Patents Examined by Jack Dinh
  • Patent number: 11733509
    Abstract: An optical device includes an elastic support portion which includes a torsion bar which extends along a second direction perpendicular to a first direction and a nonlinearity relaxation spring which is connected between the torsion bar and a movable portion. The nonlinearity relaxation spring is configured so that a deformation amount of the nonlinearity relaxation spring around the second direction is smaller than a deformation amount of the torsion bar around the second direction and a deformation amount of the nonlinearity relaxation spring in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction is larger than a deformation amount of the torsion bar in the third direction while the movable portion moves in the first direction. A comb electrode is disposed along an outer edge of the movable portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Sugimoto, Tomofumi Suzuki, Kyosuke Kotani
  • Patent number: 11723532
    Abstract: An imaging device and method is shown to image ocular tissue in motion. Devices and methods include at least one target to align the patient's eye at a desired angular orientation, multiple selectable target locations, and control circuitry to display the target at the multiple target locations and image ocular tissue at each multiple target location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Inventor: Edwin Ryan
  • Patent number: 11726305
    Abstract: A converter lens according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is a converter lens that has a negative refractive power and increases a focal length of an entire system. The converter lens includes a front group having a positive refractive power and a rear group having a negative refractive power, and the front group is a lens unit having a combined refractive power having a maximum positive refractive power in a case where the combined refractive power is obtained by combining a refractive power of each lens in order from the lens closest to an object toward an image side. At this time, a focal length of the front group, a focal length of the converter lens, and a lateral magnification of the converter lens when the converter lens is disposed on an image side of a master lens are determined as appropriate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Ebe, Shinichiro Saito
  • Patent number: 11723536
    Abstract: Ophthalmic imaging systems and related methods provide pseudo feedback to aid a user in aligning the user's eye with an optical axis of the imaging system. An ophthalmic imaging system includes an ophthalmic imaging device having an optical axis, a display device, an eye camera, and a control unit. The display device displays a fixation target viewable by the user. The eye camera images the eye to generate eye image data. The control unit processes the eye image data to determine a position of the eye relative to the optical axis, processes the position of the eye relative to the optical axis to generate a pseudo position of the eye relative to the optical axis, and causes the display device to display an indication that provides feedback to the user that the eye is located at the pseudo position of the eye relative to the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Notal Vision, Ltd.
    Inventors: Amit Pascal, Omer Rafaeli, Yair Alster, Gidon Goren-Gratzyani
  • Patent number: 11723529
    Abstract: A system and method for measuring biomechanical properties of tissues without external excitation are capable of measuring and quantifying these parameters of tissues in situ and in vivo. The system and method preferably utilize a phase-sensitive optical coherence tomography (OCT) system for measuring the displacement caused by the intrinsic heartbeat. The method allows noninvasive and nondestructive quantification of tissue mechanical properties. Preferably, the method is used to detect tissue stiffness and to evaluate its stiffness due to intrinsic pulsatile motion from the heartbeat. This noninvasive method can evaluate the biomechanical properties of the tissues in vivo for detecting the onset and progression of degenerative or other diseases and evaluating the efficacy of therapies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM
    Inventors: Kirill V. Larin, Achuth Nair, Manmohan Singh, Salavat Aglyamov
  • Patent number: 11727223
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to language translation systems for head-worn computers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
    Inventor: Ralph F. Osterhout
  • Patent number: 11726291
    Abstract: An imaging lens assembly includes a plastic barrel and a lens set, and the lens set is disposed in the plastic barrel. The plastic barrel includes an object-side outer surface, a first inner surface and a second inner surface. The lens set has an optical axis, and includes, in order from an object side to an image side thereof, at least one plastic lens element and a spacer. A light-absorbing coating is disposed on the plastic lens element. The spacer includes an object-side connecting surface and a relative surface. When the object-side connecting surface is connected with a neighboring object-side optical element, the relative surface is out of touch with the neighboring object-side optical element. There is an overlap between the second inner surface and the relative surface along a direction parallel to the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheng-Feng Lin, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 11717159
    Abstract: An imaging system may include a panoramic gonioscopic imaging apparatus that includes a disposable component configured to rest against a cornea of a patient, and an objective optical device configured to direct a continuous panoramic image of an entire circumference of an iridocorneal angle of the patient on an intermediate imaging plane, and a relay lens configured to direct the continuous panoramic image from the intermediate imaging plane to a sensor such that the sensor captures the entire circumference of the iridocorneal angle at once. The imaging system may also include a computing device in communication with the panoramic gonioscopic imaging apparatus, where the computing device configured to display an image of the entire circumference of the iridocorneal angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Optos Plc
    Inventors: Clark Pentico, Brendan Hamel-Bissell, Andre E. Adams
  • Patent number: 11717155
    Abstract: Methods for automatically identifying retinal boundaries from a reflectance image are disclosed. An example of the method includes identifying a reflectance image of the retina of a subject; generating a gradient map of the reflectance image, the gradient map representing dark-to-light or light-to-dark reflectance differentials between adjacent pixel pairs in the reflectance image; generating a guidance point array corresponding to a retinal layer boundary depicted in the reflectance image using the gradient map; generating multiple candidate paths estimating the retinal layer boundary in the reflectance image by performing a guided bidirectional graph search on the reflectance image using the guidance point array; and identifying the retinal layer boundary by merging two or more of the multiple candidate paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Oregon Health & Science University
    Inventors: Yali Jia, Yukun Guo
  • Patent number: 11709339
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical imaging lens. The optical imaging lens comprises eight lens elements positioned in an order from an object side to an image side. Through controlling convex or concave shape of surfaces of the lens elements, the optical imaging lens may shorten system length with a good imaging quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chuanbo Dong, Wenbin Lin, Qingzhi Zhu
  • Patent number: 11703661
    Abstract: An optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a positive first lens unit (L1), a negative second lens unit (L2), a positive third lens unit (L3), and a negative fourth lens unit (L4), wherein distances between adjacent lens units change during focusing, at least the L2 and the L4 move during focusing, the L4 consists of negative and positive partial units, an air distance between the negative and positive partial units is the largest among those between adjacent lenses in the L4, and 0.45<D4np/D4<0.95 is satisfied, D4 being a distance on an optical axis from a most object-side lens surface to a most image-side lens surface in the L4 and D4np being the air distance between the negative partial unit and the positive partial unit in L4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Shinohara, Takeo Mori
  • Patent number: 11703679
    Abstract: An optical device includes an elastic support portion which includes a torsion bar which extends along a second direction perpendicular to a first direction and a nonlinearity relaxation spring which is connected between the torsion bar and a movable portion. The nonlinearity relaxation spring is configured so that a deformation amount of the nonlinearity relaxation spring around the second direction is smaller than a deformation amount of the torsion bar around the second direction and a deformation amount of the nonlinearity relaxation spring in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction is larger than a deformation amount of the torsion bar in the third direction while the movable portion moves in the first direction. A comb electrode is disposed along an outer edge of the movable portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Sugimoto, Tomofumi Suzuki, Kyosuke Kotani
  • Patent number: 11697373
    Abstract: A vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly includes a mounting arm and a mirror head at one end of the mounting arm distal from an attachment portion of the mounting arm that is configured for attachment at a vehicle. A mirror reflective element is fixedly attached at the mirror head. An innermost side of the mirror reflective element is attached at a front side of an attachment plate. The mirror reflective element moves in tandem with movement of the mirror head relative to the mounting arm when the driver of the vehicle operates an electrically-operable actuator. The attachment plate includes wall structure that extends from the front side of the attachment plate and circumscribes and spans the perimeter circumferential edge of the glass substrate and does not encroach onto and does not overlap the front surface of the glass substrate of the exterior mirror reflective element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Inventors: John T. Uken, Darryl P. De Wind, Keith D. Foote, Joseph M. Mambourg, Rodney K. Blank, Mark L. Larson, Niall R. Lynam
  • Patent number: 11693218
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to optical lens, and provides a camera optical lens including eight lenses, from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens having a negative refractive power, a fifth lens having a negative refractive power, a sixth lens having a positive refractive power, a seventh lens, and an eighth lens having a negative refractive power; wherein the camera optical lens satisfies the following conditions: 0.95?f/TTL; ?4.00?f2/f??1.80; and ?20.00?(R15+R16)/(R15?R16)??3.00. The camera optical lens can achieve good optical performance while meeting design requirements for a long focal length and ultra-thinness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Changzhou Raytech Optronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jiekang Chen
  • Patent number: 11693219
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to optical lens, and provides a camera optical lens including eight lenses, from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, a fifth lens having a positive refractive power, a sixth lens having a negative refractive power, a seventh lens having a positive refractive power, and an eighth lens having a negative refractive power; wherein the camera optical lens satisfies the following conditions: 0.95?f/TTL; ?4.50?f2/f??1.90; and 0.30?(R13+R14)/(R13?R14)?1.00. The camera optical lens can achieve good optical performance while meeting design requirements for both a long focal length and ultra-thinness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Changzhou Raytech Optronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wanxia Li
  • Patent number: 11693215
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens may include a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element, and an eighth lens element positioned in an order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. Through designing concave and/or convex surface of the lens elements, the optical imaging lens may have improved imaging quality, reduced system length, enlarged aperture stop, broad field of view and increased image height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiayuan Zhang, Chuanbo Dong, Ou Zhou
  • Patent number: 11693220
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens, which includes, from an object-side to an-image side: a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens and an eight lens, which satisfies following conditions: 0.95?f/TTL; ?4.00?f2/f??1.90; and ?15.00?(R7+R8)/(R7?R8)??2.50; where TTL denotes a total optical length from an object-side surface of the first lens to an image surface of the camera optical lens along an optic axis; f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens; f2 denotes a focal length of the second lens; R7 denotes a curvature radius of an object-side surface of the fourth lens; R8 denotes a curvature radius of an image-side surface of the fourth lens. The camera optical lens can achieve good optical performance while meeting the design requirement for long focal length and ultra-thinness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Changzhou Raytech Optronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xuqi Bian
  • Patent number: 11686958
    Abstract: Provided is a magneto-optic element that enables easy size reduction of an optical isolator. A magneto-optic element is formed of two or more magnetic members joined together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Futoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11659992
    Abstract: A ophthalmic apparatus may include: a first light source configured to output first light to be irradiated to an anterior segment of a subject eye; and a second light source configured to output second light to be irradiated to a retina of the subject eye. The apparatus may be configured capable of executing a first examination using the first light reflected from the anterior segment and a second examination using the second light reflected from the retina. A wavelength of the second light outputted from the second light source may be smaller than a wavelength of the first light outputted from the first light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Tomey Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichiro Okamoto, Takashi Kamo, Tomoki Hori
  • Patent number: 11656444
    Abstract: A zoom lens group, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, including a first lens group; a second lens group; a third lens group having positive refractive power; and a fourth lens group having negative refractive power. The zoom lens group continuously zooms by changing positions of the second lens group, the third lens group, and the fourth lens group along the optical axis. A distance TTL from an object-side surface of a lens in the first lens group closest to the object side to an imaging plane of the zoom lens group along the optical axis, and a total effective focal length fw of the zoom lens group in a wide-angle state satisfy: 2.0<TTL/fw<3.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Inventors: Jianke Wenren, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao