Patents Examined by Jordan Schwartz
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Patent number: 9664884Abstract: A projection zoom lens is essentially constituted by, in order from the magnification side: a negative first lens group; a positive second lens group; a third lens group; a positive fourth lens group; a fifth lens group; and a positive sixth lens group. The distance between the first and second lens groups is shorter, the distance between the second and third lens groups is longer, the distance between the third and fourth lens groups is shorter, the distance between the fourth and the fifth lens groups is longer, and the distance between the fifth and sixth lens groups is longer at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end. A lens having a negative refractive power in the paraxial region is provided most toward the magnification side in the first lens group. The fifth lens group has a negative lens.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Akiko Nagahara, Michio Cho
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Patent number: 9664883Abstract: An image display device includes a high-performance projection zoom lens with a very wide field angle and an image display device including a projection zoom lens of a five-lens-group type, which achieves high performance across the entire zoom area. The image display device is configured to project an image onto a target projection surface and display a magnified image of the image, which uses a projection zoom lens having a five-lens-group configuration in which first to fifth lens groups G1 to G5 are arranged from the magnification side toward the reduction side, and each of the constituent lens groups or lenses included in the lens groups has a combination of negative and positive refractive powers, and in the lens configuration, focal lengths of the constituent lens groups, relative travel distances, lens distances to the image display element, and constituent lens shapes are properly selected.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2013Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Takashi Kubota
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Patent number: 9664926Abstract: A contact lens for cornea-correction crosslinking made of an ultraviolet transmitting material includes, on a cornea contact side, a pressing region projecting in a convex curved-surface shape at a position corresponding to the center of a corneal dome to be pressed and a relief region constituted by an annular concave portion in a circular arc shape, encircling the outer periphery of the pressing region. The contact lens corrects at least naked eye vision or keratoconus cornea by pressing both regions to the cornea and changing its shape. The contact lens includes a reservoir portion outside the pressing region in a lens thickness direction for a riboflavin solution, a communication hole communicating the reservoir portion inside with the pressing region, and an operation-side electrode having the same polarity as that of the riboflavin solution. The mounted contact lens allows riboflavin solution infiltration into corneal tissue by iontophoresis and ultra-violet ray irradiation.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Inventor: Iwane Mitsui
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Patent number: 9658468Abstract: Wavefront measurements of eyes are often taken when the pupil is in a first configuration in an evaluation context. The results can be represented by a set of basis function coefficients. Prescriptive treatments are often applied in a treatment context, which is different from the evaluation context. Hence, the patient pupil can be in a different, second configuration, during treatment. Systems and methods are provided for determining a transformed set of basis function coefficients, based on a difference between the first and second configurations, which can be used to establish the vision treatment.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2015Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: AMO Development, LLCInventor: Guang-ming Dai
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Patent number: 9649029Abstract: A method includes obtaining an image of an eye in a bright-pupil imaging mode in which a retinal retro-reflection complements the image of the eye in the bright-pupil mode, and obtaining an image of the eye in a dark-pupil imaging mode in which a cornea-scleral retro-reflection complements the image of the eye in the dark-pupil mode. One of the bright-pupil imaging mode and the dark-pupil imaging mode is selected based on quality of obtained images.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2014Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: Tobii ABInventors: Peter Blixt, Gunnar Troili, Anders Kingbäck, John Mikael Elvesjö, Mårten Skogö
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Patent number: 9645346Abstract: Doublet lenses and doublet lens assemblies, and methods of assembling doublet lenses and assemblies, including a first lens having a convex surface and a concave surface, the concave surface comprising a peripheral portion and a central portion, and a second lens having a convex surface and a concave surface, the concave surface comprising a peripheral portion and a central portion. The peripheral portion of the first lens abuts the peripheral portion of the second lens with an airspace between the central portion of the first lens and the central portion of the second lens. The peripheral portions of the first and second lenses are shaped to fit together in a mating relationship which prevents sliding of the first and second lenses relative to each other in a radial direction after the lenses are brought together.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Fluke CorporationInventors: William Weidner, Timothy Olsen, William F. Jackson, Jr.
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Patent number: 9642521Abstract: Method for automatically measuring pupillary distance includes extracting facial features of face image, a head current center indicator is shown/displayed based on facial feature extraction, elliptical frame and target center indicator are shown, a first distance between head current center indicator and target center indicator is calculated to see if below a threshold range, then allowing head current center indicator, elliptical frame and target center indicator to disappear. Card window based on facial tracking result is shown. Credit card band detection is performed to see if located within card window. Card window then disappear. Elliptical frame of moving head and target elliptical frame are shown. Elliptical frame of the moving head is aligned with the target elliptical frame and maintaining a correct head posture. If elliptical frame of moving head is aligned with target elliptical frame, then allow them to disappear from view, and performing a pupillary distance measurement.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: ULSee Inc.Inventors: Zhou Ye, Sheng-Wen Jeng, Ying-Ko Lu, Shih Wei Liu
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Patent number: 9638839Abstract: An optical zoom probe is disclosed. The optical zoom probe includes: at least one liquid lens having a focus which is configured to be adjusted according to a flow of a fluid through a flow path; and a barrel provided to form the flow path and including a narrowed first end part including a first opening through which an image is captured, the at least one liquid lens being provided inside the barrel.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Eun-sung Lee, Woon-bae Kim, Seung-wan Lee, Jong-hyeon Chang, Min-seog Choi
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Patent number: 9638935Abstract: Method for optimization of a progressive spectacle lens, including: defining a starting nominal astigmatism distribution for the spectacle lens; determining a transformed nominal astigmatism distribution and optimizing the spectacle lens on the basis of the transformed nominal astigmatism distribution, wherein the determination of a transformed nominal astigmatism distribution comprises multiplication of the maximum temporal nominal astigmatism of the starting nominal astigmatism distribution by a factor k as a result of which a modified maximum temporal astigmatism is obtained, wherein k is a function of a prescription value, and/or at least of one parameter of the spectacle lens or of the arrangement thereof in front of the eyes, and transformation of the starting nominal astigmatism distribution on the basis of the modified maximum temporal astigmatism.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Rodenstock GmbHInventors: Helmut Altheimer, Robert Kaster, Martin Zimmermann, Wolfgang Becken, Gregor Esser, Dietmar Uttenweiler, Andrea Welk
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Patent number: 9625739Abstract: A lens includes a center of the ophthalmic lens having a negative power that provides foveal vision correction for myopia; a first peripheral zone surrounding the center having a power that gradually increases to a first peak having a dioptric power that is more positive than at the center; and a second peripheral zone surrounding the first peripheral zone and having a second peak having a dioptric power that is more positive than at the center and that is different than the power at the first peak. The power profile slows, retards, or prevents myopia progression independent of pupil size.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.Inventors: Noel A. Brennan, Khaled A. Chehab, Michael J. Collins, Xin Wei
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Patent number: 9622659Abstract: A method for determining the total refractive power of the cornea is based on a combination of keratometric or topographic measurements using the measured values obtained from depth scans or sectional images. The radius (Ra) of the front side of the cornea is ascertained keratometrically or topographically, the radius (Rp) of the rear side of the cornea is determined from depth scans or sectional images, and the refractive power (Ka) of the front side of the cornea, the refractive power (Kp) of the rear side of the cornea, and the total refractive power (K) of the cornea are determined. The method is used to determine the total refractive power of the cornea of an eye and is not just applicable to eyes with normal vision but in particular also to astigmatic eyes.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Ferid Bajramovic, Janine Feuker
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Patent number: 9615735Abstract: Systems and methods for determining thickness of lipid and aqueous layers of a tear film in which a spectrum array is generated from optical coherence tomography and input into a statistical estimator, which determines the thickness of the lipid and/or aqueous layers at a nanometer resolution based on the inputted spectrum and other information, such as information about a laser intensity noise, Poisson noise, and dark noise associated with the OCT.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2014Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignees: University of Rochester, The Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of The University of ArizonaInventors: Jinxin Huang, Jannick P. Rolland, Eric Clarkson, Matthew Kupinski
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Patent number: 9618728Abstract: A macro lens system includes, in this order from an object side: a positive first lens group; a negative second lens group; a positive third lens group; a negative fourth lens group; a positive fifth lens group; and a negative sixth lens group. The first lens group is constituted by three lenses. The second lens group, the fourth lens group, and the fifth lens group are independently moved in the direction of the optical axes thereof when focusing from an object at infinity to an object at a most proximate distance. The second lens group moves toward the image side and the fourth lens group moves toward the object side when focusing from an object at infinity to an object at a most proximate distance.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2015Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Ryoko Tomioka
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Patent number: 9612419Abstract: A lens assembly includes a first lens group, a stop and a second lens group, all of which are arranged in sequence from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens group includes a first lens and a second lens, wherein the first lens is with negative refractive power and the second lens is with positive refractive power. The second lens group includes a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens, wherein the third lens and the fifth lens are with negative refractive power, and the fourth lens and the sixth lens are with positive refractive power. The lens assembly satisfies 0.23?f/TL?0.45, wherein f is an effective focal length of the lens assembly and TL is a distance from an object side surface of the first lens to an image plane along the optical axis.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2015Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignees: SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., ASIA OPTICAL INTERNATIONAL LTD.Inventor: Rong-Shun Syu
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Patent number: 9612425Abstract: A rear attachment lens changes a focal-length of an entire lens-system, in which the rear attachment lens has been attached to a main-lens, to a longer focal-length-side than a focal-length of the main-lens by being attached to an image-side of the main-lens. The rear attachment lens consists essentially of a first-lens-group and a second-lens-group in this order from an object-side. The first-lens-group consists essentially of a negative lens and a positive lens in this order from the object-side. The second-lens-group consists essentially of at least one negative lens and at least one positive lens, and a lens closest to an image-side in the second lens-group is a positive lens. When an Abbe number for d-line and a partial dispersion ratio between g-line and F-line of the negative lens in the first-lens-group are ?d1 and ?gF1, respectively, conditional expression (1): ?d1>62 and conditional expression (2): 0.64<?gF1+0.001625 ×?d1<0.69 are satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2015Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Masaru Yonezawa
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Patent number: 9594235Abstract: Provided is a zoom lens system, sequentially arranged in an order from an object side to an image side, including: a first lens group having a positive refractive power; a second lens group having a negative refractive power; an aperture stop; a third lens group having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power; and a fifth lens group having a positive refractive power, wherein each of the second lens group, the third lens group, and the fourth lens group has an anomalous dispersion ?Pct of ?0.1 or less.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2014Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: Hanwha Techwin Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yasuhiko Abe
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Patent number: 9594261Abstract: Disclosed is a light guiding valve apparatus comprising an optical valve, a two dimensional light source array and a focusing optic for providing large area collimated illumination from localized light sources. A stepped waveguide may be a stepped structure, in which the steps may be extraction features optically hidden to guided light, propagating in a first forward direction. Returning light propagating in a second backward direction may be refracted, diffracted, or reflected by the features to provide discrete illumination beams exiting from the top surface of the waveguide. A two dimensional array of viewing windows may be produced. Such controlled illumination may provide for efficient, multi-user autostereoscopic displays with wide viewing freedom and low cross talk and near-eye displays that are substantially transparent.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2013Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: RealD Spark, LLCInventors: Graham J. Woodgate, Michael G. Robinson, Jonathan Harrold, Miller H. Schuck
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Patent number: 9594234Abstract: The zoom lens comprises five or more groups of lens pieces, namely, the foremost or first lens group of positive refractive power located the closest to an object, the succeeding second lens group of negative refractive power, the third lens group of positive refractive power, the fourth lens group of positive refractive power, and the fifth lens group all arranged in this order, and if any, the rearmost lens group(s) closer to the imaging plane than the fifth lens group. The zoom lens meets requirements as defined in the conditional expression regarding a combined magnification of the fifth lens group and, if any, the rearmost lens group(s) closer to the imaging plane than the fifth lens group while the zoom lens is taking a telephoto position.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2013Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: TAMRON CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshito Iwasawa, Jun Takahashi
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Patent number: 9581836Abstract: A contact lens incorporating one or more dynamic stabilization zones fabricated from a material that is readily deformable under eyelid pressure during blinking allows for the control over rotation of the contact lens on the eye. As the material deforms, the angle of contact between the eyelid and the one or more dynamic stabilization zones changes as does the rotational force acting on the contact lens.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2014Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.Inventors: Ryan Hawke, Daniel B. Otts
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Patent number: 9557531Abstract: An imaging lens, substantially consisting of six lenses, composed of a first lens having a positive refractive power and a meniscus shape with a convex surface on the object side, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, a fifth lens having a negative refractive power and a biconcave shape, and a sixth lens having a negative refractive power, disposed in order from the object side.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Sumihiro Nishihata, Motoari Ota