Patents Examined by Alberto J Betancourt
  • Patent number: 11435593
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) displaying one or more images to a user via a display comprising multiple display regions, (2) switching each of the display regions to a blocking state in which a view of the user's real-world environment in a corresponding region of the user's field of view is blocked from the user, (3) detecting a pass-through triggering event involving one or more objects in the user's real-world environment, (4) identifying one or more display regions corresponding to a region of the user's field of view occupied by the object, and (5) switching each of the one or more display regions to a pass-through state in which the view of the user's real-world environment in the corresponding region of the user's field of view is passed through to the user. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Sebastian Sztuk, Steven Paul Lansel
  • Patent number: 11432718
    Abstract: A system for replicating a standardized visual acuity test, such as the 20? Snellen test may comprise a binocular viewer attached to a smartphone. A binocular viewer may comprise a housing comprising a pair tube covers having voids allowing for viewing through a pair of lens tubes with each lens tube in visual communication with a second lens a first lens an aperture and a front cover. The optical systems use an artful combination of front and back lens surfaces, demagnification and other systems to faithfully replicate the sight lines perceived by a user of a traditional 20? test. The system also allows for the incorporation of other tests conducted with both eyes including Color Sensitivity and Contrast, furthermore by placing a deformable, tunable lens between the second lens and the eye the device serves as an ophthalmic refractometer, allowing a Spherical Equivalent refraction estimate for each eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: EyeQue Inc.
    Inventors: Ying Xu, Yue Wang, John Serri
  • Patent number: 11428950
    Abstract: A lens moving apparatus includes a bobbin on which a first coil is disposed, a first magnet disposed around the bobbin to face the first coil, and a housing, which is disposed to surround at least a portion of the bobbin and has a first magnet mounting seat, which receives the first magnet, wherein the housing is provided with an adhesive inlet, which allows a side portion of the first magnet mounting seat to communicate with an outside surface of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Hong Cho, Seung Taek Shin, In Jae Yeo, Sang Hee Lee, Jin Suk Han, Jung Cheol Kim
  • Patent number: 11409129
    Abstract: Apparatus and systems related to modular eyeglass elements may be provided. A detachable temple may be detachably coupled to a lens assembly at a temple strut of the lens assembly via a locking mechanism. Locking mechanisms may include spring tab, spring lever, spring bar, snap-fit, spring latch, and other disclosed configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Expression Frames LLC
    Inventor: Vikranthi Otra
  • Patent number: 11402608
    Abstract: An imaging lens system includes sequentially from an object side, a first lens group and a second lens group. The second lens group includes a focus lens group configured to move during focusing or the first lens group and the second lens group are divided at a position of a maximum air gap. Conditional Expressions (1) and (2) are satisfied as follows: ?2.0<fL1/f<?0.95, and??(1) 1.7<NdP1Gmin_?d/L1_?d<2.5,??(2) where fL1 is a focal length of a lens located closest to the object side of the first lens group, f is a focal length of a whole system, NdP1Gmin_?d is an Abbe number for a d-line of a positive lens having a smallest refractive index of the first lens group, and L1_?d is an Abbe number for the d-line of the lens located closest to the object side of the first lens group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Yoichi Nomura
  • Patent number: 11372201
    Abstract: An optical system consists of, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, a third lens unit having a negative refractive power. A distance between adjacent lens units changes during focusing. The second lens unit moves during the focusing. The following conditional expression is satisfied: ?0.20<f3/f<?0.05 where f is a focal length of the optical system focused on an object at infinity and f3 is a focal length of the third lens unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ino, Maki Yokoya
  • Patent number: 11372257
    Abstract: A see-through display device includes an optical coupler that couples first light input from a first direction and second light input from a second direction that is different from the first direction, the optical coupler transferring coupled light including the first light and the second light to an observer, and a shading member disposed in front of the optical coupler, the shading member transferring the second light to the optical coupler by reducing a light amount of the second light. The see-through display device limits a reflection phenomenon occurring between the optical coupler and the shading member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wontaek Seo, Changkun Lee, Juwon Seo, Geeyoung Sung, Bongsu Shin, Jaeseung Chung
  • Patent number: 11366286
    Abstract: An ocular optical system configured to allow imaging rays from a display image to enter an observer's eye through the ocular optical system so as to form an image is provided. A direction toward the eye is an eye side, and a direction toward the display image is a display side. The ocular optical system includes a first lens element, a second lens element, and a third lens element arranged along an optical axis in sequence from the eye side to the display side. Each of the first to third lens elements has an eye-side surface and a display-side surface. The ocular optical system satisfies: 0<f/f1+f/f2+f/f3<0.35, where f is an effective focal length of the ocular optical system, f1 is a focal length of the first lens element, f2 is a focal length of the second lens element, and f3 is a focal length of the third lens element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Jorjin Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Chun-Wei Leu
  • Patent number: 11353683
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of optical lens and discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens having a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: ?3.50?f2/f??1.50; 3.00?(R3+R4)/(R3?R4)?8.00; 8.00?d1/d2?15.00; 0.50?f3/f?0.75; ?5.00?R2/R1??2.50; ?0.70?f4/f??0.40. The camera optical lens can achieve excellent optical characteristics with a large aperture, wide-angle, and being ultra-thin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Jiekang Chen
  • Patent number: 11347049
    Abstract: A spectroscopic measurement apparatus includes a fixed substrate, a movable substrate, and a wavelength variable interference filter which includes an electrostatic actuator for changing the gap dimension between the substrates, a vibration disturbance detection unit which detects vibration added to the wavelength variable interference filter, and a bias driving unit which applies a feed-forward voltage based on a detected value of the vibration disturbance detection unit to the electrostatic actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Inventor: Nozomu Hirokubo
  • Patent number: 11347078
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for marking an optical article coated with an interference coating including at least two layers, an inner layer and an outer layer, and having reflection coefficient Re; by exposure of the inner layer, at a marking point, by way of a laser beam at a marking wavelength, in such a way as to ablate the inner layer and any layer further away from the substrate; the ablated area having a reflection coefficient Rm different from Re by at least 1%; the inner layer absorbing the marking wavelength to a greater degree than any layer further away from the substrate. Also disclosed is an optical article coated with an interference coating having at least two layers, an inner layer and an outer layer, the article including a marking pattern formed by local absence of layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Sébastien Maurice, Gerhard Keller, Michèle Thomas
  • Patent number: 11333843
    Abstract: A four-piece dual waveband optical lens system includes, in order from the object side to the image side: a stop; a first lens element with a positive refractive power having an object-side surface being convex near an optical axis, an image-side surface being convex near the optical axis; a second lens element with a negative refractive power having an object-side surface being concave near the optical axis, an image-side surface being convex near the optical axis; a third lens element with a positive refractive power having an object-side surface being concave near the optical axis, an image-side surface being convex near the optical axis; a fourth lens element with a negative refractive power having an object-side surface being convex near the optical axis, an image-side surface being concave near the optical axis, which has a short length and good performance without re-focusing in visible light and infrared dual waveband.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: NEWMAX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kun-Rui Wu, Chun-Sheng Lee
  • Patent number: 11333849
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an imaging lens and the present invention comprises: a first lens having a positive (+) refractive power; a second lens having a negative (?) refractive power; an iris (aperture); a third lens having a negative (?) refractive power; a fourth lens having a negative (?) refractive power; and a fifth lens having a positive (+) refractive power, wherein the first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens and the fifth lens can be sequentially arranged along an optical axis from a subject side. Since the length of an optical system is shorter than a focal distance, the present invention can be effectively used for an imaging lens of an optical system requiring a low telephoto ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Hun Lee, Dae Sik Jang
  • Patent number: 11320630
    Abstract: A lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image plane side: a first lens element having a negative power; a second lens element whose concave surface faces the object side; and a third lens element having a positive power, and satisfies conditions (1) and (2). 0.205<|(TL1/TA)·tan(?)|??(1) 0.120<IH/TA<0.170??(2) where TL1 is a central thickness of the first lens element, TA is a total optical length, ? is a half angle of view, and IH is an image height of the lens system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Shobayashi, Yoshio Matsumura
  • Patent number: 11314042
    Abstract: An optical system (10) for image pickup includes a first refractive optical system (Si) disposed on an object side with respect to an aperture stop (St) and a second refractive optical system (S2) disposed on an image plane side with respect to the aperture stop. The first refractive optical system includes, in order from the object side (11), a first lens group (G1) with positive refractive power, a second lens group (G2) with positive refractive power, and a third lens group (G3) with negative refractive power. The second refractive optical system includes, in order from the object side (11), a fourth lens group (G4) with positive refractive power, a fifth lens group (G5) with positive refractive power, and a sixth lens group (G6) with negative refractive power. When focusing from infinity to a short distance, the second lens group and the fourth lens group move toward the object side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: NITTOH INC.
    Inventor: Akira Sawamoto
  • Patent number: 11300765
    Abstract: A display system includes at least one display unit, and a mirror array plate. The mirror array plate reflects light emitted from the display unit along a viewing path, and focuses the reflected light at a floating viewing plane positioned between the mirror array plate and a viewing location. The display system may include a micro-louver film disposed adjacent to the display unit that controls light dispersion of the emitted light from the display unit. The display system may include multiple display units arranged relative to the mirror array plate to present respective images on respective floating viewing planes to provide a three dimensional image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul F. Weindorf
  • Patent number: 11237362
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an optical lens assembly. The optical lens assembly includes four lens elements which are, in order from an outer side to an inner side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element. The first lens element has negative refractive power. An outer-side surface of the first lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof and has at least one convex critical point in an off-axis region thereof. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element has an inner-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and having at least one concave critical point in an off-axis region thereof. The optical lens assembly has a total of four lens elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Jui Lin, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 11231558
    Abstract: An electronic device including a casing and a lens module is provided. The casing has a receiving groove. The lens module is assembled to the casing in a multiple-axial manner, located in the receiving groove and capable of rotating in a range of ?90 degrees to 90 degrees relative to the casing. By assembling the lens module to the casing through a multiple-axial manner, the gap between the lens module and the casing can be reduced, and the appearance of the simple electronic device can be created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: COMPAL ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Wei-Hao Lan, Chia-Chi Lin
  • Patent number: 11226471
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera lens assembly. The camera lens assembly includes, sequentially along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens. The first lens has a negative refractive power, and an image-side surface of the first lens is a concave surface. The second lens has a positive refractive power, and an image-side surface of the second lens is a convex surface. Each of the third lens, the fourth lens, and the fifth lens has a positive refractive power or a negative refractive power. A total effective focal length f of the camera lens assembly and an entrance pupil diameter EPD of the camera lens assembly satisfy: 0.8<f/EPD<1.6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuanlin Jia
  • Patent number: 11221466
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a camera optical lens sequentially including, from an object side to an image side, first to seventh lenses. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 1.80?f4/f?5.00; ?1.50?f6/f7??1.00; and 1.20?d8/d9?1.60, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens; f4, f6 and f7 denote focal lengths of the fourth, sixth and seventh lenses, respectively; d8 denotes an on-axis distance from an image side surface of the fourth lens to an object side surface of the fifth lens; and d9 denotes an on-axis thickness of the fifth lens. The camera optical lens according to the present disclosure can achieve high optical performance while satisfying design requirements for ultra-thin, wide-angle lenses having large apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Kang Wang