Patents Examined by James R Greece
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Patent number: 11789293Abstract: A system, method for creating an optical device, and a device to enhance human color vision are disclosed. The system, method for creating the optical device, and device include a substrate, a plurality of thin film layers provided on the substrate, the plurality of thin film layers including materials creating thin film-specific reflectance spectra based on selected pluralities of materials each having their on respective refractive index, and/or a plurality of colorant layers applied to the plurality of thin film layers, the plurality of colorant layers including at least one colorant, the colorant created based on colorant-specific absorption spectra as defined by selected concentrations.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: HUE.AI, LLCInventor: Keenan Valentine
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Patent number: 11779257Abstract: The present invention relates to an eye movement measurement method including the steps of: (a) presenting standardized nystagmus test items and receiving am image of an eye in accordance with the standardized nystagmus test items; (b) recognizing a pupil and an iris from the image of the eye; (c) calculating amounts of horizontal and vertical changes of the pupil and an amount of torsional movement of the iris; (d) determining change values and orientations for three axis directions of the eye on the basis of the amounts of the horizontal and vertical changes of the pupil and the amount of the torsional movement of the iris; and (e) generating a diagnosis result for vertigo through deep learning modeling on the basis of the change values and orientations of the three axis directions of the eye.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2018Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: HALLYM UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGSInventors: Sung Kwang Hong, Eun Cheon Lim, Jeong Hye Park
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Patent number: 11779208Abstract: In certain embodiments, a system for tracking movement of an eye comprises a camera system, a computer system, and an output device. The camera system generates images of the eye. The computer system stores the images and at least one of the images as a reference image. The computer system also tracks movement of the eye within a tracking range by comparing a current image with the reference image, and by determining a movement of the eye from the comparison of the current image and the reference image. The tracking range has one or more alert points. The computer system also determines an orientation of the eye relative to at least one alert point of the tracking range. The output device outputs a range indicator that indicates the orientation of the eye relative to the at least one alert point of the tracking range.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Alcon Inc.Inventors: Jessica Jurich, Horia Grecu, Martin GrĂ¼ndig, Tobias Jura Rapoport
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Patent number: 11782243Abstract: A lens module includes a first lens having refractive power, a second lens having refractive power, a third lens having refractive power, a fourth lens having refractive power, a fifth lens having refractive power and having a concave object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, and a sixth lens having refractive power and a concave image-side surface. The first to sixth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side to an image side.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Il Yong Park
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Patent number: 11782248Abstract: An image capturing lens assembly includes seven lens elements, which are, in order from an object side to an 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 fifth lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The sixth lens element has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The seventh lens element has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, and the image-side surface thereof includes at least one convex shape in an off-axis region thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.Inventors: Chun-Yen Chen, Chun-Che Hsueh, Wei-Yu Chen
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Patent number: 11782297Abstract: A contact lens having dimples on a posterior surface is described as well as cast molds and injection molding inserts for manufacturing the same. The contact lens includes a posterior surface having an optic zone, a peripheral zone, and a circumferential edge, where dimples are located in the peripheral zone, and can include at least 1000 dimples.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventors: Matthew S. Linn, Sourav Saha, Lu Jiang, Tim Warren, Nancy J. Keir
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Patent number: 11774783Abstract: The present invention relates to ophthalmic systems and coatings comprising a selective light wavelength filter, wherein said selective filter provides improved contrast sensitivity.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: High Performance Optics, Inc.Inventors: Andrew W. Ishak, Ronald D. Blum, Sean P. McGinnis, Michael B. Packard
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Patent number: 11774712Abstract: The zoom lens includes a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a positive third lens group, a negative fourth lens group, a negative fifth lens group, and a positive sixth lens group in order from an object side. All distances between adjacent lens groups change during zooming. The first lens group consists of a negative lens, a positive lens, and a positive lens in order from the object side. Only the fourth lens group moves to an image side during focusing from a long range to a short range. Conditional Expression is related to lateral magnification of the fourth lens group and a lateral magnification of the sixth lens group is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Taiga Noda
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Patent number: 11774779Abstract: A contact lens for treating myopia of an eye of a patient comprises an anterior surface; and a posterior surface having a semi-meridian defining: a central compression zone to contact the pretreatment cornea, a volume control zone peripheral to the central compression zone, a secondary compression zone to contact the pretreatment cornea, wherein the secondary compression zone is peripheral to the volume control zone, a peripheral relief zone peripheral to the secondary compression zone, a landing zone to contact the pretreatment cornea, wherein the landing zone is peripheral to the peripheral relief zone, and an edge terminus peripheral to the landing zone.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: SHENYANG KANGENDE MEDICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jerome A. Legerton, Jidong Liu
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Patent number: 11774713Abstract: 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 negative refractive power; a fifth lens; a sixth lens; a seventh lens; an eighth lens; and a ninth lens having negative refractive power, 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.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Hitoshi Hirano
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Patent number: 11766172Abstract: Imaging various regions of the eye is important for both clinical diagnostic and treatment purposes as well as for scientific research. Diagnosis of a number of clinical conditions relies on imaging of the various tissues of the eye. The subject technology describes a method and apparatus for imaging of the back and/or front of the eye using multiple illumination modalities, which permits the collection of one or more of reflectance, spectroscopic, fluorescence, and laser speckle contrast images.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Vasoptic Medical Inc.Inventors: Abhishek Rege, M. Jason Brooke
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Patent number: 11768387Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a tuneable ophthalmic lens 200. The tuneable ophthalmic lens comprises an activated state and a deactivated state. The ophthalmic lens further comprises a central chamber 206b. The ophthalmic lens also comprises a fluid reservoir, the fluid reservoir being in fluid communication with the central chamber. The fluid reservoir comprises a pump for pumping fluid between the fluid reservoir and the central chamber. In the deactivated state the central chamber is substantially empty of fluid 208a. In the activated state the central chamber is not substantially empty of fluid.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventors: Robert Oag, Ian Bruce, Robin Frith, Percy Lazon de la Jara, Rachel Marullo
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Patent number: 11768346Abstract: An optical mechanism is provided, including a housing, a holder, a lens received in the holder, a driving assembly, and a base connected to the housing. The holder is movably disposed in the housing, and the lens has a first surface exposed to a first side of the holder and facing a first inner sidewall surface of the housing. The driving assembly is disposed in the housing for driving the holder and the lens to move relative to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.Inventors: Chih-Wei Weng, Shao-Kuang Huang, Sin-Jhong Song
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Patent number: 11762221Abstract: Some embodiments provide a lens including a lens body and an optical filter configured to attenuate visible light in certain spectral bands. At least some of the spectral bands can include spectral features that tend to substantially increase the colorfulness, clarity, and/or vividness of a scene. In certain embodiments, eyewear incorporates an optical filter that enhances chroma within one or more spectral bands. In some embodiments, a wearer of the eyewear can perceive the increase in chroma when viewing at least certain types of scenes.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Oakley, Inc.Inventors: Brock Scott Mccabe, Ryan Saylor, Carlos D. Reyes, Colin Boyles
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Patent number: 11759135Abstract: The present systems and methods provide a mechanism to assess viewer behavior, features of stimuli, and the interaction between viewer behavior and stimuli. The systems and methods described herein for quantifying blink response and blink inhibition provide moment-by-moments measurements of viewer engagement by measuring what is or is not engaging enough to warrant viewers' inhibition of blinking. The present disclosure describes measures of visual scanning, eye movements, blink data, and blink timing data to derive a measure of how engaged a person is with what he or she is looking at. Blink-related data as a measure of viewer engagement provides a mechanism for determining the most engaging spatial and temporal aspects of a stimulus.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Inc.Inventors: Ami Klin, Warren Jones, Sarah Shultz
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Patent number: 11762219Abstract: A method comprises: disposing a measurement contact lens upon an eye of a user; capturing at least one image of the eye and the measurement contact lens with an image sensor while the measurement contact lens is on the eye of the user and the eye is illuminated; processing the at least one image to obtain a centration of the measurement contact lens on the cornea of the eye; processing the at least one image to obtain an angular orientation of the measurement contact lens on the cornea of the eye; and determining, based on the centration and angular orientation of the measurement contact lens on the cornea of the eye, at least one parameter of a first contact lens to be worn on the eye with display eyewear or a second contact lens to be worn on the eye without the display eyewear.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Innovega, Inc.Inventors: Jerome Legerton, Jay Marsh
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Patent number: 11762220Abstract: A multifocal ophthalmic lens wherein a first surface of the lens is shaped to form a surface power map and a second surface of the lens is shaped to form a second surface power map. The first surface power map and the second surface power map together form a lens power map. The first surface power map, the second surface power map, or the lens power map comprises a spiral. The spiral has a variation across at least a portion of the lens. Methods of making and using such lenses are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventors: Martin Webber, Percy Lazon de la Jara
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Patent number: 11751763Abstract: An optical measurement instrument includes optical coherence tomography (OCT) interferometer and a pupil retro illumination system which directs laser light onto the retina of an eye via the sample arm of the OCT interferometer. The laser light passes through an intraocular lens (IOL) implanted into the eye, and an iris camera captures an image of the eye from a portion of the light returned from the retina of the eye, the returned light also passing through the IOL. One or more fiducials of the IOL are detected from the captured image, and an angular orientation of the eye is ascertained from the one or more detected fiducials.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: AMO Development, LLCInventor: Richard J. Copland
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Patent number: 11754820Abstract: A zoom optical system (ZL) comprises, in order from an object: a first lens group (G1) having a positive refractive power; a second lens group (G2) having a negative refractive power; a third lens group (G3) having a positive refractive power; and a subsequent lens group (GR), wherein upon zooming, a distance between the first lens group (G1) and the second lens group (G2) changes, a distance between the second lens group (G2) and the third lens group (G3) changes, and a distance between the third lens group (G3) and the subsequent lens group (GR) changes, the subsequent lens group (GR) comprises a focusing lens group that moves upon focusing, and the second lens group (G2) comprises a partial group that satisfies following conditional expressions, 1.40<fvr/f2<2.30, 1.80<f1/fw<3.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Kosuke Machida
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Patent number: 11754805Abstract: The zoom lens includes a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a positive third lens group, a negative fourth lens group, a negative fifth lens group, and a positive sixth lens group in order from an object side. All distances between adjacent lens groups change during zooming. The first lens group consists of a negative lens, a positive lens, and a positive lens in order from the object side. Only the fourth lens group moves to an image side during focusing from a long range to a short range. Conditional Expression is related to lateral magnification of the fourth lens group and a lateral magnification of the sixth lens group is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Taiga Noda