Patents by Inventor Hans-Juergen Dobschal

Hans-Juergen Dobschal 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: 11693241
    Abstract: An optical system for transmitting a source image includes a light guide, which defines a light transmission channel, an optical coupling arrangement and an optical decoupling arrangement, the coupling arrangement being designed to couple light emerging from the source image into the light guide arrangement in such a way that the light can propagate in the light guide arrangement by total reflection, and the decoupling arrangement being designed to decouple light that has propagated in the light guide arrangement from the light guide arrangement. The light guide arrangement comprises an optical deflection device, which, as viewed in the direction of propagation of the light in the light guide arrangement, is arranged between the coupling arrangement and the decoupling arrangement and is designed to deflect light ray bundles, emerging from the coupling arrangement at different beam angles and impinging divergently on the deflection device, in bundled manner towards the decoupling arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: tooz technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Hillenbrand, Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Artur Degen, Holger Muenz
  • Patent number: 11656432
    Abstract: A lens for a camera has a longitudinal axis, a focal length, an installation length in the direction of the longitudinal axis of less than 10 mm, a plurality of refractive optical elements and a stop with a maximum diameter. The focal length of the lens can be in the range of 25 mm to 6 mm, and the ratio of focal length to maximum diameter of the stop can be in the range of 1.4 to 8. At least one refractive optical element can be formed of a material with an Abbe number for which the absolute value of the difference between relative partial dispersion of the material and a normal relative partial dispersion at the Abbe number of the material is at least 0.05.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss AG
    Inventors: Friedrich Daniel Werdehausen, Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Markus Seesselberg
  • Patent number: 11624918
    Abstract: A spectacle lens for a display device that can be fitted on the head of a user and generate an image. A coupling-in section in an edge area of the spectacle lens and a coupling-out section in a central area of the spectacle lens. The spectacle lens is suitable for coupling light bundles of pixels of the generated image into the spectacle lens via the coupling-in section, guiding them in the spectacle lens to the coupling-out section and coupling them out of the spectacle lens via the coupling-out section. The coupling-in section can divide at least one of the light bundles into several first sub-bundles and couple them into the spectacle lens offset from each other in a first direction such that the first sub-bundles are guided in the spectacle lens to the coupling-out section along a second direction running transverse with respect to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: tooz technologies GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Juergen Dobschal
  • Patent number: 11573355
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus for smartglasses includes an image generator element arrangement having a number of image generator elements, on which a corresponding number of original partial images is represented, a number of imaging channels comprising in each case at least one image-forming reflection surface and/or at least one image-forming refraction surface, said number corresponding to the number of image generator elements, wherein each of the imaging channels is associated with one of the image generator elements and transmits one of the original partial images, and a spectacle lens, which is common to all imaging channels and via which the imaging channels are directed in the direction of an observer's eye. The image-forming reflection surfaces and/or refraction surfaces of the imaging channels are surfaces of a prism that is arranged on the spectacle lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: tooz technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Guenter Rudolph, Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Matthias Hillenbrand
  • Patent number: 11513354
    Abstract: A light guide for guiding light for an HMD includes at least one input coupling structure and at least one output coupling structure. The output coupling structure can be oriented such that for all the rays that are coupled out by the output coupling structure and for which the wave vector k has a negative ratio ky/kxz after they have been coupled out, the wave vector k in the light guide has a ratio of ky/kxz of greater than ?0.2, and/or that for all the rays that are coupled out by the output coupling structure and for which the wave vector k has a positive ratio ky/kxz after they have been coupled out, the wave vector k in the light guide has a ratio of ky/kxz of less than +0.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Singer, Matthias Hillenbrand, Hans-Juergen Dobschal
  • Publication number: 20220350145
    Abstract: An optical system includes a light guide to be worn in front of one eye, which guides light beams from the source image into the light guide and towards a reflective outcoupling arrangement, which couples the light beams out of the light guide to the eye. The outcoupling arrangement has a plurality of individual mirrors, which are spaced apart from one another in the light propagation direction. A first group of individual mirrors couples first light beams, which originate from a first imaging region, out of the light guide towards the eye, and at least one second group of individual mirrors couples second light beams, which originate from a second imaging region, out of the light guide towards the eye. The individual mirrors of the first group and the second group are each arranged alternating in the light propagation direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen DOBSCHAL, Matthias HILLENBRAND
  • Publication number: 20220260808
    Abstract: A lens for a camera has a longitudinal axis, a focal length, an installation length in the direction of the longitudinal axis of less than 10 mm, a plurality of refractive optical elements and a stop with a maximum diameter. The focal length of the lens can be in the range of 25 mm to 6 mm, and the ratio of focal length to maximum diameter of the stop can be in the range of 1.4 to 8. At least one refractive optical element can be formed of a material with an Abbe number for which the absolute value of the difference between relative partial dispersion of the material and a normal relative partial dispersion at the Abbe number of the material is at least 0.05.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Friedrich Daniel WERDEHAUSEN, Hans-Juergen DOBSCHAL, Markus SEESSELBERG
  • Patent number: 11253702
    Abstract: A device and a method, by means of which energy can be supplied to a retinal implant (12) via infrared radiation, are provided. To this end, infrared light is coupled in from an infrared light source (14), for example into a spectacle lens (13), and coupled out toward an eye (10) by way of an output coupling device (17) in order to illuminate the retinal implant (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS AG
    Inventors: Johannes Kindt, Hans-Juergen Dobschal
  • Patent number: 11187903
    Abstract: A light guide for an imaging apparatus for generating a virtual image from an initial image with at least two different initial image field regions is provided. The light guide includes an input coupling structure for coupling beams coming from the initial image into the light guide, and an extensive output coupling structure for coupling the beams that were coupled into the light guide out of the light guide. The extensive output coupling structure includes at least two partial faces. Each partial face is assigned to a different one of the initial image field regions and couples out the beams coming from the corresponding initial image field region. The partial faces of the output coupling structure are tilted about two non-parallel axes. The light guide can be part of an imaging apparatus, which can be used in particular in a head-mounted display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Karsten Lindig, Matthias Hillenbrand
  • Patent number: 11054651
    Abstract: A spectacle lens for an imaging optical unit for producing a virtual image of an output image presented on an image generator includes an inner surface facing the eye and an outer surface facing away from the eye, an input coupling section, and an output coupling structure. The imaging beam path is guided to the output coupling structure by way of reflections between the inner surface and the outer surface. A reflection surface having a concave curvature when seen from the interior of the spectacle lens is present between the input coupling section and the output coupling structure in the region of the inner surface and/or in the region of the outer surface. The curvature of said reflection surface differs from a basic curvature of the inner surface or of the outer surface of the spectacle lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: tooz technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Matthias Hillenbrand, Guenter Rudolph
  • Publication number: 20200379254
    Abstract: Marked-up version An optical system for transmitting a source image includes a light guide, which defines a light transmission channel, an optical coupling arrangement and an optical decoupling arrangement, the coupling arrangement being designed to couple light emerging from the source image into the light guide arrangement in such a way that the light can propagate in the light guide arrangement by total reflection, and the decoupling arrangement being designed to decouple light that has propagated in the light guide arrangement from the light guide arrangement. The light guide arrangement comprises an optical deflection device, which, as viewed in the direction of propagation of the light in the light guide arrangement, is arranged between the coupling arrangement and the decoupling arrangement and is designed to deflect light ray bundles, emerging from the coupling arrangement at different beam angles and impinging divergently on the deflection device, in bundled manner towards the decoupling arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Matthias HILLENBRAND, Hans-Juergen DOBSCHAL, Artur DEGEN, Holger MUENZ
  • Publication number: 20200355924
    Abstract: A light guide for an imaging apparatus for generating a virtual image from an initial image with at least two different initial image field regions is provided. The light guide includes an input coupling structure for coupling beams coming from the initial image into the light guide, and an extensive output coupling structure for coupling the beams that were coupled into the light guide out of the light guide. The extensive output coupling structure includes at least two partial faces. Each partial face is assigned to a different one of the initial image field regions and couples out the beams coming from the corresponding initial image field region. The partial faces of the output coupling structure are tilted about two non-parallel axes. The light guide can be part of an imaging apparatus, which can be used in particular in a head-mounted display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen DOBSCHAL, Karsten LINDIG, Matthias HILLENBRAND
  • Patent number: 10831031
    Abstract: A spectacle lens for a display device that can be fitted on the head of a user and generates an image, wherein the spectacle lens comprises a front side and a rear side, a coupling-in section and a coupling-out section spaced apart from the coupling-in section, which comprises several reflective deflecting surfaces arranged next to each other, which together form a reflective Fresnel surface, as well as a light-guiding channel which is suitable for guiding light bundles of pixels of the generated image, which are coupled into the spectacle lens via the coupling-in section of the spectacle lens, in the spectacle lens to the coupling-out section, by which they are coupled out of the spectacle lens, and wherein the distance of the reflective deflecting surfaces from the front side increases and/or decreases as the distance from the coupling-in section increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: tooz technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Guenter Rudolph, Hans-Juergen Dobschal
  • Patent number: 10831040
    Abstract: An ophthalmological optical element, in particular a spectacle lens, includes a first refractive optical substrate, which has a positive or negative first optical power; a first diffractive optical element, which has a second optical power; and a second diffractive optical element, which has a third optical power. The first diffractive optical element and the second diffractive optical element have opposite optical powers. The first diffractive optical element and the second diffractive optical element interact in an at least partly achromatic manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: tooz technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Karsten Lindig
  • Publication number: 20200278547
    Abstract: A light guide for guiding light for an HMD includes at least one input coupling structure and at least one output coupling structure. The output coupling structure can be oriented such that for all the rays that are coupled out by the output coupling structure and for which the wave vector k has a negative ratio ky/kxz after they have been coupled out, the wave vector k in the light guide has a ratio of ky/kxz of greater than ?0.2, and/or that for all the rays that are coupled out by the output coupling structure and for which the wave vector k has a positive ratio ky/kxz after they have been coupled out, the wave vector k in the light guide has a ratio of ky/kxz of less than +0.2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Wolfgang SINGER, Matthias HILLENBRAND, Hans-Juergen DOBSCHAL
  • Publication number: 20200241303
    Abstract: A spectacle lens for a display device that can be fitted on the head of a user and generate an image. A coupling-in section in an edge area of the spectacle lens and a coupling-out section in a central area of the spectacle lens. The spectacle lens is suitable for coupling light bundles of pixels of the generated image into the spectacle lens via the coupling-in section, guiding them in the spectacle lens to the coupling-out section and coupling them out of the spectacle lens via the coupling-out section. The coupling-in section can divide at least one of the light bundles into several first sub-bundles and couple them into the spectacle lens offset from each other in a first direction such that the first sub-bundles are guided in the spectacle lens to the coupling-out section along a second direction running transverse with respect to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventor: Hans-Juergen DOBSCHAL
  • Patent number: 10718956
    Abstract: In an eyeglass lens, an edge adjustment between an incoupling segment and an outcoupling structure can be provided by shaping of the inner surface. In the region of the eyeglass lens through which the eye looks for straight-ahead viewing, the inner surface substantially has a curvature that approximates the curvature of a typical inner surface of an eyeglass lens to such an extent that no perceptible optical imaging errors are induced by the inner surface when straight-ahead viewing. In the region of the edge adjustment, the inner surface has a shape that deviates to a greater extent from the curvature of the typical inner surface, which shape enables an imaging beam path coupled into the eyeglass lens by the incoupling segment to be directed to the outcoupling structure by reflections between the inner surface and the outer surface of the eyeglass lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: tooz technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Karsten Lindig, Ralf Meschenmoser, Timo Kratzer
  • Publication number: 20200192122
    Abstract: A spectacle lens for an imaging optical unit for producing a virtual image of an output image presented on an image generator includes an inner surface facing the eye and an outer surface facing away from the eye, an input coupling section, and an output coupling structure. The imaging beam path is guided to the output coupling structure by way of reflections between the inner surface and the outer surface. A reflection surface having a concave curvature when seen from the interior of the spectacle lens is present between the input coupling section and the output coupling structure in the region of the inner surface and/or in the region of the outer surface. The curvature of said reflection surface differs from a basic curvature of the inner surface or of the outer surface of the spectacle lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen DOBSCHAL, Matthias HILLENBRAND, Guenter RUDOLPH
  • Patent number: 10656420
    Abstract: A spectacle lens for a display device that can be fitted on the head of a user and generate an image. A coupling-in section in an edge area of the spectacle lens and a coupling-out section in a central area of the spectacle lens. The spectacle lens is suitable for coupling light bundles of pixels of the generated image into the spectacle lens via the coupling-in section, guiding them in the spectacle lens to the coupling-out section and coupling them out of the spectacle lens via the coupling-out section. The coupling-in section can divide at least one of the light bundles into several first sub-bundles and couple them into the spectacle lens offset from each other in a first direction such that the first sub-bundles are guided in the spectacle lens to the coupling-out section along a second direction running transverse with respect to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: tooz technologies GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Juergen Dobschal
  • Publication number: 20200116907
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus for smartglasses includes an image generator element arrangement having a number of image generator elements, on which a corresponding number of original partial images is represented, a number of imaging channels comprising in each case at least one image-forming reflection surface and/or at least one image-forming refraction surface, said number corresponding to the number of image generator elements, wherein each of the imaging channels is associated with one of the image generator elements and transmits one of the original partial images, and a spectacle lens, which is common to all imaging channels and via which the imaging channels are directed in the direction of an observer's eye. The image-forming reflection surfaces and/or refraction surfaces of the imaging channels are surfaces of a prism that is arranged on the spectacle lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Guenter RUDOLPH, Hans-Juergen DOBSCHAL, Matthias HILLENBRAND