Patents by Inventor Artur Hoegele

Artur Hoegele 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).

  • Publication number: 20240111143
    Abstract: A method for operating a microscopy system includes irradiating a region segment of a first region by a light source with light at a first wavelength ?1 and a first luminous intensity L1, determining a substance-specific parameter within the region segment as a response to being irradiated by the light source, and repeating the steps for all region segments within the first region. In addition, the disclosure relates to a microscopy system, and a calibration method for a microscopy system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: David Reichert, Marco Wilzbach, Stefan Saur, Christoph Hauger, Artur Hoegele, Mikael Timo Erkkilä, Holger Matz, Rainer Leitgeb, Angelika Unterhuber, Marco Andreana
  • Patent number: 11550138
    Abstract: A microscopy method is for producing an electronic image of an object, wherein the object is imaged with an adjustable optical imaging scale on an image detector. The method includes: selecting a parameter for the electronic image, wherein the parameter can be influenced by the optical imaging scale and differs from the image field dimensions, and setting a setpoint value range for the parameter, setting a total imaging scale for the electronic image, wherein adjusting or controlling the parameter of the electronic image is implemented such that, at the same time, the parameter of the electronic image lies in the specified setpoint value range with a tolerance and the set total imaging scale is obtained, wherein the optical imaging scale forms a basis for a manipulated variable of the adjustment or closed-loop control and a digital image magnification is carried out on the basis of the set total imaging scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Alois Regensburger, Christoph Nieten, Artur Hoegele, Christoph Hauger
  • Patent number: 11147447
    Abstract: An ophthalmic surgical microscope includes a main objective lens, through which an observation beam path passes, and a confocal optical system configured as a refractometer to determine the refraction of an eye. The optical system includes a measurement light source to generate a measurement light beam, a light detector to measure an intensity of measurement light and an optical unit to direct the measurement light beam onto the retina of the eye and to return measurement light reflected back at the retina to the light detector. The optical system includes an adaptive optical module (AOM) to modify a wavefront of the measurement beam path such that an intensity of the back-reflected measurement light changes. A spherical equivalent (SE) of the ametropia of the eye is determined based on a setting of the AOM, at which the measured intensity of the back-reflected measurement light has a maximum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Markus Seesselberg, Christoph Hauger, Artur Hoegele, Joachim Steffen
  • Patent number: 11143857
    Abstract: A microscopy method for imaging an object includes: imaging the object into an optical image onto an image detector, generating electronic image data from the optical image using the image detector and generating an electronic image from the electronic image data, defining a region of interest in the electronic image, determining a depth distribution in the region of interest and/or in a region of the object corresponding to the region of interest, determining a desired depth region in the depth distribution, selecting at least one imaging parameter with which a size of a depth-of-field region can be changed, and setting the depth-of-field region of the electronic image by changing the at least one selected imaging parameter such that the depth-of-field region covers the desired depth region or covers a specific portion thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Alois Regensburger, Artur Hoegele, Christoph Hauger
  • Publication number: 20210231941
    Abstract: A microscopy method is for producing an electronic image of an object, wherein the object is imaged with an adjustable optical imaging scale on an image detector. The method includes: selecting a parameter for the electronic image, wherein the parameter can be influenced by the optical imaging scale and differs from the image field dimensions, and setting a setpoint value range for the parameter, setting a total imaging scale for the electronic image, wherein adjusting or controlling the parameter of the electronic image is implemented such that, at the same time, the parameter of the electronic image lies in the specified setpoint value range with a tolerance and the set total imaging scale is obtained, wherein the optical imaging scale forms a basis for a manipulated variable of the adjustment or closed-loop control and a digital image magnification is carried out on the basis of the set total imaging scale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Alois Regensburger, Christoph Nieten, Artur Hoegele, Christoph Hauger
  • Patent number: 10881291
    Abstract: An eye surgery system 1 comprises microscopy optics 3 and an OCT device 5 to generate a light-optical image and an OCT image of an eye fundus 11, a controller 29 and a visualization system 13, 41, 83. The controller comprises a data interface 97 for receiving a preoperative OCT image and may control the visualization system to display a representation of the received preoperative OCT image. The controller may control the OCT device 5 to record an intraoperative OCT image and may control the visualization system to display a representation of the recorded intraoperative OCT image. The controller may adjust a magnification of the representation of the intraoperative OCT image and/or a magnification of the representation of the preoperative OCT image so that the magnifications of the representation of the intraoperative OCT image and the magnification of the representation of the preoperative OCT image are equal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
    Inventors: Konstantinos Filippatos, Artur Högele, Thorsten Tritschler, Christoph Hauger
  • Patent number: 10842374
    Abstract: An operating microscope (2, 48) for observing an eye (77) is provided. The operating microscope (2, 48) comprises a main objective (5) and a fundus imaging system (71) that is positionable in the beam path (7) between the eye (77) and the main objective (5), said fundus imaging system having an ophthalmoscopy magnifier (73). The main objective (5) of the operating microscope (2, 48) has a focal length in the range between 90 mm and 160 mm. The fundus imaging system (71) also can comprise an optics group (81), the dispersion properties of which are matched to the dispersion properties of the ophthalmoscopy magnifier (73) in such a way that the optics group (81) compensates a chromatic aberration of the ophthalmoscopy magnifier (73).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
    Inventors: Artur Högele, Christian Beder, Joachim Steffen
  • Publication number: 20200029805
    Abstract: An ophthalmic surgical microscope includes a main objective lens, through which an observation beam path passes, and a confocal optical system configured as a refractometer to determine the refraction of an eye. The optical system includes a measurement light source to generate a measurement light beam, a light detector to measure an intensity of measurement light and an optical unit to direct the measurement light beam onto the retina of the eye and to return measurement light reflected back at the retina to the light detector. The optical system includes an adaptive optical module (AOM) to modify a wavefront of the measurement beam path such that an intensity of the back-reflected measurement light changes. A spherical equivalent (SE) of the ametropia of the eye is determined based on a setting of the AOM, at which the measured intensity of the back-reflected measurement light has a maximum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Markus Seesselberg, Christoph Hauger, Artur Hoegele, Joachim Steffen
  • Patent number: 10473905
    Abstract: A microscope having an observation beam path including a main objective, an OCT device including a first detection beam path, a wavefront measuring device including a second detection beam path, a first, a second and a third optics group is provided, wherein the first detection beam path contains the main objective and the first to third optics group, and the first to third optics group forms an afocal imaging optical unit of the first detection beam path and the second detection beam path contains the main objective, the first optics group and the second optics group, and the main objective and the first and second optics group form an afocal imaging optical unit of the second detection beam path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Artur Hoegele, Franz Merz, Christian Beder, Andre Mueller, Daniel Kolster, Peter Reimer
  • Publication number: 20190339502
    Abstract: A microscopy method for imaging an object includes: imaging the object into an optical image onto an image detector, generating electronic image data from the optical image using the image detector and generating an electronic image from the electronic image data, defining a region of interest in the electronic image, determining a depth distribution in the region of interest and/or in a region of the object corresponding to the region of interest, determining a desired depth region in the depth distribution, selecting at least one imaging parameter with which a size of a depth-of-field region can be changed, and setting the depth-of-field region of the electronic image by changing the at least one selected imaging parameter such that the depth-of-field region covers the desired depth region or covers a specific portion thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Alois Regensburger, Artur Hoegele, Christoph Hauger
  • Patent number: 10330927
    Abstract: An optical system images an object region with an optical beam path in an image plane of an image acquisition system. The optical system includes a first optical assembly through which the optical beam path passes and a second optical assembly arranged in the optical beam path on the side of the first optical assembly facing away from the object region. The second optical assembly is a system at least partly compensating longitudinal chromatic aberrations of the first optical assembly occurring in the wavelength range 625 nm???850 nm of the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Artur Hoegele, Thomas Nobis
  • Publication number: 20190155010
    Abstract: A microscope having an observation beam path including a main objective, an OCT device inlcuding a first detection beam path, a wavefront measuring device including a second detection beam path, a first, a second and a third optics group is provided, wherein the first detection beam path contains the main objective and the first to third optics group, and the first to third optics group forms an afocal imaging optical unit of the first detection beam path and the second detection beam path contains the main objective, the first optics group and the second optics group, and the main objective and the first and second optics group form an afocal imaging optical unit of the second detection beam path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Artur Hoegele, Franz Merz, Christian Beder, Andre Mueller, Daniel Kolster, Peter Reimer
  • Publication number: 20180307022
    Abstract: An optical observation device having a pupil and at least one adjustable low magnification and one adjustable high magnification is provided, wherein the low magnification is linked to a large pupil diameter (DPmax) and the high magnification is linked to a small pupil diameter (DPmin). A stop apparatus is arranged in a pupil plane or as close as possible to a pupil plane, said stop apparatus having a region diameter which delimits a central transmissive region and having a partly transmissive region that surrounds the central transmissive region outside of the region diameter. The region diameter is smaller than the small pupil diameter (DPmin).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Kai Wicker, Matthias Wald, Christoph Hauger, Artur Högele
  • Patent number: 10092179
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optical system for examining an eye by means of optical coherence tomography. The OCT system is designed in such a way that at least a first and a second state of the optical system can be selectively set by controlling the variable optical unit. In the first state, the OCT measurement beam has a measurement focus at an object distance from the objective, wherein the object distance has a value between 50 millimeters and 400 millimeters. In the second state, the measurement beam has defocusing at the same object distance, wherein the defocusing corresponds to a distance of a virtual or real focus from a position of the object distance that is greater than 100 millimeters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
    Inventors: Artur Högele, Joachim Steffen, Christoph Hauger, Holger Matz
  • Patent number: 10048484
    Abstract: An imaging system with an imaging lens system for imaging an object into an image plane is disclosed. The imaging lens system contains an optical component for a higher depth of field, of which the refractive power is alterable and the optical effect remains rotation-symmetrical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss AG, Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Marco Pretorius, Markus Seesselberg, Artur Hoegele, Christoph Nieten, Enrico Geissler
  • Publication number: 20180125360
    Abstract: An operating microscope (2, 48) for observing an eye (77) is provided. The operating microscope (2, 48) comprises a main objective (5) and a fundus imaging system (71) that is positionable in the beam path (7) between the eye (77) and the main objective (5), said fundus imaging system having an ophthalmoscopy magnifier (73). The main objective (5) of the operating microscope (2, 48) has a focal length in the range between 90 mm and 160 mm. The fundus imaging system (71) also can comprise an optics group (81), the dispersion properties of which are matched to the dispersion properties of the ophthalmoscopy magnifier (73) in such a way that the optics group (81) compensates a chromatic aberration of the ophthalmoscopy magnifier (73).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Artur Högele, Christian Beder, Joachim Steffen
  • Publication number: 20180064332
    Abstract: An eye surgery system 1 comprises microscopy optics 3 and an OCT device 5 to generate a light-optical image and an OCT image of an eye fundus 11, a controller 29 and a visualization system 13, 41, 83. The controller comprises a data interface 97 for receiving a preoperative OCT image and may control the visualization system to display a representation of the received preoperative OCT image. The controller may control the OCT device 5 to record an intraoperative OCT image and may control the visualization system to display a representation of the recorded intraoperative OCT image. The controller may adjust a magnification of the representation of the intraoperative OCT image and/or a magnification of the representation of the preoperative OCT image so that the magnifications of the representation of the intraoperative OCT image and the magnification of the representation of the preoperative OCT image are equal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Konstantinos FILIPPATOS, Artur HÖGELE, Thorsten TRITSCHLER, Christoph HAUGER
  • Patent number: 9788718
    Abstract: A surgical microscope for imaging structures of an eye includes: a front optical unit, an illumination device which has an illumination-radiation-emitting illumination source and which illuminates the retina of the eye with an illumination spot via an illumination beam path which extends through the front optical unit, a camera and an adjustable camera optical unit disposed upstream thereof, an imaging beam path which extends through the front optical unit and the camera optical unit, and a control device which controls the camera optical unit and sets the latter in such a way that the retina of the eye in the region of the illumination spot is imaged on the camera. The control device varies a focusing state of the camera optical unit and, as a result thereof, records a plurality of images of the retina in the region of the illumination spot, the images being focused in different depth planes, and establishes a refractive value of the eye from these images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Christoph Hauger, Artur Hoegele, Peter Reimer, Holger Matz, Joachim Steffen
  • Patent number: 9766443
    Abstract: A varioscope optical unit has a positive member (9) with a positive refractive power and a negative member (11) with a negative refractive power arranged along an optical axis (OA) so that the negative member follows the positive member along an observation direction (B). At least one of the members is displaceable along the optical axis. Each member has a first termination lens surfaces (23, 27) counter to the observation direction (B) and second termination lens surface (25, 29) in the observation direction. The second termination lens surface of the positive member and the first termination lens surface of the negative member are concave when viewed in the observation direction (B) and have radii of curvature of at most 500 mm. The second termination lens surface of the negative member is convex when viewed in the observation direction (B) and has a radius of curvature of at most 70 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
    Inventors: Artur Högele, Jürgen Liegel, Fenny Nauli
  • Publication number: 20170245755
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optical system for examining an eye by means of optical coherence tomography. The OCT system is designed in such a way that at least a first and a second state of the optical system can be selectively set by controlling the variable optical unit. In the first state, the OCT measurement beam has a measurement focus at an object distance from the objective, wherein the object distance has a value between 50 millimeters and 400 millimeters. In the second state, the measurement beam has defocussing at the same object distance, wherein the defocussing corresponds to a distance of a virtual or real focus from a position of the object distance that is greater than 100 millimeters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Artur HÖGELE, Joachim STEFFEN, Christoph HAUGER, Holger MATZ