Patents by Inventor Andreas Steinmueller

Andreas Steinmueller has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11779207
    Abstract: A method for testing the eyes of a test person with the aid of a vision testing system as well as vision testing system, comprising a first measuring device, a second topographic measuring device, a third refractive measuring device and a processing means, an axial length (L) of an eye of the test person being measured with the aid of the first measuring device, a curvature of the cornea of the eye being measured with the aid of the second measuring device, a refractive property of the eye being measured with the aid of the third measuring device, a measurement simultaneously being carried out with the first, second and third measuring device at the eye, measurement data of the measurements of the first, second and third measuring device being processed with the aid of the processing means, said processing means presenting a database with normal data, a comparison of the measurement data with the normal data being carried out and a result of said comparison being issued by means of said processing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: OCULUS OPTIKGERAETE GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas Steinmueller
  • Patent number: 11723533
    Abstract: A method for testing the eyes of a test person with the aid of a vision testing system as well as to a vision testing system, comprising a first measuring device, a second topographic measuring device, a third refractive measuring device and a processing means, a central axial length (LZ) and a peripheral axial length (LP) of an eye of the test person being measured with the aid of said first measuring device, a curvature of the cornea of the eye being measured with the aid of said second measuring device, a refractive property of the eye being measured with the aid of said third measuring device, measurement data of the measurements of the first, second and third measuring device being processed with the aid of said processing means, said processing means outputting the measurement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Oculus Optikgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Steinmueller
  • Publication number: 20200281461
    Abstract: A method for testing the eyes of a test person with the aid of a vision testing system as well as to a vision testing system, comprising a first measuring device, a second topographic measuring device, a third refractive measuring device and a processing means, a central axial length (LZ) and a peripheral axial length (LP) of an eye of the test person being measured with the aid of said first measuring device, a curvature of the cornea of the eye being measured with the aid of said second measuring device, a refractive property of the eye being measured with the aid of said third measuring device, measurement data of the measurements of the first, second and third measuring device being processed with the aid of said processing means, said processing means outputting the measurement data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventor: Andreas Steinmueller
  • Publication number: 20200229691
    Abstract: A method for testing the eyes of a test person with the aid of a vision testing system as well as vision testing system, comprising a first measuring device, a second topographic measuring device, a third refractive measuring device and a processing means, an axial length (L) of an eye of the test person being measured with the aid of the first measuring device, a curvature of the cornea of the eye being measured with the aid of the second measuring device, a refractive property of the eye being measured with the aid of the third measuring device, a measurement simultaneously being carried out with the first, second and third measuring device at the eye, measurement data of the measurements of the first, second and third measuring device being processed with the aid of the processing means, said processing means presenting a database with normal data, a comparison of the measurement data with the normal data being carried out and a result of said comparison being issued by means of said processing means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventor: Andreas Steinmueller
  • Publication number: 20190029515
    Abstract: An ophthalmological analysis method measures an intraocular pressure in an eye using an analysis system. The analysis system includes an actuation device, with which a cornea of the eye is deformed contactlessly. The actuation device applies a puff of air to the eye to deform the cornea. A monitoring system monitors the deformation of the cornea and records sectional images of the undeformed and deformed cornea. An analysis device derives an intraocular pressure from the sectional images of the cornea, wherein the recorded sectional images of the deformed cornea are corrected relative to a recorded sectional image of the undeformed cornea, the intraocular pressure being derived under consideration of the correction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Gert Koest, Andreas Steinmueller
  • Publication number: 20170205642
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for examining a subject's eyes with an eye examining system as well as an eye examining system, eye examination symbols being made visible to at least one of the subject's eyes by means of a monitor of a display device of the eye examining system, the subject's eyes being recorded in conjunction with a spectacle frame by means of a camera of a camera device of the display device, the display device being controlled by a control apparatus of the eye examining system, a position of the spectacle frame being determined relative to the eyes by means of image processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: Andreas Steinmueller, Stephan Degle
  • Publication number: 20170202454
    Abstract: The invention relates to an eye examining system and a method for examining a subject's eyes by means of an eye examining system, eye examination symbols being made visible to at least one of the subject's eyes using a display device of the eye examining system, the display device comprising a camera device having a camera by means of which the subject's eyes can be recorded, the display device comprising an illumination device having a light source by means of which the subject's eyes can be illuminated, a light distribution being able to be recorded in the pupil of the subject's eye by means of the camera device of the display device, the eye examining system comprising a control apparatus by means of which an objective refraction of the eye can be determined via the light distribution in the pupil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: Andreas Steinmueller, Stephan Degle
  • Publication number: 20170181618
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vision testing system and to a method for testing the eyes of a subject, comprising a display device by means of which optotypes can be visualized to at least one eye of the subject, comprising a control device for controlling the display device, the display device comprising a backlit screen, the display device having a camera device by means of which the eyes of the subject can be captured, the display device having an illuminating device comprising an infrared light source by means of which the eyes of the subject can be illuminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Andreas Steinmueller, Stephan Degle
  • Publication number: 20170181619
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vision testing system (10) and to a method for testing the eyes of a subject, comprising a display device (11, 12, 13) by means of which optotypes can be visualized to at least one eye of the subject, comprising a control device (14) for controlling the display device, the display device comprising a backlit screen (19, 30, 35), the screen having an adjusting device for adjusting a screen luminance of the screen to an ambient luminance, the adjusting device having a measuring means for measuring the screen luminance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Andreas Steinmueller, Stephan Degle
  • Patent number: 9615738
    Abstract: A method and an analysis apparatus for measuring a cornea of an eye includes an ophthalmological analysis system. The ophthalmological analysis system measures a topography of a cornea in a measurement time interval to obtain a number of image data sets of a surface area of the cornea experiencing a change in intraocular pressure. A repeated change in the topography of the cornea is determined from the number of image data sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: OCULUS OPTIKGERAETE GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas Steinmueller
  • Patent number: 9241627
    Abstract: An ophthalmological analysis system for examining an eye, in particular in the region of a front eye section of an eye includes first and second analysis systems obtaining sectional images of the eye. The first analysis system includes a projection device and a monitoring device arranged relative to each other according to the Scheimpflug rule. The second analysis system is an optical coherence interferometer. A processing device processes a first image data set obtained by the first analysis system and a second image data set obtained by the second analysis system to supplement the first image data set, at least partially, with data of the second image data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: OCULUS OPTIKGERAETE GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas Steinmueller
  • Patent number: 8899753
    Abstract: An ophthalmological analysis instrument for measuring a topography of a surface of an eye includes a projection apparatus and a monitoring apparatus. The projection apparatus has at least one illumination device and an aperture device. The illumination device has a first light source. The aperture device images an image pattern on a surface of an eye. The monitoring apparatus has a camera and an objective lens, wherein images of the imaged image pattern being recordable by the monitoring apparatus, and a topography of the surface being derivable from the images. A magnification of the image can be varied by means of the objective lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Oculus Optikgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Steinmueller
  • Publication number: 20140320815
    Abstract: An ophthalmological analysis system for examining an eye, in particular in the region of a front eye section of an eye includes first and second analysis systems obtaining sectional images of the eye. The first analysis system includes a projection device and a monitoring device arranged relative to each other according to the Scheimpflug rule. The second analysis system is an optical coherence interferometer. A processing device processes a first image data set obtained by the first analysis system and a second image data set obtained by the second analysis system to supplement the first image data set, at least partially, with data of the second image data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Oculus Optikgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Steinmueller
  • Patent number: 8820935
    Abstract: An ophthalmological analysis instrument for measuring a topography of a surface of an eye includes a projection apparatus and a monitoring apparatus. The projection apparatus has at least one illumination device and an aperture device. The illumination device has a first light source, which can emit light in a predominantly monochromatic spectrum, it being possible to image an image pattern on a surface of an eye by the aperture device. Images of the imaged image pattern being recordable by the monitoring apparatus, and a topography of the surface of the being derivable from the images, wherein the illumination device has at least one further light source, which can emit polychromatic light in a predominantly visible spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Oculus Optikgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Steinmueller
  • Publication number: 20130329187
    Abstract: A method and an analysis apparatus for measuring a cornea of an eye includes an ophthalmological analysis system. The ophthalmological analysis system measures a topography of a cornea in a measurement time interval to obtain a number of image data sets of a surface area of the cornea experiencing a change in intraocular pressure. A repeated change in the topography of the cornea is determined from the number of image data sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: Oculus Optikgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Steinmueller
  • Patent number: 8556823
    Abstract: The invention relates to an ophthalmological analysis method for measuring an intraocular pressure in an eye with an analysis system consisting of an actuating device, wherein the actuating device causes a puff of air to be applied to the eye in such manner that the cornea is deformed, an observation system with which the deformation of the cornea is observed and recorded, wherein sectional images of the cornea when it is deformed and not deformed are created with the observation device, and an analysis device with which the intraocular pressure is derived from the sectional images of the cornea, wherein a structural characteristic and/or material characteristic of the cornea is derived from the sectional images of the cornea in the analysis device, wherein a stress of the cornea is derived as a structural characteristic and/or material characteristic, wherein stresses in the corneal material are rendered visible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Oculus Optikgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Gert Koest, Andreas Steinmueller
  • Patent number: 8551013
    Abstract: The invention relates to an ophthalmological analysis method for measuring an intraocular pressure in an eye with an analysis system consisting of an actuating device with which a cornea of the eye is deformed in contactless manner, wherein the actuating device causes a puff of air to be applied to the eye in such manner that the cornea is deformed, an observation system with which the deformation of the cornea is observed and recorded, wherein sectional images of the cornea when it is deformed and not deformed are created with the observation device, and an analysis device with which the intraocular pressure is derived from the sectional images of the cornea, wherein a material characteristic of the cornea is derived from the sectional images of the cornea in the analysis device, wherein a stiffness of the cornea is derived as a material characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Oculus Optikgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Steinmueller
  • Patent number: 8551014
    Abstract: The invention relates to an opthalmological analysis method for measuring an intraocular pressure in an eye with an analysis system consisting of an actuating device, wherein the actuating device causes a puff of air to be applied to the eye in such manner that the cornea is deformed, an observation system with which the deformation of the cornea is observed and recorded, wherein sectional images of the cornea when it is deformed and not deformed are created with the observation device, and an analysis device with which the intraocular pressure is derived from the sectional images of the cornea, wherein a material characteristic of the cornea is derived from the sectional images of the cornea in the analysis device, wherein a diameter d1 of a first applanation area of the cornea and a diameter dn of a deformation area of the cornea is derived as a material characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Oculus Optikgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Gert Koest, Andreas Steinmueller
  • Publication number: 20130050648
    Abstract: An ophthalmological analysis instrument for measuring a topography of a surface of an eye includes a projection apparatus and a monitoring apparatus. The projection apparatus has at least one illumination device and an aperture device. The illumination device has a first light source. The aperture device images an image pattern on a surface of an eye. The monitoring apparatus has a camera and an objective lens, wherein images of the imaged image pattern being recordable by the monitoring apparatus, and a topography of the surface being derivable from the images. A magnification of the image can be varied by means of the objective lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventor: Andreas Steinmueller
  • Publication number: 20130050647
    Abstract: An ophthalmological analysis instrument for measuring a topography of a surface of an eye includes a projection apparatus and a monitoring apparatus. The projection apparatus has at least one illumination device and an aperture device. The illumination device has a first light source, which can emit light in a predominantly monochromatic spectrum, it being possible to image an image pattern on a surface of an eye by the aperture device. Images of the imaged image pattern being recordable by the monitoring apparatus, and a topography of the surface of the being derivable from the images, wherein the illumination device has at least one further light source, which can emit polychromatic light in a predominantly visible spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventor: Andreas Steinmueller