Patents Examined by Jie Lei
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Patent number: 11079578Abstract: A telescope includes a primary mirror, a secondary mirror configured to move along a first axis, and a tertiary mirror configured to move along a second axis. The secondary and tertiary mirrors are configured to move along respective axes in a synchronized manner to focus a beam of electromagnetic radiation from the primary mirror. The telescope further may include an anamorphic deformable mirror configured to achieve wavefront control and correction of optical aberrations. The telescope further may include a first linear actuator configured to move the secondary mirror along the first axis and a second linear actuator configured to move the tertiary mirror along the second axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANYInventors: Aaron Stonely, Stephen Felix Sagan, Brian M. Graue
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Patent number: 11071452Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an optical coherence tomography (OCT) including: an OCT device, an OCT calculation method, and an OCT calculation program, enabling correlation between images to be easily performed; more specifically it relates to a case where a functional OCT image such as a motion contrast is acquired by using the OCT; acquiring the functional OCT image through a calculation process of an OCT signal is a time-consuming process, for this reason, a long time elapses until the point that a functional OCT image can be observed after OCT imaging is completed, and thus this causes stress to a subject and an examiner; the present disclosure provides an OCT device, an OCT calculation method, and an OCT calculation program, enabling a functional OCT image to be rapidly acquired and enables an examiner to easily perform diagnosis.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Norimasa Satake, Yukihiro Higuchi, Yuji Murase, Yasuhiro Furuuchi, Hajime Namiki, Naoki Isogai, Masaaki Hanebuchi, Naoki Takeno
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Patent number: 11073685Abstract: The invention relates to a microscope (1), in particular an ophthalmic surgical microscope having a vitreoretinal viewing system (6), an optics carrier (14) and a support (2). The invention also relates to a method and a motion controller controlling the movement of the vitreoretinal viewing system (6). The optics carrier (14) is attached movably to the support (2). The vitreoretinal viewing system (6) in turn is attached movably to the optics carrier (14). The vitreoretinal viewing system (6) comprises a front piece (30), such as a optics carrier (14). To avoid contact of the front piece (30) with an eye (16) while the optics carrier (14) is moved for focusing a microscope lens (18), the position of the front piece (30) is automatically maintained stationary with respect to the support (2). This is obtained by controlling the vitreoretinal viewing system (6) to perform a counter movement to the movement of the optics carrier (14).Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Leica Microsystems K.K.Inventor: Masatoshi Honda
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Patent number: 11075496Abstract: A laser dicing device includes: a Gaussian laser beam emitter configured to emit a Gaussian laser beam having a Gaussian energy distribution; a laser beam modulator configured to modulate a shape of the emitted Gaussian laser beam by reducing intensity in a region surrounding a first line parallel with a laser dicing direction of the emitted Gaussian beam, the first line crossing a center of the Gaussian laser beam in a plan view; a focusing lens configured to focus a modulated Gaussian laser beam modulated by the laser beam modulator; and a substrate support configured that a substrate to be diced is seated on the support, wherein the focusing lens is configured to collect the modulated Gaussian laser beam inside the substrate seated on the substrate support.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Young-chul Kwon, Dong-woo Kang, Man-hee Han
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Patent number: 11069750Abstract: There is provided a flexible color filter for a display device, a flexible organic light-emitting display device comprising the color filter, and a manufacturing method therefor and, more specifically, a flexible color filter having a structure in which a base film, an adhesive layer, a separation layer, a protective layer, a black matrix layer, a pixel layer formed between different portions of the black matrix layer, and a planarization layer are sequentially stacked. The flexible color filter having the structure can be manufactured on a glass substrate, and thus advantages of solving a problem of thermal deformation of a plastic substrate in a high temperature process for implementing a color filter, enabling a fine pitch of a pattern, which cannot be implemented on a plastic substrate, and enabling diversification without limitations for a material of a base film can be secured.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Dongwoo Fine-Chem Co., Ltd.Inventors: Young Seok Choi, Ju In Yoon, Min Soo Seo, Woo Choi
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Patent number: 11067829Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide patients with premium progressive lenses that are tailor-made to his or her specific and unique requirements and preferences. An interactive progressive lens optical design determining provides design technology that allows patients or eye care professionals to alter a progressive lens optical design in real-time, while continually displaying the selected lens' optical performance, until the most suitable lens has been designed. The progressive lens optical design determining software mixes and blends a number of cornerstone designs in varying ratios to achieve the desired lens.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2015Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Crossbows Optical Ltd.Inventors: Trevor Steele, Hugh McLoughlin, Patrick McCollum, James McCartney, George Foster
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Patent number: 11067822Abstract: An optical system is provided and includes a fixed module, a movable module, a sensing unit and a driving assembly. The fixed module includes a base, and the movable module includes an optical member holder, configured to hold an optical member. The sensing unit is configured to obtain information related to a first rotation angle of the optical member holder when rotating around a first axis relative to the base and a second rotation angle of the optical member holder when rotating around a second axis relative to the base. The driving assembly includes a coil, the coil and the movable module are arranged along an optical axis of the optical member, and the coil is disposed around an opening of the base. The first axis or the second axis is perpendicular to the optical axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.Inventors: Chao-Chang Hu, Shao-Kuang Huang, Shu-Shan Chen, Chih-Wei Weng
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Patent number: 11067769Abstract: In a lens barrel, a first drive unit is driven to thereby cause a third lens holding frame to be movable in an optical axis direction relatively to a first lens holding frame and a second lens holding frame. One end of a guide shaft is fixed to the first lens holding frame, and another end of the guide shaft is fixed to the second lens holding frame.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsuto Noda, Nobuyoshi Suzuki
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Patent number: 11061211Abstract: A bimodal zoom lens includes three coaxially aligned lenses including a first lens, a third lens, and a second lens therebetween. The first lens is a negative lens, each of the second lens and the third lens is a positive lens. The three coaxially aligned lenses form (i) a first configuration when the second lens and the first lens are separated by an axial distance L11 and (ii) a second configuration when the second lens and the first lens are separated by an axial distance L12, which exceeds axial distance L11. The second configuration has a second effective focal length that exceeds a first effective focal length of the first configuration.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Tingyu Cheng, Jau-Jan Deng
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Patent number: 11061256Abstract: This invention relates to ophthalmic lens for spectacle comprising a primary glass, a secondary glass, a main chamber and a membrane configured to separate the volume of the main chamber in a first chamber and a second chamber.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2017Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: LACLAREEInventor: Bruno Berge
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Patent number: 11054611Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an optical imaging lens assembly including a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. Each of the first lens and the fifth lens has a positive refractive power. Each of the second lens, the third lens, and the fourth lens has a positive refractive power or a negative refractive power. An object-side surface of the first lens and an image-side surface of the fifth lens are convex surfaces. An image-side surface of the second lens, an object-side surface of the sixth lens, and an image-side surface of the sixth lens are concave surfaces. A total effective focal length f of the optical imaging lens assembly and an entrance pupil diameter EPD of the optical imaging lens assembly satisfy: f/EPD?1.8.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Zhejiang Sunny Optical Co., LtdInventors: Kaiyuan Zhang, Bo Song, Yabin Hu
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Patent number: 11048061Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a camera including a lens unit and a lens driving unit and a processor configured to obtain a first image of an object from the camera, move the lens unit by a specified amount using the lens driving unit, obtain a second image of the object that corresponds to a position to which the lens unit is moved, determine a focus position for an image of the object based on a difference between the first image, the second image, and the specified amount of movement, determine an amount of movement for moving the lens unit to the focus position including determining a distance between the object and the lens unit and correcting the determined amount of movement based on the determined distance, and move the lens unit by the determined amount of movement using the lens driving unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2018Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Inventors: Jae Hyoung Park, Jeong Won Lee, Kyung Hoon Yoon
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Patent number: 11042015Abstract: The invention relates to a microscope in which a layer of the sample is illuminated by a plurality of thin strips of light (11) passed through a grid (34) and the sample is viewed (5) perpendicular to the plane of the strips of light. To record the image, the object (4) is displaced through the strips of light (11). At least three different images of the objects (4) are made at different phase angles. The images can be combined to form a single combined image.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2017Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: European Molecular Biology LaboratoryInventor: Ernst H. K. Stelzer
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Patent number: 11042072Abstract: A light beam direction control element includes: a first transparent substrate; a second transparent substrate which is disposed facing the first transparent substrate; light shielding elements which are disposed between the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate; light transmission regions which are disposed between the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate and whose sidewalls are surrounded by any of the light shielding elements; a resin layer which is disposed between the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate, surrounds an outer circumference of a light transmission region pattern formed by the light transmission regions, and includes a sealed first opening unit; and a first buffer region which is sandwiched between a surface including the first opening unit of the resin layer and the light transmission region pattern, and in which the light shielding elements are injected.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: TIANMA JAPAN, LTD.Inventors: Kunihiro Shiota, Takumi Usukura
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Patent number: 11036066Abstract: Improved optical measuring devices and methods are disclosed for checking certain measurements taken of a patient's face before these measurements are used to create eyeglass lenses for the patient. Embodiments of the invention include a support frame receiving an eyeglass frame having demonstration lenses mounted therein. The eyeglass frame is held in place, and one or more mechanical structures are provided below the support frame which support one or more movable markers, typically one for each lens. The structures are moved according to the measurements taken of the patient's face. A stamping or marking mechanism is provided on each structure which is used to mark the pupil location on each respective lens after the structures are moved according to the patient measurements. The marked lenses are then taken to the patient for verification and modification of measurements, if necessary. Once the measurements have been verified, final lenses may be created.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Inventors: Thomas R. Casagrande, Matthew Barnes
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Patent number: 11029544Abstract: A display device including a first substrate, a pixel disposed on the first substrate and including first, second and third sub-pixel electrodes adjacent to each other, a second substrate spaced from the first substrate, a color conversion layer disposed on the second substrate and with a first wavelength conversion layer overlapping with the first sub pixel electrode and a second wavelength conversion layer overlapping with the second sub pixel electrode, a transmissive layer including a first sub-transmissive layer overlapping with the third sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-transmissive layer disposed between the first wavelength conversion layer and the second wavelength conversion layer, and a planarization layer disposed on the color conversion layer and the transmissive layer. Methods of manufacturing display devices having a flatter, planarization layer with reduced variations in thickness also is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2017Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin Soo Jung, Young Gu Kim, Taek Joon Lee, Hye Lim Jang, Baek Kyun Jeon
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Patent number: 11022801Abstract: Examples of an imaging system for use with a head mounted display (HMD) are disclosed. The imaging system can include a forward-facing imaging camera and a surface of a display of the HMD can include an off-axis diffractive optical element (DOE) or hot mirror configured to reflect light to the imaging camera. The DOE or hot mirror can be segmented. The imaging system can be used for eye tracking, biometric identification, multiscopic reconstruction of the three-dimensional shape of the eye, etc.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Michael Anthony Klug, Adrian Kaehler
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Patent number: 11016266Abstract: In an ocular optical system including a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens having negative refractive power, a third lens having positive refractive power, and a fourth lens having positive refractive power which are arranged in this order from an object side to an observation side, the shape and position of each lens is set appropriately to increase the angle of view and to minimize on-axis and magnification chromatic aberrations.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2018Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Seiji Nakahara
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Patent number: 11016262Abstract: A lens drive device, including a screening can (01); periphery of the inside an upper cover (05) and driving magnets (08); a lens support (06) is further provided inside the screening can (01); a driving coil (07) is winded at a outer periphery of the lens support (06); the driving magnets (08) include a first driving magnet and a second driving magnet; a structure of each of the first driving magnet and the second driving magnet includes corner segment (082) distributed along a corner of the screening can (01) and edge segment (081) distributed along an edge of the screening can (01); and the first driving magnet and the second driving magnet are in a central symmetry around an axial center of the lens drive device. By improving a structure of the lens drive device, the lens drive device has beneficial effects of low power consumption and large driving force.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2017Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Shanghai Billu Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jianhua Wang, Gaofeng Gong
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Patent number: 11009742Abstract: A multi-display includes a display panel array with the display panels arranged, and a protective plate disposed over a surface of the display panel array where light is emitted, so as to cover the display panel array. The protective plate has an optical refractive device of groove shape disposed in a position corresponding to a joint between the adjacent display panels of the display panel array, so as to extend along the joint. The optical refractive device refracts the light from the display panels. Each display panel has a display surface having sub-pixels constituting individual pixels. The sub-pixels are arranged in such a manner that the sub-pixels of two or more different display colors are disposed between the sub-pixels of the same display color. The sub-pixels of the display panels adjacent to each other via the joint are arranged in such a manner that color arrangements are different from each other at panel ends facing each other via the joint.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2017Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takanori Okumura, Naoko Iwasaki, Toshiaki Fujino