Patents Examined by Jack Dinh
  • Patent number: 11874527
    Abstract: A reduction optical system (Gr) disposed on an image side of a main optical system is configured such that a composite focal length of the main optical system and the reduction optical system is shorter than a focal length of the main optical system. The reduction optical system has a positive refractive power, and includes a plurality of positive lenses and a plurality of negative lenses. The reduction optical system satisfies inequalities with respect to a lateral magnification of the reduction optical system disposed on the image side of the main optical system, a focal length of the reduction optical system, a focal length of a positive lens Gp1 included in the plurality of positive lenses, and a refractive index of the positive lens Gp1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiko Yuki, Kazuya Shimomura
  • Patent number: 11867889
    Abstract: A lens system for imaging includes, in order from the object side, a first lens group with negative refractive power, a second lens group with positive refractive power, a third lens group with positive refractive power, a stop, and a fourth lens group with positive refractive power. The third lens group includes, closest to the image plane side, a cemented lens on the object side of the stop and whose image plane-side surface includes a concave surface on the object side. The fourth lens group includes, closest to the object side, a cemented lens on the image plane side of the stop and whose object-side surface includes a concave surface on the image plane side. A radius of curvature g3er of the object side concave surface and the radius of curvature g4fr of the image plane side concave surface satisfy the following condition: 2.5?|g4fr/g3er|?4.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NITTOH INC.
    Inventor: Yuya Miyashita
  • Patent number: 11867972
    Abstract: A lens moving apparatus including a housing; a bobbin disposed in the housing; a coil disposed on the bobbin; a magnet disposed on the housing to correspond to the coil; an upper elastic member coupled to an upper portion of the bobbin and an upper portion of the housing; and a damper coupled to the first elastic member and the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Taek Lee, Byung Wook Son, Sang Ok Park, Seong Min Lee
  • Patent number: 11844572
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an improved method for photobleaching an eye of a subject. The disclosed method may be used in a number of psychophysical test methods, including, but not limited to, measurement of dark adaptation. The improved method for photobleaching involves at least one of the following improvements: (i) the use of a bleaching light emitting a particular wavelength of light or a tailored spectrum of wavelengths; (ii) restricting or otherwise spatially tailoring the region of the retina that is subject to photobleaching; and (iii) utilizing a bleaching light having an intensity that is at or below the intensity of ambient daylight. The present disclosure additionally provides a combination of a photobleaching light and an apparatus to administer a psychophysical test suitable for use in practicing the disclosed methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: THE UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: John G. Edwards, Gregory R. Jackson
  • Patent number: 11841988
    Abstract: Described are various embodiments of a light field testing device, adjusted pixel rendering method and computer-readable medium therefor, and testing system and method using same. In one embodiment, a light field device, system or computer-implemented method is provided to dynamically adjust user perception, via a light field display, of at least one testing optotype in accordance with a vision-based test, while also providing test administrative guidance via the light field display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Evolution Optiks Limited
    Inventors: Raul Mihali, Yaiza Garcia, Guillaume Lussier, Matej Goc, Daniel Gotsch
  • Patent number: 11841551
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes a first lens element to a seventh lens element. The first lens element, the fifth lens element and the sixth lens element are made of plastic. The optical axis region of the image-side surface of the second lens element is convex, the optical axis region of the image-side surface of the third lens element is convex, the optical axis region of the object-side surface of the fourth lens element is convex and the optical axis region of the image-side surface of the seventh lens element is concave to satisfy (T5+G56+T6)/(G23+T3+G34+T4+G45)?1.200 by controlling the surface curvatures of each lens element to enlarge HFOV, to reduce the system length and to have good imaging quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ta-Cheng Fan, Jiali Lian, Qi Liu
  • Patent number: 11835691
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical imaging lens. The optical imaging lens comprises eight lens elements positioned in an order from an object side to an image side. Through controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces of the lens elements, the optical imaging lens may enlarge aperture stop and image height and sustain relative illumination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hung-Chien Hsieh, Qingzhi Zhu, Wei-Jeh Kao
  • Patent number: 11835686
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses an optical imaging lens, wherein the optical imaging lens sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis includes, a first lens having a focal power; a second lens having a focal power, with an object side surface being a convex surface, and an image side surface being a concave surface; a third lens having a focal power; a fourth lens having a focal power; a fifth lens having a focal power, with an object side surface being a concave surface; a sixth lens having a focal power; a seventh lens having a positive focal power; and an eighth lens having a negative focal power; wherein, a total effective focal length f of the optical imaging lens and a combined focal length f34 of the third lens and the fourth lens satisfy: 0<f/f34?0.6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Saifeng Lv, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11829003
    Abstract: A lens optical system includes a first lens group in which a first lens of an object side is composed of a meniscus lens having a positive refractive power, and having a positive refractive power as a whole, a second lens group arranged closer to an image side I than the first lens group, the second lens group being a focusing group for correcting a change in image distance depending on a change in object distance, being composed of a single lens, and having a negative refractive power as a whole, and a third lens group arranged closer to the image side I than the second lens group, the third lens group including a plurality of lenses and having a positive refractive power as a whole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SAMYANG OPTICS CO., LTD
    Inventor: Moon Kyung Kim
  • Patent number: 11828910
    Abstract: An image lens assembly includes five lens elements, which are, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical path, 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 has positive refractive power. The third lens element has negative refractive power. The fourth lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The fifth lens element has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The image-side surface of the fifth lens element includes at least one convex critical point in an off-axis region thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chung-Yu Wei, Hung-Shuo Chen, Kuan-Chun Wang, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 11829044
    Abstract: A multi-layer device comprising a first substrate and a first electrically conductive layer on a surface thereof, the first electrically conductive layer having a sheet resistance to the flow of electrical current through the first electrically conductive layer that varies as a function of position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: HALIO, INC.
    Inventors: Howard S. Bergh, John David Bass, Jonathan Ziebarth, Nicolas Timmerman, Zachariah Hogan, Karin Yaccato, Howard W. Turner
  • Patent number: 11823598
    Abstract: Described are various embodiments of process, system and device to automatically adjust user perception of an input, whereby and adjusted image perception value is variably defined for different input locations to create at least one of a multi-focal effect, a progressive perception adjustment, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Evolution Optiks Limited
    Inventors: Guillaume Lussier, Raul Mihali, Yaiza Garcia, Matej Goc
  • Patent number: 11816258
    Abstract: A head-mounted display system is disclosed herein. The head-mounted display system includes an input device, the input device configured to output an input signal based upon an input response by a user; a head-mounted visual display device having an output screen, the head-mounted visual display device configured to display one or more screen images on the output screen; and at least one data processing device operatively coupled to the input device and the head-mounted visual display device. The at least one data processing device is programmed to generate and display at least one displaceable visual object and visual target on the output screen of the head-mounted visual display device; receive an input signal from the input device based upon an input response by the user; and control the movement of the displaceable visual object towards the visual target based upon the input signal received from the input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Bertec Corporation
    Inventors: Necip Berme, Murat Kerim Berme, Fernando Vanderlinde dos Santos, Todd Christopher Wilson
  • Patent number: 11806079
    Abstract: A system for improving a patient's vision, comprising means for diagnosing and monitoring a deterioration in macular vision or macular vision loss in the patient's eye, and means for augmenting the use of a preferred retinal location (PRL) and eccentric fixation in case the deterioration in macular vision or macular vision loss was detected. A method for improving a patient's vision, comprising: diagnosing and monitoring a deterioration in macular vision or macular vision loss in the patient's eye; and augmenting the use of a preferred retinal location (PRL) and eccentric fixation in case the deterioration in macular vision or macular vision loss was detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: NOVASIGHT LTD.
    Inventors: Ran Yam, Michael Belkin, Dan Oz, Oren Yehezkel
  • Patent number: 11789531
    Abstract: Described are various embodiments of a light field vision-based testing device, system and method. One such device comprises an array of digital display pixels; a corresponding array of light field shaping elements (LFSEs); a hardware processor operable to adjust perception of a defined optotype within a range of visual acuity compensations; and an adjustable refractive optical system adjustable to selectively produce a complementary visual acuity compensation to extend each of a cylindrical compensation range and a spherical compensation range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Evolution Optiks Limited
    Inventors: Faleh Mohammad Faleh Altal, Guillaume Lussier, Matej Goc, Yaiza Garcia
  • Patent number: 11782249
    Abstract: An optical system, a camera module, and an electronic device are provided. The optical system includes a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, and a third lens group having a positive refractive power which are sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side along an optical axis of the optical system. The first lens group includes a first lens. The second lens group includes a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens. The third lens group includes a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, and an eighth lens. A distance between any two groups of the first lens group, the second lens group, and the third lens group is adjustable such that the optical system is operable to be at a telephoto end, an intermediate, and a wide-angle end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignees: OFILM GROUP CO., LTD., JIANGXI JINGCHAO OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lu Hua, Jian Yang, Ming Li
  • Patent number: 11770105
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology may comprise methods and apparatus for driver calibration. The methods and apparatus may comprise various circuits and/or systems to minimize an offset output current (e.g., a drive current) due to an offset voltage in an operational amplifier. The methods and apparatus may comprise a current comparator circuit and a replica circuit that operate in conjunction with each other to monitor the drive current and provide a feedback signal, which is then used to adjust the drive current and improve the accuracy of the drive current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventor: Seiji Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11768348
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a plurality of lens units which move in zooming, and a final lens unit having a positive refractive power, an interval between each pair of adjacent lens units changing in zooming, the plurality of lens units including a lens unit having a negative refractive power, the first lens unit including a negative lens and a positive lens, at least a part of the first lens unit moving for focusing, the first lens unit including a negative lens made of a material satisfying inequalities defined by a refractive index, an Abbe number, and a partial dispersion ratio, and the zoom lens satifying an inequality defined by a maximum value of an Abbe number of at least one positive lens of the first lens unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaru Sakamoto, Tomoya Yamada
  • Patent number: 11766173
    Abstract: A medical imaging binocular indirect ophthalmoscope with computational processing unit, enabling simultaneous or time-delayed viewing and collaborative review of photographs or videos from an eye examination. The invention also claims a method for photographing and integrating information associated with the images, videos, or other data generated from the eye examination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Scanoptix, Inc.
    Inventor: Arjun Dirghangi
  • Patent number: 11762254
    Abstract: Certain embodiments relate to optical devices and methods of fabricating optical devices that pre-treat a sub-layer to enable selective removal of the pre-treated sub-layer and overlying layers. Other embodiments pertain to methods of fabricating an optical device that apply a sacrificial material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: View, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd William Martin, Abhishek Anant Dixit, Fabian Wilbur Strong, Anshu Ajit Pradhan