Patents Examined by Darryl J. Collins
  • Patent number: 12019310
    Abstract: An eyewear device provides for routing a flexible conductive element or conductor through a hollow interior of a hinge mechanism that connects a temple of the eyewear device to its. The hinge mechanism comprises a pair of hinge pieces that defines a composite conduit through the hinge mechanism, conduit and hence the conductor routed through the passage being hidden or obscured from external view in any operational position of the hinge mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Wayne Moskowitz, David G. Fliszar, Martin Mape
  • Patent number: 12019305
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens sequentially arranged from an object side. At least two of the first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, the fifth lens, and the sixth lens include at least one inflection point. An object-side surface of the sixth lens is concave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Phil Ho Jung, Jae Hyuk Huh
  • Patent number: 12019316
    Abstract: The object of this invention is to provide optical articles having one or more transmittance-attenuating dyes. Each dye attenuates transmission of a certain wavelength range. Different dyes can be combined in different concentrations to tune the transmittance spectrum through a lens. The transmittance-attenuating dyes can be incorporated into different optical articles using different production methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Christelle Marck, Elliot French
  • Patent number: 12013595
    Abstract: A joint for coupling a side arm to a frame of a pair of glasses. The joint includes a post, a plurality of prongs, and optionally a nut. The post is configured to be secured to one of the side arm or the frame and the plurality of prongs are configured to be secured to the other of the side arm or the frame. The post includes a shaft and an enlarged head at a distal end of the shaft. The plurality of prongs define a socket configured to receive at least a portion of the enlarged head of the post and apply a compressive force against the enlarged head of the post. The nut may be configured to generate a compressive force against the plurality of prongs. The compressive force may be adjusted by threading the nut along the length of the prongs. The nut may threadably engage a base that the prongs extend from and/or the prongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Inventor: Peter Shanelaris
  • Patent number: 12013520
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, from an object side a first lens unit (a positive refractive power) configured not to move for zooming, two or more intermediate lens units configured to move in zooming, and a rear lens unit (a positive refractive power), wherein an interval between each pair of adjacent lens units changes in zooming, the first lens unit includes, from the object side, a first lens subunit (a negative refractive power) configured not to move for focusing, a second lens subunit (a positive refractive power) configured to move for focusing, and a third lens subunit (a positive refractive power), the zoom lens satisfies specific inequalities concerning a focal length of the first lens unit, a length on an optical axis from a last surface to a rear principal point of the first lens unit, and a focal length of the zoom lens at a telephoto end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya Yamada, Masaru Sakamoto, Yu Inomoto, Naotoshi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 12013550
    Abstract: An aperture module includes: a base; a rotating plate rotatably disposed on the base; and blades configured to form an incident hole and move by rotation of the rotating plate to change a size of the incident hole. The blades are disposed in an opening disposed inside the rotating plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Se Yeon Hwang, Seok Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 12013548
    Abstract: The invention relates Tunable prism (1) for optical image stabilization, comprising the components: —A container (2) that comprises a membrane (6) comprising at least a transparent portion, the container (2) further comprising a transparent rigid bottom portion (5) facing the membrane (6), wherein the membrane (6) is connected to the bottom portion (5), and wherein the container (2) encloses a volume (7) that is filled with a transparent fluid (3), —A transparent window (8) arranged on the membrane (6), wherein the membrane (6) comprises a deformable portion (6a) extending around an outer edge (8a) of the window (8), such that the window (8) can be tilted around a first and/or a second axis (201, 202) with respect to the bottom portion (5). The invention further relates to an imaging system (50) comprising the tunable prism (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: NEXTLENS SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventors: Mark Ventura, David Leuenberger, Michael Büeler, Manuel Aschwanden, Stephan Smolka, Frank Bose, David Niederer
  • Patent number: 12007583
    Abstract: A lens (10) and a camera module (100) and a manufacturing method thereof, wherein the lens (10) comprises an edge-cut lens sheet (114), wherein the edge-cut lens sheet (14) includes at least one chord edge (1141) and at least one circular edge (1142), wherein the chord edge (1141) and the circular edge (1142) are adjacently connected to each other, and wherein the chord edge (1141) and the circular edge (1142) have different curvatures, so that the lens sheet (114) becomes narrow and the width of the lens (10) become narrow, to form an ultra-narrow camera module (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: NINGBO SUNNY OPOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingzhu Wang, Bojie Zhao, Chunmei Liu, Feifan Chen, Zhenyu Chen
  • Patent number: 12007625
    Abstract: The present disclosure embodiment may disclose glasses. The glasses may include a glasses frame and two speakers. The glasses frame may include a glasses rim and two glasses temples. The two glasses temples may be rotatably connected to the glasses rim, respectively. The two speakers may include an earphone core, respectively. The two speakers may be connected to the two glasses temples via hinge components of the two glasses temples, respectively. The hinge components may be rotatable to change a position of each of the speakers relative to connected one of the glasses temples to make the speaker abut in front of or behind ears of a user. The glasses temple may include a control circuit or a battery to drive the earphone core to vibrate to generate a sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yueqiang Wang, Haofeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 12001083
    Abstract: The rim frame and the lens are continuously restrained to each other over a range other than the gap to stabilize holding of the lens while attachment and detachment of the lens can be facilitated by expanding a gap as consolidating the gaps in the two places into one place due to the deflection of the rim frame and movement of the lens in the left-right direction, whereby the lens can be easily attached and detached without using a tool such as a screwdriver, while can achieve holding stability when fixing the lens and ease of attachment and detachment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Inventor: Masayuki Inami
  • Patent number: 12001084
    Abstract: An eyewear system may be eyeglasses and a case, the eyeglasses may be a first lens, a second lens, and a bendable bridge disposed between the first lens and second lens, the bendable bridge may be a spring providing a spring force when the bridge is bent from a rest position, the eyeglasses being adapted to move from a wearable configuration in which the bendable bridge is in a rest position and the first lens and second lens are in a first configuration to a stored configuration in which the first and second lenses are moved towards one another relative to the first configuration, the bendable bridge being bent from its rest position in the stored configuration, the case may be a door and an opening through which the eyeglasses pass during insertion and guides sized and configured with respect to the eyeglasses to engage and move the first lens towards the second lens against spring force of the bridge to the stored configuration during insertion of the eyeglasses and closing of the door, wherein the case ma
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Thinoptics, Inc.
    Inventors: Gad Ponte, Tadmor Shalon
  • Patent number: 11994752
    Abstract: The present invention relates to self-customized glasses. The self-customized glasses allow a wearer to assemble essential parts of the glasses in a self-customized type, can allow the wearer to make glasses with various forms according to the wearer's taste since allowing the wearer to select colors, patterns or designs of essential parts of the glasses by applying various custom-assembly forms or micro LED display skins to the essential parts, and provide rimless glasses with feelings of rimless glasses, half-rim glasses and full-rim glasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Inventors: Seong Kyu Lim, Jong Ho Lim, Jong Yoon Lim, Myeong Hee Kim
  • Patent number: 11994749
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes 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 refractive power and a concave image-side surface; a fifth lens having a refractive power; a sixth lens having a refractive power; a seventh lens having a refractive power; and an eighth lens having a refractive power and a concave object-side surface, wherein the first to eighth lenses are sequentially disposed in 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ju Hwa Son, Min Hyuk Im, Ga Young An, Yong Joo Jo
  • Patent number: 11994740
    Abstract: An optical element drive mechanism is provided. The optical element drive mechanism includes an immovable part, a movable part, and a drive assembly. The movable part is connected to an optical element that includes an optical axis. The movable part is movable relative to the immovable part. The drive assembly drives the movable part to move relative to the immovable part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Pai-Jui Cheng, Shu-Shan Chen, Chieh-An Chang, Chao-Chang Hu
  • Patent number: 11988847
    Abstract: An optical element driving mechanism is provided. The optical element driving mechanism includes a fixed portion, a first movable portion, a second movable portion, a first driving assembly, and a second driving assembly. The first movable portion is movable relative to the fixed portion. The second movable portion is used for holding an optical element having a main axis, and is movable relative to the first movable portion. The first driving assembly is used for driving the first movable portion to move in a first dimension relative to the fixed portion, and the second driving assembly is used for driving the second movable portion to move in a second dimension relative to the fixed portion. The first dimension and the second dimension are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Yun-Fei Wang, Yu-Huai Liao, Sheng-Zong Chen, Wei-Han Hsia, Kun-Shih Lin
  • Patent number: 11988852
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a light field display device, including: a backlight layer; a light control array layer; and a control layer. The backlight layer, the light control array layer, and the control layer are arranged side by side, and images on the backlight layer, the light control array layer, and the control layer are superimposed to form a three-dimensional image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Hefei University of Technology
    Inventors: Guoqiang Lv, Liming Zhu, Lei Wu, Jiechao Sheng, Qibin Feng, Zi Wang
  • Patent number: 11988901
    Abstract: A system includes a pair of electronic contact lenses that obtain respective motion sensor measurements in response to eye movements. A tracking module derives estimated orientations for both eyes based on the sensor measurements and a set of correlations and constraints that describe human eye movement. The model describes the limited number of ways that an individual eye can move and relationships between relative movement of the left and right eye. The tracking module performs filtering based on the measurements and the eye model to suppress noise and generate orientation estimates for both eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Tectus Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek Deepak Bhat, Ramin Mirjalili, Morrison Ulman, Sheng Wan
  • Patent number: 11988900
    Abstract: A nose support for a pair of eyeglasses is disclosed. The nose support comprises an elongate main body comprising a flexing section which is reversibly deflectable between an unflexed state and a flexed state at a proximal end of the main body, a contact section at a distal end of the main body and a soft resilient organic polymeric shell which encases the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Laurent Froissard, Keith E. Fecteau, Gilbert R. Igo, Jimmy L. Wong
  • Patent number: 11988898
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pair of light emitting diode eyeglasses. The light emitting diode eyeglasses include an eyeglass frame that comprises a pair of leg frames and a front frame that is provided with a plurality of light emitting diodes, a communication module for communicating one or more pattern data with a control terminal unit, a control unit that is provided in the eyeglass frame and configured to control driving of the light emitting diodes such that the pattern data is displayed through the light emitting diodes, and a power supply unit that is provided for each leg frame of at least one of the pair of leg frames, and configured to supply electric power to the light emitting diodes, the memory unit, the communication module, and the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: NEOFECT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoyoung Ban, Hyang Jung Kim, Han Sirk Seo, Daehoon Won, Sungjun Roh, Young Geun Choi
  • Patent number: 11982799
    Abstract: A zoom relay system includes an optical element for receiving light from an object. The zoom relay system is adapted to generate an image of the object on an image plane. The system includes a single varifocal lens group positioned along an optical axis. The varifocal lens group includes at least one lens for providing magnification and a varifocal freeform lens including two lens plates. The lens plates are configured to be disposed along a dimension transverse to the optical axis, such that, when the varifocal lens group is moved along the optical axis to adjust the magnification, the lens plates of the varifocal freeform lens are displaced in the transverse dimension relative to each other to provide compensation, such that, when the magnification is changed, a distance between the object and the image plane remains constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: RAYTHEON CANADA LIMITED
    Inventor: Stan Szapiel