Including Eye Photography Patents (Class 351/206)
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Patent number: 10925483Abstract: An optical coherence tomographic device configured to acquire a tomographic image of a subjected eye is disclosed herein. The optical coherence tomographic device may include a light source of wavelength sweeping type; and a measurement optical system configured to irradiate the subjected eye with light outputted from the light source, where D/S×?>1.61 may be satisfied, with a diameter of the light outputted from the light source at an incident position to the subjected eye is D, a wavelength swept frequency of the light source is S, and a center wavelength of the light outputted from the light source is ?.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: TOMEY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Nozawa, Chihiro Kato, Takashi Kamo
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Patent number: 10925482Abstract: A dosimetry system may comprise a film stack and a laser system for applying a laser beam to the film stack. The system may further comprise an interferometry system configured to acquire from the film stack a first interferometric dataset comprising a first composite signal and a subsequent interferometric dataset comprising a subsequent composite signal. The system may also include a processor for comparing the first and subsequent composite signals, wherein a difference between the first and subsequent composite signals indicates a change in the film stack thickness. A dosimetry method may comprise applying a laser beam to such a film stack, acquiring the first and subsequent interferometric datasets, comparing them to detect a change in the film stack thickness, and ceasing to apply the laser beam to the film stack if the change in the film stack thickness exceeds a predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: LUTRONIC VISION INCInventors: Seth Adrian Miller, Mark Meloni
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Patent number: 10929507Abstract: An apparatus and method for collecting medical data which envisages: acquiring medical data by means of a medical data collecting apparatus (10); storing a copy of said medical data in a remote device (16), separate from the apparatus (10); assessing the methods of use of the apparatus (10) by means of a predefined algorithm comparing the medical data comprised in the last copy stored and the medical data comprised in the penultimate copy stored of the medical data; limiting or blocking functioning of the apparatus (10) if the methods of use assessed correspond with predefined prohibited methods of use.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2014Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: NEXT SIGHT S.R.L.Inventors: Paola Griggio, Flavio Rizzardi
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Patent number: 10928904Abstract: Some embodiments include a method comprising receiving gaze data from an image sensor that indicates where a user is looking, determining a location that the user is directing their gaze on a display based on the gaze data, receiving a confirmation input from an input device, and generating and effectuating an input command based on the location on the display that the user is directing their gaze when the confirmation input is received. When a bystander is in a field-of-view of the image sensor, the method may further include limiting the input command to be generated and effectuated based solely on the location on the display that the user is directing their gaze and the confirmation input and actively excluding detected bystander gaze data from the generation of the input command.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.Inventor: Ludovico Novelli
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Patent number: 10918276Abstract: Digital fundus cameras including an objective lens and a digital imager for capturing digital retinal images. The digital fundus cameras include an annular LED illumination arrangement having an annular LED illuminator with a ring of spaced apart individual masked LEDs, an annular folded illumination optical train and a multiple stage stray illumination trap arrangement for capturing stray illumination. The annular LED illumination arrangement can optically include a glare spot masking arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: CAMEREYES LTD.Inventor: David Rosenblatt
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Patent number: 10912459Abstract: A system for identifying structures in an eye of a subject. In embodiments of the invention, the system has a housing; a visible light source supported by the housing; an infrared light source supported by the housing; a photodetector supported by the housing; a patient interface disposed on an outer surface of the housing arranged and configured so that, when the patient interface is placed in contact with the subject, the subject's eye is aligned with the light sources and the photodetector such that the light sources illuminate an iris of the eye at an angle between 15° and 30° and such that the photodetector receives light from the light sources reflected by the iris; and a controller configured to activate the visible light source and the infrared light source and to obtain image information from the photodetector.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Inventor: Neekon Saadat
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Patent number: 10905324Abstract: Fluorescence microscopy apparatus for the analysis of a fundus of a sample eye, based on the use of an optical equipment configured to generate a Bessel beam inside a sample eye and an objective configured to increase the numerical aperture of an “objective-cornea-lens” assembly by reducing the overall focal length of the fluorescence microscopy apparatus, also allowing a significant increase in spatial resolution compared to conventional microscopy systems.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: CRESTOPTICS S.P.A.Inventors: Vincenzo Ricco, Raino Ceccarelli, Andrea Latini
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Patent number: 10905325Abstract: An illumination system of an ophthalmologic apparatus of an exemplary embodiment projects illumination light from a light source onto the anterior eye segment of a subject's eye. An interference photographing system photographs an interference pattern formed on the cornea by the illumination light. An anterior eye segment photographing system photographs the anterior eye segment onto which the illumination light is being projected. A first optical path coupling element couples the optical path of the interference photographing system and the optical path of the anterior eye segment photographing system with one another.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Yasufumi Fukuma, Hideharu Suzuki, Zhenguo Wang, Kazuhiro Oomori, Makoto Fujino
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Patent number: 10904429Abstract: In an image sensor, high-speed recognition processing is performed using high-speed image data, which is different from low-speed image data used for displaying. In the image sensor, an imaging element captures an image of an object and generates frames of image data arranged in time series. A binarization processing unit performs binarization processing on each of the frames to generate binarized frames. A tracking processing unit generates a difference between binarized frames adjacent in time series and tracks a change in a position of the object included in the binarized frames.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2017Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Masatsugu Kobayashi, Sayaka Shida, Koki Mitsunami
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Patent number: 10898379Abstract: A method of determining control parameters of a retinal treatment system comprising acquiring an image of a retina of a subject's eye using an imaging laser and an optical system of the retinal treatment system, presenting an image of the retina to a user of the retinal treatment system, receiving from the user location data of the retinal image that locates at least one treatment site of the retina, receiving from the user a required laser light pattern for use on the treatment site, using the location data to determine a location control parameter which causes the optical system to direct laser light from a treatment laser of the retinal treatment system to the treatment site, and using the required laser light pattern to determine a pattern control parameter which causes the treatment laser to produce a laser light pattern which passes through the optical system and results in the required laser light pattern at the treatment site.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2016Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: OPTOS PLCInventor: Derek Swan
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Patent number: 10902239Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium embodies instructions that cause one or more processors to perform a method. The method includes: (A) receiving a selection of a 3D model stored in one or more memories, the 3D model corresponding to an object, and (B) setting a camera parameter set for a camera for use in detecting a pose of the object in a real scene. The method also includes (C) receiving a selection of data representing a view range, (D) generating at least one 2D synthetic image based on the camera parameter set by rendering the 3D model in the view range, (E) generating training data using the at least one 2D synthetic image to train an object detection algorithm, and (F) storing the generated training data in one or more memories.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Ivo Moravec, Jie Wang, Syed Alimul Huda
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Patent number: 10893799Abstract: A method for determining the topography of the cornea of an eye on the basis of an optical, contactless data capture. In the method for determining the topography of the cornea of an eye, which is based on a deflectometric method, the deflectometric measurements are carried out with the aid of a keratometric method by virtue of additional OCT-based scans being made at the keratometric measurement points, wherein the two measurement systems are registered to one another and both the keratometric and the OCT-based measurement values are recorded and used for mutual calibration to determine and output the topographic data. The proposed method serves to determine the topography of the cornea of an eye. It is helpful to ascertain the topography in order to be able to draw conclusions about possible pathological changes. Moreover, the exact measurement of the corneal topography is of great importance for correcting refractive errors.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Manfred Dick, Ferid Bajramovic, Wei-Jun Chen, Tobias Bühren, Matthias Reich, Jörg Meissner, Martin Kühner
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Patent number: 10893796Abstract: A method for measuring layer thicknesses of a multi-layer structure includes generating first and second 2D images of the structure, each image being generated by measuring an intensity of a reflection of incident lights, from different discrete narrow spectral bands, on the structure. Thicknesses for at least one layer of the structure are then determined based on the measured reflection intensities at those locations.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Zhenguo Wang, Zaixing Mao, Kinpui Chan
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Patent number: 10893801Abstract: The invention relates to an eye tracking system (10) and a method for operating an eye tracking system (10) for determining if one of a left and a right eye of a user is dominant, wherein at least one image of the left and the right eye of the user is captured (S30), based on the at least one image and according to a predefined accuracy function a left accuracy score for the left eye (S34a) and a right accuracy score for the right eye (S34c) is determined and it is determined if one of the left and the right eye of the user is dominant in dependency of at least the left and the right accuracy score (S36). Thereby user-specific properties relating to his eyes can be provided and considered when performing eye tracking so that the robustness and accuracy of eye tracking can be enhanced.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2018Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Kun Liu, Walter Nistico, Hao Qin
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Patent number: 10888222Abstract: A system and a method for testing a visual field of a subject are described. The method includes determining inter-eye distance of the subject. Visual stimuli are displayed on a left display region and a right display region of a two-dimensional display to the subject based on the determined inter-eye distance. The left display region is configured to display content specific to the left eye and the right display region is configured to display content specific to the right eye of the subject. Subject responses to the visual stimuli are tracked. Based on the subject responses, a condition of the visual field of each eye the subject is evaluated and then results of the evaluation describing the subject's visual field condition is reported or stored.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignees: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, INC., CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AGInventors: Matthias Monhart, Maximilian Stocker, Robert J. Wood
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Patent number: 10888458Abstract: Both visible and IR cameras are integrated without an increase in an optical stack height of a surgical microscope used for ophthalmic surgery. The IR camera may be used to directly and intraoperatively capture a scanning OCT measurement beam, which uses NIR light that is invisible to the human eye. An IR image from the IR camera taken from the same surgical field as displayed intraoperatively to a user of the surgical microscope may be displayed in an ocular to the user, enabling visualization of a location of an OCT scan along with actual visible images of the surgical field.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Inventors: Martin Eil, Mauricio Jochinsen, Hugang Ren, Lingfeng Yu
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Patent number: 10888457Abstract: A keratometer for intra-surgery measurements mounted under a surgical microscope includes a Placido ring illuminating a patient's eye; a video camera; a beamsplitter directing a Purkinje image of the Placido ring to the video camera; a fixation light directing a beam for patient eye fixation, fixation confirmation or creating a red reflex effect to enhance IOL imaging and cataract visualization; a processor configured to determine the refractive characteristics and keratometer parameters of the patient's eye and to execute a digital image enhancement method to outline IOL features to help IOL alignment; and a digital display displaying the keratometer parameters and surgical guidance information for a surgeon.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Inventor: Alex Artsyukhovich
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Patent number: 10881293Abstract: Systems and methods for surveying the sclera are provided. In some aspects, a method for generating a design for a prosthetic lens for an eye of a subject includes arranging an eye of a subject at a distance from a plurality of illumination sources and a plurality of imaging devices, projecting light onto the eye of the subject using the illumination sources, acquiring image data of the eye of the subject and the light using the plurality of imaging devices, generating a three dimensional map of the eye, including the sclera, using the image data; and designing, using the three dimensional map of the eye for the lens that fits over a cornea of the eye to engage the sclera and form a fluid pocket between the prosthetic lens that surrounds the cornea.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2017Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Brandeis UniversityInventor: Hermann Wellenstein
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Patent number: 10872237Abstract: An image processing system includes: an analysis unit configured to obtain information indicating a degree of curvature of a retina from a tomographic image of an eye to be examined; and an obtaining unit configured to obtain a category of the eye to be examined based on an analysis result.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2019Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshihiko Iwase, Hiroyuki Shinbata, Makoto Sato
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Patent number: 10867173Abstract: A system for photonic illumination for biometric identification and pupillometry. The system includes at least one light source configured for illuminating coherent beam including spatial superposition of at least a first wavelength and a second wavelength, the first wavelength is in the visible spectrum and the second wavelength is in the infrared spectrum. The system further includes an LCD dot array disposed along optical path of the beam such that the beam provides a spatially selective illumination having a cross section including an array of discrete pixels and an optical system for illuminating a human eye with the spatially selective illumination and for reflecting infrared light in the spatially selective illumination towards a camera disposed along an optical axis such that an image obtained by the camera is superimposed of the illuminated eye and the infrared light reflected by the optical system.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: QUANTUM BIOMETRONICS PRIVATE COMPANYInventors: Iannis Kominis, Antonis Margaritakis, Kostas Mouloudakis, Georgia Anyfantaki, Aikaterini Gratsea
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Patent number: 10867252Abstract: A method for forming an offset model is described. The offset model represents an estimated offset between a limbus center of a user eye and a pupil center of the user eye as a function of pupil size. The approach includes sampling a set of limbus center values, sampling a set of pupil center values, and sampling a set of radius values. The offset model is formed by comparing a difference between the set of limbus center values and the set of pupil center values at each of the radius values. A system and a computer-readable storage device configured to perform such a method are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Tobii ABInventor: Erik Lindén
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Patent number: 10859816Abstract: A scanning-type image acquisition device includes: drivers that respectively vibrate in an x direction and a y direction that are perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of an optical fiber that guides illumination light from a light source and cause a tip of the optical fiber to be spirally scanned on a subject; a drive-signal generating circuit that generates drive signals for driving the drive units; an adjustment section that adjusts the drive signals generated by the drive-signal generating circuit and generates position reference data; a photodetector that detects scattered light of the illumination light at each scanning position of an illumination light spot on the subject due to the drivers; and an image generating circuit that generates an image by arranging intensity values of the scattered light detected by the photodetector in pixels in accordance with the position reference data output from the adjustment section.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2019Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ken Fujinuma, Yuhei Takata
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Patent number: 10849498Abstract: The present application describes the addition of various feedback mechanisms including visual and audio feedback mechanisms to an ophthalmic diagnostic device to assist a subject to self-align to the device. The device may use the visual and non-visual feedback mechanisms independently or in combination with one another. The device may provide a means for a subject to provide feedback to the device to confirm that an alignment condition has been met. Alternatively, the device may have a means for sensing when acceptable alignment has been achieved. The device may capture diagnostic information during the alignment process or may capture after the alignment condition has been met.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2016Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignees: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, INC., CARL ZEISS MEDITECH AGInventors: Alexandre R. Tumlinson, Keith O'Hara, Angelo Rago
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Patent number: 10849494Abstract: An apparatus includes an interference optical system configured to acquire a tomographic image of an eye by using interference light between return light from the eye irradiated with measurement light and reference light corresponding to the measurement light, a determination unit configured to determine, by using at least one of information about an acquisition time for acquiring the tomographic image and information about an imaging view angle of the tomographic image, a search range for searching for a position corresponding to a first tomographic image of the eye, the position being in a second tomographic image of the eye, and the second tomographic image having been acquired at a time different from a time when the first tomographic image is acquired, and a registration unit configured to perform registration of the first tomographic image and the second tomographic image by using information about the determined search range.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroki Uchida
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Patent number: 10849547Abstract: Systems and methods capture light reflected back from a patient's fundus and compares the resulting images to prior images, to determine if the patient is experiencing intraocular inflammation or atrophy.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: JUNEBRAIN, INC.Inventor: Samantha I. Scott
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Patent number: 10827919Abstract: An optical coherence tomography (OCT) apparatus includes an optical source module comprising two or more selectable optical sources or an optical source configured to selectively operate in two or more source operating modes, or a combination of both, and further comprises an OCT engine coupled to the optical source module, the OCT engine comprising an OCT interferometer. The OCT apparatus still further includes a mode-switching optics module coupled to the OCT engine and comprising one or more swappable, selectable, or adjustable optical components, such that the mode-switching optics module is configured to selectively provide two or more optical configurations for the optical path between the OCT engine and an imaged object, according to two or more corresponding operating modes.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Alcon Inc.Inventors: Craig Bender, Michael Papac, Lingfeng Yu
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Patent number: 10827921Abstract: A-lines are obtained from an OCT scan of the eye, some of which pass through the iris and the lens and some of which pass through the lens but not the iris. An interface is detected from the A-lines; at least some of this interface is assumed to correspond to either the anterior or posterior of the iris. For each A-line, a first metric is derived from pixels near the detected first interface, such that the first metric reflects an OCT signal intensity associated with the interface, and a second metric is derived from pixels further from the interface, such that the second metric reflects OCT signal attenuation below the detected interface. An attenuation parameter is calculated for each A-line, based on the first and second metrics, and the iris's edge is detected by determining whether each A-line passes through the iris, based on the attenuation parameter.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Alcon Inc.Inventors: Hugang Ren, Muhammad K. Al-Qaisi
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Patent number: 10820793Abstract: A biological object observation system includes an observation optical unit, a photodetector, a display unit, a detection unit, and a processor. The observation optical unit includes an optical system that guides a luminous flux from a biological object and a drive unit that drives the optical system. The photodetector receives optical information in accordance with the biological object. The display unit displays an observation image of the biological object generated on the basis of the optical information. The detection unit detects one of a position and a movement of an object in a display region of the displayed observation image. The processor controls the drive unit in accordance with the one of the position and the movement of the object that is detected.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Go Matsunobu
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Patent number: 10823636Abstract: Method for determining the refractive index (n) of a material of a contact lens, in particular of a soft contact lens, the contact lens (1) having a first surface and a second surface defining a lens geometry there between, by measuring the wavefront issued by the contact lens (1) with a wavefront sensor (4), obtaining data of the geometry of at least one section of the contact lens (1) with an optical coherence tomography system (3) and communicating the geometry of the at least one section of the contact lens (1) from the optical coherence tomography system (3) to an analyzer, particularly a computer, and determining the refractive index (n) of the material of the contact lens from the geometry of the at least one section of the contact lens and from the wavefront issued by the contact lens (1).Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Alcon Inc.Inventors: Susanne Fechner, Roger Biel, Marcus Heift, Thomas Tonn
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Patent number: 10825182Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel method and system for crater detection in planetary data based on marked point processes (MPP), effective for various object detection tasks in Earth observation, and for planetary image registration. The resulting spatial features are exploited for registration, together with fitness functions based on the MPP energy, on the mean directed Hausdorff distance, and on the mutual information. Two different methods—one based on birth-death processes and region-of-interest analysis, and the other based on graph cuts and decimated wavelets—are included within the present framework. Experimental results confirmed the effectiveness of the present invention in terms of crater detection performance and sub-pixel registration accuracy.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASAInventors: Jacqueline J. Le Moigne-Stewart, David Solarna, Gabriele Moser, Sebastiano Serpico, Alberto Gotelli
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Patent number: 10816800Abstract: An example method of controlling an electronic device worn by a user includes constructing a user model by training a content feature according to response characteristics of an eye of a user who wears the electronic device, and in response to a content feature stored in the user model being detected from reproduced content during content reproduction, processing the reproduced content based on response characteristics of the eye of the user corresponding to the detected content feature.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jae-deok Kim, Young-bin Shin
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Patent number: 10813550Abstract: An optical measurement system method for measuring a characteristic of a subject's eye use a probe beam having an infrared wavelength in the infrared spectrum to measure a refraction of the subject's eye at the infrared wavelength; capture at least two different Purkinje images at two different corresponding wavelengths from at least one surface of the lens of the subject's eye; determine from the at least two different Purkinje images a value for at least one parameter of the subject's eye; use the value of the at least one parameter to determine a customized chromatic adjustment factor for the subject's eye; and correct the measured refraction of the subject's eye at the infrared wavelength with the customized chromatic adjustment factor to determine a refraction of the subject's eye at a visible wavelength in the visible spectrum.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2019Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: AMO DEVELOPMENT, LLCInventors: Richard J. Copland, Daniel R. Neal, Thomas D. Raymond, Stephen W. Farrer
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Patent number: 10806341Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring eye health. The systems and methods monitor eye health by measuring scleral strain by way of an implantable monitor, a wearable monitor configured in eyeglasses, or an external monitor using a portable tablet computing device. Certain embodiments of the strain monitor may be utilized to measure the strain on any surface to which it is attached, including, but not limited to, the skin of a patient or the surface of a structure such as a building or a bridge.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2015Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: California Baptist UniversityInventors: Matthew Rickard, Creed Jones
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Patent number: 10795141Abstract: Disclosed is an LED arrangement for a microscopy instrument (200 FIG. 2) comprising a light emitting area (112), and a part-spherical solid and light transmissive cap (120), in light communication with the light emitting area, the cap having a hemispherical surface (126) including a portion (124) at which light from the light emitting area is reflected and a portion (128) at which light from the emitter can exit the cap, in order to provide a usable light cone L which includes light recycled from the more divergent emitted light, and is thereby more intense.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Cytiva Sweden ABInventor: Jeremy R. Cooper
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Patent number: 10786033Abstract: The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for training users in sports using mixed reality. The method includes retrieving data from athletes wearing helmets, wearable glasses, and/or motion-capture suits in real time. The helmets and the wearable glasses are integrated with mixed-reality technology. Further, physical performance data of the athletes is captured using a variety of time-synchronized measurement techniques. Thereafter, the athletes are trained using the captured data and audio, visual and haptic feedback.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Robotarmy Corp.Inventors: Alan Gary Brown, Damien Phelan Stolarz
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Patent number: 10779721Abstract: An optical coherence tomography (OCT) system and method for cross view imaging using at least two B-scan images transformed and coupled to each other at an angle to generate a cross view image.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Alcon Inc.Inventors: Mauricio Jochinsen, Hugang Ren, Lingfeng Yu
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Patent number: 10772499Abstract: A method of generating three dimensional shapes for a cornea and lens of an eye, the method including illuminating an eye with multiple sections of light and obtaining multiple sectional images of said eye based on said multiple sections of light. For each one of the obtained multiple sectional images, the following processes are performed: a) automatically identifying arcs, in two-dimensional space, corresponding to anterior and posterior corneal and lens surfaces of the eye by image analysis and curve fitting of the one of the obtained multiple sectional images; and b) determining an intersection of lines ray traced back from the identified arcs in two-dimensional space with a known position of a section of space containing the section of light that generated the one of the obtained multiple sectional images, wherein the determined intersection defines a three-dimensional arc curve.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2015Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Lensar, Inc.Inventors: Gary P. Gray, Rudolph W. Frey, Steven E. Bott
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Patent number: 10772496Abstract: A method for imaging retinal structures involves offsetting an imaging aperture from the center of the reflected/scattered light distribution. Images are obtained with the imaging aperture at multiple offsets with respect to the center. The various obtained images are co-registered to a reference confocal image in a reference wavelength and averaged to generate high signal to noise ratio images. The images may be combined in various ways to enhance the contrast of retinal structures that would not be visible in confocal images.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2016Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: University of RochesterInventor: Ethan Andrew Rossi
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Patent number: 10767982Abstract: Methods and systems for capturing motion and/or determining the shapes and positions of one or more objects in 3D space utilize cross-sections thereof. In various embodiments, images of the cross-sections are captured using a camera based on reflections therefrom or shadows cast thereby.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two LimitedInventor: David S. Holz
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Patent number: 10750944Abstract: An eye surgery visualization system includes an image sensor and contains an imaging system for producing an image of an object region with an optical imaging beam path in an imaging plane on an image sensor. A computer unit has an image processing routine for an image of the object region, the image having been captured by the image sensor. An image display unit visualizes image data of an image processed in the computer unit. An ophthalmoscopy loupe of the system images a portion lying within a patient's eye in an intermediate image plane that is conjugate to the imaging plane on the image sensor. The image processing routine separates the first portions of the image of the object region from second portions of the image of the object region in the imaging plane on the image sensor.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2018Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Joachim Steffen, Christoph Hauger
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Patent number: 10755451Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including: a data acquiring unit configured to acquire a plurality of pieces of tomographic data, which are obtained by performing optical coherence tomographic imaging of an object to be inspected through use of measuring light a plurality of times; a noise acquiring unit configured to acquire a noise characteristic of the tomographic data; a coefficient determining unit configured to determine a weighting coefficient corresponding to each pixel position in a tomographic image generated from the tomographic data based on the plurality of pieces of tomographic data and the noise characteristic; a changing unit configured to change a value of the tomographic data based on the weighting coefficient; and an image generating unit configured to generate the tomographic image based on the tomographic data that has the value changed.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2018Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Makoto Sato, Yoshihiko Iwase
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Patent number: 10743765Abstract: An optical imaging system for an ophthalmic laser beam delivery system, which includes a focusing objective including a plurality of lenses, a semi-transparent folding mirror disposed near an entrance of the focusing objective for reflecting a treatment laser beam into the focusing objective, a prism disposed adjacent a back surface of the folding mirror, the prism having a first, a second and a third surface, the second surface being disposed adjacent the back surface of the folding mirror, the prism being configured to reflect a light that has entered the second surface sequentially by the first surface and by the second surface toward the third surface to be output, a focusing lens module disposed adjacent the third surface of the prism to focus light output from the third surface of the prism, and an image sensor disposed to receive the light focused by the focusing lens module to form an image.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: AMO Development, LLCInventor: Zheng Sun
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Patent number: 10743763Abstract: Methods for improved acquisition and processing of optical coherence tomography (OCT) angiography data are presented. One embodiment involves improving the acquisition of the data by evaluating the quality of different portions of the data to identify sections having non-uniform acquisition parameters or non-uniformities due to opacities in the eye such as floaters. The identified sections can then be brought to the attention of the user or automatically reacquired. In another embodiment, segmentation of layers in the retina includes both structural and flow information derived from motion contrast processing. In a further embodiment, the health of the eye is evaluating by comparing a metric reflecting the density of vessels at a particular location in the eye determined by OCT angiography to a database of values calculated on normal eyes.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, INC.Inventors: Lin An, Mary K. Durbin, Sophie Kubach, Utkarsh Sharma
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Patent number: 10743762Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus according to the embodiments includes an OCT optical system, an alignment unit, an image forming unit, a first calculator, and a second calculator. The OCT optical system is configured to acquire OCT data of a fundus of a subject's eye by projecting measurement light onto the fundus. The alignment unit is configured to perform alignment of the OCT optical system with reference to a predetermined site of the subject's eye. The image forming unit is configured to form a tomographic image of the fundus based on the OCT data acquired by the OCT optical system which has been aligned by the alignment unit. The first calculator is configured to calculate a first tilt angle of the tomographic image. The second calculator is configured to calculate a second tilt angle of the fundus by correcting the first tilt angle based on alignment result of the OCT optical system with respect to the predetermined site by the alignment unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi Shimizu, Masashi Nakajima, Tony H. Ko, Jonathan Liu, Yasufumi Fukuma
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Patent number: 10743764Abstract: A wide field fundus camera is disclosed to implement multiple illumination beam projectors and to capture multiple retinal images at a various viewing angles to mimic wide field retinal examination with an indirect ophthalmoscope. The wide field fundus camera may incorporate a consumer image recording device with fast auto focusing so as to make the device quick to respond and easy to use. The wide field fundus camera may include narrow and broad slit beam illuminations to enhance autofocusing and imaging through less transparent crystalline lens and through haze due to Purkinje reflections from crystalline lens surfaces. Control of multiple illumination beam projectors in a programmable manner can be used to assess alignment of each illumination beam projector with the eye and to capture said multiple retinal images. Furthermore, a method is disclosed to montage said multiple retinal images into a single montage and to remove haze and reflections.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Retivue, LLCInventors: Paul A. Yates, Ming Lai
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Patent number: 10736506Abstract: An imaging device may include first and second optical channels, where each of the first and second optical channels include a discrete optical imaging pathway. The first and second optical channels may be aimed at different angles relative to each other, and each may be directed towards corresponding partially overlapping zones of an object for imaging. Each of the optical channels may include an illuminating source configured to be turned on or off, where illumination from the illuminating sources follow respective illumination paths to the object. Each of the optical channels may additionally include lenses shared by both the respective optical imaging pathways and the respective illumination paths, and each may include an image sensor. The imaging device may also include a computing device configured to turn on the illuminating source of the first optical channel while capturing an image using the image sensor of the second optical channel.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: BROADSPOT IMAGING CORPInventors: Tushar M. Ranchod, Brendan Hamel-Bissell, Benjamin A. Jacobson, Andre E. Adams, Clark Pentico
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Patent number: 10736779Abstract: An imaging system includes an eye interface device, a scanning assembly, a beam source, a free-floating mechanism, and a detection assembly. The eye interface device interfaces with an eye. The scanning assembly supports the eye interface device and scans a focal point of an electromagnetic radiation beam within the eye. The beam source generates the electromagnetic radiation beam. The free-floating mechanism supports the scanning assembly and accommodates movement of the eye and provides a variable optical path for the electronic radiation beam and a portion of the electronic radiation beam reflected from the focal point location. The variable optical path is disposed between the beam source and the scanner and has an optical path length that varies to accommodate movement of the eye. The detection assembly generates a signal indicative of intensity of a portion of the electromagnetic radiation beam reflected from the focal point location.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: AMO Development, LLCInventors: Georg Schuele, Phillip Gooding
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Patent number: 10733735Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus that may include a processor; and a memory storing computer-readable instructions therein, the computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, causing the ophthalmic apparatus to perform: acquiring a two-dimensional tomographic image of the subjected eye; calculating a preoperative shape of the subjected eye based on a preoperative two-dimensional tomographic image of a preoperative subjected eye acquired by the acquiring of the two-dimensional tomographic image; calculating a postoperative shape of the subjected eye based on a postoperative two-dimensional tomographic image of a postoperative subjected eye acquired by the acquiring of the two-dimensional tomographic image; and calculating a displacement amount between a first reference axis obtained from the preoperative two-dimensional tomographic image of the preoperative subjected eye and a second reference axis obtained from the postoperative two-dimensional tomographic image of the postoperative subjected eye, basType: GrantFiled: December 15, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: TOMEY CORPORATIONInventors: Keiichiro Okamoto, Fushi Li, Kenji Horikoshi
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Patent number: 10733439Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) presents content for viewing by users. The HMD includes a display element for displaying content to a user wearing the HMD and a detector (e.g., camera) for capturing one or more images of a retina of an eye of the user, where the one or more images are captured while the retina is reflecting light originating from one or more tracking light sources positioned at predetermined locations. The HMD also includes a controller for identifying one or more features of the retina based on the captured one or more images of the retina and for determining one or more optical metrics based in part on the identified one or more features of the retina.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Ying Geng, Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai
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Patent number: 10716704Abstract: An ophthalmoscope having a laser device for laser irradiation of an eye, in particular for performing a photocoagulation on fundus of the eye of the eye, includes an illuminator for illuminating the eye as well as a camera for acquiring an image of the eye. The illuminator is adapted to generate visible and infrared lights. The ophthalmoscope further includes a control unit adapted to trigger the illuminator for generating a light pulse of visible light and to read out from the camera a control image of the eye acquired by the camera during the light pulse. The ophthalmoscope is configurable to acquire an image of an eye and perform a laser treatment of an eye.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2016Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: OD-OS GMBHInventors: Ben Liesfeld, Winfried Teiwes, Ulrike Weber, Kay-Uwe Amthor, Stephan Kirsch