Patents Examined by William R Alexander
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Patent number: 11927873Abstract: The object of the invention relates to a method for scanning with an optical beam (50) using a first acousto-optic deflector (15, 15?) having an optical axis along a Z-axis and at least one acousto-optic crystal layer (14), involving directing the optical beam (50) in the first acousto-optic deflector (15, 15?), and deflecting the optical beam (50) along an X-axis perpendicular to the Z-axis by means of the first acousto-optic deflector (15, 15), during which generating a plurality of acoustic chirp signals (30) in the at least one acousto-optic crystal layer (14) of the acousto-optic deflector (15, 15?) by—generating a first acoustic chirp signal (30a) having a duration of ? in the acousto-optic crystal layer (14), then—generating a second acoustic chirp signal (30b) in the acousto-optic crystal layer (14) within a ? period of time counted from the start of the generation of the first acoustic chirp signal (30a).Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Femtonics Kft.Inventors: Gergely Katona, András Fehér, Máté Veress, Pál Maák, Gergely Szalay, Balázs Chiovini, Zoltán Szadai, Linda Sulcz-Judák, Balázs József Rózsa
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Patent number: 11927727Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an optical imaging lens assembly including, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens having refractive power. An object-side surface of the first lens is convex, and an image-side surface of the first lens is concave; an image-side surface of the second lens is concave; and an object-side surface of the sixth lens is convex. An effective focal length f1 of the first lens and an effective focal length f5 of the fifth lens satisfy 1?f5/f1?3.5. A distance TTL along the optical axis from the object-side surface of the first lens to an imaging plane and half of a diagonal length ImgH of an effective pixel area on the imaging plane satisfy TTL/ImgH?1.3.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Zhejiang Sunny Optical Co., LtdInventors: Saifeng Lyu, Tianxiang Xing
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Patent number: 11921286Abstract: This disclosure describes a novel lens system having an entrance pupil at a location matching, or nearly matching, the eye's optical system entrance pupil. The described lens system is significantly thinner than a single-aperture lens with matched entrance pupil and is achieved by using an array of camera elements. Each camera element contains camera optics called “lenslets” and a sensor (e.g., an image or depth sensor), where a lenslet can include one or more lens elements (e.g., a compound lens). Individual camera elements can be arranged such that THEIR optical axes intersect at, or near, the eye's entrance pupil location. In addition, each camera element's field-of-view (FOV) corresponds to a small sector of a large FOV. The FOVs of adjacent camera elements can be non- or slightly-overlapping so that a wide-angle image can be formed by concatenation of the individual camera element images.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Noah D. Bedard, Branko Petljanski, Kathrin Berkner Cieslicki, Ricardo J. Motta
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Patent number: 11921354Abstract: An electronic assembly including eyewear and/or an eyewear case having a support structure and a conductive contact surface supported by the support structure. The eyewear case includes electronic components, an electrical contact surface adapted to engage the conductive contact surface of the eyewear, a first magnet attached to the electrical contact surface, and a second magnet that is positioned to attract or repel the first magnet.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: John Bernard Ardisana, II, Teodor Dabov, Yoav Ben-Haim
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Patent number: 11921287Abstract: The information display apparatus has a housing with an opening and a transparent cover formed on the opening, the housing includes image-light generating means configured to generate image light that displays the image information and an optical system configured to allow a driver of the vehicle to recognize image information based on the image light from the image-light generating means as a virtual image in front of the windshield. When S-polarized light on the windshield is assumed to be a first polarized wave while polarized light that orthogonally crosses the S-polarized light in a polarizing direction is assumed to be a second polarized wave, the image-light generating means is configured to generate the image light made of the first polarized wave, and a transmittance/reflectance control means blocks a part of the first polarized wave and the second polarized wave of incident external light entering the housing from the opening.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Tomoki Yamamoto, Toshinori Sugiyama, Koji Hirata, Masahiko Yatsu
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Patent number: 11921362Abstract: The invention provides a method for determining at least one filter for a transparent support, the method comprising the following steps: —determining a quantity representative of a light sensitivity threshold of the user; —determining, for each light environment among a group of light environments, an index representative of the level of protection required by the user; —determining a score for each light environment among the group of light environments (40) and for each filter among a group of filters, said score being representative of the capacity of the filter to reach the level of protection required by the user, determining at least one filter among the group of filters based on the scores of said at least one filter in a plurality of light environments (40) among the group of light environments.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Anne-Catherine Scherlen, Camille Ehrismann, Sarah Marie
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Patent number: 11914226Abstract: Systems and methods for creating fully custom products from scratch without exclusive use of off-the-shelf or pre-specified components. A system for creating custom products includes a computer communicatively coupled with an image capture device and configured to construct an anatomic model of the user based on captured image data and/or measurement data. The computer provides a configurable product model and enables preview and automatic or user-guided customization of the product model. A display is communicatively coupled with the computer and displays the custom product model superimposed on the anatomic model or image data of the user. The computer is further configured to provide the customized product model to a manufacturer for manufacturing eyewear for the user in accordance with the customized product model.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Bespoke, Inc.Inventors: Timothy A. Fonte, Eric J. Varady
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Patent number: 11914225Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for a hinge feed antenna of eyewear, are disclosed. One apparatus includes a front frame, a temple arm, and a hinge rotatably connecting the front frame and the temple arm. For an embodiment, the temple arm includes a circuit assembly including at least a radio. For an embodiment, the front frame includes one or more antennas traces, wherein the hinge conductively connects the circuit assembly to the one or more antenna traces. The apparatus further includes an antenna tuner located between the circuit assembly and the hinge, wherein a rotation position of the temple arm is sensed, wherein the rotation position is dependent on an orientation of the front frame relative to the temple arm; and wherein the antenna tuner includes an impedance tuner for adaptively adjusting an input impedance of the impedance tuner based on the sensed rotation position of temple arm.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventors: Ce Zhang, Bruno Cendon Martin, Jennifer Davis-Wilson, Geng Ye
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Patent number: 11914136Abstract: The technology generally relates to a binocular having two tubes, which are connected to one another by means of a hinged bridge pivotable about a hinge axis for adjusting the interpupillary distance. Within each of the two tubes a beam path is formed with a first optical axis of an objective lens, with a second optical axis of an eyepiece and with a prism erecting system, characterized in that the first optical axis of the objective lens and the second optical axis of the eyepiece are offset parallel to each other by a distance.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Swarovski-Optik AG & Co KGInventor: Peter Öttl
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Patent number: 11914230Abstract: Disclosed is a wearable optical devices for a human subject, comprising: a transparent lens; a wearable frame configured to maintain the lens in front of an eye of a human subject; a transparent pixelated active optical element where the pixels of the active optical element have an optical property with a changeable value; an eye tracker; and a controller configured to set a value for an optical property of the pixels of the active optical element so as to create an image mask through which at least some of the light reaching the feye passes through, thereby modifying the image formed on the retina of the first eye.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: NOVASIGHT LTD.Inventors: Ran Yam, Oren Yehezkel, Dan Oz, Tal Samet
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Patent number: 11911103Abstract: A medical ophthalmic system uses a patient-specific face mask to establish a predefined alignment between the ophthalmic system and an eye of a patient. The patient-specific face mask may optionally provide a light proof enclosure for the eye. The face mask may be coupled directly to an ophthalmic device, or its housing/enclosure, of the ophthalmic system. The face mask may be 3D printed based on a 3D model of the patient's face.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, INC.Inventors: Jochen Straub, Kabir M. Arianta, Mahsa Darvishzadeh Varcheie
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Patent number: 11910074Abstract: Various embodiments illustrated herein disclose a housing of an imaging unit. The housing comprising an outer surface and an inner surface, wherein the inner surface of the housing defines a lens channel, wherein the inner surface of the lens channel defines a contact point that protrudes outwardly from the inner surface into the lens channel. The inner surface of the lens channel further defines a through hole, in the lens channel, that extends from the inner surface of the lens channel to the outer surface of the housing. The lens channel is configured to receive a lens barrel comprising a groove, wherein the groove is exposed to the through hole when the lens barrel is received in the lens channel.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.Inventors: Jean-Pierre Stang, Xiaoyan Bo, Yang Zhang
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Patent number: 11906701Abstract: Anti-reflective article includes a layer defining an anti-reflective surface. The anti-reflective surface includes a series of alternating micro-peaks and micro-spaces extending along an axis. The surface also includes a series of nano-peaks extending along an axis. The nano-peaks are disposed at least on the micro-spaces and, optionally, the micro-peaks. The article may be disposed on a photovoltaic module or skylight to reduce reflections and resist the collection of dust and dirt.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Timothy J. Hebrink, Todd G. Pett, Moses M. David, James P. Burke, Vivian W. Jones, Haiyan Zhang
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Patent number: 11906751Abstract: The present invention relates to a lens for eye-tracking applications. The lens comprises a first protective layer, arranged to face towards the eye to be tracked when the lens is used for eye-tracking. It also comprises at least one light source, at least partly arranged in the first protective layer, arranged to emit a first light from the first protective layer in a direction towards the eye. Moreover, it comprises at least one image capturing device, at least partly arranged in the first protective layer, arranged to receive the first light within the first protective layer. The lens further comprises an absorptive layer, arranged on the far side of the first protective layer seen from the eye to be tracked when the lens is used for eye-tracking, adapted to be absorptive for wavelengths of the majority of the first light.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Tobii ABInventors: Axel Tollin, Daniel Ljunggren
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Patent number: 11906714Abstract: A photographing optical lens assembly includes seven lens elements, which are, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical path: 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 lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element with positive refractive power has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The fifth lens element has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The sixth lens element has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The seventh lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and having at least one convex critical point in an off-axis region thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.Inventors: Kuo-Jui Wang, Cheng-Chen Lin, Wei-Yu Chen
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Patent number: 11906715Abstract: An imaging lens consisting of, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens group; a second lens group that has a positive refractive power; and a third lens group that has a negative refractive power, wherein the first lens group includes, successively in order from a position closest to the object side to the image side, two negative lenses and a positive lens, the second lens group includes a positive lens and a negative lens, during focusing from an object at infinity to a closest object, the first lens group remains stationary with respect to an image plane, and the second lens group moves along an optical axis, and assuming that a focal length of the first lens group is f1, and a focal length of the second lens group is f2, Conditional Expression (1) is satisfied: ?0.5<f2/f1<0.5 (1).Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Shunsuke Miyagishima
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Patent number: 11898076Abstract: A contact lens includes at least one color changeable region, wherein the color changeable region includes at least one photoluminescence material. When a wavelength of the photoluminescence material having a maximum radiation intensity is WEmMx, an average transmittance in a wavelength range of 400 nm-700 nm of the color changeable region is T4070, a size of a total area of the color changeable region is AC, and a size of a total area of the contact lens is AL, certain conditions relating to WEmMx, T4070 and AC/AL are satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: LARGAN MEDICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Wei-Yuan Chen, Po-Tsun Chen, Wei-Chun Chen, Chun-Hung Teng
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Patent number: 11899195Abstract: An IT-based astronomical telescope system comprises a rotatable lens barrel having an eyepiece installed thereon; a detection device for detecting a current orientation of the lens barrel; and an image generator comprising a micro display provided in the lens barrel. The image generator is used to obtain a picture and display the picture on the micro display. The IT-based astronomical telescope system is configured to work in a virtual reality mode, in which: the image generator is turned on, and based on the current orientation of the lens barrel detected by the detection device, obtains a picture corresponding to an optical image of stars supposed to be imaged by the telescope system with the current orientation of the lens barrel; and the micro display displays the picture, which is presented through the eyepiece.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: LIGHT SPEED VISION (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventor: Hongyun Qiu
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Patent number: 11899286Abstract: A lens element worn in front of an eye of a person includes a refraction area having a refractive power based on a prescription for the eye of the person, and a plurality of at least three optical elements, wherein the optical elements are configured so that along at least one section of the lens the mean sphere of optical elements increases from a point of the section towards the peripheral part of the section.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Matthieu Guillot, Björn Drobe
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Patent number: 11899287Abstract: A method of manufacturing a spectacle lens having a lens substrate a lens substrate and at least one coating is disclosed. The method includes at least the following steps in the given order: providing a lens substrate having an uncoated or pre-coated front surface and an uncoated or pre-coated back surface, coating at least one surface with at least one coating, the surface of the at least one coating being modifiable when contacted with at least one medium being able to modify the surface of the coating, completely or partially contacting the surface of the coating with the at least one medium, applying at least one single electromagnetic pulse to at least one of the surfaces of the spectacle lens having the lens substrate, the coating and the medium and obtaining the spectacle lens having the at least one coating with a completely or partially modified surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Michel-René Christmann, Waiz Karim, Andreu Llobera Adan, Yujing Liu, Christian Lischer, Maximilian Kastner