Eye Examining Or Testing Instrument Patents (Class 351/200)
  • Patent number: 11617508
    Abstract: A fundus illumination system includes an array of light sources, a first optical combiner, and a second optical combiner. The array of light sources are configured to be selectively enabled to emit non-visible light to illuminate a fundus of an eye. The first optical combiner is configured to receive reflected non-visible light that is reflected by the eye, direct a first component of the reflected non-visible light to a first camera to generate an image of the eye, and pass a second component of the reflected non-visible light. The second optical combiner is configured to receive a fundus imaging light responsive to the second component of the reflected non-visible light, and to direct the fundus imaging light to a second camera to generate an image of the fundus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Robin Sharma, Mohamed Tarek El-Haddad
  • Patent number: 11619831
    Abstract: A soft contact lens comprises a plurality of light sources coupled to a plurality of optical elements. The plurality of light sources and the plurality of optical elements are embedded in a soft contact lens material. Each of said plurality of optical elements generates an image focused in front of a peripheral retina of a wearer. In some embodiments, each of the images is focused at a distance in front of the peripheral retina at a location, and each of the images comprises a depth of focus and a spatial resolution. The depth of focus can be less than the distance, and the spatial resolution greater than a spatial resolution of the peripheral retina at the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: ACUCELA INC.
    Inventors: Beat Wyss, Jean-Noël Fehr, Glenn Noronha, Karim Haroud, Julien Sauvet, Hans Bernhard, Christian Oggenfuss, Amitava Gupta, Ryo Kubota
  • Patent number: 11594336
    Abstract: A macular health measurement and storage system comprises a plurality of macular-pigment measurement machine for measuring macular pigment density in humans, a plurality of computers each of which is associated with a corresponding one the macular-pigment measuring machines, and a central host. The plurality of macular-pigment measurement machines include a device for receiving macular pigment data from a patient, at least one data transfer port, and at least one processor that enables the transfer of the macular pigment data from the transfer port. The plurality of computers include a first port coupled to the data transfer port of the corresponding macular-pigment measurement machine for receiving the macular pigment data. Each of the computers includes a second port for transferring patient data. The central host is coupled to the second ports on each of the plurality of computers. The central host includes a storage device for storing the patient data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: ZeaVision LLC
    Inventors: Dennis L. Gierhart, Terry B. Hatfield
  • Patent number: 11576574
    Abstract: Method and contact lens (3) for measuring a subject's three dimensional eye movement including torsional movement. A video camera (1) is provided for recording an image of the subject's eye (2). The contact lens (3) is provided for placement over the subject's eye (2). The contact lens (3) comprises one or more markers (3a,3b) that are detectable by the video camera (1) and are positioned at a lateral offset (D) with respect to a central part (3p) of the contact lens (3). The one or more markers (3a,3b) are configured for detecting torsional rotation (R) of the subject's eye (2) around a line of sight axis (C) of the subject's eye (2) by using the video camera (1) to track a position of the one or more markers (3a,3b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam
    Inventors: Johannes van der Steen, Johannes Jacob Mient Pel, Jochem Jesse Visser
  • Patent number: 11564564
    Abstract: An optical coherence tomography (OCT) system for imaging a retina applies a user specific focus correction to focus a sample arm light beam on the user's retina. An OCT image detector generates an OCT signal. A control unit monitors the OCT signal, controls a reference arm optical path length adjustment mechanism to identify a length of the reference arm optical path for which the OCT signal corresponds to an OCT image of the retina, and varies an operational parameter of the sample arm light beam focus mechanism over a range, while maintaining the length of the reference arm optical path for which the OCT signal corresponds to the OCT image of the retina, to identify a focus correction for the user, based on the OCT signal, for application to the sample arm light beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Notal Vision, Ltd.
    Inventors: Amit Pascal, Gidon Goren-Gratzyani
  • Patent number: 11501428
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method, apparatus and system for detecting a fundus image on the basis of machine learning. The method comprises: acquiring a fundus image to be detected; classifying the entire region of the fundus image by using a first classification model to determine whether the fundus image contains a first feature; and if the fundus image does not contain any first feature, classifying a specific region in the fundus image by using at least one second classification model to determine whether the fundus image contains any second feature, wherein the saliency of the first features are greater than that of the second features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Inventors: Xin Zhao, JianHao Xiong, ShuLei Li, YongPei Ma, Chao He, Dalei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11442538
    Abstract: In this patent, an improved eye tracking system is implemented for enhanced viewing. This system incorporates eye facing cameras and tracks display settings longitudinally and determines which portions of the image have been viewing and to what extent. A longitudinal dataset is generated and analyzed to better understand the human review process and cause improvements thereof. Furthermore, image review is enhanced by highlighting portions of the image that have not been adequately reviewed. Comparison across multiple reviewers is also performed to improve a user's performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: RED PACS, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Edwin Douglas
  • Patent number: 11439302
    Abstract: A system for visualization of eye anatomy includes at least one camera having a view vector along a first axis when in a first position, a housing to which the camera is coupled, wherein the housing engages the head of a patient such that the camera is positioned adjacent a patient's eye, and an actuator that moves the camera from the first position to a second position with a view vector along a second axis that is offset from the first axis. A method of visualization of eye anatomy includes engaging a patient's head with a housing, positioning at least one camera coupled to the housing adjacent an eye, wherein the camera has a view vector along a first axis when in a first position, and moving the camera to a second position with a view vector along a second axis offset from the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SANOVAS, INC.
    Inventors: Lawrence J. Gerrans, Charles N. Wang
  • Patent number: 11347056
    Abstract: A color correction mask programmatically generated in software on an HMD device is applied to a gaze region on a display field of view (FOV) on a head-mounted display (HMD) device to optimize system resources while rendering a display. Eye monitoring sensors are utilized to track movement of a user's eyes while the user operates the HMD device to determine a gaze position of the user's eyes on the display FOV. Using the determined gaze position, a dynamic foveal gaze region is sized around the gaze position so that the foveal portion of the display FOV is color-corrected, that is, color non-uniformities are reduced or eliminated. In other implementations, a gaze-based weighting mode is implemented in which measurements of the user's full eye or eye orbit are utilized to color correct a larger surface area of the display FOV relative to the foveal color correction mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Steven John Robbins, Christopher Charles Aholt, Andrew Kilgour Juenger, Nicholas Mark Cirucci
  • Patent number: 11337606
    Abstract: A system for testing and/or training the vision of a user is disclosed herein. The system includes a motion sensing device, a visual display device having an output screen, and a data processing device operatively coupled to the motion sensing device and the visual display device. In one embodiment, the data processing device is programmed to generate and display a configuration of a visual object on the visual display device during the same cycle of rotational head displacement when the actual head velocity or speed for the user reaches or exceeds a prescribed threshold percentage of the target velocity or speed. In another embodiment, the data processing device is programmed to increase a value of a prescribed amplitude or period for the head rotational displacement of the user for a successive trial of a test or training routine when a peak head velocity or speed is determined to have increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Bertec Corporation
    Inventors: Necip Berme, Aysun Gokoglu
  • Patent number: 11333906
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a computer program for determining at least one optical parameter of a spectacle lens, and a method for manufacturing the spectacle lens using the at least one optical parameter are disclosed. The optical parameter denotes a value for a property of the spectacle lens which is adjusted during manufacture of the spectacle lens to achieve an intended correction of ametropia of at least one eye of a user of the spectacle lens. The method includes: a) capturing at least one image of a user wearing the spectacle lens; and b) determining at least one optical parameter of the spectacle lens by image processing the at least one image, wherein the at least one image contains an eye portion including at least one eye and/or a face portion adjacent to at least one eye of a user of the spectacle lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Arne Ohlendorf, Alexander Leube, Siegfried Wahl, Katharina Rifai, Yannick Sauer
  • Patent number: 11294179
    Abstract: A small imager mounted on a user's eye (referred to as a femtoimager) is coordinated with an external camera. The femtoimager may be contained in a contact lens, and it may be aligned with the gaze a user's eye. The femtoimager and external camera capture images with overlapping views of the external environment. Images from the two imagers may be compared with one another to estimate the femtoimager's view of the external environment relative to the camera's view of the external environment. This may then be used for different applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Tectus Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Elliot Lemoff, Ritu Raj Singh, Michael West Wiemer
  • Patent number: 11234593
    Abstract: In a slit lamp microscope, ease of maintenance of an illumination-power-supply cable is improved while preventing the cable from appearing untidy. An illumination support arm of a slit lamp microscope is provided with a groove-shaped cable holder in which the illumination-power-supply cable is disposed along the outer surface of the illumination support arm in an externally exposed state. This configuration facilitates replacement of the illumination-power-supply cable even when a problem, such as breaking of the illumination-power-supply cable, occurs, thus improving ease of maintenance. Furthermore, because the illumination-power-supply cable is disposed along the groove-shaped cable holder, the slit lamp microscope has a neat appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: RIGHT MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norikazu Hamanaka, Hajime Hakamada, Kotaro Kawanishi, Keisuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11232560
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for processing a fundus image. The method may include: acquiring a target fundus image; dividing the target fundus image into at least two first image blocks; inputting a first image block into a pre-trained deep learning model, to obtain a first output value; and determining, based on the first output value and a threshold, whether the first image block is the fundus image block containing a predetermined type of image region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Inventors: Yehui Yang, Yanwu Xu, Lei Wang, Yan Huang
  • Patent number: 11219363
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus according to an embodiment includes a fixation system, a data acquisition device, analyzing circuitry, and controlling circuitry. The fixation system projects fixation light onto a subject's eye. The data acquisition device acquires data by applying optical coherence tomography scanning to the subject's eye onto which the fixation light is being projected. The analyzing circuitry analyzes the data to specify the position of a predetermined site of the subject's eye. The controlling circuitry controls at least one of the fixation system and the data acquisition device based on the positional relationship between the position of the predetermined site specified by the analyzing circuitry and a scan area by the data acquisition device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Ono
  • Patent number: 11219395
    Abstract: A sleepiness estimating device includes a biometric information acquirer that acquires biometric information of a person, an auxiliary information acquirer that acquires auxiliary information including at least one of five-sense information perceived by the person or emotion information indicating an emotion of the person, and a sleepiness estimator that estimates a sleepiness of the person based on the biometric information and the auxiliary information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mika Sunagawa, Nawatt Silawan, Kunihiro Imamura, Shinichi Shikii, Koichi Kusukame
  • Patent number: 11179034
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus according to an embodiment includes a fixation system, a data acquisition device, analyzing circuitry, and controlling circuitry. The fixation system projects fixation light onto a subject's eye. The data acquisition device acquires data by applying optical coherence tomography scanning to the subject's eye onto which the fixation light is being projected. The analyzing circuitry analyzes the data to specify the position of a predetermined site of the subject's eye. The controlling circuitry controls at least one of the fixation system and the data acquisition device based on the positional relationship between the position of the predetermined site specified by the analyzing circuitry and a scan area by the data acquisition device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Ono
  • Patent number: 11153463
    Abstract: A camera capable of quickly updating a region of interest (ROI) in its sensor array is provided. The camera is configured to image individual scan lines of a scan imager created as a scan beam is scanned across a subject. A different ROI is defined for each scan line to be imaged. To achieve this, a table of ROI-defining entries is loaded into the camera prior to imaging the scan lines. The ROI-defining entries are used to update the sensor's ROI during the camera's Frame-Overhead-Time. In this manner, the ROI is changed in between the imaging of consecutive scans lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Doyle, Keith E. O'Hara, Csaba Farkas
  • Patent number: 11143886
    Abstract: A method for optimizing an optical aid by way of automatic measurement of the subjective visual performance, a method for producing a correspondingly optimized optical aid, an apparatus for producing optical aids, a computer program having a program code for carrying out the optimization method, which program can be run on a processor, and a non-transitory storage medium comprising the computer program stored thereon are disclosed. The method for optimizing the optical aid includes the automatic determination of subjective visual acuity using machine learning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Leube, Christian Leibig, Arne Ohlendorf, Siegfried Wahl
  • Patent number: 11116395
    Abstract: A tracking scanning laser optics device configured for mounting in hedger having at least one opening for positioning in front of an eye of a user includes a mounting unit, an invisible light source supported by the mounting unit for directing invisible light through pupil, and at least one visible light source supported by the mounting unit for directing visible light through the pupil for writing on the retina within a portion thereof scanned by 2-D scanning optics supported by the mounting unit. An imaging device supported by the mounting unit receives at least the invisible light reflected by the retina and stores an image thereof, and a calibration unit operative in conjunction with the 2-D scanning optics determines an origin in 2-D space for serving as a reference point for identifying a location of the portion within the retina.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: EyeJets Ltd.
    Inventor: Joshua Gur
  • Patent number: 11064878
    Abstract: An OCT apparatus includes an OCT optical system that acquires an OCT signal based on measurement light applied to a subject and reference light, and a processor. The processor controls the OCT optical system based on a predetermined trigger to execute an imaging sequence in which a plurality of temporally different OCT signals are acquired in each of a first region on a subject and a second region adjacent to or partially overlapping with the first region, and imaging conditions are different from each other between the first region and the second region. The processor obtain OCT motion contrast data of the subject based on the plurality of OCT signals acquired through the imaging sequence in the first region and the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naoki Takeno
  • Patent number: 11051692
    Abstract: Optical instrument for measuring the density of macular pigment in the eye and associated method. The instrument includes: a light source (500), several lenses L1, L2, L3 between the light source and the eye, a diaphragm D1 conjugate to the eye pupil plane, a photodetector (520), a mirror M that directs the light exiting the eye to the photodetector (520), a diaphragm D2 conjugated to the pupil plane of the eye, at least one lens L4 between diaphragm D2 and the photodetector (520), the light source (500) has a central part (501) and a peripheral part (502), the light source (500) being modulated at four different frequencies corresponding to green light in the central part and in the peripheral part, blue light in the central part and in the peripheral part, projecting the light from the light source (500) on the fundus of the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: UNIVERSIDAD DE MURCIA
    Inventors: Pablo Artal Soriano, Harilaos Ginis, Alexandros Pennos, Dimitrios Christaras
  • Patent number: 11006101
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to viewing device adjustment based on eye accommodation in relation to a display. In one implementation, a computing device determines accommodation information related to a viewer's focus on an image rendered on a display. The computing device may cause an optical component associated with a viewing device to adjust based on the determined accommodation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Will Allen, Nelson L Chang, Irwin Sobel
  • Patent number: 10984756
    Abstract: A display system divides a screen into regions and applies a different set of rendering/encoding parameters to each region. The system applies a first set of parameters to a first region that is being viewed by a fovea of an eye of a user. The system may also apply a second set of parameters to a second region that is being viewed by a parafovea of the eye, and apply a third set of parameters to a third region that is being viewed by the area of the eye outside of the parafovea. The first set of parameters are selected to yield relatively high image quality, while the second set of parameters are yield intermediate quality, and the third set of parameters yield lower quality. As a result, the second region and the third region can be rendered, encoded, and transmitted with less computing power and less bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Martin Henrik Tall, Javier San Agustin Lopez, Rasmus Dahl
  • Patent number: 10980412
    Abstract: A subjective optometry apparatus includes a light projecting optical system that has a visual target presenting portion for emitting a target light flux and projects a target light flux emitted from the visual target presenting portion toward a subject eye, a calibration portion that is disposed in an optical path of the light projecting optical system and changes optical characteristics of the target light flux, an acquisition portion that acquires a near distance objective eye refractive power that is an eye refractive power of the subject eye objectively measured in a near distance viewing state, and a control portion that controls an operation for acquiring a near distance subjective eye refractive power that is a subjective eye refractive power of the subject eye measured in a near distance viewing state, based on the near distance objective eye refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Michihiro Takii, Hirohisa Terabe
  • Patent number: 10969588
    Abstract: Configurations are disclosed for a health system to be used in various healthcare applications, e.g., for patient diagnostics, monitoring, and/or therapy. The health system may comprise a light generation module to transmit light or an image to a user, one or more sensors to detect a physiological parameter of the user's body, including their eyes, and processing circuitry to analyze an input received in response to the presented images to determine one or more health conditions or defects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicole Elizabeth Samec, John Graham Macnamara, Christopher M. Harrises, Brian T. Schowengerdt, Rony Abovitz, Mark Baerenrodt
  • Patent number: 10966607
    Abstract: Techniques for measuring optical aberrations of the eye are disclosed. An example method comprises positioning the eye in a measurement location adjacent to a measurement arm of an optical coherence tomography (OCT) interferometer apparatus, so that source light from the measurement arm passes into the anterior segment of the eye and detecting an interference pattern, the interference pattern resulting from a combination of light reflected from the eye and light reflected from a reference arm of the OCT interferometer apparatus. Based on the interference pattern, an optical delay between a reference surface in the anterior segment of the eye and a measured surface in the eye is calculated, the reference surface being the anterior surface of the cornea or the lens, wherein said calculating comprises measuring an optical phase shift between the reference surface and the measured surface, based on the detected interference pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventor: Muhammad K. Al-Qaisi
  • Patent number: 10952901
    Abstract: A system and process for treating retinal diseases includes passing a plurality of radiant beams, i.e., laser light beams, through an optical lens or mask to optically shape the beams. The shaped beams are applied to at least a portion of the retina. Due to the selected parameters of the beams—pulse length, power and duty cycle—the beams can be applied to substantially the entire retina, including the fovea, without damaging retinal or foveal tissue, while still attaining the benefits of retinal phototherapy or photostimulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Ojai Retinal Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey K. Luttrull, Benjamin Margolis
  • Patent number: 10948348
    Abstract: A mannikin-based optical analyzer for analyzing an exposure of a subject to an environmental lighting condition. The analyzer has a mannikin with an outer surface replicating a facial profile of the subject, an interior inside the outer surface, and at least one pupil for admission of light into the interior of the mannikin. The analyzer has at least one optical detector configured to acquire and wavelength analyze light directed through the at least one pupil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Kelley Jo Rountree, James Lynn Davis, Karmann Cressman Mills, Georgiy Bobashev, Robert Furberg, Anthony Clint Clayton
  • Patent number: 10936059
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for gaze tracking. The methods for gaze tracking may comprise (a) collecting video data of a subject's face using a device, and (b) processing the video data to track the subject's gaze. The video data may comprise a plurality of images containing depth information. The methods for gaze tracking may track the gaze of the subject without requiring any prior or subsequent calibration of the subject's gaze to a predefined calibration point in space having a known location. The systems for gaze tracking may be configured to implement the methods for gaze tracking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Cajal Corporation
    Inventor: Richard Stoner
  • Patent number: 10915168
    Abstract: An input method and apparatus of a device. The method includes: tracking and recording movement of an eyeball gaze point of a user on a display screen of the device, to obtain a current eyeball gaze point movement trajectory; judging whether the current eyeball gaze point movement trajectory matches with a preset eyeball gaze point movement trajectory in a movement trajectory database; wherein the preset eyeball gaze point movement trajectories indicate paths of the movement of the eyeball gaze point on the display screen according to a preset length range within a preset time period; if matched, determining a corresponding input instruction by using the matched eyeball gaze point movement trajectory, and completing an input operation according to the input instruction; and if not matched, not conducting an input operation. The input method and apparatus of a device can conduct input according to the eyeball movement of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: GOERTEK INC.
    Inventors: Tianrong Dai, Yuge Zhu, Dachuan Zhao, Xiang Chen
  • Patent number: 10885330
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus capable of easily generating a two-dimensional panoramic image at a high speed from a plurality of three-dimensional images includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a generation condition of a first en-face image generated from a first three-dimensional image of an target eye, a first generation unit configured to generate a second en-face image from a second three-dimensional image of the target eye by applying the generation condition acquired by the acquisition unit to the second three-dimensional image, and a second generation unit configured to generate a combined image by combining the first en-face image with the second en-face image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Kawase, Hiroki Uchida, Osamu Sagano
  • Patent number: 10867423
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a calculation unit configured to calculate deformation information of an object deformed from a first deformation state to a second deformation state; a degree-of-deviation calculation unit configured to calculate a degree of deviation of the deformation information with respect to a deformation model representing a deformation state of the object; and a display control unit configured to display the calculated degree of deviation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiji Suzuki, Itaru Otomaru, Kiyohide Satoh
  • Patent number: 10849497
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for ophthalmic neural scanning including a projection apparatus configured to project a projected image onto one or more retinas of one or more eyes of a subject, one or more photodetectors disposed conjugate to the one or more retinas, the one or more photodetectors being configured to capture a reflected image reflected from the one or more retinas in response to the projected image, the reflected image including information indicating fixation of the one or more eyes, and an image capture device disposed conjugate to one or more corneas of the one or more eyes of the subject and configured to capture a diagnostic image including one or more pupils of the one or more eyes when the one or more pupils are illuminated by retroreflected light from the one or more retinas in response to the projected image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: REBISCAN, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Winsor, Shane Pixton, James Esser
  • Patent number: 10845602
    Abstract: Configurations are disclosed for a health system to be used in various healthcare applications, e.g., for patient diagnostics, monitoring, and/or therapy. The health system may comprise a light generation module to transmit light or an image to a user, one or more sensors to detect a physiological parameter of the user's body, including their eyes, and processing circuitry to analyze an input received in response to the presented images to determine one or more health conditions or defects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicole Elizabeth Samec, John Graham Macnamara, Christopher M. Harrises, Brian T. Schowengerdt, Rony Abovitz, Mark Baerenrodt
  • Patent number: 10820798
    Abstract: A light delivery system according to an example of the present disclosure includes a solar tracker that has a rectangular aperture that delivers light to a quadrant detector, a light collector configured to capture light from an incoherent light source, the captured light being sunlight, a delivery optics unit for delivering the captured light to a target object, and an optical fiber unit optically connects an output of the light collector to the delivery optics unit. A method of performing a surgical procedure, including an iridectomy procedure, is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: EIDOLON OPTICAL, LLC
    Inventors: Victor J. Doherty, Dina Aouani, Michael S. Costello, Sormeh Yazdi
  • Patent number: 10795630
    Abstract: A method, computing device and computer program product for configuring the computing device to utilize a multiple display arrangement. The eye movement of a user is tracked using an eye tracker in response to detecting the user adding a second display unit to the computing device that already includes a display unit. The logical display arrangement of the display units is then determined based on tracking the eye movement of the user. The computing device is then configured to utilize the display units in a particular display arrangement when the logical display arrangement of the display units is verified to match the physical display arrangement of the display units. In this manner, the computing device is accurately configured to utilize multiple displays without requiring the user to manually change the operating system settings of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Heather Pollard
  • Patent number: 10786152
    Abstract: A method of screening a pupil of a subject to determine whether the pupil reflex resembles a canonical pupil reflex is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of stimulating the pupil with a stimulus source, such as a pupilometer and determining whether one of various pupillary response conditions is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Neuroptics, Inc.
    Inventors: Claudio Privitera, Kamran Siminou
  • Patent number: 10772494
    Abstract: The disclosed system may include (1) a light source that generates light for an image, (2) an optical subsystem that (a) receives the generated light from the light source, and (b) generates, based on the received light, converging light defining an exit pupil that includes the image, where the exit pupil is smaller than a pupil of an eye of a viewer, and (3) a control subsystem that controls at least one of the light source or the optical subsystem to reduce aberration of the image that is caused by the eye of the viewer. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Konrad, Marina Zannoli, Douglas Robert Lanman, Kavitha Ratnam, Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai
  • Patent number: 10765316
    Abstract: An ophthalmic information processing system according to an embodiment includes a receiver and a processor. The receiver receives morphological data of an eye fundus of a subject. In addition, the receiver receives background data of the subject. The processor executes optic nerve head shape classification based on the morphological data and the background data received by the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignees: TOPCON CORPORATION, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, RIKEN
    Inventors: Guangzhou An, Masahiro Akiba, Toru Nakazawa, Kazuko Omodaka, Hideo Yokota
  • Patent number: 10719933
    Abstract: Methods and systems for angiographic imaging with optical coherence tomography (OCT) are described using ratio-based and angiographic deviation based calculations. In using these calculations to determine motion, arbitrary interframe permutations may be used, post-calculated, non-linear results for projection visualization may be averaged, poor matches may be eliminated on an A-line by A-line basis, windowing functions may be used to improve results, partial spectrums may be used when capturing data, and a minimum intensity threshold may be used for determining which pixels to use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
    Inventors: Charles A. Reisman, Zhenguo Wang, Atsushi Kubota, Jonathan Liu
  • Patent number: 10714217
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for eye health and vision examinations. A customer diagnostic center is configured to generate customer examination data pertaining to an examination of a customer's eye. The customer diagnostic center provides a user interface for communicating with a customer and ophthalmic equipment for administering tests to the customer. A diagnostic center server is configured to receive the customer examination data from the customer diagnostic center over a network and allow the customer examination data to be accessed by an eye-care practitioner. A practitioner device associated with the eye-care practitioner is configured to receive the customer examination data from the diagnostic center server and display at least a portion of the customer examination data to the eye-care practitioner. Customer evaluation data is generated pertaining to the eye-care practitioner's evaluation of the customer examination data. An eye health report is provided to the customer via the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: 20/20 VISION CENTER, LLC.
    Inventor: Joseph S. Seriani
  • Patent number: 10709328
    Abstract: A main module for a modular system for self-examination of an eye is provided. The main module has an interface for coupling with at least one other module of the modular system and a processor. The processor is configured to perform at least one eye test algorithm by controlling the at least one other module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andreas Maier, Gerd Haeusler, Aleksandra Milczarek, Tobias Geimer, Markus Schreiter, Thomas Kaestner, Florian Willomitzer
  • Patent number: 10690943
    Abstract: To provide a laminate comprising a pair of polycarbonate optical sheet or film which are laminated together through a polarizing film layer and an adhesive layer of a photochromic composition comprising (I) a polyurethane urea resin and (II) a photochromic compound and having excellent photochromic properties, adhesion, heat resistance, perspiration resistance and excellent adhesion to a lens substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: TOKUYAMA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Mori, Toshimitsu Hiraren, Manami Oshio
  • Patent number: 10684695
    Abstract: A data processing device that performs data processing of monitoring a person, the data processing device includes: a calculator configured to calculate pupil movement and head movement of the person; an evaluator configured to evaluate a suitability degree of a situation in calculating vestibulo-ocular reflex movement based on the pupil movement and the head movement of the person; a provision unit configured to provide the suitability degree evaluated by the evaluator to data relating to the pupil movement and the head movement of the person calculated by the calculator; and a reflex movement calculator configured to calculate the vestibulo-ocular reflex movement of the person based on the data in consideration of the suitability degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yamato Takeuchi, Koichi Kinoshita, Hitoshi Mukai, Shigenori Nagae, Ayumi Takemoto
  • Patent number: 10660516
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for evaluating a patient's contrast sensitivity. The apparatus including a table or chart with a plurality of shaded marks printed in cells in the table or chart. The shaded marks printed with a various contrasts with a log of Weber contrast ranging from ?0.20 to ?2.15. Where a subject marks an observed position of the shaded marks and a key is used to check the observed position against an actual position of the shaded mark to determine a threshold contrast of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: PRECISION VISION, INC.
    Inventor: John Robson
  • Patent number: 10660518
    Abstract: A system for visualization of eye anatomy includes at least one camera having a view vector along a first axis when in a first position, a housing to which the camera is coupled, wherein the housing engages the head of a patient such that the camera is positioned adjacent a patient's eye, and an actuator that moves the camera from the first position to a second position with a view vector along a second axis that is offset from the first axis. A method of visualization of eye anatomy includes engaging a patient's head with a housing, positioning at least one camera coupled to the housing adjacent an eye, wherein the camera has a view vector along a first axis when in a first position, and moving the camera to a second position with a view vector along a second axis offset from the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Sanovas Intellectual Property, LLC
    Inventors: Lawrence J. Gerrans, Charles N. Wang
  • Patent number: 10631725
    Abstract: An inflatable mask with two ocular cavities can seal against a user's face by forming an air-tight seal around the periphery of the user's eye socket. The sealed air-tight ocular cavity can be pressurized to take ocular measurements. The mask can conform to the contours of a user's face by inflating or deflating the mask. In addition, the distance between the user and a medical device (e.g. an optical coherence tomography instrument) can be adjusted by inflating or deflating the mask. Also disclosed herein is an electronic encounter portal and an automated eye examination. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Envision Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander C. Walsh, Paul G. Updike, Richard Castro
  • Patent number: 10631724
    Abstract: An optical measurement instrument performs a series of wavefront measurements to obtain a plurality of sets of wavefront aberrometry data for an eye, and performs a series of corneal topography measurements to obtain a plurality of sets of corneal topography data for the eye. Each set of wavefront aberrometry data is obtained at a corresponding different point in time, and each set of corneal topography data is obtained at a corresponding different point in time. The wavefront aberrometry data and the corneal topography data are processed to produce combined tear film breakup data as a function of time. The combined tear film breakup data may be employed as a metric for evaluating a level of tear film breakup of the eye as a function of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: AMO Development, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel R. Neal, Richard J. Copland, Jason Hoy, Wei Xiong
  • Patent number: 10602925
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a sensorless adaptive optics imaging system includes a source of light, an optical delivery unit having a wavefront modifying element, and an optical coherence tomography (OCT) sensor configured to acquire OCT images based on light emitted by the source of light and transmitted through the optical delivery unit. The system also includes a processing unit that can: process the OCT images, and determine an adjustment of parameters of the wavefront modifying element. In some embodiments, the system includes a multi-photon microscopy (MPM) sensor that acquires MPM images based on the light transmitted through the optical delivery unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Simon Fraser University
    Inventors: Marinko Sarunic, Yifan Jian, Eunice Michelle Cua, Stefano Bonora, Robert J. Zawadzki