Optics: eye examining, vision testing and correcting inventions 01/08

20080024715 - Cap attachable, adjustable sunglasses: Glasses are provided having one temple which is clipped to a cap, preferably to the brim or visor of a cap. The temple is associated with at least one joint which permits the lens portions to be pivoted from a use position before a user's eyes to a storage position... Agent: Olson & Cepuritis, Ltd.

20080024716 - Inclined-edge sports lens: An optical lens has an inner lens surface and an outer lens surface separated by a lens thickness adjacent to an edge portion of the lens. The edge portion has at least a partially exposed edge surface extending substantially linearly from the inner lens surface toward the outer lens surface... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel, LLP (nike)

20080024717 - Contact lens used in orthokeratology: A contact lens for vision correction, comprising a central zone, an alignment zone located concentrically around the central zone, and a bearing zone that is coupled to both the central zone and the alignment zone. The bearing area is configured to directly contact a cornea and prevent both the central... Agent: Dr. Stanton Kim

20080024718 - 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

20080024719 - Method for designing spectacle lens, spectacle lens, and spectacles: A method of correcting the effects of a bend angle of 200 degrees or larger of spectacle frames, and astigmatism correcting characteristics in such spectacle frames. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a design method for a spectacle lens mounted in a spectacle frame having a bend angle... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080024720 - Road safety: The invention relates to a vehicle occupant sight testing assembly. The vehicle occupant sight testing assembly comprises a vehicle stopping area on or adjacent a road, a sight testing means (12) on or adjacent the road, and a vehicle barrier (14) arranged adjacent the vehicle stopping area.... Agent: Matthew Emmerson Allen

20080024721 - Ophthalmic photographing apparatus: An ophthalmic photographing apparatus which is easy to use and can simultaneously display OCT and SLO images as moving images while lightening a burden upon an examinee, the apparatus including an interference optical system having a first light source and a first scanning device which scans an examinee's eye with... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080024722 - Contact lenses for use in motion capture: An apparatus for use in motion capture includes a contact lens and a tracking feature incorporated into the contact lens. A method for use in motion capture includes inserting a contact lens having a tracking feature into a performer's eye and tracking movements of the performer's eye using the tracking... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080024723 - Corneal onlays and wavefront aberration correction to enhance vision: Devices and methods for improving vision are described. The vision of a person can be corrected using a corneal onlay or a lens positioned between an epithelial cell layer and Bowman's membrane of the person's eye. Wavefront aberrations are measured for the person's eye or eyes, and the aberrations are... Agent: Frank J. Uxa

20080024725 - Dynamic peripheral stimuli for visual field testing and therapy: A method is provided for stimulating a motion-detecting visual pathway of a subject. A subject is tasked with fixating on a central stimulus displayed on a computer-driven display. While the subject is visually fixated, a peripheral stimulus is presented on the display. At least one characteristic of the peripheral stimulus... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080024724 - Frequency doubling fixation stimuli for visual field testing and therapy: Alteration of a fixation or peripheral stimulus displayed on a computer-driven display allows a human subject to maintain extended visual fixation upon the resulting dynamic stimulus. The fixation is presented upon the display and the stimulus is altered to allow resensitization of the subject's retina, thereby allowing prolonged visual fixation... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080024726 - High precision visual field tester with unprecedented detailed results: A visual field testing apparatus for scanning the visual field of a human eye in great detail, precision, and clarity so as to detect the smallest blind area whereby allowing users the ability of early detection of glaucoma and other eye diseases of visual loss. The apparatus is small and... Agent: Hsu-chieh Yeh

20080018851 - Low-cost circular polarizing eyewear: A method and system of providing circularly polarized eyewear is provided. The eyewear comprises substantially rigid material configured to maintain lensing material, such as card stock or plastic. The lensing material comprises polarizing lensing material located proximate the substantially rigid material, and retarder lensing material matched to the polarizing lensing... Agent: Smyrski Law Group, A Professional Corporation

20080018852 - Eyewear having lens retaining member: Eyewear of the present invention includes a frame, at least one lens and a lens retaining member of non-metal material permanently engaging at least one lens. The lens retaining member extends along and projects radially and outwardly from at least a section of a periphery of the at least one... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080018853 - Tinted lenses that correct for high order aberrations: Disclosed herein are photopolymerizable compositions and formulations that comprise photochromic dyes, photochromic blue light blocking dyes, permanent dyes, permanent blue blocking dyes, and/or their combinations. In some variations, these formulations are suited for example, for sandwiching between lens blanks to form semi-finished lens assemblies to form a tinted lens useful... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080018854 - Ophthalmic image sensing apparatus: A focusing unit (11) is constituted of a prism base (11a), deflection prisms (11b and 11c), and a slit chart (11e) having a slit opening (11d), and the deflection prisms (11b and 11c) are arranged so that deflecting directions may become reverse. The slit opening (11d) is made equally to... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080018855 - Aberrometer provided with a visual acuity testing system: The group of inventions is used for a medical clinical practice for automatically measuring a human eye abberation, determining a subjective visual acuity associated with the selection of a best spherocylindrical correction, investigating the influence of high orders aberrations on the visual acuity and for prognosticating the eye correction results.... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080018856 - Corneo-scleral topography system: An advanced rasterstereography-based corneo-scleral topography (RCT) device includes an LED-based grid projection assembly, a grid image viewing assembly, and an optionally integratable front view camera assembly. The assemblies each include telephoto optical systems that provide a compact structure, an increased depth of field, and an increased field of view that... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20080018858 - Optotype presenting apparatus: An optotype presenting apparatus for testing a visual function of an eye of an examinee comprises: a display unit including a display which displays various optotypes by controlling a number of pixels and a memory in which the optotypes to be displayed on the display are stored; an operation unit... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080018857 - Visual acuity testing: Eye chart for testing visual acuity which includes a plurality of optoptypes arranged in a plurality of lines with each optotype in a line having a uniform resolution throughout and the resolution for each optotype in a given line is the same. The optotypes are generated by standardizing the maximum... Agent: Fulbright And Jaworski LLP

20080013037 - Eyeglass-mounted virtual display system: A virtual display system mounted on conventional eyewear. Preferably, an opening is formed in a lens of the eyewear, and a grommet is adapted to snugly fit into the opening. A housing is adapted to snugly fit into the grommet. The housing includes a ball and socket assembly, wherein the... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20080013036 - Flexible temple for eyewear: Eyewear frames having flexible temples that include a flexible lower temple portion, a rigid upper temple portion and an opening. The opening decreases in size as the flexible lower temple portion conforms to a user's head and ears.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione Utah Office

20080013038 - Method for defining a supplementary face for spectacles: A method for defining a supplementary face for spectacles (or clip-on), comprising the steps of: i) choice of a lens suited to the wearer's prescription; ii) modelization of the position of the chosen lens and of the position of a supplementary face in front of the chosen lens; iii) choice... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080013039 - Interchangeable eyewear assembly: An eyewear system enables a person to switch lenses among a variety of frames or switch a variety of lenses within a single frame. The lenses are positioned in one or more subframe assemblies that can be easily attached to and detached from a frame assembly that may not otherwise... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080013040 - Eyeglass frame: Eyeglass frame comprising one ear piece (4) on both the left and right side, and a frame (1) having one receiving element (2) on both the left and right side for attaching the ear piece (4), one connecting element (7) being respectively provided, the ear-piece side of which faces in... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20080013041 - Slim frame of spectacle having electronic device thereon, and spectacle having the same: A frame of spectacle having electronic device thereon, comprising: a pair of eyewires, along the inside of each eyewire is formed with an engaging section for engaging with a glass, and a bridge section is interlinked between the pair of eyewires; a pair of temples pivotally mounted at both sides... Agent: Bucknam And Archer

20080013042 - Polymerizable composition containing an odor masking agent and a perfume, an optical lens and a production method: The invention relates to a composition comprising one or more polymerizable monomers, comprising at least one masking agent selected amongst cyclic ethers and at least one perfume selected amongst naturally occurring musks and extracts thereof, synthetic musks, and mixtures thereof.... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20080013043 - Toric contact lenses with controlled optical power profile: The present invention provides a toric contact lens having a controlled optical power profile. In addition, the invention provides a series of toric contact lenses, each having a series of different targeted cylindrical optical powers and a series of different targeted spherical optical powers, and each having a spherical aberration... Agent: Ciba Vision Corporation Patent Department

20080013044 - Contact lens: The invention relates to a contact lens comprising at least one area with an increased friction for an eyelid for providing grip to the eyelid for positioning the contact lens on an eye in use, wherein said friction area comprises micro scale undulations for providing friction between an eyelid and... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080013045 - Ophthalmic devices having a highly selective violet light transmissive filter and related methods: Ophthalmic devices are provided having a violet-light vertical cut-off filter abruptly absorbs light between the wave lengths of between approximately and 400 nm and 450 nm such that a curve when plotted as percent transmission versus wavelength has the shape as depicted in FIG. 2. In one embodiment the ophthalmic... Agent: Advanced Medical Optics, Inc.

20080013046 - Molds for progressive lenses: Embodiments of the present invention provide progressive molds including an inner progressive zone having one or more progressive optical properties, an outer bevel zone, and a transition zone in between the progressive and bevel zones to form a generally smooth transition between the progressive zone and the bevel zone.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080013047 - Diagnostic and therapeutic system for eccentric viewing: A method is provided to map the sight perception of a patient and/or for therapeutically stimulating the patient. The method includes providing a target focal stimulation on a luminous background stimulation field so that the patient may focus upon the target and thereby keep the patient's retina in a fixed... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080013048 - Ophthalmologic surgical work station: An ophthalmologic surgical work station has a microscope and a foot switch corresponding thereto. The microscope is connected to the foot switch via a console. The microscope and the foot switch are coarsely prepositioned and a change of the relative position between the microscope and the foot switch with respect... Agent: Walter Ottesen Patent Attorney

20080007688 - Impact resistant lens, frame and tools and method for making same: A corrective/ophthalmic lens comprising an impact lip extending from an anterior lens edge and a radial groove adjacent and parallel to the lens lip posterior surface, an eyewear system containing a corrective/ophthalmic lens and a method of making a lens is provided. The lens impact lip size is variable, determined... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20080007689 - Variable focus optical devices: Variable focus optical devices, in particular lenses, can include a cavity at least partially defined by a flexible member (2), which may be retained between engaging portions of a frame member (8) and a ring member (12), such that a peripheral region of the membrane is caused to change direction,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080007690 - Method and a device for automatically preparing an ophthalmic lens for mounting: The method includes steps of: automatically measuring locating or identification characteristics of the lens in a measurement position, to provide a locating or identification reference frame of the ophthalmic lens; transferring the ophthalmic lens in a second transfer from its measurement position to a distinct intermediate position; transferring the ophthalmic... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080007691 - Apparatus and method for spectrally measuring fundus: To provide a spectroscopic fundus measuring apparatus capable of identifying each part in spectral fundus images easily and accurately based on its spectral characteristic and a measuring method therefor. A spectral fundus image measuring apparatus 1 of the present invention includes: an illumination optical system 10; a light receiving optical... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080007692 - Apparatus and method for spectrally measuring fundus: To provide a spectroscopic fundus measuring apparatus capable of identifying each part in spectral fundus images easily and accurately based on its spectral characteristic and a measuring method therefor. A spectral fundus image measuring apparatus 1 of the present invention includes: an illumination optical system 10 having an illumination light... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080007693 - Method and apparatus for imaging in an eye: A method for in vivo imaging of at least one cell including: first obtaining a first image of at least one cell; second obtaining a second image of the at least one cell; adjusting at least one of the first image and the second image to account for a movement... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080007694 - Measurement of lenses and lens molds using optical coherence tomography: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems are used to measure lenses. The present methods use an OCT system to obtain one or more images of a lens. For example, an OCT system can be used to obtain section images, surface images, or combinations of section images and surface images of vision... Agent: Christie Parker & Hale, LLP