Patents Examined by James Greece
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Patent number: 10197778Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a negative first lens unit; a negative second lens unit; and a positive third lens unit, in which the first lens unit is not moved for zooming, the second lens unit and the third lens unit are moved during zooming, and an interval between each pair of adjacent lens units is changed during zooming, in which the first lens unit includes at least two negative lenses, and a focal length of the first lens unit, a focal length of the zoom lens at a wide angle end, a focal length of the zoom lens at a telephoto end, an interval on an optical axis between the first lens unit and the second lens unit at the wide angle end, and a back focus at the wide angle end are appropriately set.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenta Sudo, Shinji Yamasaki
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Patent number: 10191289Abstract: An auxiliary component unit for use with a head-mounted device is disclosed. The device can have a first side arm with and an extension arm extending at least partially therealong and configured to present information to the user via a display extending therefrom, a second side arm opposite the first side arm, and an external connection feature. The auxiliary component includes a first housing containing a first electronic component therein and a first attachment member extending from the first housing and configured to removably affix the auxiliary component with a portion of the second side arm of the head-mounted device. The auxiliary component also includes a wiring component in electronic communication with the first electronic component and attachable with the external connection feature of the device.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2016Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Ramesh Bhardwaj, Eliot Kim, Russell Norman Mirov
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Patent number: 10182719Abstract: A method for detecting refractive errors in the eye that are attributable to a suboptimal surface shape of the front surface and/or rear surface of the cornea. An OCT volume scan and/or one or more OCT line scans of the front eye section are carried out; using the measured values, the front and rear surface of the cornea are detected by an edge detection process; the topography of the front and rear surface of the cornea are determined; and refractive errors are determined from said topographies.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Delbert Peter Andrews, Michael Stefan Rill
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Patent number: 10168283Abstract: Acquiring a sharp final image by preventing, even when an intermediate image is formed at a position overlapping an optical element, a flaw or the like on the optical element from being superimposed on the intermediate image. An observation apparatus including: an image-forming optical system having image-forming lenses that form a final image and an intermediate image, a first phase modulator that applies a spatial disturbance to the wavefront of light, and a second phase modulator that cancels out the spatial disturbance; a light source; an XY-scanning part including a first and a second scanner; and a photodetector. The two phase modulators are disposed at positions optically conjugate with the first scanner and have one-dimensional phase-distribution characteristics changing in the scanning direction of the illumination light.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2017Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroya Fukuyama
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Patent number: 10168602Abstract: A projection optical system projects, while enlarging, an image displayed on an image display surface and performs zooming by moving a plurality of lens groups arranged along a same optical axis. The projection optical system includes, from an enlargement side: a first lens group having a negative refractive power; a second lens group having a negative refractive power and movable during zooming; a third lens group having a positive refractive power and movable during zooming; and a lens group disposed at a most reduction-side position. The first lens group includes, from the enlargement side: a front group having a negative refractive power; and a rear group having a positive refractive power and including, from the enlargement side, a negative lens element and a positive lens element. For zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, the third lens group moves toward the enlargement side monotonically.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Atsuo Masui
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Patent number: 10162151Abstract: An F-? lens for laser engraving includes a first lens (L1), a second lens (L2), a third lens (L3), and a fourth lens (L4), which are coaxially arranged along a transmission direction of incident light; wherein the first lens (L1) is a meniscus lens, the second lens (L2) is a meniscus lens, the third lens (L3) is a plano-convex lens, and the fourth lens (L4) is a flat lens; wherein the first lens (L1) has a first surface (S1) and a second surface (S2), the second lens (L2) has a third surface (S3) and a fourth surface (S4), the third lens (L3) has a fifth surface (S5) and a sixth surface (S6), and the fourth lens (L4) has a seventh surface (S7) and an eighth surface (S8); the first surface (S1) to the eighth surface (S8) are sequentially arranged along the transmission direction of the incident light; wherein radii of curvature of the first surface (S1) to the eighth surface (S8) are ?29 mm, ?88 mm, ?56 mm, ?36 mm, ?, ?116 mm, ?, and ?, respectively; and center thicknesses (d1, d2, d3, d4) of the first lens (LType: GrantFiled: November 28, 2014Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: HAN'S LASER TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Bo Sun, Jiaying Li, Chaoming Zhou, Yunfeng Gao
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Patent number: 10156736Abstract: The invention is directed to a colored contact lens designed for making a wearer's eyes to appear larger and more defined and with more shine, while remaining natural by blending seamlessly with the eye. A colored contact lens, comprising a first print of a first color and a second print of a second color, wherein the first print is an annular ring of gradient dot matrix, wherein the second print is an annular ring of speckle pattern, wherein the annular ring of speckle pattern comprises clusters of regular or irregular shapes distributed annularly, wherein the regular or irregular shapes consists of a large number of circular dots, wherein the annular ring of speckle pattern has non-smooth inner and outer borders, wherein the second print is located on the inside of the first print, wherein the first color and the second color are different or the same, wherein the first print and the second print are concentric with the center of contact lens.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: Novartis AGInventor: Ellen A. Day
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Patent number: 10139590Abstract: Provided are an imaging lens, which has a small F number and in which various aberrations are satisfactorily corrected, and an imaging apparatus including the imaging lens. The imaging lens includes, in order from an object side: a first lens that has a biconcave shape; a second lens that is convex toward an image side and has a positive refractive power; a third lens that has a biconvex shape; a fourth lens that has a negative refractive power; a fifth lens that has a positive refractive power; and a sixth lens that has a negative refractive power. Assuming that L1f and L1r are paraxial radii of curvature of an object side surface and an image side surface of the first lens, Conditional Expression (1) is satisfied. 0.1<(L1f+L1r)/(L1f?L1r)<0.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2017Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Ryoko Otomo, Michio Cho
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Patent number: 10139589Abstract: A zoom lens unit includes a zoom ring that has a scale indicating a focal length of the zoom lens unit, an indicator member that points a desired value on the scale, and a selection mechanism that is configured to select one of first and second moving states of the indicator member. In the first moving state, the indicator member moves as the zoom ring rotates. Further, in the second moving state, the indicator member moves without rotating the zoom ring.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Nittoh Inc.Inventor: Takuya Kageyama
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Patent number: 10139733Abstract: The invention relates to an optical imaging device, in particular an objective 1 for microlithography in the field of EUVL for producing semiconductor components, having a beam path 2, a plurality of optical elements 3 and a diaphragm device 7 with an adjustable diaphragm opening shape. The diaphragm device has a diaphragm store 7a, 7b with a plurality of different diaphragm openings 6 with fixed shapes in each case, which can be introduced into the beam path 2.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbHInventors: Hermann Bieg, Marcus Will, Thomas Bischoff, Yim-Bun Patrick Kwan, Uy-Liem Nguyen, Stefan Xalter, Michael Muehlbeyer
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Patent number: 10139587Abstract: The lens barrel includes a first rotatable member rotatable to move a focusing lens in an optical axis direction, a first aperture stop unit including a first light-blocking member and a second rotatable member rotatable to move the first light-blocking member, a third rotatable member to be rotated by receiving a rotation of the first rotatable member, a first mechanism configured to, in the variation of magnification, convert a relative movement of the second and third rotatable members into a rotation of the second rotatable member, and a second mechanism configured to, in the focusing, transmit the rotation of the first rotatable member to the third rotatable member to rotate the third rotatable member and transmit the rotation of the third rotatable member to the second rotatable member to rotate the second rotatable member.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Katsumi Ohmori
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Patent number: 10131815Abstract: The invention is related to a hydrated silicone hydrogel contact lens having a layered structural configuration: a lower water content silicone hydrogel core (or bulk material) completely covered with a layer of a higher water content hydrogel totally or substantially free of silicone. A hydrated silicone hydrogel contact lens of the invention possesses high oxygen permeability for maintaining the corneal health and a soft, water-rich, lubricious surface for wearing comfort.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Novartis AGInventors: Yongxing Qiu, John Dallas Pruitt, Sibichen J. Thekveli, Robert Carey Tucker, Jared Nelson
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Patent number: 10130251Abstract: A vision testing device and a vision testing program are capable of obtaining a correct test result while reducing an accumulation of fatigue added on one of the eyes of a testee, including: image displays that present a light for suppressing a dark adaptation for both eyes of a testee; and image displays that present a target for an eye (L, R, or both) of the testee so that the target is presented for one of the eyes before the vision testing for the other eye is ended.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: CREWT MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Fumitaka Sudou, Shinji Kimura, Kenzo Yamanaka, Tsuyoshi Onaka
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Patent number: 10123694Abstract: An optical measurement device including a light emitting element, a light pattern generating element and a light source transmission element is provided. The light pattern generating element includes a disk body, at least one round hole penetrating the disk body, at least one round disk embedded in the round hole, and at least two first magnetic elements disposed on the round disk. One end of the light source transmission element has two second magnetic elements. Through the magnetic connection of the first magnetic elements and the second magnetic elements, a chink on the round disk can rotate with the light source transmission element when the light source transmission element rotates. An optical measurement system including the optical measurement device is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2016Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Tzu Chi UniversityInventor: Tsu-Wang Shen
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Patent number: 10117603Abstract: Low-cost, easy-to-use alignment target generators for aligning a user's own face or eye to a camera or scanner are based on field-of-view visual feedback from a filtered or apertured planar light source. These approaches may be made agnostic to the scanner's operating system or other software. Alternatively, software on the scanner or its host device may create a solid light-colored section of an existing display screen to use as a planar light source. In some embodiments, the planar light source may be the virtual image of an object viewed in a plane mirror.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2015Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Kerry A. Stevens, Yoshifumi Nishi
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Patent number: 10120169Abstract: A variable-power optical system includes, in order from an object, an objective optical system (O), a relay optical system (R), and an eyepiece optical system (E), wherein the relay optical system is provided with, in order from the object, a first lens group (G1) having positive refractive power, a second lens group (G2) having positive refractive power, and a third lens group (G3) having positive refractive power, and is an optical system in which an image formed by the objective optical system with variable optical power, and the variable-power optical system is configured so as to satisfy expressions: 0.7<|?|min<1.4, and 12 (mm)<fmin<15 (mm), where |?|min denotes a minimum of absolute value of imaging magnification of the relay optical system, and fmin denotes a shortest focal length.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2016Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: NIKON VISION CO., LTD.Inventor: Yosuke Miyazaki
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Patent number: 10105047Abstract: An automatic unattended-monitoring visual acuity inspection device is disclosed. The inspection device includes an inspection panel, an inspector and an isolation wall arranged opposite to the inspection panel. The isolation wall is provided with a wireless signal transmitter configured to transmit a visual acuity indication signal to the wireless signal receiver through a network. The wireless signal receiver is configured to transmit the received visual acuity indication signal to a processor. The processor is configured to process the visual acuity indication signal and transmit a process feedback to the inspection panel. The device may prevent achieving a high level of visual acuity of the person to be inspected by cheating behaviors, thereby highly inspecting a real visual acuity level of the person to be inspected.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2015Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wenbo Li, Yefei Dong, Yanbing Wu
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Patent number: 10095034Abstract: Systems and methods for eyewear devices with integrated heads-up displays are provided. In one embodiment, an eyewear device provides an integrated heads-up display in a display area that is elongate and extends laterally across a user's field of view. A display mechanism forming part of the eyewear device can be configured to display visual information in the form of text messages, with no more than a single laterally extending line of text characters being displayable at any particular time. The display mechanism can comprise a partially reflective element carried by an eyeglass lens to reflect towards the user computer-generated imagery projected on to it, the display mechanism further including a cooperating projector assembly housed by a frame of the eyewear device in an overhead configuration relative to the partially reflective element.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Jonathan M Rodriguez, II, Kimberly A. Phifer
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Patent number: 10095028Abstract: There are provided a first optical member that is transparent and is formed in a thin plate shape; a Fresnel-shaped portion that is formed in a concentric form on one surface of the first optical member in the thickness direction; a half mirror layer that is formed on a surface of a Fresnel-shaped portion; a second optical member that is formed of a transparent filler for filling unevenness of a surface of the half mirror layer to form a flat surface; and a third optical member that has a transparent thin plate shape protecting an outside surface of the second optical member. A refractive index of the first optical member, a refractive index of the second optical member, and a refractive index of the third optical member are equal.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Junichi Matsushita
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Patent number: 10092445Abstract: An ophthalmological apparatus includes a base station having a light source generating light pulses, and an application head mountable on an eye having a light projector for focussed projection of the light pulses for punctiform breakdown of eye tissue. The application head has movement drivers moving the light projector in a feed direction and a first scanning direction. A scanner in the base station deflects the light pulses in a second scanning direction. The ophthalmological apparatus includes an optical transmission system transmitting deflected light pulses from the base station to the application head, and superimposing the light pulses deflected in the second scanning direction onto the movement of the light projector in the first scanning direction. Light sources with high light pulse rates, for example femtosecond lasers may be used, without impractical enlargement of the size of the application head.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: SIE AG SURGICAL INSTRUMENT ENGINEERINGInventors: Christian Rathjen, Wolfgang Zesch, Karl Michael Deyerler, Holger Lubatschowski, Tammo Ripken