Patents Examined by Ricky L. Mack
  • Patent number: 10345619
    Abstract: Thinned, flexible surface regions upon which flexible active components may be utilized to attach flexible active components in space/volume constrained devices, for example, a powered ophthalmic device. Thinned, flexible surface regions foster an avenue for enhanced functionality because various electronic circuits and components can be integrated into polymeric structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Toner, James Daniel Riall, Sharika Snook, Dawn Jamisha Owens, Marina Archer
  • Patent number: 10338410
    Abstract: A method for modifying focal length of lenses of a HMD in accordance with a user's eyeglass prescription data and without the user having access to the eyeglass prescription data is disclosed. The method includes receiving an identifier that uniquely represents the user viewing content on the HMD. The method also includes obtaining eyeglass prescription data corresponding to the unique identifier that includes data for correcting eye defects of the user. The data is then applied by modifying optical properties such as focal length of the lenses to provide corrected vision to the user while the user views content on the HMD without the user having to wear prescription eyeglasses or contact lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Evan M. Richards
  • Patent number: 10310296
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an eyeglass frame includes a lens holder, a first temple with a first end close to the lens holder and a second end, a second temple, an electrical connector and a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board with at least one electrical component can be in the first temple. The connector can be close to the first end of the first temple, facing downward, and electrically connected to the at least one electrical component. In another embodiment, an eyeglass frame includes a first printed circuit board, with at least one electrical component. The first printed circuit board can be connected to an electrical component at the frame via a second printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: IngenioSpec, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas A Howell, David Chao, C. Douglass Thoas, Peter P Tong
  • Patent number: 10295778
    Abstract: A fisheye lens filter for a fisheye lens includes an optically clean dome sized to fit over the fisheye lens. The dome includes in some embodiments a coating layer(s) to filter out light as desired for use in recording an image. The fisheye lens filter provides an unobstructed field of view in front of fisheye lenses preventing optical aberrations such as vignetting while providing filtering effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Inventor: Tadashi Yamaoda
  • Patent number: 10254512
    Abstract: An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. At least one lens among the first to the sixth lenses has positive refractive power. The seventh lens can have negative refractive power, wherein both surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one surface thereof has an inflection point. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the seventh lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsun Lai, Nai-Yuan Tang, Yeong-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: 10247913
    Abstract: An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. At least one lens among the first to the sixth lenses has positive refractive power. The seventh lens can have negative refractive power, wherein both surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one surface thereof has an inflection point. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the seventh lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nai-Yuan Tang, Yao-Wei Liu, Yeong-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: 10247915
    Abstract: An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. At least one lens among the first to the sixth lenses has positive refractive power. The seventh lens can have negative refractive power, wherein both surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one surface thereof has an inflection point. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the seventh lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsun Lai, Nai-Yuan Tang, Yeong-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: 10241301
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical imaging lens assembly comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element having negative refractive power; a second lens element with negative refractive power having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof; a third lens element having positive refractive power; a fourth lens element having positive refractive power; a fifth lens element having positive refractive power; and a sixth lens element; wherein the optical imaging lens assembly has a total of six lens elements. With such configuration, the optical imaging lens assembly of the present disclosure is characterized by a a wide field of view, a compact size and high image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Che Hsueh, Shu-Yun Yang
  • Patent number: 10228574
    Abstract: An eye protection system may include a first lens, a second lens, and a lens support. The first lens may filter light of one or more first wavelengths. The second lens may filter light of one or more second wavelengths. At least one of the one or more first wavelengths may be different than at least one of the one or more second wavelengths. The lens support may position the first lens and the second lens in side-by-side arrangement respectively in front of a first eye and a second eye of a wearer in a manner respectively preventing the one or more first wavelengths and the one or more second wavelengths from being respectively received by the first eye and the second eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Brian Tillotson
  • Patent number: 8384981
    Abstract: An electrochromic material including at least one compound represented by Chemical Formulas 1 to 3, for use in an electrochromic device: wherein Z1 to Z3 are each independently selected from a substituted or unsubstituted C6 to C30 arylene group, a substituted or unsubstituted C2 to C30 heteroarylene group, a substituted or unsubstituted C3 to C30 cycloalkylene group or a combination thereof, R1 to R3 are each independently selected from a single bond, a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C30 alkylene group, a substituted or unsubstituted C3 to C30 cycloalkylene group, a substituted or unsubstituted C6 to C30 arylene group, a substituted or unsubstituted C2 to C30 heteroarylene group or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rupasree Ragini Das, Chang-Ho Noh, Ji-Min Lee, Seog-Jin Jeon
  • Patent number: 8169681
    Abstract: Electro-optic elements are becoming commonplace in a number of vehicular and architectural applications. Various electro-optic element configurations provide variable transmittance and or variable reflectance for windows and mirrors. The present invention relates to various thin-film coatings, electro-optic elements and assemblies incorporating these elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Gentex Corporation
    Inventors: William L. Tonar, John S. Anderson, Jeffrey A. Forgette, George A. Neuman, Gary J. Dozeman, David J. Cammenga, Henry A. Luten, G. Bruce Poe, Nelson F. Brummel, Lansen M. Perron
  • Patent number: 8144404
    Abstract: Distance information is displayed at the time of manual focusing but is not displayed at the time of automatic focusing. By rotating a focus switching ring around an optical axis for automatic focusing, an intermediate ring coupled thereto by a cam and a distance display ring rotatably coupled to the intermediate ring are moved along the optical axis to an image side. At this time, the distance display ring and the manual focus ring are uncoupled from each other. With this switching, the distance information written on the distance display ring is also moved to the image side. Therefore, the distance information, which is visible through an information display window of the focus switching ring at the time of manual focusing, becomes invisible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Daisuke Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 8120861
    Abstract: In general, in one aspect, the invention features an apparatus that includes a plurality of optical elements arranged to form an image of an object. The elements include a first element comprising one or more regions of a polarizing material, the regions being shaped as one or more visual features, a polarizer, and a mounting assembly including a first mount for the first element and a second mount for the polarizer. At least the first or second mount is rotatable with respect to an optical axis between a first orientation and a second orientation. In the first orientation, the visual features are visible in the image of the object and, in the second orientation, the visual features are not visible in the image of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Inventors: Martin Moskovits, Qihong Wu, Robert Koefer, Xu Zhang, Linh Nguyen, Thomas Tombler
  • Patent number: 8102589
    Abstract: The superposition system with micro electromechanical systems (MEMS, e.g. DMDs from Texas Instruments) superposes the “ON”-lights of two MEMSs. More specifically, the invention relates to the chirality (handedness) of MEMS and the geometric problems associated with this handedness for superposition systems. In this application we uncover a solution to superpose the images modulated by two MEMSs using an exchange of columns and rows in one of the addressing matrices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Inventors: Bernhard Rudolf Bausenwein, Max Mayer
  • Patent number: 8094392
    Abstract: A driving device for an optical device comprising: an operation ring 3 to which a driving force from an operation member 4 is transmitted; a driving ring 9 to which a driving force from an actuator 20 is transmitted; an output ring 5 which transmits a driving force to an optical component 8a; and a planetary roller 6 which slides on one end face 3b of said operation ring 3 and one end face 9b of said driving ring 9, said planetary roller 6 being rotatably attached to said output ring 5 so as to selectively transmit the driving force from any one of said operation ring 3 and said driving ring 9 to said output ring 5. A sliding face 3b of said operation ring 3 with said planetary roller 6 consists of a lower friction member than the operation ring body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Mitsuteru Hino
  • Patent number: 8035904
    Abstract: A camera lens module is provided, in which a lens housing has at least one lens, a main frame contains the lens housing along an optical axis, a support portion is engaged with the lens housing and with the main frame to be rotatable along the optical axis, a cover is engaged with the main frame, for keeping the lens housing contained in the main frame, and a control member is engaged with the cover, for moving the support portion along the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Ho Yu, Doo-Sik Shin, Byung-Cheol Lee, Jong-Pil Lee, Jin-Soo Seol
  • Patent number: 8023211
    Abstract: A lens assembly includes a barrel having an object-side opening and an image-forming-side opening. The barrel further has a positioning section that positions an image-forming-side surface of a lens by having line contact around an optical axis at a center. The positioning section is disposed at a position that is closer to an object side than the image-forming-side opening of the barrel is. The barrel also has an image-forming section that extends from the positioning section to a center of the optical axis along the image-forming-side surface of the lens and forms an edge of the image-forming-side opening of the barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Ryota Sasaki, Naoki Sasaki, Yuya Sakai, Yasunori Tanaka, Ikuo Taki
  • Patent number: 8023174
    Abstract: A micro electro-mechanical system (MEMS) array substrate includes a substrate, a plurality of first signal lines, a plurality of second signal lines, a plurality of MEMS switches and a plurality of pixel electrodes. The first signal lines are disposed on the substrate in parallel with one another as well as the second signal lines. The second signal lines intersect with the first signal lines, such that a plurality of pixel regions is defined on the substrate. Each MEMS switch is located at corresponding one of the intersections between the first signal lines and the second signal lines. Each pixel electrode is configured in corresponding one of the pixel regions and electrically connected with the corresponding MEMS switch Compare to thin film transistor, since the operation performance of the MEMS switches would not affected by carrier mobility and on-off current ratio, display performance of the display device can be easily improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Sung-Hui Huang, Po-Wen Hsiao
  • Patent number: 8016420
    Abstract: An eye measurement system may include a target that moves transverse to an optical path from the target to eye, so as to relax accommodation of the lens of the eye. The target may move transverse to the optical path on a display. The patient may be fogged while the target moves transverse to the optical path, and the target may become smaller such that the patient perceives the target to be moving away from the patient. A pupil camera may measure eye position that can be correlated with the position of the target on the display to determine that the patient has maintained fixation on the moving target. A visible measurement light beam may be pulsed subsequent to and/or during motion of the target that relaxes accommodation of the eye so as to avoid visual interference of the measurement light beam with the target on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: AMO Development LLC.
    Inventors: Kingman Yee, Seema Somani
  • Patent number: 8018654
    Abstract: An optical sheet comprises: a base film; a first primer layer disposed on a surface of the base film; and a projection disposed on the first primer layer, wherein a thickness of the first primer layer ranges from about 5 nm to 300 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Chunghyuk Lee, Seungho Lee