Patents Examined by James R Greece
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Patent number: 11726302Abstract: An optical imaging system for pickup, sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side, comprising: the first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, the second lens element with refractive power, the third lens element with refractive power, the fourth lens element with refractive power, the fifth lens element with refractive power; the sixth lens element made of plastic, the sixth lens with refractive power having a concave image-side surface with both being aspheric, and the image-side surface having at least one inflection point.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.Inventor: Hsin-Hsuan Huang
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Patent number: 11714266Abstract: The disclosure discloses a projection lens, which sequentially includes a first lens, a second lens and a third lens from an image source side to an imaging side along an optical axis. The first lens has a positive refractive power, and a surface near the image source side thereof is a convex surface. The second lens has a positive refractive power or negative refractive power. The third lens has a positive refractive power is a meniscus lens of which a surface near the imaging side is a convex surface. An image source height ImgH of the projection lens and a total effective focal length f of the projection lens meet ImgH/f<0.2.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2018Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICAL, CO., LTDInventors: Xinquan Wang, Lin Huang
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Patent number: 11712160Abstract: Predicting a non perfusion area. An enhancement image processing section performs enhancement image processing on a fundus image of a subject eye to enhance vascular portions (304). A prediction processing section predicts a non perfusion area in the fundus image that has been subjected to the enhancement image processing (306 to 312). A generation section generates a non perfusion area candidate image (314).Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2017Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Mariko Hirokawa, Yasushi Tanabe, Tomoharu Fujiwara
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Patent number: 11701315Abstract: The present invention relates to ophthalmic and non-ophthalmic systems with blue light filtering and Yellowness Index ranges. UV and IR filtering are also included. Industrial applications are also outlined in the invention.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: High Performance Optics, Inc.Inventors: Andrew W. Ishak, Sean P. McGinnis, Ronald D. Blum, Michael B. Packard
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Patent number: 11693257Abstract: A ophthalmic lens for inhibiting progression of myopia includes a central zone and an annular zone. The annular zone includes subsurface optical elements formed via laser-induced changes in refractive index of a material forming the annular zone. The subsurface optical elements are configured to modify distribution of light to the peripheral retina of a user so as to inhibit progression of myopia.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Clerio Vision, Inc.Inventor: Leonard Zheleznyak
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Patent number: 11684469Abstract: A method and system provide a multifocal ophthalmic device. The ophthalmic lens has an anterior surface, a posterior surface and at least one diffractive structure including a plurality of echelettes. The echelettes have at least one step height of at least one wavelength and not more than two wavelengths in optical path length. The diffractive structure(s) reside on at least one of the anterior surface and the posterior surface. The diffractive structure(s) provide a plurality of focal lengths for the ophthalmic lens.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Alcon Inc.Inventors: Myoung-Taek Choi, Xin Hong, Yueai Liu
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Patent number: 11681163Abstract: A pair of progressive power lenses and related techniques thereof are provided, wherein a power distribution on a horizontal cross-section of the right eye lens has a peak at a position that is away from a main gaze line, and a power distribution on a horizontal cross-section of the left eye lens has a peak at a position that is away from a main gaze line in a direction opposite to that of the right eye lens.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.Inventors: Eiichiro Yamaguchi, Toshiaki Sonehara, Ayumu Ito
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Patent number: 11668899Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object along an optical axis: a first lens group having a negative refractive power; a second lens group having a positive refractive power; a third lens group having a negative refractive power; a fourth lens group; and a fifth lens group. When the zoom lens performs varying magnification, the distance between the first and second lens groups changes, the distance between the second and third lens groups changes, the distance between the third and fourth lens groups changes, the distance between the fourth and fifth lens groups changes, the second and fourth lens groups move along the same trajectory along the optical axis, and at least the third lens group moves along the optical axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Takeshi Umeda
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Patent number: 11662606Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an orthokeratology lens which may comprise an inner surface facing a cornea of a human eye when the orthokeratology lens is worn and an outer surface opposite the inner surface, the inner surface comprising a centrally located base are zone, wherein the base arc zone is configured for pressing and shaping an anterior surface of the cornea to have a shape that conforms to the base are zone, wherein the base arc zone comprises two or more regions, at least two of the two or more regions having different radii of curvature. The present disclosure also relates to a method for making orthokeratology lenses.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: EYEBRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhao Wang, Jiangbing Xie
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Patent number: 11656433Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical imaging lens assembly including, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens having refractive power; a second lens having refractive power; and a third lens having refractive power. A center thickness CT1 of the first lens along the optical axis and a maximum effective radius DT11 of an object-side surface of the first lens satisfy: 1.0<CT1/DT11<2.0.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Inventors: Xiaobin Zhang, Jianke Wenren, Liefeng Zhao, Fujian Dai
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Patent number: 11656438Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth lens elements, each having an object-side surface facing toward an object side and an image-side surface facing toward an image side. The image-side surface of the first lens element includes a concave portion in a vicinity of a periphery of the first lens element. The optical imaging lens as a whole has only the six lens elements having refractive power. The ratio between the f-number of the optical imaging lens and thicknesses of the lens elements satisfies certain relations.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shih Han Chen, Hung Chien Hsieh, Long Ye
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Patent number: 11650399Abstract: The application discloses an optical imaging lens assembly including, sequentially from an object side to an image side, a first lens with a positive refractive power and a concave image side surface; a second lens with a negative refractive power and a convex object side surface; a third lens with a refractive power and a convex image side surface; a fourth lens with a negative refractive power and a concave object side surface; a fifth lens with a positive refractive power and a convex image side surface; a sixth lens with a refractive power; and a seventh lens with a negative refractive power, wherein an effective focal length f of the optical imaging lens assembly, an entrance pupil diameter EPD of the optical imaging lens assembly and a space interval T67 between the sixth lens and the seventh lens satisfy f/EPD?1.80, and 5.5<f/T67<11.5.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Inventors: Lihui Ye, Ming Li
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Patent number: 11650394Abstract: An embodiment comprises: a housing comprising a plurality of protrusions arranged on the upper surface thereof; a magnet arranged on a side portion of the housing; a bobbin having a first coil arranged on the outer peripheral surface thereof, the bobbin being configured to move by means of an interaction between the magnet and the first coil; an upper elastic member coupled to the bobbin and to the housing; and a sensing coil arranged on the side portion of the housing between the protrusions and the magnet, the sensing coil being configured to generate an induction voltage by means of an interaction with the first coil, wherein at least a part of the upper elastic member is arranged on the upper surface of the housing between the protrusions.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Seung Taek Shin, Jin Suk Han
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Patent number: 11644642Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens sequentially disposed in ascending numerical order along an optical axis of the optical imaging system from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging surface of an image sensor, wherein a conditional expression f/f2+f/f3<?0.4 is satisfied, where f is a focal length of the optical imaging system, f2 is a focal length of the second lens, and f3 is a focal length of the third lens, and a conditional expression TTL/(2*IMG HT)<0.69 is satisfied, where TTL is a distance along the optical axis from an object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging surface of the image sensor, and IMG HT is one-half of a diagonal length of the imaging surface of the image sensor.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae Hyuk Huh, Jae Hyun Baik, Yong Joo Jo
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Patent number: 11644689Abstract: An ophthalmic tinted lens has a visual transmission value TV for quantifying a first light intensity ratio which relates to light effective for human vision and transmitted through the lens in daylight condition, and also has a value of a chronobiological factor FC for quantifying a second light amount ratio which relates to light effective for a non-visual physiological effect and also transmitted through the lens in daylight condition. The TV-value and the FC-value expressed as percentage values meet the following condition: FC>1.1×TV+13.0 with 3%?TV?43%, or FC>0.7×TV+32 with 43%<TV?92%, for the ophthalmic tinted lens to combine solar protection and maintenance of circadian rhythms and better pupil constriction which are based on the non-visual physiological effect.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Coralie Barrau, Montserrat Burgos, Natalia Schianchi
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Patent number: 11644687Abstract: Systems and methods for creating and/or manufacturing progressive lenses (e.g., bifocal, multifocal, and so on) having ocular side (e.g., back side or surface) lens segments, are described. For example, the systems and methods may apply round lens segments to ocular sides or surfaces of progressive lenses, providing the lenses with specializing vision lens segments and/or power enhancement lens segments, which may combine with front surface power additions provided by the multifocal lens segments applied to the front surfaces of the lenses.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Digital Vision, Inc.Inventor: Gordon Keane
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Patent number: 11644361Abstract: Eyewear having monitoring capability, such as for radiation or motion, is disclosed. Radiation, such as ultraviolet (UV) radiation, infrared (IR) radiation or light, can be measured by a detector. The measured radiation can then be used in providing radiation-related information to a user of the eyewear. Motion can be measure by a detector, and the measured motion can be used to determine whether the eyewear is being worn.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: IngenioSpec, LLCInventors: Thomas A. Howell, David Chao, C. Douglass Thomas, Peter P. Tong
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Patent number: 11635594Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, and an eighth lens, sequentially disposed from an object side to an imaging plane. The optical imaging system satisfies the expression BFL/f<0.15, where BFL represents a distance from an image-side surface of the eighth lens to an imaging plane of an image sensor and f represents an overall focal length of the optical imaging system.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin Hwa Jung, Yong Joo Jo
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Patent number: 11635807Abstract: 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: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Robin Sharma, Nicholas Daniel Trail, Robert Dale Cavin, Kyle Justin Curts
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Patent number: 11635551Abstract: The invention relates to an optical zoom device (1) Optical zoom device (1), comprising a first lens assembly (2), and a second lens assembly (3) following the first lens assembly (2) in the direction of an optical axis (A) of the optical zoom device (1) so that light (L) can pass through the first lens assembly (2) and thereafter through the second lens assembly when travelling along the optical axis (A), wherein said lens assemblies each comprise a focus-adjustable lens (31, 32) as well as an electropermanent magnet (107, 207) or a shape memory alloy (120, 220) for actuating the respective lens (31, 32).Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: OPTOTUNE CONSUMER AGInventor: Manuel Aschwanden