Patents Examined by Jordan M. Schwartz
  • Patent number: 11353722
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining a specific near vision power of an ophthalmic lens to be provided to a wearer having an ophthalmic prescription, the specific near vision power being for near distance vision, the method including: an ophthalmic lens providing step during which at least an ophthalmic lens having a near distance vision zone including a mean power adapted for near distance vision is provided to the wearer; a near vision task speed determining step during which the processing speed of a near vision task by the wearer when wearing the provided ophthalmic lens is determined; wherein the ophthalmic lens providing step and the near vision task speed determining step are repeated with ophthalmic lenses having different mean power, so as to determine a specific near vision power corresponding to the mean power providing an improved near vision task processing speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Martha Hernandez Castaneda, Paul Joret, Jean-Luc Perrin, Cyril Guilloux
  • Patent number: 11353687
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a lens module, a camera, and a driver assistant system. From an object side to an image side, the lens module sequentially includes a first lens with a negative refractive power, a second lens with a negative refractive power, a third lens with a positive refractive power, a stop, a fourth lens with a positive refractive power, a fifth lens with a negative refractive power, a sixth lens with a positive refractive power, and a filter. The fifth lens and the fourth lens constitute a bonding lens group. The second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, and the fifth lens are glass spherical lenses, and the first lens and the sixth lens are both glass aspherical lenses. The lens module significantly increases the distortion in a small FOV to meet the special algorithm requirements of an in-vehicle system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: JIANGXI LIANCHUANG ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weijian Chen, Yumin Bao, Xuming Liu, Jiyong Zeng, Kemin Wang, Zhuo Wang
  • Patent number: 11344194
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems for performing an ophthalmic diagnostic test are disclosed. In one aspect, a head-wearable device for administering an ophthalmic test to a subject can comprise a head-wearable frame for mounting the device onto the subject's head, and a light seal configured for coupling to the frame so as to isolate at least one eye of the subject from ambient light when the device is worn by the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: MACULOGIX, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory R. Jackson, David E. Beecher, David E. Orr, Frank Jones, Nathan Smith
  • Patent number: 11347061
    Abstract: Optical assemblies for use in virtual and augmented reality environments are described. The optical assemblies may include lenses, filter stacks, cameras, and image projecting devices. For example, the optical assemblies may include at least one lens, a first filter stack between the at least one lens and an image projecting device, a second filter stack between the first filter stack and the image projecting device, and a camera configured to capture images of an infrared reflection of light through the at least one lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Serge Bierhuizen, Hayes S. Raffle, Xinda Hu, Jerome Carollo, Yi Qin, Oscar Martinez
  • Patent number: 11333901
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining the position of the eye rotation center of a subject's eye including: providing a geometric model of an eye, the eye being modeled with one sphere for the sclera and one ellipsoid for the cornea of the eye, the position of the eye rotation center being the distance between a center of the sclera and an apex of the cornea and being determined based on a set of personal parameters including a first geometric dimension of the eye, each personal parameter distinct from the position of the eye rotation center; determining a value of each personal parameter; and determining a first approximate value of eye position rotation center based on the geometric model using the personal parameters. Also disclosed is a method for calculating a personalized ophthalmic lens for the eye using such center, as well as a device implementing this method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventor: Didier Grand-Clement
  • Patent number: 11333856
    Abstract: An optical lens assembly and an imaging device. The optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens (L1) being a meniscus lens having a negative focal power, the first lens having an object side surface (S1) being a convex surface, and an image side surface (S2) being a concave surface; a second lens (L2) having a negative focal power, an image side surface (S4) of the second lens being a concave surface; a third lens (L3) being a meniscus lens having a positive focal power, the third lens having an object side surface (S5) being a concave surface, and an image side surface (S6) being a convex surface; a fourth lens (L4); a fifth lens (L5) cemented to the fourth lens; and a sixth lens (L6) having a positive focal power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: NINGBO SUNNY AUTOMOTIVE OPTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiansen Xie, Dongfang Wang, Bo Yao
  • Patent number: 11327341
    Abstract: Ophthalmic lenses are described herein. An example ophthalmic lens may comprise a first surface. The example ophthalmic lens may comprise a second surface disposed opposite the first surface and defining a volume of lens material therebetween. A thickness profile of the volume of lens material may be derived from one or more eyelid profiles such that a thickness gradient of the volume of lens material is oriented to be substantially orthogonal to a target eyelid margin shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc
    Inventor: Benjamin Straker
  • Patent number: 11320671
    Abstract: A method for designing, by means of a computer, at least one surface of a lens for a user. The method includes the steps of (i) obtaining displacement information on an amount of displacement between a user specific fitting position and a reference position, the reference position representing a primary fitting point of a lens surface on a reference line of sight of an eye of the user, and the user specific fitting position representing a user specific fitting point of the lens surface determined on the basis of the user; and (ii) causing calculating a design of the at least one surface of the lens on the basis of said displacement information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Hatanaka, Misaki Hatsuda, Naoya Hirono
  • Patent number: 11314061
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a camera optical lens sequentially including, from an object side to an image side, a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a negative refractive power; a fourth lens having a positive refractive power; a fifth lens having a negative refractive power; a sixth lens having a positive refractive power; and a seventh lens having a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 3.50?f3/f2?6.00; ?1.50?f5/f4??0.60; and ?1.50?f1/f7??0.60, where f1, f2, f3, f4, f5 and f7 denotes focal lengths of the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and seventh lenses, respectively. The camera optical lens can achieve high optical performance while satisfying design requirements for ultra-thin, wide-angle lenses having large apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki Teranishi, Lei Zhang, Yuanshan Cui
  • Patent number: 11311190
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and a method for measuring ocular motility of a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Novasight LTD.
    Inventors: Dan Oz, Michael Belkin, Oren Yehezkel
  • Patent number: 11307375
    Abstract: An imaging lens set includes a plastic lens element. The plastic lens element having a central axis includes an object-side surface and an image-side surface, wherein the image-side surface is located opposite to the object-side surface. Each of the object-side surface and the image-side surface includes an effective optical section and a lens peripheral section in order from the central axis to an edge of the plastic lens element. The effective optical section is for being passed through by an imaging light and aspheric. The lens peripheral section surrounds the effective optical section. At least one of the lens peripheral section of the object-side surface and the lens peripheral section of the image-side surface includes at least one annular groove structure, wherein the annular groove structure includes a plurality of stepped surfaces and is not in contact with the optical elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 11300790
    Abstract: A see-through free-form head-mounted display including a wedge-shaped prism-lens having free-form surfaces and low F-number is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignees: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Dewen Cheng, Hong Hua, Yongtian Wang
  • Patent number: 11294149
    Abstract: An optical photographing lens assembly includes six lens elements, in order from an object side to an image side, the six lens elements are a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element has negative refractive power. The fifth lens element has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The sixth lens element has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof, both an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the seventh lens element are aspheric, and at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element includes at least one inflection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hung-Shuo Chen, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 11287671
    Abstract: A method for optimising a progressive ophthalmic lens and to a method for producing same. Further disclosed it a method for optimising a progressive ophthalmic lens the distribution of power and undesired astigmatism along an optical surface is optimised by minimising the function: F ? ? ·=· ? ? ? i = 1 n ? ? w ? ? 1 i ? ( Ast i ) 2 + w ? ? 2 i ? ( Pow i - TargetPow ) 2 wherein w1i and w2i are 0 or positive, and wherein the subscript i indicates the different points of the optical surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: HORIZONS OPTICAL S.L.U.
    Inventors: Gloria Casanellas Penalver, Pau Artus Colomer, Antoni Vilajoana Mas
  • Patent number: 11281026
    Abstract: An optical lens including first and second polarizers, a partial reflector disposed between the first and second polarizers, a first phase retarder disposed between the first polarizer and the partial reflector, and a second phase retarder disposed between the partial reflector and the second polarizer is described. The optical lens is a single piece configured for use in an eyewear. Eyewear including at least one of the optical lenses is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Zhisheng Yun, Andrew J. Ouderkirk, Susan L. Kent, Erin A. McDowell, Timothy L. Wong, John D. Le, Michael L. Steiner
  • Patent number: 11280983
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes lenses. A prism is disposed adjacent to a first lens of the lenses and a second lens of the lenses, and is configured to refract light from the first lens to the second lens. A reflecting member is disposed adjacent to a fifth lens of the lenses and an imaging plane, and is configured to reflect light from the fifth lens to the imaging plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jung Hui Ko
  • Patent number: 11275259
    Abstract: An apparatus to treat refractive error of the eye comprises one or more optics configured to project stimuli comprising out of focus images onto the peripheral retina outside the macula. While the stimuli can be configured in many ways, in some embodiments the stimuli are arranged to decrease interference with central vison such as macular vision. The stimuli can be out of focus images may comprise an amount of defocus within a range from about 3 Diopters (“D”) to about 6 D. In some embodiments, the brightness of the stimuli is greater than a brightness of background illumination by an appropriate amount such as at least 3 times the background brightness. In some embodiments, each of a plurality of stimuli comprises a spatial frequency distribution with an amplitude profile having spatial frequencies within a range from about range of 1×10?1 to 2.5×101 cycles per degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: ACUCELA INC.
    Inventors: Ryo Kubota, Nabin Joshi, Arkady Selenow, Steven Ali, Stefan Bauer, Jean-Noël Fehr, Moritz Haeberli, Patrizia Weber, Julien Sauvet, Amitava Gupta
  • Patent number: 11262544
    Abstract: An imaging lens system comprises, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; a second lens element with refractive power; a third lens element with refractive power having object-side and image-side surfaces being aspheric, at least one surface thereof having at least one inflection point; a fourth lens element with refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a fifth lens element with refractive power having an aspheric object-side surface and an aspheric concave image-side surface, the image-side surface thereof having at least one inflection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chun-Shan Chen
  • Patent number: 11243377
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: an aperture; a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens having a positive refractive power; and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 0.80?f1/f?0.90; 70.00?f3/f?120.00; and ?450.00?(R5+R6)/(R5?R6)??430.00, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens; f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens; f3 denotes a focal length of the third lens; R5 denotes a curvature radius of an object side surface of the third lens; and R6 denotes a curvature radius of an image side surface of the third lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Qing Zhao, Hiroyuki Teraoka, Wen Sun
  • Patent number: 11234588
    Abstract: A concise representation illustrating essential elements of a subjective refraction eye test that includes choices of optics offered to a test subject, responses by the test subject indicating respective choices among the optics, and time durations of, between, or both of and between, responses by the test subject indicating the respective choices of optics. The concise representation includes a presentation that illustrates the essential elements of the eye test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Inventor: Shui T Lai