Optics: eye examining, vision testing and correcting inventions 12/06

20060290879 - Audio lanyard: An audio lanyard audio device provides a number of advantages not seen with earlier devices, including, (1) a pair of soft openings to accept the ear pieces of conventional eyewear in a manner that supports and engages several inches of the ear pieces of conventional eyewear with sufficient surface area... Agent: Curt Harrington

20060290880 - Optical adjustment spectacles: A spectacles includes two lenses, a spectacles frame and an adjustment hinge arrangement. The spectacles frame includes two supporting arms and a bridge extending between the two supporting arms. The adjustment hinge arrangement pivotally couples the two lenses with the two supporting arms respectively to pivotally fold the two lenses... Agent: Raymond Y. Chan

20060290881 - Spectacles set with magnetic clips and detachable magnetic auxiliary frame: A spectacles set includes a primary spectacles and a magnetic auxiliary frame. The magnetic auxiliary frame includes two auxiliary lenses, an auxiliary frame body, and a magnetic mounting arrangement including at least one magnetic holder and at least one supporting arm. The magnetic holders are spacedly mounted at the auxiliary... Agent: Raymond Y. Chan

20060290882 - Laminated contact lens: A laminated contact lens according to the present invention includes at least a first contact lens and a second contact lens coupled to each other via the peripheral edge of each respective contact lens. The two contact lenses include a proximity zone depth and/or proximity zone width different from one... Agent: Snell & Wilmer

20060290883 - Scleral contact lens with grooves and method of making lens: The present invention provides a scleral lens which includes channels on its posterior bearing surface that improve the flow of tears between the bearing surface of the device and the underlying scleral eyes tissue into the space between the optic of the lens and cornea. The channels are disposed on... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20060290884 - Method and apparatus for testing sleepiness: A method and apparatus are provided for authenticating a measure of sleepiness in a person in which a measure of the person's sleepiness and an authentication step are performed substantially simultaneously on substantially the same physical attribute of the person. In one form, an eye of a person is scanned... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20060290885 - Health care kiosk having automated diagnostic eye examination and a fulfillment remedy based thereon: A stand-alone station such as a kiosk (10) includes automated equipment for performing eye examination procedures on a user positioned in the station (11). Information derived from the examination determines possible existence of a correctable medical condition. The station includes a user interface (22) and a fulfillment remedy section (30)... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20060290886 - Digital capturing pharmaceutical system: DCPS Digital Capture Pharmaceutical System is consisting of a brand new use for a widely existing specific available hardware, in the purpose of collecting pharmaceutical doctor/consumer/discount coupon/drug and drug sales information, done at pharmacies, drugstores or like. The developed system, that allows this new utility model, works on the Client... Agent: Dario Marcondes Santos

20060285069 - Pivotal mechanism for suspending a lens to a spectacle: A pivotal mechanism for suspending a lens to a spectacle is disclosed. The pivotal mechanism includes a front suspension lens module and a spectacle, characterized in that a frame support is provided to connect the two lens frame of the spectacle, the vertical face of the inner side of the... Agent: Leong C Lei

20060285070 - Auxiliary lens attachment for use on eyeglasses: An aesthetically pleasing attachment for removeably mounting auxiliary lenses on standard styles of eyeglasses configurations eyeglasses, and that will securely retain the auxiliary lenses in desired position without obstructing or distorting the view of the wearer or damaging the lenses of the eyeglasses, includes a pair of auxiliary lenses attached... Agent: Spencer Fane Britt & Browne LLP

20060285071 - Femtosecond laser micromachining of a contact lens and a contact lens manufactured thereby: A method of providing a feature on a contact lens including applying a femtosecond laser beam to ablate at least a portion of the contact lens to provide the feature on the contact lens. In one embodiment, the femtosecond laser beam has a pulse width between 10×10−15 seconds and 200×10−15... Agent: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated

20060285072 - Hybrid contact lens system and method: Methods of manufacturing hybrid contact lenses using a mold are provided. The methods include pouring liquefied resin of a substantially rigid material within an inner section, curing the substantially rigid material, pouring liquefied resin of a substantially flexible material within an outer section and curing the substantially flexible material. In... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20060285073 - Pair of glasses: A pair of glasses includes a main body having a frame surrounding two separate areas. Each area is divided into a sunglass section and a presbyopia section. Each sunglass section is located at the upper part each area for a larger portion and to be filled with a sunlight glass.... Agent: Hsien-jung Yeh

20060285074 - Simultaneous vision emulation for fitting of corrective multifocal contact lenses: An emulator including a beam splitter for splitting incoming light energy into a first component directed along a first optical path, and a second component directed along a second optical path distinct from the first optical path. The emulator includes a first receptacle positioned to pass light energy directed along... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20060285075 - Fundus photography apparatus: A fundus photography apparatus is provided that enables optimal adjustment of exposure values according to the color characteristics of the anterior ocular segment of the subject eye. The fundus photography apparatus comprises means for photographing the anterior ocular segment of the eye, means for photographing the eye fundus, and means... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq.

20060279692 - Hingeless eyeglasses; especially safety glasses: In hingeless eyeglasses, especially safety glasses, wherein the temples are formed as one piece with a top frame piece, and the top frame piece has provided on it fastening means for the lens, it is provided, with a view to obtaining cost-effective production, that said fastening means for the lens... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20060279691 - Protective temple covering: Disclosed are systems and methods for manufacturing sleeves, a sleeve dispenser, and a method of manufacturing inexpensive, throwaway sleeves that may be used to protect temples from chemicals, germs, bacteria, and the like. Sleeves may be inexpensively manufactured using a single inexpensive raw material as well as an inexpensive manufacturing... Agent: Law Offices Of Rita C. Chipperson

20060279693 - Pair of eyeglasses with two lens units pivotable between two temples: A pair of eyeglasses includes two temples, two lens units, two swing members interconnected fixedly by a bridge body, and a nose support unit connected pivotally to the bridge body. Each of the temples has a front end with a fixed hinge. The swing members are connected respectively and fixedly... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20060279694 - Temple bar with ball and socket hinge: A novel hinge assembly for eyeglasses is provided wherein a first structural member for the hinge structure is formed in a first molding step and a second structural member of the hinge structure is formed directly over a portion of the first structural member in a second molding step. The... Agent: Barlow, Josephs & Holmes, Ltd.

20060279695 - Soft multifocal contact lens: A multifocal contact lens (10, 50) made of flexible material is able to translocate on an eye by virtue of a lower end (22) of the contact lens (10, 50). being truncated so as to provide a relatively wide surface. The lower end (22) engages with the lower eyelid of... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20060279696 - Method for evaluating eyelid movement and contact lens position: A method for designing contact lenses is provided in which direct correlation is made between an individual's subjective assessment of the lens' performance with the objective measurement of one or both of on-eye lens position and eyelid movement. The method permits generation of lens designs that have enhanced on-eye stability... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20060279697 - Method of designing equal conic intraocular lens: An intraocular lens, with equal conic surfaces, is intended to replace the crystalline lens in the posterior chamber of a patient's eye, in particular after a cataract extraction. The lens provides optical power to focus objects onto a patient's retina. In addition the lens surfaces are shaped to reduce optical... Agent: Burleson Cooke L.L.P.

20060279698 - Method and device for determining movement of a human eye: A device for determining a movement of an eye includes an illumination unit by which optical radiation can be generated and emitted as an illumination ray bundle for illumination of at least one area of the cornea of the eye, a distance-determining unit, by which the illumination ray bundle returned... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20060279700 - Multitask vision architecture for refractive vision corrections: A multitask vision architecture is constructed based on multitask vision-metrics derived from wave aberration of the eye. The multitask vision metrics include at least one of the followings: vision clarity of eye that measures optical quality of an eye against those in a cohort of eyes with normal acuity, aberration-induced... Agent: Junzhong Liang

20060279699 - Wavefront fusion algorithms for refractive vision correction and vision diagnosis: Accommodation-Free Wavefront, wave aberration of an eye at the far accommodation points, is determined using a wavefront fusion algorithm by obtaining a wave aberration of an eye from a wavefront measurement, obtaining a manifest refraction of an eye at a far accommodation point according to a conventional subjective refraction, and... Agent: Junzhong Liang

20060274256 - Multifocal polarized sunglasses and lenses: Polarized sunglasses and lenses, and methods related thereto, are provided that include multifocal segments and which have a total thickness of less than about 5 millimeters.... Agent: Dennis Braswell

20060274257 - Windshield eyeglasses, windshields for eyeglasses and method for wind shielding in eyeglasses: A pair of windshield eyeglasses (101) comprises: lenses (106) and a frame (102) for holding the lenses. Each of the lenses or the frame includes an edge formed with a windshield (107) for sealing a gap between the edge and a face of a user. The windshield extends from the... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20060274261 - Automatic lens design and manufacturing system: The present invention provides a method for designing and making a customized ophthalmic lens, such as a contact lens or an intraocular lens, capable of correcting high-order aberrations of an eye. The posterior surface of the customized contact lens is designed to accommodate the corneal topography of an eye. The... Agent: Ciba Vision Corporation Patent Department

20060274262 - Automatic lens design and manufacturing system: The present invention provides a method for designing and making a customized ophthalmic lens, such as a contact lens or an intraocular lens, capable of correcting high-order aberrations of an eye. The posterior surface of the customized contact lens is designed to accommodate the corneal topography of an eye. The... Agent: Ciba Vision Corporation Patent Department

20060274259 - Lens for sunglasses, method for producing the same, and production apparatus therefor: A lens for sunglasses is provided which is capable of blocking light incident also from the side, of sufficiently fitting the face of a wearer, and of being attached to any eyeglass frame. The polarizing lens for sunglasses is formed by subjecting a laminated plate having a laterally elongated shape... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20060274260 - Promotional aid: The present invention relates to a promotional aid comprising a substantially flat plastic film sample which comprises at least one quality which is substantially similar to at least one quality of a medical device. The promotional aids of the present invention may be sent directly to consumers.... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20060274258 - Spectacle lens and spectacles: A spectacle lens having an asphecrical surface on its one of front and back surfaces is provided. An outward normal line normal to the front surface at a centration point inclines with respect to an axis passing through the centration point and a center of rotation of an eye. A... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20060274263 - Systems and methods for identifying left and right use contacts on primary package: Primary packaging for a contact lens includes an indicator on the primary packaging that indicates whether said contact lens is for use in a right or left eye of a lens wearer. A method of packaging a contact lens includes a lens manufacturer marking a contact lens package with an... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20060274264 - Mask configured to maintain nutrient transport without producing visible diffraction patterns: A mask configured to be implanted in a cornea of a patient to increase the depth of focus of the patient includes an anterior surface, a posterior surface, and a plurality of holes. The anterior surface is configured to reside adjacent a first corneal layer. The posterior surface is configured... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20060274265 - Mask configured to maintain nutrient transport without producing visible diffraction patterns: A mask configured to be implanted in a cornea of a patient to increase the depth of focus of the patient includes an anterior surface, a posterior surface, and a plurality of holes. The anterior surface is configured to reside adjacent a first corneal layer. The posterior surface is configured... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20060274266 - Eyeglass connection system: Systems and methods of connecting components of eyeglasses or other brittle structures are disclosed. Fasteners such as screws can have compressible elements between them and a glass structure, for example, to disperse force and deter fracturing of the glass. Compressible elements can also conform to irregular cavities and surfaces to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20060274267 - 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... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20060274268 - Automatic lens design and manufacturing system: The present invention provides a method for designing and making a customized ophthalmic lens, such as a contact lens or an intraocular lens, capable of correcting high-order aberrations of an eye. The posterior surface of the customized contact lens is designed to accommodate the corneal topography of an eye. The... Agent: Ciba Vision Corporation Patent Department

20060274269 - Method for operating an ophthalmological analysis system: The present invention relates to a method for operating an ophthalmological analysis system having a slit projection unit for slit illumination of the eye and a Scheimpflug camera for taking digitized sectional images of the eye, slit projection unit and Scheimpflug camera being mounted so that they may pivot jointly... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman