Patents by Inventor Lionel R. Shapiro

Lionel R. Shapiro 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: 5050983
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for visual testing. In one embodiment, for perimetry testing, the method uses threshold light-stimulus values determined at multiple seed locations in a visual field to calculate expected stimulus threshold values at locations which are nearest-neighbors of the seed locations. The expected values at the nearest-neighbor locations are compared with subject responses at these locations, and the correspondence between the two is used to refine and guide line stimulus level presentations at the nearest-neighbor locations. The test is continued until a selected confidence level of response at nearest-neighbor locations is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1991
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Chris A. Johnson, Lionel R. Shapiro