Patents by Inventor Frank Teige

Frank Teige 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: 8967806
    Abstract: A fundus camera for the recording of high-resolution color images of the fundus of non-dark-adapted eyes, and without the use of a mydriatic. The fundus camera has a strip-shaped pupil division, and includes a coherent or incoherent illumination source with illumination optics, a deflection mirror and an ophthalmoscope lens for illuminating the eye, detection optics and a detector for detecting the light reflected by the eye, and a control and evaluation unit. The deflection mirror has a strip shape, and the spatially resolving detector can be activated and read out in sectors. The control and evaluation unit connects the data read out in sectors in the form of a bright image from the detector and produce a resulting fundus image. The fundus camera records images of the fundus when the eyes are not dark-adapted for this purpose and no mydriatic has been used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Daniel Bublitz, Lothar Müller, Uwe Mohrholz, Thomas Mohr, Frank Teige
  • Patent number: 8542273
    Abstract: An ophthalmic device and an arrangement for generating images with expanded dynamic range and a corresponding method for generating images with expanded dynamic range have at least one beamsplitter, in particular with an asymmetric splitting ratio, and at least two image sensors, wherein the image sensors are reflected into a common imaging beam path by the at least one beamsplitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Uwe Mohrholz, Frank Teige, Detlef Biernat
  • Publication number: 20130222763
    Abstract: A fundus camera for the recording of high-resolution colour images of the fundus of non-dark-adapted eyes, and without the use of a mydriatic. The fundus camera has a strip-shaped pupil division, and includes a coherent or incoherent illumination source with illumination optics, a deflection mirror and an ophthalmoscope lens for illuminating the eye, detection optics and a detector for detecting the light reflected by the eye, and a control and evaluation unit. The deflection mirror has a strip shape, and the spatially resolving detector can be activated and read out in sectors. The control and evaluation unit connects the data read out in sectors in the form of a bright image from the detector and produce a resulting fundus image. The fundus camera records images of the fundus when the eyes are not dark-adapted for this purpose and no mydriatic has been used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
    Inventors: Daniel Bublitz, Lothar Müller, Uwe Mohrholz, Thomas Mohr, Frank Teige
  • Publication number: 20100201799
    Abstract: An ophthalmic device and an arrangement for generating images with expanded dynamic range and a corresponding method for generating images with expanded dynamic range have at least one beamsplitter, in particular with an asymmetric splitting ratio, and at least two image sensors, wherein the image sensors are reflected into a common imaging beam path by the at least one beamsplitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2008
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Inventors: Uwe Mohrholz, Frank Teige, Detlef Biernat
  • Patent number: 7726815
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for observing the ocular fundus, in particular to a fundus camera. Said device comprises a light source (1b) for the provision of illumination radiation, an illumination optical path for directing the illumination radiation onto the ocular fundus and observation optics for reproducing the illuminated ocular fundus, the observation optics comprising a module (16b), whose refractive power can be electrically adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Frank Teige, Detlef Biernat, Lothar Mueller
  • Publication number: 20090245602
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a solution for ophthalmologic diagnostics in which stereo images of the human fundus are evaluated. The device according to the invention comprises a plane-parallel plate of known thickness which is arranged in front of the front objective of an ophthalmologic device, an adjusting mechanism, an image recording device, and a control unit. The plane-parallel plate can occupy any angular positions. After determining an optimal deflection angle ?opt, the plane-parallel plate is moved into the other optimal position ??opt, and an image of the fundus is recorded in both positions by the image recording device and is stored in the storage of the control unit for evaluation and/or archiving. While the proposed solution is preferably provided for fundus cameras, it can also be used in principle for other ophthalmologic devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2006
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Frank Teige, Detlef Biernat
  • Publication number: 20090096986
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an optoelectronic unit for directing the eye gaze of the patient during examination or documentation of the fundus of the eye. The solution according to the invention for internal eye gaze guidance in fundus cameras provides a spatial light modulator for generating the fixation mark comprising imaging optics by which the displayed fixation mark is imaged on the eye fundus by a semitransparent mirror arranged in an observation beam path and via a swivel mirror arranged in a documentation beam path. The spatial light modulator is connected by a control unit to an actuating element for positioning the fixation mark. The device, which is preferably provided for fundus cameras, can facilitate the diagnosis of diseases of the eye fundus in that the documented recordings can be exactly reproduced and therefore exactly compared. In particular, the tracking and presentation of the course of diseases can be improved in this way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2006
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
    Inventors: Frank Teige, Detlef Biernat
  • Publication number: 20080030682
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for observing the ocular fundus, in particular to a fundus camera. Said device comprises a light source (1b) for the provision of illumination radiation, an illumination optical path for directing the illumination radiation onto the ocular fundus and observation optics for reproducing the illuminated ocular fundus, the observation optics comprising a module (16b), whose refractive power can be electrically adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2006
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Inventors: Frank Teige, Detlef Biernat, Lothar Mueller
  • Publication number: 20070030448
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an optical device for the observation and documentation of the ocular fundus and is preferably provided for fundus cameras. In order to generate a uniform illumination of the fundus by transillumination of the sclera in the illumination unit, according to the invention, for fundus cameras and/or ophthalmoscopes, the light emitted by the illumination source is coupled into individual light-conducting fibers or bundles of light-conducting fibers which extend into the area of the front lens of the fundus camera and ophthalmoscope and whose fiber ends are formed in such a way that the exiting light is projected on and transilluminates the sclera. The discomfort caused to the patient by pupil-dilating means is avoided as are the risks associated with the placement of contact lenses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2004
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Inventors: Detlef Biernat, Uwe Mohrholz, Frank Teige
  • Patent number: 5914770
    Abstract: An ophthalmological examination device, especially a slit lamp or a fundus camera, for observing a patient's eye, with at least one image recording unit such as a video camera or a CCD-chip for recording at least a part of the image of the eye generated by the examination device, and with a device for transmitting the electric signals of the video camera or CCD-chip to an image generating unit connected with the head of the observer.In an advantageous manner, it is possible to superimpose on a first image generated from the electric signals of an image recording unit additional information generated by a computer via the image generating unit, at least for one eye of the observer, and/or to display a second image to the observer, which second image is modified with respect to color, contrast or other image features, as an additional image superimposed on the other respective eye or on the first image for one or both eyes of the observer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1999
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Bergner, Klaus-Ditmar Voigt, Frank Teige, Ingo Koschmieder