Eye Examining Or Testing Instrument Patents (Class 351/200)
  • Patent number: 11988897
    Abstract: Techniques for providing eyewear with electrical components are disclosed. The electrical components can provide electrical technology to eyewear without having to substantially compromise aesthetic design principles of the eyewear. The electrical components can be partially or completely internal to eyewear. The electrical components can also be attached to the eyewear as an after-market enhancement. The electrical components can operate independently or together with other electrical components provided elsewhere. Apparatus for presenting after-market electrical components are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: IngenioSpec, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas A. Howell, David Chao, C. Douglass Thomas, Peter P. Tong
  • Patent number: 11983310
    Abstract: A gaze tracking system comprising one or more cameras operable to capture one or more images of a side view of one or both of a user's eyes, a cornea identification unit operable to identify the location and size of a cornea in one or more of the captured images, a gaze detection unit operable to determine a direction of the user's gaze in dependence upon the identified location of the cornea in the one or more captured images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Sahin Serdar Kocdemir, Philip Cockram
  • Patent number: 11972592
    Abstract: A method comprises: capturing, with an image sensor, at least one image of a head of a user, wherein the at least one image includes an image of an eye of the user; processing the at least one image to obtain position information for features of the head and eye of the user; and determining, based on the position information for the features of the head and eye of the user, at least one parameter of a daily use eyewear frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Innovega, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Legerton, Jay Marsh
  • Patent number: 11940614
    Abstract: The eye cover system has a scope attachment portion, an adjustment portion, and an eye cover portion. The scope attachment portion is arched so as to receive a cylindrical eyepiece of a spotting scope. The scope attachment portion couples to the eyepiece via an adjustable elastic band. Further, the scope attachment portion is coupled to a shaft that receives the eye cover portion. The eye cover portion comprises a removably attachable hood with a protrusion that receives the shaft through a slide aperture. In use, the unused eye's view is blocked by the hood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Inventors: Jeff Glines, Braxen Glines
  • Patent number: 11899836
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a visualization system in a surgical application, wherein a registration device of the visualization system provides a video data stream with a first image size as an output, wherein an image excerpt of the video data stream with a second image size that has been reduced in relation to the first image size is transmitted to a head-mounted visualization device via a communications link and is displayed on a display device of the visualization device, wherein a viewing direction of a user is registered by means of a sensor system, and wherein the image excerpt of the video data stream is defined on the basis of the registered viewing direction. Further, the invention relates to a visualization system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Stefan Saur, Christoph Hauger, Christoph Schaeff
  • Patent number: 11867900
    Abstract: An eye-tracking method includes enabling at least one light source of an array of light sources to emit non-visible light to illuminate an eye. The method also includes obtaining at least one image of the eye while the at least one light source is enabled. A position of the eye may then be determined based on a position of the at least one light source within the array of light sources in response to determining that the at least one image indicates a bright pupil condition when the at least one light source was enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Robin Sharma, Mohamed Tarek El-Haddad
  • Patent number: 11819271
    Abstract: System and method directed towards providing full and even illumination of a patient's retina through lighting integrated into a handheld fundus lens. By integrating the lighting, the method and system reduces and even eliminate many lens artifacts and reflections. By increasing the accuracy, quality, and field of view afforded during clinical examination of the retina, the method and system will allow practitioners to make more accurate diagnoses and will increase safety during retinal surgical procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: University of Virginia Patent Foundation
    Inventor: Paul Andrew Yates
  • Patent number: 11808943
    Abstract: A display system can include a head-mounted display configured to project light to an eye of a user to display augmented reality image content to the user. The display system can include one or more user sensors configured to sense the user and can include one or more environmental sensors configured to sense surroundings of the user. The display system can also include processing electronics in communication with the display, the one or more user sensors, and the one or more environmental sensors. The processing electronics can be configured to sense a situation involving user focus, determine user intent for the situation, and alter user perception of a real or virtual object within the vision field of the user based at least in part on the user intent and/or sensed situation involving user focus. The processing electronics can be configured to at least one of enhance or de-emphasize the user perception of the real or virtual object within the vision field of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Nastasja U. Robaina, Nicole Elizabeth Samec, Christopher M. Harrises, Rony Abovitz, Mark Baerenrodt, Brian Lloyd Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11800975
    Abstract: An example apparatus for predicting eye fatigue includes an image receiver to receive an image of an eye. The apparatus also includes a fatigue predictor to predict eye fatigue in the eye based on a calculated blood vessel density score of the eye in the image. The apparatus further includes an alert generator to generate an alert in response to predicting the eye fatigue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sheow Ong, Wei Yuan Kong, Kar Mun Tham
  • Patent number: 11779207
    Abstract: A method for testing the eyes of a test person with the aid of a vision testing system as well as vision testing system, comprising a first measuring device, a second topographic measuring device, a third refractive measuring device and a processing means, an axial length (L) of an eye of the test person being measured with the aid of the first measuring device, a curvature of the cornea of the eye being measured with the aid of the second measuring device, a refractive property of the eye being measured with the aid of the third measuring device, a measurement simultaneously being carried out with the first, second and third measuring device at the eye, measurement data of the measurements of the first, second and third measuring device being processed with the aid of the processing means, said processing means presenting a database with normal data, a comparison of the measurement data with the normal data being carried out and a result of said comparison being issued by means of said processing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: OCULUS OPTIKGERAETE GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas Steinmueller
  • Patent number: 11714487
    Abstract: An eye tracking device determines a user's gaze point on a display device and a setting for a foveated region associated with a fixation position, based on a first location of the fixation position. The eye tracking device defines at least one of a size, shape, or positioning of the foveated region relative to the fixation position. The eye tracking device determines a second location of the fixation position associated with a change of user gaze and changes the foveated region setting. At least one of the shape or size of the foveated region changes based on the eye tracking device determining that a distance difference between the first and second locations is larger than a threshold. At least one of the size or the shape of the foveated region is continuously adjusted based on the fixation position being in smooth pursuit between the first location and the second location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Tobii AB
    Inventor: Robin Thunström
  • Patent number: 11704931
    Abstract: A system and method of detecting display fit measurements and/or ophthalmic measurements for a head mounted wearable computing device including a display device is provided. The system and method may include capturing image data including a face of a user to be fitted for the head mounted wearable computing device. A three-dimensional head pose and gaze measurements may be extracted and a three-dimensional model may be developed from the captured image data. The system may detect display fit measurements and/or ophthalmic fit measurements from the three-dimensional model, and may provide one or more head mounted wearable computing devices that meet the display fit and/or ophthalmic fit requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Idris Syed Aleem, Daniel David Albin Balzerson
  • Patent number: 11684259
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a novel pupilometer and method of using the pupilometer to record and analyze direct and consensual reflex of pupils to identify brain lesion locations of a patient with brain injuries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventor: Bin Chen
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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