Patents by Inventor Ho Wa LAI

Ho Wa LAI 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: 20230404399
    Abstract: An adaptor (100) which may be attached to a portable image capturing device (19) and a method of capturing images of a retina (2) of an eye (1). The adaptor (100) may comprises an illumination unit (110), a beam splitter (130), an objective lens system (140) and a secondary lens system (150). The objective lens system (140) and the secondary lens system (150) share a first optical axis (160). By offsetting an output aperture (108) of the adaptor (100), or offsetting a camera of the image capturing device (19), from the first optical axis (160) and/or offsetting the illumination unit (110) from a second optical axis (170), overlap of imaging and illumination pathways in the eye (1) may be reduced or eliminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: C-MER RAINSOPTICS LIMITED
    Inventor: Ho Wa LAI
  • Patent number: 10595724
    Abstract: An adaptor for attachment to an image acquisition device, the image acquisition device having one or more camera apertures for enabling capture of one or more images entering the image acquisition device via the one or more camera apertures. The adaptor has a housing defining a passage along which light waves may travel, an objective lens arrangement within the passage, a secondary lens arrangement within the passage positioned such that, when the adaptor is attached to an image acquisition device, the secondary lens arrangement is along a possible light pathway between the objective lens arrangement and one or more camera apertures. The lens arrangements are together configured to magnify an image of a pupil of the eye in proximity to a plane of one or more camera apertures and to focus light waves from a light source at a point external of the adaptor and offset from the optical axis of the objective lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Inventor: Ho Wa Lai
  • Publication number: 20190038132
    Abstract: An adaptor for attachment to an image acquisition device, the image acquisition device having one or more camera apertures for enabling capture of one or more images entering the image acquisition device via the one or more camera apertures. The adaptor has a housing defining a passage along which light waves may travel, an objective lens arrangement within the passage, a secondary lens arrangement within the passage positioned such that, when the adaptor is attached to an image acquisition device, the secondary lens arrangement is along a possible light pathway between the objective lens arrangement and one or more camera apertures. The lens arrangements are together configured to magnify an image of a pupil of the eye in proximity to a plane of one or more camera apertures and to focus light waves from a light source at a point external of the adaptor and offset from the optical axis of the objective lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventor: Ho Wa LAI