Patents Assigned to Vision
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOTE MEASUREMENT OF THE EYES AND DELIVERING OF SUNGLASSES AND EYEGLASSES
    Publication number: 20170245758
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for automated measured correction of the eyes and provision of sunglasses and eyeglasses for individuals, including individuals with a visual acuity of 20/20 or better. Methods, devices and systems for remote measurement of refraction by an examiner away from the measurement system are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: PERFECT VISION TECHNOLOGY (HK) LTD.
    Inventor: Junzhong Liang
  • VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICE WITH PRESENTATION OF DRIVING ASSISTANCE INFORMATION
    Publication number: 20170246983
    Abstract: A lighting device of a vehicle includes at least one lighting device for a road scene in front of the vehicle arranged to form a first light beam defined by a first lighting. A device for generating a second light beam defined by a second lighting is configured to superimpose the second beam on the first light beam. A sum of the first lighting and of the second lighting is greater than the first lighting, the second light beam forms driving assistance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Thomas CANONNE, Antoine DE LAMBERTERIE, Guillaume THIN, Samira MBATA, Olivier-Sebastien LESAFFRE
  • PORTABLE VISION AID WITH MOTION PAN
    Publication number: 20170249859
    Abstract: A vision aid device comprises a housing, an eyepiece for holding up to an eye and viewing into the vision aid device, a camera mounted within the housing, a controller and memory operably coupled to the camera, a motion sensor operably coupled to the controller and a display operably coupled to the controller. The controller is configured to: activate the camera to capture an electronic image; store the electronic image in the memory; display on the display a magnified image which is a magnified view of the electronic image; and electronically pan the electronic image from the magnified image to display successive magnified images based on motion information generated by the motion sensor, the motion information based on motion of the vision aid device as sensed by the motion sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: ENHANCED VISION SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Kamran Siminou
  • Silicone acrylamide copolymer
    Patent number: 9745460
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a silicone acrylamide copolymer of high acrylamide monomer content which has transparency and low modulus, employing the following configuration. The copolymer is suitably used for various kinds of medical devices, particularly ophthalmic lenses such as a contact lens, an intraocular lens, an artificial cornea, and is especially suitable for a contact lens. A copolymer comprising (A) a multi-functional (meth)acrylamide monomer having at least one siloxane bond and at least two (meth)acrylamide groups within a molecule and (B) a mono-functional linear silicone (meth)acrylamide monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryuta Tamiya, Kazuhiko Fujisawa, Masataka Nakamura, Thomas L. Maggio, Michelle Carman Turnage, Michael R. Clark
  • Methods and apparatus to form biocompatible energization primary elements for biomedical devices
    Patent number: 9746695
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to form biocompatible energization elements are described. In some embodiments, the methods and apparatus to form the biocompatible energization elements involve forming cavities comprising active cathode chemistry. The active elements of the cathode and anode are sealed with a laminate stack of biocompatible material. In some embodiments, a field of use for the methods and apparatus may include any biocompatible device or product that requires energization elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick A. Flitsch, Shivkumar Mahadevan, Daniel B. Otts, Randall B. Pugh, James Daniel Riall, Adam Toner
  • Contrast enhancing filter for eye glasses and contrast enhancing eye glass
    Patent number: 9746696
    Abstract: An optical filter for eye glasses, in particular suitable for spectacle lenses or ski goggles, has a spectral power transmission curve of optical radiations. The spectral power transmission curve exhibits a local maximum spectral transmission (Tmax) of radiations in a first wavelength range (??max). The first wavelength range (??max) is between 380 nm and 420 nm. The spectral power transmission curve exhibits spectral transmissions (T) of radiation in a second wavelength range (??th) which are lower than an upper threshold spectral transmission (Tth,u). The second wavelength range (??th) is between 420 nm and 500 nm and the upper threshold spectral transmission (Tth,u) is smaller than the maximum spectral transmission (Tmax). The maximum spectral transmission (Tmax) is larger than 21%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision Italia S.P.A.
    Inventor: Bernd Lingelbach
  • Surgical devices and methods of use thereof
    Patent number: 9743896
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method, including: obtaining a first image from a first imaging modality; identifying on the first image from the first imaging modality obtaining a second image from a second imaging modality; generating a compatible virtual image from the first image from the first imaging modality; mapping planning data on the compatible virtual image; coarse registering of the second image from the second imaging modality to the first image from the first imaging modality; identifying at least one element of the mapped planning data from the compatible virtual image; identifying at least one corresponding element on the second imaging modality; mapping the at least one corresponding element on the second imaging modality; fine registering of the second image from the second imaging modality to the first image from the first imaging modality; generating a third image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Body Vision Medical
    Inventor: Dorian Averbuch
  • DEVICE FOR LIGHTING THE PASSENGER COMPARTMENT OF A MOTOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20170240107
    Abstract: The invention concerns a device for lighting the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle. The device includes a variable light-emitting element adapted to generate selectively a light beam having at least one variable characteristic, and a device for measuring the ambient temperature in the passenger compartment of the vehicle. A device for controlling the variable light-emitting element is configured to control the emission of the light beam and to vary the variable characteristic of the light-emitting element as a function of the ambient temperature measured by the device for measuring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Thierry FLEURENCE, Aymeric KONIEC
  • LIGHT ASSEMBLY FOR THE LIGHTING AND/OR THE SIGNALING OF A MOTOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20170241613
    Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a light assembly which comprises means for emitting and means for focusing one or more light beams for the lighting or the signaling of a vehicle. It also comprises a mask which extends below the focusing means. This mask has at least a first surface that can be seen by any person passing close to the vehicle and at least a second surface opposite the first surface. The mask is made from a dark diffusing material and a reflective material coating is deposited on part of the second surface while leaving a portion of this second surface free of reflective coating. Additional light-emitting means are placed opposite the second surface, such that the light rays emitted by the additional light-emitting means can pass through the mask via the portion free of reflective coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Erwan FAOUCHER, Francois Gratecap
  • LIGHT BEAM PROJECTION DEVICE PROVIDED WITH A MATRIX OF LIGHT SOURCES, LIGHTING AND HEADLIGHT MODULE PROVIDED WITH SUCH A DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170241607
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optical light beam projection device, notably for a motor vehicle, characterized in that it comprises, upstream in the direction of propagation of the light rays, a matrix of primary light sources capable of emitting light rays, and downstream, a primary optical system provided with a plurality of convergent optics configured to form virtual images of the primary light sources, the virtual images being formed upstream of the matrix of primary sources, such that the dimensions of the virtual images are greater than the dimensions of the primary light sources. Another subject of the invention is an optical module comprising the device and a motor vehicle headlight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Marine COURCIER
  • DEVICE ESPECIALLY FOR A DISPLAY FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE AND DISPLAY COMPRISING SUCH A DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170242489
    Abstract: Device especially for a display for visually impaired people and display including such a device. The device includes a tactile screen, especially for a display for visually impaired people, said screen including, on one of the edges thereof, a line of icons that each correspond to a piece of software. The surface of the said tactile screen is divided at least into as many columns as icons, and the device includes an element for determining the position of the finger of a user on said tactile screen in order to control the implementation of the software corresponding to the determined position of the user's finger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: INSIDE VISION
    Inventors: Denis LE ROUZO, Damien MAUDUIT
  • COLLISION WARNING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20170243071
    Abstract: A method of estimating a time to collision (TTC) of a vehicle with an object comprising: acquiring a plurality of images of the object; and determining a TTC from the images that is responsive to a relative velocity and relative acceleration between the vehicle and the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: MOBILEYE VISION TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventors: Gideon Stein, Erez Dagan, Ofer Mano, Amnon Shashua
  • LIGHTING SYSTEM FOR MOTOR VEHICLE PASSENGER COMPARTMENT
    Publication number: 20170240106
    Abstract: A motor vehicle passenger compartment lighting system includes semiconductor light-emitting light sources and a substrate on which the light sources are grown. The light sources define a plurality of light-emitting zones (Sa, Slg, Sld), and the system is configured to activate the light source or sources of the same zone independently from one zone to another. The plurality of zones (Sa, Slg, Sld) are configured to emit beams intended to produce different lighting effects from one zone to another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Gilles BRIAND, Pierre ALBOU
  • LIGHTING MODULE AND DEVICE WITH REDUCED SIZE FOR AUTOMOBILE VEHICLES
    Publication number: 20170241608
    Abstract: Module for emitting at least one light beam along an optical axis for automobile vehicles. The module includes at least a first and at least a second light sources, at least a first and at least a second optical collectors designed to collect the light emitted by the at least a first and the at least a second light sources, respectively, and for redirecting the light collected in convergent directions. At least one of the at least a first and the at least a second light sources is oriented in such a manner as to emit light in an overall direction of emission moving away from the optical axis. The collector associated with the or with said oriented light sources have at least partially an asymmetrical configuration elongating the collector along the optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Simon GOUSSET-ROUSSEAU
  • LIGHTING DEVICE FOR MOTOR VEHICLES
    Publication number: 20170240105
    Abstract: A lighting system for a motor vehicle passenger compartment includes a light beam shaping device and an projection optical element configured to convert the light beam into an output beam. The beam shaping device is configured to emit a pixelized light beam formed of a plurality of sub-beams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Jerome LECORRE, Pierre-Louis TASSY, Birane GAYE, Thierry FLEURENCE, Aymeric KONIEC
  • METHOD FOR PRESENTING INFORMATION UPON STARTING AN AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20170240130
    Abstract: A method for presenting information upon starting an automotive vehicle includes at least one step in which various parameters associated with the vehicle are verified. Also included is a step in which a particular light beam is projected onto a specific area of the passenger compartment of the vehicle when the state of a plurality of verified parameters allows the vehicle to be started.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Thierry FLEURENCE, Nicolas BOIROUX, Antoine BOILEVIN
  • Window Vent Stop with Flexible Side Engagement Pieces
    Publication number: 20170241172
    Abstract: A window vent stop for use in a sliding sash window assembly or a sliding door assembly. The vent stop has a housing adapted to be disposed in a recess in the non-movable sash member. This housing includes a cavity with a bottom plate therein. The tumbler has at least one pivot for pivotally securing the tumbler to the housing for movement between an extended position, to prevent movement of the sliding member and a retracted position, to allow movement of the sliding member. Also within the housing is a spring for biasing the tumbler. The housing has one or more flexible members extending from the end walls of the housing that secure the housing to an opening in a window sash when a portion of the window sash ispositioned between the underside of a lip on said housing and the flexible member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: Vision Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Luke Liang, Tong Liang, David Chen
  • HEAT DISSIPATION DEVICE FOR A LIGHT DEVICE OF A MOTOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20170241618
    Abstract: The invention proposes a heat dissipation device for a light device of a motor vehicle, comprising a metal support of generally planar form and at least one crimping pin intended to fix a printed circuit of said light device onto said support. According to the provisions of the invention, the dimensions of the crimping pins are independent of the thickness of the support of the heat dissipation device. Methods for assembling the crimping pins on the support, and a printed circuit on the pins, are also proposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Olivier BADIA
  • LIGHTING DEVICE FOR AN AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE AND ASSOCIATED ASSEMBLY METHOD
    Publication number: 20170241625
    Abstract: A lighting device for an automotive vehicle includes a printed circuit board having one or more electronic components, and a support joined, or capable of being joined, to the printed circuit board. The lighting device included a first joining device for joining the printed circuit board to the support, the first device permitting the printed circuit board to rotate, with respect to the support, about an axis and perpendicularly to the axis. Also included is second joining device for joining the printed circuit board to the support, located at a distance from the first joining device and capable of blocking the rotations of the printed circuit board with respect to the support, in an assembled configuration of the printed circuit board and the support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Samuel TROTTIER, Jean-Christophe THIMOUY
  • Somatosensory controller
    Patent number: D796454
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Power Vision Robot, Inc.
    Inventor: Weifeng Zheng