Patents Assigned to Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
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Patent number: 10989932Abstract: A product includes a progressive power spectacle lens or a representation, stored on a data storage medium, of the progressive power spectacle lens. The progressive power spectacle lens has a front surface and a back surface and a spatially varying refractive index, wherein the front surface and/or the back surface is embodied as a progressive surface. The front surface is formed as a free-form surface in such a way that the maximum of the absolute value of the mean curvature of the front surface lies in the intermediate corridor and/or the back surface is formed as a free-form surface in such a way that the minimum of the absolute value of the mean curvature of the back surface lies in the intermediate corridor. Further, a computer-implemented method for planning a progressive power spectacle lens with a spatially varying refractive index and a progressive surface is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Gerhard Kelch, Christoph Menke, Helmut Wietschorke
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Patent number: 10983364Abstract: 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: August 5, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Timo Mappes, Matthias Hornauer, Georg Michels, Thomas Glöge
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Patent number: 10976573Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing a lens shape for an ophthalmic lens is disclosed. Further, there is provided a method for angular smoothing of a surface determined by carrier lines radially outwards of a prescription zone bordered by a first boundary line. In addition, there is provided an ophthalmic lens, in particular, a spectacle lens. Moreover, a method for minimizing the difference in thickness between two ophthalmic lenses for the same spectacles is provided. A computer program product and a machine-readable storage medium are provided as well.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Ray Steven Spratt, Philipp Ellinger, Helmut Wietschorke, Angela Nolan, Saulius Varnas
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Patent number: 10976572Abstract: Information is stored in an optical element in the form of a glass or plastic body embodied as spectacles lens, spectacles lens blank or spectacles lens semi-finished product. The information in the form of data is stored on or in the glass or plastic body by creating at least one marking with a marking system. The marking can be read by a reading apparatus. The marking system has an interface for reading information individualizing the optical element. The marking is created permanently by the marking system on or in the optical element at a definition point of a local body-specific coordinate system set by two points on or in the optical element. In this body coordinate system, the manufacturer specifies the position of the lens horizontal and/or the far and/or the near and/or the prism reference point.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2017Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Andreas Dangelmaier, Simon Holtmann, Roland Schoen, Matthias Hornauer
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Patent number: 10969607Abstract: The current disclosure is directed to a method for determining an improved design for a progressive spectacle lens. Further, there are provided a method for manufacturing a progressive spectacle lens, a system for determining an improved design for a progressive spectacle lens, a non-transitory computer program and a progressive spectacle lens.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Ray Steven Spratt, Gerhard Kelch
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Patent number: 10947053Abstract: Disclosed is a production system for spectacle lenses made from spectacle lens blanks, having a left-hand outer transport track, multiple left-hand processing devices which are arranged on the left-hand side next to the left-hand outer transport track, a right-hand outer transport track, and a central transport track which is arranged between the left-hand outer transport track and the right-hand outer transport track. The transport direction of the left-hand outer transport track and the transport direction of the right-hand outer transport track are identical, and the transport direction of the central transport track is opposite to the transport directions of the left-hand outer transport track and the right-hand outer transport track or can be reversed. The multiple right-hand processing devices are arranged on the right-hand side next to the right-hand outer transport track. A processing device pair made of left-hand and right-hand processing devices is paired with a transfer device.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Ralf Meschenmoser, Arne Schulz, Dennis Klora
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Patent number: 10942375Abstract: A device for determining centering parameters for the adjustment of spectacles includes a camera support partially surrounding an inner area that is open at the top, bottom and to the rear; and at least three cameras arranged between two free ends of the camera support and pointing towards the inner area, the camera support having an illumination system in order to illuminate the inner area. The illumination system is designed to light the inner area such that the light intensity, at least at each point in a region extending over a height of 20 cm and a central angle of 180 degrees of an outer cylinder surface having a diameter of 20 cm and formed in the inner area, deviates by a maximum +50% and ?30% from a predefined desired value.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignees: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH, Carl Zeiss AGInventors: Cristina Alvarez Diez, Tobias Breuninger, Michael Gamperling, Oliver Schwarz, Frank Widulle
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Patent number: 10928655Abstract: A series of spectacle lenses is disclosed, wherein each lens has a spherical front surface and an aspheric, atoric, or freeform back surface. Further, each lens of the series provides a focal power Px between ?6 D and +4 D; and at least one lens of the series provides a focal power Px between at least one of (a) ?0.75 D and +2.25 D and (b) ?0.5 D and +2.00 D. For an upper range of focal powers, lenses having the same nominal front surface power are provided; and for a lower range of trough powers, lenses having the same minimum nominal back surface power are provided. The spherical front surface has a nominal front surface power Pf and the back surface has a minimum nominal back surface power Pb; wherein 15.5 D?|Pf|+|Pb|+|Px|?31.5 D applies for each spectacle lens of the series.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventor: Ray Steven Spratt
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Patent number: 10890786Abstract: In a method for determining at least one fitting parameter for a spectacle lens received in a spectacle frame, an image, lying in an image plane, of at least one portion of a spectacle frame worn by a subject is acquired. When acquiring the image, the inclination of the image plane about a horizontal axis which is parallel to the image plane is established and, in the process, the at least one fitting parameter is established from the acquired image of the portion of the subject with the spectacle frame worn by the subject and the established inclination of the image.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2016Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Jesus-Miguel Cabeza-Guillen, Subhashini Mani, Michael Gamperling
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Patent number: 10890784Abstract: Methods, devices, and computer programs for determining a near-vision point of a person are disclosed. The person under examination looks at a movable near-vision target, and an image of the person is captured with a camera device incorporated into the near-vision target. The orientation and/or position of the near-vision target is determined. The near-vision point is then determined from the orientation and/or position of the near-vision target.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Michael Gamperling, Cristina Alvarez Diez, Carsten Glasenapp
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Patent number: 10881292Abstract: The invention is directed to a system for determining the refractive properties of an eye. The system includes a wavefront measurement device for measuring the refractive properties of the eye. The system is configured to have at least one measurement mode assigned to children, wherein the system has an input device configured to switch the system into one of the at least one measurement mode assigned to children. The system is further configured to alter at least one of a group including a default pupillary distance, a default cornea vertex distance, a default position of the wavefront measurement device, a default position and/or direction of a measurement ray of the wavefront measurement device, a default position of a forehead and chin rest assembly of the system and a fixation target when the system is switched into the one of the at least one measurement mode assigned to children.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2015Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Monique Welscher, Timo Kratzer
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Patent number: 10875140Abstract: A manufacturing method for manufacturing a spectacle lens is disclosed. The method includes: obtaining prescription data descriptive of an ophthalmic prescription of a user in the plus prescription range; obtaining frame data descriptive of a perimeter of a spectacle frame in which the lens is to be mounted; providing a lens blank having a convex front surface and a back surface; determining a final cutting surface to be machined on the back surface of the lens blank in a final cutting phase; and determining an intermediate cutting surface to be machined on the back surface of the lens blank in an initial cutting phase. Further, it is provided that the intermediate cutting surface is different from the final cutting surface; and the final cutting surface comprises a prescription zone in which the final cutting surface together with the front surface fulfills the ophthalmic prescription of the user.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2020Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Ray Steven Spratt, Angela Nolan, Philipp Ellinger, Michael Gall
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Patent number: 10863901Abstract: A method, a system and a computer program for determining an eyeglass prescription for an eye are disclosed. Initially, information about a measurement indicative of the refractive properties of the eye is received. Subsequently, a mathematical representation of wavefront aberrations of the eye is determined from the measurement. The mathematical representation includes a multitude of polynomials, each polynomial having an azimuthal order and a radial order. Further, the mathematical representation includes at least a first polynomial group having a common radial order, wherein the common radial order is higher than two. The eyeglass prescription is determined based on a merit function, wherein each polynomial of the first polynomial group that is used in the merit function has an azimuthal order of ?2, 0, or 2, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventor: Ray Steven Spratt
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Patent number: 10856601Abstract: A protective shield can be mounted in front of the face of a wearer of a protective helmet. In an as worn orientation, the protective shield extends across the eyes and typically also across the nose of the wearer. The protective shield has at least one arcuate lens portion which, in the as worn orientation, curves across an eye of the wearer. The arcuate lens portion has a horizontal curvature extending in a horizontal direction and a vertical curvature extending in a vertical direction, wherein the vertical curvature is a horizontally varying vertical curvature (?).Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventor: Ray Steven Spratt
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Patent number: 10859859Abstract: A method for providing a mounting edge model, a corresponding computer program, and a corresponding computing device are disclosed. To provide the mounting edge model, first a plurality of data sets is provided, each of which describes a course of a mounting edge. Such data sets can be obtained from tracer data, for example. On the basis of the data sets, a parametric mounting edge model is then derived.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignees: Carl Zeis AG, Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Claudia Nieuwenhuis, Oliver Schwarz
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Patent number: 10845619Abstract: A method for producing a spectacle lens 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: January 16, 2019Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Timo Mappes, Matthias Hornauer, Georg Michels, Thomas Glöge
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Patent number: 10838230Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for making a spectacle lens for a non-presbyopic person wherein the spectacle lens is a ready-to-wear lens and has at least one zone having an optical effect to reduce vision stress. In the method, at least one of the following is provided: the contour of the ready-to-wear spectacle lens and one or several visual points whereat the person looks through the ready-to-wear spectacle lens for one or several visual tasks in the near range. This method step is followed by setting at least one of: a design reference point of the zone, the extent of the zone, the optical effect within the zone based on the provided contour, and the visual points. The spectacle lens is then made with this zone.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Herbert Krug, Timo Kratzer
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Patent number: 10838231Abstract: A product includes a progressive power spectacle lens or a representation, stored on a data storage medium, of the progressive power spectacle lens. The progressive power spectacle lens has a front surface and a back surface and a spatially varying refractive index, wherein the front surface and/or the back surface is embodied as a progressive surface. The front surface is formed as a free-form surface in such a way that the maximum of the absolute value of the mean curvature of the front surface lies in the intermediate corridor and/or the back surface is formed as a free-form surface in such a way that the minimum of the absolute value of the mean curvature of the back surface lies in the intermediate corridor. Further, a computer-implemented method for planning a progressive power spectacle lens with a spatially varying refractive index and a progressive surface is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Gerhard Kelch, Christoph Menke, Helmut Wietschorke
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Patent number: 10821612Abstract: A suction gripper system includes a suction calotte for the handling of at least one article and a counterpart configured correspondingly to the suction calotte. Further, the suction gripper system includes a magnetic element and a movably mounted ball, which are arranged to interact magnetically with respect to one another to influence a spatial position of the suction calotte in relation to the counterpart. Further, a method for handling the at least one article, a method for producing at least one spectacle lens, and the use of the suction gripper system are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventor: Norbert Kurz
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Patent number: 10782540Abstract: A method for demonstrating optical properties of a lens for spectacle glasses is disclosed in which a demonstration tool displays an optical property of the lens. The demonstration tool includes a light source and a light sensor receiving light from the light source. Placing a lens in the beam path between the light source and the light sensor changes the readout from the light sensor and the change in readout is converted into an optical property of the lens. An observer sees the optical property of the lens on a display.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Christian Lappe, Patrick Schaupp, Timo Mappes