Patents Assigned to Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)
  • Publication number: 20180137358
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an analysis module having a communication component arranged to receive scene images from a scene camera mounted on a head mounted device, the scene images corresponding to images of the environment facing the user of the head mounted device when worn by the user, an image analysis component arranged to identify at least one predefined element from a list of predefined elements in a predefined analyzing zone of the images received from the scene camera and to analyze at least part of the scene images based on the identified at least one predefined element, and a feedback component arranged to generate feedback data and to send such data to the user of the head mounted device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)
    Inventors: Denis ROUSSEAU, Thierry VILLETTE
  • Patent number: 9969051
    Abstract: A holder (1) for pneumatically blocking an optical lens (300) on a surfacing machine, includes:—a gripping part (10) for fixing it to a corresponding member (200) of the surfacing machine, and—a part (100) for blocking the optical lens, which includes a body (110) from which there protrude abutments which are designed to afford the optical lens a rigid seat, and a seal (170) against which the optical lens is able to be brought to bear in order to delimit with the body a vacuum chamber (180). The abutments include first rods (160) which are mounted so as to be movable in translation with respect to the body in order to bear by way of their free ends (161) against the optical lens, and provision is made of return elements (179, 190) for returning the first rods against the optical lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)
    Inventors: Fabien Lafon, Hanna Sauze
  • Patent number: 9969135
    Abstract: A method using additive manufacturing technologies and processes to manufacture a three-dimensional ophthalmic lens with a high management level of the homogeneity during the construction of the ophthalmic lens, through a control of two technical characteristics of voxel: the ability to modify their viscosity, and the ability to inter-diffuse together to provide a final homogeneous element. These two technical characteristics are managed by the choice of component(s) used to manufacture each voxel and by the kind of physical and/or chemical treatment apply to each of them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)
    Inventors: Robert A. Valeri, Steven Weber, John Biteau
  • Publication number: 20180128685
    Abstract: A method for determining an optical performance parameter of a head mounted display device adapted for a wearer includes a head mounted display device providing step, during which a head mounted display device adapted for a wearer is provided, an optical measurement device providing step, during which an optical measurement device is provided that includes an entrance pupil and a sensor receiving light through the entrance pupil, a positioning step, during which the optical measurement device and the head mounted display device are positioned so that the position of the entrance pupil of the optical measurement device corresponds to the position of the pupil of the wearer when wearing the head mounted display device, an optical performance parameter determining step during which at least one optical performance parameter of the head mounted see-through display device is determined based on the data measured by the optical measurement device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)
    Inventors: Marius PELOUX, Loic BAILLON, Ludovic Jouard
  • Publication number: 20180124375
    Abstract: A calibrating method for calibrating the position of pictures on display elements of a binocular displaying device, the binocular displaying device comprising a right display element and a left display element to display right and left pictures. The method comprising a virtual markers displaying step, during which a right virtual marker and a left virtual marker are displayed respectively from the right display element and the left display element when the wearer uses the binocular displaying device, the right and left virtual markers being at least visually vertically alignable with a real world target at an alignment condition, and an aligning step, during which each of the right and left virtual markers are aligned with the real world target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)
    Inventor: Denis ROUSSEAU
  • Patent number: 9958706
    Abstract: A tinted optical article includes an optical substrate providing with an optical filter wherein the optical filter is configured to selectively emit light in at least one selected range of wavelengths of light in the visible spectrum of 460 nm to 530 nm, allowing retinal exposure of a wearer eye to chronobiological blue-enriched light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)
    Inventor: Gilles Baillet
  • Patent number: 9955864
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for measuring the subjective refraction of a person in near and/or medium vision, which comprises, according to the invention, for each eye of the person, a correction mounting (3) provided with at least one corrective lens, the correction mountings (3) being arranged such that the person looks through the lenses. The position of each correction mounting (3) is variable such as to adjust an angle (a) between the axes of the lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)
    Inventors: Benjamin Rousseau, Martha Hernandez, Konogan Baranton, Pedro Ourives, Gildas Marin
  • Publication number: 20180113329
    Abstract: A head mounted device intended to be worn by a wearer comprising: a battery, and a flexible wireless power system receiver connected to the battery through at least one electrical connection mean, the flexible wireless power system receiver being arranged to receive an electromagnetic field so as to allow charging of the battery through the electrical connection means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)
    Inventor: Denis ROUSSEAU
  • Patent number: 9952447
    Abstract: A method for determining at least one behavioral, postural or geometric-morphological characteristic of a person wearing spectacles, the method includes the steps of: a) illuminating the wearer's head using an infrared light source (220, 230, 240), b) acquiring an image of the wearer's head using an infrared image sensor (210); c) in the image, locating reflections from the infrared light surface, reflected by the two lenses of the spectacles; and d) using a computation unit (250) to deduce the required characteristic as a function of the positions of the reflections in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)
    Inventors: Ahmed Haddadi, Jean Delzers
  • Publication number: 20180107020
    Abstract: A method for determining a pair of ophthalmic lenses adapted to a wearer, the method including: a wearer data providing, during which wearer data including at least an indication of the distortion dominant eye of the wearer and an indication of the prescription of the wearer are provided; an ophthalmic lenses determining, during which a pair of ophthalmic lenses adapted to the wearer is determined based at least on the wearer data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)
    Inventors: Gildas MARIN, Cecile PETIGNAUD, Martha HERNANDEZ-CASTANEDA, Laurent CALIXTE
  • Publication number: 20180107662
    Abstract: A method for updating an index of a person, the method includes: an index providing during which an index is defined as a function of at least one parameter related to the person is provided; a parameter monitoring during which the at least one parameter of the person is monitored over time; an index update during which the index of the person is updated based on the evolution over time of the at least one parameter of the person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)
    Inventors: Marie LORE, Marion SWITAL
  • Publication number: 20180101037
    Abstract: A thin film forming an intermediate layer for an optical article including liquid crystals, the thin film including a main body limited by a first main surface and by a second main surface opposed to the first main surface, the first and second main surfaces both including a first zone exhibiting alignment properties for aligning liquid crystals along a predetermined alignment direction and a second zone forming spacing structures extending in projection from the first zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Applicants: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE), NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mathieu FEUILLADE, Gregory TORTISSIER
  • Publication number: 20180095279
    Abstract: Systems, methods and ophthalmic lenses for image display of a virtual image, such as display of a holographic image. An ophthalmic lens is configured to optimize visualization of the displayed virtual images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Applicant: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)
    Inventors: Aude BOUCHIER, Claudine BIVER, Jean-Paul CANO
  • Patent number: 9925681
    Abstract: A method for machining an optical lens via a trimming machine, includes: —a step of locking the optical lens, —a step of acquiring shape characteristics of the optical faces of the optical lens, —a step of generating an instruction for trimming the optical lens, and —a step of trimming the optical lens along a desired contour. The method also includes the following steps: —a step of generating an instruction for etching the optical lens depending on the acquired shape characteristics, and —a step of etching the optical lens along a line located inside the desired contour, during which a pointed etching tool of the trimming machine is controlled according to the etching instruction in such a way that the point of same continually slides against the optical face in order to score same along the line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)
    Inventor: Cedric Lemaire
  • Publication number: 20180081196
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for determining an ophthalmic lens for providing to a wearer a comfortable vision when looking at electronic displays. The method includes: a wearer near vision electronic display use determining to determine at least an electronic display the wearer intends to use in a near vision situation; a wearer intermediate vision electronic display use determining to determine at least an electronic display the wearer intends to use in an intermediate vision situation; an usage priority rank determining to determine an usage priority rank between the near vision electronic display during the wearer near vision electronic display use determining and the intermediate vision electronic display during the wearer intermediate vision electronic display use determining; an ophthalmic lens determining to determine an ophthalmic lens from the at least one near vision electronic display or the at least one intermediate vision electronic display and the usage priority rank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)
    Inventors: Celine BENOIT, Claire-Eline BRES, Damien PAILLE
  • Publication number: 20180081201
    Abstract: A wearing detection module configured to be fixed on a spectacle frame element of a smart spectacle frame, the spectacle frame element including a first surface configured to face the wearer when using the smart spectacle frame and a second surface opposed to the first surface, and the wearing detection module including a pair of sensors configured to measure one parameter indicative of the distance between the spectacle frame element and the wearer, one sensor is arranged on the first surface and the other one is arranged on the second surface, and a processing unit configured to receive data indicative of the parameter sensed by each sensors and to determine a wearing data indicative of the use by the wearer of the smart spectacle frame based on the received data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)
    Inventors: Marie LORE, Paul GIL, Guillaume BROUTIN, Jean SAHLER
  • Patent number: 9919453
    Abstract: A method for drilling an ophthalmic lens (10) includes the following steps: —memorizing the desired shape and dimensions of a drill hole (701; 702; 703) to be drilled in the ophthalmic lens (10) and the position of the opening of this drill hole on one of the faces (11, 12) of the ophthalmic lens; —positioning a drilling tool (80) facing the memorized position of the hole to be drilled; —determining a control setpoint for the transverse movement and axial advance of the drilling tool; and —drilling the ophthalmic lens according to the control setpoint. The control setpoint for the transverse movement and axial advance of the drilling tool forces the point of this drilling tool, on at least one drilling run, to follow a helical or pseudohelical trajectory depending on the desired shape and dimensions of the drill hole. An associated drilling device is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)
    Inventors: Cedric Lemaire, Sebastien Pinault
  • Publication number: 20180049697
    Abstract: A method for customizing a mounted sensing device including a first set of similar or identical sensors having different location and/or orientation, each sensor configured to measure at least one first parameter relating to a wearer of the mounted sensing device, the method including: a sensor selecting during which at least one of the sensors is selected to be used to measure the at least one first parameter, wherein the at least one selected sensor is selected among the first set of similar or identical sensors based on wearer data indicative of morphology of the wearer, and based on their respective location and/or orientation such that the selected at least one sensor is a most appropriate for the wearer and/or for measuring the at least one first parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicant: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)
    Inventors: Denis ROUSSEAU, Marie LORE
  • Publication number: 20180042474
    Abstract: A method for determining an ophthalmic lens having unwanted astigmatism, the ophthalmic lens being adapted to a wearer, the method including: a wearer prescription data providing during which wearer prescription data indicative of an ophthalmic prescription of the wearer are provided; a wearer focal data providing during which wearer focal data indicative of the wearer preferred image focal plan are provided; an ophthalmic lens determining during which the ophthalmic lens is determined based on the prescription of the wearer and the wearer focal data to reduce impact of unwanted astigmatism of the ophthalmic lens for the wearer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)
    Inventors: Susana MARCOS, Carlos DORRONSORO, Mirian VELASCO, Martha HERNANDEZ, Laurent CALIXTE, Gildas MARIN
  • Patent number: 9891447
    Abstract: A pair of progressive ophthalmic lenses (1, 2) meets special conditions for improving binocular vision of a wearer, while avoiding discomfort for peripheral vision. A first one of the conditions relates to height values of far vision fields, intermediate vision fields and/or proximate vision fields, for indicating that the fields are different enough in height between both lenses. A second one of the conditions sets a maximum value for the relative difference in mean refractive power gradient between both lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)
    Inventors: Aude Contet, Benedicte Deldalle, Cyril Guilloux, Farid Karioty