Patents Examined by Jack Dinh
  • Patent number: 11630317
    Abstract: A collimator includes a front lens sleeve, a clamping groove disposed on the front lens sleeve, a linking sleeve fastened on the clamping groove, a snapping groove disposed on the linking sleeve distal the front lens sleeve, a connection sleeve slidably connected to the snapping groove, a constraint sleeve disposed on the snapping groove, and a limit groove disposed on an inner surface of the constraint sleeve. The components cooperate with each other. The test chart is tilted relative to the optical axis of the lens and makes the test chart distributed at different distances along the axis. When using the camera to shoot the collimator, the clarity of different components reflects the relative focus position of the camera so as to detect the vehicle mounted camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Shenzhen General Core Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhongfei Chen, Minglin He, Shuaitian Jiang, Jianzhi Song, Deyu Li
  • Patent number: 11619995
    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: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: EVOLUTION OPTIKS LIMITED
    Inventors: Raul Mihali, Yaiza Garcia, Guillaume Lussier, Matej Goc, Daniel Gotsch
  • Patent number: 11612319
    Abstract: Systems and methods for Broad Line Fundus Imaging (BLFI), an imaging approach that is a hybrid between confocal and widefield imaging systems, are presented. These systems and methods are focused on improving the quality and signal of broad line fundus images or imaging methods to create high contrast and high resolution fundus images. Embodiments related to improved pupil splitting, artifact removal, reflex minimization, adaptable field of view, instrument alignment and illumination details are considered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Bublitz, Matthew J. Everett, Csaba Farkas, Michael Kempe, Yue Qiu, Tobias Schmitt-Manderbach
  • Patent number: 11612317
    Abstract: A system and method for ophthalmic surgery in which a light field camera is used to capture a digital image of the surgical field including the eye. The digital image is used to create image information and directional information, which is then used to from a three dimensional (3D) image with motion parallax.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventor: Niels A. Abt
  • Patent number: 11598931
    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: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Taek Lee, Byung Wook Son, Sang Ok Park, Seong Min Lee
  • Patent number: 11583181
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a medical imaging binocular indirect ophthalmoscope with onboard sensor array and 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: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Scanoptix, Inc.
    Inventor: Arjun Dirghangi
  • Patent number: 11586016
    Abstract: A lens assembly includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens, all of which are arranged in order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens is with negative refractive power. The second lens is a meniscus lens and includes a convex surface facing the object side and a concave surface facing the image side. The third lens includes a concave surface facing the object side. The fourth lens is with positive refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the object side. The fifth lens includes a convex surface facing the image side. The sixth lens is with negative refractive power. The seventh lens is with positive refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the object side. The fifth lens and the sixth lens are cemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignees: SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., ASIA OPTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventor: Yuan-Chen Chen
  • Patent number: 11577648
    Abstract: A vehicular frameless interior rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror head and a mounting portion. The mirror head includes a mirror reflective element and a mirror casing. The mirror reflective element includes a glass substrate having a planar front side and a planar rear side. No portion of the mirror casing overlaps the planar front side of the glass substrate of the mirror reflective element. A camera is disposed within the mirror casing. With the mounting portion of the mirror assembly mounted at an in-cabin side of a windshield of a vehicle, the camera views a driver of the vehicle, and when the mirror head is moved by the driver of the vehicle to adjust the rearward view provided by the mirror reflective element to the driver, the camera moves in tandem with movement of the mirror head. The camera is part of a driver monitoring system of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: MAGNA MIRRORS OF AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Darryl P. De Wind, Donald S. Rawlings, John T. Uken
  • Patent number: 11579453
    Abstract: There is provided an optical device, including an input aperture, an output aperture, at least first and second light-transmitting substrates each having two major surfaces and edges, an input surface for coupling light waves into the substrate for effecting total internal reflection inside the substrate, and an output surface for coupling light waves out of the substrate, a major surface of the first substrate is attached to a major surface of the second substrate and the input surface of the first substrate is a partially reflecting surface, such that part of the light waves passing through the input aperture is partially reflected by the partially reflecting input surface and coupled into the first substrate and another part passes through the partially reflecting input surface and is coupled by the input surface of the second substrate into the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: OORYM OPTICS LTD.
    Inventors: Yaakov Amitai, Nadav Amitai
  • Patent number: 11579508
    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: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Halio, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard S. Bergh, John David Bass, Jonathan Ziebarth, Nicolas Timmerman, Zachariah Hogan, Karin Yaccato, Howard W. Turner
  • Patent number: 11579468
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and processes for constructing a contact lens. In one embodiment, a contact lens assembly is provided, comprising: a curved polymer polarizer with an aperture; a lenslet disposed inside the aperture wherein the lenslet enables imaging near objects; and a filter attached to the lenslet. In further embodiments, a method for fabricating a flexible contact lens is provided, comprising: fabricating an element having an extrusion; providing a front concave mold, wherein the front mold has an intrusion to accommodate the extrusion of the optical element; affixing the extrusion of the optical element to the intrusion of the front mold; attaching a back convex mold to the front concave mold, thereby forming a mold cavity; and filling the mold cavity with a pre-polymerized liquid, whereby upon polymerization, the pre-polymerized liquid forms the flexible contact lens and the optical element is partially encapsulated within the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: INNOVEGA INC.
    Inventors: Jerome Legerton, Randall Sprague
  • Patent number: 11573395
    Abstract: The present embodiment of the present invention relates to a lens driving device, comprising: a housing; a bobbin disposed in the housing; a first coil disposed on the bobbin; a magnet which is disposed on the housing and faces the first coil; a base disposed under the housing; a substrate which is disposed on an upper surface of the base and comprises a circuit member including a second coil facing the magnet; an upper elastic member disposed on an upper portion of the bobbin and coupled to the bobbin and the housing; a support member coupled to the upper elastic member; and a terminal member elastically connecting the support member with the substrate, wherein the terminal member comprises; a first connector coupled to the substrate; and a second connector coupled to the support member; and wherein the second connector is disposed at a position lower than the first connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Jin Jung, Seung Taek Shin, Kap Jin Lee, Jin Suk Han, Sang Jun Min
  • Patent number: 11573433
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved ophthalmic lenses, particularly intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for reducing dysphotopsia effects, such as haloes and glare, in extended range of vision lenses. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include a central zone with a first set of three echelettes arranged around the optical axis, the first set having a profile in r-squared space. An intermediate zone includes a second set of three echelettes arranged around the optical axis, the second set having a profile in r-squared space that is different than the profile of the first set. A peripheral zone includes a third set of three echelettes arranged around the optical axis, the third set having a profile in r-squared space that is different than the profile of the first set and the profile of the second set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: AMO Groningen B.V.
    Inventors: Hendrik A. Weeber, Robert Rosen
  • Patent number: 11573408
    Abstract: An image capturing optical system includes seven lens elements, the seven lens elements being, 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, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. An image-side surface of the fifth lens element is convex in a paraxial region thereof. An image-side surface of the sixth lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof. The seventh lens element has negative refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Po-Lun Hsu, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 11571878
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method for preparing an electrochromic device. The method includes placing an edge protection material on a first and second substrates, placing a first and second interlayers respectively within the edge protection material on the first and second substrates, wherein the edge protection material surrounds edges of the first and second interlayers, and interposing an electrochromic film between the first and second interlayers. The edge protection material prevents chemicals in the first and second interlayers from entering into the electrochromic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: FURCIFER INC.
    Inventors: Zhao Chen, Jian Wang, Yan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11567295
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an optical imaging lens assembly including, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens. At least one of the first lens to the seventh lens is a glass lens. The third lens has positive refractive power, and an image-side surface of the third lens is a convex surface. An object-side surface of the seventh lens is a convex surface, and an image-side surface of the seventh lens is a concave surface. A maximum field-of-view FOV of the optical imaging lens assembly satisfies FOV?134.56°. An effective half-aperture DT62 of an image-side surface of the sixth lens and an effective half-aperture DT72 of the image-side surface of the seventh lens satisfy 0.54?DT62/DT72.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Inventors: Chaoqun Jiang, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11567385
    Abstract: Disclosed are curved electrochromic devices comprising an electrochromic apparatus disposed between first and second curved layers of transparent material, and the first and second curved layers have exterior and inner surfaces, wherein the inner surfaces face the electrochromic apparatus. Also disclosed are processes for manufacturing the disclosed bubble visors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Patrick J. Kinlen, Matthew A. Flack, Loyal Bruce Shawgo
  • Patent number: 11567303
    Abstract: Provided is a camera optical lens including first to fifth lenses. The camera optical lens satisfies: 0.35?f1/f?0.65; 2.00?f5/f?4.00; 0.90?d6/d8?1.30; and ?10.00?(R5+R6)/(R5?R6)??2.00, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens; f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens; f5 denotes a focal length of the fifth lens; d6 denotes an on-axis distance from an image side surface of the third lens to an object side surface of the fourth lens; d8 denotes an on-axis distance from an image side surface of the fourth lens to an object side surface of the fifth lens; and R5 and R6 respectively denote curvature radiuses of an object side surface and an image side surface of the third lens. The camera optical lens can achieve good optical performance while satisfying design requirements for ultra-thin, long-focal-length lenses having large apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: AAC Optics (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Qiang Wang
  • Patent number: 11561371
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens L1 having negative refractive power, a second lens L2 having positive refractive power, a third lens L3 having positive refractive power, a fourth lens L4, a fifth lens L5, a sixth lens L6, a seventh lens L7, and an eighth lens L8 having negative refractive power, wherein said eighth lens L8 has an aspheric image-side surface having at least one inflection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hitoshi Hirano
  • Patent number: 11561366
    Abstract: The invention discloses a three-piece optical lens for capturing image and a three-piece optical module for capturing image. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis comprises a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; and a third lens with refractive power; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the three lens elements are aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu