Optics: eye examining, vision testing and correcting inventions 04/08

20080094567 - Multi-purpose eyeglasses: A pair of multi-purpose eyeglasses has a main frame (10) and an inner frame (20). The main frame (10) includes a lens holder for holding lenses and a pair of temple arms (14) foldably connected to both ends of the lens holder. The main frame has a pair of side... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080094568 - Foldable spectacles, spectacle case and arrangement of foldable spectacles in the foldable case: The invention relates to foldable spectacles comprising two lenses ( 1a, 1b) which can be adjusted between a support position and a folded position and which are connected to each other by means of a nose piece (10). The nose piece (10) extends on a connecting axis (I) which is... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080094566 - System and method for selective light inhibition: A film suitable for use in an ophthalmic system is provided. The film may selectively inhibit blue light within the wavelength range of 400 nm to 460 nm to reduce phototoxic light to the eye while maintaining photopic vision, and may be color balanced to allow for the system into... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080094569 - Frame for spectacles having arms that can be opened out resiliently: A frame for spectacles having arms that can be opened out resiliently includes at least one lug and at least one arm which is articulated to the lug by a tie rod hinged to the lug and slidingly associated with the arm, a resilient device is active between the arm... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080094570 - Highly oxygen-permeable hydrated ocular lens: It is an object of the present invention to provide an ocular lens superior in the wettability of the surface thereof, hydrating properties, oxygen permeability, flexibility, elasticity, transparency and shape recoverability though it has a composition using a silicone-containing monomer. The present invention relates to a highly oxygen-permeable hydrated ocular... Agent: Ronald R. Santucci Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080094571 - Method and system for determining characteristics of lenses adapted for use with computers: Over the years, eyestrain and headaches have become an increasing problem for computer users, especially those who require eyeglasses. To combat this problem, lenses and a method/system for calculating the characteristics of these lenses have been developed. The method/system takes age, height, and the user's or wearer's prescription into account... Agent: Storm LLP

20080094572 - Vision correction device and method for vision correction: A vision correction device includes a mount and a correction part having a correction base, a first pad and a second pad, wherein the first pad and the second pad are disposed on the correction base, and the correction base is telescoped into the mount. A method for vision correction... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080094573 - Surface-modified materials, such as contact lenses, methods and kits for their preparation, and uses thereof: Modified contact lenses and surfaces, methods for their preparation, and corresponding kits are disclosed. Also disclosed are uses of the contact lenses, such as for the administration of an agent to the eye.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080094574 - Sterile hand held refractive surgery slit lamp illumination system: A sterile hand held slit lamp for laser refractive surgery includes a charging base that charges a battery while a hand held slit lamp is positioned thereon. A sterile supple cover is positioned over a slit lamp handle while supported by the charging base. A sterile gloved operator grasps the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080094575 - Apparatus and methods for demonstrating the effects of anti-reflective lens coatings: Apparatus and methods for demonstrating to a patient the effects of anti-reflective (AR) coatings on the patient's eyeglass lens prescription. The apparatus comprises a refractor, or a retrofit kit for a refractor, wherein at least the strong and weak sphere lenses are provided with a high index of refraction (IR)... Agent: Patent Department Larkin, Hoffman, Daly & Lindgren, Ltd.

20080088791 - Auxiliary eyewear assembly with micromagnetic attachment: The present invention relates to eyewear, and in particular, to an eyewear assembly that incorporates an auxiliary lens assembly for removable attachment to a primary lens assembly. Still more specifically, the present invention relates to an auxiliary lens assembly configured for micromagnetic attachment to a primary lens assembly.... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080088792 - Eyeglass assembly: An eyeglass assembly includes a frame unit having two spaced-apart non-looped frame strips and a first bridge interconnecting inner ends of the frame strips, two temples connected pivotally and respectively to the frame strips, an eyeglass unit attached pivotally to the frame unit and having two spaced-apart lens members and... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080088793 - Methods and lenses for correction of chromatic aberration: The subject invention provides lenses, and methods for designing and manufacturing these lenses, with reduced chromatic aberration. Advantageously, these lenses are specifically designed to correct chromatic aberration that results as multichromatic light passes through the lenses.... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080088794 - Eyeglass lens processing method: In a method of processing a periphery of an eyeglass lens, at an optician shop, rimless frame identifying data for identifying a rimless frame is inputted; modification data for an original target lens shape of the eyeglass lens to be mounted on the rimless frame is inputted; and the input... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080088795 - Ocular imaging: A system for performing quasi-elastic light scattering and fluorescent ligand scanning on a subject's eye includes a light source configured to transmit light toward the subject's eye, a lens configured to focus light sent from the source and scattered by the subject's eye, a measurement reflector disposed to receive at... Agent: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo

20080088796 - Wavefront characterization of corneas: Apparatus for determining if a cornea (whether in vitro or in vivo) has been modified (either surgically or otherwise). The method includes the steps of: passing a beam of collimated light a (either coherent or incoherent) through the cornea to produce a distorted wavefront; determining the characteristics of the distorted... Agent: Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb, Pa

20080084531 - Eyewear clip: A clip (12) for an eyewear device (22) is formed with a one-piece construction (34) with a pair of opposing end portions (36a, 36b) having clip fasteners. The clip fasteners including a visor clip fastener (38a) and an eyewear clip fastener (38b). The visor clip fastener (38a) is releasably attached... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc

20080084532 - Variable focus spectacles: Variable focus spectacles which comprise i) a focus module that includes two variable focus lens sections, said sections each including a first fixed plastic lens and an adjustable focus liquid lens, and ii) a second fixed plastic lens that preferably includes most or all of the optical power needed by... Agent: Saul Epstein

20080084533 - Sports-specific shield: An eyeglass is provided for component weight without reducing the overall structural integrity of the eyeglass, and for allowing adjustability of the eyeglass to optimize optical and protective qualities during activities having differing head angles and primary lines of sight. The eyeglass can comprise a lens, a frame, and a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080084534 - Lens having an optically controlled peripheral portion and a method for designing and manufacturing the lens: A contact lens or phakic IOC lens is provided with a peripheral portion that has a power profile that provides optical control of peripheral vision images. Typically, the central portion of the lens is also provided with optical control. The power profile of the lens at the boundary of the... Agent: Ciba Vision Corporation Patent Department

20080084535 - Collection of ophthalmic lens pairs and ophthalmic lenses having residual reflections exhibiting colors of different intensity: c

20080084536 - System and method of enchancing a retino-geniculo-cortical pathway for a particular physical activity: A system and method of enhancing a retino-geniculo-cortical pathway for a particular activity includes displaying to a user a substantially constant field of view at a first color and a first intensity; presenting to the user a second stimulus within the substantially constant field of view, wherein the second stimulus... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080084537 - Method of developing a visual processing profile based on a retino-geniculo-cortical pathway: A method of developing a visual processing profile for a person including displaying a filtered visual stimuli to portions of the person's field of view; allowing the person to respond to the filtered visual stimuli; measuring the person's response to the filtered visual stimuli in the portions of the person's... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080084538 - Fundus oculi observation device, a fundus oculi image display device and a fundus oculi image display method: A fundus oculi observation device comprises: a first image forming part for optically obtaining data and then forming a fluorescence image of a fundus oculi of an eye administered with a fluorescent agent in advance based on the obtained data; a second image forming part for optically obtaining data and... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, Llc

20080084539 - Human-machine interface device and method: The invention provides a coordinate input system, some embodiments having a first waveguide carrying stimulating light which is coupled by a force normal to the surface of the first waveguide into a second waveguide. In certain embodiments, the second waveguide contains photoluminescent material which upon receiving light from the first... Agent: Tyler Daniel

20080084540 - Ophthalmic surgical microscope system: An ophthalmic surgical microscope system (100) includes a surgical microscope (101). The surgical microscope (101) is accommodated on a carrier unit (109) so as to be adjustable in elevation in order to be able to adjust a work distance (124) between the surgical microscope (101) and a patient eye (120).... Agent: Walter Ottesen

20080084541 - Ophthalmic system and method: Ophthalmic system and method particularly suited to providing a laser probe beam for a Hartmann-Shack ophthalmic aberrometer. The laser probe beam produced by the system and method has a confined image spot at both the cornea and the retina. The probe beam can be generated with a laser beam passing... Agent: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated

20080079893 - Tool-free glasses frame and legs assembly: An assembly of a glasses frame and two legs provides a tool-free, self-assembly and most secured frame-leg attachment contributed by a three-dimensional frame-leg contact structure, which is created by a mortise-tenon contact plane, as well as a protruding piece embedded therein. The mortise-tenon contact plane is formed by a frame... Agent: Dr. Banger Shia Int''l Patent Office Of Bang Shia

20080079894 - Method of producing a substrate which is coated with a mesoporous layer and use thereof in ophthalmic optics: The invention relates to a method of producing a substrate which is coated with a mesoporous layer and to the use thereof in ophthalmic optics. The inventive method comprises the following steps consisting in: preparing a precursor sol containing (i) a precursor agent that is selected from compounds having formula... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20080079895 - Contact lenses and methods for their design: The invention provides methods for designing contact lenses in which method the lens flexure is taken into account. The method of the invention is insensitive to the lens' back surface design and does not require complex back surface designs. Additionally, the lens design can be optimized virtually, eliminating the need... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20080079896 - Method for centering a semi-finished spectacle lens: In a method for the parallax-free centering of an optical element, in particular a semifinished product of a future spectacle lens, on a holder of a centering or mounting device, the optical element is provided with engravings, and centering of the optical element is performed with the aid of the... Agent: Gray Robinson, P.A.

20080079897 - Medical diagnostic instrument with variable focus liquid lens: A diagnostic instrument includes an illumination system for providing illuminating light and an imaging system for directing the illuminating light to a target and for transmitting light reflected from the target to a viewing location. The imaging system includes an electrically controllable variable focus liquid lens assembly for focusing the... Agent: Hiscock & Barclay, LLP

20080079898 - Ophthalmic ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus: The apparatus which measures constituent parts of an eye through A-mode includes an ultrasonic probe for A-mode measurement including a transducer emitting an ultrasonic wave into the eye and receiving reflected echoes from tissues of the parts, calculation means for judging whether signals of the echoes are appropriate and calculating... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080079900 - Ophthalmologic observation apparatus: An ophthalmologic observation apparatus of a confocal laser scanning microscopy system for photographing and observing a target site of an eye of an examinee, includes a controller that, based on a number of image lines of one frame of a motion image to be displayed, a number of reflection faces... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080079899 - Ophthalmic apparatus: An ophthalmic apparatus capable of easily checking opacity of a crystalline lens, and more appropriately evaluating a measurement result on eye refractive power distribution or wavefront aberration, which includes a measurement optical system for projecting measurement light onto a fundus of an examinee's eye and photo-receiving the measurement light reflected... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080079901 - Slit lamp microscope and ophthalmic laser treatment apparatus with the microscope: A binocular slit lamp microscope for observing a patient's eye, comprises: an objective lens; binocular eyepieces; and a mechanism that includes a plurality of optical systems and is arranged to switch the optical systems to be selectively placed in a predetermined position between the objective lens and the binocular eyepieces... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080079902 - Apparatus and method for monitoring the position of a subject's hand: A system for delivering a touch sensitive screen task to a subject includes a touch sensitive display for presenting visual stimuli to a subject and for providing a response of the subject, hand position monitoring unit(s) for receiving input indicative of the position of a hand of the subject and... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky