Patents Examined by Brandi Thomas
  • Patent number: 10165942
    Abstract: Focus adjustment is enabled with respect to an object to be inspected even when an optical member for changing a field angle is inserted in order to change the field angle of an acquiring area of a tomographic image, and a clear tomographic image with a focus on the object to be inspected is acquired. In an optical tomographic imaging apparatus, an optical system includes a focus lens configured to focus a measuring light on the object to be inspected. The optical tomographic imaging apparatus includes a unit configured to compensate, when an optical member for changing a field angle is inserted between a scanning unit and the object to be inspected in order to change the field angle of an acquiring area of a tomographic image, a change in a focus position of the focus lens in association with the inserting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihito Uji, Nagahisa Yoshimura, Hirofumi Yoshida, Tomoyuki Makihira
  • Patent number: 10162243
    Abstract: A media includes at least one passive e-paper display. The display has a first side and an opposite, second side, with the display defining an image-bearing surface that is generally co-extensive with substantially the entire first side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Omer Gila, Henryk Birecki, Napoleon J Leoni
  • Patent number: 10154783
    Abstract: A computer program is disclosed for performing the following method: recording images of a response of a left pupil to a stimulus thereby resulting in a first set of sequential images; recording images of a response of a right pupil to the same stimulus at the same time as the first images were recorded, thereby resulting in a second set of sequential images; displaying on a display simultaneously the first set of images and the second set of image, wherein the two sets of images are synchronized, and wherein a center of the left pupil of each image from the first set of sequential images is aligned with a center of the right pupil from the second set of sequential images on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Neuroptics, Inc.
    Inventors: Kamran Siminou, Claudio Privitera
  • Patent number: 10156766
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a non-driven area and a driven area symmetric relative to a first straight line passing on the figure center of the driven area and a covering portion covering a peripheral portion of the display panel and including an opening portion symmetric relative to a second straight line passing on the figure center of the opening portion. When the first straight line and the second straight line are viewed from a first direction side, the first straight line and the second straight line are disposed in parallel to each other on a plane, and when the plane is viewed in a plan view, one side portion and the other side portion that are included in the driven area and covered by the covering portion and that are located opposite each other with the first straight line located between the one side portion and the other side portion have mutually different lengths in a direction perpendicular to the first straight line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Terashima, Yukiyoshi Ichu, Akihito Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10154716
    Abstract: A camera lens holder comprising a cylindrical body formed or attached to a perpendicularly aligned planar base. The cylindrical body has a cylindrical cavity with a top opening with a chamfered inside edge. The diameter and length of the cylindrical cavity to receive and hold the bayonet-style end connector on a camera lens. Formed on the inside surface of the cylindrical body are lugs configured to engage the bayonet-style end connector on the lens. Formed on the outside surface of the cylindrical body are two or more projecting wings. Attached to the bottom surface of the planar body is a hook connector pad configured to connect to the inside surface of a camera bag made of cotton, nylon or felt material. The chamfered inside edge on the cylindrical body allows easy insertion of the bayonet-style end connector on the lens without precisely aligning the lens over the top opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Inventors: Ronald Chi-yin Chan, Yau Sing Hubert Sin, Brian Hiyin Lee
  • Patent number: 10150877
    Abstract: According to the invention, an electrophoretic dispersion liquid includes at least one type of an electrophoretic particle, and a dispersion medium, in which the content of transition metal of group 8 elements derived from a catalyst which is used to generate at least one of a block copolymer (a particle surface treatment agent) used to form the electrophoretic particle and the dispersion medium is in a range of greater than 0 ppm to equal to or less than 2 ppm in the electrophoretic dispersion liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Harunobu Komatsu, Masahiko Nakazawa, Kiyoshi Nakamura, Hiroki Nakahara
  • Patent number: 10146072
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device for reducing residual amplitude modulation. The device includes an electro-optic modulation device with three crystals connected in series. The three crystals are the first cubic crystal, an intermediate crystal, and the second cubic crystal respectively. The intermediate crystal is an electro-optic modulating crystal. The intermediate crystal is connected to the high-frequency signal source module. The specification of the intermediate crystal is X mm×Y mm×d mm. The first cubic crystal and the second cubic crystal is connected to both ends of the intermediate crystal in series along the direction of the X axis. The relative dielectric constant of the first cubic crystal and the relative dielectric constant of the second cubic crystal both are equal to the relative dielectric constant of the intermediate crystal. The specification of the first cubic crystal and the specification of the second cubic crystal both are d/2 mm×Y mm×d mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: SHANXI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yaohui Zheng, Xiaocong Sun, Yajun Wang, Kunchi Peng
  • Patent number: 10143367
    Abstract: This document discloses both a method for visual field examination that makes it possible to perform eye sensitivity examinations and an instrument that is configured to perform said method for visual field examination. The method is based on absolute conditions, i.e. absolute differences in the differential luminous thresholds between symmetrical points with respect to the vertical meridian or the horizontal meridian are used; in this way, unlike with already-known methods, it is possible to study the symmetry and/or the harmony of the subjects themselves, without having to compare them to a reference population with all that this entails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: INSTRUMENTACION Y OFTALMOLOGIA INSOFT S.L.
    Inventor: Manuel Antonio Gonzalez de la Rosa
  • Patent number: 10136808
    Abstract: The innovation provides for a system and method available to image and visualize the palisades of Vogt via a non-contact process, analyze the image volumes acquired, evaluate the status of the palisades of Vogt from the data represented therein, and display the data in real-time or as a part of a medical record for ongoing consideration and evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Kira Lynn Lathrop, Joel Steven Schuman, Lawrence Edward Kagemann
  • Patent number: 10139616
    Abstract: A display element comprising a configurable medium for providing a display effect. The display element is for example an electrowetting element having a first fluid and a second fluid. A first support plate comprises a first support plate surface in contact with at least one of the first fluid or the second fluid, and an electrode. In some examples, an optical structure comprises a first absorbent element and a second absorbent element, with a transmissive layer located therebetween. In other examples, an optical structure comprises a plurality of light conduits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Karel Johannes Gerhardus Hinnen, Tulasi Sridhar Reddy Guntaka
  • Patent number: 10130249
    Abstract: An inspection apparatus, including: a measurement optics system configured to scan an object to be inspected with measuring light from a light source; a dividing unit, which is arranged at a position conjugate with the object to be inspected, and is configured to divide return light, being the measuring light returning from the object to be inspected, into a plurality of light beams; a photo-receiving unit configured to receive the plurality of light beams obtained by the division; a recording unit configured to record image data of the object to be inspected, which is based on a plurality of intensity signals output by the photo-receiving unit, and a division direction in which the return light is divided, the image data being associated with the division direction; and an analysis unit configured to analyze the image data based on the associated division direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoko Ogata
  • Patent number: 10133090
    Abstract: Described is an electro-optical apparatus and method for correcting myopia that includes at least one adaptive lens, a power source, and an eye tracker. The eye tracker includes an image sensor and a processor operatively connected to the adaptive lens and the image sensor. The processor is configured to receive electrical signals from the image sensor and to control the correction power of the adaptive lens to correct myopia, with the correction power dependent on a user's gaze distance and myopia prescription strength. A lower-power-consumption method of eye glint tracking is further described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Inventor: Wenyu Jiang
  • Patent number: 10123688
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an image acquiring unit configured to acquire a plurality of types of images of an eye, including a confocal image and a non-confocal image of the eye; a deciding unit configured to decide a saving format for saving the confocal image and non-confocal image in a storage region; and a saving unit configured to save at least one of the acquired plurality of types of images in the storage region, based on the decided saving format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Imamura
  • Patent number: 10126627
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a display fluid comprising charged composite color particles dispersed in a solvent. The composite color particle comprises core particles which are at least one color core particle and at least one core particle having a high refractive index, a shell in which the color core particles and the high refractive index core particles are completely or partially embedded, and steric stabilizer molecules on the surface of the composite color particle. A display fluid comprising the composite color particles of the present invention provides improved optical performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: E INK CALIFORNIA, LLC
    Inventors: Ming Wang, Hui Du, Xin Liu
  • Patent number: 10126542
    Abstract: A method comprising: treating a surface to change a surface energy of the surface, in dependence on at least one first parameter value of respectively at least one surface treatment control parameter which provides a surface treatment environment for treating the surface. The method further comprises: applying a first liquid part on a first area of the surface, the first liquid part having a meniscus with an edge contacting the surface; determining a first contact angle; determining, based on the first contact angle, at least one second parameter value of respectively the at least one surface treatment control parameter; and changing the at least one surface treatment control parameter based on the at least one second parameter value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Romaric Mathieu Massard, Hendrik Jan Hildebrand Tigelaar
  • Patent number: 10126626
    Abstract: Described herein are electrically printable media. The electrically printable medium includes a first flexible structural layer, a second flexible structural layer, and an electronic ink layer comprising a plurality of cells that include charged particles in a fluid. The electronic ink layer is disposed above the first flexible structural layer. The second flexible structural layer is disposed over the electronic ink layer. The electrically printable medium is adapted to have content rendered visible thereon based on electrical signals supplied by a printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jerry Yee-Ming Chung
  • Patent number: 10114266
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electroactive optical device including an optical substrate having two opposing surfaces; at least two electrodes spaced one from the other and disposed on the surface of the substrate; and at least one electroactive material layer in contact with the at least two electrodes and the surface of the substrate. The electroactive optical device has variable light transmittance in response to the magnitude of an applied electrical voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
    Inventors: Anil Kumar, Truman Wilt, Peter L. Votruba-Drzal
  • Patent number: 10107994
    Abstract: A wide field-of-view virtual image projector includes a rod light guide that is embossed with at least a first diffraction grating and a second diffraction grating that is substantially parallel to the first diffraction grating. The first diffraction grating is configured to receive a first light ray, and to project first diffracted light rays from the rod light guide at a first range of angles. The second diffraction grating is configured to receive a second light ray, and to project second diffracted light rays from the rod light guide at a second range of angles. The virtual image projector further includes a slab light guide configured to receive the first diffracted light rays and the second diffracted light rays, and to diffract the first diffracted light rays and the second diffracted light rays out of the slab light guide to generate a virtual image with a wide field-of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Adrian R. L. Travis
  • Patent number: 10105045
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods that facilitate optical analysis, particularly for the diagnosis and treatment of refractive errors of the eye. An optical diagnostic method for an eye includes obtaining a sequence of aberration measurements of the eye, identifying an outlier aberration measurement of the sequence of aberration measurements, and excluding the outlier aberration measurement from the sequence of aberration measurements to produce a qualified sequence of aberration measurements. The sequence of aberrations measurements can be obtained by using a wavefront sensor. An optical correction for the eye can be formulated in response to the qualified sequence of aberration measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: AMO WaveFront Sciences, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel R. Neal, Thomas D. Raymond, Leander Zickler
  • Patent number: 10098538
    Abstract: Imaging systems are provided allowing examination of different object regions spaced apart in a depth direction by visual microscopy and by optical coherence tomography. An axial field of view and a lateral resolution is varied depending on which object region is examined by the imaging system. The proposed imaging systems are in particular applicable for thorough examination of the human eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
    Inventors: Christoph Hauger, Markus Seesselberg, Martin Hacker, Keith O'Hara