Patents by Inventor Detlef Biernat

Detlef Biernat 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: 20060170866
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a device for examining the eye, preferably the fundus of the eye, by an optical system and electronic sensors for image recording in different imaging scales. In the device according to the invention, at least two image recording sensors with different shape factors are swivelably arranged in the imaging plane of the device. These image recording sensors have optically active surfaces of different geometric sizes, an approximately identical number of pixels and preferably the same electronic control and evaluation. The invention described herein requires no additional objectives and the optical adjustment is limited to an individual rigid objective. An exact alignment of the image recording sensors in the imaging plane and manufacturing tolerances can be compensated by adapting the image section by means of software. It is particularly advantageous that the imaging scale is influenced without changing the optical parameters of the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Inventors: Thomas Mohr, Detlef Biernat
  • Patent number: 4735487
    Abstract: An apparatus for analyzing two-dimensional input objects comprising an illumination system including a lighting unit, a Fourier transform module and a receiver unit. The lighting unit generates an incoherent illuminating beam of predetermined form and area, for what purpose the lighting unit may include a self-luminous mask or an incoherently illuminated mask. A receiver unit comprises a single detector which is arranged in the optical axis of the Fourier transform plane of the Fourier transform module. The exit of the lighting unit is located on the optical axis and is imaged by the subsequent imaging optical elements (inclusive of the Fourier transform module) at the Fourier transform plane of the Fourier transform module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1988
    Assignee: Jenoptik Jena GmbH
    Inventors: Gunter Thorwirth, Detlef Biernat, Gerhard Kuehn