Optics: eye examining, vision testing and correcting inventions 09/07

20070222938 - Method and apparatus for marking eyeglass lens for placement of reading segment: An eyeglass lens appliqué device for determining placement of at least one auxiliary lens within an eyeglass lens. The lens appliqué device includes a sheet of plastic that can be removably disposed on the eyeglass lens, and is clingable to the eyeglass lens. The plastic sheet includes an outline of... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20070222939 - Personalized glasses: A pair of glasses having a frame lens or lenses on either side of the nose piece. On each side of the lens or lenses is an earpiece. The earpiece can be put on a hinge or one piece with lens or frame.... Agent: Don Hodgson

20070222940 - Eyeglass temple incorporating decorative article: Disclosed is a means of attaching a decorative article to an eyeglass temple by forming one or more apertures within one or both of the temples for receiving and fixing the decorative article either semi-permanently or selectively replaceable from a plurality of decorative articles that includes beads, semi-precious stone(s) and... Agent: Michael I Kroll

20070222941 - Holding structure of spectacle lens, repair method for the same, and spectacles: A method is provided for securely holding a spectacle lens. Without using screwing members such as a screw and a nut, and extra parts such as a bush, a cylindrical pin and a slip-off preventive pin, a spectacle lens can surely be held. A taper pin is provided projecting on... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070222942 - Multifocal contact lenses: The invention provides methods for correcting presbyopia and lenses for such correction in which production of a full range of multifocal lenses is accomplished using three rotationally symmetric, aspheric back surfaces, the design of which base curves is a function of refractive power.... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20070222943 - Varifocal lens: A method for constructing a progressive varifocal lens having a far vision area, a near vision area and an intermediate progression area. the method comprises the steps of a) determining the x- and y-coordinates of a first point in the closed interval between the far vision reference point of the... Agent: 24ip Law Group Usa, PLLC

20070222944 - Methods for designing tinted contact lenses: The invention provides methods for designing patterns for use in tinted contact lenses in which the patterns are generated using algorithms. The method of the invention provides an objective description of the pattern for purposes of tooling, metrology and manufacturing of a lens incorporating the pattern.... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20070222945 - Fundus observation device: A fundus observation device is provided capable of capturing both images of the surface of the fundus oculi and tomographic images of the fundus oculi, and capable of preventing alignment indicators from being reflected in the image of the fundus oculi. Image forming part 220 operates to form surface images... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20070222946 - Fundus observation device: Image forming part 220 forms a 2-dimensional image of the surface of the fundus oculi Ef (fundus oculi image) and a tomographic image of the fundus oculi Ef. The fundus oculi image 212a and the tomographic image Ga captured at the first examination time and the fundus oculi image 212b... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20070222947 - Line of sight detection apparatus: A line of sight detection apparatus includes: a line of sight detection device which detects the line of sight of an occupant; an operation detection device which detects the operation of on-board equipment by the occupant; and a calibration device which calibrates a detection value of the line of sight... Agent: Rankin, Hill, Porter & Clark LLP

20070222948 - Systems and methods for wavefront reconstruction for aperture with arbitrary shape: Systems, methods, and devices for determining an aberration in an optical tissue system of an eye are provided. Techniques include inputting optical data from the optical tissue system of the eye, where the optical data includes set of local gradients corresponding to a non-circular shaped aperture, processing the optical data... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070216853 - Frame for eyeglasses: A frame for eyeglasses, comprising a front and two longitudinally elongated flexible elements, adapted to lockingly surround a corresponding lens. Each flexible element is rigidly coupled to the front at a first end and at the second opposite end by way of first and second fixing elements. At least one... Agent: Modiano & Associati

20070216852 - Eyeglasses assembly: An eyeglasses assembly includes: a main lens unit provided with a first connecting piece; a pivot pin; a temple piece pivoted to the first connecting piece through the pivot pin; and a secondary lens unit overlapping the main lens unit and provided with a second connecting piece that is magnetically... Agent: Kirschstein, Ottinger, Israel & Schiffmiller, P.C.

20070216854 - Method and apparatus for attaching spectacle frame components and lenses: A spectacle frame comprising a spectacle frame front, the spectacle frame front comprising a pair of spaced apart and opposed arms, each of the pair at least one of the arms having an outer end thereof remote from an upper portion of the spectacle frame front, the outer end of... Agent: Morton J Rosenberg

20070216855 - Spectacles with mounting and lenses interconnected by strap: Spectacles are described which include a mounting and respective lenses and also strap interconnector for retaining the lenses on the mounting. The strap interconnector is capable of at least partially surrounding the lens and being secured to the mounting in order to retain the lens on the latter. The strap... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070216856 - Rimless spectacles and hinge pieces for rimless spectacles: Rimless spectacles and hinge pieces are disclosed, where the hinge pieces each include an abutment part having an abutment surface extending parallel to and in substantial abutment with a side surface of the respective lens and at least two corresponding pins, that are fastened to the abutment part and extend... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070216857 - Method for manufacturing a resilient hinge device for spectacles, device obtained by the method, and spectacles comprising said device: A method is provided for manufacturing a resilient hinge device for connecting the arms to a front frame of a mounting for spectacles. The device includes first and second hinge members which are pivotable about a hinge axis, and a resilient return between the hinge members. The method includes the... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070216858 - Double eyelid forming devices: A double eyelid forming device for non-surgically generating a crease in the upper eyelids of a human comprising a pair of glasses, one string attached to each of the two upper rims of the glasses and running along the curvature of the upper rim, and two sets of beads, each... Agent: Evelyn M. Sommer

20070216859 - Soft lens orthokeratology: A corneal reshaping by means of a soft contact lens to manipulate tear pressure gradient to produce a dimensional change to the surface profile of the cornea of the wearer to provide at least a temporary change in the refractive state of the eye eliminating the need for other refractive... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070216860 - Molds for producing contact lenses: This invention describes molds made from alicyclic co-polymers that are useful in the production of contact lenses and methods for their use.... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20070216861 - Ophthalmic system combining ophthalmic components with blue light wavelength blocking and color-balancing functionalities: Embodiments of the present invention relate to an ophthalmic system that performs effective blue blocking for an ophthalmic lens while at the same time providing a cosmetically attractive product, normal or acceptable color perception for a user, and a high level of transmitted light for good visual acuity.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070216862 - 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... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070216863 - Short corridor progressive addition lenses with reduced unwanted astigmatism: The invention provides lenses produced by the adding of two or more surfaces, in which lenses both the length of the corridor is shortened and the maximum unwanted astigmatism is reduced.... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20070216864 - Enhanced electro-active lens system: A lens system and optical devices that provide enhanced vision correction are disclosed. The lens system includes an electro-active layer that provides correction of at least one higher order aberration. The higher order correction changes dynamically based on a user of the lens system's needs, such as a change by... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070216865 - Process and device for apportioning therapeutic vision stimuli: A method and device for treating the visual system of a human is provided. The method comprises situating the human in proximity to a computer-actuated light emitting array that has a set of individually actuable elements. A campimetric representation of the visual field is used to select a stimulus distribution.... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070216866 - Ophthalmologic measuring apparatus: There is provided a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor which can repetitively perform a measurement at high speed and at short measurement intervals. An illuminating optical system includes a first polarizing optical member to alternately change a polarization condition to a first polarized light or a second polarized light, and illuminates a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070216867 - Shack-hartmann based integrated autorefraction and wavefront measurements of the eye: Devices, systems, and methods often by measuring characterize optical structures and systems, the standard refractive error and irregular aberrations. A retinal spot can propagate through optical tissues of an eye and can be directed to refractive correction optics for correcting standard refractive errors. The corrected image is then directed to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070211208 - Eyeglasses: A method of applying makeup using the eyeglasses of the present invention. The method comprising the step of rotating one lens holding frame portion, around an axis line defined by said lower frame portion and accessing an eye to apply makeup while viewing the makeup application through the remaining upright... Agent: Ledgley Law

20070211207 - Fluidic adaptive lens: A fluidic adaptive lens, a multi-lens apparatus employing the fluidic adaptive lens, and a method of fabricating a fluidic adaptive lens are disclosed. The lens includes a first partition that is flexible and optically transparent, and a second partition that is coupled to the first partition, where at least a... Agent: Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S C

20070211209 - Attachment sunglasses capable of attaching to the eyeglasses: An attachment sunglasses capable of attaching the eyeglasses includes a non-temple sunglasses attachable to an eyeglasses which has a pair of rimmed lenses connected by a bridge and a pair of temples. The sunglasses has a pair of rimmed colored glasses connected by a hollow interior bridge. The bridge has... Agent: Pao-yu Liu

20070211210 - Glasses frame: The invention relates to a glasses frame comprising a first part (10) for receiving the lenses, and an arm (12) that is respectively laterally connected to cheek ends (11) on each side of the frame part in an articulated manner by means of a hinge. According to the invention, the... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20070211211 - method for detecting a functional signal in retinal images: A system and method for detecting a functional signal in retinal images. An optical imaging device comprises a stimulation light source, an interrogating light source, and a detector. The retina is stimulated by the stimulation light source. The retina is then illuminated by an interrogation light, and the reflected intensity... Agent: Peacock Myers, P.C.

20070211212 - Eye state sensor: A method for sensing the state of an eye of a subject comprises measuring light reflected from an ocular surface and comparing the measured light to a reference. A method for treating an eye of a subject comprises sensing the state of the eye as described above, and controlling whether... Agent: Pharmacia Corporation Global Patent Department

20070211213 - Ophthalmic instrument table and pads: An ophthalmic instrument table such as a slit-lamp table having pads attached to a top surface thereof. The pads provide a cushion for a doctor's elbows and/or forearms while the doctor utilizes the ophthalmic instrument to perform an ocular examination. Each pad includes a layer of padding material and an... Agent: Steven W. Smith

20070211214 - Wavefront propagation from one plane to another: The present invention provides methods, systems and software for scaling optical aberration measurements of optical systems. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method of reconstructing optical tissues of an eye. The method comprises transmitting an image through the optical tissues of the eye. Aberration data from the transmitted... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070206153 - Intelligent patient interface for ophthalmic instruments: An ophthalmic examination system comprising a headrest with a detection element, and an ophthalmic instrument (OI) having a microprocessor and a sensor in communication with the microprocessor. The sensor is configured to detect the presence of the detection element, and the headrest is configured for coupling to the OI.... Agent: Mikael Havluciyan