Patents Examined by William R Alexander
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Patent number: 11604367Abstract: A novel design for untethered smartglasses with wireless connectivity in which electronic components and electric wiring are mounted in a manner than enables at least a portion of temples of the smartglasses to be bent around the ear to improve the smartglasses' fit. In one embodiment, the smartglasses include a front element that supports lenses and two temples, coupled to the front element through hinges that enable folding and unfolding. At least one of the temples includes: a first portion coupled to the front element with first electronic components, a second portion coupled to the first portion with electric wires, and a third portion coupled to the second portion with second electronic components. The second portion is designed to be bent around a human ear to improve the smartglasses' fit, and the first and third portions are not designed to be bent to improve the smartglasses' fit.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Facense Ltd.Inventors: Arie Tzvieli, Ari M Frank, Tal Thieberger-Navon, Ori Tzvieli, Gil Thieberger
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Patent number: 11592645Abstract: The invention relates to binoculars and a method for adjusting an interpupillary distance of binoculars, comprising a first housing half having a first eyepiece with a first optical axis, a second housing half having a second eyepiece with a second optical axis, wherein the distance of the first optical axis to the second optical axis defines an interpupillary distance and wherein the first housing half and the second housing half are hingedly connected to each other by means of at least one folding bridge and wherein the folding bridge comprises a first folding bridge portio coupled with the first housing half and a second folding bridge portion coupled with the second housing half and wherein the interpupillary distance may be changed by pivoting the two housing halves and wherein a detection device is formed, by means of which the interpupillary distance may be determined.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Inventors: Martin Leitner, Lukas Klingenschmid
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Patent number: 11592648Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; a sixth lens; a seventh lens; an eighth lens; and a ninth lens, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The imaging lens has a total of nine lenses. The first lens is formed in a shape so that a surface thereof on the image plane side has an aspherical shape. The ninth lens is formed in a shape so that a surface thereof on the image plane side has an aspherical shape.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Tokyo Visionary Optics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hitoshi Hirano
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Patent number: 11589817Abstract: A contact lens according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a lens section that is worn on an eyeball; an acquisition section that is provided in the lens section and acquires biological information; and an output section that outputs the biological information acquired by the acquisition section to an external apparatus to be worn on a human body. The output section has one or a plurality of coil antennas extending along a front surface of the lens section, and a capacitor that is coupled to the one or the plurality of coil antennas in series or in parallel.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2018Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Takayuki Hirabayashi, Naoto Yamaguchi, Tsukasa Yoshimura, Masakazu Yajima, Fumiko Shiga, Ken Hayakawa
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Patent number: 11589746Abstract: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging systems, handhold probes, and methods that use a field curvature to match a curved surface of tissue are disclosed. According to an aspect, an OCT imaging system includes optical elements to generate diverging light. The system also includes one or more mirrors and a lens system configured to scan the diverging light onto a curved surface of an object for imaging of the object.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Duke UniversityInventors: Christian Viehland, Cynthia Toth, Joseph Izatt
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Patent number: 11592649Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens; a second lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; a sixth lens; a seventh lens; an eighth lens; and a ninth lens having negative refractive power, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The imaging lens has a total of nine lenses. The first lens is formed in a shape so that a surface thereof on the image plane side has an aspherical shape. The ninth lens is formed in a shape so that a surface thereof on the image plane side has an aspherical shape.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Hitoshi Hirano
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Patent number: 11586020Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens; a second lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens having positive refractive power; a sixth lens; a seventh lens; an eighth lens; and a ninth lens, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The imaging lens has a total of nine lenses. The first lens has at least one aspheric surface. The ninth lens is formed in a shape so that a surface thereof on the image plane side has an aspherical shape. The ninth lens has a specific focal length.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Hitoshi Hirano
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Patent number: 11586051Abstract: An optical image stabilizing (OIS) module and a camera module are provided. The OIS module includes a driving holder provided on a bottom surface of a housing, a driving frame comprising a reflection member and supported on an inner wall of the driving holder, a driving part configured to provide a driving force to move the driving holder and the driving frame, wherein the driving holder is configured to move in one or more of a linear direction and a rotational direction on the bottom surface of the housing to move the reflection member in a first axial direction, perpendicular to an optical axis, and the driving frame is configured to move in one or more of the linear direction and the rotational direction on the inner wall of the driving holder to move the reflection member in a second axial direction, perpendicular to the optical axis.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae Kyung Kim, Nam Ki Park, Ta Kyoung Lee, Bong Won Jeong, Young Bok Yoon
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Patent number: 11586055Abstract: The present invention is a neutral cylinder refractor, which is a refractor that uses spherical power in combination with cylinder lenses to render them spherically neutral. Every cylinder lens in the refractor, excluding the Jackson Cross Cylinder, has corresponding spherical power added to it to neutralize the spherical equivalent of the cylindrical lenses. The invention can be used to measure the refractive error of a patient's eye, and specifically the cylinder aspect can be measured more easily due to a lack of interference from spherical equivalent.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Inventor: Nathaneil Scott Zander
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Patent number: 11586006Abstract: A reflective element driving module includes a first reflective element, a second reflective element, and a driving assembly. The first reflective element has a first reflective surface, disposed to correspond to the incident light, wherein the light has an optical axis. The second reflective element has a second reflective surface, disposed to correspond to the light reflected by the first reflective element, and is movable relative to the first reflective element. The driving assembly is configured to drive the second reflective element to move relative to the first reflective element, wherein the first reflective surface and the second reflective surface face different directions.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.Inventors: Chao-Chang Hu, Che-Wei Chang, Chih-Wen Chiang, Sin-Jhong Song
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Patent number: 11579397Abstract: A periscope optical module is provided. The periscope optical module includes a first optical element, a second optical element, and a third optical element. The first optical element has a first optical axis. The second optical element corresponds to the first optical element and adjusts a forward direction of a light. The third optical element has a second optical axis. The third optical element corresponds to the second optical element. The light passes through the first optical element, the second optical element, and the third optical element consecutively. The first optical axis is not parallel to the second optical axis. A minimum size of the first optical element in a direction that is perpendicular to the first optical axis is larger than a maximum size of the third optical element in a direction of the first optical axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.Inventors: Chen-Er Hsu, Chin-Hsien Lee, Chih-Wei Weng
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Patent number: 11579408Abstract: The invention discloses a three-piece optical lens for capturing image and a three-piece optical module for capturing image. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis comprises a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; and a third lens with refractive power; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the three lens elements are aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu
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Patent number: 11579418Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens; a second lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; a sixth lens; a seventh lens; an eighth lens having positive refractive power; and a ninth lens, arranged in this order from an object side an image plane side. The imaging lens has a total of nine lenses. The first lens is formed in a shape so that a surface thereof on the image plane side has an aspherical shape. The ninth lens is formed in a shape so that a surface thereof on the image plane side has an aspherical shape.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Hitoshi Hirano
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Patent number: 11571125Abstract: A line-of-sight measurement device includes: an imaging unit that images a face of a subject; a light illumination unit that illuminates light to an eye of the subject; a camera coordinate system eyeball center coordinate calculation unit that estimates coordinates of an eyeball center, from a face image imaged by the imaging unit; a pupil center calculation unit that estimates coordinates of an apparent pupil center, from a pupil center position on the face image; an eyeball position orientation estimation unit that calculates an optical axis vector toward the pupil center from the eyeball center on the basis of the coordinates of the eyeball center and the apparent pupil center; a corneal reflection image calculation unit that obtains coordinates of a corneal reflection image on the basis of the coordinates of the eyeball center, the optical axis vector, and a predetermined eyeball model; and an image coordinate calculation unit that estimates image coordinates of a corneal reflection image on the face imagType: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignees: AISIN CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shin-ichi Kojima, Shin Osuga, Takashi Kato, Yuya Yamada, Takeshi Matsumura
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Patent number: 11573392Abstract: An imaging device of an embodiment comprises an aperture that transmits imaging light applied to a sample, a detector including a linear sensor comprising a linear light receiving surface extending in a first direction, a first image forming element that collects components of the imaging light in the first direction and forms an image on the light receiving surface with a first wave front aberration amount, and a second image forming element that collects components of the imaging light in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and forms an image on the light receiving surface with a second wave front aberration amount smaller than the first wave front aberration amount.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Kioxia CorporationInventor: Takeshi Yamane
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Patent number: 11567334Abstract: The present invention relates to a reflective eyepiece optical system and a head-mounted near-to-eye display device. The system includes: a first optical element and a second optical element arranged successively along an incident direction of an optical axis of human eyes, and a first lens group located on an optical axis of an miniature image displayer. The first optical element is used for transmitting and reflecting an image light from the miniature image displayer. The second optical element includes one optical reflection surface. The first optical element reflects the image light refracted by the first lens group to the second optical element, and then transmits the image light reflected by the second optical element to the human eyes. The effective focal lengths of the first sub-lens group and the second sub-lens group are a combination of positive and negative.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2022Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Shenzhen NED Optics Co., LtdInventors: Huajun Peng, Hongpeng Cao, Jianfei Guo
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Patent number: 11567344Abstract: A lens element worn in front of an eye of a person includes a refraction area having a first refractive power based on a prescription for correcting an abnormal refraction of the eye of the person and a second refractive power different from the first refractive power and a plurality of at least three optical elements, at least one optical element having an optical function of not focusing an image on the retina of the eye so as to slow down the progression of the abnormal refraction of the eye.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Matthieu Guillot, Björn Drobe
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Patent number: 11567528Abstract: A master clock signal for an image capture device and a light emission device is accessed. The master clock signal is divided to generate a high frequency clock signal. A frame timer is used to measure a frame time of the image capture device based on cycles of the high frequency clock signal. Based on an exposure timing signal from the image capture device, estimating an exposure start time for the image capture device; is estimated. Based on the estimated starting time, the light emission device begins emission of a positional tracking pattern at the estimated starting time and for a duration determined by the measured frame time of the image capture device.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventor: Ping Liu
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Patent number: 11567302Abstract: An optical imaging system is described including first to sixth lenses sequentially disposed from an object side to an image side, and an image sensor configured to convert incident light reflected from a subject, having passed through the first to sixth lenses, into an electrical signal. One of the first to sixth lenses includes a spherical object-side surface and another of the first to sixth lenses includes corresponding aspherical object-side surfaces. The first to sixth lenses include corresponding aspherical image-side surfaces, and a lens of the first to sixth lenses that is closer to the object side than the one of the first to sixth lenses including the spherical object-side surface, has a highest refractive index among the first to sixth lenses.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jung Hui Ko
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Patent number: 11567345Abstract: A system can include an aural computing system in communication with the ophthalmic device. In some embodiments, the aural computing system can include a wireless communication device in communication with the ophthalmic device. In some embodiments, the ophthalmic device comprises a contact lens, which can inserted into the user's eye. The wireless communication device can comprise wearable technology.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: MENICON SINGAPORE PTE LTD.Inventor: Stephen D. Newman