Patents Assigned to Vision
  • Cooling member and motor vehicle lighting or signaling device comprising such a member
    Patent number: 9857047
    Abstract: A cooling member for a lighting and/or signaling device for a motor vehicle, the member comprising a base configured to support a light source of the device, and at least one heat dissipating device in thermal conduction connection with the base, the heat dissipating device comprising a plurality of heat dissipation fins, the base having large faces linked by a wafer, each of the fins extending from one of the large faces, the base extending in shape such that junction areas of at least two of the fins with the base extend in different planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Jean-Baptiste Heine, Christine Roucoules
  • Absolute acceleration sensor for use within moving vehicles
    Patent number: 9855986
    Abstract: A communication system for a vehicle comprises a mechanism for sensing a change in speed of the vehicle and a control device for sending a signal to a headlight activation circuit to modulate the vehicle's headlights based upon the change in speed. In particular, a headlight of the vehicle is able to be modulated as the vehicle reduces speed and/or is decelerating as it approaches an intersection. Additionally, the headlight of the vehicle is able to be modulated as the vehicle accelerates from a stopped position or reaches a certain traveling speed. The headlight activation circuit is able to modulate the headlight between an on position and an off position or modulate the headlight between a high beam position and a low beam position. Consequently, the vehicle is better seen as it approaches likely congestion areas such as intersections and slowing or stopped traffic and attempts to enter traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Vision Works IP Corporation
    Inventors: Fritz Braunberger, Beau M. Braunberger
  • Apparatus for formation of an ophthalmic lens precursor and lens
    Patent number: 9857607
    Abstract: This invention discloses apparatus for generating an ophthalmic lens with at least a portion of one surface free-formed from a Reactive Mixture. In some embodiments, an ophthalmic lens is formed on a substrate with an arcuate optical quality surface via a source of actinic radiation controllable to cure a definable portion of a volume of Reactive Mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael F Widman, John B Enns, P. Mark Powell, Peter W Sites
  • Removable electrical device for a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 9855891
    Abstract: A removable electrical device for a motor vehicle, which is insertable into a recess in the passenger compartment of the motor vehicle, where its battery is rechargeable, the removable electrical device comprising an indicator light which constitutes a charge indicator of the battery in the daytime and an ambient lighting element for the passenger compartment of the vehicle at nighttime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Pierre Louis Tassy, Christophe Dubosc, Nirina Rasoldier, Maxime Briand
  • Systems and methods for hybrid content delivery
    Patent number: 9860028
    Abstract: Systems and methods which provide data communication content delivery through a hybrid network implementation are disclosed. A hybrid network configuration may utilize a broadcast communication technique to deliver large amounts of data communication content to one or more mobile communication device via uni-directional network links and a uni-cast communication technique via bi-directional network links with the one or more mobile communication device to facilitate delivery and utilization of the data communication content. Data content delivery loss recovery techniques implemented according to embodiments of the invention utilize network links of the hybrid network other than or in addition to the uni-directional network links to implement loss recovery techniques such as a hybrid repeat technique, a hybrid retransmission technique, hybrid statistical feedback technique, and/or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: CMMB Vision USA Inc.
    Inventor: Hui Liu
  • VEHICLE LIGHT DEVICE WITH AN OPTICAL ELEMENT PINNED WITH A FLEXIBLE BRACING ELEMENT
    Publication number: 20170368980
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a motor vehicle light device that includes an optical deflector, at least one bearing element, and a pinning element. The pinning element has a bracing element bearing a contact portion, the bracing element at least partially surrounding the optical deflector, the contact portion bearing against the optical deflector. The optical deflector, the bearing element and the pinning element are arranged so that the optical deflector is at least partially gripped between the bearing piece and the contact portion, so that, in a direction running from the bearing piece to the contact portion, the contact portion is rigid and the bracing element is elastically deformable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION BELGIQUE
    Inventors: Florestan Debert, Dirkie Sacchet, Franck Dinant
  • Dye Microenvironment
    Publication number: 20170371081
    Abstract: An optimized photochromic dye microenvironment isolated from and dispersed within a distinct host phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: Vision Ease, LP
    Inventors: Steven Harold Nahm, David Jerrel Kissel, Richard Blacker
  • ONE-PIECE LENS WITH DRIVEN WHEEL SECTOR
    Publication number: 20170370548
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle lighting device including a lens intended to deflect the light rays emitted by a light source and including a wheel sector with a driven surface. The wheel sector is made in one piece with the lens as a whole. Also included is a driving means with a driving surface such that the driving surface is in contact with the driven surface, and movement of the driving surface drives movement of the lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION BELGIQUE
    Inventors: Franck DINANT, Dirkie SACCHET, Florestan DEBERT
  • OPTICAL MODULE FOR VEHICLE HEADLIGHT
    Publication number: 20170370551
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optical module comprising a radiator having one or more heat dissipation surfaces, a fan capable of conveying air onto the heat dissipation surface, and a light source supported by the radiator. The principle characteristic of a module according to the invention is the radiator is formed from folded metal sheets, the fan being secured to the radiator by securing means provided in the folded metal sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Nicolas RUCKEBUSCH
  • Stereo assist with rolling shutters
    Patent number: 9854185
    Abstract: An imaging system for a vehicle may include a first image capture device having a first field of view and configured to acquire a first image relative to a scene associated with the vehicle, the first image being acquired as a first series of image scan lines captured using a rolling shutter. The imaging system may also include a second image capture device having a second field of view different from the first field of view and that at least partially overlaps the first field of view, the second image capture device being configured to acquire a second image relative to the scene associated with the vehicle, the second image being acquired as a second series of image scan lines captured using a rolling shutter. As a result of overlap between the first field of view and the second field of view, a first overlap portion of the first image corresponds with a second overlap portion of the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Mobileye Vision Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Gideon Stein, Efim Belman
  • Ophthalmic compositions comprising polyether substituted polymers
    Patent number: 9849081
    Abstract: The present invention relates to ophthalmic solutions and devices comprising at least one water soluble polymer having a molecular weight of at least about 500,000 Daltons and comprising linear or branched polyether pendant groups having a molecular weight of at least about 300.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Molock, Kathrine Osborn Lorenz, Shivkumar Mahadevan
  • LIGHTING AND/OR SIGNALLING DEVICE INCLUDING A LIGHTGUIDE
    Publication number: 20170363267
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting and/or signaling device including an electroluminescent diode and a lightguide adapted to convey the light from the diode and also means for securing the diode relative to an end of the lightguide to ensure the position of an inlet face of the guide opposite the diode. The lightguide carries male securing means adapted to interact with female securing means carried by a plastics component carrying the electroluminescent diode. The plastics component further includes electric circuits produced directly on the plastics of this component in immediate proximity to the diode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Michael MAITRE, Marc THABOUREY, Fabien SERGENT
  • VEHICLE DRIVING AID SYSTEM FOR REDUCING LIGHT CONTRAST
    Publication number: 20170361688
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a motor vehicle driving aid system, the vehicle comprising a lighting device intended to illuminate a road scene at the front of the vehicle. The vehicle includes means for detecting an oncoming vehicle, control means receiving information from the detection means, and means for reducing dazzling of the driver of the motor vehicle caused by the light emitted by the oncoming vehicle. These means are controlled by the control means, and means for the management of the lighting device designed to increase the illumination of the lighting device of the vehicle and to avoid dazzling of the driver of the oncoming vehicle, these means being controlled by the control means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: David HUE, Hafid EL IDRISSI
  • Critical alignment of parallax images for autostereoscopic display
    Patent number: 9848178
    Abstract: A method is provided for generating an autostereoscopic display. The method includes acquiring a first parallax image and at least one other parallax image. At least a portion of the first parallax image may be aligned with a corresponding portion of the at least one other parallax image. Alternating views of the first parallax image and the at least one other parallax image may be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: VISION III IMAGING, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Alan Mayhew, Michael Burgess Martin
  • Image recognition system for a vehicle and corresponding method
    Patent number: 9846812
    Abstract: An image recognition system and method for a vehicle, including at least two camera units, each being configured to record an image of a road in the vicinity of the vehicle and to provide image data representing the respective image of the road, a first image processor configured to combine the image data provided by the at least two camera units into a first top-view image. The first top-view image is aligned to a road image plane, a first feature extractor configured to extract lines from the first top-view image, a second feature extractor configured to extract an optical flow from the first top-view image and a second top-view image, generated before the first top-view image by the first image processor, and a curb detector configured to detect curbs in the road based on the extracted lines and the extracted optical flow and provide curb data representing the detected curbs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Application Solutions (Electronics and Vision) LTD.
    Inventor: Alexander Sibiryakov
  • HANDHELD, PORTABLE VISION AID DEVICE AND VISION AID SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20170358247
    Abstract: A vision aid device comprises a housing having a proximal end, a distal end and a longitudinal axis therebetween. The proximal end has an eyepiece for holding up to an eye and viewing into the vision aid device to view a video display mounted within the housing. A camera is mounted within the housing at the distal end of the housing and is aimed in the direction of the longitudinal axis. A controller is mounted in the housing and is operably coupled to the camera and the video display. The controller is configured to: activate the camera to capture images in a field of view of the camera; and magnify the images to a currently set magnification and display on the display the magnified images on the video display. The device may have a finder function for toggling between the magnified view and an unmagnified view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Applicant: ENHANCED VISION SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Kamran Siminou
  • LUMINOUS MODULE WITH FLEXIBLE ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE
    Publication number: 20170358773
    Abstract: The invention relates to a flexible organic light-emitting diode. The diode includes at least one curved part, of which at least one portion is covered with a layer of varnish.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Camille JAGANATHEN
  • SECURING A LIGHT MODULE COMPRISING A LASER SOURCE
    Publication number: 20170356794
    Abstract: The invention relates to a light module including a laser source capable of emitting a coherent light beam of given wavelength, a first sensor capable of picking up a first light signal of a wavelength lying in a first band of wavelengths centered around the given wavelength and a second sensor capable of picking up a second light signal of a wavelength lying in a second band of wavelengths centered around a wavelength distinct from the given wavelength. In particular, the light module includes a detection module capable of comparing at least one value that is a function of the signals to a threshold value and of commanding the stopping of the laser source as a function of the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Arnaud FAIVRE
  • LIGHTING DEVICE FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE, INCORPORATING MEANS FOR PROTECTION AGAINST ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGES
    Publication number: 20170356619
    Abstract: The invention proposes a lighting device for a motor vehicle. Such a device includes one or more electronic circuits incorporating electronic components sensitive to an electrostatic discharge. Thanks to the features of the invention, the components are protected by encouraging the controlled flow to ground of any electrostatic discharges. All portions of one or more electronic circuits can therefore be protected by preventing random electrostatic discharges liable to destroy or to degrade sensitive electronic components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Christophe ROGER, Jerome JOBARD, Pierre PLACAIS
  • LIGHTING AND/OR SIGNALLING SYSTEM COMPRISING TELEMETRY MEANS
    Publication number: 20170357004
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lighting system including a primary light source producing a primary light beam in the direction of a conversion device that returns a secondary light radiation to an optical imaging system forming a projected light beam. A light sensor generates a signal corresponding to the light received by this sensor. The light includes a non-converted light part of the first primary light beam which is returned by the conversion device in the projected light beam and is reflected by an obstacle situated in the zone illustrated by said projected light beam. A control unit has modulation means generating a modulation signal for the primary light, and demodulation means for processing the signal formed by said sensor, and determines a distance between the obstacle and the lighting system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Jean-Claude PUENTE, Pierre ALBOU, Vincent GODBILLON