Patents by Inventor Konrad Saur

Konrad Saur 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: 11003348
    Abstract: The invention is directed to an arrangement for determining the pupil center of an eye of a person in an image. The arrangement includes a touch-sensitive display device for displaying the image with the eye of the person and a gesture recognition unit for recognizing a first predetermined gesture in response to a touching of the touch-sensitive display device by a user. The gesture recognition unit is configured to recognize, as a first predetermined gesture, a movement of two fingers at a distance (D) to each other touching the touch-sensitive display and carrying out an orbital rotational movement about a common rotation center. A contrast changing unit changes the contrast of the image displayed on the touch-sensitive display device in response to the user touching the touch-sensitive display device in a manner recognized as the first predetermined gesture by the gesture recognition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Konrad Saur, Alexander Wohlfahrt, Subhashini Mani
  • Patent number: 10146064
    Abstract: An apparatus is for ascertaining and outputting a type of spectacle lens suitable for a spectacle wearer with a visual characteristics providing device, for providing visual characteristics of the spectacle wearer, a needs providing device, for providing individual needs of the spectacle wearer, a spectacle lens type providing device, for providing a plurality of types of spectacle lenses having predetermined characteristics, a desired characteristics ascertaining device, for ascertaining desired characteristics of a type of spectacle lens using the provided visual characteristics and the provided individual needs of the spectacle wearer, an assigning device, for assigning at least one type of spectacle lens from among the plurality of types of spectacle lenses to the desired characteristics, on the basis of predetermined assignment rules, and a spectacle lens type outputting device, for outputting the at least one assigned type of spectacle lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH, Carl Zeiss Vision Ireland Ltd., Carl Zeiss Vision Inc.
    Inventors: Konrad Saur, Paraic Begley, Ray Steven Spratt, Timo Kratzer
  • Patent number: 10088691
    Abstract: An apparatus is for ascertaining and outputting a type of spectacle lens suitable for a spectacle wearer with a visual characteristics providing device, for providing visual characteristics of the spectacle wearer, a needs providing device, for providing individual needs of the spectacle wearer, a spectacle lens type providing device, for providing a plurality of types of spectacle lenses having predetermined characteristics, a desired characteristics ascertaining device, for ascertaining desired characteristics of a type of spectacle lens using the provided visual characteristics and the provided individual needs of the spectacle wearer, an assigning device, for assigning at least one type of spectacle lens from among the plurality of types of spectacle lenses to the desired characteristics, on the basis of predetermined assignment rules, and a spectacle lens type outputting device, for outputting the at least one assigned type of spectacle lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss Vision Inc., Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH, Carl Zeiss Vision Ireland Ltd.
    Inventors: Konrad Saur, Paraic Begley, Ray Steven Spratt, Timo Kratzer
  • Publication number: 20180107022
    Abstract: An apparatus is for ascertaining and outputting a type of spectacle lens suitable for a spectacle wearer with a visual characteristics providing device, for providing visual characteristics of the spectacle wearer, a needs providing device, for providing individual needs of the spectacle wearer, a spectacle lens type providing device, for providing a plurality of types of spectacle lenses having predetermined characteristics, a desired characteristics ascertaining device, for ascertaining desired characteristics of a type of spectacle lens using the provided visual characteristics and the provided individual needs of the spectacle wearer, an assigning device, for assigning at least one type of spectacle lens from among the plurality of types of spectacle lenses to the desired characteristics, on the basis of predetermined assignment rules, and a spectacle lens type outputting device, for outputting the at least one assigned type of spectacle lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Konrad Saur, Paraic Begley, Ray Steven Spratt, Timo Kratzer
  • Publication number: 20170102853
    Abstract: The invention is directed to an arrangement for determining the pupil center of an eye of a person in an image. The arrangement includes a touch-sensitive display device for displaying the image with the eye of the person and a gesture recognition unit for recognizing a first predetermined gesture in response to a touching of the touch-sensitive display device by a user. The gesture recognition unit is configured to recognize, as a first predetermined gesture, a movement of two fingers at a distance (D) to each other touching the touch-sensitive display and carrying out an orbital rotational movement about a common rotation center. A contrast changing unit changes the contrast of the image displayed on the touch-sensitive display device in response to the user touching the touch-sensitive display device in a manner recognized as the first predetermined gesture by the gesture recognition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Konrad Saur, Alexander Wohlfahrt, Subhashini Mani
  • Publication number: 20150134473
    Abstract: An apparatus is for ascertaining and outputting a type of spectacle lens suitable for a spectacle wearer with a visual characteristics providing device, for providing visual characteristics of the spectacle wearer, a needs providing device, for providing individual needs of the spectacle wearer, a spectacle lens type providing device, for providing a plurality of types of spectacle lenses having predetermined characteristics, a desired characteristics ascertaining device, for ascertaining desired characteristics of a type of spectacle lens using the provided visual characteristics and the provided individual needs of the spectacle wearer, an assigning device, for assigning at least one type of spectacle lens from among the plurality of types of spectacle lenses to the desired characteristics, on the basis of predetermined assignment rules, and a spectacle lens type outputting device, for outputting the at least one assigned type of spectacle lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Konrad Saur, Paraic Begley, Ray Steven Spratt, Timo Kratzer
  • Patent number: 5784144
    Abstract: A multifocal spectacle lens has two optically effective surfaces with powers in the far reference point from -4.0 dpt to +4.0 dpt in the stronger principal section. The spectacle lens has cylinders from 0.0 dpt to 4.0 dpt and an addition of 1.00 dpt to 3.00 dpt. The multifocal area is at least aspherical and can be differentiated continuously at least twice and is not axial symmetrical. The multifocal surface includes a far vision zone, a near vision zone and a progression zone lying between the near and far vision zones. The lens body is configured to incorporate a plurality of features within an elliptical region on the surface of the lens body extending 50 mm measured horizontally and 40 mm measured vertically from the measurement point. These features are all satisfied together within the elliptical region. One of the features is that the near-reference point is at most 21 mm perpendicularly below the far-reference point and displaced by about 2.5 mm toward the edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Assignee: Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung
    Inventors: Gerhard Kelch, Hans Lahres, Konrad Saur, Helmut Wietschorke