Patents Examined by Thomas K. Pham
  • Patent number: 10816766
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens, including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is made of glass material, the second lens is made of plastic material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of plastic material, and the sixth lens is made of plastic material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Chunhuan Fang, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Shuaijun Kuang
  • Patent number: 10799111
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improved interferometric imaging are presented. One embodiment is a partial field frequency-domain interferometric imaging system in which a light beam is scanned in two directions across a sample and the light scattered from the object is collected using a spatially resolved detector. The light beam could illuminate a spot, a line or a two-dimensional area on the sample. Additional embodiments with applicability to partial field as well as other types of interferometric systems are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, INC.
    Inventors: Tilman Schmoll, Alexandre R. Tumlinson, Matthew J. Everett, Nathan Shemonski
  • Patent number: 10802256
    Abstract: Scanning fluorescence microscopes with an observation beam path from a measurement volume to an image plane. A beam combiner is provided for coupling an illumination system and a diaphragm arranged in the image plane for slow composition of the image because of the sequential scanning and subject the sample to loading as a result of inefficient use of the excitation light. The microscope simultaneously detects fluorescence from different focal planes in each case quasi-confocally. The observation beam path between the beam combiner and the image plane has a first diffractive optics for splitting light beams into beam bundles along different orders of diffraction, imparting to the light beams a spherical phase that is different from the other orders of diffraction. A second diffractive optics is provided for the compensation of chromatic aberrations of the split beam bundles, and a collecting optics is provided for focusing split beam bundles into the image plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH, Carl Zeiss AG
    Inventors: Tiemo Anhut, Daniel Schwedt, Matthias Wald
  • Patent number: 10802272
    Abstract: A vehicular display apparatus includes a display device, a magnifying mirror, and a turning back mirror. The display device emits display light corresponding to a display image to be visually recognized by a driver on a vehicle. The magnifying mirror reflects the display light to project the display image on a windshield of the vehicle. The turning back mirror is disposed on an optical path between the display device and the magnifying mirror and has a concave reflecting surface that reflects the display light. The magnifying mirror has the magnifying power that is set higher than that of the turning back mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kunimitsu Aoki
  • Patent number: 10788666
    Abstract: A head-up display device includes: a plurality of light sources arrayed in matrix in a Y-direction and a Z-direction; and a lens unit in which a convex lens portion for collecting radiant light radiated from the light sources is formed opposing each light source. The plurality of light sources are arranged at an interval A in a Z-direction and at an interval B, which is smaller than the interval A, in the Y-direction. The lens unit has a first connection portion and second connection portions formed at boundaries of the adjacent convex lens portions. The first connection portion extends in the Y-direction, and the second connection portions extend in the Z-direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON SEIKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroteru Haruyama, Daichi Kanetoku
  • Patent number: 10782460
    Abstract: An optical filter may include a substrate. The optical filter may include a first mirror and a second mirror. Each of the first mirror and the second mirror may include a plurality of quarterwave stacks. The plurality of quarterwave stacks may include a plurality of layers comprising a first material, a second material, and a third material. The optical filter may include a spacer disposed between the first mirror and the second mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: VIAVI Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Georg J. Ockenfuss
  • Patent number: 10772497
    Abstract: A mask for performing an eye exam of a subject includes one or more optically transparent sections for transmitting an incident light beam therethrough and incident on the subject's eye. In some embodiments, the one or more optically transparent sections are coated with an anti-reflective coating configured to reduce reflection of the incident light beam by the one or more optically transparent sections. In some embodiments, the one or more optically transparent sections may have a portion thereof that is tilted with respect to the incident light beam when the mask is optically interfaced with the docking portion of an ophthalmic instrument, such that the incident light beam forms a finite angle of incidence with respect to the corresponding portion of the optically transparent sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Envision Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander C. Walsh, Paul G. Updike, Richard Castro
  • Patent number: 10758123
    Abstract: An ophthalmological microscope system, having an illumination system that projects illumination light onto a subject's eye. A light receiving system guides returning light of the illumination light to an image sensor or an eyepiece system. An interference optical system splits light into measurement light and reference light and detects interference light generated from returning light of the measurement light and the reference light. A designation unit is used for designating an operation mode. When an observation priority mode (or an OCT priority mode) has been designated, a controller executes first light amount control that restricts light amount of the measurement light (or second light amount control that restricts light amount of the illumination light) to make total light amount of the illumination light and the measurement light equal to or less than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: Satoshi Yamamoto, Ikuo Ishinabe, Michiko Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 10754066
    Abstract: A display may have an active area in which pixels display images through a transparent display layer. An opaque masking material may be formed in an inactive border area adjacent to the active area. The opaque masking layer may include particles such as carbon black particles to provide the opaque masking layer with a dark appearance. The color of the opaque masking layer may be adjusted by incorporating additional particles such as titanium oxide particles. Particle size for the carbon black particles and the index of refraction of the opaque masking layer may be adjusted to reduce reflectance in the inactive border area. A transparent conductive layer may be supported by the transparent display layer. Index-of-refraction matching layers may be interposed between the transparent conductive layer and the transparent display layer. The opaque masking layer may be interposed between the matching layers in the inactive border area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Apple inc.
    Inventors: Chun-Hao Tung, Qian Zhao, Sunggu Kang, John Z. Zhong
  • Patent number: 10755129
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method of detecting infected objects from large field-of-view images is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, by a processor, a digital image capturing multiple objects; generating, by the processor, a plurality of scaled images from the digital image respectfully corresponding to a plurality of scales; and computing a group of feature matrices for the digital image. The method further comprises, for each of the plurality of scaled images. selecting a list of candidate regions from the scaled image each likely to capture a single object; and for each of the list of candidate regions, performing the following steps: mapping the candidate region back to the digital image to obtain a mapped region; identifying a corresponding portion from each of the group of feature matrices based on the mapping; and determining whether the candidate region is likely to capture the single object infected with a disease based on the group of corresponding portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: THE CLIMATE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yaqi Chen, Wei Guan
  • Patent number: 10739563
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens; a second lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; a sixth lens; the camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 0.5?f1/f?10, 1.7?n3?2.2, and 0.01?d5/TTL?0.2, Fno?2.06; where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens; f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens; n3 denotes a refractive index of the third lens, and d5 denotes a thickness on-axis of the third lens, Fno denotes an aperture F number of the camera optical lens, TTL denotes a total optical length of the camera optical lens. The present disclosure can achieve high optical performance while achieving ultra-thin, wide-angle lenses having a big aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Chunhuan Fang, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Yi Ji
  • Patent number: 10737623
    Abstract: According to one or more embodiments described herein, a cloaking device may comprise a first mirror, a second mirror, a third mirror, and a fourth mirror. The cloaking device may further comprise a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens. Each of the first lens, the second lens, the third lens, and the fourth lens may be achromatic cylindrical lenses, or each of the first lens, the second lens, the third lens, and the fourth lens may be acylindrical lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Debasish Banerjee, Chengang Ji, Mayu Takagi
  • Patent number: 10739617
    Abstract: A system of contact lenses includes at least two contact lenses, each lens having a visual correction for a non-rotationally symmetric eye aberration. Each lens has a different level or degree of a stabilization that is characterized by a thickness differential between a thickness of a stabilization zone and a thickness of a non-stabilization zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Philippe F. Jubin, James Michalski, Benjamin J. K. Straker, Pierre-Yves Gerligand, Giovanna O Olivares-Petito
  • Patent number: 10725267
    Abstract: A four-piece optical lens for capturing image and a four-piece optical module for capturing image are provided. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis includes a first lens with refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; a third lens with refractive power; and a fourth lens with positive refractive power; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the four lens elements are aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Po-Jui Liao, Hung-Wen Lee, Ying Jung Chen, Bo Guang Jhang, Kuo-Yu Liao, Yao Wei Liu, Yeong-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: 10725268
    Abstract: An optical image capturing system is provided. In the order from an object side to an image side, the optical image capturing system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens. The first lens has positive refractive power and the object side thereof may be a convex surface. The second lens and the third lens both have refractive power and the object side and the image side of the second lens and the third lens are all aspheric. The fourth lens may have negative refractive power, the image side of the fourth lens may be a concave surface, and the object side and the image side thereof are both aspheric. When meeting some certain conditions, the optical image capturing system may have outstanding light-gathering ability and an adjustment ability about the optical path in order to elevate the image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Ability Opto-Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Chen-Hung Tsai, Hung-Wen Lee, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 10722112
    Abstract: A tablet terminal 1A is a measurement apparatus for measuring a subject's eyelid position, and includes a display section 3 that generates a vertically long light emitting region to make a reflection image form on a corneal surface of the subject's eyeball, a camera 5 that images the reflection image formed by the display section 3, and an arithmetic circuit 7 that derives reflection image information concerning a size or position of the reflection image based on image data of the reflection image obtained by the camera 5, and measures the eyelid position based on the reflection image information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Kazutaka Suzuki, Yoshinori Matsui, Haruyoshi Toyoda, Munenori Takumi, Naotoshi Hakamata
  • Patent number: 10721406
    Abstract: A lens drive apparatus has: a magnet and a coil configured to displace the lens holder in a direction of an optical axis and a direction orthogonal to the optical axis in collaboration with each other. The coil includes first and second coils. The magnet includes first and second magnets. The first coil is disposed on an outer periphery of the lens holder. The first magnet, the second magnet, the second coil and a Hall device are each disposed to be spaced from the outer periphery of the lens holder at respective positions different from each other in the direction of the optical axis. Inner surfaces of the magnets at a side of the lens holder and outer surfaces of the magnets at an opposite side of the inner surfaces have reverse polarities, the inner surfaces have reverse polarities, and the outer surfaces have reverse polarities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Moriya, Masayoshi Sugawara
  • Patent number: 10712532
    Abstract: An optics system, a telescope system, and an optics system for a telescope are provided. The optics system may include a plurality of mirrors arranged around and centered about four orthogonal, rotational axes in a quad-axis Coudé optical path. The rotational axes are consecutively dependent on one another, and the plurality of mirrors direct light to a predetermined region irrespective of an orientation of an incident beam directed to the plurality of mirrors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Inventor: Kevin S. Scheiman
  • Patent number: 10712553
    Abstract: An arrangement, for light sheet microscopy, including: a sample vessel, for receiving a medium containing a sample, oriented with respect to a plane reference surface; illumination optics with an illumination objective for illuminating the sample with a light sheet; and detection optics with a detection objective. The optical axis of the illumination objective and the light sheet lies in a plane which forms a nonzero illumination angle with the normal of the reference surface. The detection objective has an optical axis that forms a nonzero detection angle with the normal of the reference surface. The arrangement also includes a separating-layer system for separating the sample-containing medium from the illumination and detection objectives. The separating-layer system contacts the medium with an interface parallel to the reference surface. The illumination angle and detection angle are predetermined based on numerical apertures of the detection objective and of the illumination objective, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: Jörg Siebenmorgen, Thomas Kalkbrenner, Helmut Lippert
  • Patent number: 10712526
    Abstract: An optical device mount is made largely as a single unitary, continuous, and monolithic piece of material. The single-material piece for optical mount includes a frame, a pair of overlapping plates that secure an optical device (an optic) such as a lens or mirror, and flexures that couple the plates to each other and to the frame, so as to allow tilt of the optical device relative to the frame in multiple directions. The optical device mount may include tilt adjustment mechanisms for adjusting the tilt in the multiple directions, for example by putting forces on the plates and/or frame that cause flexing at the flexures, thereby tilting the optical device. The material for the single piece of the optical mount may be any of a variety of suitable materials, such as metals, polymers, or other suitable materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Grant Hallock, Andrew Truxel