Patents by Inventor Roland Bryn Piper

Roland Bryn Piper 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: 11363949
    Abstract: An eye measuring apparatus includes a stimulator including multiple stimulator light points for projecting a plurality of light rays onto a surface of the cornea of an eye; a camera system for capturing reflected images of the stimulator light points; and a computational unit arranged to analyse the posterior surface of the cornea and/or to obtain a characteristic of the eye on the basis of the reflected images. The control unit is arranged to activate subsequently different subsets of the multiple stimulator light points; and to carry out the following steps: selecting, for each of the different subsets of the multiple stimulator light points, at least one reflected image that corresponds with activation of the respective subset of the multiple stimulator light points, and combining the selected reflected images with each other to analyse the posterior surface of the cornea and/or to obtain the characteristic of the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Cassini Technologies B.V.
    Inventors: Haaije Rimmer De Vries, Roland Bryn Piper
  • Publication number: 20200008669
    Abstract: An eye measuring apparatus includes a stimulator including multiple stimulator light points for projecting a plurality of light rays onto a surface of the cornea of an eye; a camera system for capturing reflected images of the stimulator light points; and a computational unit arranged to analyse the posterior surface of the cornea and/or to obtain a characteristic of the eye on the basis of the reflected images. The control unit is arranged to activate subsequently different subsets of the multiple stimulator light points; and to carry out the following steps: selecting, for each of the different subsets of the multiple stimulator light points, at least one reflected image that corresponds with activation of the respective subset of the multiple stimulator light points, and combining the selected reflected images with each other to analyse the posterior surface of the cornea and/or to obtain the characteristic of the eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Haaije Rimmer De Vries, Roland Bryn Piper
  • Patent number: 9743832
    Abstract: A method of determining a corneal thickness and an apparatus for determining the same. The method comprises the following steps of illuminating a cornea by a plurality of stimulator point light sources, capturing an image of the cornea comprising reflected images of the stimulator point light sources, obtaining a first model representing an anterior surface of the cornea, constructing a second model representing a posterior surface of the cornea from the image by ray-tracing the reflected images of the stimulator point light sources towards the first model representing the anterior surface of the cornea, and determining the corneal thickness from the first model representing the anterior surface and the second model representing the posterior surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Cassini B.V.
    Inventors: Victor Arni de Paz Sicam, Roland Bryn Piper
  • Publication number: 20150190046
    Abstract: A method of determining a corneal thickness and an apparatus for determining the same. The method comprises the following steps of illuminating a cornea by a plurality of stimulator point light sources, capturing an image of the cornea comprising reflected images of the stimulator point light sources, obtaining a first model representing an anterior surface of the cornea, constructing a second model representing a posterior surface of the cornea from the image by ray-tracing the reflected images of the stimulator point light sources towards the first model representing the anterior surface of the cornea, and determining the corneal thickness from the first model representing the anterior surface and the second model representing the posterior surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Victor Arni de Paz Sicam, Roland Bryn Piper