Optics: eye examining, vision testing and correcting inventions 03/08

20080074619 - Reading glass strenght self-tester: A reading glass strength self-tester comprising a housing that incorporates a viewport in the front of the housing. Magnifying lens of different diopter ratings are mounted behind the viewport to magnify a reading surface located within the housing. A window incorporated into the front of the housing displays the diopter... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080068555 - Peripheral filtering optical apparatus: A filter or lens for common optical apparatus includes a clear center portion and an attenuating peripheral portion where the peripheral portion attenuates off-axis images and passes on-axis images with high signal to noise ratios yet not completely blocking the off-axis images, which lens is well suited for reducing off-axis... Agent: The Aerospace Corporation

20080068557 - Lens holding frame: A lens holding frame for holding lenses, both in front of the projection optics of an HMD device and in front of the eye portion of a wearer of the HMD device, the lens holding frame including a nose bridge, the HMD device including a nose pad arranged to support... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080068556 - Head gear assembly for water game play: Head gear assembly for water game play includes a lens element and an attachment element coupled to the lens element and configured to effect a substantially water-tight seal with the face of a wearer. The lens element has an image obscuring property, for example a view portion effective to cause... Agent: Stout, Uxa, Buyan & Mullins LLP

20080068558 - Integrated nose pads and pad arms and a pair of glasses with the integrated nose pads and pad arms: The present invention discloses the integrated nose pads and pad arms and a pair of glasses with the integrated nose pads including dual pad ridges formed thereon, wherein the dual pad ridges respectively have a through hole through therein for connection and fixation. The pad ridges have a cavity to... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080068559 - Eyeglasses with activity monitoring and acoustic dampening: In one embodiment, eyewear having an activity monitoring capability is disclosed. Activity, such as motion, steps or distance, can be measured by an activity detector. The measured activity can then be used in providing activity-related information to a user of the eyewear. Advantageously, the user of the eyewear is able... Agent: Ipventure, Inc.

20080068560 - Enhanced optical coherence tomography for anatomical mapping: A system, method and apparatus for anatomical mapping utilizing optical coherence tomography. In the present invention, 3-dimensional fundus intensity imagery can be acquired from a scanning of light back-reflected from an eye. The scanning can include spectral domain scanning, as an example. A fundus intensity image can be acquired in... Agent: Stallman & Pollock LLP

20080068561 - Pupillary reflex-based patient classification: A method, system and device for detecting an ocular dysfunction with optic neuropathy, such as the glaucoma group of diseases. More particularly, one eye is exposed to a series of flashes, and the resulting pupillary reflexes of both eyes are measured. The pupillary reflexes can then be evaluated to determine... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20080062377 - Visibility means for eyeglasses: The invention promotes visibility when applied to a conventional pair of eyeglasses on land or in water and in lit or dark conditions such as the incorporation of colorization, luminescence or reflectivity to the invention. The invention can additionally comprise removable buoyancy applied to the eyeglass temple pieces which causes... Agent: P. Kenneth Weidler

20080062378 - Glasses with removable lens layers: A pair of glasses is provided. The pair of glasses includes a frame, a first lens layer connected to the frame, a second lens layer in removable contact with the first lens layer, and a third lens layer in removable contact with the second lens layer. Further provided is a... Agent: Dovas Law P.C.

20080062379 - Rim of spectacle: The present invention provides a rim which can increase a lens holding capacity by a simple structure and can apply a new decoration to a spectacle. In a rim (1) of a spectacle in which a fitting groove (3) is formed in such a manner as to be fitted to... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20080062380 - Contact lens and method for prevention of myopia progression: A method of slowing the progression of myopia in a person, comprises applying to the eye of the person contact lens or lenses each including a vision correction area for correcting in use the myopic vision of a wearer, and a myopic defocus area having a less negative focal power,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080062381 - Tinted lenses and methods of manufacture: The present invention recognizes that lenses, such as contact lenses, can be modified and pigmented using an ink that includes oligomers, polymers or polymerizable monomers. The ink can be used to make images on or within the lens, or the ink may be similar to the material of the lens... Agent: David R Preston & Associates Apc

20080062382 - Diagnostic system having gaze tracking: A method for comparing image portions of at least two images, comprising the steps of: displaying a first digital image on a display; determining gaze data of a user viewing the first digital image displayed on the display; determining the portion of the first digital image being viewed by the... Agent: Susan L. Parulski Patent Legal Staff

20080062383 - Diagnostic system having gaze tracking: A method of modifying a portion of a digital image. In one arrangement, a digital image is displayed on a display, and the gaze data of a user viewing the image on the display is determined. The portion of the image being viewed by the user corresponding to the determined... Agent: Susan L. Parulski Patent Legal Staff

20080062384 - Device and method for measuring the optical properties of an eye in combination with an operating microscope: The invention relates to a device for measuring the optical properties of an eye, comprising an optical signal generator and optical guide means leading from the optical signal generator in the direction of the eye to be examined, wherein the optical signal generator is adapted to project an image through... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080055537 - System for transreceiving electromagnetic signals in a communication network: An apparatus (200) is provided. The apparatus includes a first eyeglass frame section (204). Further, the apparatus includes a first antenna embedded in the first eyeglass frame section. Furthermore, the apparatus includes a second eyeglass frame section (206). Moreover, the apparatus includes a second antenna embedded in the second eyeglass... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080055538 - Protective device for eyes: A protective device for eyes, for example, goggles of a shield, includes a double lens member, a frame member and a face fixation member. The double lens member includes a front lens, a back lens and a gasket. The front lens and the back lens are made of polycarbonate resins,... Agent: Quinn Emanuel Koda & Androlia

20080055539 - Folding eyeglasses with multifunction carrying case: Folding eyeglasses with a multifunction carrying case are disclosed. The folding eyeglasses may be any type of glasses such as reading glasses, sun glasses, and/or prescription glasses. Preferably, the glasses fold at the bridge of the nose and on each temple. Once folded, the glasses may be placed inside the... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080055540 - Ophthalmic lens with an optically transparent composite film exhibiting both impact-resistance property and polarizing property, and a process for its manufacture: The present invention relates to a light polarizing ophthalmic lens comprising a substrate made of organic glass and an optically transparent composite film deposited on the front main face of the substrate, said transparent composite film comprising a latex layer having an outer main face provided with parallel microgrooves, and... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20080055541 - Zone switched sports training eyewear: Vision training eyewear include lenses having a plurality of obscuration zones. The obscuration zones are individually switchable to provide light emission or attenuation that can interfere with normal vision of the wearer. A pattern or sequence of patterns can be selectively activated at a fixed or variable rate while a... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080055542 - Method of preparing eyeglass lenses for mounting on the frame selected by the wearer: The blocking accessory is fitted with an electronic identification element bearing an identification code, and said identification code of the electronic element is read initially during a first read during the centering step to associate the code in memory with the mounting parameters of the lens that is receiving the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080055543 - Image adjustment derived from optical imaging measurement data: A method and apparatus for imaging within the eye is provided whereby a component of eye position is detected using optical imaging data. Tracking eye position over time and correctly registering imaging data for scan locations or using eye position to detect decentration achieves improved imaging. In one embodiment, essentially... Agent: Stallman & Pollock LLP

20080055544 - Cornea imaging apparatus: A cornea imaging apparatus comprising: an illumination optical system having an illumination source; an imaging optical system having a photoelectric element for receiving a reflected light beam from a cornea of an eye under examination; actuating means for moving the illumination optical system and the imaging optical system in a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080055545 - Contact lenses: Disclosed is a method of designing a soft contact lens, the method comprising the steps of: (a) measuring or defining a wavefront generated by passage of light through a selected eye and using the wavefront to generate a computer model of the optical characteristics of the selected eye; (b) measuring... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP