Patents Assigned to Vision
  • Publication number: 20170234497
    Abstract: A system of lenses for projecting at least one light source includes from the source and in the direction of propagation of the light, at least one first group of optical elements made up of at least one first convergent lens called primary lens, in contact with said light source, obtained from a material exhibiting a high constringence and exhibiting a ratio between its thickness along the optical axis and its width greater than 0.5. Also included in said direction of propagation is a second group of optical elements made up of at least one divergent lens obtained from a material exhibiting a low constringence, a pupil, and a third group of optical elements made up of a reflector or of at least one convergent lens obtained from a material exhibiting a high constringence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Marine COURCIER, Jerome LECORRE
  • Publication number: 20170234975
    Abstract: A distance detection apparatus includes: a detection unit which detects a time until when an output light is received by a light receiving unit; a computation unit which computes a distance to a detection target by using the time detected by the detection unit; an obtaining unit which obtains a predetermined range which is a range prone to a detection error due to a fog; and a determination unit which determines whether the distance to the detection target computed by the computation unit is included in the predetermined range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: NIKON VISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takehito NONOMURA
  • Publication number: 20170234021
    Abstract: An immersive theater is provided having a screen oriented with respect to a pitched seating area to provide an immersive theater experience for all of the viewers. The theater can include a three-dimensional, concave shaped screen, defining a central axis that extends perpendicularly from the center point of the concave screen directed toward the seating area. The screen is oriented at a prescribed pitch angle (?) relative to the horizontal. The theater has a seating area having a plurality of seats for viewers and is set up in a stacked arrangement along a planar region and pitched at a prescribed angle (?). The seating area is further confined within a viewing area that is centered on the central axis of the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: VISION 3 EXPERIENTIAL, LLC
    Inventors: Pierre J. de Lespinois, John E. Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20170232359
    Abstract: Provided is a circulating dynamic vehicle viewing system; the system at least comprises: two circulating dynamic vehicles (100), i.e. a first cycled vehicle (110) and a second cycled vehicle (120); a drive device used for driving the circulating vehicles (100) in motion; a rocking platform used for controlling the circulating vehicles (100) in reciprocating motion, i.e. a first rocking platform (200) and a second rocking platform (300), the first rocking platform (200) and the second rocking platform (300) are each provided with several independent motion platform apparatuses (210) used for securing the circulating dynamic vehicles (100); the independent motion platform apparatuses (210) are provided with airbag apparatuses used for controlling the up and down movement of the circulating dynamic vehicles. When a viewer is seated on the circulating dynamic vehicles (100), bump and drop movements are simulated, providing a sense of realism and “really there” three-dimensionality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: SHENZHEN OCT VISION INC.
    Inventors: Jian Li, Hongguang Wen, Baoluo Jia
  • Publication number: 20170234974
    Abstract: A distance detection apparatus including: a light output unit which outputs a light; a computation unit which computes a distance to a detection target by using a time until when the light output from the light output unit is received in a light receiving unit; a deblurring optical system which is driven based on a detection result of a blurring and through which the output light is transmitted; a detection unit which detects a position of the deblurring optical system; a storage unit which stores a predetermined range; a determination unit which determines whether the position detected by the detection unit is included in the predetermined range; and a control unit which controls a light output by the light output unit in accordance with a determination result of the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: NIKON VISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro MOCHIZUKI
  • Publication number: 20170234976
    Abstract: Active-gated imaging system and method for imaging environment with at least one high-intensity source. A light source emits light pulses toward the environment, and an image sensor with a pixelated sensor array receives reflected pulses from a selected depth of field and generates a main image. The image sensor exposure mechanism includes a pixelated transfer gate synchronized with the emitted pulses. An image processor identifies oversaturated image portions of the main image resulting from a respective high-intensity source, and interprets the oversaturated image portions using supplementary image information acquired by image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Brightway Vision Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoav Grauer, Ofer David, Eyal Levi, Ezri Sonn, Haim Garten
  • Publication number: 20170234502
    Abstract: The invention proposes a light device casing formed by a wall made of an electrically insulating material, such as a polymer. The casing includes an inner surface forming a housing receiving a light module with a light-emitting diode and a light guide. The inner surface includes a zone reflecting light from the light module out of the casing, and a fixing zone for a control module of the light module. The light device includes a reflecting and electrically conductive coating, which covers both the reflecting zone and the fixing zone. The aluminum coating is cost-effective since it is applied in one step, and it ensures two functions, namely a reflection and a protection against the electromagnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION BELGIQUE
    Inventors: Cyril HERBIN, Guillaume LARCHE, David BOUDIKIAN
  • Publication number: 20170234972
    Abstract: A distance detection device is provided, including a calculating unit that calculates a distance to a detection target using a length of time until floodlighted light is received by a light-receiving unit; a first detecting unit that detects whether detection target changing operation is being performed; a second detecting unit that detects variation in the distance calculated by the calculating unit; a shake correcting optical system that is driven based on a shake detection result and through which the floodlighted light passes; and a control unit that controls driving of the shake correcting optical system using an output from the first detecting unit and an output from the second detecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: NIKON VISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takao TAKIZAWA
  • Patent number: 9734405
    Abstract: A system uses a camera, a depth sensor, and a processing module to track a moving object in an athletic playing space over time. The processing module receives image frames from the camera and depth data from the depth sensor. The processing module analyzes the depth data to identify which of the pixels are in a plane of a sufficiently large size to indicate that the identified pixels correspond to a playing surface of the athletic playing space. The processing module then determines that gravity is in a direction normal to the identified plane. By finding the direction of gravity within the images, the algorithm for calculating performance parameters based on the trajectory of a moving object within the athletic playing space can be greatly simplified, thereby decreasing the processing burdens associated with calculating the performance parameters and providing more accurate trajectory estimations with fewer measured trajectory points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Pillar Vision, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan W. Marty, John Carter, Simon Lucey
  • Patent number: 9733494
    Abstract: Lenses incorporate freeform power profiles that at least one of slow, retard or preventing myopia progression. An ophthalmic lens includes a first zone at a center of the lens; a first peripheral region continuously extending from the center, the first peripheral region having a different dioptric power than at the center; and a second peripheral region continuously extending from the first peripheral region and having a different dioptric power than the first peripheral region, thereby providing a continuous freeform power profile having substantially equivalent visual performance to a single vision lens, and having a depth of focus and reduced retinal image quality sensitivity that slows, retards, or prevents myopia progression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Noel A. Brennan, Khaled A. Chehab, Xu Cheng, Kurt John Moody, Jeffrey H. Roffman, Xin Wei
  • Patent number: 9731217
    Abstract: A dynamic multidirectional film watching system, comprising: a film watching system base; a motor arranged on the film watching system base; a film watching platform base fixedly arranged on the film watching system base; a film watching platform arranged in a rolling arrangement on the film watching platform base and comprising a plurality of rows of seats; a roller arranged on a rotation shaft of the motor; a transmission cable with one end arranged on the roller and the other end fixedly arranged on the film watching platform; and an incomplete spherical screen vertically arranged on the film watching system base, and an opening thereof facing the film watching platform. A bottom of a film watching platform is arranged in a rolling arrangement on the film watching platform base to provide audience with more dynamic and multidirectional film watching experiences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: SHENZHEN OCT VISION INC.
    Inventors: Jian Li, Hongguang Wen, Baoluo Jia
  • Patent number: 9733493
    Abstract: A lens system for presbyopes utilizes inter-eye disparity limits to improve vision. The system of lens may be utilized to improve binocular vision when viewing distant, intermediate and near objects by requiring a minimal level of disparity in vision between the eyes wherein the level is not objectionable to the patient. This disparity in vision depends on the lens design for each eye and upon how the lenses are fit in each eye relative to the distance refraction of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventor: C. Benjamin Wooley
  • Patent number: 9731437
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for forming an ophthalmic lens that can include a media insert and/or electronic components. In particular, the present disclosure provides for adhesion promoting functionalization steps for a biocompatible coating to bind a hydrogel material to a plastic surface or electronic component prior to the polymerization of the hydrogel. In some aspects, the media insert can be used to contain energy sources and/or functional electronic components which may be, for example, in a stacked integrated component configuration to permit a generally arcuate shape that can conform to the anterior surface of an eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Randall Braxton Pugh, Karson Putt, Michael Ferran, Katherine Rowan Hardy, Daniel B. Otts
  • Patent number: 9731150
    Abstract: Some embodiments are directed to a radiation dosage monitoring system including a model generation module configured to generate a 3D surface model of a portion of a patient undergoing radiation treatment, an image detector configured to detect Cherenkov radiation and any subsequent secondary and scattered radiation originating due to the initial Cherenkov radiation emitted from the patient, a processing module configured to determine estimations of radiation applied to the patient utilizing the images from the image detector and the 3D model, and to utilize the determined estimations of radiation applied to the patient together with data indicative of the orientation of a radiation beam inducing emission of the Cherenkov radiation at a time when the radiation beam was applied to generate a 3D internal representation of the location of the portions of a irradiated patient resulting in the emission of the Cherenkov radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: VISION RT LIMITED
    Inventors: Gideon Matthew Hale, Ivan Daniel Meir, Todd Pawlicki, Martin Allen
  • Patent number: 9736465
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of a 3D camera system for a patient positioning and monitoring system is described. In the system a pair of image detectors are provided where the image detectors are each associated with a heater thermally connected to conducting pads provided at the periphery of the image detectors. The heaters and conducting pads act to contain the image detectors in a substantially constant temperature micro climate thereby preventing external temperature variations from causing the relative positions of the image detectors to change so as to record portions of images as different pixels and hence reduce the consistency with which the identification of matching portions of images obtained by the image detectors can be utilized to determine the 3D positions of imaged objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: VISION RT LIMITED
    Inventors: Peter Hanson, Gideon Hale
  • Patent number: 9736894
    Abstract: A power adaptor including an input for connection to an AC power supply, an output for connection to a load, and a resonant circuit coupled to the input that provides power to the output suitable for driving the load, is provided. The resonant circuit has two or more resonant frequencies, which are not harmonics of each other. The power adaptor includes a controller adapted to drive the resonant circuit at, or near, each of the two or more resonant frequencies to select different characteristics of the current drawn from the AC power supply, in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: VERDI VISION LIMITED
    Inventor: David Summerland
  • Patent number: 9733492
    Abstract: A set of eyeglass lens semifinished products is provided and is composed of at least three series of eyeglass lens semifinished products having spherical or rotationally symmetric aspherical front surfaces. The series of eyeglass lens semifinished products differ in pairs in the base material of the series. Each of the series includes at least three types of eyeglass lens semifinished products which differ in pairs and the front surface shapes. The front surface shapes of the at least three types are identical on a central partial surface within the actual surface refractive power range of the front surface of the series in relation to a standard index of refraction of 1.53 between 3.2 D and 6.7 D.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Michels, Timo Kratzer, Gerd Nowak
  • Publication number: 20170227185
    Abstract: The invention relates to a scan light device for a motor vehicle, comprising at least one light source capable of emitting light rays, characterized in that it comprises a wavelength conversion element arranged to receive the light rays on a zone and to re-emit a light radiation to produce a light beam, in that the device further comprises an element for folding the light rays back to the conversion element, and scan means configured to scan the folding element with the light rays in a first direction, the scan of the light rays being performed between extreme positions of these light rays in said first direction, the folding element being configured to deflect the light rays when they are at these extreme positions to a central part of the zone of the conversion element so as to form the central part of the light beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Loic BOINET
  • Publication number: 20170227186
    Abstract: An illumination and/or signaling device for an automotive vehicle includes a dielectric substrate including a plurality of conductive tracks, and a plurality of light-emitting diodes surface-mounted on the dielectric substrate. The light emitting diodes are electrically connected to the conductive tracks of the dielectric substrate according to a predetermined connection plan. At least one control circuit board for controlling the light-emitting diodes includes a plurality of connecting pins and an electrical connection circuit board including a plurality of conductive lines for electrically connecting the connecting pins of the control circuit board to the conductive tracks of the dielectric substrate according to a predetermined connection plan. The electrical connection circuit board is connected to the conductive tracks of the dielectric substrate via an anisotropic conductive film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Marc DUARTE, Zdravko Zojceski, Jean-Michel Morelle
  • Publication number: 20170227788
    Abstract: Disclosed are lenses and methods for verifying a lens with an induced aperture. The lenses can have a geometry that, among other things, maintains a centered position about a wearer's eye to prevent more than a permissible amount of movement of the lens relative to the eye. Further disclosed is a method for verifying the power profiles used with the lens, and a lens that can have a single power profile for a wide range of presbyopia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: Visioneering Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard A. Griffin, Rick E. Payor, Mark K. Tyson, Sally M. Dillehay