Patents Assigned to Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
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Patent number: 11835795Abstract: A spectacle lens with has permanent markings is mounted on a mounting, in particular a suction mounting. The apparent location of the permanent markings is detected on the spectacle lens with a detection device. Additionally, the spectacle lens is illuminated eccentrically with respect to an optical axis of the detection device using eccentric light sources. Reflections from the lights sources on the spectacle lens are likewise detected. On the basis of the detected reflections and the apparent location of the permanent markings, the position and/or orientation of the mounted spectacle lens are determined.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Adalbert Hanßen, Elmar Rothe
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Patent number: 11835801Abstract: A family of spectacle lenses is provided in which each spectacle lens is configured to achieve a specified prescriptive spherical power from among a number of prescriptive spherical powers and a specified prescriptive astigmatic power from among a number of prescriptive astigmatic powers. Each spectacle lens has a specified rotationally symmetrical spectacle-lens front face, a specified atoric spectacle-lens rear face, and in at least one principal section, such a deviation in the curvature from the circular form that, for a value for the distance between the vertex of the spectacle lens rear face and the pivot point of the eye, which lies in a range between 15 and 40 mm, at any point in a spectacle lens region within a radius of 25 mm about the geometrical center of the spectacle lens, an upper limit of the total deviation of the power is not exceeded.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventor: Markus Welscher
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Patent number: 11835799Abstract: A spectacle lens design includes a first zone which has a focal power that provides a focused image on the fovea and a given a height and width. A second zone at least partly surrounds the first zone and contains at least one of the following: (i) focusing structures providing a focal power resulting in a myopic defocus or (ii) diffusing structures, such as scattering centers, leading to a diffusion of light passing the second zone. The first zone is curved to follow the converging line of sight of the wearer upon reading and contains a nasal segment, a temporal segment, and a central segment located between the nasal segment and the temporal segment The nasal segment and the temporal segment are shifted downwards with respect to the central segment.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2023Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventor: Dieter Braunger
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Patent number: 11826306Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method and a respective computer program with a program code to execute the method. In particular, disclosed is a method for training a preferred retinal locus of fixation (efficient PRL) for a person having an eye with a field of vision comprising an area of partially diminished or entirely degenerated visual acuity. The method includes: a) determining an inefficient retinal region outside the area in the field of vision of the eye of the person and a more efficient retinal region for the specific vision task outside the area in the field of vision of the eye of the person and b) inducing a preferred retinal locus of fixation (efficient PRL) for a vision task outside the inefficient retinal region but in the more efficient retinal region. In addition, the disclosure relates to a device for performing the method.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2017Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Katharina Rifai, Siegfried Wahl, Maria Barraza-Bernal
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Patent number: 11809023Abstract: A spectacle lens for at least one eye of a user, a method for producing a spectacle lens, and a computer program product having executable instructions for performing the method for producing the spectacle lens are disclosed. The spectacle lens has a permanent marking which is or contains a diffractive structure, wherein a diffractive pattern generated by illumination of the diffractive structure is configured to be invisible upon a first kind of illumination and configured to be visible only upon a second kind of illumination. The permanent markings on the spectacle lens are, on one hand, invisible to the user or to a spectator looking at the user wearing the spectacle lens without utilizing specially selected optical aids but, on the other hand, enables continued control of the spectacle lens in front of the eye of the user by an optician or a specifically designated optical sensor.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2023Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Katharina Rifai, Siegfried Wahl, Timo Kratzer
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Patent number: 11798189Abstract: Computer implemented methods and devices for determining dimensions or distances of head features are provided. The method includes identifying a plurality of features in an image of a head of a person. A real dimension of at least one target feature of the plurality of features or a real distance between at least one target feature of the plurality features and a camera device used for capturing the image is estimated based on probability distributions for real dimensions of at least one feature of the plurality of features and a pixel dimension of the at least one feature of the plurality of features.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventor: Ben Hoyle
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Patent number: 11796838Abstract: A computer implemented method of determining a numerical representation of a spectacle lens is provided, in which a numerically represented working spectacle lens is optimized by ray tracing using pencils of rays along different viewing directions of an eye to obtain an optimized numerical representation. The principal rays of the pencils of rays each pass different ray passing points forming points of a vertex surface. The principal rays extend along a viewing direction related to the respective ray passing point. The locations of the ray passing points are determined by surface points of a non-spherical apex surface representing the locations of the apex of the cornea when the eye rotates. A fixed distance is added to the apex surface at the respective surface points in a direction that corresponds to the viewing direction of the eye when the apex of the cornea is located at that surface point.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2023Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventor: Helmut Wietschorke
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Patent number: 11794428Abstract: An inkjet method for producing a spectacle lens and fluids that can be used in an inkjet method for producing a spectacle lens are disclosed. The inkjet method includes the following steps: a) providing a substrate to be printed on, b) applying to the substrate to be printed on from step a) at least two volume elements applied adjacently and/or adjoining one another, c) transferring the at least two volume elements applied adjacently and/or adjoining one another from step b) into at least one volume composite, d) transferring the at least one volume composite from step c) into at least one homogeneous volume composite, e) transferring the at least one homogeneous volume composite from step d) into at least one final volume composite.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Hans-Joachim Weippert, Matthias Krieg, Jörg Pütz
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Patent number: 11789295Abstract: Centration parameters for fitting spectacle lenses to a predetermined spectacle frame and to the head of a subject are determined with a computer-implemented method. At least two calibrated images, recorded from different recording directions, of the head of the subject wearing the spectacle frame are provided, wherein geometric parameters are established by geometric position determination. The geometric parameters describe the position of the eyes and the geometry of the spectacle frame, and the centration parameters are calculated from the geometric parameters. Further, a three-dimensional model for the spectacle lenses, which are to be received in the spectacle frame, is fitted to the geometry of the geometric parameters that describe the geometry of the spectacle frame.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignees: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH, Carl Zeiss AGInventors: Claudia Nieuwenhuis, Oliver Schwarz
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Patent number: 11782293Abstract: A progressive addition lens contains a plurality of microlenses for providing simultaneous myopic defocus. The microlenses are superimposed on a power variation surface of the lens, which includes a designated distance portion in the upper section of the lens adapted for distance vision and a fitting cross; a designated near portion located in the lower section of the lens, the near portion including a near reference point having a near dioptric power adapted for near vision; and a designated intermediate corridor extending between the designated distance portion and near portions. Microlenses are excluded from all areas of the surface located below a notional line extending from nasal to temporal limits of the lens at a vertical coordinate above the near reference point where the vertical coordinate lies at a distance above the near reference point with the distance being in a range between 1.5 mm and 3 mm.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2023Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Saulius Raymond Varnas, Ray Steven Spratt, Timo Kratzer, Gerhard Kelch, Siegfried Wahl
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Patent number: 11754860Abstract: An optical lens contains a laminated film, which includes a first adhesive layer, a first barrier layer, a photochromic layer, a second barrier layer, and a second adhesive layer. The layers are arranged in succession and the laminated film is substantially incorporated into the optical lens body. A method for producing this optical lens as well as a pair of spectacles containing this optical lens are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2019Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Jingye Liang, Liu Ouyang, Stephen Brown, Yong Tian
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Patent number: 11747651Abstract: Methods and devices for determining at least one centring parameter are disclosed. A mobile terminal is moved from a first position to a second position, and a respective image is captured of an eye area of a person. The acceleration is also measured during the movement. The centring parameter is then determined based on the captured image and the measured acceleration.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Jeremias Gromotka, Michael Gamperling
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Patent number: 11747649Abstract: A method for producing a coating on a surface of a coated or uncoated spectacle lens includes: applying a masking on a partial region of the surface of the coated or uncoated spectacle lens, applying at least one layer on the surface, and removing the masking and the at least one layer applied on the masking from the partial region of the surface. The masking is applied with a matrix printing method. A spectacle lens produced by the method is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventor: Jeremias Gromotka
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Patent number: 11747654Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating data to produce a spectacle lens adapted to a spectacle frame is disclosed. The method includes: (i) providing, on a storage medium, a first data set containing a centering value and a three-dimensional model of the spectacle frame; (ii) creating, using the first data set, a second data set containing a geometric value of a surface of the spectacle lens; (iii) creating, in order to produce the spectacle lens from a spectacle lens blank and to grind in and/or fit the at least one spectacle lens into the spectacle frame using the first and second data sets, a third data set stored on the storage medium, wherein the data values of each data set have a spatial relationship with respect to each other such that the data values of each data set are consistently specified in relation to a particular coordinate system.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2023Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Ralf Meschenmoser, Friedrich Pauker, Gerhard Kelch
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Patent number: 11740488Abstract: A progressive spectacle lens has a front face and a rear face and a uniform substrate with a locally varying refractive index. The front face and/or the rear face of the substrate is formed as a free-form surface and carries only functional coatings, if any. The refractive index varies (a) only in a first spatial dimension and in a second spatial dimension and is constant in a third spatial dimension, a distribution of the refractive being neither point-symmetrical nor axis symmetrical, or (b) in a first spatial dimension and in a second spatial dimension and in a third spatial dimension, a distribution of the refractive index being neither point-symmetrical nor axis symmetrical, or (c) in a first spatial dimension and in a second spatial dimension and in a third spatial dimension, a distribution of the refractive index not being point-symmetrical or axis symmetrical at all.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Gerhard Kelch, Christoph Menke, Helmut Wietschorke
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Patent number: 11693258Abstract: A computer-implemented method for fitting a spectacle lens, which has a first spectacle lens surface, a second spectacle lens surface, and at least one dioptric power to be obtained, to a spectacle frame with a certain frame edge curve is made available. In the method, a free-form surface formed on a first spectacle lens surface is fitted to the frame edge curve of the spectacle frame. The free-form surface is fitted to the frame edge curve by virtue of the free-form surface and the second spectacle lens surface being optimized with regard to minimizing the difference between the free-form surface edge curve and the frame edge curve and with regard to achieving the at least one dioptric power to be obtained with the spectacle lens.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventor: Helmut Wietschorke
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Patent number: 11662600Abstract: A device, a method, and a computer program for producing two point light sources of the same wavelength on a pupil plane of an eye of a user are disclosed, as well as a device, a method, and a computer program for determining a neural transfer function of the visual pathway of the user. The device for determining the neural transfer function includes a coherent light source for generating a light beam; an optical device for separating the light beam into sub-light beams, superpositioning the respective sub-light beams, and adjusting contrast and spatial phase in an interference pattern; and a beam path for guiding the superposed sub-light beams such that two point light sources of the same wavelength are produced. The devices are compact and robust, allow a variable presentation of different interference patterns, and can thus be easily operated in a commercial product in a clinical setting.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Alexander Leube, Nikolai Suchkov, Christina Schwarz, Siegfried Wahl
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Patent number: 11633928Abstract: A spectacle lens, which is manufactured by additive manufacturing, includes interspersing first volume elements and second volume elements. The first and second volume elements are arranged on the grid points of a geometric grid to form a first sub-grid and a second sub-grid, respectively. The first sub-grid forms the first part of the spectacle lens having a dioptric effect for vision for a first object distance and the second sub-grid forms the second part of the spectacle lens having a dioptric effect for vision for a second object distance, which differs from the first object distance.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Timo Mappes, Matthias Hornauer, Georg Michels, Thomas Glöge
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Patent number: 11614640Abstract: A spectacle lens has, starting from the object-sided front surface of the spectacle lens to the opposite rear-side of the spectacle lens, at least a) one component A including at least one functional layer FA and/or an ultrathin glass, b) one component B including at least one polymer material and, c) one component C, including at least one functional layer F and/or an ultrathin glass. A method, in particular a 3D printing method, for producing the spectacle lens is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Timo Mappes, Gerhard Kelch, Thomas Glöge
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Patent number: 11586053Abstract: A spectacle lens for an eye of a wearer of spectacles has a front surface and a back surface, wherein the front surface of the spectacle lens faces away from the eye and the back surface of the spectacle lens faces the eye. The spectacle lens includes an optical lens substrate made of or containing mineral glass and/or organic glass, wherein the spectacle lens has at least one first antireflection coating and at least one second antireflection coating, wherein the at least one first antireflection coating has a filter effect for blue light. Further, spectacles containing the spectacle lens are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Bernhard von Blanckenhagen, Emad Flear Aziz