Optics: eye examining, vision testing and correcting inventions 09/06

20060209251 - Recessed hinge to make the temples of spectacles elastic: Disclosed is a recessed hinge to make a temple elastic with respect to a respective end piece of a frame of a pair of spectacles. The hinge includes at least a male hinging element pivoted to at least a corresponding female element. The male hinging element includes at least a...

20060209252 - Cooking protective eyewear: The present invention provides cooking protective eyewear particularly, but not exclusively, for use when preparing a variety of foods such as onions, chili peppers, horseradish, etc. The protective eyewear, in a traditional appearance makes use of, in general, a wrap around unitary frame clear plastic lens style. The present invention...

20060209253 - Method and composition for eliminating ocular hypoxic acidosis: The methods and compositions of the present invention generally relate to ophthalmic solutions. Specifically, the methods and compositions relate to at least the following: ophthalmic solutions that are usable as eye drops for contact lens wearers, eye rinsing solutions, and ophthalmic solutions that are usable as contact lens wetting agents....

20060209254 - Prescription lenses and method of making: A lens unit with at least two lens elements. The first of the two lens elements has two surfaces providing a special varying lens thickness as a function of position across the lens surfaces, and the second of the two lens elements has two surfaces providing a varying lens thickness...

20060209255 - Method for determination of an opthalmic lens using an astigmatism prescription for far sight and for near sight: The invention relates to a method for determination by optimisation of an ophthalmic lens, taking into account not only the prescription of the wearer for far sight: strength, amplitude and axis of the astigmatism, but also the prescription of the wearer for near sight. Said near sight prescription is measured...

20060209256 - Device and method for measuring surface topography and wave aberration of a lens system, in particular an eye: A device and a method are used for measuring the surface topography and a wave aberration of a lens system. The device is fitted with a first measuring system containing a light source radiating a first light beam of a first wavelength, and a detector which captures the first light...

20060209257 - Integral viewing and eye imaging system for visual projection systems: An eye imaging system having an image viewing subsystem for interfacing with an MRI patient. The imagine viewing subsystem incorporates fiber-optic illumination and imaging subsystems that enable automatic eye imaging for eye tracking. The eye imaging system analyzes motion of an patient's eye in response to visual stimuli and includes...

20060209258 - Methods and systems for configuring color documents for colorblind users: Methos and systems for configuring a plurality of colors in an image may provides for displaying at least one color test example that corresponds to at least one color vision capability condition, receiving an input selection corresponding to the at least one color vision capability condition, and altering a template...

20060209259 - Determining criteria for phakic intraocular lens implant procedures: One embodiment of the present invention is a method for determining whether to perform a phakic intraocular lens implant procedure, which method includes: (a) obtaining an image of an anterior segment of an eye; (b) determining a distance from a crystalline lens to another part of an anterior chamber from...

20060203184 - Eyeglass with mp3 player: Disclosed is an eyewear retention system, which may include any of a variety of electronics, including telecommunications receivers, transmitters, electronic storage devices, and head-up display driving circuitry....

20060203182 - Rimless eyeglasses: The invention is a bridge structure for rimless glasses that includes a rear bridge portion, a front bridge portion; and fastening means for fastening the rear bridge portion to the front bridge portion. Typically, the rear bridge portion is made of plastic and the front bridge portion is made of...

20060203183 - Wireless interactive headset: A wearable audio interface includes a support for positioning the plurality of speakers juxtaposed to and spaced from the ears of a wearer. The audio device can include wireless networking electronics so as to allow the device to interact with other wireless network devices....

20060203185 - Frame construction for eyewear having removable auxiliary lenses: Eyeglasses and clip-ons are improved by providing housings for magnets for securing the clip-ons in a uniblock also incorporating one or more of the following: part of a closing block, an end piece, and part of a hinge. The structure is more compact, neater in appearance, and of improved quality...

20060203187 - Adjustable prescription lens insert for safety eyewear: A protective eyewear article including: a. a transparent shield formed as a curved panel including a central nose area, the shield adapted for placement on a wearer's face. b. a prescription lens insert adapted to be attached to the shield, to releasably hold prescription lenses and to allow adjustment of...

20060203186 - Eyeglasses with magnetic mounting: An eyeglass device may include a primary spectacle frame and an auxiliary spectacle frame (each of which frames may support respective lenses). The primary spectacle frame may include two legs pivotally coupled to two side extensions. Further, the auxiliary spectacle frame may include two arms for engagement with the primary...

20060203188 - Eyeglasses having magnetically coupled primary lens frame and auxiliary lens frame: Eyeglasses comprising a primary lens frame having a first pair of lens holders separated by a bridge portion having a major magnetic member disposed on a rear side thereof and facing rearward. The eyeglasses further include an auxiliary frame having a second pair of lens holders separated by a bridge...

20060203190 - Contact lenses with blended microchannels: Contact lenses for use in eyes are provided and include a lens body and a plurality of microchannels defined in a posterior face of the lens body. The microchannels are structured to promote effective tear fluid exchange between an exposed surface of the eye and a surface of the eye...

20060203189 - Junctionless ophthalmic lenses and methods for making same: Methods for producing a junctionless ophthalmic lens are provided. Additionally, ophthalmic lenses having junctionless, three dimensional surfaces, for example, asymmetrical anterior and/or posterior surfaces, as well as molding tools used in the production of such lenses, are also provided. The method generally include providing sample data points to define a...

20060203191 - Colored contact lens: A colored contact lens comprising a generally uncolored pupil region, a generally annular-shaped iris region and a multicolored pattern on the iris region. The multicolored pattern is sufficiently colored to change the apparent color of an iris of a person wearing the contact lens and comprises a plurality of color...

20060203192 - System and method for increasing the depth of focus of the human eye: A method and apparatus for increasing the depth of focus of the human eye is comprised of a lens body, an optic in the lens body configured to produce light interference, and a pinhole-like optical aperture substantially in the center of the optic. The optic may be configured to produce...

20060203193 - Method of designing progressive power lens group: A method of designing a progressive power lens group as a set of progressive power lenses, each having a first refractive section having a refractive power for seeing an object located at a predetermined distance, a second refractive section having a refractive power for seeing an object located at a...

20060203194 - Apparatus for measuring fundus fluorescence: Exciting light from a strobe light source is projected onto the fundus of the subject eye to excite a fluorescence substance in a subject eye fundus. Natural fluorescence exited in the fundus is received by a photodiode via a stop located at a position that is conjugate with the fundus....

20060203195 - Integrated ocular examination device: An imaging device for use in ocular investigations and including a body incorporating a light creating projector for issuing a collimated light source. A digital micromirror device being positioned to intercept the collimated light source, the micromirror device reflecting the light source in a specified pattern and in at least...

20060203196 - Interactive refractor incorporating wavefront sensing and adaptive optics: An integrated wavefront sensor and adaptive optic system includes an electroactive lens (40) positioned such that light from real world objects (42) being observed by a patient is combined, by a combiner optic (44), with a wavefront sensor illumination beam (12) into a single beam of light (46) that passes...

20060203198 - Algorithms and methods for determining aberration-induced vision symptoms in the eye from wave aberration: Aberration-induced vision symptoms are determined by obtaining at least one wave aberration of an eye, calculating at least one point-spread function from the wave aberration, convolving the point-spread function of eye with at least one specially designed image for night vision diagnosis, and determining at least one aberration-induced vision symptom...

20060203197 - Mental alertness level determination: A method for determining mental alertness level by monitoring point of gaze, pupillary movement, pupillary response, and other parameters in a subject performing a task, collecting the data in a database, analyzing the data in the database, and assigning the subject to a score indicating the subject's particular mental alertness...

20060197907 - Electronic eyewear with hands-free operation: A wearable audio interface includes a support for positioning the plurality of speakers juxtaposed to and spaced from the ears of a wearer. The audio device can include wireless networking electronics so as to allow the device to interact with other wireless network devices....

20060197905 - Eyeglasses equipped with lamp circuit assembly: A pair of eyeglasses is disclosed to have a lamp mounted in the front side of one rim of the eyeglasses frame thereof, an on/off switch mounted on the outside of the eyeglasses frame, and a battery cell and a circuit board mounted in one of the two temples of...

20060197906 - Heated eyewear: Eyewear, e.g., an apparatus to be worn on or adjacent to a person's eyes, which includes a heating element that is configured to provide heat. The heat provided may be sufficient to provide warmth to a wearer of the eyewear or to prevent accumulation of, e.g., snow, ice, fog or...

20060197908 - Hybrid contact lens system and method: A hybrid hard-soft contact lens is provided. Several embodiments of the invention include methods of coupling the hard and soft sections of the contact lens. Other embodiments of the invention include contact lens materials and coatings that increase oxygen transmission though the lens. Yet other embodiments of the invention are...

20060197909 - Hybrid contact lens system and method: A hybrid hard-soft contact lens is provided. Several embodiments of the invention include methods of coupling the hard and soft sections of the contact lens. Other embodiments of the invention include contact lens materials and coatings that increase oxygen transmission though the lens. Yet other embodiments of the invention are...

20060197910 - Hybrid contact lens system and method: A hybrid hard-soft contact lens is provided. Several embodiments of the invention include methods of coupling the hard and soft sections of the contact lens. Other embodiments of the invention include contact lens materials and coatings that increase oxygen transmission though the lens. Yet other embodiments of the invention are...

20060197911 - Sharpness metric for vision quality: A vision metric, called the sharpness metric, indicates the subjective sharpness of a patient's vision by taking into account both the wavefront aberration and the retinal response to the image. A retinal image quality function such as the point spread function is convolved by a neural quality function, and the...

20060197912 - Fundus imaging apparatus and fundus imaging method: A fundus imaging apparatus comprises: a beam emitter which simultaneously emits a first laser beam and a second laser beam having a different wavelength from the first beam; an irradiation optical system having a beam scanner which scans the emitted first and second beams in two dimensions on a fundus,...

20060197907 - Electronic eyewear with hands-free operation: A wearable audio interface includes a support for positioning the plurality of speakers juxtaposed to and spaced from the ears of a wearer. The audio device can include wireless networking electronics so as to allow the device to interact with other wireless network devices....

20060197905 - Eyeglasses equipped with lamp circuit assembly: A pair of eyeglasses is disclosed to have a lamp mounted in the front side of one rim of the eyeglasses frame thereof, an on/off switch mounted on the outside of the eyeglasses frame, and a battery cell and a circuit board mounted in one of the two temples of...

20060197906 - Heated eyewear: Eyewear, e.g., an apparatus to be worn on or adjacent to a person's eyes, which includes a heating element that is configured to provide heat. The heat provided may be sufficient to provide warmth to a wearer of the eyewear or to prevent accumulation of, e.g., snow, ice, fog or...

20060197908 - Hybrid contact lens system and method: A hybrid hard-soft contact lens is provided. Several embodiments of the invention include methods of coupling the hard and soft sections of the contact lens. Other embodiments of the invention include contact lens materials and coatings that increase oxygen transmission though the lens. Yet other embodiments of the invention are...

20060197909 - Hybrid contact lens system and method: A hybrid hard-soft contact lens is provided. Several embodiments of the invention include methods of coupling the hard and soft sections of the contact lens. Other embodiments of the invention include contact lens materials and coatings that increase oxygen transmission though the lens. Yet other embodiments of the invention are...

20060197910 - Hybrid contact lens system and method: A hybrid hard-soft contact lens is provided. Several embodiments of the invention include methods of coupling the hard and soft sections of the contact lens. Other embodiments of the invention include contact lens materials and coatings that increase oxygen transmission though the lens. Yet other embodiments of the invention are...

20060197911 - Sharpness metric for vision quality: A vision metric, called the sharpness metric, indicates the subjective sharpness of a patient's vision by taking into account both the wavefront aberration and the retinal response to the image. A retinal image quality function such as the point spread function is convolved by a neural quality function, and the...

20060197912 - Fundus imaging apparatus and fundus imaging method: A fundus imaging apparatus comprises: a beam emitter which simultaneously emits a first laser beam and a second laser beam having a different wavelength from the first beam; an irradiation optical system having a beam scanner which scans the emitted first and second beams in two dimensions on a fundus,...