Patents Examined by James R Greece
  • Patent number: 10895725
    Abstract: Apparatus and method are disclosed for co-aligning laterally displaced radiation beams from respective radiation source outputs, each beam comprising a number of spectral components. The apparatus comprises a collimating element for receiving each of said radiation beams with respective lateral displacements and a combining element for receiving each of said radiation beams passed by said collimating element for co-aligning the radiation beams. The apparatus further comprises a diffraction assembly disposed in an optical path between the output of at least one radiation source and the collimating element, for spatially separating the radiation beam output by said at least one radiation source into the constituent spectral components of radiation prior to passing the radiation to the collimating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: BAE Systems plc
    Inventors: Paul Michael Blanchard, Craig Daniel Stacey
  • Patent number: 10890757
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, and a fourth lens element from an object side to an image side in order along an optical axis. The first lens element to the fourth lens element each include an object-side surface facing the object side and allowing imaging rays to pass through and an image-side surface facing the image side and allowing the imaging rays to pass through. The object-side surface of the second lens element has a concave portion in a vicinity of the optical axis. The image-side surface of the second lens element has a convex portion in a vicinity of a periphery of the second lens element. The object-side surface of the third lens element has a concave portion in a vicinity of a periphery of the third lens element. The fourth lens element has negative refracting power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL (XIAMEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Matthew Bone, Chuanbo Dong, Xiaohui Zhang
  • Patent number: 10881287
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments are generally directed to optical systems. The optical systems may include a proximal lens that may transmit light toward an eye of a user. The optical systems may also include a distal lens that may, in combination with the proximal lens, correct for at least a portion of a refractive error of the eye of the user. The optical systems may further include a selective transmission interface. The selective transmission interface may couple the proximal lens to the distal lens, transmits light having a selected property, and does not transmit light that does not have the selected property. The optical system can also include an accommodative lens, such as a liquid lens. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew John Ouderkirk, Karol Constantine Hatzilias, Katherine Marie Smyth, Robin Sharma
  • Patent number: 10884256
    Abstract: A collimator lens to be held by a holder member, includes a lens portion including an area through which light passes, and a protruding portion protruding from the lens portion. The lens portion is formed on an outer peripheral surface of the collimator lens and includes a bonded portion to be bonded and fixed onto a bonding portion, which is formed on the holder member, through an adhesive. The protruding portion includes a plane formed on an outer peripheral surface of the protruding portion. The plane is formed at a position where a normal line to the plane intersects with the bonded portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihiro Niwa, Junya Azami
  • Patent number: 10884229
    Abstract: An immersion microscope objective includes: a first lens group that includes a meniscus lens component that is the closest to an image in the first lens group, the meniscus lens component having a convex surface facing an object; and a second lens group, the objective satisfying the following conditional expressions: 1.4<NAob?1.51??(1) 1.30 mm?Yreso×NAob8??(2) Ltotal?65 mm??(10) where NAob indicates the numerical aperture of the objective; Yreso a maximum object height within a region on a plane orthogonal to an optical axis that crosses a position on the optical axis at which an RMS wave aberration in a d line is minimized, the region having an RMS wave aberration in the d line that is 0.1?d or less provided therewithin; ?d, the wavelength of the d line; Ltotal, a distance on the optical axis from an object surface to the lens surface that is the closest to the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Kuwano, Bunryu Arashi
  • Patent number: 10877290
    Abstract: An optical member driving mechanism is provided, including a movable module, a first driving module, and a position detecting module. The movable module includes an optical member holder and a housing. The first driving module includes a first electromagnetic driving assembly disposed on the optical member holder and a second electromagnetic driving assembly disposed on the housing. The first driving module can drive the optical member holder to move relative to the housing. The position detecting module includes a magnetic member and a position detector. The magnetic member is disposed on the optical member holder. The position detector can detect the position of the optical member holder relative to the housing according to a variation in magnetic field direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: TDK Taiwan Corp.
    Inventors: Yi-Ho Chen, Ichitai Moto, Yi-Liang Chan, Chen-Chi Kuo, Sin-Jhong Song
  • Patent number: 10866415
    Abstract: A head-up display apparatus displays a virtual image suitably overlapped with actual scenery in accordance with a running condition of a vehicle. The head-up display apparatus acquires various kinds of vehicle information which can be detected by a vehicle and the display of the video image is based on the vehicle information. A mirror is configured to reflect the video image formed by the video image display to project onto the windshield. A mirror driver is configured to change an angle of the mirror and a display distance adjusting mechanism is configured to adjust a display distance of the virtual image with respect to the driver. The angle of the mirror is adjusted via the mirror driver based on the vehicle information such that the virtual image can be displayed with respect to the driver to be overlapped with the scenery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Nagano, Takumi Nakada, Maki Hanada, Akio Misawa, Souta Sato
  • Patent number: 10859828
    Abstract: Provided is smart glasses including a spectacle frame having a lens frame to which a pair of lenses or a display is coupled and a pair of spectacle temples which extends from both ends of the lens frame in one direction; a cartridge detachably mounted on the spectacle frame and in which a functional material contained; a spray nozzle which is provided at a nose pad portion of the lens frame and discharges the functional material contained in the cartridge to an outside; and a supply path formed inside the spectacle frame to supply the functional material from the cartridge to the spray nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventor: Richard Oh
  • Patent number: 10859808
    Abstract: A immersion microscope objective includes: a first positive lens group that includes at least one positive single lens and a first cemented lens; a second positive lens group that includes a plurality of cemented lenses including a second cemented lens that is the closest to an object; a third negative lens group that includes a first lens component having a concave surface; and a fourth lens group that includes a second lens component that is the closest to the object, the second lens component having a concave surface, wherein the objective satisfies the following conditional expressions: 0.986?NAob/N0?0.995??(1) 0.0095?1/(N1×?1)?0.015??(2) where NAob indicates a numerical aperture of the objective; N0, a refractive index that an immersion liquid has for an e line; N1, a refractive index that the meniscus lens has for the e line; ?1, an Abbe number that the meniscus lens has for a d line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Kasahara
  • Patent number: 10859788
    Abstract: In an imaging apparatus, a control unit controls driving of a lens based on a correction amount calculated from a temperature change acquired by a temperature detection unit and a correction coefficient of the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoki Maruyama
  • Patent number: 10859820
    Abstract: A head-up display device is configured to project a display image in a vehicle onto a projection member that transmits an external real image to display the display image superimposed on the external real image for virtual image display visible to an occupant in the vehicle. A projection unit is configured to project a notification image as the display image for notifying the occupant of specific information onto the projection member. A display control unit is configured to control the projection unit to adjust a virtual image display state of the display image and to cut a virtual image display of specific pixels forming an inner portion inside an outer edge portion of the notification image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryo Yamaoka
  • Patent number: 10852454
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing an eyeglass lens that has excellent UV absorption properties and low yellowness. This eyeglass lens is produced using a resin composition that contains m-xylylene diisocyanate, a polythiol compound, and a UV absorber. The UV absorber contains at least a compound represented by formula (1) and a compound represented by formula (2). The M value represented by formula (X) is greater than 1.40 but less than 3.20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventor: Hideyuki Wakiyasu
  • Patent number: 10849493
    Abstract: An optical measurement instrument includes optical coherence tomography (OCT) interferometer and a pupil retro illumination system which directs laser light onto the retina of an eye via the sample arm of the OCT interferometer. The laser light passes through an intraocular lens (IOL) implanted into the eye, and an iris camera captures an image of the eye from a portion of the light returned from the retina of the eye, the returned light also passing through the IOL. One or more fiducials of the IOL are detected from the captured image, and an angular orientation of the eye is ascertained from the one or more detected fiducials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: AMO Development, LLC
    Inventor: Richard J. Copland
  • Patent number: 10852512
    Abstract: A lens module includes a first lens having refractive power, a second lens having refractive power, a third lens having refractive power, a fourth lens having refractive power, a fifth lens having refractive power and having a concave object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, and a sixth lens having refractive power and a concave image-side surface. The first to sixth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side to an image side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Il Yong Park
  • Patent number: 10849499
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus comprises an optical system that includes an optical scanner, deflects light from a light source using the optical scanner, projects the light onto a subject's eye, and receives light based on returning light from the subject's eye, a movement mechanism that moves the subject's eye and the optical system relative to each other, an image acquisition unit that acquires an image of the subject's eye, an abnormality detector that detects abnormality based on a reference image and the image of the subject's eye, a scan controller that controls the optical scanner to re-perform a first scan or a second scan so as to project light from the light source onto a start position of the first scan, which is being performed for the subject's eye at an acquisition timing of the image of the subject's eye, or a start position of the second scan performed before the first scan, when the abnormality is detected by the abnormality detector, and a tracking controller that controls the movement mechani
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Ono
  • Patent number: 10852539
    Abstract: A compact head-up display device is provided. For that purpose, the head-up display device includes a projection optical system which includes an image forming unit to display image information and an ocular optical system to reflect light emitted from the image forming unit to display a virtual image. In the ocular optical system, a free-form surface lens and a free-form surface concave mirror are arranged in order from the image forming unit. The shape of the free-form surface concave mirror is such that curvature radius RY1 in projection on a vertical cross section of the coordinate system of an eye-box is smaller than curvature radius RX1 in projection on a horizontal cross section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignees: Maxell, Ltd., Hitachi Industry & Control Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiko Yatsu, Koji Hirata, Shigeki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 10845576
    Abstract: A photographing optical lens 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. Each of the seven lens elements has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side. At least one lens surface of the seven lens elements has at least one inflection point thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 10838115
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optical system (1) comprising: a first focus tunable lens (10), a curved image sensor (30) configured to receive light (L) focused by the first focus tunable lens (10); an optical path (P) extending through the first focus tunable lens and to the curved image sensor; wherein the optical system (1) is configured to tune the focal length of the first focus tunable lens (10) by applying an electrical signal to the first focus tunable lens (10) such that light (L) traversing said optical path (P) is focused onto the image sensor (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: OPTOTUNE AG
    Inventor: Manuel Aschwanden
  • Patent number: 10838231
    Abstract: A product includes a progressive power spectacle lens or a representation, stored on a data storage medium, of the progressive power spectacle lens. The progressive power spectacle lens has a front surface and a back surface and a spatially varying refractive index, wherein the front surface and/or the back surface is embodied as a progressive surface. The front surface is formed as a free-form surface in such a way that the maximum of the absolute value of the mean curvature of the front surface lies in the intermediate corridor and/or the back surface is formed as a free-form surface in such a way that the minimum of the absolute value of the mean curvature of the back surface lies in the intermediate corridor. Further, a computer-implemented method for planning a progressive power spectacle lens with a spatially varying refractive index and a progressive surface is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Kelch, Christoph Menke, Helmut Wietschorke
  • Patent number: 10838111
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an eyeglass lens comprising a substrate made of an optical material comprising a polymer matrix and at least one 2-(2-hydroxy-5-R1-phenyl)benzotriazole, in which R1 is a resonant group, the optical transmittance through a 2 mm thick layer of said optical material being lower than 1% for each light wavelength ranging from 280 to 405 nm. This eyeglass lens protects from phototoxic blue light and UV light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventor: Pierre Fromentin