Patents Examined by James R Greece
  • Patent number: 10744745
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignees: AGC Automotive Americas R&D, Inc., AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Colin Byrne
  • Patent number: 10739586
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Youngshik Yoon, Richard Han-Soo Cho
  • Patent number: 10739613
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel M. Joseph, Lanny S. Smoot, Quinn Y. Smithwick, Michael J. Ilardi
  • Patent number: 10732419
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Nambara
  • Patent number: 10732386
    Abstract: An optical lens system of the present disclosure assembly includes, 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, an optical filter and a sensor. The first lens element and the fourth lens element each have a negative power. The second lens element, the third lens element, the fifth lens element and the sixth lens element each have a positive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Cheng-Yi Lai
  • Patent number: 10722116
    Abstract: Imaging various regions of the eye is important for both clinical diagnostic and treatment purposes as well as for scientific research. Diagnosis of a number of clinical conditions relies on imaging of the various tissues of the eye. The subject technology describes a method and apparatus for imaging of the back and/or front of the eye using multiple illumination modalities, which permits the collection of one or more of reflectance, spectroscopic, fluorescence, and laser speckle contrast images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Vasoptic Medical Inc.
    Inventors: Abhishek Rege, M. Jason Brooke
  • Patent number: 10725322
    Abstract: An active optical filter adapted for a spectacle lens, the active optical filter configured to filter light radiations over at least one predetermined range of wavelengths, wherein the full width at half maximum of the filtering function of the optical filter is smaller than or equal to 100 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Coralie Barrau, Thierry Villette, Jean-Paul Cano, Samuel Archambeau, Claudine Biver
  • Patent number: 10717866
    Abstract: Disclosed an organic-inorganic hybrid composition including a polymer (A) including a triazine ring structure represented by General Formula (1) in a polymer main chain structure; wherein, in the formula, R1 is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, aryl group, aralkyl group, amino group, arylamino group, alkylthio group, or arylthio group, an inorganic particulate (B); and a surface-treatment agent (C) including an acidic functional group wherein the polymer (A) is a thermoplastic polymer having a glass transition temperature (Tg) and a number median diameter (Dn50) of the inorganic particulate (B) is greater than or equal to about 1 nm and less than or equal to about 20 nm, and an article and an optical component including the organic-inorganic hybrid composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Oishi, Hiroshi Miyao, Tomoyuki Kikuchi, Yukika Yamada, Ryosuke Kamitani
  • Patent number: 10694945
    Abstract: An ocular alignment system for aligning a subject's eye with an optical axis of an ocular imaging device comprising one or more guide light and one or more baffle configured to mask the one or more guide light from view of the subject such that the one or more guide light is only visible to the subject when the eye of the subject is aligned with the optical axis of an ocular imaging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: IDx Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael D. Abramoff, Eric Talmage, Ben Clark, Edward DeHoog, Timothy Chung
  • Patent number: 10698179
    Abstract: An optical photographing lens assembly includes seven lens elements, which are, 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. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The seventh lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and including at least one convex shape in an off-axis region thereof. An object-side surface and the image-side surface of the seventh lens element are aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: LAGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Po-Lun Hsu, Chun-Yen Chen, Chun-Che Hsueh, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 10684446
    Abstract: A frequency control apparatus includes a signal generator configured to generate an output signal as a digital signal having a target frequency that has been set, using a plurality of signals having frequencies that are different from the target frequency and one another, an estimator configured to estimate a mixed frequency that is a frequency of a signal component mixed in the output signal and different from the target frequency and each of frequencies of the plurality of signals, and a frequency shift unit configured to shift at least one of the target frequency and the frequencies of the plurality of signals in accordance with an estimation result of the mixed frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Junki Yoshimuta
  • Patent number: 10678034
    Abstract: A variable magnification optical system includes, in order from an object: a first lens group (G1) having a negative refractive power; a second lens group (G2); a third lens group (G3); a fourth lens group (G4) having a negative refractive power; and a fifth lens group (G5) having a positive refractive power, the system performing varying magnification by changing the distance between the first and second lens groups, the distance between the second and third lens groups, the distance between the third and fourth lens groups, and the distance between the fourth and fifth lens groups, and the fourth lens group including a 42nd lens group (G42) configured to be movable so as to have a component in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis and a 41st lens group (G41) disposed at an object-side of the 42nd lens group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Shibayama
  • Patent number: 10678051
    Abstract: In a head-up display device, in accordance with lifting and lowering operations of a combiner, each protrusion of a combiner support moves along a guide portion, causing a cover-operation member to turn about a rotary axis in a direction in which a cover is opened or closed. The guide portion includes, from top in order: a first guide portion which engages with the protrusion in a first state (use state); a second guide portion which engages with the protrusion when the cover-operation member turns; and a third guide portion which engages with the protrusion in a second state (non-use state). The angle formed by the direction in which the first guide portion extends and the direction in which the third guide portion extends is less than the angle formed by the direction in which the first guide portion extends and the direction in which the second guide portion extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Nakayama, Kosuke Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10668368
    Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) is provided, 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; a detector configured to detect reflections of the scanning beam back to the HMD by each of a plurality of modulating retroreflectors; a processor configured to, for each detected reflection of the scanning beam, analyze the detected reflection to identify the modulating retroreflector that produced the reflection, and further determine a time at which the reflection occurred, wherein the times at which the reflections occurred and the identification of the modulating retroreflectors that produced the reflections are 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: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Dominic Mallinson
  • Patent number: 10673414
    Abstract: An augmented reality system including a source and a contact lens display can be used to project information from the contact lens display onto the retina of the wearer's eye. The source provides energy to the contact lens display and operates at a source frequency. The source includes a source circuit including a conductive coil. The contact lens display includes a resonant circuit including another conductive coil and a capacitive circuit. The resonant circuit receives energy from the conductive coil of the source via a magnetic field inductively coupling the conductive coils. The contact lens display additionally includes a feedback circuit to adjust the capacitance of the capacitive circuit to control a resonant frequency of the resonant circuit. The feedback circuit can control the capacitive circuit to maintain the resonant frequency of the resonant circuit near the source frequency as the wearer's eye blinks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Tectus Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Elliot Lemoff, Gregory David Miller, Ion Opris, Hawk Yin Pang
  • Patent number: 10649180
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is made of plastic material, the second lens is made of glass material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of plastic material, and the sixth lens is made of plastic material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Oinuma, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Wenbo Hu
  • Patent number: 10641990
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is made of glass material, the second lens is made of plastic material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of glass material, the fifth lens is made of plastic material, and the sixth lens is made of plastic material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Oinuma, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Dan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10638926
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alexandros Karargyris, Thomas G. Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 10634866
    Abstract: A lens including a lens barrel and five lens elements is provided. A relation between the amount of field curvature variation Sa1 of a system caused by a thickness tolerance of a lens element in the lens and an amount of field curvature variation Sa2 of the system caused by a change of a gap between the lens element and an adjacent lens element thereof is described as follows. Sa2 is twice or less of Sa1. Sa2 and Sa1 are both positive values or both negative values to render a better field curvature performance of the lens. A manufacturing method of the lens is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Rays Optics Inc.
    Inventors: Chen-Yi Tsai, Chen-Cheng Lee
  • Patent number: 10634880
    Abstract: An imaging lens module includes an imaging lens assembly and a first optical component. The imaging lens assembly has an optical axis and includes a lens element. The lens element includes an effective optical portion, which is non-circular and disposed on a center of the lens element. The first optical component has a non-circular opening hole. The effective optical portion of the lens element of the imaging lens assembly is corresponded to the non-circular opening hole of the first optical component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheng-Feng Lin, Chun-Hua Tsai, Ming-Ta Chou