Patents by Inventor Jean-Pierre Chauveau

Jean-Pierre Chauveau 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: 11543682
    Abstract: A method for evaluating an ophthalmic lens for a given wearer according to a visual performance parameter includes providing wearer's data for the given wearer. The method further includes providing a visual performance parameter tolerance range for the wearer. The method further includes providing an ophthalmic lens to be evaluated, the ophthalmic lens being characterized by opto-geometrical features. The method further includes computing a value of the visual performance parameter for the lens to be evaluated on the basis of a model. The method further includes evaluating the ophthalmic lens by comparing the computed value of the visual performance parameter with the visual performance parameter tolerance range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Pierre Bercher, Jean-Pierre Chauveau, Gilles Le Saux, Sebastien Fricker, Sebastien Maurice
  • Publication number: 20200241320
    Abstract: A method for evaluating an ophthalmic lens for a given wearer according to a visual performance parameter includes providing wearer's data for the given wearer. The method further includes providing a visual performance parameter tolerance range for the wearer. The method further includes providing an ophthalmic lens to be evaluated, the ophthalmic lens being characterized by opto-geometrical features. The method further includes computing a value of the visual performance parameter for the lens to be evaluated on the basis of a model. The method further includes evaluating the ophthalmic lens by comparing the computed value of the visual performance parameter with the visual performance parameter tolerance range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: Essilor International
    Inventors: Pierre BERCHER, Jean-Pierre CHAUVEAU, Gilles LE SAUX, Sebastien FRICKER, Sebastien MAURICE
  • Patent number: 10471566
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining location of a lens machining tool (24) having an offset location according to a first direction (Y) smaller than a first predetermined threshold, including the steps of manufacturing a calibration piece (10) according to a predetermined theoretical geometry by using the lens machining tool for providing a at least partially annular groove in a main surface of the calibration piece, the at least partially annular groove being configured to form at least one sharp edge defining a slope discontinuity on the main surface; measuring a distance between the at least one sharp edge and a turning center of the calibration piece for providing data of geometrical characteristics of the calibration piece; and deducing from the measured data a location of the lens machining tool according to a second direction (X) distinct from the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL
    Inventors: Xavier Bultez, Jerome Moine, Guillaume Bolteau, Jean-Pierre Chauveau
  • Patent number: 10401828
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for deducing geometrical defects of an optical article turning machine, including a defect value deducing step, during which at least one geometrical defect value is deduced based at least on an indicative information of an optical and/or geometrical data related to an optical and/or geometrical characteristic of a checking piece (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL
    Inventors: Xavier Bultez, Jerome Moine, Guillaume Bolteau, Jean-Pierre Chauveau
  • Patent number: 10261341
    Abstract: Method for determining the feasibility of an ophthalmic lens by an ophthalmic lens manufacturing process comprising: an ophthalmic lens data providing step, a set of surface parameters providing step, an optical parameters providing step during which a set of n optical parameters (P1, P2, . . . , Pn) is provided, n being an integer greater than or equal to 1, each optical parameter Pi being provided with a tolerance value ?i, —a feasibility check determining step, during which the feasibility of the ophthalmic lens by the ophthalmic lens manufacturing process is determined by determining if for i from 1 to n: - ? i ? [ ? j = 1 m ? ( ? P i ? ? j ) 0 × ? ? ? ? j ] + A i ? ? i with ? ? ( ? P i ? ? j ) 0 the value of the derivative of Pi with respect to the jth surface parameter ?j on the nominal surface and ??j the value of the jth surface parameter and Ai a combination of terms of order greater or equal to 2 for each Pi.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Pascal Allione, Jean-Pierre Chauveau, Daniel Steigelmann
  • Publication number: 20170235295
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for deducing geometrical defects of an optical article turning machine, including a defect value deducing step, during which at least one geometrical defect value is deduced based at least on an indicative information of an optical and/or geometrical data related to an optical and/or geometrical characteristic of a checking piece (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Xavier BULTEZ, Jerome MOINE, Guillaume BOLTEAU, Jean-Pierre CHAUVEAU
  • Publication number: 20170232575
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining location of a lens machining tool (24) having an offset location according to a first direction (Y) smaller than a first predetermined threshold, including the steps of manufacturing a calibration piece (10) according to a predetermined theoretical geometry by using the lens machining tool for providing a at least partially annular groove in a main surface of the calibration piece, the at least partially annular groove being configured to form at least one sharp edge defining a slope discontinuity on the main surface; measuring a distance between the at least one sharp edge and a turning center of the calibration piece for providing data of geometrical characteristics of the calibration piece; and deducing from the measured data a location of the lens machining tool according to a second direction (X) distinct from the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Xavier BULTEZ, Jerome MOINE, Guillaume BOLTEAU, Jean-Pierre CHAUVEAU
  • Patent number: 9671618
    Abstract: Method for determining the values of a set of n optical parameters (P1, P2, . . . , Pn) of an ophthalmic lens, n being an integer greater than or equal to 1, the method comprising: an nominal ophthalmic lens data providing step, an ophthalmic lens providing step, an optical surface measuring step, a surface errors determining step during which a set of m surface error parameters (?1, ?2, . . .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)
    Inventors: Pascal Allione, Jean-Pierre Chauveau, Daniel Steigelman
  • Patent number: 9482884
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for determining an ophthalmic lens. In one implementation, three-dimensional coordinates of a center of rotation of the wearer's eye measured on the wearer in binocular vision are received. At least one direction of gaze measured in a natural posture and a determined position of the ophthalmic lens are received. Characteristics of the ophthalmic lens are calculated by using the coordinates measured for the center of rotation of the eye, the determined position of the lens, and the at least one direction of gaze measured in a natural posture. The characteristics of the ophthalmic lens are calculated by positioning a starting ophthalmic lens in the determined position and modifying the starting ophthalmic lens by wavefront analysis and/or optimizing using ray tracing dependent on the coordinates measured for the center of rotation of the eye and the determined position of the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GÉNÉRALE D'OPTIQUE)
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Chauveau, Frederic Dubois, Cyril Guilloux, Melanie Tessieres, Helene De Rossi
  • Publication number: 20160274376
    Abstract: Method for determining the feasibility of an ophthalmic lens by an ophthalmic lens manufacturing process comprising: an ophthalmic lens data providing step, a set of surface parameters providing step, an optical parameters providing step during which a set of n optical parameters (P1, P2, . . . , Pn) is provided, n being an integer greater than or equal to 1, each optical parameter Pi being provided with a tolerance value ?i, —a feasibility check determining step, during which the feasibility of the ophthalmic lens by the ophthalmic lens manufacturing process is determined by determining if for i from 1 to n: - ? i ? [ ? j = 1 m ? ( ? P i ? ? j ) 0 × ? ? ? ? j ] + A i ? ? i with ? ? ( ? P i ? ? j ) 0 the value of the derivative of Pi with respect to the jth surface parameter ?j on the nominal surface and ??j the value of the jth surface parameter and Ai a combination of terms of order greater or equal to 2 for each Pi.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Pascal ALLIONE, Jean-Pierre CHAUVEAU, Daniel STEIGELMAN
  • Patent number: 9291522
    Abstract: Determining position parameters defining relative position of a manufactured derivable surface relative to a reference surface, the process comprising: providing a nominal surface expressed in a nominal frame of reference and corresponding to the theoretical derivable surface to be manufactured with the nominal value of the position parameters defining the relative position of the nominal surface relative to the reference surface, providing a measured surface of the manufactured derivable surface expressed in the nominal frame of reference, providing at least one deformation surface defined by at least one deformation adjustable parameter, determining a composed surface by adding the measured surface and the deformation surface, determining the position parameters and at least one deformation parameter by minimizing the difference between the nominal surface and the composed surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Chauveau, Pascal Allione, Daniel Steigelmann
  • Publication number: 20150309338
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of determining an ophthalmic lens for a wearer's eye, the method comprising the following steps: measurement, on the wearer in binocular vision, of the three-dimensional coordinates of the centre of rotation (COR) of the wearer's eye; measurement (10) of at least one viewing direction in a natural posture; determination of the desired position of the ophthalmic lens; calculation of the characteristics of the ophthalmic lens using the measured coordinates and the determined position and the measured direction in the natural posture. Measuring the position of the centre of rotation of the eye in binocular vision ensures that the lens obtained is best adapted for the wearer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Chauveau, Frederic Dubois, Cyril Guilloux, Christian Joncour, Melanie Tessieres, Helene De Rossi
  • Publication number: 20150286069
    Abstract: Method for determining the values of a set of n optical parameters (P1, P2, . . . , Pn) of an ophthalmic lens, n being an integer greater than or equal to 1, the method comprising: an nominal ophthalmic lens data providing step, an ophthalmic lens providing step, an optical surface measuring step, a surface errors determining step during which a set of m surface error parameters (?1, ?2, . . .
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Pascal Allione, Jean-Pierre Chauveau, Daniel Steigelman
  • Publication number: 20140085627
    Abstract: Determining position parameters defining relative position of manufactured derivable surface relative to reference surface, the process comprising: a step during which a nominal surface expressed in a nominal frame of reference and corresponding to the theoretical derivable surface to be manufactured with the nominal value of the position parameters defining the relative position of the nominal surface relative to the reference surface is provided, a step during which a measured surface of the manufactured derivable surface expressed in the nominal frame of reference is provided, a step (S3) during which at least one deformation surface defined by at least one deformation adjustable parameter is provided, a step (S4) during which a composed surface is determined by adding the measured surface and the deformation surface, a step during which the position parameters and at least one deformation parameter are determined by minimizing the difference between the nominal surface and the composed surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Chauveau, Pascal Allione, Daniel Steigelmann
  • Publication number: 20130218533
    Abstract: A method of calculating an optical system (OS), the optical system (OS) being identified by a function (OF), the optical system (OS) having a first part (F1) defined by a first equation (EF1) and a second part (F2) defined by a second equation (EF2), the method performed by: a generating step (GEN), in which a virtual optical system (VOS) is used to generate a virtual function (VOF); a modification step (MOD), in which the virtual function (VOF) is modified so as obtain the function (OF); a calculation step (CAL), in which the second equation (EF2) is calculated from the function (OF), and the first equation (EF1). A method of manufacturing an optical system (OS) is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Inventors: Pascal Allione, Gilles Le Saux, Jean-Pierre Chauveau, Denis Mazuet
  • Patent number: 8506078
    Abstract: A method includes: a) defining position-identification elements for identifying the position of a first frame of reference associated with a wearer's head in a second frame of reference associated with an image-capture device and for identifying the angle of inclination of the first frame of reference in the sagittal plane of the wearer's head about a center of rotation of the head; b) capturing a series of at least two images of the wearer's head; c) determining, in the second frame of reference, a position of the center of rotation; d) identifying, in each image, the image of a first anatomical point of the wearer's face; e) determining, in each image, the angle of inclination relative to a reference plane of an anatomical plane that is perpendicular to the sagittal plane and that contains the center of rotation and the first anatomical point; f) comparing the angle with a predetermined value; and g) determining the geometrical-and-postural parameter as a function of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Chauveau, Konogan Baranton, Claude Pedrono
  • Patent number: 8447573
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of calculating an optical system (OS), the optical system (OS) being identified by a function (OF), the optical system (OS) comprising a first part (F1) defined by a first equation (EF1) and a second part (F2) defined by a second equation (EF2), the method comprising: —a generating step (GEN), in which a virtual optical system (VOS) is used to generate a virtual function (VOF); —a modification step (MOD), in which the virtual function (VOF) is modified so as obtain the function (OF); —a calculation step (CAL), in which the second equation (EF2) is calculated from the function (OF), and the first equation (EF1). The invention relates also to a method of manufacturing an optical system (OS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)
    Inventors: Pascal Allione, Gilles Le Saux, Jean-Pierre Chauveau, Denis Mazuet
  • Patent number: 8360580
    Abstract: The present invention relates in general to taking geometrico-morphological measurements on a subject. More particularly, the invention relates to a method of measuring the position of a remarkable point of the subject's eye. The method includes amongst others, the steps of capturing images in different relative postures (APIV1, APIV2, (O1,X1,Y1,Z1), (O2,X2,Y2,Z2)) of a subject, identifying reference points of the eye ((RCG1, RCD1), (RCG2, RCD2)), and calculating the remarkable point (CROD, CROG) as a function of the captured images. The values of the posture parameter (APIV) are obtained by a position-identification element (60, 70, 80, 700, 800) having at least one known geometrical characteristic that is placed on the subject's head. Each captured image contains a representation of the position-identification element (60, 70, 80, 700, 800). The posture parameter is thus calculated as a function of these images and of the known geometrical characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)
    Inventor: Jean-Pierre Chauveau
  • Patent number: 8220922
    Abstract: A device and method for determining under wearing conditions at least one component of the orientation of a correcting ophthalmic lens of eyeglasses relative to the head of a future wearer. Provision is made for mounting a position-identification system (20) on the frame (10) and/or on a presentation lens fitted to the frame, which system includes at least one identification element (60, 70, 80) having at least one known geometrical characteristic, for capturing the image of the identification element in two dimensions in a vertical facial plane, for processing the captured image to measure the captured geometrical characteristic of the image of the identification element that depends on the known geometrical characteristic of the identification element, and for calculating at least one component of the orientation of the lens by comparing the captured geometrical characteristic with the known geometrical characteristic. A method of optically designing the correcting lens is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Chauveau, Fabienne Lievois
  • Patent number: 8118642
    Abstract: A method for machining a face (1) of an optical object (6), includes providing a machine tool which itself includes a bed (1) for locating an object to be machined. The bed (1) has a receiving surface (3) that is angularly adjustable about an axis perpendicular to the receiving surface (3). A spindle (8) is suitable for rotating a machining tool (9) about an axis essentially parallel to the receiving surface (3) of the bed (1) and is suitable for moving the machining tool (9) translationally in a plane essentially parallel or perpendicular to the receiving surface (3) of the bed (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Alain Coulon, Jean-Pierre Chauveau, Alain Dubois