Patents by Inventor Benjamin A. Rousseau

Benjamin A. Rousseau 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: 10345622
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of management systems and methods of an active device and more particularly, with said active device being an active ophthalmic lens, to a management system and method which allow a total or sufficient protection by taking into account the luminous environment of the wearer while avoiding some effects relative to permanent light filtering. According to a particular embodiment of the invention, there is also provided a monitoring of the wearer's health via active, regulated and continuous control of the active device, this control being performed for instance by a health professional via a remote monitoring system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Coralie Barrau, Nicolas La Villonniere, Thierry Villette, Benjamin Rousseau
  • Patent number: 10247962
    Abstract: A progressive ophthalmic spectacle lens (10) capable of correcting a wearer's ophthalmic vision and having a back surface (BS) and a front surface (FS), said lens comprising a light guide optical element arranged to output a supplementary image (SI) to the wearer through an exit surface (ES) of said light guide optical element, where the exit surface (ES), the back surface (BS) and an optical material located between said exit surface (ES) and said back surface (BS) form an optical device (OD) and wherein said optical device (OD) comprises an area of stabilized optical power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Benjamin Rousseau, Sébastien Fricker
  • Patent number: 10234700
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for checking the correct assembly of a device consisting of a frame and of two corrective ophthalmic lenses. The main feature of a method according to the invention is that it includes the following steps: an initial step of determining at least one parameter which makes it possible to position the lenses in the frame relative to the face; a subsequent step of acquiring at least one image of the face of said wearer with said device, which shows centering and horizontal level marks; a step of comparing said at least one parameter determined during said initial step with the corresponding parameter deduced from said at least one image; and a step of making a decision regarding the correct assembly of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)
    Inventors: Cécile Petignaud, Thierry Laloux, Nacer Lakhchaf, Benjamin Rousseau, Marie-Anne Berthezene
  • Patent number: 10203519
    Abstract: Methods for augmented reality, and to lenses, systems and methods for improving visual comfort of a wearer equipped with a head-mounted device configured for display of information content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Matthieu Guillot, Pauline Colas, Sebastien Fricker, Benjamin Rousseau
  • Patent number: 10168560
    Abstract: Method of controlling an active filtering device comprising an active filter and a filter controller arranged to control the active filter, the method comprising: a wearer location providing step, during which a location of a wearer is provided, a luminous cartography providing step, during which a luminous cartography relating to the light sources in the environment of the wearer is provided, the luminous cartography depending at least on the location of the wearer, a light exposure profile determining step, during which at least one part of the light exposure profile of the wearer is determined based at least on the luminous cartography and on the wearer location, and an active filter controlling step, during which the active filter is controlled by the filter controller according to the determined light exposure profile of the wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Coralie Barrau, Nicolas Lavillonniere, Benjamin Rousseau
  • Patent number: 10126568
    Abstract: A multifocal ophthalmic spectacle lens (10) capable of correcting a wearer's ophthalmic vision and having a back surface (BS) and a front surface (FS), said lens comprising a light guide optical element arranged to output a supplementary image (SI) to the wearer through an exit surface (ES) of said light guide optical element, where the exit surface (ES), the back surface (BS) and an optical material located between said exit surface (ES) and said back surface (BS) form an optical device (OD) and wherein said optical device (OD) comprises an area of stabilized optical power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Benjamin Rousseau, Sébastien Fricker
  • Publication number: 20180310820
    Abstract: A device for testing visual behavior of a person, including: an active display configured to display at least one visually predominant target in a plurality of positions that are variable over time and that are aligned along at least one line or column, and a unit for controlling the display. The unit is programmed so that consecutive display positions of the target follow, over time, a visual tracking protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: Essilor International
    Inventors: Guilhem ESCALIER, Isabelle POULAIN, Benjamin ROUSSEAU
  • Publication number: 20180314078
    Abstract: An ophthalmic progressive addition lens for a presbyopic wearer which has a prescribed far vision mean refractive power a non nil prescribed addition, ADDp, the lens having a far vision reference point, a mean refractive power, PPO(?, ?), a module of resulting astigmatism, ASR(?, ?), a meridian line, ML(?, ?), the (?, ?) functions being determined in as-worn conditions of the lens by the wearer for gaze directions (?, ?) joining the center of rotation of the eye, CRE, and the lens, wherein ? is a lowering angle in degree and ? is an azimuth angle in degree, and wherein a lens criterion, CRIT, fulfils following requirement: 0.38?CRIT?4.50, where: CRIT=NumeratorCRIT/DenominatorCRIT, NumeratorCRIT=(A1/A2)+(PPO(?FV, ?FV)/(100·ADDp)); A1=?100%??85%; A2=?100%??60%; DenominatorCRIT=[(PeaksMean/ADDp)±(PPO(?FV,?FV)/(8·ADDp))]3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: Essilor International
    Inventors: Benjamin ROUSSEAU, Melanie HESLOUIS, Sebastien FRICKER, Nacer LAKHCHAF, Guilhem ESCALIER, Thierry BONNIN, Isabelle POULAIN, Valerie JOLIVET, Juliette WIERZBICKI
  • Publication number: 20180307059
    Abstract: An ophthalmic progressive addition lens for a myopic or emmetropic presbyopic wearer which has a prescribed far vision mean refractive power and a non nil prescribed addition, ADDp, the lens having a far vision reference point, a mean refractive power, PPO(?, ?), a module of resulting astigmatism, ASR(?, ?), a meridian line, ML(?, ?), the (?, ?) functions being determined in as-worn conditions of the lens by the wearer for gaze directions (?, ?) joining the center of rotation of the eye, CRE, and the lens, wherein ? is a lowering angle in degree and ? is an azimuth angle in degree, and wherein a lens criterion, A1/A2, fulfils: A1/A2?0.50, wherein: A1=?100%??85%; A2=?100%??60%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: Essilor International
    Inventors: Benjamin ROUSSEAU, Melanie HESLOUIS, Sebastien FRICKER, Nacer LAKHCHAF, Guilhem ESCALIER, Thierry BONNIN, Isabelle POULAIN, Valerie JOLIVET, Juliette WIERZBICKI
  • Publication number: 20180303336
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining at least one visual behavior parameter of a person. The method includes the following steps: a step of encouraging the person to perform a visual test during which he observes at least one target position, a step of measuring an item of data that is representative of at least one viewing direction of the person during the visual test, a step of determining a reference viewing direction on the basis of the representative data measured, and a step of positioning, relative to the reference viewing direction, at least one measured target position that is determined, in a reference marker associated with the head of the person, on the basis of the data that is representative of the viewing direction of the person measured during the visual test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Guilhem ESCALIER, Isabelle POULAIN, Amandine DEBIEUVRE, Damien PAILLE, Delphine TRANVOUEZ-BERNARDIN, Konogan BARANTON, Benjamin ROUSSEAU
  • Publication number: 20180307060
    Abstract: An ophthalmic progressive addition lens for a myopic and presbyopic wearer having a mean refractive power, PPO(?, ?), a module of resulting astigmatism, ASR(?, ?), an acuity loss value ACU(?, ?), wherein the (?, ?) functions are determined in as-worn conditions of the lens by the wearer, and a first acuity criterion, AcuityCriterion1 which fulfils following requirement: AcuityCriterion1?1340 D2·deg2, and wherein: AcuityCriterion1 is defined as a combination of PPO(?, ?), ASR(?, ?), ADDp, and ACU(?, ?).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: Essilor International
    Inventors: Benjamin ROUSSEAU, Melanie HESLOUIS, Sebastien FRICKER
  • Publication number: 20180299697
    Abstract: An ophthalmic progressive addition lens for an emmetropic and presbyopic wearer having a mean refractive power, PPO(?, ?), a module of resulting astigmatism, ASR(?, ?), an acuity loss value ACU(?, ?), wherein the (?, ?) functions are determined in as-worn conditions of the lens by the wearer, and a first acuity criterion, AcuityCriterion1 which fulfils following requirement: AcuityCriterion1?435 D2·deg2, and wherein: AcuityCriterion1 is defined as a combination of PPO(?, ?), ASR(?, ?), ADDp, and ACU(?, ?).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: Essilor International
    Inventors: Melanie HESLOUIS, Benjamin ROUSSEAU, Sebastien FRICKER
  • Publication number: 20180299696
    Abstract: A method for determining a three dimensional performance of an ophthalmic lens including: calculating a domain in which a condition between a local optical criterion and at a threshold value is fulfilled; determining the three dimensional performance of the ophthalmic lens according to the domain. A method of calculating an ophthalmic lens includes the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: Essilor International
    Inventors: Melanie HESLOUIS, Sebastien FRICKER, Cyril GUILLOUX, Benjamin ROUSSEAU
  • Publication number: 20180299694
    Abstract: A method for determining an optical system of a personalized progressive lens for a given wearer including: a) providing a mean direction of gaze determined for the wearer in a reference frame tied to the head of the wearer; b) determining a target value for at least one optical design parameter as a function of the mean direction of gaze determined in a); c) calculating the optical system of the progressive lens by an optical optimization procedure on the basis of target values, wherein the target value of each optical design parameter as a function of the mean direction of gaze determined in b) is a target value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: Essilor International
    Inventors: Benjamin ROUSSEAU, Guilhem ESCALIER, Isabelle POULAIN, Juliette WIERZBICKI, Laurent CALIXTE, Nacer LAKHCHAF, Sarah MARIE, Thierry BONNIN, Valerie JOLIVET
  • Patent number: 9974435
    Abstract: A quality control method for optometric measurements includes the following steps: (a) recording, via computer, a first record (14) that includes at least one first value of a first identifier (12), enabling identification of a glasses wearer (1), and at least one other value of another identifier (13) enabling identification of an optometric apparatus (15) on a first optometric measuring site (10); (b) carrying out at least one optometric measurement (16) of the wearer; (c) sending, to a second site (20), a digital measurement data set (18) including the optometric measurement result from step (b), the digital data set being linked, via computer, to the first record; and (d) digitally processing the optometric measurement result from the first record (14) on the basis of a digital data reference system (45) and the values of the respective identifiers of the glasses wearer and the optometric apparatus of the first record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERAL D'OPTIQUE)
    Inventors: Ahmed Haddadi, Marie-Anne Berthezene, Isabelle Poulain, Cecile Petignaud, Loic Levraud, Sebastien Gayat, Fabien Divo, Benjamin Rousseau
  • Patent number: 9955864
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for measuring the subjective refraction of a person in near and/or medium vision, which comprises, according to the invention, for each eye of the person, a correction mounting (3) provided with at least one corrective lens, the correction mountings (3) being arranged such that the person looks through the lenses. The position of each correction mounting (3) is variable such as to adjust an angle (a) between the axes of the lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)
    Inventors: Benjamin Rousseau, Martha Hernandez, Konogan Baranton, Pedro Ourives, Gildas Marin
  • Publication number: 20180011360
    Abstract: Method of controlling an active filtering device comprising an active filter and a filter controller arranged to control the active filter, the method comprising: a wearer location providing step, during which a location of a wearer is provided, a luminous cartography providing step, during which a luminous cartography relating to the light sources in the environment of the wearer is provided, the luminous cartography depending at least on the location of the wearer, a light exposure profile determining step, during which at least one part of the light exposure profile of the wearer is determined based at least on the luminous cartography and on the wearer location, and an active filter controlling step, during which the active filter is controlled by the filter controller according to the determined light exposure profile of the wearer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Coralie BARRAU, Nicolas LAVILLONNIERE, Benjamin ROUSSEAU
  • Publication number: 20170351118
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of management systems and methods of an active device and more particularly, with said active device being an active ophthalmic lens, to a management system and method which allow a total or sufficient protection by taking into account the luminous environment of the wearer while avoiding some effects relative to permanent light filtering. According to a particular embodiment of the invention, there is also provided a monitoring of the wearer's health via active, regulated and continuous control of the active device, this control being performed for instance by a health professional via a remote monitoring system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: Essilor International (Compagnie Générale d'Optique)
    Inventors: Coralie BARRAU, Nicolas LAVILLONNIERE, Thierry VILLETTE, Benjamin ROUSSEAU
  • Publication number: 20170351117
    Abstract: A multifocal ophthalmic spectacle lens (10) capable of correcting a wearer's ophthalmic vision and having a back surface (BS) and a front surface (FS), said lens comprising a light guide optical element arranged to output a supplementary image (SI) to the wearer through an exit surface (ES) of said light guide optical element, where the exit surface (ES), the back surface (BS) and an optical material located between said exit surface (ES) and said back surface (BS) form an optical device (OD) and wherein said optical device (OD) comprises an area of stabilized optical power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventor: Benjamin ROUSSEAU
  • Patent number: 9703122
    Abstract: A method for determining at least one value of a customization parameter for a visual compensation device includes the following steps: a) a user (1) equipped with an electronic terminal (2) captures at least one image or video sequence; b) telecommunicating the at least one image to a remote-support center (22); c) processing the at least one image in order to derive therefrom an instruction to correct or validate the captured image or video sequence; d) telecommunicating the correction or validation instruction from the remote-assistance center (22) to the terminal (2) of the user (1); e) displaying or emitting an audio or video message using the terminal; f) repeating the preceding steps until a validated image or video sequence is obtained; g) determining a value of the at least one customization parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)
    Inventors: Ahmed Haddadi, Marie-Anne Berthezene, Isabelle Poulain, Cecile Petignaud, Loic Levraud, Sebastien Gayat, Fabien Divo, Benjamin Rousseau