Patents by Inventor Michael Gamperling

Michael Gamperling 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: 12204175
    Abstract: A data record contains at least the following data values: spatial coordinates of a reference point at each eye of the wearer; a spatial direction vector for specifying a viewing direction of the wearer through the spectacle lens; and a spatial rim curve or edge curve. The data record can be used to produce a spectacle lens. A method and a computer program for generating the data record, and a method for producing the spectacle lens are also disclosed. It is possible to produce the spectacle lens after a single capture of a data record for adapting the spectacle lenses to the wearer of the pair of spectacles and to the spectacle frame selected by the wearer. A different spectacle lens as the spectacle lens originally selected can subsequently be used as the spectacle lens without having to record a further data record for the adaptation for the wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Gamperling, Helmut Wietschorke, Peter Johann Haas
  • Patent number: 11747651
    Abstract: Methods and devices for determining at least one centring parameter are disclosed. A mobile terminal is moved from a first position to a second position, and a respective image is captured of an eye area of a person. The acceleration is also measured during the movement. The centring parameter is then determined based on the captured image and the measured acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Jeremias Gromotka, Michael Gamperling
  • Publication number: 20230077539
    Abstract: Methods and devices for determining at least one centring parameter are disclosed. A mobile terminal is moved from a first position to a second position, and a respective image is captured of an eye area of a person. The acceleration is also measured during the movement. The centring parameter is then determined based on the captured image and the measured acceleration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Jeremias Gromotka, Michael Gamperling
  • Patent number: 11448903
    Abstract: Methods and devices for correcting centering parameters and/or an axial position of a spherocylindrical refraction on the basis of a habitual head position are disclosed. A representation of the head of a user in a head posture or a representation of the head with a spectacle frame in a spectacle frame alignment are displayed. To correct the spectacle parameter based on a corrected head posture and/or a corrected spectacle frame alignment, the corrected head posture and/or the corrected spectacle frame alignment is determined by at least partially manually correcting a head posture in the displayed representation of the head and/or of the spectacle frame alignment in the displayed representation of the head with the spectacle frame. A representation of the head of a user is shown on a display, thereby allowing intuitive adjustment of a habitual head position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Gamperling, Tobias Breuninger, Jesús-Miguel Cabeza-Guillén
  • Publication number: 20210382330
    Abstract: A data record contains at least the following data values: spatial coordinates of a reference point at each eye of the wearer; a spatial direction vector for specifying a viewing direction of the wearer through the spectacle lens; and a spatial rim curve or edge curve. The data record can be used to produce a spectacle lens. A method and a computer program for generating the data record, and a method for producing the spectacle lens are also disclosed. It is possible to produce the spectacle lens after a single capture of a data record for adapting the spectacle lenses to the wearer of the pair of spectacles and to the spectacle frame selected by the wearer. A different spectacle lens as the spectacle lens originally selected can subsequently be used as the spectacle lens without having to record a further data record for the adaptation for the wearer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Michael Gamperling, Helmut Wietschorke, Peter Johann Haas
  • Patent number: 10942375
    Abstract: A device for determining centering parameters for the adjustment of spectacles includes a camera support partially surrounding an inner area that is open at the top, bottom and to the rear; and at least three cameras arranged between two free ends of the camera support and pointing towards the inner area, the camera support having an illumination system in order to illuminate the inner area. The illumination system is designed to light the inner area such that the light intensity, at least at each point in a region extending over a height of 20 cm and a central angle of 180 degrees of an outer cylinder surface having a diameter of 20 cm and formed in the inner area, deviates by a maximum +50% and ?30% from a predefined desired value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH, Carl Zeiss AG
    Inventors: Cristina Alvarez Diez, Tobias Breuninger, Michael Gamperling, Oliver Schwarz, Frank Widulle
  • Patent number: 10890786
    Abstract: In a method for determining at least one fitting parameter for a spectacle lens received in a spectacle frame, an image, lying in an image plane, of at least one portion of a spectacle frame worn by a subject is acquired. When acquiring the image, the inclination of the image plane about a horizontal axis which is parallel to the image plane is established and, in the process, the at least one fitting parameter is established from the acquired image of the portion of the subject with the spectacle frame worn by the subject and the established inclination of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Jesus-Miguel Cabeza-Guillen, Subhashini Mani, Michael Gamperling
  • Patent number: 10890784
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and computer programs for determining a near-vision point of a person are disclosed. The person under examination looks at a movable near-vision target, and an image of the person is captured with a camera device incorporated into the near-vision target. The orientation and/or position of the near-vision target is determined. The near-vision point is then determined from the orientation and/or position of the near-vision target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Gamperling, Cristina Alvarez Diez, Carsten Glasenapp
  • Publication number: 20200218095
    Abstract: Methods and devices for correcting centering parameters and/or an axial position of a spherocylindrical refraction on the basis of a habitual head position are disclosed. A representation of the head of a user in a head posture or a representation of the head with a spectacle frame in a spectacle frame alignment are displayed. To correct the spectacle parameter based on a corrected head posture and/or a corrected spectacle frame alignment, the corrected head posture and/or the corrected spectacle frame alignment is determined by at least partially manually correcting a head posture in the displayed representation of the head and/or of the spectacle frame alignment in the displayed representation of the head with the spectacle frame. A representation of the head of a user is shown on a display, thereby allowing intuitive adjustment of a habitual head position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Gamperling, Tobias Breuninger, Jesús-Miguel Cabeza-Guillén
  • Publication number: 20200110280
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and computer programs for determining a near-vision point of a person are disclosed. The person under examination looks at a movable near-vision target, and an image of the person is captured with a camera device incorporated into the near-vision target. The orientation and/or position of the near-vision target is determined. The near-vision point is then determined from the orientation and/or position of the near-vision target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Gamperling, Cristina Alvarez Diez, Carsten Glasenapp
  • Publication number: 20200073151
    Abstract: A device for determining centering parameters for the adjustment of spectacles includes a camera support partially surrounding an inner area that is open at the top, bottom and to the rear; and at least three cameras arranged between two free ends of the camera support and pointing towards the inner area, the camera support having an illumination system in order to illuminate the inner area. The illumination system is designed to light the inner area such that the light intensity, at least at each point in a region extending over a height of 20 cm and a central angle of 180 degrees of an outer cylinder surface having a diameter of 20 cm and formed in the inner area, deviates by a maximum +50% and ?30% from a predefined desired value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Cristina Alvarez Diez, Tobias Breuninger, Michael Gamperling, Oliver Schwarz, Frank Widulle
  • Patent number: 10441168
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method detects the position of a corneal vertex of an eye from a frontal image of a head and a lateral image of the head. The front and lateral images are calibrated to one another, and the position of the corneal vertex in space is determined from the frontal image and the lateral image with a geometric position determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH, Carl Zeiss AG
    Inventors: Claudia Nieuwenhuis, Oliver Schwarz, Michael Gamperling
  • Publication number: 20180214022
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method detects the position of a corneal vertex of an eye from a frontal image of a head and a lateral image of the head. The front and lateral images are calibrated to one another, and the position of the corneal vertex in space is determined from the frontal image and the lateral image with a geometric position determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Claudia Nieuwenhuis, Oliver Schwarz, Michael Gamperling
  • Patent number: 9971172
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a method allowing the exact determination of the far visual point on spectacle lenses in a spectacle frame for a subject while taking into account the habitual head position or body posture. The method renders it possible to specify the coordinates of the far visual point on spectacle lenses in a coordinate system that is fixed in relation to the spectacle frame coordinate system. The invention also relates to a system carrying out the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Jesus-Miguel Cabeza-Guillen, Subhashini Mani, Michael Gamperling
  • Publication number: 20170038608
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a method allowing the exact determination of the far visual point on spectacle lenses in a spectacle frame for a subject while taking into account the habitual head position or body posture. The method renders it possible to specify the coordinates of the far visual point on spectacle lenses in a coordinate system that is fixed in relation to the spectacle frame coordinate system. The invention also relates to a system carrying out the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Jesus-Miguel Cabeza-Guillen, Subhashini Mani, Michael Gamperling
  • Publication number: 20160357032
    Abstract: In a method for determining at least one fitting parameter for a spectacle lens received in a spectacle frame, an image, lying in an image plane, of at least one portion of a spectacle frame worn by a subject is acquired. When acquiring the image, the inclination of the image plane about a horizontal axis which is parallel to the image plane is established and, in the process, the at least one fitting parameter is established from the acquired image of the portion of the subject with the spectacle frame worn by the subject and the established inclination of the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Jesus-Miguel Cabeza-Guillen, Subhashini Mani, Michael Gamperling
  • Patent number: 9500885
    Abstract: A method for determining the habitual head posture of a subject includes recording the head posture over a period of time and determining a preferred head posture from the recording. Also, an apparatus (100) for determining the habitual head posture of a subject includes a recording device (110) for recording the head posture over a period of time and a determining device (112, 114) for determining a preferred head posture from the recording.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Kubitza, Michael Gamperling, Jesús-Miguel Cabeza-Guillén
  • Patent number: 8827451
    Abstract: An eyesight testing apparatus examines associated heterophoria of the eyes of a subject. The apparatus includes an image generation device having a display unit for generating test patterns for display to the eyes. An optical assembly is arranged on that side of the display unit facing the eyes. This assembly separates light supplied by a first group of selected zones of the display unit from light supplied to a beam path by a second group of selected zones of the display unit. The left eye only receives the light from the first group. The light from the second group only passes to the right eye. The optical assembly includes a prism matrix having a multiplicity of prism portions extending in the vertical direction and each having a lens-shaped region with a convex surface facing the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Jesus-Miguel Cabeza Guillen, Michael Gamperling, Matthias Kubitza
  • Publication number: 20120182521
    Abstract: A method for determining the habitual head posture of a subject includes recording the head posture over a period of time and determining a preferred head posture from the recording. Also, an apparatus (100) for determining the habitual head posture of a subject includes a recording device (110) for recording the head posture over a period of time and a determining device (112, 114) for determining a preferred head posture from the recording.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Inventors: Matthias Kubitza, Michael Gamperling, Jesús-Miguel Cabeza-Guillén