. The carrier element is arranged in the carrier body. The carrier element has a supporting surface for receiving the lens and is displaceably mounted in relation to the carrier body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventor: Frank Macionczyk
  • Patent number: 11543680
    Abstract: A spectacle lens includes a first volume element group containing a plurality of first volume elements. The plurality of first volume elements is made from a material with a first Abbe number in the form of grid points of a geometric grid. Further, the spectacle lens includes a second volume group containing a plurality of second volume elements, which form a second partial grid in the form of grid points of a geometric grid, the second volume elements being made of a second material having a second Abbe number, wherein the first Abbe number and the second Abbe number differ from each other. The first partial grid and the second partial grid are arranged offset from each other. The disclosure also relates to a corresponding computer-implemented method for designing a spectacle lens of the type and to a method for producing the type of spectacle lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Glöge
  • Patent number: 11529049
    Abstract: A method and a device allow to determine the contrast sensitivity threshold of the eyes of a user in an automatic manner without requiring an experienced examiner or active attention of the user. The method includes: a) providing a dataset of track data including data of eye movements, wherein the eye movements are stimulated to elicit an optokinetic nystagmus in the eyes of the user and wherein the track data are related to a particular contrast and spatial frequency of the stimulus; b) estimating at least one velocity component of the eye movement; c) comparing the velocity component with a velocity threshold; d) comparing a fraction of the track data which exceed the velocity threshold with a fractional threshold for the dataset, which is classified as eliciting the optokinetic nystagmus at the particular contrast of the stimulus; and e) determining the contrast sensitivity threshold of the eyes of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Katharina Rifai, Siegfried Wahl, Sophia Tatiyosyan
  • Patent number: 11480816
    Abstract: Centration parameters for fitting spectacle lenses to a predetermined spectacle frame and to the head of a subject are determined with a computer-implemented method. At least two calibrated images, recorded from different recording directions, of the head of the subject wearing the spectacle frame are provided, wherein geometric parameters are established by geometric position determination. The geometric parameters describe the position of the eyes and the geometry of the spectacle frame, and the centration parameters are calculated from the geometric parameters. Further, a three-dimensional model for the spectacle lenses, which are to be received in the spectacle frame, is fitted to the geometry of the geometric parameters that describe the geometry of the spectacle frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH, Carl Zeiss AG
    Inventors: Claudia Nieuwenhuis, Oliver Schwarz
  • Patent number: 11445904
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for joint determination of accommodation and vergence of at least one eye of a user are disclosed. The joint determination includes determining an accommodation of the eye of the user and ascertaining values for checking myopia of the eye by presenting a sign at a first distance in front of the eye to stimulate the accommodation of the eye; capturing an eye movement; ascertaining a refraction of the eye with the accommodation of the eye at the first distance; and joint determination of accommodation and vergence of the eye by ascertaining a change in the refraction of the eye with the accommodation of the eye at the first distance in relation to the accommodation of the eye at a second distance; and ascertaining the vergence of the eye from the eye movement of the eye with the accommodation of the eye at the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Leube, Arne Ohlendorf, Siegfried Wahl
  • Patent number: 11448903
    Abstract: Methods and devices for correcting centering parameters and/or an axial position of a spherocylindrical refraction on the basis of a habitual head position are disclosed. A representation of the head of a user in a head posture or a representation of the head with a spectacle frame in a spectacle frame alignment are displayed. To correct the spectacle parameter based on a corrected head posture and/or a corrected spectacle frame alignment, the corrected head posture and/or the corrected spectacle frame alignment is determined by at least partially manually correcting a head posture in the displayed representation of the head and/or of the spectacle frame alignment in the displayed representation of the head with the spectacle frame. A representation of the head of a user is shown on a display, thereby allowing intuitive adjustment of a habitual head position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Gamperling, Tobias Breuninger, Jesús-Miguel Cabeza-Guillén
  • Patent number: 11439299
    Abstract: A selection aid for selecting lenses for spectacles on the basis of a plurality of customer-specific criteria contains a first disc and a second disc. The first disc has a selection area with criteria to be selected and selection recommendations and is divided into selection regions of equal size. The second disc is rotatably connected to the first disc about an axis of rotation. The second disc partly conceals the selection area and visually frees an area region of the selection area that corresponds to one of the selection regions in terms of size and shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Manuela Weinreich, Frank Mielich, Sarah Gothe
  • Patent number: 11435600
    Abstract: Information is stored in an optical element in the form of a glass or plastic body embodied as spectacles lens, spectacles lens blank or spectacles lens semi-finished product. The information in the form of data is stored on or in the glass or plastic body by creating at least one marking with a marking system. The marking can be read by a reading apparatus. The marking system has an interface for reading information individualizing the optical element. The marking is created permanently by the marking system on or in the optical element at a definition point of a local body-specific coordinate system set by two points on or in the optical element. In this body coordinate system, the manufacturer specifies the position of the lens horizontal and/or the far and/or the near and/or the prism reference point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Dangelmaier, Simon Holtmann, Roland Schoen, Matthias Hornauer
  • Patent number: 11422388
    Abstract: A method for producing a semi-finished spectacle lens and a semi-finished spectacle lens includes identifying the semi-finished spectacle lens by applying a removable sticker having a unique code to the semi-finished spectacle lens. The semi-finished spectacle lens has an embossed code that is engraved into the semi-finished spectacle lens. The sticker is applied to at least partially cover the embossed code. The sticker can be applied directly onto the semi-finished spectacle lens early in the manufacturing process, for example immediately after molding or injection molding. The sticker can also be applied to the semi-finished spectacle lens before further surface treatment is carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Meschenmoser, Dennis Klora, Marc Ellenrieder
  • Patent number: 11408798
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for measuring individual data of spectacles arranged in a measurement position are disclosed. The spectacles have a left and/or a right spectacle lens. The apparatus has a display for displaying a test structure. The apparatus contains an image capture device for capturing the test structure with an imaging beam path which passing through the left spectacle lens and/or the right spectacle lens of the spectacles. Further, the apparatus includes a computer unit with a computer program for determining a refractive power distribution for at least a section of the left spectacle lens and/or the right spectacle lens from the image of the test structure captured by the image capture device and a known spatial orientation of the display relative to the image capture device. To measure individual data of spectacles, the spectacles are arranged in a measurement position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss AG, Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Glasenapp, Matthias Hornauer
  • Patent number: 11400668
    Abstract: A process, in particular a 3D printing process, for producing a spectacle lens is disclosed. The process includes providing a coated substrate, providing a three-dimensional model of the spectacle lens, digitally cutting the three-dimensional model into individual two-dimensional layers, providing at least one printing ink, typically a 3D printing ink, building up the spectacle lens from the sum of the individual two-dimensional layers with a printing operation on the substrate, and hardening of the spectacle lens. The hardening can take place completely or partially after application of individual volume elements or after application of a layer, and the partial hardening can be completed after conclusion of the printing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard von Blanckenhagen, Michael Totzeck, Thomas Glöge
  • Patent number: 11391963
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a spectacle lens according to at least one data set of edging data and a computer program product with instructions for performing the method are disclosed. A spectacle lens blank, semifinished spectacle lens product, or a finished spectacle lens product is inspected for defects and compared to a data set to determine if it can be manufactured into an edged finished spectacle lens that fits into a specific spectacle frame such that the defect is not present in the edged finished spectacle lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventor: Jeremias Gromotka
  • Patent number: 11372264
    Abstract: A progressive spectacle lens has a front surface, a rear surface, and a spatially varying refractive index. The progressive spectacle lens can have: (a) a refractive index that changes only in a first and second spatial dimension and is constant in a third spatial dimension, and the distribution of the refractive index in the first spatial dimension and the second spatial dimension is neither punctually nor axially symmetric; (b) a refractive index that changes in a first, a second, and third spatial dimension, and the distribution of the refractive index in the first spatial dimension and the second spatial dimension is neither punctually nor axially symmetric on all planes perpendicular to the third spatial dimension; or (c) a refractive index that changes in a first, second, and third spatial dimension, and the distribution of the refractive index is not punctually or axially symmetric at all.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Kelch, Christoph Menke, Helmut Wietschorke
  • Patent number: 11372263
    Abstract: A bifocal spectacle lens and a method for creating a numerical representation of a bifocal spectacle lens are disclosed. The bifocal spectacle lens includes a distance portion, a near portion, and a transition section situated between the distance portion and the near portion. The distance portion is optimized in view of an optical power for distance vision and the near portion is optimized in view of an optical power for near vision. The transition section is determined such that the transition section creates a continuous transition between the distance portion and the near portion. The distance portion and the near portion are optimized independently of one another and put together with the transition section to form the numerical representation of the bifocal spectacle lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Welscher, Ray Steven Spratt
  • Patent number: 11333906
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a computer program for determining at least one optical parameter of a spectacle lens, and a method for manufacturing the spectacle lens using the at least one optical parameter are disclosed. The optical parameter denotes a value for a property of the spectacle lens which is adjusted during manufacture of the spectacle lens to achieve an intended correction of ametropia of at least one eye of a user of the spectacle lens. The method includes: a) capturing at least one image of a user wearing the spectacle lens; and b) determining at least one optical parameter of the spectacle lens by image processing the at least one image, wherein the at least one image contains an eye portion including at least one eye and/or a face portion adjacent to at least one eye of a user of the spectacle lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Arne Ohlendorf, Alexander Leube, Siegfried Wahl, Katharina Rifai, Yannick Sauer