US Patent Issued to SoftEye on May 20 for "Applications for anamorphic lenses" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,408, issued on May 20, was assigned to SoftEye Inc. (San Diego).

"Applications for anamorphic lenses" was invented by Edwin Chongwoo Park (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel applications for anamorphic lenses in smart glasses. Anamorphic lenses preserve straightness of motion and lines (i.e., "linearity"). As a practical matter, existing computer vision models can be used with anamorphic images without re-training or intermediate conversion steps (unlike fisheye lenses). The contents of the present disclosure provide substantial improvements for applications that have different FOV requirements along different axis. Solut...