Patents by Inventor Karsten Lindig

Karsten Lindig 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: 20170184851
    Abstract: A spectacle lens for a display device can be fitted on the head of a user and generate an image. The spectacle lens includes a front side and a rear side, a coupling-in section and a coupling-out section spaced apart from the coupling-in section, 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. The light guiding channel includes a first reflecting layer, which extends from the coupling-in section to the coupling-out section and on which the light bundles are reflected for guiding to the coupling-out section. The first reflecting layer includes at least one transparent gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Karsten LINDIG, Hans-Juergen DOBSCHAL
  • Publication number: 20170164827
    Abstract: Mobile computer devices and systems for refraction determination of an eye, for example for objective refraction determination and/or subjective refraction determination, are provided. Here, a display of the mobile computer device can be driven to display an image for refraction determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2017
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Karsten Lindig, Jesús-Miguel Cabeza-Guillén
  • Publication number: 20170150882
    Abstract: Mobile computer devices and systems for refraction determination of an eye, for example for objective refraction determination and/or subjective refraction determination, are provided. Here, a display of the mobile computer device can be driven to display an image for refraction determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2017
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Karsten Lindig, Jesús-Miguel Cabeza-Guillén
  • Publication number: 20170045743
    Abstract: A spectacle lens for a display device can be fitted on the head of a user and generate an image. The spectacle lens includes a curved front and/or side, wherein 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 to couple them out of the spectacle lens via the coupling-out section. The coupling-out section includes at least two deflecting surfaces arranged next to each other which reflect the light bundles in the direction of the rear side for the coupling out. Deflecting surfaces can be formed as a switchable layer which can be switched into a first and a second state, wherein the reflectivity of the switchable layers in the first state is higher than in the second state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen DOBSCHAL, Karsten LINDIG, Guenter RUDOLPH, Ersun KARTAL, Lisa RIEDEL, rer. nat. Frank WIDULLE, Michael PATRA
  • Publication number: 20170038594
    Abstract: A method for adjusting a display device with a holder that can be fitted on the head of a user includes a front section in which two spectacle lenses are arranged which are connected to each other via a central part, an imaging unit secured to the holder, which generates an image, and an imaging optical system secured to the holder which, when the holder is fitted on the head of the user, images the generated image into an exit pupil such that the user can perceive it as a virtual image with his first eye. The first spectacle lens with the coupling-out section is positioned in such a way that the exit pupil of the imaging optical system coincides at least partially with the pupil of the first eye of the user when the holder is fitted on the head of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Ersun KARTAL, Karsten LINDIG, Torsten BRAENDLE, Manfred MAUL, Norbert KERWIEN
  • Publication number: 20160306171
    Abstract: An imaging optical system for a display device that can be fitted on the head of a user and generate an image, with an optical element including an entry surface, and a spectacle lens, which includes a coupling-in section and a coupling-out section spaced apart therefrom. The imaging optical system can guide the generated image fed to the optical element via the entry surface in the optical element, for coupling it from the latter into the spectacle lens, in which it is guided to the coupling-out section and coupled out via the coupling-out section to generate a virtual image. The optical element includes an entry surface, at least one reflecting surface, on which the generated image is reflected, and an exit surface. The entry surface, the at least one reflecting surface and/or the exit surface are formed curved, with the result that the optical element has an imaging property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Guenter RUDOLPH, Hans-Juergen DOBSCHAL, Karsten LINDIG
  • Patent number: 9470896
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image generator with several pixels, from which light bundles are emitted for generating an image, a control unit for controlling the image generator and an imaging optical system which comprises a light guiding element with a front side and a rear side, which light guiding element has an input grating formed on the front or rear side and an output grating formed on the front or rear side. The light bundles are input into the light guiding element by means of diffraction at the input grating, guided in the light guiding element by means of total internal reflection up to the output grating and output by means of diffraction at the output grating such that a user can perceive the generated image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Smart Optics GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Karsten Lindig
  • Publication number: 20160299344
    Abstract: An imaging optical system for a display device that can be fitted on the head of a user and generate an image, with an optical element, which includes an entry surface, and a spectacle lens, which includes a coupling-out section. The imaging optical system is configured to guide the generated image fed to the optical element via the entry surface in the optical element, and to couple it from the latter into the spectacle lens, in which it is guided to the coupling-out section and coupled out via the coupling-out section to generate a virtual image. The optical element includes, in addition to the entry surface, at least one reflecting surface, on which the generated image is reflected for guiding in the optical element, and in that the optical element and the spectacle lens are formed together as a one-piece optical part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: Carl Zeiss Smart Optics GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen DOBSCHAL, Karsten LINDIG, Guenter RUDOLPH, Lisa RIEDEL
  • Patent number: 9465218
    Abstract: A multifunction optical element including an image generating module that generates an image, and couples the image into a multifunction glass that has a coupling in area and a coupling out area. The image produced is coupled into the multifunction glass via the coupling in area, guided in the multifunction glass to the coupling in area, and coupled out via the coupling out area, in such a way that the user can perceive the coupled out image superimposed on the surroundings when the holding device is placed on the head of the user. The coupling out area has a Fresnel structure which receives light from the coupling-in-area via a folded beam path and couples the image out of the multifunction optical element. The coupling out element has an imaging property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss AG
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Guenter Rudolph, Karsten Lindig
  • Publication number: 20160266388
    Abstract: A spectacle lens for a display device can be fitted on the head of a user and generate an image. A spectacle lens body includes a front side and/or the rear side that are curved, and at least a first and a second partial body, the mutually facing boundary surfaces of which are in direct contact, and as seen in top view onto the spectacle lens, 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 can guide light bundles of pixels of the generated image to the coupling-out section and couple them out of the spectacle lens via the coupling-out section. A flat first reflecting surface and a flat second reflecting surface spaced apart from the first reflecting surface are provided in the spectacle lens body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen DOBSCHAL, Karsten LINDIG, Lisa RIEDEL
  • Publication number: 20160246056
    Abstract: A spectacle lens for a display device that can be fitted on the head of a user and generate an image guides 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 by reflections on the rear side and a reflecting surface lying opposite this to the coupling-out section and coupling them out of the spectacle lens via the coupling-out section. A splitter layer reflects a portion of light bundles reflected by the rear side towards the rear side and transmits a portion, wherein after reflection on the rear side the reflected portion strikes the splitter layer again and there, once again, is partially reflected towards the rear side and partially transmitted. The transmitted portions strike the facets are coupled out of the spectacle lens through the splitter layer and the rear side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen DOBSCHAL, Karsten LINDIG
  • Publication number: 20160238843
    Abstract: A spectacle lens for a display device can be fitted on the head of a user and generate an image. The spectacle lens body can include a front side, a rear side, 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, two opposing reflecting surfaces in the area of the coupling-in section, and facets embedded in the area of the coupling-in section in the spectacle lens body between the two reflecting surfaces and arranged next to each other in the direction from the coupling-in to the coupling-out section in a first and an adjoining second area. The facets in the first area can be partially reflective or reflective. The facets in the second area can be partially reflective. Directly neighboring facets in the second area can be connected by a partially transparent or wholly transparent face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen DOBSCHAL, Karsten LINDIG
  • Publication number: 20160223815
    Abstract: A multifunction optical element including an image generating module that generates an image, and couples the image into a multifunction glass that has a coupling in area and a coupling out area. The image produced is coupled into the multifunction glass via the coupling in area, guided in the multifunction glass to the coupling in area, and coupled out via the coupling out area, in such a way that the user can perceive the coupled out image superimposed on the surroundings when the holding device is placed on the head of the user. The coupling out area has a Fresnel structure which receives light from the coupling-in-area via a folded beam path and couples the image out of the multifunction optical element. The coupling out element has an imaging property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Guenter Rudolph, Karsten Lindig
  • Publication number: 20160178908
    Abstract: A spectacle lens is provided for an image-generating display device that can be fitted on the head of a user, wherein, in order to reduce vignetting occurring when guiding the generated image, which is coupled into the spectacle lens via the coupling-in section and guided through the spectacle lens by means of reflections as far as a coupling-out section, the curvature profile of the front and/or rear side in the edge area differs from the corresponding predetermined curvature profile of the front and/or rear side in the edge area such that there is a greater thickness of the spectacle lens in the edge area in comparison with the thickness in the edge area that would result due to the predetermined curvature profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen DOBSCHAL, Karsten LINDIG
  • Patent number: 9134535
    Abstract: A display device includes a holding device that can be placed on the head of a user. An image-generating module and an imaging lens system can be secured on the holding device. The latter includes a spectacle lens with a curved front and a curved back. It projects the image generated when the holding device is placed on the head such that the user can perceive it superimposed on the surroundings. Light from the image-generating module is coupled into an optical channel in the spectacle lens. It is conducted in the optical channel to an exit section and coupled via the exit section out of the spectacle lens. The optical channel includes in the region of the front and back a Fresnel structure with a plurality of facets on which the light conducted in the optical channel is reflected, and which are aligned parallel to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss AG
    Inventors: Hans-Jürgen Dobschal, Karsten Lindig, Guenter Rudolph
  • Publication number: 20150205138
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image generator with several pixels, from which light bundles are emitted for generating an image, a control unit for controlling the image generator and an imaging optical system which comprises a light guiding element with a front side and a rear side, which light guiding element has an input grating formed on the front or rear side and an output grating formed on the front or rear side. The light bundles are input into the light guiding element by means of diffraction at the input grating, guided in the light guiding element by means of total internal reflection up to the output grating and output by means of diffraction at the output grating such that a user can perceive the generated image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Karsten Lindig
  • Patent number: 9030383
    Abstract: A display device has a holding device wearable on a user's head and holding a multifunctional glass that comprises a first and second coupling-out section and a coupling-in section, an image generation module that generates and couples an image into the multifunctional glass through the coupling-in section to the first coupling-out section redirecting the image in the direction of the user such that the user can perceive the image in superimposition with the real environment, a control unit for the image generation module, and a detector which is connected to the control unit and which measures the intensity of ambient light coupled through the first coupling-out section to the second coupling-out section and coupled out of the multifunctional glass through the second coupling-out section. The control unit controls the brightness of the image of the image generation module, the brightness controlled according to the intensity measured by the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss AG
    Inventors: Karsten Lindig, Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Guenter Rudolph
  • Patent number: 8970961
    Abstract: A multifunction optical element including an image generating module that generates an image, and couples the image into a multifunction glass that has a coupling in area and a coupling out area. The image produced is coupled into the multifunction glass via the coupling in area, guided in the multifunction glass to the coupling in area, and coupled out via the coupling out area, in such a way that the user can perceive the coupled out image superimposed on the surroundings when the holding device is placed on the head of the user. The coupling out area has a Fresnel structure which receives light from the coupling-in-area via a folded beam path and couples the image out of the multifunction optical element. The coupling out element has an imaging property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss AG
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Guenter Rudolph, Karsten Lindig
  • Publication number: 20150036223
    Abstract: A multifunction optical element including an image generating module that generates an image, and couples the image into a multifunction glass that has a coupling in area and a coupling out area. The image produced is coupled into the multifunction glass via the coupling in area, guided in the multifunction glass to the coupling in area, and coupled out via the coupling out area, in such a way that the user can perceive the coupled out image superimposed on the surroundings when the holding device is placed on the head of the user. The coupling out area has a Fresnel structure which receives light from the coupling-in-area via a folded beam path and couples the image out of the multifunction optical element. The coupling out element has an imaging property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Guenter Rudolph, Karsten Lindig
  • Patent number: 8736962
    Abstract: A display device including a holding device that can be placed on the head of a user, an image generating module fixed to the holding device and generating an image, and a multifunction glass that is fixed to the holding device and has a coupling in area and a coupling out area. The image produced is coupled into the multifunction glass via the coupling in area, guided in the multifunction glass to the coupling in area, and coupled out via the coupling out area, in such a way that the user can perceive the coupled out image superimposed on the surroundings when the holding device is placed on the head of the user. The coupling out area has a Fresnel structure which receives light from the coupling-in-area via a folded beam path and couples the image out of the multifunction optical element. The coupling out element has an imaging property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss AG
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Guenter Rudolph, Karsten Lindig