Patents Assigned to Vision
  • Patent number: 9217881
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an apparatus for programming an energizable Ophthalmic Lens with a programmable Media Insert. In some embodiments, a Media Insert may be programmable to allow for further customization of the energized Ophthalmic Lens. The programming may occur after the electrical components have been encapsulated in the programmable Media Insert. In some embodiments, the apparatus may wirelessly program the Media Insert after the Ophthalmic Lens has been fully assembled. Alternatively, the apparatus may indirectly program the Media Insert by wirelessly programming an overlay. The overlay may subsequently program the Media Insert when placed in proximity to the Media Insert, wherein the placing completes the assembly of the Ophthalmic Lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Randall B. Pugh, Sharika Snook, Camille Higham, Karson S. Putt
  • Patent number: 9217380
    Abstract: A vehicle monitoring system for turning off an idling engine comprises a vehicle speed sensor configured to detect a lack of motion, or “stationary status” of a vehicle and emit a parameter correlated to the motion status of the vehicle, a transmission status detector configured to detect a transmission status of the vehicle, an alerting device capable of warning other drivers of a stationary status of the vehicle and a control device. The control device is coupled to the vehicle speed sensor, the transmission status detector and the alerting device, wherein the vehicle speed sensor and the transmission status detector send a signal to the control device and the control device operates in a manner dependent on the motion status of the vehicle and the transmission status of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Vision Works IP Corporation
    Inventors: Alfred S. Braunberger, Beau M. Braunberger
  • Publication number: 20150363644
    Abstract: An activity recognition system is disclosed. A plurality of temporal features is generated from a digital representation of an observed activity using a feature detection algorithm. An observed activity graph comprising one or more clusters of temporal features generated from the digital representation is established, wherein each one of the one or more clusters of temporal features defines a node of the observed activity graph. At least one contextually relevant scoring technique is selected from similarity scoring techniques for known activity graphs, the at least one contextually relevant scoring technique being associated with activity ingestion metadata that satisfies device context criteria defined based on device contextual attributes of the digital representation, and a similarity activity score is calculated for the observed activity graph as a function of the at least one contextually relevant scoring technique, the similarity activity score being relative to at least one known activity graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicants: NANTWORKS, LLC, NANT VISION, INC.
    Inventors: Kamil Wnuk, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Publication number: 20150362588
    Abstract: A distance measuring apparatus includes: a light-transmitting unit that transmits signal light from a light source toward a target object; a light-receiving unit that has a light-receiving element and receives the signal light from the target object on an optical axis different from that of the light-transmitting unit; a distance measuring unit that measures a distance to the target object based on propagation time from light transmission to light reception of the signal light; and a compensating unit that, while either optical path of an optical path from the light-transmitting unit to the light-receiving unit or an optical path from the target object to the light-receiving element is fixed, compensates an optical path of the signal light by displacing the other optical path at the light-transmitting unit or the light-receiving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: NIKON VISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi OHMURO, Takao TAKIZAWA, Yosuke MIYAZAKI
  • Patent number: 9214084
    Abstract: A system for increasing awareness of a driver to traffic-signs on the road is provided herein. The system includes: a sensor attached to a vehicle and configured to determine a type of one or more traffic-signs that are present in a scene containing the vehicle, wherein at least some of the traffic-signs are time-variant traffic-signs which present time-variant visual indicators; and a controller configured to: monitor and analyze, in real time: relative metrics indicative of one or more spatial relations between the vehicle and the one or more detected traffic-signs; and temporal data associated with the time-variant visual indicators of the time-variant traffic-signs; apply one or more decision functions to at least two of: the detected one or more traffic-signs and to the monitored relative metrics, and the temporal data associated with the time-variant visual indicators, so as invoke an action selected from a predefined set of actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: BRIGHTWAY VISION LTD.
    Inventors: Yoav Grauer, Ofer David, Ya'ara David, Haim Garten, Alon Krelboim, Sharon Lifshits, Oren Sheich
  • Patent number: 9215451
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display for generating 3D images by matching a software optical grating includes a backlight module and a LCD panel having a color filter. The LCD panel has a plurality of first subpixels for generating a first image, a plurality of second subpixels for generating a second image, and a plurality of third subpixels for generating a black barrier image as the software optical grating. When the black barrier image is slightly spread to cover one part of the first image and one part of the second image, the first image is covered partially by the black barrier image to form a right-eye image, and the second image is covered partially by the black barrier image to form a left-eye image. Whereby, the right-eye and the left-eye images concurrently generated by the LCD are respectively projected onto the right and the left eyes of the viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: C VISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsung-Yau Fang, Ching-Te Shih
  • Patent number: 9212056
    Abstract: A nanoparticle including an inorganic core comprising at least one metal and/or at least one semi-conductor compound comprising at least one metal includes a coating or shell disposed over at least a portion of a surface of the core. The coating can include one or more layers. Each layer of the coating can comprise a metal and/or at least one semiconductor compound. The nanoparticle further includes a ligand attached to a surface of the coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: QD VISION, INC.
    Inventors: Craig Breen, John R. Linton
  • Patent number: 9215568
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide distributed storage and sharing of data packets in hybrid networks to enable user devices (e.g., mobile terminals) to cooperate to recover lost data packets. According to embodiments, a centralized system operable to provide data transmission may optimize broadcast resources by adjusting redundancy in data packet transmission to enable a desired or a predetermined percentage of user devices to either successfully receive transmitted data packets using transmitted redundancies or to recover lost data packets relying on the distributed storage and sharing scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: CMMB VISION USA INC.
    Inventor: Hui Liu
  • Patent number: 9214034
    Abstract: A method for harmonizing a combined image involves receiving a respective image or image frame from each of two or more cameras, the images from two of the cameras representing the same region in an overlap region, measuring pixel statistics of at least some of the pixels in the overlap region for the image of each of the two cameras, determining a difference in the pixel statistics ?pixel of the image from each of the two cameras in the overlap region, calculating a correction factor Kpixel, wherein the correction factor Kpixel may be predicted to produce a reduction in ?pixel of less than ?pixel/2 when applied to the image of one of the two cameras, applying the correction factor Kpixel in a hardware device acquiring the image, and receiving a further image or image frame from each of the two cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Application Solutions (Electronics and Vision) Ltd.
    Inventor: Tom Riley
  • Patent number: 9213552
    Abstract: A reprogramming device is used for reprogramming embedded systems. The reprogramming device comprises a microprocessor, a memory programmed with software to accomplish the reprogramming of distinctly different embedded systems architectures, and one or more hardware devices that facilitate communication over multiple protocols contained in a portable package designed for both one-time and multi-occurrence use scenarios. In some embodiments, the reprogramming device is able to be used to enhance one or more attributes of performance of existing embedded systems through the reconfiguration of internally stored parameters. In some embodiments, the reprogramming device is also to be used to extract and receive information and instruction from existing embedded systems and enable useful presentation of this information. As a result, the reprogramming device is able to be used to adjust and/or monitor the parameters of the on-board diagnostics computer of a vehicle to ensure peak performance and detect errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Vision Works IP Corporation
    Inventor: Beau M. Braunberger
  • Publication number: 20150357742
    Abstract: The present invention relates to electric equipment technology, and more particularly to an electric structure used in various devices of electric equipment. The electrode structure body with electric-shock prevention function is connected to a power transmission and distribution path to electric equipment. The electrode structure body with electric-shock prevention function prevents electric shock when the electric equipment connected to the electrode structure body or other equipment electrically connected thereto at a near place is submerged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: VISION TECH. INC.
    Inventor: Ho-Seok LEE
  • Publication number: 20150352360
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a microelectronics element, such as an optical receiver element, for a medical implant device to be implanted in the human or animal body, particularly for a retinal implant device. The microelectronics element comprises a functional unit including application specific microelectronics, such as a photodiode, for performing a function in the medical implant device, and rectifier means adapted for converting an AC supply voltage into a DC voltage. The DC voltage provided by the rectifier means, or an operating voltage derived from the DC voltage, is configured to be supplied to the functional unit. Further, the functional unit and the rectifier means are integrated on a common semiconductor substrate and configured such that the rectifier means isolates the microelectronics element from application of an external DC supply voltage. The invention also relates to a medical implant device, such as a retinal implant, which incorporates such a microelectronics element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: PIXIUM VISION SA
    Inventor: Hans-Jürgen Tiedtke
  • Publication number: 20150355505
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a backlight for illuminating back lit displays (e.g. LC displays of LCD televisions). In order to enable a thin design of the backlight and a high uniformity of the light emitted by the backlight, an apparatus may be provided with transparent and diffusing masking elements that may mask individual light sources and may diffuse light back into a light guide. Absorbing elements and/or retro-reflective elements may be arranged proximate the light sources in order to avoid generation of bright spots or rings around the light sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: TP VISION HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Theodorus Franciscus Emilius Overes, Hugo Johan Cornelissen, Gabriel Eugen Onac, Erno Hermanus Antonius Langendijk
  • Publication number: 20150354976
    Abstract: Systems and methods use cameras to provide autonomous navigation features. In one implementation, top-down refinement in lane marking navigation is provided. The system may include one or more memories storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to cause the system to receive from one or more cameras one or more images of a roadway in a vicinity of a vehicle, the roadway comprising a lane marking comprising a dashed line, update a model of the lane marking based on odometry of the one or more cameras relative to the roadway, refine the updated model of the lane marking based on an appearance of dashes derived from the received one or more images and a spacing between dashes derived from the received one or more images, and cause one or more navigational responses in the vehicle based on the refinement of the updated model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: MOBILEYE VISION TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventors: Andras FERENCZ, Pini REISMAN
  • Patent number: 9207385
    Abstract: A lighting system is disclosed. The lighting system comprises at least one light source comprising a light emitting diode (LED) and one or more phosphors optically coupled to the LED to convert at least a portion of original light emitted by the LED to provide a modified LED light having a first predetermined spectral output, and an optical material that is optically coupled to at least a portion of a surface of a light guide plate and optically coupled to receive at least a portion of the modified LED light and to convert at least a portion of the modified LED light to at least one predetermined wavelength to provide modified light having a second predetermined spectral output, wherein the optical material comprises one or more types of quantum confined semiconductor nanoparticle. A device including a lighting system is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: QD VISION, INC.
    Inventors: Seth Coe-Sullivan, John R. Linton, Daniel Cohen, John E. Ritter
  • Patent number: 9207466
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for selecting a lens that accounts for Decentration and/or Rotation Errors. The method includes obtaining results of a first wavefront exam on a patient, including a wavefront map and Zernike polynomials, selecting a first lens that improves vision, obtaining the results of a second wavefront exam including a wavefront map and Zernike polynomials, calculating the Decentration and/or Rotation Errors of the selected lens by calculating a difference between the Zernike polynomails, and selecting a second lens that better corrects accounts for the calculated Decentration and/or Rotation Errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Wildsmith, Xin Wei, I
  • Patent number: 9210414
    Abstract: A multi-view display system comprises a display controller (307) which controls a display (301) to display a sequence of multi-view images in repeating view frames. A shutter device (311), such as shutter glasses, comprises at least two shutter elements arranged to switch between an open shutter mode and a less transparent closed shutter mode. Each shutter element is associated with a view of the plurality of views. A shutter driver (309) controls the shutter elements in repeating shutter frames (413) having a shutter time slot for each of the shutter elements. The shutter elements are in the open shutter mode during an allocated shutter time slot and otherwise in the closed shutter mode. The shutter frame rate of the repeating shutter frames is higher than a view frame rate of the repeating view frames. The invention may reduce flicker while maintaining a low frame rate, e.g. for 3D displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: TP VISION HOLDING B.V.
    Inventor: Roeland Focco Everhard Goris
  • Patent number: 9205835
    Abstract: Systems and methods use cameras to provide autonomous navigation features. In one implementation, a driver-assist object detection system is provided for a vehicle. One or more processing devices associated with the system receive at least two images from a plurality of captured images via a data interface. The device(s) analyze the first image and at least a second image to determine a reference plane corresponding to the roadway the vehicle is traveling on. The processing device(s) locate a target object in the first two images, and determine a difference in a size of at least one dimension of the target object between the two images. The system may use the difference in size to determine a height of the object. Further, the system may cause a change in at least a directional course of the vehicle if the determined height exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: MOBILEYE VISION TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventors: Gideon Stein, Amnon Shashua
  • Patent number: 9198792
    Abstract: According to various embodiments of the invention, an electrode for an orthotic device, includes: a conductive layer for receiving and distributing electrical current, the conductive layer formed to have a connection portion, the connection portion configured to receive an electrical current from at least one contact disposed on an orthotic device, according to an electrophysical modality; and, an interface layer attached to the conductive layer, the interface layer configured to conform to a wearer's anatomy and to conduct electrical current from the conductive layer to the wearer's anatomy. The connection portion is configured to be electrically connected to the at least one contact disposed on the orthotic device when applied by the wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: VISION QUEST INDUSTRIES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Michael Skahan, Kevin Lunau, Timothy Stoltenburg, Robert Gilmour
  • Patent number: D745963
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Medical Vision AB
    Inventors: Anders Mollstam, Sven Milton, Paolo Canzio Massarutti