Patents Examined by DaWayne Pinkney
  • Patent number: 11774782
    Abstract: An optical device includes an electro-optical layer and conductive electrodes disposed over opposing first and second side of the electro-optical layer. Control circuitry is configured to apply at least first control voltage waveforms and second control voltage waveforms between the conductive electrodes so as to generate respective first and second phase modulation profiles in the electro-optical layer, which cause rays of optical radiation that are incident on the device to converge or diverge with respective first and second focal powers, and to change from the first focal power to the second focal power by concurrently applying overshoot control voltages to each of a plurality of the conductive electrodes for different, respective transition periods, followed by application of the second control voltage waveforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: OPTICA AMUKA (A.A.) LTD.
    Inventors: Yoav Yadin, Yariv Haddad, Shamir Rosen, Itamar Haim Grutman, Yuval Vardy
  • Patent number: 11771317
    Abstract: Ocular surface interferometry devices, systems, and methods are disclosed for imaging an ocular tear film. An imaging device can be focused on the lipid layer of the tear film to capture optical wave interference interactions of specularly reflected light from the tear film combined with a background signal(s) in a first image, wherein the specularly reflected light may be produced from various portions of the ocular tear film by obliquely illuminating various portions of the ocular tear film with a multi-wavelength light source, such as in a tiling pattern(s). The imaging device can also be focused on the lipid layer to capture a second image containing the background signal(s) present in the first image. The second image can be subtracted from the first image to reduce and/or eliminate the background signal(s) in the first image to produce a resulting image, which can used to measure a tear film layer thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Tearscience, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald R. Korb, William L. Weber, Randal B. Chinnock, Benjamin T. Gravely, Stephen M. Grenon
  • Patent number: 11768373
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present disclosure is a VR glasses which includes: a screen frame and a bottom plate, wherein the screen frame is fixed to the bottom plate, the bottom plate is provided with two light-transmitting holes symmetrically, and an edge of the screen frame has a first side structure perpendicular to the bottom plate; a first lens barrel and a second lens barrel, wherein the first lens barrel and the second lens barrel communicate with the two light-transmitting holes and each of the first lens barrel and the second lens barrel is provided with a lens; and a transmission mechanism, wherein the transmission mechanism is a stepped adjustment mechanism, the transmission mechanism is arranged close to the first side structure of the screen frame, the first lens barrel and the second lens barrel is configured to move toward each other through the transmission mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: QINGDAO PICO TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zishang Wang
  • Patent number: 11759106
    Abstract: In some embodiments, readily understandable information displays are provided to help an operator guide an eye of a subject into an eyebox of a retinal imaging system. In some embodiments, a three-dimensional position of the eye with respect to the retinal imaging system is determined, and an interface that includes a three-dimensional representation of the position of the eye with respect to the eyebox is generated. In some embodiments, the gaze direction may also be determined and presented in the interface, so that the operator can also prompt the subject to correct issues with incorrect gaze direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: VERILY LIFE SCIENCES LLC
    Inventor: Ryan Kramer
  • Patent number: 11754901
    Abstract: Electrochromic device including: first electrode; a first auxiliary electrode; a second electrode; a second auxiliary electrode having average distance of 100 mm or less with the first auxiliary electrode; an electrochromic layer; a solid electrolyte layer; and controlling unit configured to control to apply voltage according to a driving pattern that is at least one selected from the group consisting of a first driving pattern, a second driving pattern, and an initialization driving pattern, wherein the first driving pattern is a driving pattern configured to turn the electrochromic layer into first coloring state, the second driving pattern is a driving pattern configured to turn the first coloring state into a second coloring state that has coloring density lower than coloring density of the first coloring state, and the initialization driving pattern is driving pattern for forming an initial decolored state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tohru Yashiro, Keiichiroh Yutani, Fuminari Kaneko, Tohru Hasegawa, Naoki Ura
  • Patent number: 11754902
    Abstract: Onboard EC window controllers are described. The controllers are configured in close proximity to the EC window, for example, within the IGU. The controller may be part of a window assembly, which includes an IGU having one or more EC panes, and thus does not have to be matched with the EC window, and installed, in the field. The window controllers described herein have a number of advantages because they are matched to the IGU containing one or more EC devices and their proximity to the EC panes of the window overcomes a number of problems associated with conventional controller configurations. Also described are self-meshing networks for electrochromic windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: View, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen C. Brown, Dhairya Shrivastava, Erich R. Klawuhn, Trevor Frank, Douglas Silkwood
  • Patent number: 11745566
    Abstract: An embodiment wired power transmission system for a smart glass includes a connector module including a power connector connected to a holder bracket configured to fix the smart glass, the connector module being configured to transmit power to the smart glass, an inverter configured to vary an applied voltage of the power to change the power or the voltage of the smart glass, and a cable module electrically connecting the power connector and the inverter through a power cable, the cable configured to maintain an electrical connection state by forming a tension of the power cable through an interval change between the connector module and the inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, Pyeong Hwa Automotive Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Hyun Nam, Seung-Sik Han, Jae-Seung Lee, Dae-Hee Lee, Min-Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 11747697
    Abstract: The embodiments relate to an electrochromic device having flexibility while achieving an excellent light transmission adjusting function based on the electrochromic principle. The electrochromic device comprises a light transmission variable structure interposed between a first base layer and a second base layer, wherein the light transmission variable structure comprises a first chromic layer and a second chromic layer, the first chromic layer comprises a reducing chromic material, the second chromic layer comprises an oxidizing chromic material, and the value of c as defined in Equation 1 is 1.0 to 1.6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SKC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Bae Oh, Seong Hwan Lee, Yong Sang La, Hyung Mo Kim
  • Patent number: 11747630
    Abstract: An adjustable frame assembly for augmented reality eyewear. The frame assembly includes a face portion for supporting at least one waveguide that creates an eye box, a support rest for supporting the face portion on a user, and a coupling for adjusting the position of the face portion relative to the support rest. This enables movement of the waveguide eye box relative to the support rest to position the eye box in front of the wearer’s eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Julio Cesar Castañeda, Mathias Hintermann, Kevin David Page, Samuel Bryson Thompson
  • Patent number: 11740440
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens having negative refractive power, a fifth lens having positive refractive power, a sixth lens having a convex image-side surface, and a seventh lens, disposed sequentially from an object side. The optical imaging system satisfies ?5.0<f2/f<?2.0, where f is a focal length of the optical imaging system and f2 is a focal length of the second lens. An F No. of the optical imaging system is less than 1.7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Il Yong Park, In Do Seo, Yong Joo Jo
  • Patent number: 11730357
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Ohio State Innovation Foundation
    Inventors: Teng Leng Ooi, Chao Han
  • Patent number: 11733580
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: 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
  • Patent number: 11726321
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus for stereoscopic viewing has a frame that seats against the head of a viewer. A left-eye imaging apparatus and a right-eye imaging apparatus are supported by the frame. The frame is reshapeable in a manner that changes a relative alignment of the left-eye imaging apparatus and the right-eye imaging apparatus to accommodate different viewer head anatomies. An adjustment mechanism responsive to the reshaping of the frame restores relative alignment of the left-eye imaging apparatus and the right-eye imaging apparatus for conveying stereoscopic virtual images to the viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Vuzix Corporation
    Inventors: Tyler W. Porter, Robert J. Schultz, Robert W. Gray
  • Patent number: 11717152
    Abstract: A method, a computer program and a device for evaluating a tear fluid layer non-invasively. The method, computer program, and device include a step of detecting a time when color information in a predetermined region in a tear fluid layer interference fringe image changes by a threshold value or more as an eyelid opening time, a step of extracting an image at the time when the predetermined time has passed from the eyelid opening time as an extracted image from the tear fluid interference fringe images, a determination value calculation step of calculating a determination value from the color information in a pixel in a local region by scanning a predetermined target region, a step of detecting a corresponding pixel by comparing the calculated determination value and a threshold value, and an evaluation step of evaluating tear fluid layer breakdown by comparing the detected pixel and a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: KOWA COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Katsumi Yabusaki
  • Patent number: 11709379
    Abstract: A method of assembling an adjustable fluid-filled lens assembly comprising biaxially tensioning an elastomeric membrane to a surface tension of greater than 180 N/m, typically greater than 1000 N/m; thermally conditioning the tensioned membrane, e.g., for one hour at a temperature of about 80° C., to accelerate relaxation of the membrane; mounting the membrane to a peripheral support structure whilst maintaining the tension in the membrane; assembling the mounted membrane with one or more other components to form an enclosure with the membrane forming one wall of the enclosure; and thereafter filling the enclosure with a fluid. The membrane may be formed from an aromatic polyurethane, and the fluid may be a phenylated siloxane. In some embodiments, the membrane is able to hold a substantially constant surface tension of at least 180 N/m for a period of at least 12 months.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: ADLENS LTD
    Inventors: Robert Edward Stevens, Thomas Jacoby, Derek Paul Forbes Bean, William Guest, Jon Nisper, Tom Worsley, Ashutosh Kumar, Richard Wilhelm Janse Van Rensburg, Peter Lee Crossley, Rita Stella
  • Patent number: 11709358
    Abstract: A waveguide display includes a waveguide and a staircase structure coupled to the waveguide. The waveguide includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a holographic material layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The holographic material layer includes a first grating and a second grating. The staircase structure is positioned on top of at least a portion of the first grating but not on top of the second grating. The staircase structure includes an input grating that is on top of the first grating and is configured to couple display light into the waveguide. The first grating is configured to redirect the display light coupled into the waveguide by the input grating towards the second grating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Yang Yang, Wanli Chi, Wai Sze Tiffany Lam, Dominic Meiser
  • Patent number: 11703694
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for calculating or assessing a spectacles lens for an eye of a spectacles wearer. The method includes (a) providing an association of at least one imaging property or aberration of a spectacle lens system with the vision of the spectacles wearer, or of an average spectacles wearer, when observing an object through the spectacles lens system; (b) determining or prescribing a target function for the spectacles lens to be calculated or assessed, in which the association from step (a) is to be evaluated; and (c) calculating or assessing the spectacles lens to be calculated or assessed by evaluating the target function, wherein the target function is evaluated at least once.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Becken, Helmut Altheimer, Adam Muschielok, Yohann Bénard, Anne Seidemann, Andrea Welk, Gregor Esser
  • Patent number: 11698527
    Abstract: An eye-tracking system, including at least one vertical capacitance sensor, configured to measure the vertical position of a cornea of a user's eye by sensing a position of an eyelid of the user; and at least one horizontal capacitance sensor, configured to measure the horizontal position of the cornea of the user's eye by sensing a position of the user's eyeball.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: University of Washington
    Inventors: Jae-Hyun Chung, Vigneshwar Sakthivelpathi, Sang-gyeun Ahn
  • Patent number: 11690510
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for evaluating human eye tracking. One method includes receiving data representing the location of and/or information tracked by an individual's eye or eyes before, during, or after the individual performs a task; identifying a temporal phase or a biomechanical phase of the task performed by the individual; identifying a visual cue in the identified temporal phase or biomechanical phase; and scoring the tracking of the individual's eye or eyes by comparing the data to the visual cue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: RightEye LLC
    Inventors: Adam Todd Gross, Melissa Hunfalvay
  • Patent number: 11684257
    Abstract: The multi-scale scanning imaging system (200) of the retina comprises according to an example a lighting and detection module (210) configured for emitting a lighting beam and for detecting a beam reemitted by the retina, a first scanning module (231) of the lighting beam and the reemitted beam, a first optical path, referred to as a “wide field” path, and a second optical path, referred to as a “small field” path, for focusing the lighting beam on the retina and for receiving the beam reemitted by the retina. The “wide field” path comprises a first optical system (205, 201) configured to conjugate a plane located near a plane of rotation of the scanning module and the plane (17) of the entrance pupil of the eye (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Imagine Eyes
    Inventor: Xavier Levecq