Patents Examined by Mahidere Sahle
  • Patent number: 10203519
    Abstract: Methods for augmented reality, and to lenses, systems and methods for improving visual comfort of a wearer equipped with a head-mounted device configured for display of information content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Matthieu Guillot, Pauline Colas, Sebastien Fricker, Benjamin Rousseau
  • Patent number: 10203582
    Abstract: An electrochromic system and method for controlling photochromic darkening of an electrochromic device, the system including an EC device, a control unit, a voltage detector, and a power supply. The EC device includes a working electrode, a counter electrode, a solid-state polymer electrolyte disposed therebetween, and a Bragg reflector configured to selectively reflect UV radiation away from the working electrode. The control unit is configured to control a sweep voltage applied between the working and counter electrodes, such that the sweep voltage is applied when an open circuit voltage (OCV) between the working and counter electrodes is less than a threshold voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: HELIOTROPE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Guillermo Garcia, Sourav Basu, Jason Holt
  • Patent number: 10197775
    Abstract: Some embodiments include a fixed chassis structure and a moveable carriage body carrying one or more lenses. The carriage body is movably mounted to the chassis structure so as to limit a plurality of degrees of freedom of movement of the moveable carriage body but to allow movement along an optical axis through the one or more lenses. An inertial actuator is mounted to the moveable carriage body such that the axis of motion of the actuator is parallel to at least one allowed degree of freedom. The moveable carriage body is held in place with respect to the at least one allowed degree of freedom by one or more friction forces received at one or more mechanical contacts with the chassis structure. The inertial actuator is actionable to overcome the friction forces, and an inertial mass is mounted to the inertial actuator on a side opposite the carriage body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Richard J. Topliss
  • Patent number: 10191300
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to lens, methods of making, designing lens and/or methods using lens in which performance may be improved by providing one or more steps in the central portion of the optical zone and one or more steps in the peripheral portion of the optic zone. In some embodiments, such lens may be useful for correcting refractive error of an eye and/or for controlling eye growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Brien Holden Vision Institute
    Inventors: Brien Anthony Holden, Padmaja Rajagopal Sankaridurg, Klaus Ehrmann, Fabian Conrad, Arthur Ho
  • Patent number: 10188287
    Abstract: An optical measurement system method for measuring a characteristic of a subject's eye use a probe beam having an infrared wavelength in the infrared spectrum to measure a refraction of the subject's eye at the infrared wavelength; capture at least two different Purkinje images at two different corresponding wavelengths from at least one surface of the lens of the subject's eye; determine from the at least two different Purkinje images a value for at least one parameter of the subject's eye; use the value of the at least one parameter to determine a customized chromatic adjustment factor for the subject's eye; and correct the measured refraction of the subject's eye at the infrared wavelength with the customized chromatic adjustment factor to determine a refraction of the subject's eye at a visible wavelength in the visible spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: AMO WaveFront Sciences, LLC
    Inventors: Richard J. Copland, Daniel R. Neal, Thomas D. Raymond, Stephen W. Farrer
  • Patent number: 10185199
    Abstract: A control system for a variable transmittance optical filter assembly includes a controller in communicatively coupled to a pair of load terminals, and a memory communicatively coupled to the controller and having encoded thereon statements and instructions executable by the controller to transition the optical filter assembly between operating states when coupled to the pair of load terminals. The controller is operable to perform any one or more of: allowing the optical filter assembly to transition to a dark state by shorting the load terminals together, maintaining the optical filter assembly in a hold mode by applying a pulse width modulated voltage signal across the load terminals, and transitioning the optical filter assembly between operative states by applying a voltage signal having voltage pulses of opposite polarities to the load terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SWITCH MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Neil Robin Branda, Glen Ramsay Bremner, Jeremy Graham Finden, Corbin Abe Giesbrecht, Duhane Lam, Matt Andrew Pilapil, Matthew Paul Smit
  • Patent number: 10179546
    Abstract: A display mirror assembly for a vehicle is presented that includes a full display module and an electro-optic element that includes a first substantially transparent substrate having first and second surfaces disposed on opposite sides thereof. The second surface includes a first electrically conductive layer. A second substantially transparent substrate has third and fourth surfaces disposed on opposite sides thereof. The third surface includes a second electrically conductive layer. A primary seal is disposed between the first and second substrates. The seal and the first and second substrates define a cavity therebetween. An electro-optic medium is disposed in the cavity. The electro-optic medium is variably transmissive such that the electro-optic medium is operable between generally clear and darkened states. A first electrical connection and a second electrical connection are positioned on the same side of the electro-optic element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: GENTEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: David J. Cammenga, Joel A. Stray
  • Patent number: 10174232
    Abstract: Electro-optic assemblies and related materials (e.g., adhesive) for use therein are generally provided. The adhesive layer may comprise an end-capped polyurethane. Some adhesive layers comprise two or more reactive functional groups (e.g., reactive functional groups configured to react with one or more curing species such that, for example, at least one of the two or more functional groups forms a crosslink). The adhesive may also comprise a chain-extending reagent that includes one or more reactive functional groups. In some embodiments, the adhesive is cured by reacting one or more reactive functional groups with one or more curing species. Curing the adhesive may comprise two or more curing steps. In some embodiments the adhesive layer may comprise one or more cross-linkers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Eugene Bzowej, David Darrell Miller, Ziyan Wu
  • Patent number: 10168595
    Abstract: An electrodeposition element is provided which includes a first substrate including a first member and an electrode arranged above the first member, a second substrate arranged opposite to the first substrate and including an electrode, and an electrolyte layer arranged between the electrodes of the first substrate and the second substrate, and including an electrodeposition material that contains silver. When a voltage is applied between the electrodes of the first substrate and the second substrate such that the first substrate side is negative and the second substrate side is positive, a reflective surface made of a silver thin film and reflecting light, which is incident from a direction normal to the first and second substrates, in a direction not parallel to the incident direction of the light is formed above the electrode of the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignees: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yasuo Toko, Manabu Yatabe, Norihisa Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10162240
    Abstract: Electrochromic devices and methods may employ the addition of a defect-mitigating insulating layer which prevents electronically conducting layers and/or electrochromically active layers from contacting layers of the opposite polarity and creating a short circuit in regions where defects form. In some embodiments, an encapsulating layer is provided to encapsulate particles and prevent them from ejecting from the device stack and risking a short circuit when subsequent layers are deposited. The insulating layer may have an electronic resistivity of between about 1 and 108 Ohm-cm. In some embodiments, the insulating layer contains one or more of the following metal oxides: aluminum oxide, zinc oxide, tin oxide, silicon aluminum oxide, cerium oxide, tungsten oxide, nickel tungsten oxide, and oxidized indium tin oxide. Carbides, nitrides, oxynitrides, and oxycarbides may also be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: View, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert T. Rozbicki
  • Patent number: 10162201
    Abstract: Provided is an optical modulator in which low-voltage drive and a stable modulation characteristic are secured over a wide bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norikazu Miyazaki, Toshio Kataoka, Youichi Hosokawa, Kei Katou
  • Patent number: 10129450
    Abstract: A system and method for ophthalmological imaging is provided for use with a mobile processing device, wherein the mobile processing device comprises a camera lens, light source, and processor configured to process images captured, received, and/or delivered by the mobile processing device. The mobile processing device adapted ophthalmological instrument system comprises housing segments, circuitry, lights, and a frustum cone, wherein the frustum cone comprises reference lines of a plurality of circular, frusto-conical, alternating transparent and opaque concentric rings in the conical surface in optical alignment with the mobile processing device's camera lens and subject's central cornea and/or tear-film layer(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Inventor: Tareq Issam Nabhan
  • Patent number: 10126624
    Abstract: An electro-optic assembly is disclosed. The assembly comprises a front substrate having a first surface and a second surface substantially parallel to the first surface; a rear substrate spaced from and substantially parallel to the front substrate. The rear substrate comprises a third surface and a fourth surface substantially parallel to the third surface. The assembly further comprises an electrical contact for providing an electrical connection to an electrode in proximity to an electro-optic material and an appliqué layer. The appliqué layer is on at least a portion of the fourth surface and forms a contact-obscuring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: GENTEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: David J. Cammenga, Adam R. Heintzelman, Joel A. Stray, Autumn W. Trombka
  • Patent number: 10120157
    Abstract: A lens unit includes a correction lens that corrects movement of a focus position of an optical system, a holding frame that holds the lens, a stationary tube that movably supports the frame along a direction of an optical axis, a movement guide portion that is provided between the tube and the frame in a radial direction of the tube and limits rotation of the frame in a direction intersecting with a plane orthogonal to the optical axis and guides movement of the frame in the direction of the optical axis, bimetals that are provided between the tube and the frame in the direction of the optical axis and change a distance between the frame and the tube along the direction of the optical axis, and a first biasing means that relatively biases the frame against the tube via the movement guide portion in the radial direction of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroki Kitamura, Atsushi Matsuura, Keisuke Kuryo
  • Patent number: 10101591
    Abstract: A collimator having an overall bowl shape. The collimator is rotationally symmetrical about an optical axis of the collimator, and has an output wall, an input recess opposite the output wall, the input recess being defined by an internal side wall and an internal upper wall which interrupts the internal side wall in such a way as to define an intersection region, the internal side wall and the internal upper wall being designed to allow an incident light ray to enter the collimator peripherally and centrally, respectively, and a peripheral reflective wall joining the output wall to the internal side wall, the surface of the internal side wall being designed in such a way that a straight line, which is tangential to the internal side wall and joins the intersection region, passes through the focal point of the collimator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: GAGGIONE SAS
    Inventor: Jean-Pierre Lauret
  • Patent number: 10092180
    Abstract: OCT imaging systems are provided for imaging a spherical-type eye including a source having an associated source arm path and a reference arm having an associated reference arm path coupled to the source path. The reference arm path has an associated reference arm path length. A sample is also provided having an associated sample arm path coupled to the source arm and reference arm paths. A lens having a focal power optimized for a diameter of the spherical-type eye is provided along with a reference arm path length adjustment module coupled to the reference arm. The reference arm path length adjustment module is configured to automatically adjust the reference arm path length such that the reference arm path length is based on an eye diameter of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Bioptigen, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert H. Hart, Eric L. Buckland, Glenn A. Myers, Joseph A. Izatt, Joseph Elliott Vance
  • Patent number: 10088646
    Abstract: A motor for driving a lens is disclosed, wherein a yoke comprises a rotation prevention unit configured to prevent the bobbin from rotating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sangjun Min, Taejin Jung, Soojin Jung
  • Patent number: 10054769
    Abstract: A camera lens is disclosed. The camera lens includes: a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with negative refractive power; a third lens with negative refractive power; a fourth lens with positive refractive power; a fifth lens with negative refractive power which are arranged in an order from an object side to an image side. The camera lens is characterized in that it meets specified conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Jianming Wang, Han Tang, Hiroyuki Teraoka
  • Patent number: 10054766
    Abstract: A photographing lens system and a photographing apparatus including the photographing lens system are provided. The photographing lens system may include a first lens having a negative refractive power, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens having a negative or positive refractive power, a fifth lens having a negative refractive power, and a sixth lens having a negative or positive refractive power. The first to sixth lenses may be sequentially arranged in a direction from an object side to an image side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-jun Shin, Han-eung Kim, Jeong-kil Shin
  • Patent number: 10052019
    Abstract: Imaging systems and methods of using the same are provided for monitoring the quantity of fluorescent pigment, for example lipofuscin, in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) layer of a retina in vivo. Various imaging modalities can be integrated into a single system and excited by a single broadband light source for the monitoring of the fluorescent pigment. The influence of varying optical properties found in the optical path of the pigment's auto-fluorescence between the RPE and an image receiver can be corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignees: The Florida International University Board of Trustees, University of Miami
    Inventors: Shuliang Jiao, Rong Wen, Byron L. Lam