Patents by Inventor Carlos Regos
Carlos Regos 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).
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Patent number: 11892711Abstract: A method implemented by a computer for determining a single vision ophthalmic lens that is adapted to a wearer, the method including a wearer prescription data providing step during which wearer prescription data indicative at least of the prescribed optical power of the wearer are provided, a wearing data providing step during which wearing data indicative of the wearing parameters of the single vision ophthalmic lens by the wearer are provided, a single vision ophthalmic lens determining step during which the single vision ophthalmic lens is determined so that in wearing conditions corresponding to the wearing parameters, the single vision ophthalmic lens provides to the wearer the prescribed optical power in at least a first gazing direction when gazing at a first distance and second gazing direction when gazing at a second distance, wherein the first and second distances are different and the first and second gazing directions are different.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Laurent Calixte, Matthieu Guillot, Carlos Rego
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Publication number: 20240004220Abstract: A lens element intended to be worn in front of an eye of a wearer, the lens element including at least two first areas having a refractive power based on a prescription of the wearer for said eye of the wearer, a plurality of second areas having at least a second optical function in specific wearing conditions, where one can determine at least one first radial path crossing at least a first second area in a first point and a second point, the first and second points being adjacent to the at least two first areas, the first radial coordinate being greater than the second radial coordinate, and the radial optical power at the first point is significantly different from the radial optical power at the second point.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2021Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Essilor InternationalInventors: Matthieu GUILLOT, Bruno FERMIGIER, Carlos REGO, Eric GACOIN
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Publication number: 20230408844Abstract: A method for determining a progression length of an ophthalmic lens, the method including providing an addition value Add, providing a model, the model linking an addition value Add with a progression length, and based on the model and on the provided addition value, determining the progression length.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Essilor InternationalInventors: Olivier ROUSSEL, Carlos REGO, Alain GOULET, Mélanie HESLOUIS
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Publication number: 20230305316Abstract: This computer-implemented method for providing a finished single vision ophthalmic lens intended for a wearer, from a target lens having at least one complex surface, the finished lens having a rotationally symmetrical front surface, includes: providing wearer data or theoretical data; defining targeted optical or geometrical characteristics along a predetermined path on the target lens, based on the wearer data or on the theoretical data; determining the finished lens by: selecting an initial lens complying with the prescription data and having a rotationally symmetrical front surface and a predetermined curvature at a prescription reference point; defining a current lens as the initial lens; modifying a front surface definition of the current lens to reach the targeted optical or geometrical characteristics until an ending criterion is met; providing the finished lens as the current lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2021Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Mélanie HESLOUIS, Carlos REGO
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Patent number: 11623318Abstract: A method implemented by computer for processing an unfinished optical lens member for manufacturing an optical lens, the unfinished optical lens member having an unfinished surface and an aspherical finished surface having a first reference system with a first reference point, and the optical lens to be manufactured including first and second surfaces, the first surface including a second reference system with a second reference point and included in the aspherical finished surface of the lens member, the method including: providing an unfinished optical lens member data; providing an optical function; providing a reference point position; providing an optical lens parameter; determining a reference system; determining a first surface dataset; and determining a second surface dataset.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2017Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Carlos Rego, Christophe Jeannin
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Publication number: 20230058993Abstract: A method for generating modified eyeglass frame manufacturing data including the following steps: a. providing a plurality of eyeglass frames; b. selecting one frame among the plurality of eyeglass frames; c. determining data relative to the selected frame; d. modifying the determined data whilst respecting at least one predetermined conception rule, so as to obtain modified data; and e. computing the modified data obtained by the modification so as to generate modified eyeglass frame manufacturing data.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2021Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Paul JORET, Bruno AMIR, Ludovic JOUARD, Carlos REGO, Mélanie HESLOUIS
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Patent number: 11460717Abstract: A set of ophthalmic lenses is described where each ophthalmic lens has at a point of optical reference a maximum power and meets an optical performance criterion in standard wearing conditions, wherein the range of maximum powers of the set of ophthalmic lenses is greater than or equal to 10 D, and all the ophthalmic lenses of the set of ophthalmic lenses have been manufactured from a set of semi-finished lens blank, each semi-finished lens blank having the same base curve.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Melanie Heslouis, Carlos Rego, Cyril Guilloux
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Patent number: 11372265Abstract: A lens element adapted for a person including a holder including a refraction area having a refractive power based on a prescription for correcting an abnormal refraction of the person, a plurality of optical elements placed on at least one surface of the holder to at least one of: slow down, retard, or prevent a progress of the abnormal refraction of an eye of the person, and at least one layer of at least one coating element covering at least a zone of at least one optical element and at least a zone of the holder on which the optical elements are placed, wherein said at least one layer of at least one coating element adds an optical power of 0.1 diopter in absolute value in specific wearing conditions when measured over said zone of the optical element covered by said at least one layer of at least one coating element.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Matthieu Guillot, Helene Guillou, Carlos Rego, Eric Gacoin
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Patent number: 11131867Abstract: A lens element adapted for a person including a holder including a refraction area having a refractive power based on a prescription for correcting an abnormal refraction of the person, a plurality of optical elements placed on at least one surface of the holder to at least one of: slow down, retard, or prevent a progress of the abnormal refraction of an eye of the person, and at least one layer of at least one coating element covering at least a zone of at least one optical element and at least a zone of the holder on which the optical elements are placed, wherein said at least one layer of at least one coating element adds an optical power of 0.1 diopter in absolute value in specific wearing conditions when measured over said zone of the optical element covered by said at least one layer of at least one coating element.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Matthieu Guillot, Helene Guillou, Carlos Rego, Eric Gacoin
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Publication number: 20210231972Abstract: A lens element adapted for a person including a holder including a refraction area having a refractive power based on a prescription for correcting an abnormal refraction of the person, a plurality of optical elements placed on at least one surface of the holder to at least one of: slow down, retard, or prevent a progress of the abnormal refraction of an eye of the person, and at least one layer of at least one coating element covering at least a zone of at least one optical element and at least a zone of the holder on which the optical elements are placed, wherein said at least one layer of at least one coating element adds an optical power of 0.1 diopter in absolute value in specific wearing conditions when measured over said zone of the optical element covered by said at least one layer of at least one coating element.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicant: Essilor InternationalInventors: Matthieu GUILLOT, Helene GUILLOU, Carlos REGO, Eric GACOIN
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Publication number: 20210018763Abstract: A method implemented by a computer for determining a single vision ophthalmic lens that is adapted to a wearer, the method including awearer prescription data providing step during which wearer prescription data indicative at least of the prescribed optical power of the wearer are provided, a wearing data providing step during which wearing data indicative of the wearing parameters of the single vision ophthalmic lens by the wearer are provided, a single vision ophthalmic lens determining step during which the single vision ophthalmic lens is determined so that in wearing conditions corresponding to the wearing parameters, the single vision ophthalmic lens provides to the wearer the prescribed optical power in at least a first gazing direction when gazing at a first distance and second gazing direction when gazing at a second distance, wherein the first and second distances are different and the first and second gazing directions are different.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2019Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicant: Essilor InternationalInventors: Laurent CALIXTE, Matthieu GUILLOT, Carlos REGO
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Publication number: 20200278565Abstract: A set of ophthalmic lenses is described where each ophthalmic lens has at a point of optical reference a maximum power and meets an optical performance criterion in standard wearing conditions, wherein the range of maximum powers of the set of ophthalmic lenses is greater than or equal to 10 D, and all the ophthalmic lenses of the set of ophthalmic lenses have been manufactured from a set of semi-finished lens blank, each semi-finished lens blank having the same base curve.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2018Publication date: September 3, 2020Applicant: Essilor InternationalInventors: Melanie HESLOUIS, Carlos REGO, Cyril GUILLOUX
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Publication number: 20200230775Abstract: A method implemented by computer for processing an unfinished optical lens member for manufacturing an optical lens, the unfinished optical lens member having an unfinished surface and an aspherical finished surface having a first reference system with a first reference point, and the optical lens to be manufactured including first and second surfaces, the first surface including a second reference system with a second reference point and included in the aspherical finished surface of the lens member, the method including: providing an unfinished optical lens member data; providing an optical function; providing a reference point position; providing an optical lens parameter; determining a reference system; determining a first surface dataset; and determining a second surface dataset.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2017Publication date: July 23, 2020Applicant: Essilor InternationalInventors: Carlos REGO, Christophe JEANNIN
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Patent number: 10451893Abstract: Method implemented by computer for determining an optical equipment including at least an optical lens and a spectacle frame, the lens being adapted to be mounted in the frame, the method including: a wearer data providing step, during which wearer data relating to the wearer's optical requirements is provided, an optical cost function providing step, during which an optical cost function is provided, the optical cost function relating to the optical function of the lens, a comfort cost function providing step, during which a comfort cost function is provided, the comfort cost function relating to the weight of the optical equipment, an optical equipment determining step, during which the optical equipment that minimizes the difference between a global cost function and a target value of the global cost function is determined, the global cost function being a weighted sum of the optical and comfort cost functions.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2014Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONALInventors: Carlos Rego, Olivier Roussel, Berangere Granger, Loic Quere, Cedric Begon
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Patent number: 10409086Abstract: Method means for optimizing an optical lens adapted to a wearer, using an initial optical system providing stage (S1), during which an initial optical system is provided. The initial optical system has at least a light source (10), a light receiver (12) and an initial optical lens (L0) placed between the source (10) and the receiver (12), the initial optical lens a Fresnel zone, a working optical lens defining stage (S2), for evaluating a working optical lens is defined to be equal to the initial optical lens (L0), an evaluation stage (S3), during which a cost function related to the number of light rays received by the light receiver (12) that have passed through the annular step of the working optical lens, a modifying stage (S4), for modifying the annular step of the working optical lens, wherein the evaluation and modifying steps are repeated to minimize the cost function.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2013Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Pauline Colas, Carlos Rego, Bruno Amir, Melanie Tessieres
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Patent number: 10345618Abstract: Method for determining a surface of a face of an optical lens to be mounted to a spectacle frame, the method comprising: a contour data providing step (S1), during which contour data representing a contour of the spectacle frame is provided, a target curvature data providing step (S2) during which target curvature data representing the target curvature of the surface to be determined over an evaluation zone of said surface is provided, an optical surface determining step (S3), during which a surface is determined so as to minimize: the difference between the target curvature and average curvature of the surface over the evaluation zone, and the difference between the contour of the spectacle frame and the periphery contour of the surface, the periphery contour of the surface corresponding to the contour of the surface to be determined of the optical lens after the optical lens has been edged to be mounted in the spectacle frame.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2014Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Carlos Rego, Jérôme Moine, Mélanie Tessieres
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Patent number: 10108028Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a method for determining a geometric definition of a piece of personalized optical equipment adapted to its wearer, comprising at least one geometric definition of a personalized frame of this piece of personalized equipment. In one embodiment, the geometric definition of said personalized frame is determined depending on at least one geometric parameter of personalization of the frame and on a reference frame chosen by the wearer. Further, the value of said at least one geometric parameter of personalization of the frame being determined on the basis of the acquisition of data relating to at least one morphological quantity of the head of the wearer, in such a way that the personalized frame is adjusted to conform with a least one criterion of adjustment of personalization of the geometry of the frame with respect to the morphological quantity of the head of the wearer.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2014Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Carlos Rego, Bruno Amir, Guillaume Broutin, Maxime Boiffier, Thierry Bonnin, Melanie Tessiere, Jerome Moine
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Patent number: 9824087Abstract: A method for designing a mould (120) for casting a semi-finished ophthalmic lens blank, wherein the surface of the mould (120) is designed so that the surface of the mould fits a predetermined closed curve, wherein the predetermined closed curve is representative of the geometry of a gasket (160) to be used in association with the mould (10). A method for assembling a mould assembly (100) and a method for casting a semi-finished ophthalmic lens blank, and a computer program product including software code portions for performing steps of these methods are also described.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2012Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)Inventors: Carlos Rego, Jerome Moine, Matthieu Guillot
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Patent number: 9618771Abstract: A method for determining a progressive ophthalmic lens, comprising determining first, second and third intermediate values of regression as the strongest regression that can be applied on the front surface of the lens while keeping a mean sphere value in at least a portion of the lower part of the rear surface of the lens less or equal to, respectively, first, second and third predetermined values; and determining a value of regression (d) for the front surface as the maximum value among the first, second and third intermediate values of regression.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2012Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)Inventors: Matthieu Guillot, Carlos Rego, Hélène De Rossi
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Patent number: 9557578Abstract: Methods for determining a progressive ophthalmic lens are described, the lens comprising a near and a far vision area, a main meridian separating the lens into a nasal and a temporal area. The method includes determining a first and a second surface of the lens, determining the second surface to provide, in combination with the first surface, vision correcting properties, and determining a spherical area on the first surface of the lens having a constant sphere value and including a far vision diopter measurement position. The far vision diopter measurement position and a near vision diopter measurement position have substantially the same mean sphere value. The method also includes determining the first surface to reduce the lens distortion by defining a toric area extending outside the spherical area on the first surface in at least one of the nasal and the temporal area, in which characteristics of the toric area are related to the lens astigmatism.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2013Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)Inventors: Jérôme Moine, Céline Benoit, Guillaume Broutin, Carlos Rego, Olivier Roussel