Patents Examined by Jack Dinh
  • Patent number: 12710633
    Abstract: A microscope objective lens (OL) includes a first lens group (G1) and a second lens group (G2) arranged in order from the object side. The first lens group has positive refractive power and converts luminous flux from an object into convergent luminous flux. The second lens group has negative refractive power and converts the convergent luminous flux from the first lens group into parallel luminous flux. The microscope objective lens satisfies the following conditional expression: 14.0?NA×f 1.0<H1/H0 where NA is the numerical aperture of the microscope objective lens; f is the focal distance of the microscope objective lens; H1 is the maximum value of the height of marginal rays from an on-axis object point of the first lens group; and H0 is the height of marginal rays on the lens surface closest to the image side of the second lens group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuta Kusui, Kazuhiro Takasago
  • Patent number: 12704694
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, a lens barrel includes a first lens holding frame, a second lens holding frame, and a sheet member configured to be sandwiched between the first lens holding frame and the second lens holding frame, wherein the second lens holding frame is provided with at least two first nip portions, wherein the first lens holding frame is provided with at least two second nip portions, wherein the sheet member is provided with first sheet portions and second sheet portions, and wherein radial widths of the second sheet portions are smaller than radial widths of the first sheet portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuta Yasutake
  • Patent number: 12702295
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for an ophthalmic testing system that may prescreen for ophthalmic diseases and systemic diseases. In some embodiments, an OTS may provide general screening results and relatives scores to patients that may be at risk for diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, or Alzheimer's. In some implementations, the OTS may offer self-screening features without collecting personal information that may identify the individual. In some embodiments, the OTS may use artificial intelligence and machine learning and machine learning to provide accurate and instant analysis and results to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Inventor: Fred H Lambrou
  • Patent number: 12702289
    Abstract: A system for determining a value of a magnitude associated with a subjective value of an optical feature of at least a corrective lens adapted to an eye of a subject, by implementing a subjective test where the subject is asked to describe his visual performance in a plurality of real optical conditions by choosing one descriptive answer among a set of possible descriptive answers. The system includes one or more processor programmed to collect the results of the subjective test, performed by asking the subject to describe his visual performance in each real optical condition of the plurality of real optical conditions by choosing, for each real optical condition, one descriptive answer, the results comprising each descriptive answer chosen and the corresponding real optical condition, and determine the value of the magnitude by taking into account the initial model and each descriptive answer collected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Gildas Marin, Martha Hernandez-Castaneda, Adele Longo, Aurelie Le Cain
  • Patent number: 12697022
    Abstract: A system may include a headset device and an average hill of vision model (HoV) and may generate an eye difference estimate relative to reference data for an average healthy eye obtained from a normative dataset. The eye difference estimate indicates a difference in overall sensitivity or general height and the rate of sensitivity decay with eccentricity relative to the reference data. The system may generate an individualized HoV model based on the eye difference estimate and the average HoV model, display, on the headset device, a respective stimulus at a plurality of test locations, store responses to the stimulus, and analyze the responses to determine a respective sensitivity value at each of the plurality of test locations. The system may determine total-deviation values by subtracting the respective sensitivity value from a corresponding value of the individualized HoV model, analyze the total-deviation values, and provide feedback based on the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: ENVISION HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Lama Al-Aswad, Iván Marín-Franch
  • Patent number: 12699299
    Abstract: A control circuit controls at least one optical path difference among optical path differences of two optical paths included in a single MZI or each of a plurality of the MZIs included in an optical circuit. The control circuit includes a reference light generation unit, a reference light input unit, an optical power monitor unit, and a controller. The reference light generation unit generates reference light respectively having N types (N is a natural number) of wavelengths different from the wavelength ? of input light input to the optical circuit in parallel or in a time division manner. A reference light input unit inputs the reference light to the optical circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: NTT, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroto Kawakami, Yoshiaki Kisaka, Shoichiro Kuwahara
  • Patent number: 12690769
    Abstract: To provide a fundus information acquisition method that allows observation and photography to be conducted using an optical system of a simple and easy configuration without the need for accurate alignment of the imaging unit with a test eye even when there is a distance from the test eye. A fundus information acquisition method is provided with an infinity-corrected optical system that uses an imaging unit placed opposite an objective lens that causes light passing through the objective lens to form an image as part of a fundus image of a test eye, where at least a site defined by a range of a pupil of the test eye out of a cornea and a crystalline lens of the same test eye is used as the objective lens opposed to a fundus of the test eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: DEEPEYEVISION INC.
    Inventor: Hidenori Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12687696
    Abstract: An optical system includes a first lens group including at least one lens, and a second lens group including at least one lens, wherein the first lens group and the second lens group are disposed in order from an object side, wherein each of the first lens group and the second lens group is configured to move in an optical axis direction to change a magnification between a wide-angle end and a telephoto end, and wherein G1F is a focal length of the first lens group, G2F is a focal length of the second lens group, and |G1F/G2F| has a value of between 0.5 and 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2026
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Hyuk Jang, Jong Gi Lee, Yong Joo Jo
  • Patent number: 12663612
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens sequentially disposed in ascending numerical order along an optical axis from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of an image sensor, wherein TTL/(2*IMG HT)?0.67 is satisfied, where TTL is a distance along the optical axis from an object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging plane of the image sensor, and IMG HT is one half of a diagonal length of the imaging plane of the image sensor, and 15<v1-v3<45 is satisfied, where v1 is an Abbe number of the first lens, and v3 is an Abbe number of the third lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kil Soo Shin, Yong Joo Jo
  • Patent number: 12663621
    Abstract: This application provides an optical lens, a camera module, and an electronic device. The optical lens includes a first lens element group and a second lens element group. The first lens element group and the second lens element group each include a plurality of lens elements. In different use scenarios, the second lens element group can be moved to change a distance between the first lens element group and the second lens element group, to change a focal length of the optical lens. In this application, the second lens element group is disposed within a back focal length range of the first lens element group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhide Nihei, Takumi Matsui, Kaiyuan Zhang, Liuchang Xiao, Rongkai Feng, Yita Chiang
  • Patent number: 12661000
    Abstract: An apparatus for recommending an optical device adapted to a wearer having a current optical device, the apparatus including processing circuitry that receives and stores measured data relating to features measured on the wearer using at least one measuring instrument, anamnesis data relating to the anamnesis of the wearer, and current optical device data relating to the current optical device used by the wearer, that processes at least two of the measured, anamnesis, and current optical device data based on predetermined processing rules, and that recommends an optical device for the wearer based on the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Berangere Laurenceau, Didier Grand-Clement
  • Patent number: 12651388
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of processing repeat B-scans of an imaged region of a body part, the imaged region including an anatomical feature in a first subregion and vasculature of interest in a second subregion of the imaged region, to generate cropped B-scans for use in generating OCT angiography data which provides a representation of the vasculature of interest, the method comprising processing each B-scan of the repeat B-scans by: selecting a subset of the data elements of the B-scan such that the selected data elements are distributed along a representation of the anatomical feature in the B-scan; using the selected data elements to define a respective subregion of interest in the B-scan, which includes OCT data acquired from the second subregion containing the vasculature of interest; and cropping the B-scan to leave the subregion of interest in the B-scan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: OPTOS PLC
    Inventor: Gagarine Yaikhom
  • Patent number: 12648692
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes an illumination optical system, an optical scanner, an imaging optical system, a controller, and an image forming unit. The illumination optical system is configured to generate slit-shaped illumination light. The optical scanner is configured to deflect the illumination light to guide the illumination light to a fundus of a subject's eye. The imaging optical system is configured to guide returning light of the illumination light from the fundus to an image sensor. The controller is configured to control the optical scanner. The image forming unit is configured to form an image of the fundus based on a light receiving result captured in an imaging target region on a light receiving surface of the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Takahashi, Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 12648688
    Abstract: According to a medical system of an aspect example, an ophthalmic data acquiring unit includes at least one ophthalmic examination apparatus for acquiring ophthalmic data from a patient, and an internal medicine data acquiring unit includes at least one internal medicine examination apparatus for acquiring internal medicine data from the patient. An inference processor is configured to perform inference processing using a trained model constructed by machine learning using training data that includes ophthalmic data, internal medicine data, and diagnostic result data. The inference processor generates inferred diagnostic data by performing the inference processing based at least on the ophthalmic data of the patient acquired by the ophthalmic data acquiring unit and the internal medicine data of the patient acquired by the internal medicine data acquiring unit. An output unit outputs a result of the inference processing performed by the inference processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignees: RIKEN, TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Wada, Masayuki Maruyama, Norihito Saito, Kei Taneishi, Yasufumi Fukuma, Masahiro Akiba, Gaku Takeuchi, Kana Minamide
  • Patent number: 12642430
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing a retinal angiogram, which can be used to non-invasively quantify retinal perfusion by measuring differences in retinal vascular density. The systems and methods can be used to measure a response of the vasculature, particularly in the choriocapillaris. The systems and methods can be used to diagnose neurodegenerative conditions, associated sleep and mood disorders, and measure metabolic reserve. In particular, the systems and methods can also be used for both diagnostics and prognostics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Peter V. Sguigna, Benjamin M. Greenberg, Darrel Conger
  • Patent number: 12635877
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for quantifying the vascular pattern using ocular imaging that shows vessel profiles for the detection, prevention, and treatment of diabetic retinopathy and other related ocular vascular diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: Ohio State Innovation Foundation
    Inventors: Yanhui Ma, Matthew Ohr, Cynthia Roberts
  • Patent number: 12635874
    Abstract: A method for inspecting an ophthalmic lens for the presence of an unacceptable semi-opaque defect in a lens body thereof comprises the steps of: illuminating the lens body with laser light in an area bounded by an edge of the lens body; detecting the intensity of laser light scattered by the illuminated lens body in a predetermined detection direction which is different from a direction of reflection; comparing the detected intensity of the scattered laser light with a predetermined threshold intensity; determining a size of at least one coherent area in which the detected intensity of the scattered laser light is higher than the predetermined threshold intensity; determining whether the size of the at least one coherent area is larger than a predetermined threshold size, and rejecting the ophthalmic lens in case the size of the at least one coherent area is larger than the predetermined threshold size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Vladimir Dovgal, Sandra Kraus
  • Patent number: 12619081
    Abstract: An optical system guides a light beam from an image display element to an exit pupil and includes, in order from an exit pupil side to an image display element side, a first transmissive reflective surface, a second transmissive reflective surface, and an optical element disposed closer to the exit pupil than the first transmissive reflective surface. The optical element includes, in order from the exit pupil side to the image display element side, a first optical element made of a first optical material and a second optical element made of a second optical material different from the first optical material. The first and second optical elements are cemented together, and a diffraction grating is formed on a cemented surface. The diffraction grating includes a grating surface and a grating wall surface, the grating surface having a convex shape facing the image display element side. A predetermined inequality is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu Miyajima, Yuma Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 12605288
    Abstract: A method is disclosed, comprising obtaining at least one metric of an eye; and determining, based on the at least one metric of the eye, at least one parameter for manufacturing an ophthalmic shield to be worn on the eye. In some embodiments, the ophthalmic shield may have a minimum horizontal dimension of 18 mm and a minimum vertical dimension of 15 mm. In some embodiments, the ophthalmic shield may have a minimum horizontal dimension of 20 mm and a minimum vertical dimension of 17 mm. In some embodiments, the ophthalmic shield may have a minimum horizontal dimension of 26 mm and a minimum vertical dimension of 22 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: Ocular Surface Innovations Inc.
    Inventors: John Gelles, Jerome Legerton
  • Patent number: 12605062
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for displaying, on an autostereoscopic display system comprising a switchable autostereoscopic display, a composed stereoscopic image providing a 3D rendering to said user with a resolution of N pixels and a 2D image providing a flat rendering to said user at a higher resolution than the composed stereoscopic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2025
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: Avatar Medical
    Inventors: Mohamed El Beheiry, Elodie Brient-Litzler, Quentin Petit, Nicolas Philippon