Patents Examined by Mustak Choudhury
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Patent number: 11977229Abstract: A multi-focal plane display system and a device are provided. The multi-focal plane display system includes a laser projection optical engine and a holographic reflection light fusion device. The laser projection optical engine is configured to generate and modulate at least two laser beam groups, and transmit the at least two laser beam groups to the holographic reflective optical fusion device, where each laser beam group corresponds to one displayed image. The holographic reflective optical fusion device is configured to reflect the at least two laser beam groups, where exit pupil locations of the at least two laser beam groups are the same, and displayed images of at least two focal planes are obtained by performing imaging on the at least two laser beam groups by a human eye. A structure of the multi-focus plane display system provided in the embodiments is easy to implement.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhenlin Xie, Qi Wang
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Patent number: 11971652Abstract: An embodiment relates to a camera actuator and a camera module including same. The camera actuator according to the embodiment can includes a base; a lens assembly arranged on the base; a guide pin coupled to the base and guiding the lens assembly; a body coupled to the base; a cover coupled to the body; a base pin coupling part arranged on the base and coupled to one side of the guide pin; a cover pin coupling part arranged on the cover and coupled to the other side of the guide pin; and a pin guide part which is arranged on the lens assembly and which guides the guide pin. In the embodiment, the base pin coupling part can include a first coupling groove, the cover pin coupling part can include a first groove, and the pin guide part can include a first hole and a second hole having a size different from that of the first hole.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Kyung Won Kim
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Patent number: 11966016Abstract: A camera optical lens is provided, including from an object side to an image side: a first lens; a second lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; and a sixth lens, the camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: ?2.80?f1/f??1.20; 1.20?d9/d11?1.90; 1.20?(R7+R8)/(R7?R8)?5.00; 0.70?f2/f?1.00, where f denotes focal length of the camera optical lens; f1 denotes focal length of the first lens; f2 denotes focal length of the second lens; R7 denotes curvature radius of object side surface of the fourth lens; R8 denotes curvature radius of image side surface of the fourth lens; d9 denotes on-axis thickness of the fifth lens; d11 denotes on-axis thickness of the sixth lens. The above camera optical lens can meet design requirements for large aperture, wide angle and ultra-thinness, while maintaining good imaging quality.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: AAC Optics (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shujian Ding
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Patent number: 11966035Abstract: A light sheet microscope includes an irradiation optical system, a detection optical system, and a photodetector. The irradiation optical system includes a wavelength sweep light source which outputs light of which a wavelength changes with time as excitation light, a spectroscopic element on which the excitation light output from the wavelength sweep light source is incident and which emits the excitation light at an emission angle corresponding to a wavelength of the excitation light, a relay optical system which includes a cylindrical lens on which the excitation light emitted from the spectroscopic element is incident at an incident angle corresponding to the emission angle, and a first objective lens which condenses the excitation light guided by the relay optical system and irradiates the sample with the excitation light having a sheet shape.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Yuu Takiguchi, Rumika Tanaka, Hisayoshi Takamoto
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Patent number: 11957521Abstract: An optic system assists visualization of eye elements during ophthalmic surgery. The system has optic devices aimed at affecting light emitted by an ophthalmic microscope for observing an eye during surgery. This affecting can be by selecting the wavelength spectrum of the emitted light, tilting a light path of the emitted light and/or by changing the light path of the emitted light from the source to the eye under surgery.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Inventor: Uri Neta
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Patent number: 11953658Abstract: An optical image capturing lens assembly includes six lens elements, the six lens elements being, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with negative refractive power, a second lens element with positive refractive power, a third lens element with negative refractive power, a fourth lens element with positive refractive power, a fifth lens element, and a sixth lens element with negative refractive power.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.Inventors: Chien-Hsun Wu, Tzu-Chieh Kuo
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Patent number: 11940612Abstract: The disclosure relates to a viewing optic. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a viewing optic having an integrated display system. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a viewing optic having an integrated display system for generating images that are projected into the first focal plane of an optical system.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SHELTERED WINGS, INC.Inventors: Calen Havens, Will Lowry, Ian Klemm, Samuel Hamilton, Garrison Bollig, Craig Schultz, Andrew Carlson, Jason Lyle, David M. Hamilton
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Patent number: 11933950Abstract: A variable magnification optical system comprises, in order from an object side, a first lens group G1 having positive refractive power, a second lens group G2 having negative refractive power, a third lens group G3 having positive refractive power and a fourth lens group G4 having negative refractive power; upon varying a magnification, a distance between the first lens group G1 and the second lens group G2 being varied, a distance between the second lens group G2 and the third lens group G3 being varied, and a distance between the third lens group G3 and the fourth lens group G4 being varied; upon focusing, the fourth lens group G4 being moved; and a predetermined conditional expression being satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Kosuke Machida
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Patent number: 11927749Abstract: A lens assembly for a weapon sight includes a first lens having an optical axis and a focal plane array (FPA) coaxial with the optical axis of the first lens. A first parameter of the first lens is selected that minimizes an error in image shift when the weapon sight lens assembly is adjusted for focus. The first parameter of the first lens can be at least one of a lateral position, axial displacement, thickness, effective focal length, material, effective focal length, radius of curvature, conic constants, and higher order aspheric coefficients of the first lens. A sensor can detect a position of the lens and a processor can compare the measured position to an ideal position and use a lookup table to display a corrected reticle position or corrected scene. An actuator may move the lens to the ideal position from the measured position.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.Inventors: Will R. Grigsby, Glen L. Francisco, Matthew F. Kepler
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Patent number: 11918421Abstract: Described herein are loupes shields. The shields can be easily attached to the loupes. The loupes shield is composed of a single filter that blocks harmful light. Additionally, the loupes shield includes a connector that permits the loupes shield to be attached to the loupes lens or housing that holds the loupes lens. The loupes shields described are useful in applications where it is desirable to protect the user from being exposed to damaging light. The loupes shields are useful in dental applications such as, for example, dental restorations, where light cure is required to cure the resin applied to a tooth during a dental restoration.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Hind Sattar Hussein, Nader Farhan Abdulhameed
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Patent number: 11921360Abstract: Contact lenses, methods and systems for accomplishing the requirement for biocompatibility of oxygen delivery to the eye, and the cornea in particular, when elements and components are used which reduce the transmissibility of oxygen and which require coverage of a significant area of the non-vascularized cornea. A contact lens assembly is provided, comprising: an anterior surface, a posterior surface and at least one element or component having a substantially low oxygen permeability disposed within the lens. The contact lens also includes a layer having an oxygen permeability greater than the aforementioned element or component. The thickness of this layer is such that the layer provides an equivalent oxygen percentage to the cornea beneath the aforementioned element or component.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Innovega, Inc.Inventors: Jerome A. Legerton, Jay P. Marsh, William E. Meyers, Arthur Yasheng Zhang
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Patent number: 11921274Abstract: Detecting emission light, in a laser scanning microscope, wherein the emission light emanating from a sample is guided onto a two-dimensional matrix sensor having a plurality of pixels and being located on an image plane, and a detection point distribution function is detected by the matrix sensor in a spatially oversam pled manner. The emission light emanating from the sample is spectrally separated in a dispersion device; the spectrally separated emission light is detected by the matrix sensor in a spectrally resolved manner; and during the analysis of the intensities measured by the pixels of a pixel region, the spectral separation is cancelled at least for some of said pixels. Additional aspects relate to a detection device for the spectrally resolved detection of emission light in a laser scanning microscope and to a laser scanning microscope.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbHInventors: Daniel Schwedt, Tiemo Anhut, Peter Schacht
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Patent number: 11924402Abstract: To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program for restraining a burden on a user who observes a three-dimensional image. Therefore, a display control unit performs display control to cause a three-dimensional image to be displayed so that a first plane surface parallel to a horizontal plane in a real space is observed in an area based on a distance between a lower end and an upper end of a display surface on which a display unit displays the three-dimensional image and an angle between the horizontal plane and the display surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuki Yokoyama, Koji Aoyama, Tomoya Yano
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Patent number: 11914075Abstract: A distance measurement apparatus includes: a laser light source configured to emit emitted light to be applied to an object to be measured; a laser light source control circuit configured to control the laser light source; a MEMS mirror configured to two-dimensionally scan the object with the emitted light; a reflecting member configured to cover a part of a scan region, and reflect the emitted light; and a light detector configured to receive reflected light from the object to be measured and reflected light from the reflecting member, and output a received light signal. The laser light source control circuit sets, to a threshold value, an amount of the emitted light obtained when output of the light detector is saturated, and controls an amount of the emitted light such that the amount of the emitted light is less than the threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yosuke Takagawa, Masahiro Kawai
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Patent number: 11914107Abstract: The present invention provides an optical camera lens, including, from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, an eighth lens, and a ninth lens, and satisfying: 1.80?f1/f?3.20; and 2.00?d3/d4?8.00, where f denotes a focal length of the optical camera lens, f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens, d3 denotes an on-axis thickness of the second lens, and d4 denotes an on-axis distance from an image side surface of the second lens to an object side surface of the third lens. The optical camera lens meets design requirements of a large aperture, a wide angle, and ultra-thinness while having good optical performance.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Raytech Optical (Changzhou) Co., LtdInventor: Wen Sun
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Patent number: 11906704Abstract: Disclosed is a camera optical lens, comprising, from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens having a negative refractive power; a second lens having a positive refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens having a negative refractive power; a fifth lens having a positive refractive power; and a sixth lens having a negative refractive power; wherein, the camera optical lens satisfies: ?4.50?f1/f??2.20; 2.00?f2/f?5.50; ?20.00?(R3+R4)/(R3?R4)??2.50; and 3.00?d9/d10?10.00; where, f denotes a focus length of camera optical lens; f1 and f2 denote focus lengths of first and second lens respectively; d9 denotes an on-axis thickness of fifth lens; d10 denotes an on-axis distance from an image side surface of fifth lens to an object side surface of sixth lens; R3 and R4 denote central curvature radii of an object side surface and an object side surface of second lens respectively.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Raytech Optical (Changzhou) Co., LtdInventor: Jie Meng
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Patent number: 11906429Abstract: A two-photon stimulated emission depletion composite microscope using continuous light loss, the microscope comprising: a two-photon imaging unit (100) and an STED imaging unit (200), wherein for thicker samples, the two-photon imaging unit (100) can be used, and for regions of interest on the surface of samples, the STED super-resolution imaging unit (200) can be used. The two-photon stimulated emission depletion composite microscope using continuous light loss integrates two functions of STED imaging and two-photon imaging, so as to provide a powerful tool for cutting-edge biomedical research.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, SUZHOU GUOKE MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT (GROUP) CO., LTD.Inventors: Yunhai Zhang, Yuguo Tang, Tongda Wei, Jian Chang, Haomin Yang, Lin Ji
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Patent number: 11906721Abstract: A method for manipulating at least one beam path in a microscope includes ascertaining a refractive index of a sample arranged in a sample volume and/or of an optical medium arranged in the sample volume. At least one microscope parameter is set in dependence on the ascertained refractive index for manipulating the beam path.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBHInventor: Florian Fahrbach
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Patent number: 11899186Abstract: A folded lens system that includes lenses with refractive power and two light folding elements such as prisms. A first lens on a first axis refracts light to a first folding element. The first folding element redirects the light from the first axis onto a second axis on which one or more lenses are arranged. The lenses on the second axis refract the light to a second folding element. The second folding element redirects the light onto a third axis on which a sensor is disposed. The lens system may include a front aperture. The sensor may be moved on the third axis to provide autofocusing, or alternatively the lens system may include one or more optical actuators that provide autofocusing. The lens system may have a low F-number (<=2.8), and may have a 35 mm equivalent focal length in the medium to long telephoto range.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yuhong Yao, Yoshikazu Shinohara
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Patent number: 11885946Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein directed to multi-direction digital light sheet microscopy (mDSLM). In mDSLM a sample may be illuminated with an illumination sheet which has a first angular diversity along a first axis and a second angular diversity along a second axis which is orthogonal to the first axis. An mDSLM system includes beam shaping optics which may passively reshape light into the illumination sheet. In some embodiments, scanning optics may be used to scan the illumination sheet with respect to the sample. In some embodiments, a confocal aperture may be used to limit out of focus light which reaches a detector of the mDSLM system.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: University of WashingtonInventors: Adam K. Glaser, Jonathan T. C. Liu