Optics: eye examining, vision testing and correcting inventions 02/08

20080049185 - Eye location and gaze detection system and method: A system and method for gaze detection of an animate subject, typically a human. The subject's pupils are located in three dimensional space, using red-eye detection techniques and triangulation. Then, the gaze direction is determined based on the shape of the subject's irises.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20080049186 - Portable high speed head mounted pupil dilation tracking system: A goggle based light-weight VOG system includes at least one digital camera connected to and powered by a laptop computer through a firewire connection and allows for high speed pupil dilation tracking. An EOG system may be incorporated directly into a goggle base. The digital camera may digitally center the... Agent: Blynn L. Shideler The Blk Law Group

20080049187 - Portable video oculography with region of interest image processing: A goggle based light-weight VOG system includes at least one digital camera connected to and powered by a laptop computer through a firewire connection and allows for region of interest image processing. An EOG system may be incorporated directly into a goggle base. The digital camera may digitally center the... Agent: Blynn L. Shideler The Blk Law Group

20080049188 - Scanning ophthalmic fixation method and apparatus: An apparatus and method for treating and/or diagnosing a patient's eye. A light source produces fixation light and procedure light. A scanning device deflects the fixation light to produce a fixation pattern of the fixation light on the eye, and deflects the procedure light to produce a procedure pattern of... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080043199 - Direct view gonio lens: A lens for viewing the anterior chamber of the eye includes a contact lens having a contact lens surface and an anterior surface. The anterior surface has an optical axis that intersects the optical axis of the contact lens surface. First and second mirror surfaces are positioned to redirect light... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080043200 - Color balanced ophthalmic system with selective light inhibition: An ophthalmic system is provided. The system includes an ophthalmic material doped with a dye that absorbs light in a wavelength range and a layer that corrects a color imbalance caused by absorption of light by the dye. The dye can absorb light in a harmful spectral region, such as... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080043201 - Dynamic 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

20080036961 - Clip-on frames or lenses with a hybrid attachment-detachment mechanism: The present invention relates to novel auxiliary sunglasses which can be easily attached to and detached from the frame of a pair of primary eyeglasses. Specifically, this invention utilizes a hybrid mounting mechanism, for example, one side of the auxiliary sunglasses uses a mechanic attachment mechanism while the other side... Agent: Qingshan Zhou

20080036962 - Watch device containing eyeglasses: A watch device containing eyeglasses is provided, which includes a housing, a watch mechanism comprised into or onto the housing, and eyeglasses configured with a folding mechanism for enabling the eyeglasses to be foldable into the housing, in which a frame of the eyeglasses is comprised of a multiplicity of... Agent: Daniel Alitowski # 6b

20080036963 - Variable geometry lens: A variable lens geometry is constructed through a series of spaced vertical curves on and perpendicular to a horizontal curve. Variable geometry is attained by varying the size of the vertical curves along the horizontal curve. In one embodiment, at least one vertical curve more towards the end or temple... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080036964 - Plastic polarized lens and method of producing the same: According to the present invention, there are provided a plastic polarized lens with excellent processability and the like, and a method of producing the same. The plastic polarized lens is obtained by injecting a mixture of a specified isocyanate compound and a specified active hydrogen compound into a lens-forming mold... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080036965 - Perimeter: A perimeter is comprised of means for setting a second visual field coordinate system on a fundus image displayed on a monitor wherein an origin is a macula lutea, means for provisionally determining a blind spot position on the second visual field coordinate system, means for searching a coordinate position... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

20080036966 - Perimeter: Perimeter has input means for inputting identification data of an examinee and a kind of perimetry to be conducted, means for judging whether or not the examinee has already received the perimetry, means to read examinee measurement information, means to judge whether or not a kind of inputted perimetry is... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

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20080030674 - Improvement on a lens structure of safety glasses: A lens structure of safety glasses consists of a lens part, and a warning sticker; the lens part consists of a main body, and a rim formed on a border of the main body; the rim has a strip-shaped recess on an upper portion, extending along an upper border thereof;... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080030675 - Uniform diffuse omni-directional reflecting lens: A transparent multi-layer lens construction to be worn as a sunglass lens, or a fashion lens, that reflects light in a diffuse manner. The multi-layer lens construction is, in part, a combination of surface form and surface texture combined with a reflective medium and an anti-reflective coating. The present invention... Agent: William E Hein

20080030676 - Contact lenses: A contact lens having a rotational stabilization mechanism thereon, such as prism ballast, and a thickness profile that reduces the torque imparted on the lens by the action of the eyelids, especially for stabilizing toric lenses. The prism ballast is provided on one or more portions of the anterior face... Agent: Frank J. Uxa

20080030677 - Apodized diffractive iol with frustrated diffractive region: In one aspect, the present invention provides a diffractive ophthalmic lens (e.g., a diffractive IOL) that includes an optic having an anterior surface and a posterior surface, where the optic provides a far focus. A frustrated diffractive structure comprising a plurality of diffractive zones is disposed on at least one... Agent: Alcon

20080030678 - Glasses: Glasses for everyday use, comprising a frame into which is fitted a lens system for the correction of defective vision, which comprises at least one pair of lenses formed by a first lens and a second lens, which first and second lens, viewed in the path of vision, are disposed... Agent: Peacock Myers, P.C.

20080030684 - Ophthalmologix imaging system: An ophthalmologic imaging system comprises: a retinal camera having an illuminating optical system configured to project an illuminating light onto fundus oculi of a subject and an imaging optical system including an imaging part configured to receive the fundus reflection light of the illuminating light and output an imaging signal;... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20080030683 - Eye viewing device comprising video capture optics: There is described in one embodiment an eye viewing device for viewing a structure of an eye such as a retina. The eye viewing device can include an image sensor. In one embodiment an eye viewing device can be adapted to facilitate both visual viewing of an eye structure and... Agent: Hiscock & Barclay, LLP

20080030681 - Focusing device for ophthalmological appliances, especially for fundus cameras, and method for the use thereof: The invention is directed to a method and a device for opthalmological equipment for examining the fundus of the eye by means of an optical system and electronic sensors for image recording. The focusing device, according to the invention, for opthalmological equipment based on the nonmydriatic principle comprises a projection... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20080030682 - Focussing and astigmatism compensation device for a fundus camera: The invention relates to a device for observing the ocular fundus, in particular to a fundus camera. Said device comprises a light source (1b) for the provision of illumination radiation, an illumination optical path for directing the illumination radiation onto the ocular fundus and observation optics for reproducing the illuminated... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080030680 - Fundus observation device and a program controlling the same: A fundus observation device comprises: an image forming part comprising a first image forming part and a second image forming part, the first image forming part forming a 2-dimensional surface image of fundus oculi of an eye through optical processing, the second image forming part optically scanning a surface region... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20080030679 - Opthalmic camera and opthalmic camera adaptor: An ophthalmic camera (10) comprising a camera (12) having a lens (18) aligned with a second lens (16) and at least one illumination means (14). The illumination means (14) is capable of movement relative to the camera lens (18) so that the beam of light emitted by the illumination means... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080030685 - Optical system for monitoring eye movement: In one embodiment, a system for monitoring eye movement through optical observation of the eye includes an optical device configured for mounting on a frame for positioning the optical device on a user. The optical device includes a light source configured for emitting light along a first path and a... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20080030686 - Apparatus and method for determining eyesight age: An apparatus and method for determining an eyesight age, the apparatus including: a storage module to store at least one test image and age-specific response information for the at least one test image; a control module to receive user adjustment information indicating a variation in the at least one test... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP