Patents Examined by Matthew Y Lee
  • Patent number: 11966032
    Abstract: A variable magnification optical system comprises, in order from an object side, a negative first lens group, a positive second lens group, a negative third lens group and a positive fourth lens group. Upon varying a magnification, a distance between the first lens group and the second lens group, a distance between the second lens group and the third lens group, and a distance between the third lens group and the fourth lens group are varied. The first lens group consists of, in order from the object side, a negative lens and a positive lens. The second lens group consists of, in order from the object side, a positive 2a lens group, a positive 2b lens group, and a negative 2c lens group. A downsized system having high optical performance is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Yoko Komatsubara, Takeshi Umeda
  • Patent number: 11960149
    Abstract: Provided is technology that makes it possible to measure visual behavior with respect to objects that are at different distances in the depth direction, while reducing burden on a subject. A method for measuring visual behavior of a subject to design an eyeglass lens includes: a step (a) of ascertaining a head rotation amount that is generated by the subject in a sagittal plane of the subject when gazing at each of a plurality of gaze points that are set at predetermined distances different from each other in a forward depth direction; and a step (b) of determining an eyeball rotation amount that is generated by the subject when gazing at each of the plurality of gaze points, based on the head rotation amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Eiichiro Yamaguchi, Toshiaki Sonehara, Ayumu Ito
  • Patent number: 11947199
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for visual field translation are disclosed, including providing an apparatus comprising: a platform; first and second left eye mirrors and first and second right eye mirrors coupled to the platform, wherein the left eye and right eye mirrors are configured to redirect light reflecting or emanating from an object onto regions of the user's retinas unaffected by scotomas; wherein the first left eye mirror and the first right eye mirror are positioned to approximately match a pupillary distance between the user's eyes; and viewing into the apparatus and making adjustments to one or more of the first left eye mirror, the second left eye mirror, the first right eye mirror, and the second right eye mirror in order to translate the user's central vision axis onto regions of the user's retinas unaffected by scotomas. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Inventor: Whaid Rose
  • Patent number: 11934041
    Abstract: A spectacle lens according to the first embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a lens body; and a contrast adjustment section provided on or in the lens body and including a dot-portion group in which dot portions are arranged, wherein the arrangement of the dot portions is non-uniform. A spectacle lens according to the second embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a lens body; and a contrast adjustment section provided on or in the lens body and including a dot-portion group in which dot portions are arranged, wherein the dot-portion group includes dot portions each having an aspect ratio, which is the ratio of the length in the short-axis direction to the length in the long-axis direction in the plan-view shape, of less than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventor: Shohei Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 11921288
    Abstract: A display device includes a light source array including a plurality of light sources where at least one of the plurality of light sources is selectively driven, a spatial light modulator for modulating light from the light source array to form image light, a focusing optical system for focusing the image light formed by the spatial light modulator at a position in a predetermined eye box, a micro mirror array arranged in an optical path formed in the focusing optical system and including a plurality of mirror cells. The plurality of mirror cells are controlled to be in an ON state in that light is reflected in a direction toward an inside of the eye box or to be in an OFF state in that light is reflected in a direction toward an outside of the eye box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wontaek Seo, Hongseok Lee, Sunil Kim, Seokil Moon, Bongsu Shin, Daeho Yang, Changkun Lee
  • Patent number: 11914116
    Abstract: An optical system for receiving rays of light is provided in the present disclosure, including a first optical module. The first optical module includes a first optical element and a first optical path-adjusting element. The first optical element has a first optical axis. The rays of light pass through the first optical element in a first direction. The first optical path-adjusting element corresponds to the first optical element. The rays of light are redirected to a second direction by the first optical path-adjusting element. The first optical element and the first optical path-adjusting element are arranged along the first optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Chih-Wei Weng, Chao-Chang Hu
  • Patent number: 11903881
    Abstract: Safety glasses for a human user, with at least one lens which has an upper rim assignable to the user's forehead and a lower rim assignable to a user's cheek, with at least one nosepiece arranged at the at least one lens and with at least one protective lip to be supported on the user's face. The at least one protective lip only extends at the lower rim of the at least lens from the at least one nosepiece towards at least one of the outer lateral rims of the lens and, in extension of the lens, downwards from the lower rim of the lens to be supported on the user's cheek.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Moldex-Metric, Inc.
    Inventors: Torben Skov, Roman Skov
  • Patent number: 11906808
    Abstract: An optical module is provided, including a movable portion, a fixed portion, and a circuit assembly. The movable portion is configured to connect an optical member, and is movable relative to the fixed portion. Moreover, the movable portion is movably connected to the fixed portion via the circuit assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Shao-Chung Chang, Yi-Ho Chen
  • Patent number: 11880235
    Abstract: An electronic device display and a display cover layer may be coupled to a housing. The display may have an array of pixels that are configured to emit light. One or more light redirecting elements may be incorporated into the electronic device that redirect and thereby change the direction of light rays emitted from peripheral pixels in the display. The light redirecting elements may be used to enlarge the effective size of the display, to create images on sidewall surfaces of the display cover layer, and/or to create diffuse glowing areas around the periphery of the device. Light redirecting elements may be formed as integral portions of a display cover layer, as laminated optical films on a display cover layer, or as coating layers on a display cover layer. Afocal optical systems may be formed by placing first and second light redirecting elements on opposing first and second sides of a display cover layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler S. Bushnell, John N. Border, Victoria C. Chan
  • Patent number: 11874448
    Abstract: Proposed is a lens system capable of providing, to a user, a high-definition image in which generation of concentric circles is reduced. The lens system has one or more Fresnel lenses. A lens surface of each of the Fresnel lenses has a plurality of grooves that is concentrically formed. Both a pitch which is the distance between two adjacent grooves and the depth of each of the plurality of grooves vary with the distance from an optical axis that passes through the center of the lens system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Manabu Ishioka, Yasutoshi Katsuda, Shotaro Tada
  • Patent number: 11874594
    Abstract: A camera module includes a housing, a movable body configured to move in a direction of an optical axis of the housing; a reinforcing member formed integrally on one surface of the movable body, and configured to increase a rigidity of the movable body; and a first buffer member formed in the reinforcing member, and configured to reduce an impactive force between the housing and the movable body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Hyuk Lee, Soo Cheol Lim, Byung Woo Kang, Young Bok Yoon, Jong Woo Hong, Jung Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 11867926
    Abstract: An optical unit that corrects a shake of an optical module includes: a movable portion having a holder that holds the optical module; and a fixed portion that rotatably supports the movable portion. The movable portion is rotatable relative to the fixed portion in first-third rotation directions correspondingly centered on first-third axes which correspondingly extend in first-third directions. The first direction is parallel to an optical axis direction of the optical module in a state in which the movable portion is stationary. The first direction, the second direction, and the third direction are perpendicular to each other. The movable portion further includes a protrusion protruding toward the fixed portion from an end of the holder closer to the fixed portion in the optical axis direction. The fixed portion includes a support portion that rotatably supports the protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Soichiro Kimura, Kazuhiro Sazai, Keishi Otsubo, Tomohiro Egawa, Genki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11860452
    Abstract: The spectacle lens has at least a lens base material, and a multilayer film positioned on an eyeball-side surface of the lens base material, in which an average reflectance Rm (280-380) in a wavelength region of 280 to 380 nm, measured on the eyeball-side surface of the spectacle lens, is 10.0% or less, and a chroma C*, measured on the eyeball-side surface of the spectacle lens under a CIE standard illuminant D65, is 0.5 or more but 5.0 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventor: Sou Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 11860344
    Abstract: A method for comparing first and second optical lenses such that when a control module receives a selection suggesting the first optical lens for the first time, a suggestion for the second optical lens is selected on a selection screen and no validation symbol is selected on the selection screen; when the control module receives the selection of the suggested second optical lens, the suggested first optical lens is selected on the selection screen and first and second validation symbols is selected on the selection screen, the first symbol indicating that the first and second optical lenses are identical, and the second symbol indicating that the second optical lens is better than the first optical lens; when the control module receives the selection of the suggested first optical lens for the second time or more, the suggested second optical lens is selected on the selection screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SIVIEW
    Inventors: Laure Pichereau, Nathalie Guillemain
  • Patent number: 11835800
    Abstract: Provided is a spectacle lens including multilayer films on both surfaces of a lens substrate, in which the sum of mean reflectances on both surfaces of the spectacle lens in a wavelength band of 400 to 440 nm is 20.0% or more, the reflectance on each surface of the spectacle lens has at least one maximum value in the wavelength band, and there is a difference between the mean reflectance on one surface of the spectacle lens and the mean reflectance on the other surface in the wavelength band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventor: Sou Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 11835739
    Abstract: A system includes an optical film stack, where the optical film stack includes a substrate and a first inorganic layer on the substrate. The optical film stack also includes a first dielectric layer on the first inorganic layer and a first metal layer on the first dielectric layer. The optical film stack also includes a second dielectric layer on the first metal layer and a second inorganic layer on the second dielectric layer. The optical film stack also includes a second metal layer on the second inorganic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: John Charles Ehmke
  • Patent number: 11822096
    Abstract: An optical system includes a first optical element having a first reflective surface concave toward an object side, a second optical element having a second reflective surface convex toward an image side, and a lens unit disposed between the first optical element and the second optical element. Light from an object travels to an image plane through the first reflective surface and the second reflective surface in this order. A movable unit configured to move during image stabilizing includes at least one of the second optical element and the lens unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tatsuro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11809025
    Abstract: An optical lens device includes a lens body, an optical filter and an optical absorbance portion. The lens body has a first lens surface and a second lens surface between which to form the optical filter where is to provide the optical absorbance portion. The optical absorbance portion includes a main absorbance area having an absorbance peak portion. The main absorbance area has a first wavelength range between 420 nm and 440 nm formed as a high-energy blue UV absorbance area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: FORESIGHT OPTICAL LTD.
    Inventors: Tien-Shu Wu, Yen-Ting Wu, Ho-Lun Chen
  • Patent number: 11808949
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lens driving device, a camera and an electronic apparatus with a small size and an excellent effect in hand vibration correction. The lens driving device includes a case having an accommodation space, in which a lens module is provided. The lens module includes a lens, a lens holder receiving the lens, a support frame for freely rotating the lens holder in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis direction, support members, an electromagnetic driving device, and a base for fixing a circuit board; the electromagnetic driving device is arranged on the lens holder and the base for fixing the circuit board, and is provided adjacent to a level of a center of gravity of the lens module; and the lens module have different movement axes in a plane and is rotatable freely relative to the base for fixing the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Changzhou Raytech Optronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ching-Chung Chiu, Kazuo Shikama
  • Patent number: 11789184
    Abstract: A lens module is provided. The lens module includes at least one refractive index distribution lens; and a lens barrel configured to accommodate the at least one refractive index distribution lens, wherein the at least one refractive index distribution lens is composed of a single layer, and includes a plastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong Chan Park, Eun Jung Lim