Patents Examined by James C. Jones
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Patent number: 12292619Abstract: The present application provides a zoom lens and an electrical device, the zoom lens includes: lens piece set including a first optical lens piece; a lens piece bracket including a bracket main body, where in a first optical lens piece is disposed securely on the bracket main body; a lens barrel sleeved around the lens piece bracket, wherein sliding slots are defined in the lens barrel, an included angle between an extension direction of the sliding slots and a plane in which the lens piece set is located is an acute angle or obtuse angle; a focusing ring sleeved around the lens barrel, wherein guide slots are defined in the focusing ring, and an extension direction of the guide slots is perpendicular to the plane in which the lens piece set is located.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Fancheng Liu
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Patent number: 12292614Abstract: A lens module, constructed to include all necessary filters but retaining its wide-angle characteristic and short focal length, is comprised of a housing, a cover plate, and a filter switcher. The housing and the cover plate form a receiving cavity, the cavity containing the filter switcher. The filter switcher includes holder, two mounting frames, two first adhesive layers, and two filters, and is of minimal thickness. The two first adhesive layers fix the filters on the two mounting frames. An enlarged installation space within the lens module is not required. The disclosure also relates to an electronic device using the lens module.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: TRIPLE WIN TECHNOLOGY(SHENZHEN) CO. LTD.Inventors: Jian-Chao Song, Jing-Wei Li, Sheng-Jie Ding, Shin-Wen Chen
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Patent number: 12287494Abstract: An optical apparatus and a driving method therefor according to an embodiment are disclosed. The optical apparatus comprises: a lens assembly including a liquid lens; and a control circuit for generating a driving signal for driving the liquid lens, wherein the driving signal includes a first section and a second section having driving signals with different waveform shapes.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Do Won Yi
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Patent number: 12287464Abstract: A chip-level camera includes an image sensor; a concave L1 lens element on an inside surface of a first substrate; a convex L2 lens element on a first surface of a second substrate; a diaphragm stop on a second surface of the second substrate or on a first surface of a third substrate, the diaphragm stop between the second and third substrates; a convex L3 lens element on a second surface of the third substrate spaced from the image sensor; a first spacer holding first substrate at a predetermined distance from the second substrate; and a second spacer holding the second substrate a predetermined distance from the image sensor. In embodiments, lens element L1 has concave aspheric radius of R1, and lens L2 convex aspheric radius of R2, such that 1.3<ABS(R2/R1)<2.2 and/or lens L3 has convex aspheric radius R3, where 1.1<ABS(R3/R1)<2.4.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kuang-Ju Wang, Jau-Jan Deng, I-Lung Lu
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Patent number: 12285215Abstract: An analytic tool for supporting alignment of an optical component in preparation for an interferometric test and performance of such a test. Apparatus and methods involve employment of the datum features on the optical component and/or metrology frame supporting such component. The metrology frame may include a secondary set of holograms (provided for use with a conventional system already employing a primary hologram that forms the testing optical wavefront). The conventional primary hologram is preferably substituted with a set of primary holograms (contained in the same, unitary or spatially-complementary housing sets) that perform different but complementary functions and that facilitate the alignment of the metrology frame with or without the tested optical component.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2024Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: ARIZONA OPTICAL METROLOGY LLCInventors: James Burge, Chunyu Zhao
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Patent number: 12282211Abstract: An ophthalmic lens and a method of manufacturing the ophthalmic lens, the ophthalmic lens including a base lens that includes at least a layer of low-birefringence material and at least one holographic component recorded on a surface of the layer of low-birefringence material, and an auxiliary lens assembled to the base lens.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2020Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Aude Bouchier, Samuel Archambeau, Jean-Paul Cano
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Patent number: 12282176Abstract: Objective comprising a lens barrel, an actuator and a tunable lens, wherein the tunable lens comprises a primary membrane and a secondary membrane delimiting a liquid volume on opposing sides along an axial direction, the tunable lens comprises a container delimiting the liquid volume in lateral directions, wherein the lateral directions extend perpendicularly with respect to the axial direction, and the primary membrane and the secondary membrane are attached to opposing sides of the container, the tunable lens comprises a window member which is attached to the secondary membrane, wherein the secondary membrane connects the window member and the container elastically, wherein relative motion of the window member and the container along the axial direction results in a change of an optical property of the tunable lens, the window member or the container is fixedly attached to the lens barrel, the actuator is arranged to provide an actuation force along the axial direction, wherein the actuation force acts betType: GrantFiled: August 12, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: OPTOTUNE SWITZERLAND AGInventors: Stephan Smolka, Frank Bose, Manuel Aschwanden
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Patent number: 12276863Abstract: An optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first unit, a second unit, and a third unit. The first unit includes a first substrate, and a first lens having a negative refractive power and disposed on the image side of the first substrate. The second unit includes a second substrate, and a second lens having a positive refractive power and disposed on the object side of the second substrate. The third unit includes a third substrate, and a third lens having a positive refractive power and disposed on the object side of the third substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Ito, Mikio Kobayashi
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Patent number: 12276868Abstract: Provided are an ophthalmic lens and a technique related thereto, the ophthalmic lens including two lens elements 1 and 2 having powers with different signs, in which when the Abbe number (e-line reference) of the lens element 1 having a power with a smaller absolute value is ?e1, and the Abbe number (e-line reference) of the other lens element 2 is ?e2, Formula 1 below is satisfied, and ?e1<?e2??(Formula 1) when a partial dispersion ratio PgF?1 between the g-line and F?-line in the lens element 1 having the power with the smaller absolute value, and a partial dispersion ratio PgF?2 between the g-line and F?-line in the other lens element 2 are set, the following Formula 2 is satisfied. PgF?1>PgF?2??(Formula 2).Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.Inventors: Shohei Matsuoka, Yuki Iguchi, Hiroyuki Mukaiyama
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Patent number: 12271063Abstract: A system for the color coding of objects in the field of view of a plurality of spectacle wearers includes a pair of spectacles per spectacle wearer. Liquid crystal cells of at least one spectacle lens of the spectacles are so designed that a transmission of the liquid crystal cells may be switched between high and low transmission states. The system also includes one RGB light source per spectacle wearer and means for controlling or regulating the luminance times, color and intensity of the RGB light source such that the light source for a first spectacle wearer illuminates with a first color at a time of the state of high transmission of the liquid crystal cell and the light source for a second spectacle wearer illuminates at a time of high transmission of the liquid crystal cell of their spectacles with a second color different from the first.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2024Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: INOPTEC LIMITED ZWEIGNIEDERLASSUNG DEUTSCHLANDInventor: Ralf G. J. Knoll
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Patent number: 12271093Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a substrate; a light-emitting layer disposed on the substrate; a plurality of separating plates disposed on the light-emitting layer; an encapsulation layer disposed on the plurality of separating plate; and a viewing angle switching assembly disposed in the accommodating cavity. The substrate, the plurality of separating plates, and the encapsulation layer define an accommodating cavity. The viewing angle switching assembly includes a sidewall electrode disposed on the separating plate and charged particles having a first electrical polarity disposed in the accommodating cavity. In a private protection mode, the sidewall electrode has a second electrical polarity opposite to the first electrical polarity.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Wenlong Ye, Wei Cheng
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Patent number: 12271064Abstract: An eye shield has an attachment device configured to be coupled to an optical device. The attachment device includes a clamping ring that has an open position and a closed position. The eye shield further has a shield coupled to the clamping ring to pivot away and towards the clamping ring, the shield extends laterally from the attachment device and a locking element that is disposed on the clamping ring and configured to lock the clamping ring in the closed position. The locking element has a locked and an unlocked position, and when the locking element is in the locked position the clamping ring is in the closed position.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: GENTEX CORPORATIONInventors: Christopher Kent Barmore, Nathan Winters
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Patent number: 12259566Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 17, 2024Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: LAMINATED FILM LLCInventors: Stephen S. Wilson, Bart E. Wilson
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Patent number: 12259327Abstract: Systems and methods for performing a photoluminescence analysis on a medium such as the fundus of a patient's eye are provided. An imaging device, a spectral analyser and an excitation light source are provided. An optical assembly defines an imaging light path between the patient's eye and the imaging device and a spectral analysis light path between an analysis spot on the patient's eye and the spectral analyser. The excitation light source generates an excitation light beam comprising an excitation wavelength selected to excite components present in the patient's eye for the generation of fluorescent light at a photoluminescence wavelength, and is optically coupled to the spectral analysis light path for projecting the excitation light beam on the analysis spot. An optical filter is coupled to the spectral analyser, and has a low light transmissivity at the excitation wavelength and a high light transmissivity at the photoluminescence wavelength.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: ZILIA INC.Inventors: Nicolas Lapointe, Damon Depaoli, Dominic Sauvageau
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Patent number: 12253667Abstract: Microelectromechanical systems based spatial light modulators (SLMs), and display systems and methods for operating the same are described. Generally, the SLM includes a linear array of a number of electrostatically deflectable ribbons suspended over a surface of a substrate. Each ribbon includes a split-ribbon portion with a plurality of diffractors, each diffractor including a first light reflective surface on a linear portion of the split-ribbon portion and an opening through which a second light reflective surface affixed to the substrate is exposed. The first light reflective surface and the second light reflective surface have equal areas, and when one or more of the ribbons is deflected towards the surface of the substrate a coherent light reflected from the first light reflective surface is brought into constructive or destructive interference with light reflected from the second light reflective surface. The display system can include a projector or a head mounted unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: SILICON LIGHT MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Olav Solgaard, Alexander Payne, James Hunter, Stephen Hamann
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Patent number: 12239375Abstract: Methods and apparatus for producing images of the retina or fundus with improved quality and visualization of its features. This is accomplished by adjustment of specific pupil size, pupil position, detector pinhole size and wavelength parameters of the instrument to give improved image quality as described by a chosen image quality metric. Methods are less complex than adaptive optics and give an improved image in a region of interest and potentially over a larger field of view. Thus, it will be useful in instruments designed for the screening of retinal disease(s). The methodology is applicable to an individual's eye, on the basis of either the group that said individual falls into or measurements of the quality of their eye's optics. As described herein, the settings (including optimum pupil size, pupil position, detector pinhole size and/or wavelength for imaging) can be chosen to give improved the retinal image quality.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Inventors: Melanie C W Campbell, Julia Zangoulos
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Patent number: 12242029Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens disposed in order from an object side. The optical imaging system satisfies 1.2 mm<TTL<2.0 mm and 0<f3/f<1.0, where TTL is a distance from an object-side surface of the first lens to an imaging plane, f is a focal length of the optical imaging system, and f3 is a focal length of the third lens.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jong Pil Kim, Sot Eum Seo, Ji Su Lee
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Patent number: 12242126Abstract: An example optical substrate, according to aspects of the present disclosure, includes a support structure, a plurality of lenses, and a plurality of flexures. Each flexure is engaged with the support structure and a respective lens for allowing independent lateral movements of the lenses during assembly of the optical substrate with another layer of an optical assembly. A first lateral movement provided by a first flexure of the plurality of flexures during the assembly is different from a second lateral movement provided by a second flexure of the plurality of flexures.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventor: Alexander Sohn
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Patent number: 12232808Abstract: An optotype calibration method is disclosed. The optotype calibration method includes steps of: (a) when a first optotype and a second optotype located outside an observable area, moving the observable area from an original position until the first optotype or the second optotype appears in the observable area; (b) adjusting a focus mechanism to make the first optotype and the second optotype close to each other; (c) moving the observable area back to the original position; and (d) repeating the steps (a)˜(c) until the first optotype and the second optotype align with each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Crystalvue Medical CorporationInventors: Chun Nan Lin, Kun Cheng Hsieh
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Patent number: 12228789Abstract: Disclosed is a lens driving apparatus. The lens driving apparatus includes a base formed at a center thereof with a first opening; a housing coupled with the base and having a second opening corresponding to the first opening; a yoke installed on the base and including a horizontal plate having a third opening corresponding to the first opening and a vertical plate protruding upward from the horizontal plate; a bobbin movably installed in the yoke and coupled with a lens module; a coil fixedly disposed around the bobbin; a plurality of magnets provided at the vertical plate of the yoke to face the coil; and a spring installed on at least one of upper and lower portions of the yoke to return the bobbin, which has moved up due to interaction between the magnet and the coil, to its initial position.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2024Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Sang Jun Min, Sang Hee Lee