Eye Exercising Or Training Type Patents (Class 351/203)
  • Patent number: 11877797
    Abstract: A system includes: a first movable stage which is movable with respect to an eye of a subject; a second movable stage mounted on the first movable stage, wherein the second movable stage is movable with respect to the first movable stage; a fixation target disposed on the second movable stage; and an optical system disposed in an optical path between the fixation target and the eye, wherein the optical system is configured for projecting the fixation target upon the eye to accommodate the eye. The optical system includes a Stokes cell in the optical path between the fixation target and the eye. The optical system non-telecentrically projects the fixation target upon the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: AMO Development, LLC
    Inventor: Richard J. Copland
  • Patent number: 11865268
    Abstract: A system and methods for remote Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy include performing, at therapist and client computing platforms, steps of: receiving an EMDR message indicating a position a bilateral simulation (BLS) element, wherein the BLS element is at least one of a visual, an audio, and a tactile element, and wherein the indicated position is a screen position of a visual element, or a right or left position of an audio or tactile element; and responsively presenting, on the respective computing platform the BLS element at the indicated position; and performing on the EMDR server steps of: establishing connections with the therapist and client computing platforms; and broadcasting simultaneously, over the first and second connections to both the therapist and client computing platforms, the EMDR message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventors: Neta Gazit, Lior Gazit, Tal Bar
  • Patent number: 11839429
    Abstract: A system (1) for the quantification of ocular dominance is described, comprising acquisition means (3) of graphic elements, a target element (5) disposed at a first distance (D1) from the acquisition means (3), tracking means (4) operatively cooperating with the acquisition means (3) to acquire the graphic elements, the tracking means (4) being provided to allow at least one user placed at a second distance (D2) from the acquisition means (3) to trace and represent on the acquisition medium (3) such graphic elements, the system further comprising processing means provided for quantifying the dominance eyepiece of the user; a process for quantifying ocular dominance by means of the above system (1) is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: VISIONBALANCE TECH SRL
    Inventors: Uri Hasson, Giuseppe Notaro, Valeria D'Andrea
  • Patent number: 11836591
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for selecting, curating, normalizing, enriching, and synthesizing the results of user experience tests. In some embodiments, a system identifies a qualitative element within a result set for a user experience test. The system then selects a machine learning model to apply based on one or more attributes associated with the user experience test and generates a predicted visibility, quality, and/or relevance for the qualitative element. Based on the prediction, the system generates a user interface that curates a set of results of the user experience test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: WEVO, INC.
    Inventors: Dustin Garvey, Shannon Walsh, Nitzan Shaer, Janet Muto, Jon Andrews, Frank Chiang, Alexa Stewart, Hannah Sieber, Charlie Hoang, Rick Alarcon Sisniegas, Alexander Barza
  • Patent number: 11826098
    Abstract: A system and methods for the treatment of amblyopia are described. The system includes a display system capable of in delivering a second image to a second eye of a patient and a first image to a first eye of a patient. The system also includes a controller in capable of delaying the delivery of the second image to the second eye of the patent. The controller is configured to receive the second image and the first image. The controller is also configured to identify a delay factor associated with the second image. The controller is also configured to provide the first image to the display system for viewing by the first eye of the patient. The controller is also configured such that after a delay determined by the delay factor, the controller provides the second image to the display system for viewing by the second eye of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
    Inventors: Eric Gaier, Dean Travers, Scott Xiao
  • Patent number: 11793403
    Abstract: Methods and systems for assessing and/or treating visual disorders, such as discorder in accommodative ability and/or vergence ability, of a person are provided. Assessment and training exercises can be performed utilizing a computerized system in communication with a head-mountable display (HMD), such as a virtual or augmented reality display, which can display visual targets at various vergence and accommodative demands. Lenses, such as inverted bifocal lenses, may be used in combination with the HMD to mimic natural accommodative demand during viewing or to enable assessment and treatment of accommodation disorders. Corrective factors can be calculated and utilized for generation of visual targets to account for lens characteristics and/or interpupillary distance mismatch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Vivid Vision, Inc.
    Inventors: Tuan Tran, Brian Dornbos, Benjamin Backus, James J. Blaha, Manish Gupta
  • Patent number: 11793707
    Abstract: A vision training device includes a housing having at least one eyepiece unit corresponding to an eye of a user, a display that displays a target image in front of a fixation axis of the user, a lens arranged between the eyepiece unit and the display unit, a movable unit capable of moving at least one of the display and the lens along the fixation axis, and a control unit that sets at least one training range within a movable range of the display and the lens and controls the movable unit such that at least one of the display and the lens is moved within the training range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: EDENLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sung-yong Park, Kyung-hyun Nho
  • Patent number: 11771316
    Abstract: Provided is a method for an ophthalmic examination by an ophthalmic examination system including an ophthalmic examination apparatus and an examiner-side apparatus that is connected to the ophthalmic examination apparatus by a network and is provided with an interface for input/output, the method including: a transmission step of transmitting an error signal from the ophthalmic examination apparatus to the examiner-side apparatus upon occurrence of an error in the ophthalmic examination apparatus; a selection step of, upon the examiner-side apparatus receiving the error signal, notifying an examiner of the occurrence of the error via the interface and also accepting selection input for selecting any of a plurality of predetermined handling methods of the error; a response step of the examiner-side apparatus transmitting a response signal to the ophthalmic examination apparatus on the basis of the selection input; and a notification step of, upon the ophthalmic examination apparatus receiving the response sign
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shirohisa Kobayashi, Kazunari Shimizu, Koji Hamaguchi, Miki Tomiyasu, Tsutomu Uemura
  • Patent number: 11778704
    Abstract: A control system includes a scheme generation module and a control unit communicatively coupled to the scheme generation module. The scheme generation module generates a control scheme according to an optical image of an illuminated object. Upon execution of the control scheme, the control unit controls the status of the light fixture according to the content of the control scheme, such that the status of the light fixture matches the status of the illuminated object, thereby facilitating improvement of the display effect of the illustrated object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Inventor: Gaodi Zou
  • Patent number: 11709589
    Abstract: A parameterized sensory system uses interactions with a graphical user interface to reduce a disturbance level associated with information particular to a user. Parameters indicative of a reminder phrase related to the information and an initial rating for the disturbance level are received. The graphical user interface is operated. Input indicative of interaction with the graphical element during the operation of the graphical user interface is received. Another parameter indicative of a new rating for the disturbance level is received thereafter. The user interaction causes a reduction to the disturbance level such that the new rating is lower than the initial rating. The user interaction is without active processing by the user as to the reminder phrase or the information such that the cause of the reduction to the disturbance level is related to the user interaction with the input interface without the active processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Inventor: Philip Manfield
  • Patent number: 11684538
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a vision training device having an excellent vision training efficiency as vision training is performed in consideration of a status of personal vision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: EDENLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sung Yong Park, Kyung Hyun Noh
  • Patent number: 11642020
    Abstract: A refraction device includes a main body, a spherical power lens coupled to the main body, an astigmatic power lens movably coupled to the main body, and a visual display coupled to the main body and oriented toward an optical pathway extending through the spherical power lens and the astigmatic power lens. The visual display is configured to display an image for testing visual acuity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: ACCUVISIONDESIGNS LLC
    Inventors: Richard James Mackool, Richard Jonathan Mackool, Brice Kaleski, Robert R. Towle, Evan Rittenhouse Jones, Christopher Dean Smith
  • Patent number: 11534361
    Abstract: An eyesight training device for cognition correction which includes a display unit; a user input unit; and a controller for controlling the display unit to overlap a recognition restraining image, which restrains a visual recognition of a recognition image, with the recognition image and to gradually change a concentration value of the recognition restraining image, and for storing, as recognition level information, information corresponding to a concentration value of the recognition restraining image as of a time when a visibility change confirmation input is input through the user input unit of the visibility change confirmation input is input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Inventor: Sungyong Park
  • Patent number: 11526034
    Abstract: Eyewear providing flexible audio to a user. The eyewear includes a frame having two temple arms. The frame also has a front rim retaining two lenses. The eyewear also includes an open ear speaker for firing directional audio to an ear of a user, thereby providing semi-private audio to the user. The eyewear may include a wireless connection to another smart device or network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Inventors: Ram Pattikonda, Shariq Hamid
  • Patent number: 11445904
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for joint determination of accommodation and vergence of at least one eye of a user are disclosed. The joint determination includes determining an accommodation of the eye of the user and ascertaining values for checking myopia of the eye by presenting a sign at a first distance in front of the eye to stimulate the accommodation of the eye; capturing an eye movement; ascertaining a refraction of the eye with the accommodation of the eye at the first distance; and joint determination of accommodation and vergence of the eye by ascertaining a change in the refraction of the eye with the accommodation of the eye at the first distance in relation to the accommodation of the eye at a second distance; and ascertaining the vergence of the eye from the eye movement of the eye with the accommodation of the eye at the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Leube, Arne Ohlendorf, Siegfried Wahl
  • Patent number: 11400012
    Abstract: An embodiment of the disclosure provides a vision recovery training device, which includes a housing formed to be worn on a face around the eyes, a pair of rotation modules mounted to an inside of the housing, and a lens provided in each rotation module, at least one of the rotation modules including: a rotation disc; a magnetic body inserted in the rotation disc; and a sensor module provided in the housing at a radial position corresponding to the magnetic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Inventor: Sung Yong Park
  • Patent number: 11322113
    Abstract: Eye fatigue from looking too long at a computer monitor can not only causes physical symptoms, it can also reduce productivity. Eye tracking is used to determine potential eye fatigue. After potential eye fatigue is determined, an eye fatigue mitigation action is triggered. Eye fatigue mitigation action can including providing a notification, blurring a screen, and blanking a screen. Eye tracking can also be used to verify that a user has taken an eye fatigue mitigation action, such as diverted looking from a screen for a sufficient amount of time. By implementing eye fatigue mitigation actions, symptoms can be reduced and/or productivity increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.
    Inventors: Ludovico Novelli, Olivier Theytaz
  • Patent number: 11278200
    Abstract: Disclosed is a measurement method for determining a value of a visual correction need for near vision of an individual in a natural posture for near vision. A recognizing limit distance is determined so that the individual is able to recognize at least one predetermined symbol farther than the limit distance relatively to the individual and unable to recognize the at least one predetermined symbol closer to the individual than the limit distance. A portable medium displaying the predetermined symbol is displaced in front of the face and eyes of the individual to change a frontal distance between his/her eyes and the portable medium and in which when a recognizing limit distance is detected by the individual, the limit distance is measured and the value of the visual correction need is determined from the measured limit distance, wherein the visual correction need includes an accommodation compensation need.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Martha Hernandez-Castaneda, Konogan Baranton, John Carrier
  • Patent number: 11275259
    Abstract: An apparatus to treat refractive error of the eye comprises one or more optics configured to project stimuli comprising out of focus images onto the peripheral retina outside the macula. While the stimuli can be configured in many ways, in some embodiments the stimuli are arranged to decrease interference with central vison such as macular vision. The stimuli can be out of focus images may comprise an amount of defocus within a range from about 3 Diopters (“D”) to about 6 D. In some embodiments, the brightness of the stimuli is greater than a brightness of background illumination by an appropriate amount such as at least 3 times the background brightness. In some embodiments, each of a plurality of stimuli comprises a spatial frequency distribution with an amplitude profile having spatial frequencies within a range from about range of 1×10?1 to 2.5×101 cycles per degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: ACUCELA INC.
    Inventors: Ryo Kubota, Nabin Joshi, Arkady Selenow, Steven Ali, Stefan Bauer, Jean-Noël Fehr, Moritz Haeberli, Patrizia Weber, Julien Sauvet, Amitava Gupta
  • Patent number: 11249549
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a brain connectivity-based visual perception training device, method and program. The brain connectivity-based visual perception training method, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a step (S200; a spatial movement image providing step) of allowing a computer to provide a spatial movement image to a head-mounted display device; a step (S400; a visual perception training image providing step) of allowing the computer to provide a visual perception training image simultaneously with the spatial movement image or subsequently to the spatial movement image; and a step (S1000) of allowing the computer to receive, from a user, a performance result of a first task of the visual perception training image. Hereinafter, each step is described in detail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: NUNAPS INC.
    Inventors: Dong Wha Kang, Dong Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 11234589
    Abstract: A field of vision assessment is performed by reported positional feedback of visual markers at an outer circumference of a subject's field of vision. An array of visual markers arranged in a grid is rendered near a peripheral vision limit of the subject. The visual markers are disposed at known locations relative to an origin of the field of vision of the subject. Based on reported visual markers, a mapping of the visual markers to the location denotes a point on a periphery of limit of the visual field. The mapped points define vertices of a polyhedron having edges denoted by the vertices and the origin. The volume of the resulting polyhedron correlates to the field of vision of the subject, since as the periphery of the field of vision increases, the computed volume also increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Inventor: Yonatan Weiner
  • Patent number: 11231581
    Abstract: Augmented reality glasses include near eye displays the include sources of imagewise amplitude modulated light optical coupled to spatial phase modulators or active zone plate modulators and optically coupled to eye coupling optics. The sources of imagewise amplitude modulated light can include emissive 2D display panels or light sources coupled to imagewise amplitude modulators. The eye coupling optics can include volume holographic diffraction gratings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhiheng Jia, Hao Zheng, Jeffrey Todd Daiker, Jeremy A. Grata
  • Patent number: 11221744
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for managing peer-to-peer transfers. In some examples, a device provides user interfaces for initiating and managing transfers. In some examples, a device provides user interfaces corresponding to completed transfers. In some examples, a device provides user interfaces for providing visually distinguishable message object appearances based on message designation. In some examples, a device provides user interfaces for activating accounts for accepting and sending transfers. In some examples, a device provides user interfaces for exchanging accounts for use in a transfer. In some examples, a device provides user interfaces for splitting transfers between two or more accounts. In some examples, a device provides user interfaces for generating and displaying a transfers history list. In some examples, a device provides user interfaces for voice-activation of transfers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcel Van Os, Peter D. Anton, Lee S. Broughton, Teofila Connor, Allison Dryer, Richard Heard, Nicholas V. King, Cas G. Lemmens, Joshua G. Olson, Christopher Wilson
  • Patent number: 11112676
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein provide a shutter for obscuring a viewing portion of an opening found on a housing of a computing device. As an example, the housing includes a bezel that includes the opening extending through the bezel. The housing includes a slider deployable from within the housing, and the shutter is to selectively obscure the viewing portion when the slider is to deploy from within the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Derek Kanas
  • Patent number: 10979721
    Abstract: Video images are rendered in viewports of content viewers. Each content viewer views video images through a respective viewport in the viewports. Spatial locations in the video images to which foveal visions of the content viewers are directed are determined. ROIs in the video images are identified based on the spatial locations in the video images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Chaitanya Atluru, Ajit Ninan
  • Patent number: 10898407
    Abstract: An optical system including a layer having a reflective surface, the layer is adapted to provide a primary image and a secondary image. The secondary image is provided by a reflection of an object facing the reflective surface, and the primary and the secondary images are viewable by a viewer having a retina. The secondary image is focused in front of the retina to generate myopic defocus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yan Yin Tse, Siu Yin Lam, Chi Ho To
  • Patent number: 10779726
    Abstract: An eye-movement determination method includes providing an a touch display and a memory that stores an image that includes a point of interest, wherein the image is a stored image, and repeatedly executing a set of steps. The steps include determining a position of a contact point, locating a corresponding position in an image that is displayed on the touch display, generating a degraded image from the stored image, displaying the degraded image on the touch display, and recording successive positions of the contact point. The contact point is a point at which a user contacts the touch display. The degraded image is substantially identical to the stored image with a clear zone but degrades beyond the clear zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignees: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD LYON 1
    Inventors: Angela Sirigu, Jean-René Duhamel, Guillaume Lio
  • Patent number: 10719951
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a wearable display system for capturing retraining eye images of an eye of a user for retraining a neural network for eye tracking. The system captures retraining eye images using an image capture device when user interface (UI) events occur with respect to UI devices displayed at display locations of a display. The system can generate a retraining set comprising the retraining eye images and eye poses of the eye of the user in the retraining eye images (e.g., related to the display locations of the UI devices) and obtain a retrained neural network that is retrained using the retraining set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Adrian Kaehler, Douglas Bertram Lee, Vijay Badrinarayanan
  • Patent number: 10682049
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving the peripheral vision of a subject are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure includes a method, which may be embodied on a system, for improving peripheral vision of a subject using a visual marker on a display screen, the method includes, displaying a peripheral target on the display screen, the peripheral target having a visually discernable characteristic and determining whether the subject is able to correctly identify the peripheral target displayed on the display screen using the peripheral vision. The visual marker is intended for viewing using central vision of the subject and the peripheral target is intended for identification using the peripheral vision of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Atheer, Inc.
    Inventor: Sina Fateh
  • Patent number: 10596062
    Abstract: The system can include a display device, a processor, and a computer readable medium having instructions for a visual rehabilitation program to perform a visual rehabilitation method including causing the display device to visually present to a user one or more images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: MAGNO PROCESSING SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Bruce Wojciechowski, Jeanie Schwenk
  • Patent number: 10537241
    Abstract: The unsuitability of the retina of the eye as a reflective projection screen for image observation causes objective optometry to be expensive and of limited accuracy. The subjective assessment of image quality is the only way to make full use of the resolution capability of the eye. A subjective optometer for home use is disclosed with ample accuracy and confidence for mail order of prescription glasses. It overcomes the disadvantages of subjective optometry and is able to measure the refractive errors to the resolution limit of the eye, which is of great importance for the present state and relief of ametropia. Electronic recording and connectivity can be provided as an option.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Inventor: Jan Hoogland
  • Patent number: 10512585
    Abstract: A device for exercising muscles in eyes, the device including: a housing which is formed with an ocular hole corresponding to a user's eye; a display which displays a target image in front of a user' eyes in an eye line; a lens which is arranged in between the ocular hole and the display; and a lens driver which drives the lens to move forward and backward along the eye line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Inventor: Sung-yong Park
  • Patent number: 10409071
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, live image data modifications may be facilitated for dynamic vision defects. In some embodiments, one or more eyes of a user may be monitored while a set of stimuli are displayed to the user. Feedback related to the set of stimuli may be obtained, where the feedback indicates (i) whether or how the user sees one or more stimuli of the set and (ii) one or more characteristics related to the eyes that occurred when such stimuli are displayed. A set of modification profiles associated with the user may be generated based on the feedback, where each modification profile of the set (i) is associated with eye-related characteristics and (ii) includes modification parameters to be applied to an image to modify the image for the user when eye-related characteristics of the user matches the associated eye-related characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: University of Miami
    Inventors: Mohamed Abou Shousha, Ahmed Sayed, Ozgur Gundogan
  • Patent number: 10376439
    Abstract: The present invention provides a computerized operator-controlled optical system and method for tracking eye exercises of a patient, the system including an optical tracking device adapted to allow an operator to track eye exercises of a patient, a patient-activated apparatus for performing eye exercises of binocular vision and a processor adapted to receive data from the optical tracking device and from the patient-activated apparatus thereby providing the operator with at least one indication of the eye exercises of said patient over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: DIPLO D LTD.
    Inventor: Claude Nimtsovitch
  • Patent number: 10281980
    Abstract: A computerized method, system for, and computer-readable medium operable to: detect an eye condition of a viewer of displayed content; assess the eye condition against predetermined criteria; identify a preferred behavior selected to improve the eye condition; and alter the displayed content in a predetermined manner selected to induce the preferred behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Inventor: Ihab Ayoub
  • Patent number: 10278633
    Abstract: Systems and methods for assisting with diagnosing and/or titrating medication for predetermined conditions and/or assessing the effectiveness of medication prescribed for a predetermined condition including, but not limited to, Attention Deficit Disorder (“ADD”) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (“ADHD”). A diagnostic test is provided that includes display of both target and non-target images. Responses to these display images are analyzed to measure subject criteria including response time consistency, response time, impulsivity, omissions, multiple responses, and guessing. Such data, or numerical quantifiers calculated from such data, may be used to assist with titrating medication for one or more predetermined conditions and/or assessing the effectiveness of medication prescribed for a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: CORMAN ATTENTION TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Clifford L. Corman
  • Patent number: 10251546
    Abstract: Apparatus for the assessment of visual function and ocular motility and the treatment of disorders thereof, comprising ocular display apparatus which presents different, but visually related, images to each eye. The invention also relates to methods of assessment of ocular disorders and to their treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
    Inventor: Alexander James Easterbrook Foss
  • Patent number: 10149795
    Abstract: A perceptual-learning system and method is used to improve age-related declines in contrast sensitivity. The system and method comprises a processor and monitor, and a first set of instructions executable on the processor configured to familiarize subjects with the system. A second set of instructions are executable on the processor configured for training the subjects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: George J. Andersen, Denton J. DeLoss
  • Patent number: 10134165
    Abstract: Image distractor detection and processing techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a digital medium environment is configured for image distractor detection that includes detecting one or more locations within the image automatically and without user intervention by the one or more computing devices that include one or more distractors that are likely to be considered by a user as distracting from content within the image. The detection includes forming a plurality of segments from the image by the one or more computing devices and calculating a score for each of the plurality of segments that is indicative of a relative likelihood that a respective said segment is considered a distractor within the image. The calculation is performed using a distractor model trained using machine learning as applied to a plurality images having ground truth distractor locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Ohad I. Fried, Elya Shechtman, Daniel R. Goldman
  • Patent number: 10068131
    Abstract: An apparatus for recognizing expression using an expression-gesture dictionary, includes a learning image acquisitor to obtain data from a learning expression, perform a normalization based on the data, track a change of a dense motion from a reference frame, and generate expression learning data, an expression-gesture dictionary and expression-gesture dictionary learner to represent and store a numerical value for expression recognition for each expression using a local support map in an image coordinate space for a motion flow with respect to a set of changes of the dense motion, an expression classifier learner to learn an expression classification for each expression based on a weight of data on the expression-gesture dictionary, a recognition image acquisitor to obtain data from a recognition target, and generate recognition data, and an expression recognizer to analyze an expression weight on the recognition data, and recognize an expression by the expression classifier learner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YEUNGNAM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chan Su Lee, Ja Soon Jang
  • Patent number: 10045730
    Abstract: The disclosure provides for easy, reliable, and rapid screening of a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) based on a modeling of a subject's tracking of a dynamic target during the course of a simple motor tracking task. The gathered tracking data can be used to calculate tracking errors between the subject's actual input (e.g., grip force) and the intended target input. The tracking errors may be used to generate numerical values for model parameters that correlate the subject's responses to the tracking errors during the course of the dynamic motor tracking task. A classification model may be used to compare the model values to multi-subject model values of known diagnoses for mTBI. The entire screening process can be effectively administered in a matter of minutes or less, and with a high degree of accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: The MITRE Corporation
    Inventors: Michael S. Fine, Matthew Shields Caywood
  • Patent number: 10022045
    Abstract: A vision testing system and a method of operating a data processing system for displaying an eye test pattern on a computer display to a patient during an eye examination are disclosed. The method includes causing the data processing system to display the eye test pattern in a chart region of a computer display controlled by the data processing system and characterized by a luminance in regions not displaying the eye test pattern. An intensity of light leaving the computer display is measured in a sensor region outside the chart region using a display luminance sensor. The luminance of the computer display is adjusted to provide a light level within a predetermined range of light levels based on the measured intensity of light. The data processing system can receive the measured intensity and adjust the display luminescence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Inventor: David Evans
  • Patent number: 9993385
    Abstract: A system to monitor visual health includes a processor operatively coupled to memory. The system further includes one or more subsystems configured to record data related to eye-health. The processor is configured to analyze the recorded data, detect a likelihood of eyestrain based on the analysis, and generate an alert to perform at least one action in response to the detection and based on the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Bastide, Stefan von Cavallar, Isabell Kiral-Kornek, Fang Lu, Dwarikanath Mahapatra, Susmita Saha, Arun Vishwanath
  • Patent number: 9961335
    Abstract: A pickup device and method for an object in three-dimension display are disclosed. The device comprises a gaze point information acquisition module for acquiring a first location information about a gaze point of an eye of a user with respect to the user; and an object determination module for determining an object picked up by the user according to a second location information about the user in a display space, motion posture information about the user, the first location information and distribution information about objects in the display space. A technical solution of the present application determines an object picked up by a user by means of the location of a gaze point of an eye, making it natural and convenient to pick up an object in a three-dimension display space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Beijing Zhigu Rui Tuo Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuifei Yu, Lin Du, Hongjiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 9904844
    Abstract: In multilevel clustering for a face recognition process, the first stage clustering is performed on each computing node, using the first x vector coefficients. From the resulting k clusters created in the first stage, a limited number of clusters are selected on which the second stage clustering is performed, using the next y vector coefficients. The search for a matching image is then limited to these selected clusters. Computational costs are reduced at the first stage clustering by using just the first x vector coefficients. Computational costs for the second stage clustering are also reduced by performing the second stage only with the limited number of clusters on a limited number of computing nodes. In this manner, the overall computational costs in the face recognition process is significantly reduced while maintaining a desired level of accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Somnath Asati, Bhavani K. Eshwar, Soma Shekar Naganna, Abhishek Seth, Vishal Tomar
  • Patent number: 9807383
    Abstract: During calibration, a wearable video headset displays a pattern on a partially transparent display positioned in a field of view of a user's eye. The user has a hand-held marker that includes a scaled version of the displayed pattern. The user moves the marker toward or away from the user's eye until the pattern on the marker appears to be the same size as the pattern on the display. When the sizes match, the headset measures a distance between a forward-facing camera and the hand-held marker. The headset uses the measured distance, and geometrical relationships, to determine the spacing between the user's eye and the display. Such calibration can ensure that the images displayed to the user mesh realistically with the surroundings, which remain partially visible through the partially transparent display of the video headset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: DAQRI, LLC
    Inventors: Sterling Crispin, Mark Anthony Sararu
  • Patent number: 9750407
    Abstract: The vision protection method and system thereof is provided to ensure a viewer to rest his/her eyes after viewing on an electronic device for a certain period, wherein the eyesight protection method includes the steps of detecting one of more working parameters of the viewer in responsive to a preset working threshold in a working mode of the electronic device during the viewer is working on a current work displaying by the electronic device; switching the working mode of the electronic device to a resting mode; and switching the electronic device from the resting mode back to the working mode to resume the display of the current work of the electronic device. Therefore, the viewer is enforced to rest his/her eyes after every certain period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Inventor: Roger Li-Chung Wu
  • Patent number: 9665962
    Abstract: Image distractor detection and processing techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a digital medium environment is configured for image distractor detection that includes detecting one or more locations within the image automatically and without user intervention by the one or more computing devices that include one or more distractors that are likely to be considered by a user as distracting from content within the image. The detection includes forming a plurality of segments from the image by the one or more computing devices and calculating a score for each of the plurality of segments that is indicative of a relative likelihood that a respective said segment is considered a distractor within the image. The calculation is performed using a distractor model trained using machine learning as applied to a plurality images having ground truth distractor locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Ohad I. Fried, Elya Shechtman, Daniel R. Goldman
  • Patent number: 9662265
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for providing a Push-Pull perceptual learning technique to a subject demonstrating sensory eye dominance (SED), amblyopia, poor stereopsis, and the like. More specifically, the weak eye of the subject is forced to become dominant, while visualization in the strong eye is suppressed over the course of a treatment regimen. Such systems and methods are shown herein to result in a perceptual learning and a reduction of interocular imbalance or SED, as well as an improvement in the visual characteristics typically associated with amblyopia, poor stereopsis and similar visual deficiencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignees: University of Louisville, Salus University
    Inventors: Teng Leng Ooi, Zijiang He
  • Patent number: 9652032
    Abstract: Objects associated with fixation regions are used to support training tasks that are characterized by operation within a dynamic 3D environment, problem-solving that involves user multi-tasking, fast decisions, heavy workloads, potential for unexpected events, and the need for high-performance skills. The invention is ideally suited to measure the nuances associated with maintaining situation awareness in such tasks where dynamic 3D environments that support problem solving with high cognitive fidelity have already been developed. Potential training application areas include urban warfighting, night vision goggle use, aircraft piloting, helicopter operation, remote control of vehicles and robots, night driving, air traffic control, and quarterback decision-making.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Inventor: Brian T. Mitchell