Patents Assigned to Oculus Optikgeraete GmbH
  • Patent number: 11779207
    Abstract: A method for testing the eyes of a test person with the aid of a vision testing system as well as vision testing system, comprising a first measuring device, a second topographic measuring device, a third refractive measuring device and a processing means, an axial length (L) of an eye of the test person being measured with the aid of the first measuring device, a curvature of the cornea of the eye being measured with the aid of the second measuring device, a refractive property of the eye being measured with the aid of the third measuring device, a measurement simultaneously being carried out with the first, second and third measuring device at the eye, measurement data of the measurements of the first, second and third measuring device being processed with the aid of the processing means, said processing means presenting a database with normal data, a comparison of the measurement data with the normal data being carried out and a result of said comparison being issued by means of said processing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: OCULUS OPTIKGERAETE GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas Steinmueller
  • Patent number: 11723533
    Abstract: A method for testing the eyes of a test person with the aid of a vision testing system as well as to a vision testing system, comprising a first measuring device, a second topographic measuring device, a third refractive measuring device and a processing means, a central axial length (LZ) and a peripheral axial length (LP) of an eye of the test person being measured with the aid of said first measuring device, a curvature of the cornea of the eye being measured with the aid of said second measuring device, a refractive property of the eye being measured with the aid of said third measuring device, measurement data of the measurements of the first, second and third measuring device being processed with the aid of said processing means, said processing means outputting the measurement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Oculus Optikgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Steinmueller
  • Patent number: 11298016
    Abstract: A positioning unit for positioning an optical unit in an optical path of a microscope between a microscope lens and in front of an eye to be examined includes a connection device coupling the positioning unit to the microscope. The positioning unit includes an accommodating device configured to adapt an ophthalmoscopic lens that serves to examine an ocular fundus to the positioning unit as an optical element of the optical unit. The positioning unit includes a positioning device to move the ophthalmoscopic lens relative to the microscope in the longitudinal direction of the optical path. The accommodating device presents an adjusting means for displacing the ophthalmoscopic lens in an adjusting plane that runs orthogonally relative to the optical path of the microscope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: OCULUS OPTIKGERAETE GMBH
    Inventor: Carsten Feiertag
  • Patent number: 10390697
    Abstract: The invention relates to a trial frame for determining the subjective refraction of a subject, comprising two lens holder devices for receiving insert lenses, a bridge, which connects the lens holder devices in such a manner that their distance relative to each other is adjustable, a nose rest device having a pivotable and height-adjustable nose rest and two temples, which are adjustable in length and height, the nose rest device having an adjustment gear for adjusting the height of the nose rest, the adjustment gear having a toothed rack and a bevel worm wheel, which are engaged with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: OCULUS OPTIKGERAETE GMBH
    Inventor: Carsten Feiertag
  • Patent number: 10271724
    Abstract: The invention relates to a trial frame for determining the subjective refraction of a subject, comprising two lens holder devices for receiving lenses, a bridge, which adjustably connects the lens holder devices, a nose rest device having a pivotable and height-adjustable nose rest and two temples, which are adjustable in length and height, the bridge and the lens holder devices together forming a guide means for guiding the lens holder devices in the longitudinal direction of the bridge, the bridge having a spindle gear comprising a threaded spindle for adjusting the distance of the lens holder devices, wherein at least one guide protrusion is formed on each of the lens holder devices, said guide protrusion engaging into a guide groove formed in the bridge, open threaded sections being formed on each of the lens holder devices, the threaded spindle being engaged with the threaded section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Oculus Optikgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Carsten Feiertag
  • Patent number: 10188283
    Abstract: The invention relates to a trial frame for determining the subjective refraction of a subject, comprising two lens holder devices for receiving lenses, a bridge, which adjustably connects the lens holder devices, a nose rest device having a pivotable and height-adjustable nose rest and two temples, which are adjustable in length and height, the trial frame comprising two polarization filter devices, the polarization filter devices having a circular or a linear polarization filter, a pivot for pivoting the circular or linear polarization filter in and out in front of the lens holder device, and a rotating device for rotating the polarization filter in front of the lens holder device, the polarization filter devices each being removably attachable to the lens holder devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: OCULUS OPTIKGERAETE GMBH
    Inventor: Carsten Feiertag
  • Patent number: 9808149
    Abstract: An analysis method for determining a morphological property of an optic disc and/or a retinal nerve fiber layer of an eye is, performed an ophthalmological device, in particular a perimeter, and also means for data processing using a database with functional data of a field of vision and morphological data of the optic disc and/or retinal nerve fiber layer, wherein, by the ophthalmological device, functional data of a field of vision of the eye are measured, a retina being divided into points representing the field of vision, optical stimuli of a defined intensity being provided to the points of the retina, a reaction to a stimulus being determined as a measuring result of a point, the measuring results having a statistically significant relation to morphological data of the optic disc and/or the retinal nerve fiber layer, the morphological data nerve fiber layer being derived from the measuring results and the datasets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: OCULUS OPTIKGERAETE GMBH
    Inventor: Manuel Gonzalez de la Rosa
  • Patent number: 9615738
    Abstract: A method and an analysis apparatus for measuring a cornea of an eye includes an ophthalmological analysis system. The ophthalmological analysis system measures a topography of a cornea in a measurement time interval to obtain a number of image data sets of a surface area of the cornea experiencing a change in intraocular pressure. A repeated change in the topography of the cornea is determined from the number of image data sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: OCULUS OPTIKGERAETE GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas Steinmueller
  • Patent number: 9241627
    Abstract: An ophthalmological analysis system for examining an eye, in particular in the region of a front eye section of an eye includes first and second analysis systems obtaining sectional images of the eye. The first analysis system includes a projection device and a monitoring device arranged relative to each other according to the Scheimpflug rule. The second analysis system is an optical coherence interferometer. A processing device processes a first image data set obtained by the first analysis system and a second image data set obtained by the second analysis system to supplement the first image data set, at least partially, with data of the second image data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: OCULUS OPTIKGERAETE GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas Steinmueller
  • Patent number: 9155593
    Abstract: A positioning unit (11) for positioning an optical unit (12, 13) comprising at least one optical element in a beam path (20) of a microscope between an objective lens of a microscope and in front of an eye to be monitored is provided, wherein the positioning unit comprises a connection device (21), by means of which the positioning unit can be coupled to the microscope, wherein the positioning unit comprises a positioning device (22), by means of which the optical element is movable relative to the microscope in the longitudinal direction of the beam path, wherein the positioning device is formed by a first double rocker mechanism (31) and a second double rocker mechanism (32), wherein the double rocker mechanisms are interconnected by means of a common coupling member (33). A monitoring device (10) is also provided that comprises the positioning unit (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Oculus Optikgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Feiertag, Guenter Pfeiffer, Rainer Kirchhuebel
  • Patent number: 8939907
    Abstract: The invention relates to an ophthalmic analysis system for measuring the intraocular pressure in an eye comprising an actuating device for contact-free deformation of the cornea, an observation system with which the deformation of the cornea can be observed and recorded, an analysis device with which the intraocular pressure can be deduced from the image information of the observation system, wherein split images of at least parts of the undeformed and/or deformed cornea can be recorded using the observation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Oculus Optikgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Gert Koest
  • Patent number: 8899753
    Abstract: An ophthalmological analysis instrument for measuring a topography of a surface of an eye includes a projection apparatus and a monitoring apparatus. The projection apparatus has at least one illumination device and an aperture device. The illumination device has a first light source. The aperture device images an image pattern on a surface of an eye. The monitoring apparatus has a camera and an objective lens, wherein images of the imaged image pattern being recordable by the monitoring apparatus, and a topography of the surface being derivable from the images. A magnification of the image can be varied by means of the objective lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Oculus Optikgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Steinmueller
  • Publication number: 20140320815
    Abstract: An ophthalmological analysis system for examining an eye, in particular in the region of a front eye section of an eye includes first and second analysis systems obtaining sectional images of the eye. The first analysis system includes a projection device and a monitoring device arranged relative to each other according to the Scheimpflug rule. The second analysis system is an optical coherence interferometer. A processing device processes a first image data set obtained by the first analysis system and a second image data set obtained by the second analysis system to supplement the first image data set, at least partially, with data of the second image data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Oculus Optikgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Steinmueller
  • Patent number: 8820935
    Abstract: An ophthalmological analysis instrument for measuring a topography of a surface of an eye includes a projection apparatus and a monitoring apparatus. The projection apparatus has at least one illumination device and an aperture device. The illumination device has a first light source, which can emit light in a predominantly monochromatic spectrum, it being possible to image an image pattern on a surface of an eye by the aperture device. Images of the imaged image pattern being recordable by the monitoring apparatus, and a topography of the surface of the being derivable from the images, wherein the illumination device has at least one further light source, which can emit polychromatic light in a predominantly visible spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Oculus Optikgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Steinmueller
  • Publication number: 20130329187
    Abstract: A method and an analysis apparatus for measuring a cornea of an eye includes an ophthalmological analysis system. The ophthalmological analysis system measures a topography of a cornea in a measurement time interval to obtain a number of image data sets of a surface area of the cornea experiencing a change in intraocular pressure. A repeated change in the topography of the cornea is determined from the number of image data sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: Oculus Optikgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Steinmueller
  • Patent number: 8579440
    Abstract: An eyesight testing apparatus includes an imaging device for virtual imaging a test object located within a focal length of the imaging device and imaged at different distances into eyes of a subject located in a focal point of the imaging device, an optical deflection device arranged in a beam path between the imaging device and the test object to deflect the beam path by 180°, wherein the deflection device is displaceable in the direction of the beam path and the test object is not, a monitor device that generates the test object and that comprises a single monitor, optical components lying in the beam path sized so that both eyes are able to take part in a test, and so a partial beam path is formed for each eye, and a blocking device arranged in the beam path, which comprises two LCD blocking elements for the partial beam paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Oculus Optikgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Feiertag, Rainer Kirchhuebel
  • Patent number: 8556823
    Abstract: The invention relates to an ophthalmological analysis method for measuring an intraocular pressure in an eye with an analysis system consisting of an actuating device, wherein the actuating device causes a puff of air to be applied to the eye in such manner that the cornea is deformed, an observation system with which the deformation of the cornea is observed and recorded, wherein sectional images of the cornea when it is deformed and not deformed are created with the observation device, and an analysis device with which the intraocular pressure is derived from the sectional images of the cornea, wherein a structural characteristic and/or material characteristic of the cornea is derived from the sectional images of the cornea in the analysis device, wherein a stress of the cornea is derived as a structural characteristic and/or material characteristic, wherein stresses in the corneal material are rendered visible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Oculus Optikgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Gert Koest, Andreas Steinmueller
  • Patent number: 8551013
    Abstract: The invention relates to an ophthalmological analysis method for measuring an intraocular pressure in an eye with an analysis system consisting of an actuating device with which a cornea of the eye is deformed in contactless manner, wherein the actuating device causes a puff of air to be applied to the eye in such manner that the cornea is deformed, an observation system with which the deformation of the cornea is observed and recorded, wherein sectional images of the cornea when it is deformed and not deformed are created with the observation device, and an analysis device with which the intraocular pressure is derived from the sectional images of the cornea, wherein a material characteristic of the cornea is derived from the sectional images of the cornea in the analysis device, wherein a stiffness of the cornea is derived as a material characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Oculus Optikgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Steinmueller
  • Patent number: D801534
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: OCULUS OPTIKGERAETE GMBH
    Inventor: Norbert Koop
  • Patent number: D801535
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: OCULUS OPTIKGERAETE GMBH
    Inventor: Norbert Koop