Patents by Inventor Dietmar Uttenweiler

Dietmar Uttenweiler 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: 20210048686
    Abstract: A method for determining the defective vision of an eye of a spectacle wearer, corresponding computer program products, spectacle glass production methods and devices. Also, a spectacle glass or a spectacle glass series. The method for determining the defective vision of an eye of a spectacle wearer includes: providing measurement values from a first and a second measurement of the defective vision of the eye of the spectacle wearer; and calculating an estimated value for the defective vision of the eye of the spectacle wearer on the basis of the measurement values from the first and the second measurement, measurement inaccuracies from the first and the second measurements of the defective vision being taken into account in the calculation of the estimated value of the defective vision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Adam Muschielok, Helmut Altheimer, Wolfgang Becken, Gregor Esser, Dietmar Uttenweiler
  • Patent number: 10337953
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for determining surface data and/or measurement data relating to a surface, for the quality control of an at least a partially transparent object, an ophthalmic lens, having an optically active first surface and an opposite optically active second surface. The method includes irradiating polarized light with an irradiation polarization from at least one illumination device onto an analysis area of the object to be examined, wherein, for the purpose of setting the irradiation polarization, the light is passed through a polarizer assigned to the illumination device or integrated in the latter, and receiving light which is reflected at the first and/or second surface and has an analysis polarization by use of at least one receiving device, wherein the light is passed through an analyzer assigned to the receiving device or integrated in the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: RODENSTOCK GMBH
    Inventors: Stephan Trumm, Rainer Sessner, Dietmar Uttenweiler
  • Publication number: 20180058977
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for determining surface data and/or measurement data relating to a surface, for the quality control of an at least a partially transparent object, an ophthalmic lens, having an optically active first surface and an opposite optically active second surface. The method includes irradiating polarized light with an irradiation polarization from at least one illumination device onto an analysis area of the object to be examined, wherein, for the purpose of setting the irradiation polarization, the light is passed through a polariser assigned to the illumination device or integrated in the latter, and receiving light which is reflected at the first and/or second surface and has an analysis polarization by use of at least one receiving device, wherein the light is passed through an analyser assigned to the receiving device or integrated in the latter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: RODENSTOCK GMBH
    Inventors: Stephan TRUMM, Rainer SESSNER, Dietmar UTTENWEILER
  • Patent number: 9835875
    Abstract: Method for assessing an optical property of kth order of an optical element at an evaluation point. The optical element has a boundary surface formed of a refractive base surface and a phase-modifying optical element. The method includes determining the properties of a wavefront in the local surrounding of the evaluation point by means of a local wavefront tracing, and determining the optical property at the evaluation point based on the properties of the wavefront in the local surrounding of the evaluation point, wherein the local wavefront tracing has a local wavefront tracing upon passage through the boundary surface, and the local wavefront tracing upon passage through the boundary surface is performed according to the equation for the local wavefront tracing through the refractive base surface, the equation being supplemented by an additive additional term PK(k).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Becken, Gregor Esser, Helmut Altheimer, Edda Wehner, Stephan Trumm, Rainer Sessner, Dietmar Uttenweiler
  • Patent number: 9733491
    Abstract: Method for calculating or optimizing a spectacle lens, including specifying at least one surface for the spectacle lens to be calculated or optimized; determining the course of a main ray through at least one visual point of the at least one surface; determining a first primary set and a second primary set of coefficients of the local aberration of a local wavefront; specifying at least one function which assigns a second secondary set of coefficients to a second primary set of coefficients, said second secondary set of coefficients defining the higher-order aberration of a propagated wavefront; determining a higher-order aberration of a local wavefront propagated starting from the at least one visual point along the main ray depending on at least the second primary set of coefficients on the basis of the specified function; and calculating or optimizing the at least one surface of the spectacle lens based on the determined higher-order aberration of the propagated local wavefront.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Gregor Esser, Helmut Altheimer, Wolfgang Becken, Dietmar Uttenweiler
  • Patent number: 9638935
    Abstract: Method for optimization of a progressive spectacle lens, including: defining a starting nominal astigmatism distribution for the spectacle lens; determining a transformed nominal astigmatism distribution and optimizing the spectacle lens on the basis of the transformed nominal astigmatism distribution, wherein the determination of a transformed nominal astigmatism distribution comprises multiplication of the maximum temporal nominal astigmatism of the starting nominal astigmatism distribution by a factor k as a result of which a modified maximum temporal astigmatism is obtained, wherein k is a function of a prescription value, and/or at least of one parameter of the spectacle lens or of the arrangement thereof in front of the eyes, and transformation of the starting nominal astigmatism distribution on the basis of the modified maximum temporal astigmatism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Altheimer, Robert Kaster, Martin Zimmermann, Wolfgang Becken, Gregor Esser, Dietmar Uttenweiler, Andrea Welk
  • Patent number: 9354455
    Abstract: A method and device for calculating design parameters of a design of a progressive spectacle lens on the basis of a predetermined design polygon. The design parameters are calculated by specifying a point within the design polygon, in which the specified point defines the progressive spectacle lens design, and then determining a value of each design parameter at the specified point by an interpolation of at least part of the predetermined values at the corner points and, optionally, of at least part of the predetermined values of the design parameter at the at least one additional point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Altheimer, Wolfgang Becken, Gregor Esser, Dietmar Uttenweiler, Andrea Welk, Jochen Brosig, Christina Butz, Nadine Jung, Katrin Nicke, Ilka Schwarz, Robert Bichler, Martin Zimmermann, Werner Mueller, Hans Stetter
  • Patent number: 9176330
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and a device for optimizing an optical element comprising at least one diffraction grating, wherein at least one refractive surface contributing to the refractive light deflection and/or the at least one diffraction grating of the optical element are/is optimized in such a way as to minimize the color fringe and at least a second-order aberration of the optical element. Also, a corresponding production method and a corresponding device for producing an optical element comprising at least one diffraction grating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Becken, Gregor Esser, Helmut Altheimer, Werner Mueller, Dietmar Uttenweiler
  • Patent number: 9176331
    Abstract: Method for optimization of a progressive spectacle lens, which method comprises: defining a starting nominal astigmatism distribution for the spectacle lens; determining a transformed nominal astigmatism distribution and optimizing the spectacle lens on the basis of the transformed nominal astigmatism distribution, wherein the determination of a transformed nominal astigmatism distribution comprises multiplication of the maximum temporal nominal astigmatism of the starting nominal astigmatism distribution by a factor k as a result of which a modified maximum temporal astigmatism is obtained, wherein k is a function of a prescription value, and/or at least of one parameter of the spectacle lens or of the arrangement thereof in front of the eyes, and transformation of the starting nominal astigmatism distribution on the basis of the modified maximum temporal astigmatism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Altheimer, Robert Kaster, Martin Zimmermann, Wolfgang Becken, Gregor Esser, Dietmar Uttenweiler, Andrea Welk
  • Patent number: 9022560
    Abstract: A method for producing a series of base lenses, which cover a predetermined power range, wherein each base lens of the series has a base power different from the base powers of the other base lenses of the series, and has at least one diffractive base grating, the method comprising: specifying the base powers of each base lens of the series and calculating the base grating of each base lens of the series so as to minimize the color fringe of the respective base lens with the specified base power in a predetermined region of the spectacle lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Becken, Gregor Esser, Helmut Altheimer, Edda Wehner, Stephan Trumm, Werner Mueller, Dietmar Uttenweiler
  • Publication number: 20150116657
    Abstract: Method for optimization of a progressive spectacle lens, which method comprises: defining a starting nominal astigmatism distribution for the spectacle lens; determining a transformed nominal astigmatism distribution and optimizing the spectacle lens on the basis of the transformed nominal astigmatism distribution, wherein the determination of a transformed nominal astigmatism distribution comprises multiplication of the maximum temporal nominal astigmatism of the starting nominal astigmatism distribution by a factor k as a result of which a modified maximum temporal astigmatism is obtained, wherein k is a function of a prescription value, and/or at least of one parameter of the spectacle lens or of the arrangement thereof in front of the eyes, and transformation of the starting nominal astigmatism distribution on the basis of the modified maximum temporal astigmatism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Helmut Altheimer, Robert Kaster, Martin Zimmermann, Wolfgang Becken, Gregor Esser, Dietmar Uttenweiler, Andrea Welk
  • Patent number: 8998409
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for creating a progressive spectacle lens design by transforming a starting design. The starting design is defined to include specification of a principal line, specifications for target astigmatism values A(u=0,y) along the principal line, and specifications for the course of a base target isoastigmatism line, which is described by a one-dimensional function of the form uG(y)=ƒ(y). The method and apparatus transform the starting design by modifying the course of the base target isoastigmatism line uG(y)?u?G(y), and calculating the target astigmatism values A(u,y) of the spectacle lens design by an interpolation between the target astigmatism values A(u=0,y) on the principal line and the target astigmatism values A(u?G(y),y) on the modified base target isoastigmatism line. Furthermore, the method and apparatus are provided to create the spectacle lens for the wearer on the basis of the progressive spectacle lens design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Altheimer, Wolfgang Becken, Gregor Esser, Dietmar Uttenweiler
  • Patent number: 8992014
    Abstract: Optimization and production of a spectacle lens for a specific wearing situation for correcting at least one astigmatic refraction of an eye of a spectacles wearer, which in a reference viewing direction of the eye has a cylinder reference value and a cylinder reference axis, comprising: specifying an object distance for at least one evaluation point of the spectacle lens; determining a transformed astigmatic refraction for the at least one evaluation point of the spectacle lens from the cylinder reference value and the cylinder reference axis depending on the specified object distance; and optimizing the spectacle lens such that for the at least one evaluation point a correction of the transformed astigmatic refraction by the spectacle lens in the specific wearing situation is taken into consideration, wherein determining the transformed astigmatic refraction comprises determining a transformed cylinder value and/or a transformed cylinder axis depending on the specified object distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Gregor Esser, Wolfgang Becken, Helmut Altheimer, Andrea Welk, Anne Seidemann, Edda Wehner, Werner Mueller, Dietmar Uttenweiler
  • Patent number: 8960902
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing a first spectacle lens of a pair of spectacle lenses to be used with a second spectacle lens for a specific situation of wear, in which optical parameters for the spectacle lens are calculated to minimize the value of a target function that corresponds to the pair of spectacle lenses. The target function is the sum of a first monocular function, with a weighting factor, that depends on the values of a first monocular optical property at a plurality of monocular evaluation points, a the binocular function, with a weighting factor, that depends on the values of a second monocular optical property at the plurality of pairs of binocular evaluation points, and a remainder term.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Becken, Gregor Esser, Helmut Altheimer, Dietmar Uttenweiler
  • Patent number: 8915589
    Abstract: Optimizing a spectacle lens by: obtaining prescription or refraction data VA11 and VA12 of a wearer for at least two different object distances A11 and A12 (A11?A12), comprising data relating to a spherical power Sphv, a magnitude of an astigmatism CylV, and an astigmatism axis AxisV; specifying an object distance model A1(x, y), wherein A1 designates the object distance and (x, y) designates a visual spot or visual point of the spectacle lens in a predetermined direction of sight; specifying a function PRef=ƒ(A1), which describes the dependence of a power vector P Ref = ( M Ref J 0 Ref J 45 Ref ) = ( Sph V + Cyl V 2 - Cyl V 2 ? cos ? ? 2 ? ? Axis V J 45 Ref = - Cyl V 2 ? sin ? ? 2 ? ? Axis V ) of the prescription on the object distance A1, determining the components of the power vector PRef of the prescription in a plurality of visual points (x, y) on the basis of the object distance model A1(x,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Gregor Esser, Helmut Altheimer, Wolfgang Becken, Andrea Welk, Dietmar Uttenweiler
  • Patent number: 8888280
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for creating a progressive spectacle lens design by transforming a starting design. The starting design is defined to include specifications for the course of a principal line and specification of at least one base target isoastigmatism line with a constant base target astigmatism, in which the base target isoastigmatism line passes through a first predetermined control point {right arrow over (r)}1=(u1,y1). The method and apparatus transform the starting design by shifting the first control point {right arrow over (r)}1=(u1,y1) along a predetermined or predeterminable curve, taking into account the design and/or the spectacle lens wearer-specific data; modifying the course of the base target isoastigmatism line such that it passes through the shifted first control point {right arrow over (r)}?1(u?1,y?1); and calculating a target astigmatism distribution A(u,y), which exhibits the modified base target isoastigmatism line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Altheimer, Wolfgang Becken, Gregor Esser, Dietmar Uttenweiler, Andrea Welk
  • Patent number: 8888281
    Abstract: A method, a system and a computer program product are provide for optimizing a spectacle lens for a wearer with a selectable quality grade. In particular, a set of individual parameters is determined for the wearer and a desired quality grade is identified. Depending the identified quality grade, the set of individual parameters is adapted and a surface of the spectacle lens is calculated based on the adapted set of individual parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Altheimer, Wolfgang Becken, Gregor Esser, Dietmar Uttenweiler, Martin Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 8840245
    Abstract: An individual spectacle lens design for a progressive spectacle lens exhibiting an individual vertical position of the distance and/or the near reference points, which can be variably adjusted, is calculated. A starting design exhibiting a predefined vertical position of the distance and/or the near reference points is determined; the individual spectacle lens design is calculated having the desired, individual vertical position of the distance and/or near reference points. The calculation of the individual spectacle lens design includes calculating the target value for the spatial distribution of at least one optical property of the individual spectacle lens by a mapping and a transform, where the starting design has a corresponding target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Altheimer, Wolfgang Becken, Gregor Esser, Dietmar Uttenweiler
  • Patent number: 8805612
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for calculation of the local magnification and/or the local distortion of a spectacle lens in at least one predetermined or predeterminable viewing direction, with the spectacle lens being designed to correct a refraction deficit of an eye, and having at least one object-side surface and one second eye-side surface, comprising the following steps: Calculation for the predetermined or predeterminable viewing direction of the profile of a main beam which originates from a predetermined or predeterminable infinitesimally small object and, after refraction by the spectacle lens, passes through the rotation point of the eye, through the entrance pupil of the eye or through the principal plane of the eye; determination of the main curvatures and directions of a local wavefront associated with the main beam on refraction by the spectacle lens; calculation of the local magnification and/or the local distortion of the spectacle lens from the determined main curvatures and directions o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Becken, Gregor Esser, Helmut Altheimer, Dietmar Uttenweiler
  • Patent number: 8757800
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method, a computer program product and a system for designing or producing a spectacle lens for a spectacle wearer. Said method consists of the following steps: individual user data or application data of the spectacle wearer is obtained; the design concept for the spectacle lens having a plurality of evaluation points is determined; a main beam path through the plurality of evaluation points is determined; a local wavefront is specified for each of the main beams in the surroundings of the respective main beam; optical properties of the spectacle lens are determined on the evaluation points by determining an influence of the spectacle lens on the local wavefronts in the surroundings of the respective evaluation point; and the design concept is evaluated in accordance with the determined optical properties and the individual user data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Gregor Esser, Wolfgang Becken, Helmut Altheimer, Anne Seidemann, Dietmar Uttenweiler, Werner Mueller, Edda Wehner