Patents Examined by R. Alexander
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Patent number: 11835703Abstract: Provided is a periscope lens module, including: a prism; a bearing member including a bearing frame; a ball; a supporting member including a prism bracket, a driving bracket, and a rotating bracket in rotation-fit with the ball; an elastic member; and a driving member. The elastic member includes a first elastic bracket including a first abutting portion, and a second elastic bracket including a second abutting portion. The first and second abutting portions are spaced from each other and abut against a top of the rotating bracket from two sides of the ball, in such a manner that the rotating bracket and the ball abut against the bearing frame. The driving member is connected between the bearing member and the driving bracket for driving the supporting member to drive the prism to rotate. This leads to a simple structure while achieving image stabilization.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Linzhen Li, Jiliang Lu, Gang Li, Jin Zhang
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Patent number: 11828916Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, and a fourth lens element arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. The image-side surface of the first lens element comprises a convex portion in a vicinity of a periphery of the first lens element. The imaging lens has a system length less than 3.0 mm. The imaging lens does not have any lens element with refractive power other than the first, second, third, and fourth lens elements.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kuo-Wen Chang, Poche Lee, Wei-Yu Lo
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Patent number: 11829046Abstract: Various embodiments herein relate to networks of electrochromic windows. The networks may be configured in particular ways to minimize the likelihood that the windows on the network draw more power than can be provided. The network may include particular hardware components that provide additional power to windows as needed. The network may also be configured to adjust how the windows therein transition to prevent overloading the network. The techniques described herein can be used to design networks of electrochromic windows that are undersized when considering the amount of power that would be needed to simultaneously transition all the windows on the network using normal transition parameters, while still allowing simultaneous transitions to occur.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Jose Fernando Vigano, Stephen Clark Brown, Dhairya Shrivastava
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Patent number: 11826100Abstract: Disclosed is a binocular optoelectronic device wearable by a user for measuring a light sensitivity threshold of the user, including: a diffuser configured to face eyes of the user; at least one light source for emitting light toward the diffuser. The diffuser includes predetermined parameters allowing to provide a quasi-homogeneous light diffusion to at least one eye of the user from light emitted by the at least one light source.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Stéphane Perrot, Amandine Debieuvre, Sylvain Chene, Florian Caleff, Loïc Baillon, Anne-Catherine Scherlen, Sarah Marie, Susana Montecelo
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Patent number: 11822068Abstract: An endoscope has a configuration in which a wire guide tube is configured as a tube consecutively formed of polyetheretherketone from one end side to another end side, an opening penetrating is provided in a radial direction at part of a wall portion of a second coupling member into which an end part of the wire guide tube is inserted, a concave portion corresponding to the opening is provided at an outer peripheral surface of the end part of the wire guide tube, and a bonding agent integrally fills the opening and the concave portion to connect the wire guide tube and a coupling portion (the second coupling member).Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Seiji Sakai
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Patent number: 11815693Abstract: A head-mounted device may have a head-mounted housing. The housing may include a chassis with left and right openings that overlap respective left and right optical modules that present images eye boxes. Each optical module may have a lens and display that presents an image through the lens. The chassis may have an inner frame and outer frame. A middle portion of the chassis may form a stiffened nose bridge structure. Components in the housing such as a display, a fan housing, a heat sink layer, optical module guide rods, and a rear cover may span the width of the housing and may be attached to edge portions of the chassis, thereby forming a box-shaped structure that provides rigidity and helps prevent housing deformation.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ivan S. Maric, Aidan N. Zimmerman, Brian Baillargeon, Evan D. Christensen, Jason C. Sauers, Jia Tao, Phil M. Hobson, Sivesh Selvakumar
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Patent number: 11815674Abstract: A dual tube night vision device comprises a pair of independently pivoting night-vision monoculars connected to a bridge member. Each night-vision monocular is attached to the bridge member by a rotating arm and comprises a pod containing an image intensifier tube. Each arm allows the attached night-vision monocular to move through a rotational travel path, between a stowed position and a deployed position. The dual tube night vision device is configured to detect when the night-vision monoculars are, individually or collectively, moved to a stowed position and then temporarily cut off power to the stowed monocular(s) to increase battery runtime. Power is automatically restored, individually or simultaneously, to the night-vision monoculars when they are rotated back to the deployed positions. The dual tube night vision device uses one or more accelerometers to detect when the night-vision monoculars, individually or collectively, are in the stowed position or the deployed position.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Lumiworx SARLInventors: Reimer Von Essen, Daniel Costa, João Costa, Andreas Opel
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Patent number: 11809020Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to arranging electrical contacts on a hinge of a wearable device. One example provides a wearable device comprising a frame, a first temple piece, a second temple piece, a first hinge connecting the first temple piece to the frame, a second hinge connecting the second temple piece to the frame, and a first contact and a second contact arranged on one or more of the first hinge and the second hinge, the first contact and the second contact being configured to connect with external circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Navid Poulad, Young duk Song, Paul Andrew Bosveld, Nicolas A Denhez
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Patent number: 11809024Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to lenses, devices, methods and/or systems for addressing refractive error. Certain embodiments are directed to changing or controlling the wavefront of the light entering a human eye. The lenses, devices, methods and/or systems can be used for correcting, addressing, mitigating or treating refractive errors and provide excellent vision at distances encompassing far to near without significant ghosting. The refractive error may for example arise from myopia, hyperopia, or presbyopia with or without astigmatism. Certain disclosed embodiments of lenses, devices and/or methods include embodiments that address foveal and/or peripheral vision. Exemplary of lenses in the fields of certain embodiments include contact lenses, corneal onlays, corneal inlays, and lenses for intraocular devices both anterior and posterior chamber, accommodating intraocular lenses, electro-active spectacle lenses and/or refractive surgery.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Brien Holden Vision Institute LimitedInventors: Ravi Chandra Bakaraju, Klaus Ehrmann, Arthur Ho, Brien Anthony Holden
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Patent number: 11809015Abstract: An optical system is provided, including a movable part, a fixed part, a first sensor, a second sensor, and a control unit, wherein an optical element is disposed on the movable part. The first and second sensors detect the movement of the movable part relative to the fixed part in a first dimension and a second dimension, and thus they respectively generate a first sensing value and a second sensing value. The control unit generates an error value according to the first sensing value and an error curve, and then calibrates the second sensing value according to the error value.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.Inventors: Yi-Ho Chen, Ying-Jen Wang, Ya-Hsiu Wu
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Patent number: 11808937Abstract: A method of providing a spatial light modulator comprising: providing a substrate; providing a first phase change material cell on the substrate, the first phase change material cell comprising: a first electrical heater on the substrate; a first optical reflector layer on the electrical heater; and a first phase change material layer on the optical reflector layer; and providing at least a second phase change material cell on the substrate, the second phase change material cell comprising: a second electrical heater on the substrate; a second optical reflector layer on the second electrical heater; a second phase change material layer on the second optical reflector layer; and providing a light absorber layer between the first phase change material cell and the second phase change material cell.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: HRL LABORATORIES, LLCInventors: Jeong-Sun Moon, Hwa Chang Seo, Kyung-Ah Son, Kangmu Lee
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Patent number: 11805233Abstract: A lens apparatus includes two optical systems each of which includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a negative first lens unit, a first reflective member, an aperture diaphragm, a second reflective member, and a positive second lens unit. Each optical system satisfies following inequalities: 5.9<DR/f<13.6 0.7<D2/f2<5.2 10.4<DP/f<19.8 DR represents a distance on an optical axis from a reflective surface of the first reflective member to a reflective surface of the second reflective member. f represents a focal length of the optical system. f2 represents a focal length of the second lens unit. D2 represents a distance on the optical axis from the reflective surface of the second reflective member to an image plane. DP represents a distance on the optical axis from the aperture diaphragm to the image plane.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2022Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Maki Yokoya
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Patent number: 11796906Abstract: A lens apparatus includes a first optical system, a second optical system disposed in parallel with the first optical system, and a lens mount attachable to a camera body. Each of the first optical system and the second optical system has a first optical axis, a second optical axis, and a third optical axis in order from an object side to an image side. A distance between the first optical axis of the first optical system and the first optical axis of the second optical system is longer than a diameter of the lens mount, and a distance between the third optical axis of the first optical system and the third optical axis of the second optical system is shorter than the diameter of the lens mount.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Taro Murakami, Takumi Uehara, Hiroki Ito, Atsuto Noda
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Patent number: 11796846Abstract: A laser pulse shaping device and method, a pulse shaper, and an optical system are provided. The laser pulse shaping device includes a pulse shaper provided in an optical path connected to a laser source, a laser detection device provided at an actual position of a target of a laser pulse, and the laser source configured to generate the laser pulse, which is transmitted to the target through the optical path. The laser detection device is configured to measure and send an optical parameter of the laser pulse transmitted to the target to the control device. The control device is configured to calculate a phase compensation parameter according to the optical parameter and control the pulse shaper to compensate a phase of the laser pulse transmitted through the optical path according to the phase compensation parameter, such that the optical parameter of the laser pulse reaches a target value.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: FEMTOSECOND RESEARCH CENTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Bingwei Xu, Xin Zhu
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Patent number: 11796833Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are taught that provide reconfigurable components for eyewear devices. A reconfigurable component for use in an eyewear device, includes a first temple. The first temple is configured for use with the eyewear device. The first temple further includes a first engagement portion. The first temple includes a first temple insert module (TIM). The first temple insert module is releasably couplable with the first engagement portion. The reconfigurable component can include at least one of a sensor and a display. The first temple insert module further includes a first wireless communication system. The first wireless communication system is configured to communicate wirelessly with a user device. The first temple insert module further includes a processor and a first speaker. The processor is configured to receive an input from at least one of the sensor and the first wireless communication system and to generate an output.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: SOLOS TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Ernesto Carlos Martinez Villalpando, Chiu Ming So, Kwok Wah Law, Wai Kuen Cheung
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Patent number: 11800753Abstract: A display device capable of improving reliability (e.g., impact resistance) of a display panel having a through-hole, and a method of manufacturing a display device are provided. A display device includes: a camera module including a lens; a display panel including a through-hole overlapping the camera module on a plane; a window glass on the display panel; and a filling member in the through-hole and opposing each of the camera module and the window glass. A refractive index difference between an end portion of the filling member and the lens is about 0.7 or less, and a refractive index difference between another end portion of the filling member and the window glass is about 0.5 or less.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wooyong Sung, Sooyoun Kim, Seunghun Kim, Junghan Seo, Seungho Yoon, Hyoungsub Lee, Moonwon Chang
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Patent number: 11796830Abstract: A display device of the present disclosure includes, along an optical path of imaging light emitted from an imaging light generation device, a first optical portion having a positive power, a second optical portion including a first diffraction element and having a positive power, a third optical portion having a positive power, and a fourth optical portion including a second diffraction element and having a positive power. In the optical path, the first diffraction element and the second diffraction element diffract the imaging light at least along a primary diffraction plane and a secondary diffraction plane orthogonal to the primary diffraction plane, and a deflection force of the imaging light in the primary diffraction plane is greater than a deflection force of the imaging light in the secondary diffraction plane.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Mitsutaka Ide
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Patent number: 11789242Abstract: An optical image capturing system 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, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. The first, the second and the third lens elements all have refractive power. The fourth lens element with refractive power has both surfaces being aspheric. The fifth lens element with refractive power has both surfaces being aspheric. The sixth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface having at least one convex shape at a peripheral region thereof and both surfaces being aspheric. The seventh lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface having at least one convex shape at a peripheral region thereof, wherein both surfaces being aspheric, and at least one surface has at least one inflection point thereon.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
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Patent number: 11792381Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods of phase-sensitive compressed ultrafast photography (pCUP). In some embodiments, a pCUP system comprises: a dark-field imaging system, and a compressed ultrafast photography (CUP system). The dark-field imaging system may comprise a laser source configured to illuminate the subject with a laser pulse; and a beam block configured to pass laser light scattered by the subject as a first series of phase images and block laser light not scattered by the subject. The CUP system may comprise: a spatial encoding module configured to receive the first series of phase images and to produce a second series of spatially encoded phase images; and a streak camera configured to receive the second series of spatially encoded phase images, to deflect each spatially encoded phase image by a temporal deflection distance, and to integrate the deflected phase images into a single raw CUP image.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: California Institute of TechnologyInventors: Lihong Wang, Taewoo Kim, Jinyang Liang, Liren Zhu
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Patent number: 11782293Abstract: A progressive addition lens contains a plurality of microlenses for providing simultaneous myopic defocus. The microlenses are superimposed on a power variation surface of the lens, which includes a designated distance portion in the upper section of the lens adapted for distance vision and a fitting cross; a designated near portion located in the lower section of the lens, the near portion including a near reference point having a near dioptric power adapted for near vision; and a designated intermediate corridor extending between the designated distance portion and near portions. Microlenses are excluded from all areas of the surface located below a notional line extending from nasal to temporal limits of the lens at a vertical coordinate above the near reference point where the vertical coordinate lies at a distance above the near reference point with the distance being in a range between 1.5 mm and 3 mm.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2023Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Saulius Raymond Varnas, Ray Steven Spratt, Timo Kratzer, Gerhard Kelch, Siegfried Wahl