Patents by Inventor Kazuma Kozu

Kazuma Kozu 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: 20210271108
    Abstract: A progressive addition lens design method includes adjusting a lens surface shape to bring a difference between a first state when an object at a first location in a wearer's front and on the wearer's medial plane is visually recognized and a second state when an object at a second location positioned on the first location side in the horizontal direction at a constant height in the vertical direction is visually recognized in a plane parallel to a frontal plane and includes the first location at the time the lens is worn closer to a difference between a third state when an object at the first location is visually recognized and a fourth state when an object at the second location is visually recognized at the time a reference single focal lens corresponding to the progressive addition lens is worn or at the time equivalent to a naked eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuma KOZU
  • Patent number: 10578887
    Abstract: A pair of spectacle lenses for binocular vision. In each of the pair of spectacle lenses for binocular vision, when an inner horizontal direction of each of the spectacle lenses is a direction toward the nose of a user who wears the spectacle lenses, and an outer horizontal direction of each of the spectacle lenses is a direction toward an ear of the user, a portion for viewing an object at finite distance is provided and a shape of a base out prism is formed in the position such that a line of sight of a user viewing an object through the portion is directed to a direction that is different from a direction from the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kaga, Ayumu Ito, Kazuma Kozu
  • Patent number: 10578888
    Abstract: A technology concerning a pair of spectacle lenses for binocular vision. In each of the pair of spectacle lenses for binocular vision, when an inner horizontal direction of each of the spectacle lenses is a direction toward the nose of a user who wears the spectacle lenses, and an outer horizontal direction of the spectacle lenses is a direction toward an ear of the user, a portion for viewing an object at finite distance is provided in each of the pair of spectacle lenses for binocular vision and a shape of a base in prism is formed in the position such that a line of sight of a user viewing an object through the portion is directed to a direction that is different from a direction from the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kaga, Ayumu Ito, Kazuma Kozu
  • Patent number: 10401650
    Abstract: A technology concerns a spectacle lens to suppress unnecessary convergence. In the spectacle lens, when an inner horizontal direction of the spectacle lens is a direction toward the nose of a user who wears the spectacle lens, and an outer horizontal direction of the spectacle lens is a direction toward an ear of the user, a shape of a base in prism is formed in a portion in which power continuously changes and through which a main line of sight, influenced by convergence of the user of the spectacle lens, passes such that at least a part of a base out prism, which may be generated in the portion, is cancelled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kaga, Ayumu Ito, Kazuma Kozu
  • Patent number: 10330952
    Abstract: A pair of spectacle lenses includes: a first refractive portion; a second refractive portion whose refractive power is stronger than the first's; and a progressive power portion in which a refractive power changes progressively from the first to the second refractive portion, first refractive powers of a left and right of the lenses being different, progressive power portions lengths of the left and right of the lenses are different and changing rates of additions of the left and right of the lenses are different in accordance with a shift between left and right visual lines so that a difference between addition effects acting on the wearer's eyes is reduced when the left and right visual lines shift with respect to each other depending on the first refractive powers of the left and the right of the lenses being different where the wearer views an object through the lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuma Kozu
  • Patent number: 10302965
    Abstract: A progressive addition lens, a manufacturing method and a design method therefor, and a progressive addition lens manufacturing system, capable of flexibly adapting to an actual use state of a wearer and are optimal for each wearer, for determining a main line of sight considering not only convergence of the eye occurring with near vision including passive accommodative power but also convergence of the eye induced by using an accommodative power margin of the eye. The design method includes a first main line of sight calculation step of calculating a first main line of sight, where accommodative convergence caused by use of the accommodative power margin is considered, based on lens design information including at least information of accommodative power of the eye and a final main line of sight determination step of determining a final main line of sight of a lens from the first main line of sight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuma Kozu
  • Patent number: 10203523
    Abstract: Progressive power lens including: object side surface; eyeball side surface; and at least a near portion having a power for near vision, wherein object side surface includes power change in vertical direction of lens having progressive refractive power function, eyeball side surface includes power change in horizontal direction of lens having progressive refractive power function, when surface refractive power in the horizontal direction is defined as DHn and surface refractive power in vertical direction is defined as DVn in near power measurement point N in object side surface, relational expression of DHn<DVn is fulfilled, and near portion of eyeball side surface has a shaped part wherein signs of positive and negative of surface refractive power in vertical direction of lens and surface refractive power in horizontal direction of lens are opposite to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuma Kozu, Takao Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10185160
    Abstract: A pair of spectacle lenses includes: a first refractive portion; a second refractive portion whose refractive power is stronger than the first's; and a progressive power portion in which a refractive power changes progressively from the first to the second refractive portion, first refractive powers of a left and right of the lenses being different, progressive power portions lengths of the left and right of the lenses are different and changing rates of additions of the left and right of the lenses are different in accordance with a shift between left and right visual lines so that a difference between addition effects acting on the wearer's eyes is reduced when the left and right visual lines shift with respect to each other depending on the first refractive powers of the left and the right of the lenses being different where the wearer views an object through the lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuma Kozu
  • Publication number: 20180004010
    Abstract: A technology concerning a pair of spectacle lenses for binocular vision. In each of the pair of spectacle lenses for binocular vision, when an inner horizontal direction of each of the spectacle lenses is a direction toward the nose of a user who wears the spectacle lenses, and an outer horizontal direction of the spectacle lenses is a direction toward an ear of the user, a portion for viewing an object at finite distance is provided in each of the pair of spectacle lenses for binocular vision and a shape of a base in prism is formed in the position such that a line of sight of a user viewing an object through the portion is directed to a direction that is different from a direction from the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi KAGA, Ayumu ITO, Kazuma KOZU
  • Publication number: 20170371181
    Abstract: A pair of spectacle lenses for binocular vision. In each of the pair of spectacle lenses for binocular vision, when an inner horizontal direction of each of the spectacle lenses is a direction toward the nose of a user who wears the spectacle lenses, and an outer horizontal direction of each of the spectacle lenses is a direction toward an ear of the user, a portion for viewing an object at finite distance is provided and a shape of a base out prism is formed in the position such that a line of sight of a user viewing an object through the portion is directed to a direction that is different from a direction from the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi KAGA, Ayumu ITO, Kazuma KOZU
  • Publication number: 20170351116
    Abstract: A technology concerns a spectacle lens to suppress unnecessary convergence. In the spectacle lens, when an inner horizontal direction of the spectacle lens is a direction toward the nose of a user who wears the spectacle lens, and an outer horizontal direction of the spectacle lens is a direction toward an ear of the user, a shape of a base in prism is formed in a portion in which power continuously changes and through which a main line of sight, influenced by convergence of the user of the spectacle lens, passes such that at least a part of a base out prism, which may be generated in the portion, is cancelled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi KAGA, Ayumu ITO, Kazuma KOZU
  • Publication number: 20170293159
    Abstract: Progressive power lens including: object side surface; eyeball side surface; and at least a near portion having a power for near vision, wherein object side surface includes power change in vertical direction of lens having progressive refractive power function, eyeball side surface includes power change in horizontal direction of lens having progressive refractive power function, when surface refractive power in the horizontal direction is defined as DHn and surface refractive power in vertical direction is defined as DVn in near power measurement point N in object side surface, relational expression of DHn<DVn is fulfilled, and near portion of eyeball side surface has a shaped part wherein signs of positive and negative of surface refractive power in vertical direction of lens and surface refractive power in horizontal direction of lens are opposite to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuma KOZU, Takao TANAKA
  • Patent number: 9778486
    Abstract: A spectacle lens capable of obtaining a good vision without feeling of discomfort, even being fitted into a frame having a large front angle, and a method of creating the shape data of the spectacle lens having dioptric power to be fitted into a frame having a lens front angle. The method corrects the shape data of a lens back surface so that the prismatic effect undergone via the lens of initial lens shape by a plurality of rays passing through a rotation center of the eye in a case where a lens front angle is provided is identical or close to the prismatic effect undergone via the lens of initial lens shape by the plurality of rays passing through the rotation center of the eye in a case where no lens front angle is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuma Kozu, Takashi Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 9753307
    Abstract: A lens supply system has: an initial shape data obtaining unit that obtains initial shape data of a spectacle lens; a shape data correcting unit that corrects the initial shape data such that, when a base curve of an initial lens manufactured based on the initial shape data is defined as a first base curve, a predetermined lens having a second base curve lower than the first base curve is defined as a target spectacle lens, prismatic effects which light rays in respective visual line directions passing through a center of an eye assumed in optical design receive from the initial lens coincide with or approach prismatic effects which the light rays receive from the target spectacle lens; and a spectacle lens manufacturing unit that manufactures a spectacle lens based on the corrected initial shape data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuma Kozu, Takashi Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 9638937
    Abstract: There is provided a spectacle lens, including: specific first and second reference points, and eye point between the first and second reference points on a meridian, with each point defined on a meridian; and a power variation portion where power is continuously varied from the first reference point to the second reference point, wherein a variation rate of an addition power is substantially zero in a circle of radius 4 mm with the first reference point as a center, and/or in a circle of radius 4 mm with the eye point as a center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Odaira, Kazuma Kozu
  • Publication number: 20170045757
    Abstract: A progressive addition lens, a manufacturing method and a design method therefor, and a progressive addition lens manufacturing system, capable of flexibly adapting to an actual use state of a wearer and are optimal for each wearer, for determining a main line of sight considering not only convergence of the eye occurring with near vision including passive accommodative power but also convergence of the eye induced by using an accommodative power margin of the eye. The design method includes a first main line of sight calculation step of calculating a first main line of sight, where accommodative convergence caused by use of the accommodative power margin is considered, based on lens design information including at least information of accommodative power of the eye and a final main line of sight determination step of determining a final main line of sight of a lens from the first main line of sight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuma KOZU
  • Publication number: 20160161765
    Abstract: Defining a reference lens common to a left and a right; defining a reference object surface; calculating chief ray passing positions on the reference lens and a prescribed lens through which a chief ray from each point on each of the plurality of object surfaces passes; calculating a ratio between a distance from an intersection between a visual line in a front view and the reference lens to the chief ray passing position on the reference lens and a distance from an intersection between a visual line in a front view and the prescribed lens to the chief ray passing position on the prescribed lens; and correcting a curvature distribution of the prescribed lens by correcting curvature at the chief ray passing position on the prescribed lens corresponding to each point on each of the plurality of object surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventor: Kazuma KOZU
  • Publication number: 20160033791
    Abstract: A lens supply system has: an initial shape data obtaining unit that obtains initial shape data of a spectacle lens; a shape data correcting unit that corrects the initial shape data such that, when a base curve of an initial lens manufactured based on the initial shape data is defined as a first base curve, a predetermined lens having a second base curve lower than the first base curve is defined as a target spectacle lens, prismatic effects which light rays in respective visual line directions passing through a center of an eye assumed in optical design receive from the initial lens coincide with or approach prismatic effects which the light rays receive from the target spectacle lens; and a spectacle lens manufacturing unit that manufactures a spectacle lens based on the corrected initial shape data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Kazuma KOZU, Takashi HATANAKA
  • Publication number: 20160004096
    Abstract: Defining reference lens common to left and right; calculating object side angle view of light rays passing through sample points on reference lens; calculating light rays whose object side angles of view for prescribed lens are equal to calculated object side angles of view, obtaining light ray passing positions on the prescribed lens through light rays having the same object side angles of view as the light rays corresponding to sample points on the reference lens pass; calculating ratio between distance from intersection between visual line in front view and reference lens to sample point on reference lens and distance from intersection between visual line in front view and prescribed lens to light ray passing position on prescribed lens; and correcting a curvature distribution of prescribed lens by correcting curvature at each of light ray passing positions on prescribed lens corresponding to object side angles of view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventor: Kazuma KOZU
  • Publication number: 20150362747
    Abstract: A reference lens common to left and right and reference object surface common to left and right including a plurality of object surfaces; calculating a ratio between distance from an intersection between a visual line in a front view and the reference lens to chief ray passing position on the reference lens and distance from an intersection between the visual line in the front view and the pseudo prescribed lens to the chief ray passing position on the pseudo prescribed lens; correcting, for each of the left and the right, a curvature distribution of pseudo prescribed lens' by correcting curvature at the chief ray passing position on the pseudo prescribed lens corresponding to each point on each of the plurality of object surfaces; and correcting, for each of the left and the right, curvature distribution of the prescribed lens based on the corrected curvature distribution of the pseudo prescribed lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventor: Kazuma KOZU