Patents Examined by James C. Jones
  • Patent number: 12189094
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes six lens elements. The object-side surface of the second lens element comprises a convex portion in a vicinity of a periphery, the third lens element has positive refractive power and the image-side surface comprises a convex portion in a vicinity of a periphery, the image-side surface of the fifth lens element comprises a convex portion in a vicinity of an optical axis, and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element comprises a concave portion in a vicinity of an optical axis and a convex portion in a vicinity of a periphery. The optical imaging lens as a whole has only the six lens elements. A distance from the object-side surface of the first lens element to the image-side surface of the sixth lens element is TL, a central thickness of the sixth lens element along the optical axis is CT6, and 7.6?TL/CT6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shih Han Chen, Junguang Zhang, Lai Shu Cao
  • Patent number: 12189084
    Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid lens (1) with an adjustable optical power comprising at least the following components: a lens volume (VL) with a first transparent liquid (L1) arranged between a first transparent membrane (21) and a second transparent membrane (22) opposite the first membrane (21), wherein the first membrane (21) has a first side (21-1) facing outwards the lens volume (VL) and a second side (21-2) facing in the opposite direction particularly toward the lens volume (VL), wherein the second membrane (22) has a first side (22-1) facing toward the lens volume (VL) and a second side (22-2) facing in the opposite direction particularly outward the lens volume (VL), a lens shaping element (3) arranged on the first membrane (21), the lens shaping element (3) having a circumferential aperture (3a) defining a lens area (21a) of the first membrane (21) having an adjustable curvature, a rigid transparent window element (5) connected to the second membrane (22) covering a window portion (22a) of the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Optotune Consumer AG
    Inventors: Stephan Smolka, Manuel Aschwanden, David Andreas Niederer, Johannes Haase
  • Patent number: 12189208
    Abstract: A lens control device includes a processor that performs a control of generating image data for each of first wavelength range light and second wavelength range light by an image sensor, in which the processor estimates a first focus position of a focus lens for the first wavelength range light based on a first focus evaluation value determined in accordance with the image data of the first wavelength range light, estimates a second focus position of the focus lens for the first wavelength range light based on a second focus evaluation value determined in accordance with the image data of the second wavelength range light, and performs a control of moving the focus lens along an optical axis based on the first focus position in a case in which a comparison result obtained by comparing the first focus position with the second focus position satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko Sugimoto, Shinichi Shimotsu, Toshihiro Aoi, Tetsuya Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 12181661
    Abstract: In a micromirror device, the upper electrode of the piezoelectric element consists of a plurality of individual electrode parts, each of which is separated by a first stress inversion region and a second stress inversion region. In the first stress inversion region, positive and negative, of a principal stress component having a maximum absolute value among a principal stress, are inverted in a maximum displacement state, in a case of driving in a first resonance mode in which the mirror part is tilted and oscillated around the first axis. In the second stress inversion region, positive and negative, of a principal stress component having a maximum absolute value among a principal stress, are inverted, in a case of driving in a second resonance mode in which the mirror part is tilted and oscillated around the second axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Naono
  • Patent number: 12181657
    Abstract: A high-contrast two-dimensional Micro-Electromechanical System light modulator and methods of fabricating and operating the same in various applications is provided. Generally, the light modulator includes a single, deformable membrane suspended over a surface of a substrate by posts at corners thereof, the deformable membrane including an electrostatically deflectable patterned central portion (CP) and a number of flexures through which the CP is coupled to the posts. A membrane reflector is formed on a surface of the CP, and a substrate reflector over a surface of the substrate, and the substrate reflector exposed through void spaces between the posts, flexures and CP. The light modulator is operable so that when the membrane reflector is deformed into a non-planar surface by electrostatic deflection of the CP, and light reflected from the membrane reflector is brought into phase interference with light reflected from the substrate reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: SILICON LIGHT MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander Payne, James Hunter, Tianbo Liu
  • Patent number: 12174467
    Abstract: A system, method for creating an optical device, and a device to enhance human color vision are disclosed. The system, method for creating the optical device, and device include a substrate, a plurality of thin film layers provided on the substrate, the plurality of thin film layers including materials creating thin film-specific reflectance spectra based on selected pluralities of materials each having their on respective refractive index, and a plurality of colorant layers applied to the plurality of thin film layers, the plurality of colorant layers including at least one colorant, the colorant created based on colorant-specific absorption spectra as defined by selected concentrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: HUE.AI, LLC
    Inventor: Keenan Valentine
  • Patent number: 12174404
    Abstract: A light-controlling device contains a plurality of compounds, wherein the plurality of compounds are compounds having different absorption wavelengths, the light-controlling device has a variable transmittance VT(?) obtained by combining light absorption characteristics changes of the plurality of compounds, and CRMax<CRMaxFP is satisfied. CRMax is a maximum value among ratios of a signal strength ratio of transmitted light in a transmission state and a signal strength ratio of transmitted light in a light reduction state (light reduction state/transmission state or transmission state/light reduction state) in detection light wavelength regions of a photodetector. CRMaxFP is CRMax at a concentration ratio of the plurality of compounds at which wavelength flatness TF of VT(?) in the detection light wavelength regions has a minimum value TFFP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Wataru Kubo
  • Patent number: 12167892
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic information processing apparatus corrects an image of a subject's eye formed by arranging a plurality of A-scan images acquired by scanning inside the subject's eye with measurement light deflected around a scan center position. The ophthalmologic information processing apparatus includes a specifying unit and a transforming unit. The specifying unit is configured to specify a transformation position along a traveling direction of the measurement light passing through the scan center position, the transformation position corresponding to a pixel position in the image. The transforming unit is configured to transform the pixel position into the transformation position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryoichi Hirose, Tatsuo Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 12161409
    Abstract: A medical diagnostic apparatus includes a receiver circuit that receives three-dimensional data of an eye, and processing circuitry configured to segment the three-dimensional data into regions that include a target structural element and regions that do not include the target structural element to produce a segmented three-dimensional data set. The segmenting is performed using a plurality of segmentation algorithms. Each of the plurality of segmentation algorithms is trained separately on different two-dimensional data extracted from the three-dimensional data. The processing circuitry is further configured to generate at least one metric from the segmented three-dimensional data set, and evaluate a medical condition based on the at least one metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: TOPCON CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zaixing Mao, Kyoko Ohno-Matsui, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Noriko Nakao
  • Patent number: 12161417
    Abstract: Provided is a system for measuring and assessing intra-ocular pressure (IOP). The system comprises a processor, a memory, a camera, and instructions written on the memory. The instructions when executed by the processor may cause the system to: capture an image of a user's eye; convert the image to a three-dimensional image; analyze the three-dimensional image; and calculate an IOP measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Click Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventor: Anthony Martorell
  • Patent number: 12150710
    Abstract: Detecting position information related to a face, and more particularly to an eyeball in a face, using a detection and ranging system, such as a Radio Detection And Ranging (“RADAR”) system, or a Light Detection And Ranging (“LIDAR”) system. The position information may include a location of the eyeball, translational motion information related to the eyeball (e.g., displacement, velocity, acceleration, jerk, etc.), rotational motion information related to the eyeball (e.g., rotational displacement, rotational velocity, rotational acceleration, etc.) as the eyeball rotates within its socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Aeva, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard L. Sebastian, Kendall L. Belsley
  • Patent number: 12152878
    Abstract: A mirror unit 2 includes a mirror device 20 including a base 21 and a movable mirror 22, an optical function member 13, and a fixed mirror 16 that is disposed on a side opposite to the mirror device 20 with respect to the optical function member 13. The mirror device 20 is provided with a light passage portion 24 that constitutes a first portion of an optical path between the beam splitter unit 3 and the fixed mirror 16. The optical function member 13 is provided with a light transmitting portion 14 that constitutes a second portion of the optical path between the beam splitter unit 3 and the fixed mirror 16. A second surface 21b of the base 21 and a third surface 13a of the optical function member 13 are joined to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Tomofumi Suzuki, Kyosuke Kotani, Tatsuya Sugimoto, Yutaka Kuramoto, Katsumi Shibayama, Noburo Hosokawa, Hirokazu Yamamoto, Takuo Koyama
  • Patent number: 12153198
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes five lenses in which a first lens includes a positive refractive power and a concave object-side surface, and a second lens includes a positive refractive power and a concave image-side surface. The first to fifth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side to an image side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hag Chul Kim
  • Patent number: 12153275
    Abstract: An alignment device includes a base table, a plurality of electric actuators attached to the base table, an alignment table supported by the plurality of electric actuators. Each of the plurality of electric actuators includes a linear motion device that drives the alignment table in a direction approaching or separating from the base table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Fukushima, Jun Hirota, Junichi Iguchi, Marie Shimamura
  • Patent number: 12153206
    Abstract: The formation of compensation elements (7) on an at least partially transparent membrane (2) that provides the actuator elements (5) to compensate or neutralize unwanted deformations of the compartment (3), e.g. induced by gravity effects, and/or to generate positive (convex) deflections of a limiting membrane (14), where the plurality of actuator elements (5) and the at least one compensation element (7) are provided at a common electrode membrane (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
    Inventors: Caglar Ataman, Kaustubh Banerjee, Pouya Rajaeipour, Hans Zappe
  • Patent number: 12147062
    Abstract: A removable lens stack includes a base layer, a first removable lens layer, and a second removable lens layer. The base layer may include a substrate and a moth eye coating. The first removable lens layer may include a substrate, a single or multi-layer interference antireflective coating on a first side of the substrate, and a fluoropolymer coating on a second side of the substrate. The first removable lens layer may be stacked on top of the base layer with the fluoropolymer coating being molded to fit the moth eye coating. The second and any subsequent removable lens layer may include a substrate, a single or multi-layer interference antireflective coating on a first side of the substrate, and an acrylic or polyurethane adhesive on a second side of the substrate. The second removable lens layer may be stacked on top of the first removable lens layer and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Laminated Film LLC
    Inventors: Stephen S. Wilson, Bart E. Wilson
  • Patent number: 12140781
    Abstract: A removable lens stack includes a base layer and one or more removable lens layers. The base layer may include a substrate and moth eye coatings on first and second sides of the substrate. A first removable lens layer may include a substrate and an acrylic or fluoropolymer coating on a first side of the substrate and may be stacked on top of the base layer such that the second side of the substrate faces the first side of the substrate of the base layer. A second removable lens layer may include a substrate and an acrylic or fluoropolymer coating on a first side of the substrate and may be stacked on top of the first removable lens layer such that the second side of the substrate faces the first side of the substrate of the first removable lens layer. The acrylic or fluoropolymer coating may comprise a hard coat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Laminated Film LLC
    Inventors: Stephen S. Wilson, Bart E. Wilson
  • Patent number: 12140737
    Abstract: Present embodiments provide for optical imaging lenses. An optical imaging lens may include at least seven lens elements positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. Through arrangement of the convex or concave surfaces of the lens elements, the length of the optical imaging lens may be shortened while providing better optical characteristics and imaging quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hung-Chien Hsieh, Fensha Cai, Xue Li
  • Patent number: 12129395
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composition for forming a hard coat layer, which is capable of forming a hard coat layer that exhibits excellent adhesion to an adjacent layer, while having excellent hardness. A composition for forming a hard coat layer according to the present invention contains: a (meth)acrylate which has at least one group that is selected from the group consisting of a phosphoric acid group and a sulfonic acid group; a silsequioxane which has a radically polymerizable group; and metal oxide particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: NIKON-ESSILOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuka Igami
  • Patent number: 12124057
    Abstract: A removable lens stack includes a base layer, a first removable lens layer, and a second removable lens layer. The base layer may include a substrate and a moth eye coating. The first removable lens layer may include a substrate, a single or multi-layer interference antireflective coating on a first side of the substrate, and a fluoropolymer coating on a second side of the substrate. The first removable lens layer may be stacked on top of the base layer with the fluoropolymer coating being molded to fit the moth eye coating. The second and any subsequent removable lens layer may include a substrate, a single or multi-layer interference antireflective coating on a first side of the substrate, and an acrylic or polyurethane adhesive on a second side of the substrate. The second removable lens layer may be stacked on top of the first removable lens layer and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Laminated Film LLC
    Inventors: Stephen S. Wilson, Bart E. Wilson