Patents Assigned to Vision
  • Publication number: 20150105602
    Abstract: A polymeric radiation-source with customized geometries to maximize receipt of radiation into treatment areas that is formed from either radioisotopes molecularly bonded to a polymer or radioisotopes encased within a polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: IP LIBERTY VISION CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul T. FINGER, Toby WELLES, Jaime SIMON
  • Publication number: 20150103168
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for determining a trajectory of a axisymmetric object in 3-D physical space using a digital camera which records 2-D image data are described. In particular, based upon i) a characteristic length of the axisymmetric object, ii) a physical position of the camera determined from sensors associated with the camera (e.g., accelerometers) and iii) captured 2-D digital images from the camera including a time at which each image is generated relative to one another, a position, a velocity vector and an acceleration vector can be determined in three dimensional physical space for axisymmetric object objects as a function of time. In one embodiment, the method and apparatus can be applied to determine the trajectories of objects in games which utilize axisymmetric object objects, such as basketball, baseball, bowling, golf, soccer, rugby or football.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: PILLAR VISION, INC.
    Inventors: Alan W. MARTY, John Carter
  • Publication number: 20150103159
    Abstract: Systems and methods use cameras to provide autonomous navigation features. In one implementation, a driver-assist system is provided for a vehicle. The system may include one or more image capture devices configured to acquire images of an area forward of the vehicle. The system may also include at least one processing device configured to receive, via one or more data interfaces, the images. The at least one processing device may be further configured to analyze the images acquired by the one or more image capture devices and cause at least one navigational response in the vehicle based on monocular and/or stereo image analysis of the images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: MOBILEYE VISION TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventors: Amnon Shashua, Gaby Hayon, Yossi Hadad, Efim Belman, Eyal Bagon
  • Patent number: 9007478
    Abstract: A method characterizes manufacturing imperfections in a camera and variations in its operating environment to allow images captured by the camera to be compensated for these defects. The method includes: (a) illuminating a field of view of the optical elements under a controlled condition; (b) exposing multiple images onto the image sensor under the controlled condition; (c) extracting from the multiple images parameter values for pixels of the image sensor; and (d) compensating images taken subsequently in the camera using the parameter values. The controlled condition includes an external light source for illumination, and the image sensor is sensitive to color components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Capso Vision, Inc.
    Inventors: Kang-Huai Wang, Gordon Wilson
  • Patent number: 9006753
    Abstract: An electroluminescent display comprising semiconductor nanocrystals, wherein the semiconductor nanocrystals are selected to emit light at a predetermined wavelength and are disposed in a predetermined pattern. In certain embodiments, semiconductor nanocrystals that emit light at different predetermined wavelengths are disposed in the display to create a predetermined multi-color pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: QD Vision, Inc.
    Inventors: Seth Coe-Sullivan, Gregory V. Moeller, Joseph Carr
  • Patent number: 9005751
    Abstract: Fibers containing nano-sized diamond and platinum nanocolloid, and bedding formed thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignees: Venex Co., Ltd, Vision Development Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Tadamasa Fujimura, Taichi Nakamura, Shigeru Shiozaki
  • Patent number: 9005282
    Abstract: The invention relates to a intraocular lens system having a flexible anterior lens accommodation material behind the lens. The accommodation material may comprise of one or more macromers, which, when polymerized, adjust the properties of the accommodation material. The anterior lens is flexible such that the curvature of the lens changes during accommodation. The anterior lens may be used alone or in combination with a posterior lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Calhoun Vision, Inc.
    Inventors: Shiao H. Chang, Okihiro Nishi, Kayo Nishi, Jerry Kaeni, Ken Chuang
  • Publication number: 20150100044
    Abstract: The draining device 1 is provided with a main body 11 including two side wall members 111 each having a tip end section 111B curved downward, and a connecting portion 12 connecting the side wall members 111. In a manner such that at least upper portions of adjacent side wall members 111 are spaced at a certain distance d and side surfaces 111a of the adjacent side wall members 111 face each other, by connecting the side wall members 111 of the main body 11 with the connecting portion 12, a liquid draining passage R for draining a liquid to a space between adjacent side wall members 111. For this reason, since the liquid inflow cross-sectional area S1 and the passage cross-sectional area S2 increase, it becomes possible to introduce a large amount of liquid into the gap between the side wall members and pass therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: FRONTIER VISION CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Junsuke AKURA, Kiran POKHAREL
  • Publication number: 20150098060
    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. The light shaft includes a first plurality of optical components arranged to direct light along a first light path to the proximal end, and a second plurality of optical components arranged to direct light along a second light path to the distal end. A connector at the distal end includes at least one guide component for positioning the distal end adjacent to a light detector and a light source of the mobile device. When the distal end is positioned adjacent to the light detector and the light source, 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: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: Smart Vision Labs
    Inventor: Yaopeng Zhou
  • Patent number: 9001115
    Abstract: A method of using a computer to generate virtual autostereoscopic images from a three-dimensional digital data set is disclosed. The method includes establishing a first point of view and field of view of a subject volume including a region of interest. The method includes reading at least one scene parameter associated with the field of view of the subject volume. The method includes determining a second point of view offset some distance and along some vector from the first point of view based on a value derived from at least one scene parameter. The second point of view at least partially overlaps the first field of view. The first and second points of view each create a view plane with a view orthogonal to the subject volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Vision III Imaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher A. Mayhew, Craig M. Mayhew
  • Patent number: 8998467
    Abstract: An optical system for a motor vehicle, in particular for an indicating and/or lighting device, arranged to emit a light, the intensity of which is maximal in a given prioritized optical direction. The optical system comprises a surface light source exhibiting a front wall emitting a light, the intensity of which is maximal in a principal direction of emission, and an optical guide comprising an input face and an output face forming at least partly an outer face of the system, the system being arranged such that the light penetrates the guide through the input face and escapes through the output face. The optical guide being conformed such that the intensity of the light at the output of the system is maximal in a prioritized optical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventors: Christophe Dubosc, Etienne Pauty, Antoine de Lamberterie
  • Patent number: 8998408
    Abstract: Contact lenses incorporating asymmetric radial power profiles that increase the radial dioptric power from the center to the margin of the optical zone of the lenses may be utilized to prevent and/or slow myopia progression. The power profiles vary along different meridians.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Wei, Noel A. Brennan, Khaled A. Chehab, Jeffrey H. Roffman, C. Benjamin Wooley
  • Patent number: 9001250
    Abstract: A method of reading image data from an image sensor includes accumulating image charges in photosensitive elements of an array of pixel cells. The accumulated image charges are transferred to corresponding transistors in multi-phase transfer channels that are coupled to corresponding columns of the pixel array. Multi-phase transfer signals are generated. Each set of the multi-phase transfer signals includes a plurality of control signals that are out-of-phase with one another and are coupled to control respective transistors in the multi-phase transfer channels. The accumulated image charges from a first variable number of pixel cells of a selected column are output in response to the multi-phase transfer signals. The accumulated image charges from a second variable number of pixel cells of another selected column are output in response to the multi-phase transfer signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Omni Vision Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tiejun Dai, Zheng Yang, Shijing Yao
  • Patent number: 9002113
    Abstract: Processing and analyzing hyper-spectral image data and information via dynamic database updating. (a) processing/analyzing representations of objects within a sub set of the hyper spectral image data and information, using a first reference database of hyper spectral image data, information, and parameters, and, a second reference database of biological, chemical, or/and physical data, information, and parameters. Identifying objects of non-interest, and objects of potential interest, from the data/information sub-set. (b) processing/analyzing identified objects of potential interest, by further using first and second reference databases. Determining absence or presence of objects of interest, additional objects of non-interest, and non-classifiable objects of potential interest, from the data/information sub set. (c) updating first and second reference databases, using results of (a) and (b), for forming updated first and second reference databases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Green Vision Systems Ltd.
    Inventor: Danny S. Moshe
  • Patent number: 9002463
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Pixium Vision SA
    Inventor: Hans-Jürgen Tiedtke
  • Patent number: 9002054
    Abstract: A system and method for determining a compliance with an instruction to assemble a figure according to a depiction of the figure on an output device, by presenting image data of the figure, capturing an image of the assembled figure, and comparing the figure captured in the image to the figure depicted on the output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Eyecue Vision Technologies Ltd.
    Inventor: Ronen Horovitz
  • Publication number: 20150092159
    Abstract: Systems and methods for designing and implanting a customized intra-ocular lens (IOL) is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes an eye analysis module that analyzes a patient's eye and generates biometric information relating to the eye. The system also includes eye modeling and optimization modules to generate an optimized IOL model based upon the biometric information and other inputted parameters representative of patient preferences. The system further includes a manufacturing module configured manufacture the customized IOL based on the optimized IOL model. In addition, the system can include an intra-operative real time analyzer configured to measure and display topography and aberrometry information related to a patient's eye for assisting in proper implantation of the IOL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: WAVETEC VISION SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Stefano Salvati, Cesare Tanassi, Gianluigi Meneghini, Renato Frison, Walter Zanette
  • Patent number: 8991702
    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 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Horus Vision, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Sammut, Todd Hodnett
  • Patent number: 8992012
    Abstract: A family of ophthalmic lenses for correcting presbyopia meets constraints for distance vision, near vision, and disparity and may be designed according to a process that incorporates a merit function accounting for binocular visual performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: C. Benjamin Wooley, Thomas R. Karkkainen, Ronald J. Clark
  • Patent number: 8995723
    Abstract: A computerized system mountable on a moving vehicle. The computerized system includes a camera. The camera captures in real time image frames of the environment in the field of view of the camera and transfers the image frames to an image processor. The image processor is programmed for performing traffic sign recognition and for performing another driver assistance function. Information is exchanged between the traffic sign recognition and the other driver assistance function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Mobileye Vision Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Gideon P. Stein, Ori Shachar, Yoav Taieb, Uri Wolfovitz