Patents Assigned to Vision
  • CONTACT LENSES WITH IMPROVED OXYGEN TRANSMISSION
    Publication number: 20150146160
    Abstract: Contact lenses may be designed with locally thinned regions to increase oxygen transmissibility to the eye. The locally thinned regions are preferably positioned outside of the optic zone and in the thicker peripheral zone. For a contact lens formed from a specific material, creating local thinner regions, for example, dimples in the back curve surface of the lens, provides an effective and efficient means for increasing oxygen diffusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Philippe F. Jubin, Pierre-Yves Gerligand, Fang Yuan, Radhakrishnan Damodharan, Noel A. Brennan
  • OPHTHALMIC LENS WITH RETINAL VASCULARIZATION MONITORING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20150148650
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an ophthalmic device with a retinal vascularization monitoring system and associated methods. In some embodiments, the ophthalmic device can be a contact lens with a retinal vascularization monitoring system that can be used to monitor temporal changes of a pulsating vessel forming part of the retinal vascularization. Further, the retinal vascularization monitoring system may include elements for delivering a signal, including an audible and/or visual message, to the user that can be useful for identifying abnormal conditions such as a cardiac failure without delay. The audible and/or visual messages can be signals communicated to the user using one or both of the ophthalmic device and a wireless device in communication with the ophthalmic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventor: Randall Braxton Pugh
  • Multiple capsule camera apparatus and methods for using the same
    Patent number: 9041785
    Abstract: A multiple capsule camera apparatus is disclosed to enhance the rate of detection and/or extend the overall imaging period. The multiple capsule camera apparatus coordinates the operations of the camera according to a schedule so that one camera may enter an active mode when the other camera is anticipated to have a low battery level. The capsule cameras may also coordinate their operations by communication with each other through a wireless link. A base station may also be used to coordinate the capsule camera operations with a wireless link established between the base station and each capsule camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Capso Vision Inc
    Inventor: Kang-Huai Wang
  • System and method for manufacturing a lens, such as an ophthalmic lens
    Patent number: 9039170
    Abstract: A system and method for manufacturing an ophthalmic lens is described. In some examples, the system applies a back surface to a lens blank that includes an aspherical curve having two radii of curvature. In some examples, a back surface of a peripheral portion of the lens follows the curvature of a front surface of the lens in order to establish a rounded, non-sharp edge to a lens blank used during the manufacturing process of a prescription eyeglass lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Digital Vision, Inc.
    Inventors: Stan Arrigotti, Gordon Keane
  • Method and apparatus for liquid dispensing
    Patent number: 9039666
    Abstract: This invention provides for a method and a device for dispensing precise quantities of a predetermined volume of medicaments or other liquids onto the eye, via one or more discrete drop(s) generated by the device in a practical and innoxious way to users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Leslie A. Voss, Catie A. Morley, Gary S. Hall
  • Lighting module generating an interlacing of light strips
    Patent number: 9039259
    Abstract: A lighting module comprising at least one first lighting device and one second lighting device; the first lighting device comprises a support common to at least one first light emitter generating a first light strip and at least one second light emitter generating a second light strip. The first light emitter is arranged relative to second light emitter so as to generate a zone that is unlit by the first lighting device between the first light strip and the second light strip. The at least one second lighting device generates at least one third light strip that extends in the zone that is unlit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventors: Pierre Albou, Benoit Reiss, Vanesa Sanchez
  • ACCOMMODATIVE INTRAOCULAR LENS
    Publication number: 20150142108
    Abstract: The accommodative intraocular lens 1 include an optical section 10 of a lens, and a lens supporting section 20 provided at the peripheral portion of the optical section 10. The lens supporting section 20 includes one end portion 201 connected to the peripheral portion of the optical section 10 via the connecting portion 50 in a movable manner, and the other end portion 202 to be engaged with the equator Se of the lens capsule S. The one end portion 201 and the other end portion 202 are positioned on opposite sides with respect to the center O of the optical section 10, and are formed in a manner as to extend on radially outward side in a loop shape surrounding the periphery of the optical section 10 from one end portion 201 to the other end portion 202.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: Frontier Vision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junsuke AKURA, Kiran POKHAREL
  • VARIABLE OPTIC OPHTHALMIC DEVICE INCLUDING LIQUID CRYSTAL ELEMENTS
    Publication number: 20150138454
    Abstract: This invention discloses methods and apparatus for providing a variable optic insert into an ophthalmic lens. An energy source is capable of powering the variable optic insert included within the ophthalmic lens. In some embodiments, an ophthalmic lens is cast-molded from a silicone hydrogel. The various ophthalmic lens entities may include electroactive liquid crystal layers to electrically control refractive characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Randall Braxton Pugh, James Daniel Riall, Adam Toner, Frederick A. Flitsch
  • Methods of depositing nanomaterial and methods of making a device
    Patent number: 9034669
    Abstract: Methods for depositing material and nanomaterial onto a substrate are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of making devices including nanomaterials, and a system useful for depositing materials and nanomaterials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: QD VISION, INC.
    Inventors: Marshall Cox, LeeAnn Kim, Craig Breen, Maria J. Anc, Seth Coe-Sullivan, Peter T. Kazlas
  • Opaque and movable element preventing solar rays from focusing in a headlamp
    Patent number: 9033560
    Abstract: A lighting and/or signaling device and method comprising an opaque element that can move between at least two positions, one of the positions interposing the opaque element between the main light source and the optical focusing device, in which the opaque element is arranged so that when it is interposed between the main light source and the optical focusing device it prevents rays originating from outside the lighting and/or signaling device from being focused, especially in a line or spot, by the optical focusing device, in order to prevent degradation of the lighting and/or signaling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Puente, Pierre Albou, Benoit Reiss
  • Holding assembly for a lens
    Patent number: 9036280
    Abstract: A holding device (1) holds a lens (6) at its lens edge (5) with the aid of an adhesive connection (16, 17). The adhesive connection (16, 17) is applied only at one adhesive point or only at two spaced apart adhesive points (16, 17). Each holding device (1) provided with a lens (6) is positioned on the dip frame in such a manner that the lens (6) is positioned above its holding device (1). A method is provided for finishing lenses (6) wherein the lenses (6) are subjected to various sequential finishing steps of a finishing process and the lenses (6) are cemented to the same holding device during finishing. The application of adhesive is only at one adhesive point or at two spaced apart adhesive points (16, 17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Meschenmoser, Gerhard Weiss, Martin Littek, Andreas Dangelmaier
  • Injector apparatus and method for drug delivery
    Patent number: 9033911
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide a therapeutic fluid to devices implanted in the body, for example to containers of devices implanted in the eye of a patient. The methods and apparatus may comprise an injector to increase an amount of therapeutic agent injected into the device implanted in the eye, or a structure to receive the therapeutic fluid within the device implanted in the eye, or combinations thereof. The device implanted in the eye may comprise a reservoir chamber having a fluid with a density different than the therapeutic fluid, and the apparatus can be adapted to at least partially separate the implanted device fluid from therapeutic fluid within the reservoir chamber to increase and amount of therapeutic fluid placed in the reservoir chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: ForSight Vision4, Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene de Juan, Jr., Yair Alster, Kathleen Cogan Farinas, K. Angela MacFarlane, Cary J. Reich, Randolph E. Campbell, Darren Doud, Signe Erickson, Mike Barrett, David Batten, Christina Skieller, Greg Stine
  • Visual prosthesis and retina stimulation device for same
    Patent number: 9037252
    Abstract: The present invention provides a visual prosthesis comprising: image capture means for capturing an image from a surrounding environment; image processing means for processing the image and converting the image into a transmissible image signal; signal processing means for processing and converting the image signal into a stimulation signal; and a retina stimulation device (10) adapted to stimulate the retina of both left and right eyes in accordance with the stimulation signal. The retina stimulation device (10) comprises a left-side stimulation unit (11) having an electrode array (12) for stimulating the retina of the left eye, and a right-side stimulation unit (11?) having an electrode array (12?) for stimulating the retina of the right eye, with the left-side stimulation unit (11) having a configuration which is reversed with respect to a configuration of the right-side stimulation unit (11?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: PIXIUM VISION SA
    Inventor: Hans-Jürgen Tiedtke
  • Device for controlling the electric charge on stimulating electrodes
    Patent number: 9037255
    Abstract: A device for stimulating living tissue or nerves by individual or repeated stimulating pulses via stimulating electrodes which stimulate living tissue or nerves by stimulating pulses includes an electrical circuit which regulates the electric voltage or charge on the stimulating electrodes as a function of the electric voltage between the stimulating electrodes and reduces or equalises imbalances of electric charges on the stimulating electrodes. This device is capable of equalizing the electric charge on the stimulating electrodes of a stimulation system. The device and the process for using the device have the advantage that imbalances of electric charges on the stimulating electrodes, and the associated disadvantageous effects on the tissue and on the nerves, are avoided or eliminated. Furthermore, the device has a small space requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: PIXIUM VISION SA
    Inventors: Andre Rocke, Maurits Ortmanns, Norbert Unger
  • Ocular Insert Apparatus and Methods
    Publication number: 20150133878
    Abstract: A comfortable insert comprises a retention structure sized for placement under the eyelids and along at least a portion of conjunctival sac of the upper and lower lids of the eye. The retention structure resists deflection when placed in the conjunctival sac of the eye and to guide the insert along the sac when the eye moves. The retention structure can be configured in many ways to provide the resistance to deflection and may comprise a hoop strength so as to urge the retention structure outward and inhibit movement of the retention structure toward the cornea. The insert may move rotationally with deflection along the conjunctival sac, and may comprise a retention structure having a cross sectional dimension sized to fit within folds of the conjunctiva. The insert may comprise a release mechanism and therapeutic agent to release therapeutic amounts of the therapeutic agent for an extended time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: ForSight Vision5, Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene de Juan, JR., Yair Alster, Cary J. Reich, K. Angela MacFarlane, Janelle Chang, Stephen Boyd, David Sierra, Jose D. Alejandro, Douglas Sutton, Alexander J. Gould
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLOR IMAGING UNDER LOW LIGHT
    Publication number: 20150130958
    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: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: ARECONT VISION, LLC.
    Inventor: Sri Rama Prasanna Pavani
  • METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR THE INSPECTION OF SURFACES OF AN EXAMINED OBJECT
    Publication number: 20150130927
    Abstract: A method and a device for the inspection of surfaces of an examined object includes illuminating a the surface using an illumination unit and capturing an image of the surface using an area image sensor. The captured images are forwarded to an image analysis unit configured to ascertain surface anomalies as defect areas and delimit, if required, the defect areas in a segmentation relative to one another or against the image background, to summarize defect areas belonging together in a regional analysis, to derive characteristic defects from defect areas or defect regions in a feature extraction or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: ISRA VISION AG
    Inventors: Marc Luxen, Jan Erxleben
  • Method of making and prescribing tinted lenses
    Patent number: 9028064
    Abstract: Methods of fabricating and prescribing lenses suitable for color blindness and dyslexia correction are disclosed. The corrective lens may be formed of an optically transparent base material, which is tinted to a desired color for correction by immersion in a colorant dye. The color tinted lens is then tinted by a neutral tint dye to render the lens observable as a regular corrective lens. Prescription of such lenses may be based on a dynamically balanced, or haploscopic, fashion of prescription that comprises selecting a first visual filter from a set of sixteen filters and a second visual filter from the remaining set of fifteen filters, the first for the dominant eye and the second for non-dominant eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: ChromaGen Vision LLC
    Inventor: David Andrew Harris
  • Translating presbyopic contact lens pair
    Patent number: 9028063
    Abstract: Translating, multifocal contact lens pairs with optical power zones which are dissimilar between the first and second lenses of the pair are utilized for correcting presbyopia in the wearer. Each lens may differ in segment height, power, asphericity, shape, orientation and/or inset of the optical power subzones thereby providing clear and comfortable vision at far, intermediate and near distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey H. Roffman, Edgar Menezes, Khaled A. Chehab
  • Method for converting input image data into output image data, image conversion unit for converting input image data into output image data, image processing apparatus, display device
    Patent number: 9031346
    Abstract: In a method and device for improving image rendition by contrast and/or sharpness enhancement the sharpness enhancement is made dependent on the local average luminance value. A mix is made of spatially enhanced image signals is used, wherein for various signal differing spatial frequencies are boosted. The mixing factors for mixing of the boosted signals are dependent on a local average luminance value such that the distribution over frequency bands shifts to higher frequencies and sharper enhancement as the luminance value increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: TP Vision Holding B.V.
    Inventor: Chris Damkat