Patents Examined by DaWayne A. Pinkney
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Patent number: 12220171Abstract: The ophthalmologic device to be coupled to a correcting device for correcting subject eyes, the correcting device including a right-left pair of two examination windows and a right-left pair of arrangement mechanisms that each arrange first optical elements, includes: a coupling member configured to be detachably coupled to each of coupled members provided on a side surface of the correcting device on a side opposite to an eyepiece side for each subject eye; a second optical element arranged at a position facing a second examination window opposite to a first examination window which is an eyepiece window, when the coupling member is coupled to the coupled member, the second optical element configured to branch a second optical path from a first optical path along the optical axes; and an objective measuring system arranged on the second optical path and configured to acquire ocular characteristics of each subject eye.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoko Tatara, Suguru Miyagawa, Tatsuo Yamaguchi, Makoto Saika
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Patent number: 12216266Abstract: Fluidic glasses for correcting refractive errors of a human or animal are disclosed herein. The fluidic glasses includes at least one flexible fluidic lens having an outer housing and a flexible membrane supported within the outer housing, the flexible membrane at least partially defining a chamber that receives a fluid therein; and a fluid control system operatively coupled to the at least one flexible fluidic lens, the fluid control system configured to insert an amount of the fluid into the chamber of the at least one flexible fluidic lens, or remove an amount of the fluid from the chamber of the at least one flexible fluidic lens, in order to change the shape of the at least one flexible fluidic lens in accordance with the amount of fluid therein, thereby correcting the refractive errors of an eye of a human or animal.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2021Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Inventor: Gholam A. Peyman
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Patent number: 12213736Abstract: An eye-imaging apparatus including red, green, and blue light sources, one or more optical lenses, a light guide cable to transmit light from the light source, a one-chip color image sensor including a shutter, the color image sensor being operable to measure red, green, and blue light in the imaging path and transmit measured colored light in respective red, green, and blue channels. The red, green, and blue light sources are sequentially flashed in synchronization with the operation of the image sensor and the color image sensor captures red, green, and blue images in synchronization with the flashed color. The color image sensor transmits the colored images on respective color channels one at a time.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Natus Medical IncorporatedInventors: Yan Zhou, Willem Crone, John Allison
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Patent number: 12210152Abstract: A display device having a viewing window on a viewing plane is described. The display device comprises a picture generating unit, a first waveguide pupil expander and a second waveguide pupil expander. The picture generating unit is arranged to display a picture on a display plane. The picture is a holographic reconstruction formed from a hologram of the picture. The first waveguide pupil expander comprises an input port arranged to receive light of the picture and to expand a first exit pupil thereof in a first dimension. The second waveguide pupil expander comprises an input port arranged to receive light of the picture and to expand a second exit pupil thereof in the first dimension. The first dimension corresponds to a dimension of the viewing window. A method of expanding a viewing window of a display device is also described.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: ENVISICS LTDInventor: Alexander Cole
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Patent number: 12210151Abstract: A display device having a viewing window on a viewing plane is described. The display device comprises a picture generating unit, a first waveguide pupil expander and a second waveguide pupil expander. The picture generating unit is arranged to display a picture on a display plane. The picture is a holographic reconstruction formed from a hologram of the picture. The first waveguide pupil expander comprises an input port arranged to receive light of the picture and to expand a first exit pupil thereof in a first dimension. The second waveguide pupil expander comprises an input port arranged to receive light of the picture and to expand a second exit pupil thereof in the first dimension. The first dimension corresponds to a dimension of the viewing window. A method of expanding a viewing window of a display device is also described.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Envisics LtdInventor: Alexander Cole
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Patent number: 12204103Abstract: A display device having a viewing window on a viewing plane is described. The display device comprises a picture generating unit, a first waveguide pupil expander and a second waveguide pupil expander. The picture generating unit is arranged to display a picture on a display plane. The picture is a holographic reconstruction formed from a hologram of the picture. The first waveguide pupil expander comprises an input port arranged to receive light of the picture and to expand a first exit pupil thereof in a first dimension. The second waveguide pupil expander comprises an input port arranged to receive light of the picture and to expand a second exit pupil thereof in the first dimension. The first dimension corresponds to a dimension of the viewing window. A method of expanding a viewing window of a display device is also described.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: ENVISICS LTDInventor: Alexander Cole
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Patent number: 12193740Abstract: The exemplified systems and methods disclosed herein involve the contemporaneous and concurrent stimulation of both eyes of a patient with dissimilar visual scenes that substantially span an expected or normal visual field of both eyes. During an assessment via the exemplified system and methods, a test eye (i.e., eye being assessed) is presented a visual scene that is rich in contours (e.g., a scene with rich texture patterns) that substantially span an expected or normal visual field of a person while the non-tested eye is presented an impoverished visual scene (e.g., a contour-free or non-distinguishing-contour scene, e.g., with a homogeneous color, with respect to the contour-rich scene). Defects in the visual field can be detected by assessing for breaks or discontinuity in the observation of the contour-rich scene by the person.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Inventors: Teng Leng Ooi, Chao Han
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Patent number: 12197097Abstract: The present invention relates to variable optical transmission windows and window panels which are used for architectural applications, particularly in building entryway systems. This disclosure is directed to the use and powering of such panels in door and windows that, in part, physically open by manual or automatic sliding, tilting, pushing or rotating about the hinges, unless specifically mentioned otherwise. The doors may also have other electronic devices which provided added user functionality.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Glass Dynamics, Inc.Inventors: Anoop Agrawal, Christopher Angelo, Clemens Hofbauer, Susana J. Castillo, Lori L. Adams, John P. Cronin
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Patent number: 12186019Abstract: An eyeglasses frame is disclosed that includes a left rim and a right rim. Each of the left rim and the right rim has a medial side and a temporal side. The temporal side of one of the left rim and the right rim has a lens mounting edge and a blind recess that extends from the lens mounting edge. The eyeglasses frame also includes a camera enclosure that is disposed on a posterior segment of the temporal side of one of the left rim and the right rim. The camera enclosure extends from a first end adjacent to the lens mounting edge to a second end disposed posterior of the posterior segment of the one of the left rim and the right rim. The second end of the camera enclosure has an observation aperture, wherein an image viewing axis disposed through the observation aperture is angled medially and upwardly.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Globe Biomedical, IncInventor: Joshua Park
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Patent number: 12186017Abstract: A method comprises capturing at least one image of an eye of a user; processing the at least one image to obtain at least one metric of the eye, wherein the obtained at least one metric comprises at least one of: a sagittal depth of the eye of the user for at least one semi-meridian radial distance outside the cornea, a diameter of the cornea of the eye, a position of a center of the pupil or first Purkinje image of the eye, a radius of curvature of the cornea, or a position of the lids of the eye, and an aperture height between the lids; and determining, based on the at least one metric, at least one parameter of a first contact lens to be worn on the eye with display eyewear or a second contact lens to be worn on the eye without the display eyewear.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Innovega, Inc.Inventors: Jerome Legerton, Jay Marsh
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Patent number: 12189095Abstract: An image capturing lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has refractive power. The third lens element has refractive power, and an object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof being aspheric. The fourth lens element has negative refractive power, and an object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof are aspheric. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave object-side surface, and the object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof are aspheric.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2024Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.Inventors: Lin-Yao Liao, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
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Patent number: 12186018Abstract: Systems and methods for tracking the position and condition of an eye during an ophthalmic procedure include an ophthalmic device configured to measure characteristics of an eye, an eye tracker configured to capture a stream of eye images, and a logic device configured to analyze the stream of images to determine whether the eye is fixating on a target object, detect a predetermined blink sequence in the first stream of images, delay for a predetermined tear stabilization period, start a stable tear film interval, and during the stable tear film interval, capture at least one measurement of the eye using the ophthalmic device when the eye is fixating. The blink sequence may include a plurality of blinks in succession and the detection of the blink sequence may include processing the images through a neural network trained to detect an open eye and/or a closed eye.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Alcon Inc.Inventors: Sascha Birkner, Martin GrĂ¼ndig, Peter Zieger
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Patent number: 12181644Abstract: A wide-angle objective in accordance with the invention comprises, in an order from an object-side end to an image-side end, a front group of total positive refractive power having at least four lenses; a middle group of total positive refractive power having at least three lenses; and a rear group of total positive refractive power having at least three lenses, wherein the quotient of the focal length of the front group and the total focal length of the objective amounts to between 2.28 and 2.79, the quotient of the focal length of the middle group and the total focal length of the objective amounts to between 3.02 and 3.69, and the quotient of the focal length of the rear group and the total focal length of the objective amounts to between 3.50 and 4.29.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Leica Camera AGInventors: Stefan Roth, Kathrin Keller
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Patent number: 12171692Abstract: A system, technique and material composition for use in correction of eye condition are disclosed. The system comprising a processing utility and an etching utility. The processing utility comprises: correction pattern module configured for providing a selected two-dimensional pattern in according with input data indicative of vision impermanent of a user, and for generating operational instructions for forming said selected two-dimensional pattern on the surface of the cornea by said etching utility. The etching utility is configured to etching the selected patter on surface of the cornea of a user. The material composition comprises aqueous solution comprising a plurality of nanoparticles, said nanoparticles comprising maghemite nanoparticles wrapped by biocompatible protein chains. The material composition may be used as eye drops thereby allowing the nanoparticles to occupy etched region on the cornea, thereby maintaining correction of eye condition.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: BAR ILAN UNIVERSITYInventors: Zeev Zalevsky, Jean Paul Lellouche, David Smadja, Yifat Harel, Rivka Ben Ishay
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Patent number: 12171496Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for detecting eye alignment during retinal imaging. In an embodiment, the system receives an infrared stream from an imaging device, the infrared stream showing characteristics of an eye of a patient. The system determines, based on the infrared stream, that the eye is improperly aligned at a first time, and outputs sensory feedback indicative of the improper alignment. The system detects, based on the infrared stream at a second time later than the first time, that the eye is properly aligned, and receives an image of a retina of the properly aligned eye from the imaging device.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2020Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Digital Diagnostics Inc.Inventors: Warren James Clarida, Ryan Earl Rohret Amelon, Abhay Shah, Jacob Patrick Suther, Meindert Niemeijer, Michael David Abramoff
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Patent number: 12158684Abstract: An electro-optic display comprising at least two separate layers of electro-optic material, with one of these layers being capable of displaying at least one optical state which cannot be displayed by the other layer. The display is driven by a single set of electrodes between which both layers are sandwiched, the two layers being controllable at least partially independently of one another. Another form of the invention uses three different types of particles within a single electrophoretic layer, with the three types of particles being arranged to shutter independently of one another.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2023Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: E Ink CorporationInventors: Stephen J. Telfer, Richard J. Paolini, Jr., Sunil Krishna Sainis, Randal M. Hill, Isaac W. Moran, Lee Yezek, Alain Bouchard, William Vetterling, George G. Harris, Hywel Morgan, Luke Slominski, Jay William Anseth, Jennifer M. Morrison, Craig A. Herb
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Patent number: 12137979Abstract: A method to analyze an eye with a mobile device includes capturing an eye image using a mobile device camera coupled to a processor; capturing gyroscope or accelerometer readings as image metadata to aid in orientation normalization and image registration by the processor; extracting features of the eye using the image corrected with image metadata; and applying the extracted features to a deep learning neural network to detect eye focus data or eye gaze data.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Inventor: Bao Tran
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Patent number: 12140848Abstract: The present invention relates to variable optical transmission windows and window panels (VLTP) which are used for architectural applications such as building entryway systems and windows. The optical transmission of the VLTPs is reversibly changed by applying an electrical voltage. This disclosure includes combination of more than one VLTP in a single window which darken to different colors. This disclosure is directed to the use and powering of such panels in door and windows. The doors and windows having these VLTPs may also have other electronic devices which provide added user functionality.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Glass Dyenamics, Inc.Inventors: John P. Cronin, Anoop Agrawal, Christopher Angelo, Clemens Hofbauer, Susana J. Castillo, Lori L. Adams
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Patent number: 12135471Abstract: A system includes an electronic contact lens that can detect eye gestures for initiating various actions. The electronic contact lens includes integrated sensors for obtaining sensor measurements characterizing eye motion. The sensor measurements are processed to detect gestures mapped to specific actions such as changing a power state of the electronic contact lens, activating or deactivating a user interface or other feature, or selecting an item from a virtual menu. The eye gestures may involve the user sequentially performing a first saccade quickly followed by a second saccade in an opposite direction from the first saccade.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Inventors: Abhishek Deepak Bhat, Dominic Philip Haine, Ben Rafael Kimel Green, Ramin Mirjalili
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Patent number: 12127789Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a subtle cornea deformation identification method and device based on a pixel-level corneal biomechanical parameter, including the following steps: step 1, sampling and analyzing a dynamic video of corneal stress deformation in a historical database, and calculating pixel-level data; and step 2, configuring an ensemble classifier based on a sampling result and detecting a local change in corneal biomechanics, thus identifying a subtle cornea deformation. The present disclosure has high measurement accuracy and is capable of detecting a local subtle biomechanical change.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2023Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignees: TIANJIN EYE HOSPITAL, WENZHOU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Yan Wang, Xuan Chen, Zuoping Tan, Riwei Wang