Patents Examined by James R Greece
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Patent number: 10831028Abstract: A system is provided, including: a head-mounted display (HMD), including, a plurality of retroreflectors, and a display device; an emitter/detector unit, including, an emitter configured to emit a scanning beam into an interactive environment, the scanning beam being configured to continuously trace a predefined scan pattern, and a detector configured to detect reflections of the scanning beam back to the HMD by each of the plurality of retroreflectors; a computing device, including, a processor configured to, for each retroreflector, determine a time at which the reflection occurred, wherein the time is used to determine a location or orientation of the HMD in the interactive environment, the computing device configured to generate a view of a virtual space based on the determined location or orientation of the HMD; wherein the display device of the HMD is configured to render the view of the virtual space.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Dominic Mallinson
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Patent number: 10827923Abstract: An ophthalmic device having a single or dual compartment configuration selectively emits infrared and visible light beams onto one or a pair of target eyes. The device performs eye fundus imaging and aids in the detection of ailments as indicated by anomalies in the pupillary reflex.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Alexandros Karargyris, Thomas G. Zimmerman
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Patent number: 10816799Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) is provided, including the following: an emitter configured to emit a scanning beam into an interactive environment in which the HMD is disposed, the scanning beam being configured to continuously trace a predefined scan pattern; a detector configured to detect reflections of the scanning beam back to the HMD by each of a plurality of reflectors; a processor configured to, for each reflector, determine a time at which the reflection of the scanning beam by the reflector occurred, wherein the time is used to determine a location or orientation of the HMD in the interactive environment; a display device configured to render a view of a virtual space that is determined based on the determined location or orientation of the HMD.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Dominic Mallinson, Gary Zalewski
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Patent number: 10816805Abstract: 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 having a partially reflective element carried by an eyeglass lens to reflect towards the user computer-generated imagery projected on to it, while permitting the passage of light through the reflective surface in the direction of view of the user. The display mechanism further includes a cooperating projector assembly housed by a frame of the eyewear device in an overhead configuration relative to the partially reflective element. The projector assembly is housed by a top bar of the eyewear frame, with the reflective surface being housed wholly within the lens.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2018Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Jonathan M Rodriguez, II, Kimberly A. Phifer
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Patent number: 10809521Abstract: An endoscope objective optical system consists of a front group having a negative refractive power, an aperture stop, and a rear group having a positive refractive power. The front group consists of a first lens having a negative refractive power, and a second lens having a positive refractive power, and the rear group consists of a third lens having a positive refractive power, a cemented lens of a fourth lens having a positive refractive power and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power, and a sixth lens having a positive refractive power. An object-side surface of the first lens is a flat surface, and the second lens has a meniscus shape with a convex surface directed toward an image side, and the sixth lens is cemented to an image pickup element, and the following conditional expression (1) is satisfied: ?1.2?D6/F12??0.47??(1).Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshifumi Tsuji
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Patent number: 10802296Abstract: An optical lens for vision correction includes a first image fusion area centered on a visual axis (L) of the eye (E) of a user and including a plurality of first dioptric portions randomly arranged around the first image fusion area and fused to have a first diopter (N), and a second image fusion area connected to and surrounds the first image fusion area and including a plurality of second dioptric portions randomly arranged around the second image fusion area and fused to have a second diopter (M). The first diopter |N| is smaller than the second diopter |M|. The longest width of each of the first and second dioptric portions relative to the visual axis (L) is smaller than 200 nanometers.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: ST. SHINE OPTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Ming-Hsien Chen, Yu-Jan Chou, Chiu-Hsien Tsan, Shang-Jen Huang
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Patent number: 10795157Abstract: Provided is a display device for a vehicle that can rapidly execute preparation completion for display of vehicle information. The display device for a vehicle is provided with a processing unit, a display, and a rotational drive unit that can rotate a reflector on a prescribed axis. The processing unit includes an estimating unit that estimates planned start of the vehicle by a crew, and when the vehicle is planned to be started, the angle of rotation of the rotational drive unit moves from an initial angle corresponding to an initial position (position of point of origin) of the reflector to a first intermediate angle (first stopping position) between the initial angle and a final angle corresponding to the normal operating position of the reflector. After the vehicle has been actually started, the angle of rotation of the rotational drive unit moves to a final angle from the first intermediate angle.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: NIPPON SEIKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuki Honma, Yuki Masuya
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Patent number: 10788605Abstract: 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 at least one isocyanate compound selected from the group consisting of 2,5-bis(isocyanatomethyl)bicyclo[2.2.1]heptane and 2,6-bis(isocyanatomethyl)bicyclo[2.2.1]heptane; a polythiol compound; a UV absorber represented by formula (1); and a UV absorber represented by formula (2). The M value represented by formula (X) is greater than 0.7 but less than 16.7.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2017Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONALInventor: Hideyuki Wakiyasu
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Patent number: 10782503Abstract: A lens assembly includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens, wherein the first lens, the second lens, the third lens, and the fourth lens are arranged in order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens is with positive refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the object side. The second lens is with negative refractive power and includes a concave surface facing the image side. The third lens is with refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the image side. The fourth lens is with refractive power. The lens assembly satisfies: FOV?56°, wherein FOV is a field of view of the lens assembly.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2018Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignees: SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., ASIA OPTICAL CO., INC.Inventors: Po-Yuan Shih, Bo-Yan Chen, Hsi-Ling Chang
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Patent number: 10781340Abstract: 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: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Alcon Inc.Inventors: Yongxing Qiu, John Dallas Pruitt, Sibichen J. Thekveli, Robert Carey Tucker, Jared Nelson
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Patent number: 10772374Abstract: A good fitting sensation of a lens unit is obtained by performing fine adjustment of the position and angle of the lens unit. A lens unit attachment mechanism includes a frame member supporting a pair of lenses, side frame members extending rearward of the lenses from left and right end portions of the frame member, an angle adjustment member coupled to the lens unit and having two rotation pivot points, and a position adjustment retention member retaining the angle adjustment member so as to allow extending and retracting. The lens unit attachment mechanism adjusts the position and angle of the lens unit flexibly.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2017Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: SHOEI CO., LTD.Inventor: Masayuki Shida
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Patent number: 10768396Abstract: A zoom lens includes a front unit having a negative refractive power; and a rear unit having a positive refractive power, which includes an aperture stop. The front unit includes a first negative refractive power lens, a second negative refractive power lens, and a third positive refractive power lens. The first lens is nearest to an object, and has a meniscus shape with a convex surface directed toward the object side, and the second lens is on an image side of the first lens, and has a meniscus shape with a convex surface directed toward the object side. The rear unit includes a first lens unit A and a second lens unit B, wherein when zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, a distance between the front unit and the rear unit narrows, and a distance between the first lens unit A and the second lens unit B changes. The first lens unit A includes a first sub-lens unit having a positive refractive power, the aperture stop, and a second sub-lens unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuteru Kawamura, Takashi Fujikura, Kenichi Nagasawa, Masaru Morooka
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Patent number: 10768414Abstract: The present invention discloses a lens device suitable for the large-diameter lenses (with diameter ?100 mm) of a vertical setup, and its adjustment method. The aberration caused by the self-gravity of lenses and the deformation generated by the clamping stress of the fixing device is compensated.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: NATIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIESInventors: Cheng-Fang Ho, Wei-Jie Peng, Wei-Yao Hsu
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Patent number: 10761602Abstract: A retinal imaging system includes a projector, an imaging device, and a controller coupled to an eye tracking system under test. The projector emits a light pattern to be delivered to a pupil of an eye, a location of the pupil being estimated by the eye tracking system under test. The imaging device captures one or more images of a retina of the eye illuminated with at least a portion of the light pattern. The controller determines one or more eye tracking parameters based on the captured one or more images of the retina. The controller compares each determined eye tracking parameter with each of estimated one or more eye tracking parameters, wherein values for the one or more eye tracking parameters are estimated by the eye tracking system under test. The controller characterizes each estimated eye tracking parameter based on the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Robin Sharma, Nicholas Daniel Trail, Robert Dale Cavin, Kyle Justin Curts
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Patent number: 10746960Abstract: A method of making a lens assembly is provided, including: providing a first plurality of lenses; providing a lens barrel; receiving the first plurality of lenses in the lens barrel; fixedly aligning the first plurality of lenses in the lens barrel; providing at least one additional lens having at least one degree of freedom of movement with respect to the first plurality of lenses; and fixing the at least one additional lens in a desired alignment position with respect to the first plurality of lenses.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: MEMS START, LLCInventor: Roman Carlos Gutierrez
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Patent number: 10746968Abstract: An optical imaging system includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element having positive refractive power, a second lens element having negative refractive power, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element having both an object-side surface and an image-side surface being aspheric, and a sixth lens element having both an object-side surface and an image-side surface being aspheric, wherein the optical imaging system has a total of six lens elements; at least one lens element among the first lens element, the second lens element, the third lens element, the fourth lens element, the fifth lens element, and the sixth lens element has at least one inflection point.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.Inventors: Hsiang-Chi Tang, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
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Patent number: 10744745Abstract: A system for a vehicle includes a window assembly adapted to be installed within the front opening of the vehicle frame. The window assembly includes an inner transparent sheet, an outer transparent sheet, and an interlayer of polymer disposed between the inner transparent sheet and the outer transparent sheet. The interlayer is configured wherein a first portion of the interlayer has a first variable thickness profile and wherein a second portion of the interlayer has a second variable thickness profile, with the first portion of the interlayer distinct from the second portion of the interlayer. The system also includes a front-facing camera positioned within the vehicle for receiving light transmissions from an object located outside the vehicle through the first portion. The system may also include a head up display—associated with the second portion of the interlayer.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignees: AGC Automotive Americas R&D, Inc., AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc.Inventor: Colin Byrne
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Patent number: 10739586Abstract: A head-mounted display device includes a first reflective polarizer having a first optical surface and a second optical surface that is opposite to the first optical surface. The first optical surface of the first reflective polarizer is curved, and the first reflective polarizer is configured to reflect light having a first polarization. The head-mounted display device also includes a first electronic display configured to project toward the first reflective polarizer a light pattern. At least a portion of the light pattern is reflected by the first reflective polarizer. Also disclosed is a method, which includes directing a light pattern from the first electronic display toward the first reflective polarizer and reflecting at least a portion of the light pattern toward an eye of a user.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2017Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Youngshik Yoon, Richard Han-Soo Cho
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Patent number: 10739613Abstract: A display system is provided that combines the use of a display element with a beamsplitter and at least one retroreflector to provide an image (2D or 3D depending upon the output image from the display element) that appears to be floating in space some distance from the beamsplitter. For example, light that is bounced off/reflected and/or that is transmitted through the beamsplitter may be reflected from the reflective surface of the retroreflector toward the beamsplitter. The beamsplitter directs this light, through reflection or transmission, into a viewing space such that the 2D or 3D image can be viewed by a viewer as it appears to float a distance from the nearest surface of the beamsplitter and, typically, some distance above the ground/floor upon which viewers are walking. The floating image may be relatively bright so that it is viewable in low and brighter light conditions.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Daniel M. Joseph, Lanny S. Smoot, Quinn Y. Smithwick, Michael J. Ilardi
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Patent number: 10732419Abstract: A head-up display device is configured to project a display light, which is to be reflected by a concave image forming reflection surface, onto a combiner having the image forming reflection surface a combiner to display a virtual image visible to an occupant. The combiner is located above an upper surface portion of the instrument panel. The projector is configured to project a display light in the form of a light beam. A light guide mirror has a light guide reflection surface and is configured to reflect the display light from the projector toward the image forming reflection surface. The light guide reflection surface is convex.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Nambara