Patents by Inventor Katharina Rifai

Katharina Rifai 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: 11906820
    Abstract: A spectacle lens for at least one eye of a user, a method for producing a spectacle lens, and a computer program product having executable instructions for performing the method for producing the spectacle lens are disclosed. The spectacle lens has a permanent marking which is or contains a diffractive structure, wherein a diffractive pattern generated by illumination of the diffractive structure is configured to be invisible upon a first kind of illumination and configured to be visible only upon a second kind of illumination. The permanent markings on the spectacle lens are, on one hand, invisible to the user or to a spectator looking at the user wearing the spectacle lens without utilizing specially selected optical aids but, on the other hand, enables continued control of the spectacle lens in front of the eye of the user by an optician or a specifically designated optical sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Katharina Rifai, Siegfried Wahl, Timo Kratzer
  • Patent number: 11826306
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method and a respective computer program with a program code to execute the method. In particular, disclosed is a method for training a preferred retinal locus of fixation (efficient PRL) for a person having an eye with a field of vision comprising an area of partially diminished or entirely degenerated visual acuity. The method includes: a) determining an inefficient retinal region outside the area in the field of vision of the eye of the person and a more efficient retinal region for the specific vision task outside the area in the field of vision of the eye of the person and b) inducing a preferred retinal locus of fixation (efficient PRL) for a vision task outside the inefficient retinal region but in the more efficient retinal region. In addition, the disclosure relates to a device for performing the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Katharina Rifai, Siegfried Wahl, Maria Barraza-Bernal
  • Patent number: 11809023
    Abstract: A spectacle lens for at least one eye of a user, a method for producing a spectacle lens, and a computer program product having executable instructions for performing the method for producing the spectacle lens are disclosed. The spectacle lens has a permanent marking which is or contains a diffractive structure, wherein a diffractive pattern generated by illumination of the diffractive structure is configured to be invisible upon a first kind of illumination and configured to be visible only upon a second kind of illumination. The permanent markings on the spectacle lens are, on one hand, invisible to the user or to a spectator looking at the user wearing the spectacle lens without utilizing specially selected optical aids but, on the other hand, enables continued control of the spectacle lens in front of the eye of the user by an optician or a specifically designated optical sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Katharina Rifai, Siegfried Wahl, Timo Kratzer
  • Publication number: 20230236438
    Abstract: A spectacle lens for at least one eye of a user, a method for producing a spectacle lens, and a computer program product having executable instructions for performing the method for producing the spectacle lens are disclosed. The spectacle lens has a permanent marking which is or contains a diffractive structure, wherein a diffractive pattern generated by illumination of the diffractive structure is configured to be invisible upon a first kind of illumination and configured to be visible only upon a second kind of illumination. The permanent markings on the spectacle lens are, on one hand, invisible to the user or to a spectator looking at the user wearing the spectacle lens without utilizing specially selected optical aids but, on the other hand, enables continued control of the spectacle lens in front of the eye of the user by an optician or a specifically designated optical sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Katharina Rifai, Siegfried Wahl, Timo Kratzer
  • Publication number: 20230194893
    Abstract: A spectacle lens for at least one eye of a user, a method for producing a spectacle lens, and a computer program product having executable instructions for performing the method for producing the spectacle lens are disclosed. The spectacle lens has a permanent marking which is or contains a diffractive structure, wherein a diffractive pattern generated by illumination of the diffractive structure is configured to be invisible upon a first kind of illumination and configured to be visible only upon a second kind of illumination. The permanent markings on the spectacle lens are, on one hand, invisible to the user or to a spectator looking at the user wearing the spectacle lens without utilizing specially selected optical aids but, on the other hand, enables continued control of the spectacle lens in front of the eye of the user by an optician or a specifically designated optical sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Katharina Rifai, Siegfried Wahl, Timo Kratzer
  • Patent number: 11529049
    Abstract: A method and a device allow to determine the contrast sensitivity threshold of the eyes of a user in an automatic manner without requiring an experienced examiner or active attention of the user. The method includes: a) providing a dataset of track data including data of eye movements, wherein the eye movements are stimulated to elicit an optokinetic nystagmus in the eyes of the user and wherein the track data are related to a particular contrast and spatial frequency of the stimulus; b) estimating at least one velocity component of the eye movement; c) comparing the velocity component with a velocity threshold; d) comparing a fraction of the track data which exceed the velocity threshold with a fractional threshold for the dataset, which is classified as eliciting the optokinetic nystagmus at the particular contrast of the stimulus; and e) determining the contrast sensitivity threshold of the eyes of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Katharina Rifai, Siegfried Wahl, Sophia Tatiyosyan
  • Patent number: 11333906
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a computer program for determining at least one optical parameter of a spectacle lens, and a method for manufacturing the spectacle lens using the at least one optical parameter are disclosed. The optical parameter denotes a value for a property of the spectacle lens which is adjusted during manufacture of the spectacle lens to achieve an intended correction of ametropia of at least one eye of a user of the spectacle lens. The method includes: a) capturing at least one image of a user wearing the spectacle lens; and b) determining at least one optical parameter of the spectacle lens by image processing the at least one image, wherein the at least one image contains an eye portion including at least one eye and/or a face portion adjacent to at least one eye of a user of the spectacle lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Arne Ohlendorf, Alexander Leube, Siegfried Wahl, Katharina Rifai, Yannick Sauer
  • Publication number: 20220110518
    Abstract: A method and a device allow to determine the contrast sensitivity threshold of the eyes of a user in an automatic manner without requiring an experienced examiner or active attention of the user. The method includes: a) providing a dataset of track data including data of eye movements, wherein the eye movements are stimulated to elicit an optokinetic nystagmus in the eyes of the user and wherein the track data are related to a particular contrast and spatial frequency of the stimulus; b) estimating at least one velocity component of the eye movement; c) comparing the velocity component with a velocity threshold; d) comparing a fraction of the track data which exceed the velocity threshold with a fractional threshold for the dataset, which is classified as eliciting the optokinetic nystagmus at the particular contrast of the stimulus; and e) determining the contrast sensitivity threshold of the eyes of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Katharina Rifai, Siegfried Wahl, Sophia Tatiyosyan
  • Patent number: 11259698
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for capturing a visual field of a person having a scotoma, in particular a central scotoma, are disclosed. The method includes continuously capturing the eye alignment of the person with a capturing unit, sampling the visual field of the person point-by-point to determine points suitable and not suitable for sight in the visual field of the person, finding the scotoma as a region with a multiplicity of points not suitable for sight, calculating an outer boundary line of the scotoma, calculating an outer enveloping curve, which surrounds the outer boundary line of the scotoma at a predetermined distance, and displaying the outer enveloping curve on a display unit. The enveloping curve is perceivable by the person on the display unit as a frame of the scotoma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Siegfried Wahl, Katharina Rifai, Maria Jose Barraza-Bernal
  • Publication number: 20210382329
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a computer program for determining at least one optical parameter of a spectacle lens, and a method for manufacturing the spectacle lens using the at least one optical parameter are disclosed. The optical parameter denotes a value for a property of the spectacle lens which is adjusted during manufacture of the spectacle lens to achieve an intended correction of ametropia of at least one eye of a user of the spectacle lens. The method includes: a) capturing at least one image of a user wearing the spectacle lens; and b) determining at least one optical parameter of the spectacle lens by image processing the at least one image, wherein the at least one image contains an eye portion including at least one eye and/or a face portion adjacent to at least one eye of a user of the spectacle lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Arne Ohlendorf, Alexander Leube, Siegfried Wahl, Katharina Rifai, Yannick Sauer
  • Patent number: 11169398
    Abstract: A spectacle lens has a transparent substrate and at least one HOE-capable polymer layer arranged on the transparent substrate. The at least one HOE-capable polymer layer is suitable for forming a holographic optical element. Related methods and apparatus are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: tooz technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Jörg Pütz, Katharina Rifai, Karsten Lindig
  • Publication number: 20200117023
    Abstract: A spectacle lens has a transparent substrate and at least one HOE-capable polymer layer arranged on the transparent substrate. The at least one HOE-capable polymer layer is suitable for forming a holographic optical element. Related methods and apparatus are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Jörg Pütz, Katharina Rifai, Karsten Lindig
  • Patent number: 10534196
    Abstract: A spectacle lens has a transparent substrate and at least one HOE-capable polymer layer arranged on the transparent substrate. The at least one HOE-capable polymer layer is suitable for forming a holographic optical element. Related methods and apparatus are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: tooz technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Jörg Pütz, Katharina Rifai, Karsten Lindig
  • Publication number: 20190282082
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for capturing a visual field of a person having a scotoma, in particular a central scotoma, are disclosed. The method includes continuously capturing the eye alignment of the person with a capturing unit, sampling the visual field of the person point-by-point to determine points suitable and not suitable for sight in the visual field of the person, finding the scotoma as a region with a multiplicity of points not suitable for sight, calculating an outer boundary line of the scotoma, calculating an outer enveloping curve, which surrounds the outer boundary line of the scotoma at a predetermined distance, and displaying the outer enveloping curve on a display unit. The enveloping curve is perceivable by the person on the display unit as a frame of the scotoma.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Siegfried Wahl, Katharina Rifai, Maria Jose Barraza-Bernal
  • Patent number: 10335025
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system and to a method for training head movements of a person. Visual stimuli are generated with a visual stimulus generation device for a left and/or right eye of the person. Head movements of the person are captured with a measurement device. The head movement of the person captured with respect to a generated visual stimulus is assessed in a computational unit. Assessment information that is dependent on the assessment of the head movement captured with respect to a generated visual stimulus is then provided for the person with an output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Katharina Rifai, Siegfried Wahl
  • Patent number: 10168549
    Abstract: An optical visual aid is disclosed that assists an observer looking at an object through at least one spectacle lens. The optical visual aid has a dioptric power matched to an eye of the observer for at least one viewing direction. The dioptric power is composed of a plurality of dioptric power components. A first dioptric power component of the plurality of dioptric power components has a best possible corrective power for the eye of the observer at a defined distance of the object from the corneal vertex of the eye for the viewing direction. At the same time, a further dioptric power component of the plurality of dioptric power components has an additional astigmatic, partly corrective power for the viewing direction for the eye of the observer at the defined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Arne Ohlendorf, Rainer Sessner, Timo Kratzer, Katharina Rifai, Christian Lappe
  • Patent number: 10025115
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a spectacle lens and includes a body which is transparent or at least partly transparent to light and has a phase object which guides the light incident at an angle of incidence ? on a side facing away from an observer into a direction depending on the wavelength ? of the light and the angle of incidence ? thereof. The phase object has a multiplicity of diffraction structures, which diffract monochromatic light at a wavelength of 380 nm???800 nm with a diffraction efficiency of ??70% into one and same order of diffraction |m|?1 when the monochromatic light is incident at an angle of incidence ? on the side of the lens facing away from the observer which lies within a diffraction-structure-specific angle interval 15° wide and dependent on the wavelength of the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH, Carl Zeiss AG, Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Sessner, Joerg Petschulat, Katharina Rifai, Peter Klopfleisch, Matthias Burkhardt, Peter Pacher, Timo Kratzer, Herbert Krug
  • Publication number: 20180173007
    Abstract: A spectacle lens has a transparent substrate and at least one HOE-capable polymer layer arranged on the transparent substrate. The at least one HOE-capable polymer layer is suitable for forming a holographic optical element. Related methods and apparatus are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Jörg Pütz, Katharina Rifai, Karsten Lindig
  • Publication number: 20180116900
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method and a respective computer program with a program code to execute the method. In particular, disclosed is a method for training a preferred retinal locus of fixation (efficient PRL) for a person having an eye with a field of vision comprising an area of partially diminished or entirely degenerated visual acuity. The method includes: a) determining an inefficient retinal region outside the area in the field of vision of the eye of the person and a more efficient retinal region for the specific vision task outside the area in the field of vision of the eye of the person and b) inducing a preferred retinal locus of fixation (efficient PRL) for a vision task outside the inefficient retinal region but in the more efficient retinal region. In addition, the disclosure relates to a device for performing the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Katharina Rifai, Siegfried Wahl, Maria Barraza-Bernal
  • Publication number: 20170261767
    Abstract: An optical visual aid is disclosed that assists an observer looking at an object through at least one spectacle lens. The optical visual aid has a dioptric power matched to an eye of the observer for at least one viewing direction. The dioptric power is composed of a plurality of dioptric power components. A first dioptric power component of the plurality of dioptric power components has a best possible corrective power for the eye of the observer at a defined distance of the object from the corneal vertex of the eye for the viewing direction. At the same time, a further dioptric power component of the plurality of dioptric power components has an additional astigmatic, partly corrective power for the viewing direction for the eye of the observer at the defined distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Arne Ohlendorf, Rainer Sessner, Timo Kratzer, Katharina Rifai, Christian Lappe