Patents by Inventor Tomohiro ODAIRA

Tomohiro ODAIRA has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11391968
    Abstract: A spectacle lens including a prism prescription that has an eyeball-side optical surface. When one side is the same side as a prism base direction (nose side) and the other side is an opposite side of the prism base direction with a direction orthogonal to the prism base direction passing through a prism measurement reference point as a boundary, a minimum value of a curvature of the eyeball-side optical surface is on the same side as the prism base direction (nose side). Since a mean curvature becomes smaller in the prism base direction than a mean curvature of the prism measurement reference point and becomes larger in the opposite direction than the mean curvature of the prism measurement reference point across the prism measurement reference point, deviation in line of sight between right and left eyes is resolved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Hatanaka, Tomohiro Odaira
  • Patent number: 11391966
    Abstract: In a spectacle lens added with prism thinning, a spherical refractive power of a first refractive portion is positive, and a prism base direction of a prism provided at a prism measurement reference point is set toward a second refractive portion side; a mean value of a difference of a mean curvature in a lens curved surface along a direction passing through a midpoint of a connecting line between two alignment reference marks and orthogonal to the connecting line with respect to a mean curvature in a lens curved surface along a direction of a lens without prism is smaller in a first-refractive-portion-side region from a fitting point than that in a second-refractive-portion-side region from the fitting point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Hatanaka, Tomohiro Odaira
  • Publication number: 20190302480
    Abstract: In a spectacle lens added with prism thinning, a spherical refractive power of a first refractive portion is positive, and a prism base direction of a prism provided at a prism measurement reference point is set toward a second refractive portion side; a mean value of a difference of a mean curvature in a lens curved surface along a direction passing through a midpoint of a connecting line between two alignment reference marks and orthogonal to the connecting line with respect to a mean curvature in a lens curved surface along a direction of a lens without prism is smaller in a first-refractive-portion-side region from a fitting point than that in a second-refractive-portion-side region from the fitting point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi HATANAKA, Tomohiro ODAIRA
  • Publication number: 20190302483
    Abstract: A spectacle lens including a prism prescription that has an eyeball-side optical surface. When one side is the same side as a prism base direction (nose side) and the other side is an opposite side of the prism base direction with a direction orthogonal to the prism base direction passing through a prism measurement reference point as a boundary, a minimum value of a curvature of the eyeball-side optical surface is on the same side as the prism base direction (nose side). Since a mean curvature becomes smaller in the prism base direction than a mean curvature of the prism measurement reference point and becomes larger in the opposite direction than the mean curvature of the prism measurement reference point across the prism measurement reference point, deviation in line of sight between right and left eyes is resolved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi HATANAKA, Tomohiro ODAIRA
  • Patent number: 10203520
    Abstract: A progressive power lens group includes a plurality of progressive power lenses including a near region for seeing an object at a near distance, a specific region for seeing an object at a far distance in relation to the near distance, and an intermediate region provided as a region between the specific region and the near region and having a power progressing from the specific region toward the near region, in which a near power at the near region is common in the plurality of progressive power lenses and a power corresponding to a predetermined common target distance which is a distance between the near distance and the far distance is provided at a predetermined part of the intermediate region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Odaira, Yasunori Izawa
  • Patent number: 10185159
    Abstract: Provided is a technology relating to a progressive power lens including a near region for seeing an object at a near distance, a specific region for seeing an object at a far distance in relation to the near distance, and an intermediate region provided as a region between the specific region and the near region and having a power progressing from the specific region toward the near region, in which a power exceeding zero is added to a prescription power of the specific region so that a power corresponding to a predetermined target distance which is a distance between the near distance and the far distance is provided at a predetermined part of the intermediate region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Odaira, Yasunori Izawa
  • Publication number: 20170299889
    Abstract: A progressive power lens group includes a plurality of progressive power lenses including a near region for seeing an object at a near distance, a specific region for seeing an object at a far distance in relation to the near distance, and an intermediate region provided as a region between the specific region and the near region and having a power progressing from the specific region toward the near region, in which a near power at the near region is common in the plurality of progressive power lenses and a power corresponding to a predetermined common target distance which is a distance between the near distance and the far distance is provided at a predetermined part of the intermediate region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro ODAIRA, Yasunori IZAWA
  • Publication number: 20170299891
    Abstract: Provided is a technology relating to a progressive power lens including a near region for seeing an object at a near distance, a specific region for seeing an object at a far distance in relation to the near distance, and an intermediate region provided as a region between the specific region and the near region and having a power progressing from the specific region toward the near region, in which a power exceeding zero is added to a prescription power of the specific region so that a power corresponding to a predetermined target distance which is a distance between the near distance and the far distance is provided at a predetermined part of the intermediate region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro ODAIRA, Yasunori IZAWA
  • Patent number: 9772511
    Abstract: A spectacle lens is provided belonging to a series of spectacle lenses having each of first refractive power and second refractive power in common, where a progressive region length, which is a length along a meridian within a progressive region, is shorter than a predetermined reference spectacle lens belonging to the series of spectacle lenses, and a designed maximum differential value where a normalized addition refractive power distribution in the progressive region is differentiated is caused to be close to a reference maximum differential value where a normalized addition refractive power distribution in the progressive region of the reference spectacle lens is differentiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Izawa, Tomohiro Odaira
  • Patent number: 9733490
    Abstract: A spectacle lens design system includes a first photographing apparatus having a first distance to the subject to photograph the subject and a second photographing apparatus having a second distance to the subject to photograph a visual target. The second distance is farther than first distance. The system determines a position of a subject's eye based on an image of the first photographing apparatus and tentatively calculates a position of the visual target based on an image photographed by second photographing apparatus. The system designs a shape of spectacle lens based on predetermined prescription information and calculated visual line information, where the visual line information is determined based on a determined position of eye and a position of the visual target moved in pseudo manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Nishimura, Tomohiro Odaira
  • Patent number: 9638937
    Abstract: There is provided a spectacle lens, including: specific first and second reference points, and eye point between the first and second reference points on a meridian, with each point defined on a meridian; and a power variation portion where power is continuously varied from the first reference point to the second reference point, wherein a variation rate of an addition power is substantially zero in a circle of radius 4 mm with the first reference point as a center, and/or in a circle of radius 4 mm with the eye point as a center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Odaira, Kazuma Kozu
  • Patent number: 9618772
    Abstract: A spectacle lens design system, including: an eyeball rotation center determination means that identifies an corneal apex position of an eye of a subject based on an image photographed by a predetermined photographing apparatus and determines an eyeball rotation center position of the subject based on the identified corneal apex position; a visual line information calculation means that calculates visual line information of the subjected defined when the subject watches a visual target disposed at a predetermined position, based on the eyeball rotation center position determined by the eyeball rotation center determination means and the position of the visual target; and a shape design means that designs a shape of a spectacle lens based on predetermined prescription information and the visual line information calculated by the visual line information calculation means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Nishimura, Tomohiro Odaira
  • Publication number: 20160209677
    Abstract: A spectacle lens is provided belonging to a series of spectacle lenses having each of first refractive power and second refractive power in common, where a progressive region length, which is a length along a meridian within a progressive region, is shorter than a predetermined reference spectacle lens belonging to the series of spectacle lenses, and a designed maximum differential value where a normalized addition refractive power distribution in the progressive region is differentiated is caused to be close to a reference maximum differential value where a normalized addition refractive power distribution in the progressive region of the reference spectacle lens is differentiated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori IZAWA, Tomohiro ODAIRA
  • Publication number: 20160026001
    Abstract: A spectacle lens design system includes a first photographing apparatus having a first distance to the subject to photograph the subject and a second photographing apparatus having a second distance to the subject to photograph a visual target. The second distance is farther than first distance. The system determines a position of a subject's eye based on an image of the first photographing apparatus and tentatively calculates a position of the visual target based on an image photographed by second photographing apparatus. The system designs a shape of spectacle lens based on predetermined prescription information and calculated visual line information, where the visual line information is determined based on a determined position of eye and a position of the visual target moved in pseudo manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Hidetoshi NISHIMURA, Tomohiro ODAIRA
  • Publication number: 20160011437
    Abstract: A spectacle lens design system, including: an eyeball rotation center determination means that identifies an corneal apex position of an eye of a subject based on an image photographed by a predetermined photographing apparatus and determines an eyeball rotation center position of the subject based on the identified corneal apex position; a visual line information calculation means that calculates visual line information of the subjected defined when the subject watches a visual target disposed at a predetermined position, based on the eyeball rotation center position determined by the eyeball rotation center determination means and the position of the visual target; and a shape design means that designs a shape of a spectacle lens based on predetermined prescription information and the visual line information calculated by the visual line information calculation means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Hidetoshi NISHIMURA, Tomohiro ODAIRA
  • Patent number: 8974058
    Abstract: An eyeglass lens, comprising: a hidden mark defining a predetermined reference point; and refractive portions arranged along a meridian extending substantially in a vertical direction via the predetermined reference point, and wherein the refractive portions comprises: a first refractive portion located on a lower side of the predetermined reference point and having a first refractive power; a second refractive portion located on an upper side of the predetermined reference point and having a second refractive power smaller than the first refractive power; and an intermediate refractive portion in which refractive power continuously decreases, and an aberration distribution in the first refractive portion is substantially symmetrical in a left and right direction with respect to the meridian extending in the vertical direction, and an aberration distribution in the second refractive portion is asymmetrical in the left and right direction with respect to the meridian shifted to an ear side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuma Kozu, Tomohiro Odaira
  • Publication number: 20150049302
    Abstract: There is provided a spectacle lens, including: specific first and second reference points, and eye point between the first and second reference points on a meridian, with each point defined on a meridian; and a power variation portion where power is continuously varied from the first reference point to the second reference point, wherein a variation rate of an addition power is substantially zero in a circle of radius 4 mm with the first reference point as a center, and/or in a circle of radius 4 mm with the eye point as a center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Tomohiro Odaira, Kazuma Kozu
  • Publication number: 20130235336
    Abstract: An eyeglass lens, comprising: a hidden mark defining a predetermined reference point; and refractive portions arranged along a meridian extending substantially in a vertical direction via the predetermined reference point, and wherein the refractive portions comprises: a first refractive portion located on a lower side of the predetermined reference point and having a first refractive power; a second refractive portion located on an upper side of the predetermined reference point and having a second refractive power smaller than the first refractive power; and an intermediate refractive portion in which refractive power continuously decreases, and an aberration distribution in the first refractive portion is substantially symmetrical in a left and right direction with respect to the meridian extending in the vertical direction, and an aberration distribution in the second refractive portion is asymmetrical in the left and right direction with respect to the meridian shifted to an ear side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuma KOZU, Tomohiro ODAIRA