Patents by Inventor Yohann Bénard

Yohann Bénard 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: 11953759
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, including: capturing a nominal refractive power and/or a nominal astigmatism in a near reference point of the lens, determining a corrective value of the vertical or horizontal prism in the near reference point of the lens; modifying the nominal refractive power and/or the nominal astigmatism in the near reference point on the basis of the corrective value of the vertical or horizontal prism of the lens; determining a continuous course of the nominal refractive power or the nominal astigmatism along the main line of the lens on the basis of the modified refractive power and/or nominal astigmatism in the near reference point; and calculating or optimizing the lens on the basis of the modified nominal refractive power and/or nominal astigmatism in the near reference point and the determined course of the nominal refractive power and/or the nominal astigmatism along the main line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Andrea Welk, Anne Seidemann, Helmut Altheimer, Yohann Bénard, Adam Muschielok, Gregor Esser, Wolfgang Becken
  • Publication number: 20230333408
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a device for calculating or optimizing a lens, and a lens. The method includes: capturing a nominal optical power and/or a nominal astigmatism in a near reference point of the lens, determining a corrective value of the vertical or horizontal prism in the near reference point of the lens; modifying the nominal optical power and/or the nominal astigmatism in the near reference point on the basis of the corrective value of the vertical or horizontal prism of the lens; determining a continuous course of the nominal optical power or the nominal astigmatism along the main line of the lens on the basis of the modified optical power and/or nominal astigmatism in the near reference point; and calculating or optimizing the lens on the basis of the modified nominal optical power and/or nominal astigmatism in the near reference point and the determined course of the nominal optical power and/or the nominal astigmatism along the main line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Andrea Welk, Anne Seidemann, Helmut Altheimer, Yohann Bénard, Adam Muschielok, Gregor Esser, Wolfgang Becken
  • Patent number: 11703694
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for calculating or assessing a spectacles lens for an eye of a spectacles wearer. The method includes (a) providing an association of at least one imaging property or aberration of a spectacle lens system with the vision of the spectacles wearer, or of an average spectacles wearer, when observing an object through the spectacles lens system; (b) determining or prescribing a target function for the spectacles lens to be calculated or assessed, in which the association from step (a) is to be evaluated; and (c) calculating or assessing the spectacles lens to be calculated or assessed by evaluating the target function, wherein the target function is evaluated at least once.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Becken, Helmut Altheimer, Adam Muschielok, Yohann Bénard, Anne Seidemann, Andrea Welk, Gregor Esser
  • Publication number: 20230135330
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a corresponding computer program product for calculating (optimizing) and producing a spectacle lens with the aid of a semi-personalized eye model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Stephan Trumm, Wolfgang Becken, Helmut Altheimer, Adam Muschielok, Yohann Bénard, Gregor Esser, Werner Mueller
  • Patent number: 11561413
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a corresponding computer program product for calculating (optimizing) and producing a spectacle lens with the aid of a semi-personalized eye model. In one approach, the method includes providing personalized refraction data of at least one eye of the spectacles wearer; establishing a personalized eye model in which at least the parameters: shape of an anterior corneal surface of a model eye; a cornea-lens distance; parameters of the lens of the model eye; and lens-retina distance are established using personalized measured values for the eye of the spectacles wearer, and/or using standard values, and/or using the provided personalized refraction data, such that the model eye has the provided personalized refraction data, wherein at least the establishment of the lens-retina distance takes place via calculation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Trumm, Wolfgang Becken, Helmut Altheimer, Adam Muschielok, Yohann Bénard, Gregor Esser, Werner Mueller
  • Publication number: 20200326560
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for calculating or assessing a spectacles lens for an eye of a spectacles wearer. The method includes (a) providing an association of at least one imaging property or aberration of a spectacle lens system with the vision of the spectacles wearer, or of an average spectacles wearer, when observing an object through the spectacles lens system; (b) determining or prescribing a target function for the spectacles lens to be calculated or assessed, in which the association from step (a) is to be evaluated; and (c) calculating or assessing the spectacles lens to be calculated or assessed by evaluating the target function, wherein the target function is evaluated at least once.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Wolfgang Becken, Helmut Altheimer, Adam Muschielok, Yohann Bénard, Anne Seidemann, Andrea Welk, Gregor Esser
  • Publication number: 20200285071
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a corresponding computer program product for calculating (optimizing) and producing a spectacle lens with the aid of a semi-personalized eye model. In one approach, the method includes providing personalized refraction data of at least one eye of the spectacles wearer; establishing a personalized eye model in which at least the parameters: shape of an anterior corneal surface of a model eye; a cornea-lens distance; parameters of the lens of the model eye; and lens-retina distance are established using personalized measured values for the eye of the spectacles wearer, and/or using standard values, and/or using the provided personalized refraction data, such that the model eye has the provided personalized refraction data, wherein at least the establishment of the lens-retina distance takes place via calculation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Stephan Trumm, Wolfgang Becken, Helmut Altheimer, Adam Muschielok, Yohann Bénard, Gregor Esser, Werner Mueller
  • Patent number: 10613347
    Abstract: Optimizing and producing a lens by defining an individual eye model, in which a shape of a corneal front surface of a model eye, and a reference aberration at an evaluation surface within the model eye are defined based on individual measurement values for the lens wearer's eye, on standard values, or based on provided individual refraction data; specifying first and second surfaces for the lens to be optimized; determining the path of a main ray through a visual point a surface of the lens into the model eye up to the evaluation surface; evaluating an aberration of a wavefront propagating along the main ray and resulting from a spherical wavefront incident on the first surface of the lens at the evaluation surface in comparison to the reference aberration; and iteratively varying the surface of the lens until the evaluated aberration corresponds to a predetermined target aberration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Trumm, Wolfgang Becken, Helmut Altheimer, Adam Muschielok, Yohann Bénard, Gregor Esser, Anne Seidemann, Werner Mueller
  • Publication number: 20180210228
    Abstract: Optimizing and producing a lens by defining an individual eye model, in which a shape of a corneal front surface of a model eye, and a reference aberration at an evaluation surface within the model eye are defined based on individual measurement values for the lens wearer's eye, on standard values, or based on provided individual refraction data; specifying first and second surfaces for the lens to be optimized; determining the path of a main ray through a visual point a surface of the lens into the model eye up to the evaluation surface; evaluating an aberration of a wavefront propagating along the main ray and resulting from a spherical wavefront incident on the first surface of the lens at the evaluation surface in comparison to the reference aberration; and iteratively varying the surface of the lens until the evaluated aberration corresponds to a predetermined target aberration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Stephan Trumm, Wolfgang Becken, Helmut Altheimer, Adam Muschielok, Yohann Bénard, Gregor Esser, Anne Seidemann, Werner Mueller