Optics: eye examining, vision testing and correcting inventions 08/06

20060192916 - Rimless eyewear system with magnetic retention: Primary and auxiliary lens assemblies are provided that allow a wearer easy usage with a reduced risk of misalignment or detachment through the use of micromagnets. Conventional magnetic auxiliary lens assemblies are typically not compatible with frameless or rimless designs. The improved assemblies disclosed herein employ magnets embedded in either...

20060192917 - Telemicroscopic loupes with removable, replaceable lens cap to adjust for working distance: An improvement upon telemicroscopic loupes of the type which are adjustably mounted to an eyeglass frame, headmount or through-lens designs. The preferred embodiment includes a cap including an optical element to adjust for the working distance of a loupe. The cap may be frictionally fit onto the loupe or threadably...

20060192918 - System, apparatus, and method for correcting vision using an electro-active lens: A spectacle lens is disclosed. The disclosed lens provides a vision correcting area for the correction of a wearer's refractive error. The viewing correction area provides correction for non-conventional refractive error to provide at least a part of the wearer's vision correction. The lens has a prescription based on a...

20060192919 - Multifocal opthalmic lens: This invention is generally related to vision corrections by means of multifocal ophthalmic lenses or by means of corneal refractive surgery. In particular, the present invention provides a multifocal contact lens, a multifocal intraocular lens, a method for making a multifocal ophthalmic lens (contact lens and intraocular lens), and a...

20060192920 - Ophthalmic measurement apparatus: An ophthalmic measurement apparatus capable of obtaining refractive power containing a skew ray component, and further obtaining wavefront aberration from the refractive power with more ease and higher precision includes an optical system projecting slit light bundles onto a fundus of an examinee's eye and scanning the light bundles in...

20060192921 - Device and method for aligning an eye with a surgical laser: A device for establishing a desired alignment between a patient's eye and a laser system to facilitate an engagement therebetween includes a light source to illuminate the eye. A moveable platform is provided to move the patient relative to the laser system. To establish alignment between the eye and the...

20060187404 - Eyeglasses with interchangeable decorative attachments: An eyeglass and a decorative attachment for mounting upon the eyeglass is provided. The eyeglass has a recess at each side portion with a magnetic member therein. The decorative attachment has a pair of bands separated by a nose plate which are contoured to follow the shape of the frame...

20060187405 - Assembly of sunshade clip and spectacles using nose pad means: Disclosed herein is an assembly of a sunshade clip and spectacles using nose-pad means. The spectacles comprise a pair of lens frames connected to each other by means of a bridge, a pair of temple arms connected to the respective lens frames by means of a pair of magnetically-induced hinges,...

20060187407 - Spectacles and sunshade clip assembly having multi-layered hinges: Disclosed herein is a spectacles and sunshade clip assembly. The assembly comprises spectacles including a pair of lens frames connected to each other by means of a bridge, and a pair of the approximately L-shaped hinges affixed to opposite outer ends of the lens frames and adapted to hingedly connect...

20060187406 - Spectacles and sunshade clip assembly using magnets: Disclosed herein is a spectacles and sunshade clip assembly. The assembly comprises spectacles including a pair of lens frames, and a pair of hinges affixed to opposite outer ends of the lens, and a sunshade clip including a pair of sunshade lens frames connected to each other by means of...

20060187408 - Spectacles and sunshade clip assembly using magnets: Disclosed herein is a spectacles and sunshade clip assembly using magnets. The magnets serve to detachably attach the sunshade clip to the spectacles. The spectacles comprises a pair of lens frames connected to each other by means of a nose bridge, and temple arms connected, respectively, to the lens frames...

20060187409 - Vision enhancing device: A vision enhancing device for a person having macular degeneration of the retina, comprises a lens and a light diverging surface on the lens that symmetrically diverges away from the eye at an angle relative to an optic axis to redirect incident light away from the optic axis outwardly toward...

20060187410 - Ophthalmic lenses capable of sustained drug release and preservative solutions therefor: An object of the present invention is to provide a practical ophthalmic lens which has an effect of effectively retaining and sustainedly releasing a drug and has form stability before and after release of the drug, wherein the ionic polymer gel having sustained drug releasability can regulate the amount of...

20060187411 - Laminated functional wafer for plastic optical elements: A functional wafer of the present invention is disclosed to solve manufacturing difficulties involved in the production of optical elements such as polycarbonate ophthalmic lenses. The functional wafer may include a front layer, a functional layer, and a back layer, whereas the front layer and the back layer are bonded...

20060187412 - Eye accommodation function state measurement device: The present invention provides an eye accommodation function state measurement device capable of always obtaining accurate measurement results regardless of the cylinder power, measurement date, and the like, and enabling measurement under conditions the same as the previous measurement conditions. The eye accommodation function state measurement device includes a target...

20060187413 - Method of filtering data for the objective classification of eyes: A method for classifying a patient's eye includes the steps of: obtaining normal and abnormal wavefront aberration data from normal and abnormal eyes; fitting the normal and abnormal eye wavefront aberration data with a basis function to decompose the normal and abnormal eye wavefront aberration data into normal and abnormal...

20060181674 - Split temples for a retractable eyewear restraint strap: A temple construction arrangement for eyewear incorporating a retractable retaining strap in a hollow temple to form a part of and be attached to eyewear such as eye sight correction glasses, sunglasses, safety and protection goggles, and the like. The temple is separated or split lengthwise into two haves and...

20060181675 - Revolving structure for glasses part: A revolving structure for a glasses part for revolving a second member to a first member is provided with a rotational shaft provided on the first member and a cylindrical member with elasticity which is fitted on the rotational shaft externally, where the cylindrical member is fitted on the second...

20060181676 - Colored contact lenses for enhancing a wearer's natural eye color: The invention is directed to a colored contact lens designed for enhancing a wearer's eye color while giving the wearer's eyes a very natural appearance. A colored contact lens of the invention comprises a colored central zone which includes a colored substantially-circular pattern composed of non-opaque colored dots. Sizes of...

20060181677 - Method or apparatus for inhibiting myopia development in humans: A method of inhibiting myopia by exposing a person to a strobing or flickering light or pattern at a prescribed frequency and having a prescribed wavelength for a prescribed period....

20060181679 - Pupil measuring apparatus: A pupil measuring apparatus comprises a mark 1d placed in a space where a background is observable from the two eyes E; a mark moving device 1e for moving the mark 1d between the two eyes E and the background; an illumination optical system 1g for illuminating the two eyes...

20060181678 - Pupilometer with pupil irregularity detection, pupil tracking, and pupil response detection capability, glaucoma screening capability, intracranial pressure detection capability, and ocular aberration measurement capability: A pupilometer having image capturing means, illumination means generating and emitting light of a first wavelength, stimulation means generating and emitting light of a second wavelength, and image processing software. The image processing software receives data from the image capturing means, identifies a pupil's dynamic response to light generated by...

20060181680 - Perimeter and a method for operating a perimeter: The invention relates to a perimeter and a method for operating a perimeter during a field of vision examination, whereby light stimuli in the field of vision of the person to be tested are presented on an observational surface during the examination process. At least one moving light stimulus is...

20060176440 - Bridge for attaching auxiliary lenses: An auxiliary spectacle apparatus is provided wherein auxiliary lenses have a mechanical bridge fastener for releasably engaging the bridge portion of the primary frames in a manner which provides security of attachment in all directions....

20060176441 - Protective mask with removable lens: A protective mask and method, comprising a face mask having a body shaped so as to generally cover a face of the user person. The body defines an opening opposite the eyes of the user person when the face mask is worn. A removable lens has a lens portion of...

20060176442 - Eyeglasses having light emitting function: A pair of eyeglasses includes a rim, two temples, and a light emitting device; the rim has a groove thereon while each of the temple has a groove thereon; the light emitting device has several light emitting elements positioned in the grooves of the rim and the temples, and it...

20060176443 - Frame structure of eyeglasses and manufacturing method thereof: A frame structure of eyeglasses and a manufacturing method thereof that uses a flexible material in a plastic frame is disclosed. A central bridge portion of the frame structure of eyeglasses integrally couples with a flexible material by bi-feeds injection molding. The flexible material can also couple the flexible material...

20060176444 - Frameless eyeglass assembly with auxiliary lens attachment: Frameless eyeglasses and an auxiliary lens assembly are adapted to be magnetically attached to each other. The auxiliary lens assembly has a first auxiliary lens attached to a second auxiliary lens by a bridge member. The auxiliary lens assembly has at least one a magnetic member thereon. The magnetic member...

20060176445 - Combined spectacle lens, auxiliary lens, and method of edging lenses: A combined spectacle lens including a combination of a basic lens and an auxiliary lens, the basic lens formed with a progressive-power surface having a first power portion having a power for viewing an object at a predetermined distance, a second power portion having a power different from that in...

20060176446 - Method of designing a spectacle lens: A method of designing a spectacle lens having a combined refracting surface in at least one of two refracting surfaces at object and eye sides structuring the spectacle lens, wherein the combined refracting surface has an astigmatic refracting surface combined with a progressive refracting surface having a distance-use area, a...

20060176447 - Device for examining the anterior and the posterior segments of the eyeball: Disclosed is a device for examining the anterior and the posterior segments of the eyeball in a patient's eye, said device having a stereoscopic microscope system and an oscillating slit lamp disposed downstream of the stereoscopic microscope in the viewing direction in longitudinal direction to two parallel optical beam paths,...

20060176448 - Relaxed confocal catadioptric scanning laser ophthalmoscope: A number of additional embodiments and optical constructions of a relaxed confocal catadioptric scanning laser ophthalmoscope re disclosed. They improve the functionality of microperimetry, wavefront analysis, Stiles-Crawford measurments, selective therapeutic laser, and the integration of the existing instrument with the capabilities of high speed spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT)....

20060176449 - Ocular wavefront-correction profiling: Providing multi-focal visual correction includes determining a plurality of visual conditions to which an eye is to be exposed, determining effects of the visual conditions on a pupil of the eye, and determining a target wavefront profile on the basis of the effects....

20060170860 - Stable titanium spectacle frames for telemicroscopes and surgical telescopes: The entire front portion of eyeglass frames for medical, surgical or dental applications are constructed from a solid piece of machined metal, preferably titanium. This results in no welding of the nose bridge, resulting in a one-piece frame that is substantially more stable than existing designs. In a preferred embodiment,...

20060170861 - Contact lens design for large amplitude translation: The present invention is directed to a contact lens design where the optics position relative to the pupil is controlled by the lens relationship to the lower lid....

20060170862 - Bifocal plastic lens: It is an object to provide a bifocal plastic lens constituted by a bench lens and a small lens which have different refractive powers from each other, the small lens portion being not protruded and a boundary line between the bench lens and the small lens being difficult to see....

20060170863 - Multi-focal ophthalmic lens with base in prism: A pair of glasses comprises a frame. A first progressive addition lens in the frame comprises a distance portion and a near portion. Diopter power and base in prism gradually increase from the distance portion to the near portion. A second progressive addition lens in the frame comprises a distance...

20060170864 - Eye testing: Ophthalmic apparatus for the testing of eye deviation of a patient's eyes, the apparatus comprising a variable lens, having refractive characteristics which cause alterations in direction of rays of light passing through the lens, means (24, 25, 27) for controlling the refractive characteristics of said variable lens, during the measurement...

20060170865 - Ophthalmic data measurement device, ophthalmic data measurement program, and eye characteristic measurement device: It is possible to estimate optical characteristic according to a pupil diameter in daily life of an examinee, correction data near to the optimal prescription value, eyesight, and sensitivity. A calculation section receives measurement data indicating refractive power distribution of an eye to be examined and pupil data on the...

20060170866 - Device for imaging and observing an eye at a selectable image scale: The present invention is directed to a device for examining the eye, preferably the fundus of the eye, by an optical system and electronic sensors for image recording in different imaging scales. In the device according to the invention, at least two image recording sensors with different shape factors are...

20060170867 - Arrangement for improving the image field in ophthalmological appliances: The present invention is directed to an arrangement by which the image field of the illumination components and irradiation components of ophthalmic instruments for diagnosis and therapy is improved. In the arrangement according to the invention, one or more diffractive optical elements is/are arranged additionally in the illumination beam path...

20060170868 - Method for measuring the wave aberrations of the eye: The invention relates to medical instrumentation, in particular to diagnostic measuring devices, and can be applied, for example, for high-accuracy vision correction. This method uses probing the eye with a thin laser beam, detecting the radiation scattered by retina, measuring the wave front tilt in the form of first partial...