Patents Assigned to Vision
  • System and method for color imaging under low light
    Patent number: 9071764
    Abstract: A camera for enhanced color imaging in a low light environment including: one or more illuminators for illuminating a R, a G, and a B light at different time periods; an image sensor for capturing R G and B image frames; and a processor configured to generate an intermediate color frame from each of the R, G and B image frames; determine moving pixels in the each of the intermediate color frames; determine a true color for the moving pixels in each intermediate color frame; generate a true color frame for each intermediate color frame by substituting color of the moving pixels with respective true colors of the moving pixels, in intermediate color frame; calculate scene color metrics from the true color frame or intermediate color frame; and adaptively adjust illumination of one or more of the R, G, and B lights to enhance a next frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: ARECONT VISION, LLC.
    Inventor: Sri Rama Prasanna Pavani
  • Automobile lighting or signaling device
    Patent number: 9068731
    Abstract: An automobile vehicle lighting and/or signaling device comprising an assembly of parts comprising a first part having a closed contour or an open contour, and a joining member with a first adhesive side that receives the first part so that after sticking the first part to the joining member the adhesive side has a free region adjacent the contour of the part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventors: Michel Hermitte, Nicolas Come, Jérôme Chiron
  • Dual resistance exercise apparatus
    Patent number: 9067100
    Abstract: An apparatus for communicating exercise resistance includes a carriage assembly with at least one upper and at least one lower pulley. First and second cable ends are reeved around the upper and lower pulleys, respectively, and are coupled to a source of selectable exercise resistance. An exercise member is selectively coupled to the two cable ends such that movement of the exercise member away from the carriage is subject to a first exercise resistance when only one of the cable ends is attached and is subject to a second, greater exercise resistance when both cable ends are attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Dream Visions, LLC
    Inventor: Theodore G. Habing
  • Thermoformed ophthalmic insert devices
    Patent number: 9069186
    Abstract: The present invention describes single-piece or multi-piece Rigid Inserts that may be included in an Ophthalmic Lenses or may comprise the Ophthalmic Lens, wherein the Rigid Insert may be formed through the processing of thin sheet material by thermoforming. Single piece annular Rigid Inserts may perform the function of providing a template for printed patterns to be included in Ophthalmic Lenses. Single piece full Rigid Inserts may perform the function of polarizing light or filtering light based on the properties of materials used to form the insert. Multi-piece Rigid Inserts may include activation and energization elements. The present invention also includes methods and apparatus for forming the Rigid Inserts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Randall B. Pugh, Karson S. Putt, Edward R. Kernick, Douglas Lilac, Frederick A. Flitsch, Camille Higham, Sharika Snook
  • Portable wavefront aberrometer
    Patent number: 9066683
    Abstract: A module for use with a mobile device to measure an aberration of a patient's eye includes a light shaft having a proximal end and a distal end, and a light source. The light shaft includes a first plurality of optical components arranged to direct light along a first light path from the light source to the proximal end, and a second plurality of optical components arranged to direct light along a second light path from the proximal end to a light detector of the mobile device. A connector at the distal end includes at least one guide component for positioning the distal end adjacent to the light detector. When the distal end is positioned adjacent to the light detector, the first plurality of optical components directs light along the first light path and the second plurality of optical components directs light along the second light path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Smart Vision Labs
    Inventor: Yaopeng Zhou
  • Implementing rich color transition curve tracking for applications
    Patent number: 9070192
    Abstract: A method of finding unique targets arranged in a unique sequence of targets in a color image applies ratio space rich colored filtering to identify a band of pixels that form a transition curve from one rich color to another. A set of transition curves with simple geometric and color properties for the entire image, are compared to a database of target properties to identify a target in an image. The targets are provided on a carrier that is attached to a surface to enable processor to identify the surface location and orientation by the targets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: VISION INTERFACE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Peter Harmon Smith
  • Optical unit for signaling and/or lighting device
    Patent number: 9068709
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optical unit, notably for a motor vehicle signaling and/or lighting device, comprising: at least one light source, notably an LED, at least one board bearing the light source, this board comprising an electric circuit to power the light source, a light guide made at least partially from a material through which light can travel, this guide being designed to accept light from the light source and to guide this light, the optical unit being characterized in that the board is borne by the light guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventors: Christophe Baert, Sébastien Denis, Xavier Soenen
  • Adjustment device of a lighting and/or signalling device of a motor vehicle, and the assembly procedure of such a device
    Patent number: 9067532
    Abstract: Adjustment device of the position of a first part of a lighting and/or signaling device of a motor vehicle in relation to a second part of this device. The adjustment device has a screw in mechanical liaison with the first part and in helical liaison with the second part, the helical liaison comprising: a sliding pivot liaison linking the screw to the second part, the screw being clipped into a bore which has an opening according to a first axis (X) and a conformation completed on the second part which matches the threads of the screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventors: Cyril Herbin, Olivier Grebert, Nicolas Simmet, Rémi Maliar
  • Implantable therapeutic device
    Patent number: 9066779
    Abstract: A therapeutic device to release a therapeutic agent comprises a porous structure coupled to a container comprising a reservoir. The reservoir comprises a volume sized to release therapeutic amounts of the therapeutic agent for an extended time when coupled to the porous structure and implanted in the patient. The porous structure may comprise a first side coupled to the reservoir and a second side to couple to the patient to release the therapeutic agent. The length of the channels extending from the first side to the second side may comprise an effective length greater than a distance across the porous structure from the first side to the second side. The therapeutic device may comprise a penetrable barrier to inject therapeutic agent into the device when implanted in the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: ForSight Vision4, Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene de Juan, Jr., Yair Alster, Kathleen Cogan Farinas, K. Angela MacFarlane, Cary J. Reich, Randolph E. Campbell
  • Apparatus and method for aiming point calculation
    Patent number: 9068794
    Abstract: The present invention relates to target acquisition and related devices, and more particularly to telescopic gunsights and associated equipment used to achieve shooting accuracy at, for example, close ranges, medium ranges and extreme ranges at stationary and moving targets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: HORUS VISION, LLC;
    Inventor: Dennis J. Sammut
  • METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR TESTING CAPACITIVE TOUCH SCREEN FILMS
    Publication number: 20150177314
    Abstract: Test fixtures for testing layers of touch screen material and methods for using the same. Some test fixtures include first and second test beds that are movable relative to each other, an impedance measurement circuit, an electrical connector, a clamping actuator, and a processor, where the test fixtures and/or test fixture components are configured to secure a layer of touch screen material and measure the electrical impedance of at least one feature of the layer. Some of the present methods include securing a layer of touch screen material between test beds, calculating an electrical impedance of at least one feature of the layer, and releasing the layer from the test beds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Clarus Vision, Inc.
    Inventor: Khanh Ngoc Tran
  • CONTROLLER FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING THE MAXIMAL OPERATING CURRENT OF LIGHT SOURCES AND DETECTION METHOD THEREOF
    Publication number: 20150177290
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of a light source detection apparatus, in particular to a controller for automatically detecting the maximum operating current of a light source and detection method thereof. The controller comprises a master control module, a constant current output module and a load detection module. The control signal output end of the master control module is electrically connected to the control signal input end of the constant current output module; the constant current output module, according to the control signal of the master control module, outputs a corresponding constant current; the signal output end of the load detection module is electrically connected to the signal input end of the master control module, while the current output end of the constant current output module is electrically connected to the detection input end of the load detection module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: DONGGUAN OPT MACHINE VISION TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shenglin LU
  • Spectacle lens and method for making the same
    Patent number: 9063348
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for making a spectacle lens for a non-presbyopic person wherein the spectacle lens is a ready-to-wear lens and has at least one zone having an optical effect to reduce vision stress. In the method, at least one of the following is provided: the contour of the ready-to-wear spectacle lens and one or several visual points whereat the person looks through the ready-to-wear spectacle lens for one or several visual tasks in the near range. This method step is followed by setting at least one of: a design reference point of the zone, the extent of the zone, the optical effect within the zone based on the provided contour, and the visual points. The spectacle lens is then made with this zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Krug, Timo Kratzer
  • Polymeric articles comprising oxygen permeability enhancing particles
    Patent number: 9062180
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising a hydrogel polymer having less than 100% haze, and distributed therein an oxygen enhancing effective amount of oxygen permeable particles having an oxygen permeability of at least about 100 barrer, average particle size less than about 5000 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles W Scales, Gregory A. Hill, John B Enns, Eric R George
  • Vehicle headlight module mounted on sliders, corresponding support and headlight
    Patent number: 9061628
    Abstract: A vehicle headlight comprising at least one lighting module mounted on a support. The module comprises a base with a mounting surface inclined backward and toward the top of the headlight. The support comprises a corresponding mounting surface. Positioning means with sliders are provided on these surfaces so as to be able to extract the module and fit it by a translational movement in a direction contained within the plane of the mounting surfaces. The housing comprises a removable portion positioned in the extension of the module in the direction of translation of the positioning means with sliders. The wall of the housing comprises precuts on the circumference of the removable portion. This arrangement makes is possible to easily replace a bulky lighting module such as that of a headlight with style functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventors: Eric Moisy, Isidro Garcia, Jose-Antonio Aguilar Del Moral, Damien Cabanne, Antonio Contrelas-Luque, Jean-Francois Le Bars
  • Timing system and device and method for making the same
    Patent number: 9063521
    Abstract: A timing device for indicating the passage of a duration of time is disclosed. The timing device and system, in accordance with the embodiments of the invention, comprise an electrochemical component which generates a visual and/or audio indication of the passage of time. The timing device further comprises a compensating element, such as a varistor, a thermistor and/or combinations thereof. The compensating element regulates the response of the device with respect to changes in temperature. The timing device is configured to indicate the passage of a single duration of time or comprises zones that are activated in a range of prescribed times and individually or collectively indicate the passage of time or the passage of a range of times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Vision Works IP Corporation
    Inventor: Fritz S. Braunberger
  • WATER SANITIZATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20150166368
    Abstract: A non-chemical sanitation system for a body of water comprises a floating base, an internal hydro-electric power generator, and one or more sanitizing mechanisms electrically powered by the hydro-electric power generator, where the hydro-electric power generator derives its energy from water pressure produced by a pool pump. In some embodiments, the one or more non-chemical sanitizing mechanisms comprise one or more ultraviolet LED lights. In some embodiments, the one or more non-chemical sanitizing mechanisms comprise one or more ionizers. In some embodiments, the system is connected to a filter pipe and filter of a pool and the hydro-electric power generator is placed within the path of water flowing to the pool filter in order to generate power and power the one or more sanitizing mechanisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: VISION WORKS IP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fritz Braunberger
  • Telescope
    Patent number: D732592
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Nikon Vision Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto Imamizu
  • Lens barrel for a telescope
    Patent number: D733204
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Nikon Vision Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto Imamizu
  • Lens barrel for a telescope
    Patent number: D733205
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Nikon Vision Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto Imamizu