Patents by Inventor Jochen Brosig

Jochen Brosig 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: 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: 8560285
    Abstract: A fast and efficient method for calculating or producing a spectacle lens design, as well as a method for manufacturing a spectacle lens according to the thus calculated spectacle lens design. Furthermore, a corresponding device is provided for manufacturing a spectacle lens, as well as corresponding computer program products and storage media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Altheimer, Wolfgang Becken, Robert Bichler, Gregor Esser, Martin Zimmermann, Jochen Brosig, Dietmar Uttenweiler
  • Patent number: 8303113
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a progressive spectacle lens and to a corresponding apparatus, a computer program product, a storage medium and to the use of a progressive spectacle lens. The invention also relates to a method for producing a progressive spectacle lens for correcting defective vision of a spectacle wearer, comprising the following steps: the vertical and/or the horizontal spatial position of a distance reference point and/or a near reference point is specified or determined in accordance with individual data of the spectacle wearer; the spectacle lens is optimized or calculated such that the required dioptric effect of the spectacle lens is obtained in the individually determined distance reference point and/or the near reference point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Gregor Esser, Helmut Altheimer, Wolfgang Becken, Robert Bichler, Anne Seidemann, Martin Zimmerman, Werner Mueller, Jochen Brosig, Dietmar Uttenweiler
  • Publication number: 20120008090
    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: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Atheimer, 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
  • Publication number: 20110208493
    Abstract: A fast and efficient method for calculating or producing a spectacle lens design, as well as a method for manufacturing a spectacle lens according to the thus calculated spectacle lens design. Furthermore, a corresponding device is provided for manufacturing a spectacle lens, as well as corresponding computer program products and storage media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Altheimer, Wolfgang Becken, Robert Bichler, Gregor Esser, Martin Zimmermann, Jochen Brosig, Dietmar Uttenweiler
  • Publication number: 20110007269
    Abstract: A method and apparatus provided to measure optical parameters of a person wearing spectacles. One or more fixation targets are provided to generate a flat extensive light field that can align the direction of sight of the person when the person looks at the light filed. Image recording devices are provided to generate image data of subareas of the person's head and a data processing unit can determine the optical parameters based on the generated image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Inventors: Stephan Trumm, Rainer Sessner, Andrea Peters, Leonhard Schmid, Dietmar Uttenweiler, Jochen Brosig
  • Patent number: 7771047
    Abstract: A method of producing a progressive spectacle glass by defining an ordering value for the average use value in the far reference point of the progressive spectacle glass, calculating the progressive spectacle glass while taking into account a calculation value of the average use value in the far reference point, the calculation value having a negative desired refraction deviation between 0.03 dpt and 0.2 dpt with respect to the ordering value in the far reference point, and producing the calculated progressive spectacle glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Altheimer, Gregor Esser, Andrea Welk, Leonhard Schmid, Martin Zimmermann, Kerstin Schmid, Norbet Awrath, Jochen Brosig, Winfried Nikolaus, Werner Müller, Ilka Schwarz
  • Publication number: 20100157242
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a progressive spectacle lens and to a corresponding apparatus, a computer program product, a storage medium and to the use of a progressive spectacle lens. The invention also relates to a method for producing a progressive spectacle lens for correcting defective vision of a spectacle wearer, comprising the following steps: the vertical and/or the horizontal spatial position of a distance reference point and/or a near reference point is specified or determined in accordance with individual data of the spectacle wearer; the spectacle lens is optimized or calculated such that the required dioptric effect of the spectacle lens is obtained in the individually determined distance reference point and/or the near reference point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: RODENSTOCK GmbH
    Inventors: Gregor Esser, Helmut Altheimer, Wolfgang Becken, Robert Bichler, Anne Seidemann, Martin Zimmerman, Werner Mueller, Jochen Brosig, Dietmar Uttenweiler
  • Patent number: 7740355
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (10) for determining the optical parameters of a user comprising: at least two image recording devices (14, 16), which are configured and arranged to respectively generate image data of at least sub-sections of the head of the user (30); a data processing unit comprising a user data determination device, which is configured to use the generated image data to determine user data relating to at least one sub-section of the head, or at least one sub-section of a system placed on the head that supports a pair of glasses (38) of the user (30) in a normal position of wear, the user data containing the three-dimensional location information of predetermined points in the head sub-section or the system sub-section and comprising a parameter determination unit, which is configured to determine at least some of the optical parameters of the user (30); a data output device, which outputs at least some of the determined optical parameters of the user (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Sessner, Leonhard Schmid, Dietmar Uttenweiler, Jochen Brosig, Werner Mueller
  • Patent number: 7673990
    Abstract: An individual eyeglass lens in which the vertical distance from the near reference point to the far distance point amounts to max. 18 millimeters, the progressive length is max. 14 millimeters, the main progressive length is max. 10 millimeters and the increase in refractive index, starting from the effect of the eyeglass lens at the far reference point up to a point 2 millimeters below the centering point amounts to less than 10% of the addition. The progressive length corresponds essentially to the vertical distance between the far reference point and a point essentially on the main line at which, starting from the far reference point, the value of the effect of the eyeglass lens corresponding the first time essentially to the near value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Gregor Esser, Helmut Altheimer, Norbert Awrath, Jochen Brosig, Walter Haimerl, Winfried Nikolaus, Kerstin Schmid, Edda Wehner, Andrea Welk, Martin Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 7600872
    Abstract: The invention relates to a spectacle lens device comprising at least one electrically adaptive area, wherein optical properties of the spectacle lens device can be controlled in an electric manner. The spectacle lens device is configured in such a manner that the optical properties of a predetermined or predeterminable control area can be controlled in an electrical manner which is essentially independent from the optical properties in a surrounding area. The invention also relates to the control area and to the surrounding area, respectively, about a partial area of the electrically adaptive area. The control area and the surrounding area do not a common area. The invention further relates to a pair of spectacles comprising a spectacle lens device, to the use of the inventive spectacle lens device and also to a method for operating an electrically adaptive area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Gregor Esser, Helmut Altheimer, Edda Wehner, Werner Mueller, Jochen Brosig, Dietmar Uttenweiler
  • Publication number: 20090021693
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (10) for determining the optical parameters of a user comprising: at least two image recording devices (14, 16), which are configured and arranged to respectively generate image data of at least sub-sections of the head of the user (30); a data processing unit comprising a user data determination device, which is configured to use the generated image data to determine user data relating to at least one sub-section of the head, or at least one sub-section of a system placed on the head that supports a pair of glasses (38) of the user (30) in a normal position of wear, the user data containing the three-dimensional location information of predetermined points in the head sub-section or the system sub-section and comprising a parameter determination unit, which is configured to determine at least some of the optical parameters of the user (30); a data output device, which outputs at least some of the determined optical parameters of the user (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: RODENSTOCK GMBH
    Inventors: Rainer Sessner, Leonhard Schmid, Dietmar Uttenweiler, Jochen Brosig, Werner Mueller
  • Publication number: 20080170203
    Abstract: The invention relates to a spectacle lens device comprising at least one electrically adaptive area, wherein optical properties of the spectacle lens device can be controlled in an electric manner. The spectacle lens device is configured in such a manner that the optical properties of a predetermined or predeterminable control area can be controlled in an electrical manner which is essentially independent from the optical properties in a surrounding area. The invention also relates to the control area and to the surrounding area, respectively, about a partial area of the electrically adaptive area. The control area and the surrounding area do not a common area. The invention further relates to a pair of spectacles comprising a spectacle lens device, to the use of the inventive spectacle lens device and also to a method for operating an electrically adaptive area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2005
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Applicant: Rodenstock GMBH
    Inventors: Gregor Esser, Helmut Altheimer, Edda Wehner, Werner Mueller, Jochen Brosig, Dietmar Uttenweiler
  • Patent number: 7347546
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing a single-strength spectacle lens while taking into account an individual spectacle wearer's data, the single-strength spectacle lens having a rotationally symmetrical base surface and a rotationally symmetrical aspherical or atoric prescription surface, comprising the following steps: Acquisition of an individual spectacle wearer's data; selection of a spectacle lens blank with a predetermined base surface from a group of spectacle lens blanks; and calculation and optimization of the prescription surface while taking into account at least a part of the individual spectacle wearer's data in addition to an adaptation of the dioptric effect by the prescription surface to the spectacle wearer's prescription. The invention also relates to a corresponding system for producing a single-strength spectacle lens and to an individual single-strength spectacle lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Gregor Esser, Werner Mueller, Herbert Pfeiffer, Helmut Altheimer, Peter Baumbach, Walter Haimerl, Jochen Brosig
  • Publication number: 20070279587
    Abstract: An individual eyeglass lens in which the vertical distance from the near reference point to the far distance point amounts to max. 18 millimeters, the progressive length is max. 14 millimeters, the main progressive length is max. 10 millimeters and the increase in refractive index, starting from the effect of the eyeglass lens at the far reference point up to a point 2 millimeters below the centering point amounts to less than 10% of the addition. The progressive length corresponds essentially to the vertical distance between the far reference point and a point essentially on the main line at which, starting from the far reference point, the value of the effect of the eyeglass lens corresponding the first time essentially to the near value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2004
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Applicant: RODENSTOCK GMBH
    Inventors: Gregor Esser, Helmut Altheimer, Norbert Awrath, Jochen Brosig, Walter Haimerl, Winfried Nikolaus, Kerstin Schmid, Edda Wehner, Andrea Welk, Martin Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20070109496
    Abstract: A method of producing a progressive spectacle glass by defining an ordering value for the average use value in the far reference point of the progressive spectacle glass, calculating the progressive spectacle glass while taking into account a calculation value of the average use value in the far reference point, the calculation value having a negative desired refraction deviation between 0.03 dpt and 0.2 dpt with respect to the ordering value in the far reference point, and producing the calculated progressive spectacle glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2004
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Applicant: RODENSTOCK GMBH
    Inventors: Helmut Altheimer, Gregor Esser, Andrea Welk, Leonhard Schmid, Martin Zimmermann, Kerstin Schmid, Norbert Awrath, Jochen Brosig, Winfried Nikolaus, Werner Muller, Ilka Schwarz
  • Publication number: 20070008488
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing a single-strength spectacle lens while taking into account an individual spectacle wearer's data, the single-strength spectacle lens having a rotationally symmetrical base surface and a rotationally symmetrical aspherical or atoric prescription surface, comprising the following steps: Acquisition of an individual spectacle wearer's data; selection of a spectacle lens blank with a predetermined base surface from a group of spectacle lens blanks; and calculation and optimization of the prescription surface while taking into account at least a part of the individual spectacle wearer's data in addition to an adaptation of the dioptric effect by the prescription surface to the spectacle wearer's prescription. The invention also relates to a corresponding system for producing a single-strength spectacle lens and to an individual single-strength spectacle lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2004
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Applicant: RODENSTOCK GMBH
    Inventors: Gregor Esser, Werner Mueller, Herbert Pfeiffer, Helmut Altheimer, Peter Baumbach, Walter Haimerl, Jochen Brosig
  • Patent number: 6964478
    Abstract: A spectacle lens is provided with a region (distance portion) designed for viewing at greater distances and, in particular, “to infinity”, a region (near portion) designed for viewing at short distances and, in particular, “reading distances”, and a progression zone disposed between the distance portion and the near portion, in which the power of the spectacle lens increases from the value in the distance reference point located in the distance portion to the value at the near reference point located in the near portion along a line (principal meridian) curving towards the nose. The invention is marked by specific conditions for the astigmatic deviation and/or the mean “as worn” power being observed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Andrea Welk, Peter Baumbach, Walter Haimerl, Herbert Pfeiffer, Gregor Esser, Helmut Altheimer, Rainer Dorsch, Martin Zimmerman, Norbert Awrath, Jochen Brosig, Werner Mueller, Martin Wechs, Stephan Haser, Winfried Nikolaus
  • Patent number: 6685316
    Abstract: What is described here is a method of manufacturing progressive ophthalmic lenses whereof each is produced in correspondence with the individual data of a specific spectacle wearer, and whereof each presents a first surface having a defined surface power value in the surface apex, and presents a non-spherical second surface (prescription surface) whose surface power varies along a line (referred to as principal line in the following) that follows at least approximately the main line of sight when the view is lowered, such that the ophthalmic lens produces a first effect in a first reference point, which is suitable for viewing in a first distance envisaged for the respective application, and that this effect varies along the principal line by a predetermined value (addition Add) to a second value present in a second reference point, which is suitable for viewing in a second distance envisaged for the respective application, and whose second surface possibly presents a surface astigmatism optionally for pa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Optische Werke G. Rodenstock
    Inventors: Peter Baumbach, Gregor Esser, Werner Mueller, Jochen Brosig, Walter Haimerl, Helmut Altheimer, Herbert Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20040017543
    Abstract: A spectacle lens is provided with a region (distance portion) designed for viewing at greater distances and, in particular, “to infinity”, a region (near portion) designed for viewing at short distances and, in particular, “reading distances”, and a progression zone disposed between the distance portion and the near portion, in which the power of the spectacle lens increases from the value in the distance reference point located in the distance portion to the value at the near reference point located in the near portion along a line (principal meridian) curving towards the nose. The invention is marked by specific conditions for the astigmatic deviation and/or the mean “as worn” power being observed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2002
    Publication date: January 29, 2004
    Applicant: OPTISCHE WERKE G. RODENSTOCK
    Inventors: Andrea Welk, Peter Baumbach, Walter Haimerl, Herbert Pfeiffer, Gregor Esser, Helmut Altheimer, Rainer Dorsch, Martin Zimmerman, Norbert Awrath, Jochen Brosig, Werner Mueller, Martin Wechs, Stephan Haser, Winfried Nikolaus