Patents Examined by Mahidere Sahle
  • Patent number: 9364146
    Abstract: A slit lamp microscope capable of appropriately and easily carrying out the setting of the optical system is provided. In storage 102 of a slit lamp microscope 1, correspondence information 110 is stored in which standard setting conditions of an illumination system 8 and/or an observation system 6 are associated with each of multiple sites of an eye E. A searching part 121 searches the standard setting conditions corresponding to a site designated by an operation part 104 from the correspondence information 110. A setting-state acquiring part 122 acquires current setting states of the illumination system 8 and/or the observation system 6. A setting-state specifying part specifies, from among the current setting states acquired by the setting-state acquiring part 122, those differing from the standard setting conditions searched by the searching part 121. A controller displays information based on this specified result on the display 103.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventor: Takumi Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 9361851
    Abstract: In one general aspect, a computing device can include a base, and a lid coupled to the base, the lid housing a display device that includes a first electrochromic material, a second electrochromic material, and an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display. The OLED display can be located between the first electrochromic material and the second electrochromic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Derek Basehore, Nicholas Jordan Sanders
  • Patent number: 9360674
    Abstract: A dual-view display substrate and a dual-view display device are provided. The dual-view display substrate includes a base substrate; first display areas and second display areas are alternately arranged and disposed on the base substrate; the first display areas and the second display areas are respectively provided with display units; main light-emitting directions of the display units of each first display area are consistent with each other and correspond to a first view region from which only the first display areas can be viewed; and main light-emitting directions of the display units of each second display area are consistent with each other and correspond to a second view region from which only the second display areas can be viewed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE CHATANI ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhendong Zhou, Yang Zhao
  • Patent number: 9356501
    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: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sangjun Min, Taejin Jung, Soojin Jung
  • Patent number: 9351636
    Abstract: There is provided a subjective eye refracting power measurement apparatus which measures a refracting power of a subject eye. The apparatus includes a projection optical system which projects a visual target light flux toward the subject eye to form a visual target on a fundus of the subject eye; a correction optical system which changes a refracting power thereof; a relay optical system which relays a light flux passing through the correction optical system and to form an image of the correction optical system in front of the subject eye; a deviation detector which detects a positional deviation of the image of the correction optical system with respect to the subject eye; and a correction unit which optically corrects a formation position of the image based on a detection result by the deviation detector such that the image is formed in front of the subject eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Kobayashi, Yoshinobu Hosoi
  • Patent number: 9348108
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a lens driving device which can prevent a lens support from being suspended in an inclined state and can correspond to energizing amount and carry out appropriate linear movement action. A front side primary coil and a rear side primary coil are respectively wound around an axis parallel to an optical axis in a manner of being coaxial to a secondary coil and are combined with each other through electromagnetic induction. The secondary coil is such disposed that its two coil terminals are connected with two ends of a diode respectively. The secondary coil and a permanent magnet assembly are arranged opposite to each other at an interval along the radial direction and a driving current is supplied to the primary coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignees: HUIZHOU DAYAWAN EVER BRIGHT ELECTRONIC INDUSTRY CO, JSS OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HUIZHOU DAYA BAY JSS OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kokichi Terajima
  • Patent number: 9341911
    Abstract: An electrochromic device includes an electrochromic stack. Openings are formed in the electrochromic stack that allow light to pass through without being tinted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: SAGE ELECTROCHROMICS, INC.
    Inventors: Bryan D. Greer, Louis J. Podbelski
  • Patent number: 9341909
    Abstract: A window assembly comprises a plurality of dynamic electrochromic zones formed on a single transparent substrate in which at least two electrochromic zones are independently controllable. In one exemplary embodiment, the window assembly comprises an Insulated Glass Unit (IGU), and at least one transparent substrate comprises a lite. In another exemplary embodiment, the IGU comprises at least two lites in which at least one lite comprises a plurality of independently controllable dynamic zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: View, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Egerton, Drew Gaskell
  • Patent number: 9341912
    Abstract: Thin-film devices, for example, multi-zone electrochromic windows, and methods of manufacturing are described. In certain cases, a multi-zone electrochromic window comprises a monolithic EC device on a transparent substrate and two or more tinting zones, wherein the tinting zones are configured for independent operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: View, Inc.
    Inventors: Dhairya Shrivastava, Robin Friedman, Vinod Khosla, Rao Mulpuri
  • Patent number: 9333917
    Abstract: An exterior rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle includes a principal reflective element, a wide angle auxiliary reflective element and a back plate. The principal reflective element is disposed at a principal reflective element region of the back plate and has a cutout at a corner region thereof. The wide angle auxiliary reflective element is disposed at the auxiliary reflective element region of the back plate and is adjacent to the principal reflective element at the corner region of the principal reflective element. A single heater pad is disposed between the principal reflective element and the principal reflective element region of the back plate and between the wide angle auxiliary reflective element and the auxiliary reflective element region of the back plate. When powered, the single heater pad heats the principal reflective element and the wide angle auxiliary reflective element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: MAGNA MIRRORS OF AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Donald S. Rawlings
  • Patent number: 9332904
    Abstract: This document provides methods and materials for quantifying ocular counter roll and detecting vestibular otolith damage. For example, devices for quantifying ocular counter roll, methods of making devices for quantifying ocular counter roll, and methods for using a device to quantify (e.g., quantify indirectly) ocular counter roll are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventor: David A. Zapala
  • Patent number: 9329414
    Abstract: An all-photonic method to cause a WGM resonator to self-tune to a given wavelength is described. Such all photonic approaches include simply superimposing intense light of a wavelength in a range different from that of a signal wave. The wavelength of the pass band for the signal wavelength can be tuned by adjusting the wavelength (and/or the intensity) of the intense light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Polytechnic Institute of New York University
    Inventors: Iwao Teraoka, Monica Agarwal
  • Patent number: 9329369
    Abstract: An optical system which forms an optical image on an image pickup element, comprising in order from an object side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, which includes a plurality of lenses, a stop, and a second lens unit which includes a plurality of lenses, wherein the first lens unit includes a first object-side lens which is disposed nearest to an object, and the second lens unit includes a second image-side lens which is disposed nearest to an image, and the first lens unit includes a negative lens, and a positive lens which is disposed on the object side of the negative lens, and the following conditional expressions are satisfied: ???1.1??(15) 0.08<NA??(16) 1.0<WD/BF??(19) 0.5<2×(WD×tan(sin?1NA)+Yobj)/?s<4.0??(20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Uchida, Kenichiro Abe, Keisuke Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 9326678
    Abstract: A tomographic-image pickup unit is controlled so as to capture a tomographic image in response to a signal input from a signal input unit. Then, a display unit is controlled so as to display the captured. tomographic image. An eyeground-image pickup unit is controlled so as to capture a two-dimensional image in response to a signal input from the signal input unit while the tomographic image. is displayed on the display unit. Therewith, the user can more easily perform imaging, and the time load on the subject is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Muto, Yasuyuki Numajiri, Nobuhito Suehira, Makoto Sato, Yukio Sakagawa, Akihiro Katayama
  • Patent number: 9329390
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes an original image forming unit configured to form an identical image in each of image forming regions, and an optical system including optical elements corresponding to the respective image forming regions and configured to form exit pupils corresponding to the image forming regions each displaying the identical image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazutaka Inoguchi
  • Patent number: 9320429
    Abstract: A slit lamp microscope capable of appropriately and easily carrying out the setting of the optical system is provided. In storage 102 of a slit lamp microscope 1, correspondence information 110 is stored in which standard setting conditions of an illumination system 8 and/or an observation system 6 are associated with each of multiple sites of an eye E. A searching part 121 searches the standard setting conditions corresponding to a site designated by an operation part 104 from the correspondence information 110. A setting-state acquiring part 122 acquires current setting states of the illumination system 8 and/or the observation system 6. A setting-state specifying part specifies, from among the current setting states acquired by the setting-state acquiring part 122, those differing from the standard setting conditions searched by the searching part 121. A controller displays information based on this specified result on the display 103.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventor: Takumi Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 9323127
    Abstract: The present invention provides an active substrate and a display device for realizing color display of an electronic paper. The active substrate comprises a first substrate and a pixel electrode layer formed on the first substrate, and further comprises a color filter layer formed on the pixel electrode layer and a protective layer formed on the color filter layer, wherein the color filter layer comprises: a red sub-pixel unit, a green sub-pixel unit and a blue sub-pixel unit that are sequentially arranged; wherein the materials of the red sub-pixel unit, the green sub-pixel unit and the blue sub-pixel unit are quantum dot materials that emit red light, green light and blue light respectively when excited by the ambient light. The display device according to the present invention comprises an electrophoretic display device and an electrowetting display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jian Guo
  • Patent number: 9310631
    Abstract: An acousto-optic (AO) device includes an AO crystal having a plurality of faces including a first face and a second face. An input transducer bonded to the first face (top electrode) for receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal and launching bulk acoustic waves (BAWs) configured to interact with an optical beam propagating in the AO crystal, wherein the BAWs are received at least in part by the second face after interacting with the optical beam. The second face has a roughened surface portion over an area of at least (?) 50% of an area of the top electrode, and a root mean square (rms) surface roughness?1 ?m and a surface profile derivable from a Fourier transform which provides at least one a first spatial frequency peak from 1 cycle/mm to 300 cycles/mm or at least one band of spatial frequency peaks from 1 cycle/mm to 300 cycles/mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Gooch and Housego PLC
    Inventors: Stefano Valle, Christopher N. Pannell, Jonathan David Ward
  • Patent number: 9304295
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, 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 negative refractive power. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has refractive power. The fourth lens element with refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The fifth lens element with refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The sixth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The optical imaging lens assembly has a total of six lens elements with refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 9304303
    Abstract: A positive-negative-positive-positive-positive zoom lens changes magnification by moving each of a first group to a fourth group so as to alter the interval between each group. The third group comprises first and second lens components, at least one of which has an aspheric surface, and the first lens component is a positive-negative-positive cemented lens in sequence from the object side. The zoom lens satisfies the conditional expressions, 7<?2t/?2w<10, 5<?3t/?3w<12, 0.7<(?2t/?2w)/(?3t/?3w)<1.65) (where: ?2t is the lateral magnification of the second group at the telephoto end; ?2w is the lateral magnification of the second group at the wide end; ?3t is the lateral magnification of the third group at the telephoto end; and ?3w is the lateral magnification of the third group at the wide end).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Yasushi Yamamoto