Patents Issued in July 24, 2018
  • Patent number: 10031295
    Abstract: A method and device for interconnecting optical components, such as optical fibers and optical circuits, in a flexible, repeatable, and cost-effective manner. Two or more optical components are interconnected by a flexible optical circuit substrate bearing one or more embedded optical fibers with a lens at each end of each fiber. The flexible optical circuit may be incorporated into a housing bearing apertures for receiving the optical connectors of the optical components that are to be interconnected with the device. The lensed ends of the fibers embedded in the flexible optical circuit are positioned adjacent to the apertures for optically connecting to the fibers within the connectors installed in the apertures without conventional mating connectors disposed inside the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: James Joseph Eberle, Jr., Bruce Eltringham Barry
  • Patent number: 10031296
    Abstract: A multi-fiber, fiber optic connector has a housing having a first end for receiving a multi-fiber fiber optic cable and a second end having openings for said fibers from said cable. First and second key slots are provided for accepting a removable key for setting the polarity of the fibers within the connector, with the first and second key slots located on opposing sides of the connector. The connector has guide pins or guide pin receiving holes for guiding the connection with a second connector. The removable key is movable between the first and second key slots, the key slot with the removable key corresponding to a first active slot and the key slot without the removable key corresponding to a non-active slot. When the removable key is in the first key slot, it results in the first key slot being active with the fibers being presented within the connector in a first polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventor: Paul Michael Good
  • Patent number: 10031297
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical fiber connector that finds application in the general field of optical inter-connection. The optical fiber connector (1a, 1b, c) includes a body (2) having a bore (3) configured to receive an optical fiber; an alignment sleeve (4) that is arranged coaxially with the bore (3); an optical fiber (5) having an end face (6); wherein the optical fiber (5) is arranged within the bore (3). At least at the end face (6) the optical fiber connector includes an optical signature component (50, 51, 52) having a predetermined optical signature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Klass Cornelis Jan Wijbrans, Gerhardus Wilhelmus Lucassen, Bernardus Hendrikus Wilhelmus Hendriks, Christian Reich, Peter Douglas Fairley, Waltherus Cornelis Jozef Bierhoff, Johannes Antonius Van Rooij
  • Patent number: 10031298
    Abstract: A fiber optic ferrule comprising a ferrule body having a plurality of optical fiber insertion holes at a first end thereof, the plurality of optical fiber insertion holes being configured to receive a plurality of optical fibers, and an extended access opening arranged at a top surface of a second end of the ferrule body located opposite the first end, the extended access opening being configured to provide open access to substantially an entirety of an interior space within the ferrule body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Senko Advanced Components, Inc
    Inventor: Paul Newbury
  • Patent number: 10031299
    Abstract: Optical ports providing passive alignment connectivity are disclosed. In one embodiment, an optical port includes a substrate having a surface, a photonic silicon chip, a connector body, and a plurality of spacer elements. The photonic silicon chip includes an electrical coupling surface, an upper surface and an optical coupling surface. The optical coupling surface is positioned between the electrical coupling surface and the upper surface. The photonic silicon chip further includes at least one waveguide terminating at the optical coupling surface, and a chip engagement feature disposed on the upper surface. The connector body includes a first alignment feature, a second alignment feature, a mounting surface, and a connector engagement feature at the mounting surface. The connector engagement feature mates with the chip engagement feature. The plurality of spacer elements is disposed between the electrical coupling surface of the photonic silicon chip and the surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Wojciech Piotr Giziewicz, James Phillip Luther, Andreas Matiss, Jerald Lee Overcash
  • Patent number: 10031300
    Abstract: An optic module cage assembly includes an optic module cage body configured to receive and retain one or more optic modules; a stationary heatsink fixedly attached to the optic module cage body; one or more spring members configured to bias the one or more optic modules towards the stationary heatsink when the one or more optic modules are retained in the optic module cage assembly; and one or more floating connectors configured to make electrical connections with the one or more optic modules when the optic modules are retained in the optic module cage assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventor: Adrianus Van Gaal
  • Patent number: 10031301
    Abstract: In one aspect, the present invention relates to a communications cable, which comprises a support separator providing a plurality of channels for receiving transmission media, said support separator comprising a first polymeric material, at least one optical fiber disposed in one of said channels, at least an electrical conductor capable of carrying at least about 10 watts of electrical power disposed in another one of said channels, an insulation at least partially covering said electrical conductor, a jacket surrounding said support separator and said transmission media, said jacket comprising a second polymeric material. In some embodiments, the first and second polymeric materials can be the same material, and in other embodiments, they can be different materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Cable Components Group, LLC
    Inventors: Charles A. Glew, Richard W. Speer
  • Patent number: 10031302
    Abstract: An optical communication cable and related method is provided. The cable includes a cable body and a plurality of optical transmission elements surrounded by the cable body. The cable includes a reinforcement layer surrounding the plurality of optical transmission elements and located between the cable body and the plurality of optical transmission elements. The reinforcement layer includes an outer surface and a channel defined in the outer surface that extends in the longitudinal direction along at least a portion of the length of the cable. The cable includes an elongate strength element extending in the longitudinal direction within the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Lei Ji, Eric Raymond Logan, Nikolay Anatolyevich Panin, Christopher Mark Quinn
  • Patent number: 10031303
    Abstract: Methods for forming tight buffered cables containing a strippable buffer layer are described. An optical fiber may be provided, and a buffer layer formed from a polymeric material may be extruded around the optical fiber. The buffer layer may be compressed while the polymeric material is cooling following extrusion. The compression may facilitate subsequent loosening of the buffer layer from the optical fiber based at least in part upon stress relaxation of the buffer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Superior Essex International LP
    Inventor: Christopher W. McNutt
  • Patent number: 10031304
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes systems and apparatuses for an optical fiber management system. One embodiment of an optical fiber management system includes a cabinet comprising a system of building blocks that make up a rail-mounting system and an optical fiber management apparatus housed within one of the building blocks. The optical fiber management apparatus can comprise a housing, an adaptor plate resiliently connected to the housing, a splice tray, a housing cover, a radius limiter, and a base configured for integrated slack storage of at least one of buffer tube and ribbon cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Clearfield, Inc.
    Inventors: John P. Hill, Walter E. Power, II, Randy T. VanHorn
  • Patent number: 10031305
    Abstract: A fiber distribution system (10) includes a fiber distribution hub (20, 300); at least one fiber distribution terminal (30, 100); and a cable (40) wrapped around a spool (110) of the fiber distribution terminal (30, 100). The fiber distribution terminal (30, 100) includes a spool (110) and a management tray (120) that rotate together. A second connectorized end (40b) of the cable (40) is held at a fiber optic adapter (125) on the tray (120). After dispensing the first connectorized end (40a) to the hub (20), an optical splitter (70, 130, 140) can be mounted to the tray (120). The splitter (26, 70, 130, 140, 306) has output adapters at which patch cords (50) can be inserted to connect subscribers to the system. The fiber distribution hub can use the same format of splitters (26, 70, 130, 140, 306). Other distributed splitter systems are provided with splicing and/or adding of splitters as needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: CommScope Connectivity Belgium BVBA
    Inventors: Samuel Leeman, David Jan Irma Van Baelen, Stephane Collart, Vincent Francois Michel Cnop
  • Patent number: 10031306
    Abstract: A fiber distribution assembly includes an enclosure defining an interior cavity. The enclosure includes a base defining a first opening and a second opening, and a cover rotatably coupled to the base and configured to rotate about an axis. The base is symmetric about a line perpendicular to the axis. The first opening is on one side of the line, and the second opening is on the other side of the line. The fiber distribution assembly also includes a tray rotatably coupled to the enclosure within the interior cavity of the enclosure and that is symmetric about the line. The fiber distribution assembly also includes a cable management or fiber optic component configured to be releasably coupled to the tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Opterna Technology Limited
    Inventors: Subin Panakkal Sadasivan, Derek Furtado, Icy Kollielil Varghese, Ravindra K. Vora
  • Patent number: 10031307
    Abstract: An optical splitter module (140) can be carried on a cover (120) of an enclosure (100) between a contoured surface (129) and a row of optical adapters (130). Output pigtails (165) from the splitter module (140) are routed to the optical adapters (130). In certain examples, a significantly longer input fiber (161) is routed from the splitter module (140) to a splice region (114) at a base (110) of the enclosure (100). Certain types of splitter modules (140) are mounted to the cover (120) at an angle relative to an insertion axis for a feeder cable (170). A certain type of splitter module (140) curves about a minor axis (A2) so that one major surface (142) has a concave curvature and another major surface (143) has a convex curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: COMMSCOPE CONNECTIVITY BELGIUM BVBA
    Inventors: Bart Mattie Claessens, Dirk Kempeneers, Erwin Beckers
  • Patent number: 10031308
    Abstract: A total front access double sided frame includes a first access side opposite a second access side, and fiber blocks received in the first and second access sides. The fiber blocks may include splice modules and patch modules and have capacity to receive about 6,900 fiber terminations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Telect, Inc.
    Inventors: Spencer Williams, David Knaggs, Steven W. Ellison
  • Patent number: 10031310
    Abstract: An optical device capable of suppressing a reflected light at an end of an optical waveguide regardless of the width of the optical waveguide is provided. An optical device includes an optical waveguide and a terminator. The optical waveguide is formed on a substrate. The terminator is formed on the substrate in such a way that the terminator is connected to one end of the optical waveguide, includes a curved optical waveguide having such a curvature that it causes a bending loss in an input light input from the optical waveguide, the input light decaying as it propagates through the curved optical waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10031311
    Abstract: The invention relates to a holding apparatus for an optical measurement device. The holding apparatus has two holding units for two preferably telecentric optics units of the measurement device. Each holding unit has a first bearing device and a second bearing device. The two bearing devices are arranged at a distance from one another in the direction of an optical axis of the optics unit. A three-point bearing by three bearing elements for the associated optics unit is provided on each bearing device. At least two of the bearing elements can be positioned along a relevant adjustment axis. The adjustment axes extend substantially at right angles to the relevant optical axis. The optics unit can thus be displaced in a plane spanned by the adjustment axes and can be inclined or tilted on account of the two bearing devices distanced from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Carl Mahr Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Lotz, Lars Heiser, Michael Stepputat
  • Patent number: 10031312
    Abstract: A small format factor camera system for mobile devices that provides improved image quality when using accessory lenses. The system may detect an accessory lens attached to the camera, either via sensing technology or by analyzing captured images. The system may analyze image data to determine current alignment (e.g., optical axis alignment, spacing, and/or tilt) of the accessory lens relative to the camera lens, and may shift the camera lens on one or more axes using a mechanical or optical actuator, for example to align the camera lens optical axis with the accessory lens optical axis. The system may also determine optical characteristics of the accessory lens, either via sensing technology or by analyzing captured images, and may apply one or more image processing functions to images captured using the accessory lens according to the determined optical characteristics of the accessory lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin A. Gross, Richard L. Baer
  • Patent number: 10031313
    Abstract: A lens aligning device includes: a decentering detection mechanism for measuring a first lens decentering amount; a aligning position calculation control mechanism for calculating a target inter-lens decentering amount by using Formula (1); an adjustment mechanism for moving at least one of a first lens and a second lens so that the inter-lens decentering amount matches the target inter-lens decentering amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norimichi Shigemitsu, Hiroyuki Hanato
  • Patent number: 10031314
    Abstract: To compensate for a focal plane shifting away from an image plane due to a temperature change, an integrated image sensor and lens assembly includes an optical component and an optics compensator including passively actuating elements. The passively actuating elements couple the optical component to the inner surface of the lens mount. The passively actuating elements and the optics component are configured such that the focal plane is maintained to coincide with or substantially coincide with the image plane. The passively actuating elements and the optics component adjust the distance an incident ray travels in the optics compensator when the temperature changes to thereby maintaining the focal plane to coincide with or substantially coincide with the image plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Patrick Campbell
  • Patent number: 10031315
    Abstract: The lens barrel includes a first planar portion, a barrier front cover, a vane portion, and a lens group frame. The first planar portion is configured to be substantially perpendicular to an optical axis and includes a first opening portion. The barrier front cover includes a second opening portion. The vane portion is configured to move between a first position and a second position. The vane portion is configured to cover the first opening portion and the second opening portion at the first position, and allow the first opening portion and the second opening portion to open at the second position. The lens group frame is configured to support rotatably the vane portion and includes at least one lens. The first planar portion is disposed closer to a subject than the barrier front cover. The first opening portion is formed smaller than the second opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuya Uno
  • Patent number: 10031316
    Abstract: A vibration type driving apparatus includes a first vibrator including an electro-mechanical energy conversion element and configured to be in pressure contact with a driven member, a second vibrator including an electro-mechanical energy conversion element and configured to be in pressure contact with the driven member, and a first electric element connected in series with the second vibrator. The first vibrator is connected to a driving circuit, the second vibrator and the first electric element are connected in parallel with the first vibrator, the second vibrator is connected to the driving circuit via the first electric element, and a resonance frequency f of the first vibrator and a resonance frequency f2 of the second vibrator satisfy a relationship f1<f2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Jun Sumioka
  • Patent number: 10031317
    Abstract: An optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element and a third lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex, and the object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof are aspheric. The second lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave, and an object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof are aspheric. The third lens element with refractive power has an object-side surface being concave, and the object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof are aspheric. The optical lens assembly further includes a stop with no lens element having refractive power disposed between the stop and the first lens element. The optical lens assembly has a total of three lens elements with refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Che Hsueh, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 10031318
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex. The second lens element has negative refractive power. At least one of two surfaces of the fourth lens element has at least one inflection point, and the two surfaces thereof are aspheric. The fifth lens element has an object-side surface being convex and an image-side surface having at least one inflection point, and the two surfaces thereof are aspheric. The sixth lens element has an image-side surface being concave, wherein the image-side surface of the sixth lens element has at least one convex shape in off-axial region, and the two surfaces thereof are aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Yen Chen, Yu-Tai Tseng, Wei-Yu Chen, Chun-Che Hsueh
  • Patent number: 10031319
    Abstract: A six-piece optical lens for capturing image and a six-piece optical module for capturing image are provided. In the order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis includes a first lens element with refractive power, a second lens element with refractive power, a third lens element with refractive power, a fourth lens element with refractive power, a fifth lens element with refractive power and a sixth element lens with refractive power. At least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the six lens elements is aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsun Lai, Nai-Yuan Tang, Yeong-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: 10031320
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lens, and discloses an optical camera lens, which, from an object side to an image side, successively includes: an aperture, a first lens having positive refraction power, a second lens having negative refraction power, a third lens having positive refraction power, a fourth lens having negative refraction power, a fifth lens having positive refraction power, and a sixth lens having negative refraction power, which satisfy following relational expressions: 0.7<f1/f<0.8; ?2<f2/f<?1.8; 1.9<f3/f<2.1; ?2.6<f4/f<?2.2; 0.8<f5/f<1; ?0.7<f6/f<?0.5; 1.9<f3/f5<2.2. The optical camera lens provided by the present disclosure can meet the design requirements on large aperture meanwhile shortening the total track length of the optical camera lens, thus achieving good sensitivity performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Jianming Wang
  • Patent number: 10031321
    Abstract: The optical imaging lens includes five lens elements from an object side to an image side. The optical imaging lens shows better optical characteristics through controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces of the lens elements to allow the thicknesses of the second and third lens elements and air gaps between the five lens elements along the optical axis satisfying the relations 1.715?AAG/(AG45)?7.593 and 2.124?ALT/(T2+T3)?3.937, where AAG is the sum of all four air gaps from the first to the fifth lens element along the optical axis, AG45 is an air gap between the fourth and fifth lens elements along the optical axis, ALT is the sum of thicknesses of the first to fifth lens elements along the optical axis, and T2 and T3 are the respective thickness of the second and third lens elements along the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo-Wen Chang, Poche Lee, Sheng Wei Hsu, I-Lung Lu
  • Patent number: 10031322
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic image pickup system whose depth dimension is extremely reduced, taking advantage of an optical system type that can overcome conditions imposed on the movement of a zooming movable lens group while high specifications and performance are kept. The electronic image pickup system comprises an optical path-bending zoom optical system comprising, in order from its object side, a 1-1st lens group G1-1 comprising a negative lens group and a reflecting optical element P for bending an optical path, a 1-2nd lens group G1-2 comprising one positive lens and a second lens group G2 having positive refracting power. For zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end, the second lens group G2 moves only toward the object side. The electronic image pickup system also comprises an electronic image pickup device I located on the image side of the zoom optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Mihara, Hirokazu Konishi, Toyoharu Hanzawa, Masahito Watanabe, Atsujiro Ishii, Tetsuhide Takeyama, Ayami Imamura
  • Patent number: 10031323
    Abstract: Provided is a compact zoom lens having a high aperture ratio and high optical performance over an entire zoom range. The zoom lens includes, in order from object side to image side: first, second, and third lens units respectively having positive, negative, and positive refractive powers; an aperture stop; a middle lens group; and a final lens unit. An interval between adjacent lens units is changed during zooming. The third lens unit includes at least two positive lenses and at least one negative lens. A combined focal length (f12t) of first lens unit and second lens unit at telephoto end, a focal length (fn) of a lens unit (N) having a largest absolute value of the negative refractive power of the lens unit forming middle lens group, a focal length (f3) of third lens unit, and a focal length (ft) of zoom lens at telephoto end are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ken Wada
  • Patent number: 10031324
    Abstract: A projection optical system is constituted by, in order from the reduction side, a first optical system for forming an image displayed by image display elements as an intermediate image, and a second optical system for forming the intermediate image on a magnification side conjugate plane. The second optical system is constituted by, in order from the reduction side, a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a first optical path bending means that bends an optical path with a reflective surface, a second lens group having a positive refractive power, a second optical path bending means that bends an optical path with a reflective surface, and a third lens group having a negative refractive power. Conditional Formulae (1) and (2) below are satisfied. 0.05<|f23|/D223<0.50??(1) 5.0<D212/|f|<20.0??(2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masaru Amano
  • Patent number: 10031325
    Abstract: An arrangement for light sheet microscopy that includes a means for scanning a sample volume with a light sheet, which includes an angle ??90° with the optical axis of an objective. The light sheet passes through the entire sample volume in the propagation direction, and the depth of field Sobj of the objective is less than the optical-axis depth T of this sample volume. An optical device, disposed downstream of the objective, increases the depth of field Sobj to a depth of field Seff?the depth T of this sample volume. The arrangement also includes a means for positioning the sample volume within the region of the depth of field Seff. A spatially resolving optoelectronic area sensor is disposed downstream of the optical device, and hardware and software are provided to generate sample-volume images from the electronic image signals output by the area sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: Tiemo Anhut, Thomas Kalkbrenner, Daniel Schwedt, Jörg Siebenmorgen, Helmut Lippert
  • Patent number: 10031326
    Abstract: According to one aspect, the invention concerns a method for microscopy of a thick sample arranged on a sample support, with edge-illumination of the sample. The method comprises, in particular, emitting at least one illumination beam (1), forming, from the illumination beam, an illumination surface, focusing the illumination surface in the sample by means of a microscope lens (120) and deflecting the illumination surface originating from the microscope lens, in order to form a transverse illumination surface, located in a plane substantially perpendicular to the optical axis of the microscope lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignees: IMAGINE OPTIC, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS), Université de Bordeaux
    Inventors: Xavier Levecq, Virgile Viasnoff, Jean-Baptiste Sibarita, Vincent Studer, Rémi Galland
  • Patent number: 10031327
    Abstract: A method for high-resolution 3D-localization microscopy of a sample having fluorescence emitters, in which the fluorescence emitters are excited to emit fluorescent radiation and the sample is displayed with spatial resolution in wide-field microscopy. Excitation is caused such that at least some fluorescence emitters are isolated. A three-dimensional localization is determined in a localization analysis, which includes a z-coordinate, x-coordinate as well as a y-coordinate orthogonal thereto, for each isolated fluorescence emitter. A table of localization imprecision is provided. Localization imprecision being determined for each localized fluorescence emitter by accessing the table of localization imprecision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: Yauheni Novikau, Thomas Kalkbrenner
  • Patent number: 10031328
    Abstract: Example embodiments relate to systems and methods for processing an image in optical microscopy, such as for a CMOS camera used as an optical detector in a line confocal fluorescent imager. The method includes acquiring a raw image with a microscope, and asymmetrically deconvolving at least a portion of the raw image using a point-spread function that is different in an X-direction than in a Y-direction in order to generate an asymmetrically deconvolved image. When the image is a monochromatic fluorescence image, the method also includes compressing CMOS camera noise. Also provided is a system for processing an image in optical microscopy and an image processing system for processing a monochromatic image from a CMOS camera-based line-scan confocal fluorescent microscope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Paul C. Goodwin
  • Patent number: 10031329
    Abstract: An optical telescope is provided that includes a steering mirror configured to receive and redirect optical signals. The steering mirror is configured to be controllably oriented so as to control a direction in which the optical signals are redirected and to correspondingly control a line of sight. The optical telescope also includes a beam tube that includes a turning mirror configured to receive the optical signals from the steering mirror. The optical telescope also includes a primary mirror downstream of the turning mirror and configured to collimate the optical signals. Further, the optical telescope includes an output mirror configured to receive the optical signals from the primary mirror and to redirect the optical signals from the optical telescope. The output mirror is configured to be controllably oriented so as to control a direction in which the optical signals are redirected and to correspondingly control the line of sight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Jed Eden Donaldson, Joseph Nolan Paranto
  • Patent number: 10031330
    Abstract: A stereoscopic endoscope includes a proximal main body, an outer tube extended to a distal end of the endoscope and a pair of optical train subassemblies. Distal and proximal inserts in the distal and proximal ends of the outer tube, respectively, support the optical train subassemblies. First and second optical fiber bundles substantially fill all of the voids between the inner surface of the outer tube and the outer surfaces of the inserts and the optical train subassemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert S. Breidenthal, Joseph N. Forkey, Robert N. Ross, Brian E. Volk
  • Patent number: 10031331
    Abstract: A valve body in a passage of a housing connected to a through hole in a sealed machine casing can allow an inspection apparatus into an interior of the casing when open, and prevents fluid flow through the passage when closed. Seals can engage the inspection apparatus to prevent fluid flow through the passage during inspection or inspection apparatus movement. A guide conduit in the casing can include branches and can guide the inspection apparatus to multiple inspection sites. Guide marks can identify the branches to assist with navigation within the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Daniel Lawrence Banowetz, Jordan Christopher Baker, Thomas James Batzinger, Anthony James George, Ronald Irving Longwell, Matthew Peter Scoffone, Daniel David Soloway
  • Patent number: 10031332
    Abstract: Electrowetting display elements comprising a thin film transistor are disclosed. In examples, the thin film transistor may comprise a first gate terminal, a semiconducting channel overlying at least a portion of the first gate terminal, a source terminal formed on at least a first portion of the semiconducting channel, and a drain terminal formed on at least a second portion of the semiconducting channel, different from the first portion of the semiconducting channel. The source and drain terminals may form an inter-terminal region of the semiconducting channel located between the source terminal and the drain terminal. A second gate terminal may be formed overlying at least a portion of the inter-terminal region so as to shield the inter-terminal region from light and to increase the conductivity of the semiconducting channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Toru Sakai, Abhishek Kumar
  • Patent number: 10031333
    Abstract: An arrangement for correcting aberrations of a specimen surface that vary across the visual field on a microscope, including a lens, a tubular lens, an imaging optics element, a pupil stop disposed in the beam path, and at least one optical element for optical-geometric separation of different image field regions. The optical element for optical-geometric separation of different image field regions is arranged in or near the intermediate image plane. Each individual element of the optical element for optical-geometric separation of different image field regions performs a pupil imaging, defined by the dimensions of the covered area of the intermediate image, such that a distribution of sub-pupils occurs, wherein each sub-pupil is allocated to the angle distribution from the associated image field region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventor: Kai Wicker
  • Patent number: 10031334
    Abstract: A phase-adjusting element configured to provide substantially liquid-invariant extended depth of field for an associated optical lens. One example of a lens incorporating the phase-adjusting element includes the lens having surface with a modulated relief defining a plurality of regions including a first region and a second region, the first region having a depth relative to the second region, and a plurality of nanostructures formed in the first region. The depth of the first region and a spacing between adjacent nanostructures of the plurality of nanostructures is selected to provide a selected average index of refraction of the first region, and the spacing between adjacent nanostructures of the plurality of nanostructures is sufficiently small that the first region does not substantially diffract visible light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Brien Holden Vision Institute
    Inventors: Zeev Zalevsky, Ofer Limon
  • Patent number: 10031335
    Abstract: An augmented reality system may generate an augmented reality environment by projecting images onto various surfaces within a scene. A projection accessory display device (PADD) provides known characteristics for projection, and may be configured to simplify generation and maintenance of the projected image upon the PADD. The PADD may also provide one or more input devices which accept input from a user within the augmented reality environment. The PADD may comprise non-electronic passive components, electronic active components, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: William Spencer Worley, III
  • Patent number: 10031336
    Abstract: An image display device includes a light source, a screen, an optical system and a driving unit. The screen is irradiated with light from the light source to form an image. The optical system generates a virtual image with the light from the screen. The driving unit moves the screen in an optical axis direction. The driving unit includes a holder, one or more elastic members and a driving source. The holder holds the screen. The one or more elastic members support the holder so as to enable the holder to reciprocally move in the optical axis direction. The driving source generates force for moving the holder in the optical axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Uragami, Takahisa Shiramizu, Akira Kurozuka, Hiroyuki Furuya
  • Patent number: 10031337
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include an eyewear-type mobile terminal, including a camera configured to capture an image, a frame formed to be worn on a user's head, a sensor configured to detect touches on the frame, a display coupled to the frame and configured to display information, and a controller configured to cause the display to display a first image captured via the camera in response to a predetermined first touch detected on the frame and terminate display of the first image when the first touch is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yujune Jang, Taeseong Kim, Jeongyoon Rhee
  • Patent number: 10031338
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for eyebox expansion by exit pupil replication in scanning laser-based wearable heads-up displays (“WHUDs”) are described. The WHUDs described herein each include a scanning laser projector (“SLP”), a holographic combiner, and an optical replicator positioned in the optical path therebetween. For each light signal generated by the SLP, the optical replicator receives the light signal and redirects each one of N>1 instances of the light signal towards the holographic combiner effectively from a respective one of N spatially-separated virtual positions for the SLP. The holographic combiner converges each one of the N instances of the light signal to a respective one of N spatially-separated exit pupils at the eye of the user. In this way, multiple instances of the exit pupil are distributed over the area of the eye and the eyebox of the WHUD is expanded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: THALMIC LABS INC.
    Inventors: Stefan Alexander, Matthew Bailey, Vance R. Morrison, Lloyd Frederick Holland
  • Patent number: 10031339
    Abstract: An optical combiner includes an off-axis spatially multiplexed lens optically coupled to receive image light and direct the image light in an eye-ward direction. The off-axis spatially multiplexed lens includes a first sub-lens multiplexed with a second sub-lens. The first sub-lens and the sub-lens are configured to direct the image light to designated eyeward-regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Bernard C. Kress, Greg E. Priest-Dorman
  • Patent number: 10031340
    Abstract: A head mounted device includes a virtual reality helmet, a control section, a transmission line and a head band portion. The head band portion includes a rotatable head band detachably positioned on the virtual reality helmet via a connection mechanism including a catching connection portion and a fixing portion having a main body portion. The catching connection portion is mounted in a counterbore of the rotatable head band and includes a catching fixture, two catching halves, a push button and a first elastic part. A driving portion of the bush button moves upward vertically and drives the action of the two driven portions of two catching halves to open or close two catching portions of the catching halves transversely, and thus perform the connection or detachment with the caught portion on the main body portion of the fixing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: BEIJING PICO TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Lai, Guanghui Liu
  • Patent number: 10031341
    Abstract: A head-up display device includes: a cover having a light-transmissive light exit part; a first case mating with the cover and having a light entry part for entry of display light and a housing part housing a reflecting member; a light source unit outside the housing part; and a second case covering the light source unit and fastened to the first case. The device has a heat radiator of higher rigidity than the second case, having a wall part that externally projects from the housing part through the intervening light entry part, the light source unit affixed to the wall part to diffuse the heat from the light source unit; and includes a mating part in which the second case and the wall part mate together, the second case fastened to the heat radiator at locations to either side of the mating part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON SEIKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Azuma
  • Patent number: 10031342
    Abstract: It relates to a high-power laser attenuator wherein laser is incident into an attenuator housing through a lens barrel; a ½ wave plate, a first lens and a second lens are arranged in sequence on an incident light path along a laser incident direction; the ½ wave plate can rotate around the incident light path, and normal lines of incident planes of the two lenses and the incident light axis are set to form a Brewster angle; a laser absorber assembly is arranged in a reflected light path of the first lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: NANJING INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED LASER TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jun Zhou, Qikun Li, Hufu Xiao, Jianyong Ding, Chen Deng, Zhi Li
  • Patent number: 10031343
    Abstract: An image display device including a laser light source; an optical element; and a transmitting-reflecting member, the image display device which displays an image by forming the image by light which is emitted from the laser light source and making image light after forming the image to be incident on the transmitting-reflecting member, wherein the laser light source is arranged such that there are more S polarization components of the image light which is incident on the transmitting-reflecting member with respect to the transmitting-reflecting member than P polarization components, and a mobile object including the image display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiroh Saisho, Makoto Inamoto
  • Patent number: 10031344
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques and apparatuses for rotational alignment of a circular display and a circular lens. In one or more implementations, a display device, such as a smart watch, includes a circular lens assembly that overlays a circular display assembly. The display device includes at least two alignment points positioned along the perimeter of the circular display assembly that enable a machine vision system to rotationally align the circular display assembly to the circular lens assembly. At least one of the alignment points includes a target mark on the perimeter of the circular lens assembly that is viewable by the machine vision system through a corresponding alignment hole on the perimeter of the circular display assembly. The alignment hole is within a border region of the circular display assembly, but is sized and positioned so that it does not impact the structure of the circular display assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Daniel J. Meer, Thomas E. Gitzinger
  • Patent number: 10031345
    Abstract: A slip-resistant eyewear system comprising an eyewear frame generally comprises a nosepiece comprising a nosepiece material configured to couple to a bridge of an eyewear frame. The frame comprises first and second hinges coupled to the eyewear frame which are also coupled to first and second spring-loaded tension adjusters. First and second bows are coupled to first and second tension adjusters. A first bow extension element is coupled to the first bow and comprises a first fastening element at a first end of the first bow extension element and a second bow extension element is coupled to the second bow and comprises a second fastening element at a first end of the second bow extension element that is configured to mate with the first fastening element to secure the first and second bow extension elements together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: LooLoops, LLC
    Inventors: Kent Chill Loo, Joseph Pepe Elijio Velasquez, Robert James Fulbright, Yu Liu