Optics: eye examining, vision testing and correcting inventions 08/07

20070200997 - Contoured metal eyeglass frames: Disclosed is a contoured metal eyeglass frame. The frame may be injection molded or cast, and may include sculpted, variable cross section eyeglass components. Thus, the present invention combines the design flexibility of injection molded plastic parts with the strength and durability of metal construction.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070200998 - Led illuminated novelty glasses: Illuminated novelty eye glasses include a frame having a body with portions that define lens openings and adjacent hinge regions, and a bridge region between the portions defining the lens openings. The body has a channel formed therein traversing around the lens openings and across the bridge region. The body... Agent: Levenfeld Pearlstein Intellectual Property Department

20070201000 - Eyewear with removable audio system: Eyewear includes a left temple and a right temple. Each of the temples has a cavity sized to receive an audio device such as a BlueTooth transceiver configured to communicate wirelessly with a remote device like a cell phone or a digital sound device. The BlueTooth transceiver may be placed... Agent: Holme Roberts & Owen, LLP

20070200999 - Illuminating device of eyeglasses: A pair of eyeglasses is equipped an illuminating device; hollow housing parts are pivoted to respective ones of front end portions of temples of the eyeglasses, and adjustable in position; the temples each have a battery box formed thereon; the illuminating device includes a light emitting element held in each... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070201001 - Scaling zernike coefficients to smaller pupil sizes for refractive treatments: Wavefront measurements of eyes are normally taken when the pupil is relatively large, and the results are often represented by a set of Zernike coefficients. Different sets of Zernike coefficients can be calculated to represent aberrations at smaller pupil sizes. While recently described techniques allow scaling of the expansion coefficients... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070201002 - Hole data input device and eyeglass lens processing apparatus having the same: A hole data input device for inputting hole data including a position of a hole with respect to a target lens shape for forming the hole on an eyeglass lens to attach a rimless frame to the lens, includes: a storage that stores plural types of hole patterns; a selector... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070195258 - Eyeglasses with a wireless transceiver system: A pair of eyeglasses includes an eyeglass frame, a nose unit fastened to the eyeglass frame with a screw, an eyeglass lens mounted in a mounting groove on the eyeglass frame and forced into engagement with the screw, two temples pivotally coupled to two coupling endpieces of the eyeglass frame,... Agent: Hdsl

20070195260 - Antimicrobial spectacle: Antimicrobial eyeglasses have an antimicrobial lens, wherein an antimicrobial agent can be incorporated into the lens material or into a coating material of a coating layer affixed to the lens. The antimicrobial agent is essentially non-releasably incorporated or affixed, such that the lens exhibits a persistent antimicrobial property.... Agent: Cliff D. Weston Microban Products Company

20070195259 - Antimicrobial spectacle: Antimicrobial eyeglasses have one or both of an antimicrobial lens and/or antimicrobial frame member. A lens can have an antimicrobial agent incorporated into the lens material or into a coating material of a coating layer affixed to the lens. A spectacle frame member has disposed therein or affixed thereto one... Agent: Cliff D. Weston Microban Products Company

20070195261 - Method for sterilization of hydrogel contact lenses: The present invention provides an aqueous solution for sterilizing and storing ophthalmic devices, preferably a contact lens, made of a hydrogel material, preferably a poly(oxyalkylene)-containing hydrogel material. The solution comprises one or more organic buffer agents, such as a Good buffer or a bis-aminopolyols; an organic tonicity-adjusting agent with multiple... Agent: Ciba Vision Corporation Patent Department

20070195262 - Method for providing a polarizing layer on an optical element: A method for providing a polarizing layer on a curved optical element comprises using a support for temporarily carrying the polarizing layer. The support is resilient so that it can conform with the curved surface of the optical element. An adhesive layer is first deposited on the optical element surface,... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20070195263 - Method of manufacturing multifocal lens and multifocal lens: A multifocal lens includes a group including M layered lenses. M-kinds (M is an integer of two or more) of lens materials having glass deformation point temperatures of At1, At2, . . . , AtM, are used and diluted by a heat press method. A contact surface of an N−1th... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070195265 - Eyeglass dispensing method: A method of making corrective eyeglasses is disclosed. One embodiment is a method of making corrective eyeglasses. The method includes obtaining vision parameters of a patient's eyes, obtaining an eyeglass frame comprising at least one mounted optical element, and programming the optical element to define a pattern of refraction that... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070195264 - Subjective refraction method and device for correcting low and higher order aberrations: A subjective refraction technique uses a plane wave light source including substantially a point as a viewing target. The refraction method provide for a number of distinct identifiable end points. By finding such end points the process leads to an aberration-corrected vision. A defocus corrector assembly (DCA) includes a lens... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20070195266 - Measuring brace and arrangement and method for determining the forward angle of inclination of a spectacle frame: A measuring brace is removably fastened to a spectacle frame. The measuring brace has a traverse and two legs. A front face of the measuring brace is provided with at least three front target marks for measuring the forward angle α of a spectacle frame to be measured. At least... Agent: Walter Ottesen

20070195267 - System for vision examination utilizing telemedicine: The telemedicine method and system disclosed includes at least one remote exam module which in turn includes a plurality of optical devices configured to examine a patient's eye, and a controller for collecting and transmitting the examination data of the patient's eye. The information collected is transmitted via a communications... Agent: Stout, Uxa, Buyan & Mullins LLP

20070195268 - Advanced corneal topography system: The purpose of this invention is to provide a corneal topography system for use by eye car professionals to diagnose and correct vision defects; particularly, to an advanced corneal topography system which accurately assess the shape of the human cornea utilizing a projected grid and current digital camera technology.... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20070195269 - Method of eye examination by optical coherence tomography: A method of performing an OCT image scan is presented. Other images are taken and a template is formed to correct the OCT images, for example, for eye motion, blood vessel placement, and center offset. In some embodiments, video images are taken simultaneously with the OCT images and utilized to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070188699 - Lens assembly for vitreoretinal surgery: This invention is directed towards ophthalmic lenses used to assist during vitreoretinal surgery. More specifically, it is directed towards ophthalmic lenses that are constructed to generate a high-resolution image of the retinal surface during surgery while maintaining a minimal mechanical envelop all while using materials and assembly methods compatible with... Agent: Joseph D. Dreher, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070188698 - Methods for coating curved surfaces with a polarizing liquid: Methods and apparatuses for coating at least a portion of a curved surface of a lens with a polarizing liquid are disclosed throughout the specification. For example, there is provided a method comprising providing a lens having a curved surface, and applying a polarizing liquid to at least a portion... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070188700 - Multifocal ophthalmic lens: A method of designing a multifocal ophthalmic lens with one base focus and at least one additional focus, capable of reducing aberrations of the eye for at least one of the foci after its implantation, comprising the steps of: (i) characterizing at least one corneal surface as a mathematical model;... Agent: NeifeldIPLaw, PC

20070188701 - Therapeutic prophylactic ophthalmologic lens for pseudoaphakic eyes and/or eyes suffering neurodegeneration: The object of this invention is an ophthalmologic lens for pseudoaphakic eyes and/or eyes suffering macular and retinal degeneration, created by applying a yellow pigment filter to a regular ophthalmologic lens, to protect the eye from the short wavelengths of the visible spectrum (under 500 nm). This invention avoids the... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070188703 - Methods and systems for leaching and releasing silicone hydrogel ophthalmic lenses with alcohol solutions: This invention includes methods and systems for processing hydrogel lenses using aqueous solutions as leaching aids and as release aids.... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20070188702 - Methods and systems for leaching and releasing silicone hydrogel ophthalmic lenses with pentanol solutions: This invention includes methods and systems for processing hydrogel lenses using aqueous solutions as leaching aids and as release aids.... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20070188704 - Fundus observation device: Technology is provided, capable of easily acquiring high precision tomographic images of the desired observation site of the fundus oculi. A fundus observation device 1 is provided, comprising: an interferometer that generates interference light LC from a reference light LR via a reference mirror 174 and a signal light LS... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20070188706 - Fundus image display system: In a fundus image display system, a fundus image, time information and a tool bar are displayed on a monitor screen. In case where the tool bar overlaps with the fundus image or the time information, the tool bar is made transparent in the overlapped portion so at to perceive... Agent: Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-cohen LLP

20070188705 - Ocular fundus portion analyzer and ocular fundus portion analyzing method: An ocular fundus portion analyzer and the method are provided for attaining accurate and quick detection and diagnoses of an ocular fundus defect portion, such as an excavation of an optic disk caused by glaucoma and a macula retinae caused by retinal detachment, by dealing with a large number of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070188707 - Retinal function measurement apparatus: A retinal function measurement apparatus capable of measuring a retinal function accurately and precisely. The apparatus has a first image obtaining optical system for obtaining a tomographic image of a fundus by optical coherence tomography using low coherent light, the optical system including a light source emitting the low coherent... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070188708 - Method and device for determining the distance from a measurement point on a tissue surface of the eye: f) the length X of the ray path starting from the pulsed light source (03) via the measurement point to the light sensor (04) is derived from the measured value F1 and the specific speed of light c at which the light propagates in the medium along the ray path.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070188709 - Corneal topographer: A corneal topographer, and a method for corneal topography are disclosed. In one embodiment, the topographer includes an illumination projection subsystem to project a series of preselected different stationary patterns of one or more slits of light in ordered succession onto the surface of the cornea. An image capture subsystem... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070188710 - Mapping retinal function using corneal electrode array: A system and method for obtaining information about the spatial distribution of photoreceptor activity and neural activity in the retina using simultaneously recorded multiple biopotential signals. The information thus gathered is used to assess retinal dysfunction due to trauma or disease. The biopotential signals are recorded from the surface of... Agent: Olson & Hierl, Ltd.

20070182916 - Protective eyewear including auxiliary lenses: An eyewear assembly includes an outer first frame, at least one outer first lens, an inner second frame, and at least one inner second lens. The assembly includes a mechanism for holding the first frame and first lens in front of a user's face. The second frame has a mechanism... Agent: The Law Office Of Randall T. Erickson, P.C.

20070182917 - Intra-ocular device with multiple focusing powers/optics: An intraocular lens device that includes an intraocular lens optics that provides at least two powers of magnification one being near vision power and the other being distance vision power. The lens optics has surface modulations that are responsible for providing the near vision power. The zone structure provides an... Agent: Alcon

20070182919 - Methods and systems for leaching and releasing silicone hydrogel ophthalmic lenses with n-hexanol solutions: This invention includes methods and systems for processing hydrogel lenses using aqueous solutions as leaching aids and as release aids.... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20070182918 - Methods and systems for leaching silicone hydrogel ophthalmic lenses: This invention includes methods and systems for processing hydrogel lenses using aqueous solutions as leaching aids.... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20070182920 - Corneal onlays and related methods: Corneal onlays and method of making and using corneal onlays are described. The present corneal onlays may have clinically acceptable lens bodies for use in human eyes. The present corneal onlays may have one or more physical features that contribute to the success of the present onlays in human eyes.... Agent: Frank J. Uxa

20070182921 - Pseudo-accommodative iol having diffractive zones with varying areas: In one aspect of the invention, a trifocal ophthalmic lens is disclosed that includes an optic having at least one optical surface, and a plurality of diffractive zones that are disposed on a portion of that surface about an optical axis of the optic. At least two of those diffractive... Agent: Alcon

20070182922 - Colored contact lens with a more natural appearance: A colored contact lens (10) having a non-opaque pupil section (20), an iris section (22) surrounding the pupil section (20), and a colored, opaque intermittent pattern made up of a plurality of elements located over the entire iris section (22) that leaves a substantial portion within the interstices of the... Agent: Gardner Groff Santos & Greenwald, P.C.

20070182923 - Bi-aspherical type progressive-power lens and method of designing the same: To provide a bi-aspherical type progressive-power lens which provides an excellent visual acuity correction for prescription values and a wide effective visual field with less distortion in wearing, by reducing a magnification difference of an image between a distance portion and a near portion of a lens, and a method... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070182924 - Pseudo-accommodative iol having multiple diffractive patterns: In one aspect, a trifocal ophthalmic lens is disclosed that includes an optic having a surface that comprises at least one trifocal diffractive pattern and at least one bifocal diffractive pattern such that the bifocal pattern provides near and far vision and the trifocal pattern generates near, far, and intermediate... Agent: Alcon

20070182925 - Methods and systems for leaching and releasing silicone hydrogel ophthalmic lenses in aqueous solution: This invention includes methods and systems for processing hydrogel lenses using aqueous solutions as leaching aids and as release aids.... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20070182926 - Opthalmologic apparatus: There is provided an ophthalmologic apparatus that prevents ghost light from generating. In the ophthalmologic apparatus, on an optical path commonly used for an eye fundus illumination optical system and an image taking optical system including an image taking diaphragm, an objective lens for forming an image of the image... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070182927 - Ophthalmological measuring device: An ophthalmological measurement apparatus (1) is proposed which comprises a first measurement system and a second measurement system. The first measurement system comprises a first light projection system for projection of a first light beam (2) through a cross-sectional part (4) of an eye (3). In addition, the first measurement... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070182928 - Process and device for treating blind regions of the visual field: A device and method are provided for treating the visual system of a human including the retina, visual cortex and/or other neuro-cellular structures. The method includes the steps of locating and defining a blind zone of deteriorated vision within the human's visual system, defining a treatment area which is located... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070182929 - Process and apparatus for examining the visual funcions of the eye: The visual function is determined with the help of test images, comprising inducing photostress induced by illuminating the eye with an intense light, then measuring the time needed for the recovery of the visual function before the illumination. The test images are periodically moving test images, and the visual function... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070177098 - Pivotally openable type spectacles and sunshade-clip assembly: Disclosed herein is a pivotally openable spectacles and sunshade-clip assembly in which a sunshade-clip is pivotally rotatable about a pair of hinge arm units thereof after being attached to spectacles by use of corresponding spectacles magnets and clip magnets. The spectacles include a pair of lens frames, a pair of... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20070177097 - Spectacles and sunshade-clip assembly: Disclosed herein is a spectacles and sunshade-clip assembly in which a sunshade-clip is adapted to be detachably attached to spectacles by use of spectacles magnets and clip magnets. The spectacles include a pair of metallic circular lens frames each having separated portions for the insertion of each prescription lens, a... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20070177099 - Transparent and polarizing vision element having areas which are associated with polarization filters that are respectively vertically and horizontally oriented: A transparent and polarizing vision element (2) divided into several areas. At least two of said areas are associated with a luminous polarization filter. The light flowing through the element is allocated differently for two the areas according to a direction of notarization of the light. At least one polarization... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070177100 - Photochromic opitcal element: Described are optical elements made of a substrate having connected thereto an at least partial film of photochromic adhesive and an at least partial film of a polymeric organic material. Also described are optical elements made of a substrate having connected thereto an at least partial superstrate of a sealed... Agent: Deborah M. Altman Ppg Industries, Inc.

20070177101 - Method for manually centering an ophthalmic lens in a centering/locking device and associted centering/locking device: Method of manually centering an ophthalmic lens, includes: a) acquiring and storing the shadow of a predetermined geometrical figure formed on a transparent support interposed between lighting and acquisition elements while the support is illuminated; b) superposing the lens and support; c) acquiring and storing the detected by the lens... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070177102 - Method of binding lens to frame: A method for binding the lens to the frame includes steps of a) aligning one of the holes of the lens with one of the holes of the frame, b) piercing a peg through the aligned holes of the lens and the frame, c) resting the aligned lens and frame... Agent: Park Law Firm

20070177103 - Method and apparatus for three-dimensional video-oculography: A device (1) for measuring the three-dimensional movements of an eye includes: (a) a marker array (6) that identifies prescribed positions on the eye whose movements are to be measured, (b) a digital camera (2) for capturing the two-dimensional images of this marker array (6) as the eye is moved,... Agent: World Trade Center

20070177104 - Eye examination device by means of tomography with a sighting device: A sighting device is provided for an examination of the eye, including at least one moving target with a programmable form and trajectory, the target being displayed on a visualisation unit, such as an appropriate screen and visible from both eyes during the examination. An in-vivo tomographical eye examination system... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070177105 - Perimeter: It is easy to perceive a stimulus in a central portion of a visual field rather than in a peripheral portion thereof, and it is easy to perceive the stimulus for a younger examinee rather than for an older examinee even if the stimulus having the same luminance is indicated.... Agent: Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-cohen LLP