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Method and System for Eye Tracking using Structured Light
This invention represents a significant advancement in the field of eye tracking technology by introducing a novel deflectometry approach to enhance accuracy that relies on leveraging dense 3D information obtained from the eye surface to estimate gaze direction. The key objective is to substantially decrease gaze estimation errors, aiming to improve...
Published: 4/24/2024
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Inventor(s): Florian Willomitzer, Jiazhang Wang
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Displays, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design
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Phase Modulated Camera
This invention provides a method to image though a disruptive media, such as fog, rain, snow, and sand particles. The phase-based camera, coupled with existing cameras and sensors normally equipped on autonomous vehicles, allows for detection and viewing objects through fog, smoke, or other atmospheric obstructions. The system consists of a lens, phase...
Published: 3/6/2024
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Inventor(s): Yuzuru Takashima
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Photonics, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design
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Color Corrector for MODE Optical System
This technology is a system of lenses for use in space telescopes. The optical system combines state-of-the-art optical lens technology with new corrective lenses that address shortcomings in the state-of-the-art optical systems.
Background:
Telescopes in space that orbit earth are typically used for scientific research and surveillance purposes. The...
Published: 8/4/2023
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Inventor(s): Young Kim, Thomas Milster, Zichan Wang
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design
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Method and Apparatus for Splitting and Combining Light and Particle Beam using Moving Mirror
This innovation describes display instrument, interferometer and multi-spectral and polarization camera designs that utilize a beam splitter in a division of time configuration. This invention also includes a novel beam splitter device that splits an incoming light beam into multiple beams and different directions. The beam splitter device also operates...
Published: 4/24/2024
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Inventor(s): Stanley Pau
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lasers & Other Sources
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Time to Angle Sorting Camera
This invention provides a method to sort camera-captured images based on their arrival time employing short-pulsed illumination and MEMS spatial modulator. The time-to-angle sorting method works as an add-on to commercially available cameras. Primary uses would be for driver assistance and autonomous terrestrial/aerial vehicle sensing in the detection...
Published: 4/24/2024
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Inventor(s): Yuzuru Takashima
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Sensors and Detection > Remote Sensing, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design
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Method and Device for 3D Imaging and Imaging through Scattering Scenes
This invention describes a method to develop a computational camera that can image through dynamic scattering media with high resolution. The camera can create a synthetic hologram by combining light at two closely spaced optical frequencies to produce a low-frequency synthetic wave (beat wave), largely immune to the unknown scattering processes between...
Published: 4/24/2024
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Inventor(s): Florian Willomitzer, Oliver Cossairt, Manuel Ballester, Heming Wang
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Medical Imaging, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design
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Periodic Structures Embedded within Glass Mirror Substrates for Reflection to Non-Specular Directions
This technology is a method for measuring heliostats for solar energy applications, as well as any large optical surface composed of second-surface mirrors. A small diffraction grating, which is a 1D, 2D, or 3D periodic phase and/or amplitude modulation, is embedded within the glass substrate of a second-surface mirror. Light from a metrology system...
Published: 4/24/2024
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Inventor(s): Brandon Chalifoux
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Materials & Fabrication, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design
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A Telescope for Mass Production at Low Cost
This technology is a new way to cost-effectively mass produce mirrors and optics for smaller (<30” aperture) telescopes. The mirrors are made using a rapid replication process and are equipped with coolers for active shape adjustment. It also employs an optical corrector near the focus to reduce atmospheric image blurring. This innovative manufacturing...
Published: 4/24/2024
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Inventor(s): James Angel, Nicholas Didato, Joel Berkson, Richard Wortley
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Optical Fab / Metrology, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design
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Polarization Compensation for Corner Cube Reflector
Existing corner cube reflectors introduce unwanted polarization change to incident light. This invention provides a solution to remove this polarization change and thereby reduces polarization dependent loss and improves the performance of the reflector. This solution can be applied to both mirror-based and prism-based corner cube reflectors. This invention...
Published: 6/6/2023
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Inventor(s): Sawyer Miller, Russell Chipman, Stanley Pau
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design
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Multiple Exposure to Increase Image Resolution and Dynamic Range using Zoom Lens and Different Aperture
This innovation is a method to increase image resolution by using multiple exposures and different aperture settings, combining them to create a high dynamic range image. Images can be taken at different or same exposure times and the exact aperture setting can be determined by the user or by an initial estimate of the dynamic range of the scene. A...
Published: 5/2/2023
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Inventor(s): Stanley Pau, Amit Ashok
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Category(s): Technology Classifications, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design
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