Patents Examined by Darryl J. Collins
  • Patent number: 12235441
    Abstract: A contact lens, intended to be worn on the eye of a person, for automatically aiming in the direction of the eye. The contact lens includes:—a membrane suitable for covering the pupil and the iris of the eye;—at least two light sources encapsulated in the membrane, each suitable for emitting a light beam whose divergence is controlled in relation to the axis of the lens;—at least one interface for collecting and supplying electrical energy to the light sources, from outside the lens;—at least one electronic circuit suitable for activating the sources from the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: INSTITUT MINES TELECOM
    Inventors: Jean-Louis De Bougrenet, Vincent Nourrit, Cyril Lahuec, Fabrice Seguin, Francesco Ferranti, Thierry Djenizian
  • Patent number: 12235521
    Abstract: A technology that makes a change in the amount of aberration in a spectacle lens worn by wearer relative to a change in at least one of the aberration in the eye or spectacle lens. A method for designing a spectacle lens wherein, when a degree of change caused by a physical feature of wearer in at least one of an aberration distribution of an eye of wearer and an aberration distribution of a spectacle lens worn by the wearer is large, a spectacle lens that has an aberration distribution of which rotational asymmetry is weak in a region having a predetermined width and a center at any point on a main meridian of the spectacle lens is obtained as a design solution, and when the degree of the change is small, a spectacle lens of which rotational asymmetry is strong in the region is obtained as a design solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventor: Shohei Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 12235511
    Abstract: An adapter includes a hollow adapter body, a rotating ring connected to a second side of the adapter body, and at least three sliding connecting pieces. The rotating ring includes at least two rotating ring guide grooves corresponding to each sliding connecting piece. The adapter body includes at least two adapter body guide grooves corresponding to each sliding connecting piece. Each sliding connecting piece includes a connecting portion. When each sliding connecting piece moves along the corresponding at least two rotating ring guide grooves and the corresponding at least two adapter body guide grooves, configuration of the rotating ring guide grooves and the adapter body guide grooves make connecting portions move away from or close to the rotating ring in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the rotating ring and form a circumferential distribution, so as to match and connect with camera lenses having different apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Inventor: Yinling Leung
  • Patent number: 12235416
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an optical imaging system. The optical imaging system comprises, sequentially along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, a stop; a first lens, having a positive refractive power; a second lens, having a refractive power; a third lens, having a refractive power; a fourth lens, having a negative refractive power, an object-side surface of the fourth lens is a convex surface; a fifth lens, having a negative refractive power; a sixth lens, having a refractive power; and a seventh lens, having a refractive power. Here, one of the first to seventh lenses is an aspheric lens made of glass, and a radius of curvature R2 of an image-side surface of the first lens and a radius of curvature R1 of an object-side surface of the first lens satisfy: 2.5?(R2+R1)/R2?R1)<3.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Zhejiang Sunny Optical Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yang Li, Lingbo He, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 12235524
    Abstract: A lens including a flexible refractive optic having a fixed refractive index, an electro-active element embedded within the flexible refractive optic, wherein the electro-active element has an alterable refractive index, and a controller electrically connected to the electro-active element wherein when power is applied thereto the refractive index of the electro-active element is altered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald D. Blum, Joshua N. Haddock, William Kokonaski, John D. Hunkeler
  • Patent number: 12228793
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens having a refractive power, a third lens having a refractive power, a fourth lens having positive refractive power, a fifth lens having a refractive power, and a sixth lens having positive refractive power. The first to the sixth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side to an imaging plane. An expression 0.7<TL/f<1.0 is satisfied, where TL represents a distance from an object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging plane and f is an overall focal length of the optical imaging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae Youn Lee, Yong Joo Jo
  • Patent number: 12228791
    Abstract: A camera module is provided. The camera module includes a first lens having a convex object-side surface; a second lens having a convex object-side surface; a third lens having positive refractive power; a fourth lens having a convex image-side surface; and a fifth lens having a refractive power, wherein the first to fifth lens are sequentially disposed from an object side toward an imaging plane, wherein a focal length of the second lens is within a range of ?10 mm to ?7.0 mm, and wherein 1.0<TTL/f<1.2, where TTL is a distance from the object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging plane and f is a focal length of the lens imaging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Joo Jo, Hag Chul Kim, Hyo Jin Hwang
  • Patent number: 12228711
    Abstract: The application discloses a lens and its button adjustment structure. The button adjustment structure includes a connecting seat, a guidepost, a base and an elastic member. The connecting seat is fixedly connected to the lens or may be part of the lens. The connecting seat includes a first gear structure. The guidepost is fixed on a fixed member on one side of the connecting seat. The base is movably sleeved on the guidepost along an axial direction of the guidepost. The base includes a second gear structure. The elastic member is sleeved on an outer periphery of the guidepost and is located between the base and the fixed member. An elastic force of the elastic member drives the second gear structure on the base to engage the first gear structure of the connecting seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignees: GUANGDONG SIRUI OPTICAL CO., LTD., Zhongshan AZU Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jie Li, Mingyi Liu
  • Patent number: 12228713
    Abstract: A variable magnification optical system comprising, in order from an object side, a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group having negative refractive power, a third lens group having positive refractive power, and a rear lens group having negative refractive power; upon varying a magnification from a wide angle end state to a tele photo end state, a distance between the first lens group and the second lens group being varied, a distance between the second lens group and the third lens group being varied, and a distance between the third lens group and the rear lens group being varied; the third lens group or the rear lens group comprising a focusing lens group which is moved upon carrying out focusing from an infinitely distant object to a closely distant object; and predetermined conditional expression(s) being satisfied, thereby various aberrations being corrected superbly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi Umeda
  • Patent number: 12228719
    Abstract: An optical imaging device for a microscope includes an objective and an optical system configured to interact with the objective for optically imaging an object selectively in a first operating mode and a second operating mode. The optical system includes a first optical subsystem associated with the first operating mode, and a second optical subsystem associated with the second operating mode. The first optical subsystem is configured to form a first image of the object with a first magnification. The second optical subsystem is configured to form a second image of the object with a second magnification that is less than the first magnification. The second optical subsystem includes an optical module insertable into the optical path for selecting the second operating mode. The optical module includes a lens element with a positive refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Schumann, Christian Schulz, Arnold Mueller-Rentz, Andreas Lotter
  • Patent number: 12228756
    Abstract: An optical device and an eyeware apparatus comprising the optical device are disclosed. The optical device comprises a diffraction grating configured to diffract an incident light of a given wavelength on said optical device, said diffraction grating having a grating pitch above said given wavelength and being configured to diffract said incident light at a diffraction order having an absolute value equal to or greater than 2, wherein the optical device comprises an optical waveguide configured for guiding said light diffracted at a diffraction order having an absolute value equal to or greater than 2. The diffraction grating comprises a substrate of a first dielectric material with refractive index n3 and at least one second dielectric material with refractive index n2 deposited on said substrate, where n3<n2 or n3=n2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SAS
    Inventors: Oksana Shramkova, Valter Drazic
  • Patent number: 12222638
    Abstract: An optical element driving mechanism is provided, including a movable part, a fixed part, and a driving assembly. The movable part is for connecting the optical element. The movable part is movable relative to the fixed part. The driving assembly is used for generating a driving force to drive the movable part to move relative to the fixed part. The driving assembly further includes a first reinforcement element, for strengthening the driving force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Chen-Hung Chao, Yi-Chieh Lin, Tsung-Han Wu, Shou-Jen Liu
  • Patent number: 12222586
    Abstract: Adjustable focal length eyewear (11) comprising two lenses (21, 22) that are mounted to a frame (14, 15, 16) for supporting the lenses (21, 22) in front of a user's eyes. At least one of the lenses (21, 22) is a variable focal length lens of the kind comprising two superposed lens elements (31, 41) having cooperating optical surfaces that are shaped such that the focal length of the variable focal length lens (21, 22) is variable according to the relative lateral disposition of the lens elements (31, 41). One of the lens elements (31) is fixedly mounted to the frame (14, 15, 16) and the other lens element (41) is movable manually relative to the fixed lens element (31) for varying the focal length of the variable focal length lens (21, 22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: ADLENS LIMITED
    Inventors: Robert Perkins, Alex Edginton, Paul Masser, Andrew Last
  • Patent number: 12222527
    Abstract: There is provided a light diffusion film in which a decrease in the half-value angle can be suppressed even after processing with a high elongation rate. A light diffusion film including a base material film and a light diffusing layer, the light diffusing layer containing light diffusing particles and a resin binder, wherein a ratio (T/t) of an average film thickness T of the light diffusing layer, to an average particle diameter t of the light diffusing particles, is 3.0 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: KIMOTO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sho Suzuki, Tatsuya Kato, Kazutoshi Tachibana
  • Patent number: 12222584
    Abstract: A wearable device is disclosed according to one embodiment. The wearable device can include an eyewear body, onboard electronic components, a thermal coupling and a heat transfer device. The eyewear body can be configured for wearing by a user to hold one or more optical elements mounted on the eyewear body within a field of view of the user. The onboard electronic components can be carried by the eyewear body at a first portion of the eyewear body and can comprise a heat source that generates heat during electrically powered operation thereof. The thermal coupling can be thermally coupled to the heat transfer device at a second portion of the eyewear body. The elongate heat transfer device can be disposed within the eyewear body and can be thermally coupled to the heat source and the thermal coupling. The heat transfer device can extend lengthwise between the heat source and the thermal coupling to transfer heat from the heat source to the thermal coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Andrea Ashwood
  • Patent number: 12216340
    Abstract: An energy dispersion mechanism can be integrated into the eyewear design to incorporate a more resilient lens holding structure that can disperse the energy received during an impact and retain the lens in place. The energy dispersion mechanism comprises an impact dispersing material seated within a groove of a first frame portion, the impact dispersing material extending beyond the first frame portion to form a nose bridge which joins the first frame portion to a second frame portion; and the impact dispersing material is seated within a groove of a second frame portion. The impact dispersing material may be overmoulded on the eyewear to allow efficient manufacturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Inventor: Brent Sheldon
  • Patent number: 12216303
    Abstract: The light-guide plate includes a substrate, an incidence diffraction grating that diffracts incident light, and an emission diffraction grating that emits light from the substrate, the light being diffracted by the incidence diffraction grating. The emission diffraction grating is formed of a recessed/projected pattern formed on a substrate surface, the recessed/projected pattern includes a first group of parallel straight lines and a second group of parallel straight lines intersecting the first group of parallel straight lines, and a pitch of the first group of parallel straight lines is equal to a pitch of the second group of parallel straight lines. A relationship between the pitch P of the first group of parallel straight lines and the second group of parallel straight lines and a pattern width W of the recessed/projected pattern is defined as W/P, which is 0.15 or more and 0.85 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: HITACHI-LG DATA STORAGE, INC.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Minemura
  • Patent number: 12216341
    Abstract: Smartglasses comprising a removable and replaceable front frame comprising hinges or hinge elements and temples releasably connected to the hinges or hinge elements. The front frame contains no electrical wiring that connects the temples and is configured to be removed and replaced without affecting electronic connection with the temples or any devices or systems paired or connected with the temples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Lucyd Ltd.
    Inventors: David Cohen, Clifford M Gross, Harrison Gross
  • Patent number: 12210214
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth lenses each having a refractive power. The first to sixth lenses are sequentially disposed in ascending numerical order along an optical axis of the optical imaging system from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optical imaging system, and are the only lenses having a refractive power in the optical imaging system. A radius of curvature of an object-side surface of the fourth lens at the optical axis is greater than a radius of curvature of an object-side surface of the second lens at the optical axis and a radius of curvature of an image-side surface of the second lens at the optical axis. A thickness of the third lens is greater than a distance from an image-side surface of the third lens to the object-side surface of the fourth lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae Youn Lee, Yong Joo Jo
  • Patent number: 12210143
    Abstract: An image system lens assembly includes three lens groups including five lens elements. The three lens groups are, in order from an object side to an image side: first, second and third lens groups. The five lens elements are, in order from the object side to the image side: first, second, third, fourth and fifth lens elements. A zooming process is performed by changing axial distances between the three lens groups. The image system lens assembly has a long focal length end and a short focal length end. At least one surface of at least one lens element has an inflection point in an optically effective area thereof when the image system lens assembly is at the long focal length end and the short focal length end. The second lens group is moved relative to the first lens group along an optical axis in the zooming process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hsiang-Chi Tang, Tzu-Chieh Kuo