Optics: eye examining, vision testing and correcting inventions 09/08

20080231794 - Jig mounting apparatus: A jig mounting apparatus has a detection optical system that detects reference marker of an eyeglass lens, is configured so as to determine an mounting point based on the reference marker detected by the detection optical system and position the mounting center of jig, which is used in processing the... Agent: Chapman And Cutler

20080231795 - Anti-ballistic lens structure and method of making the same: A method of making a lens structure is provided comprising a first step of providing an eyewear lens substrate blank having a polarized layer or a helmet shield substrate blank. A step of spin coating a surface of the lens substrate blank with a photochromic material is then provided. Steps... Agent: Perman & Green

20080231796 - Necklace-eyeglass system: A necklace-eyeglass system includes a plurality of links each having a first shape. An eyeglass frame is connected to the plurality of links and includes a lens holding portion holding a lens in a lens opening thereof. The lens holding portion has a second shape. The first shape and the... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20080231797 - Eyewear with lens and interlocking nosepiece and frame: Eyewear includes a frame having a right temple arm, a left temple arm, a first lens groove, a second lens groove, and a recess formed therein. A first lens is received in the first lens groove and has a first opening formed therein. A first tab is received in the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080231798 - Prepolymers with dangling polysiloxane-containing polymer chains: The invention provide a new class of silicone-containing prepolymers containing dangling polysiloxane-containing polymer chains. This class of silicone-containing prepolymer is capable of being actinically crosslinked to form a silicone hydrogel material with a relatively high oxygen permeability, a reduced elastic modulus, and a relatively high ion permeability. The present invention... Agent: Ciba Vision Corporation Patent Department

20080231799 - Hydrodynamically operated multifocal contact lens: This invention pertains to a soft contact lens that has a body with a central zone aligned with the optical axis of the eye when a wearer wears the lens. A micro-channel filled with fluid, is positioned at or near the optic zone and is arranged so that when the... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20080231800 - Glasses lens comprising a carrying edge: A spectacle lens with an object-sided front face and an eye-sided rear face, wherein at last the rear face comprises a viewing region that contributes to the optical effect of the spectacle lens and a carrier rim region that at least partially surrounds the viewing region and that does not... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080231801 - Manufacturing techniques for the production of hydrodynamic multifocal contact lenses: Several methods for making a contact lens with a reservoir are disclosed. The reservoir is filled with fluid and is shaped to change dynamically the optical characteristics of the lens. One method includes forming two shells with a depression therebetween, laminating the shells together, with the reservoir being filled with... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20080231802 - Eyeglass prescription method: In general, in some embodiments, the disclosure provides a method that includes making a subjective refraction of a person to determine information about the person's vision, making a wavefront measurement of one or both of the person's eyes to determine information about the optical properties of one or both of... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080231803 - Compact ocular fundus camera: Embodiments of a compact camera for imaging the ocular fundus are described. In some embodiments, the camera is a light, handheld camera that acquires a plurality of images of the fundus. The camera can be configured to acquire images manually or automatically. A movable imaging lens or movable image detector... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080231804 - Vivo spatial measurement of the density and proportions of human visual pigments: The present invention concerns a method and system for in vivo spatial measurement of density and relative proportions of retinal visual pigments. The method involves the steps of illuminating a retina with light of a given intensity and wavelength, acquiring the residual light coming from the retina using a photosensing... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20080231805 - Method and circuit arrangement for recognising and tracking eyes of several observers in real time: The invention relates to a method and to a circuit arrangement for recognising and for tracking, in a contact-free manner, eye positions of several users in real time. The input data comprises a sequence of digital video frames. Said method comprises the following steps: combining a face-finder-instance which is used... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20080231806 - Ophthalmic apparatus: An ophthalmic apparatus comprises a projection system in which a pattern member is provided with a predetermined pattern for measuring the shape of the cornea of an eye of a subject, the predetermined pattern is thereby projected on the cornea of the eye of the subject, and an optical observation... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080231807 - High resolution laterial and axial tomography: An in-vivo high resolution lateral and axial tomography system of the retina, is provided, including a Michelson interferometer, generating a tomographical image by full field OCT interference with Z sweeping, adaptive optical correction apparatus, correcting the wave fronts coming from and going to the eye, including a reference source, a... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080231808 - Relaxed confocal catadioptric scanning laser ophthalmoscope: A number of additional embodiments and optical constructions of a relaxed confocal catadioptric scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO) are disclosed. They improve the functionality of microperimetry (MP), and the integration of the existing instrument with the capabilities of high speed Fourier domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT/SS-OCT). The improvements pertain to enhanced... Agent: Dr. Frans J. Van De Velde

20080231809 - Method for measuring intraocular lens: The invention relates to a method for measuring an optimally adapted intraocular lens for patients having a refractively modified cornea. The inventive method includes the following steps: determining the formula-specific corneal refractive powers before the refractive intervention; determining the formula-specific corneal refractive powers after the refractive intervention, and; putting the... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080231810 - Method of fitting contact lenses: The invention provides a method of fitting lenses that results in correction of not only low and high order ocular aberrations, but that additionally provides correction for the effects of cortical influences, or neuro-adaptive influences.... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20080225225 - Temples of eyeglass frame: Each of temples of an eyeglass frame includes a first and second temple portions rotatably coupled together via a second joint, an axis of the second joint coupling the first and second temple portions together is disposed on either an inner side or an outer side of a center of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080225226 - Scanning laser ophthalmoscope: A scanning laser ophthalmoscope comprises: a laser source that emits a laser beam; an irradiation optical system that scans the laser beam over a fundus two-dimensionally; a photoreceptor optical system that receives reflection from the fundus by using a photoreceptor element; an image processor that obtains an image of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080225227 - Apparatus and method for correcting for aberrations in a lens system: A method and apparatus for compensating for aberrations or distortions of an optical system such as an eye of a patient which is to be imaged by a camera is disclosed. Light passing through the optical system is detected by a charge coupled device (62) via an imaging system (60).... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080225228 - Wavefront aberration compensating apparatus and ophthalmologic unit having the same: A wavefront aberration compensating apparatus, including: a deformable mirror which compensates a wavefront aberration of a light flux and includes electrodes, and a thin-film mirror which changes a configuration thereof in accordance with a voltage value applied to each of the electrodes; an optical system provided with the deformable mirror... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080225230 - Wavefront aberration compensating apparatus and ophthalmologic unit having the same: A wavefront aberration compensating apparatus, which includes: a deformable mirror having electrodes and a thin-film mirror; an optical system provided with the deformable mirror and including an object; a wavefront sensor which measures a wavefront aberration of a light flux; and a controller configured to: calculate a first voltage value... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080225229 - Wavefront aberration compensating apparatus and opthalmologic unit having the same: A wavefront aberration compensating apparatus includes: a deformable mirror which compensates a wavefront aberration of a light flux entered, the deformable mirror including a plurality of electrodes, and a thin-film mirror which changes a configuration thereof in accordance with a voltage value applied to each of the electrodes; an optical... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080225231 - Device and method for measuring the contrast of the fringes in a michelson interferometer and system for examination of the eye comprising such a device: The invention relates to a device, for measuring the contrast of fringes in a Michelson interferometer at full field, comprising a Wollaston prism for diverting two perpendicular incident polarisations into two different emergent directions, said diverting means being arranged within the interferometer as substitute for a single polariser. The device... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080225232 - Ophthalmic endoilluminator with variable-wedge rotating-disk beam attenuator: An ophthalmic endoilluminator includes a light source, a variable-wedge rotating-disk attenuator, a condensing lens, and an optical fiber. The variable-wedge rotating-disk attenuator attenuates the light produced by the light source. The variable-wedge rotating-disk attenuator includes a wedge capable of being adjusted over a variable angle as measured through an arc... Agent: Alcon

20080225233 - Variable-wedge rotating-disk beam attenuator for ophthalmic endoilluminator: A variable-wedge rotating-disk attenuator for use in an ophthalmic endoilluminator is disclosed. The attenuator includes a wedge attached to an axle. The size of the wedge can be adjusted over a variable angle as measured through an arc of the wedge. The axle to which the wedge is attached rotates... Agent: Alcon

20080218681 - Eyesight correction lens: An eyesight correction lens includes a seeing region and a combining surface that is made of a material able to be sucked on a smooth lens. The eyesight correction lens can be positioned on the lens of eyeglasses so that a person with poor eyesight can not only protect his... Agent: Ching-fu Chuang

20080218682 - Eyewear and methods of use: Described herein are various embodiments of eyewear provided for advantageous use in sports and work, as well as in casual activity, and, if desired, in conjunction with helmets or other headgear. According to one exemplary embodiment, eyewear can include a frame and respective spaced-apart temple portions coupled to the frame.... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080218683 - Eyeglasses and eyeglass frames comprising glycol modified copolyesters: Disclosed herein are eyeglass frames and eyeglass frame kits made from a polymer composition comprising PCTG, and eyeglasses comprising a pair of lenses mounted on the eyeglass frames or eyeglass frame kits disclosed herein. The polymer composition disclosed herein may optionally comprise one or more additives such as colorants and... Agent: Jones Day

20080218684 - Eyeglasses with rfid tags: A pair of glasses includes a clock that is at least partially embedded in the glasses. The clock can be in one of the temples of the glasses. In one implementation, the clock can be positioned at a region close to a hinge of the corresponding temple, with the clock... Agent: Ipventure, Inc.

20080218685 - Goggles for improved ocular vision: A device for improved vision into or out of at least one eye of a subject. The device comprises an enclosing vessel for holding one or more lenses in front one or two eyes of the subject and for holding a substance whose refractive index is matched to the refractive... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080218686 - Lens care solutions for use with contact lenses or contact lens cases that contain silver: Contact lens care solutions that are formulated for disinfecting or packaging contact lenses that comprise silver, or for disinfecting or storing contact lenses in contact lens cases that comprise silver.... Agent: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated

20080218687 - Contact lens and method: Contact lenses and methods for preventing or slowing progression of myopia are described. The contact lenses include a vision correction area and a myopic defocus area. Various examples of the contact lenses are described. Methods include providing the present contact lenses, or applying one or more of the contact lenses... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080218688 - Vision in macular degeneration patients: An eyeglass lens and manufacturing method using a variable refractive index material, such as epoxy. In one embodiment, a method of making an eyeglass lens includes: imaging a patient's eye to determine a wavefront prescription for the patient; and curing the lens based on the wavefront prescription such that the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080218689 - Multifocal lens having a progressive optical power region and a discontinuity: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a multifocal lens having a mostly spherical power region and a progressive optical power region. Embodiments of the present invention provide for the proper alignment and positioning of each of these regions, the amount of optical power provided by each of the regions,... Agent: Pearl, Cohen, Zedek & Latzer, LLP

20080218690 - Eyeglass lens processing method: An eyeglass lens processing method for processing a hole for attaching a rimless frame to an eyeglass lens, the method includes: selecting a pattern used for a processing from a plurality of hole patterns; selecting a first drilling in which an angle of the processed hole is normal at least... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080218693 - Correction of presbyopia using adaptive optics and associated methods: Devices, systems, and methods measure, diagnose, and/or treat one or both eyes of a patient. Adaptive optics systems (such as those having a deformable mirror) may be configured to an aspherical or multi-spherical presbyopia-mitigating prescriptive shape to allow objective and/or subjective measurements of a candidate prescription. A plurality of viewing... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080218692 - Reflectometry/interferometry system and method for corneal plane positioning: A system for positioning an eye of a patient, for example, for laser ophthalmic surgery includes a reflectometer adapted to receive as input a reflected beam from an anterior surface of a cornea of an eye of a patient. The interferometer is calibratable to a desired position of the corneal... Agent: Alcon

20080218691 - Short-coherence interferometeric measurement of length on the eye: Two problems arise when measuring length at the eye by short-coherence interferometry. First, the measurement focus and coherence window usually do not coincide. Second, the scanning process along the eye axis is time-consuming. Both result in poor signal quality and inaccurate measurements. The present application is directed to a short-coherence... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20080218694 - High-resolution adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope with multiple deformable mirrors: An adaptive optics scanning laser opthalmoscopes is introduced to produce non-invasive views of the human retina. The use of dual deformable mirrors improved the dynamic range for correction of the wavefront aberrations compared with the use of the MEMS mirror alone, and improved the quality of the wavefront correction compared... Agent: Lawrence Livermore National Security, Llc

20080218695 - Optical device, use of an optical device according to the invention as well as method for blocking light reflections in the observation beam path of an optical device: The invention relates to an optical device for the examination of an eye, with at least one objective disposed facing the eye, at least one lighting source for illuminating the eye, an optical element and/or an optical arrangement disposed between the objective and the eye being examined, which optical element... Agent: Kriegsman & Kriegsman

20080218696 - Non-invasive monitoring system: A monitoring system includes a light source that illuminates at least a portion of a subject's eye with an incident light beam, and a contact lens with a coupler. The coupler couples the incident light beam into an aqueous humor of the eye, creating an aqueous light beam. The coupler... Agent: Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel, LLP

20080212016 - Durable eyeglasses frame assembly: A novel eyeglasses frame allowing sizing, assembly and disassembly without the need for special training, screws, bolts, or pins, or special tools.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080212019 - Optically decentered face shield: A face protector includes a one piece shield in which an optical center is displaced away from the normal straight ahead line of sight toward an activity specific line of sight to minimize image shift that occurs when a direction of gaze passes across the edge of the shield. An... Agent: Nike, Inc. C/o Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

20080212017 - Pixellized transparent optical component comprising an absorbing coating, production method thereof and use thereof in an optical element: f

20080212018 - Transparent pixelized optical component with absorbing walls, its method of manufacture and its use in the manufacture of a transparent optical element: A transparent optical component (10) comprises at least one transparent set of cells (15) juxtaposed parallel to one surface of the component, each cell being separated by absorbing walls (18) parallel to the component surface, and each cell being hermetically sealed and containing at least one substance with an optical... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20080212020 - Contact lens and methods of manufacture and fitting such lenses and computer program product: The invention is directed to a contact lens design and methods of manufacturing, fitting and using such lenses. The contact lens may be designed for use in a corneal refractive therapy (CRT) program. The lens provides a design which allows proper fitting of a patient, whether for corrective contact lenses... Agent: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP

20080212021 - Orthokeratological contact lenses and design methods therefor: The present invention provides an orthokeratological contact lens to be worn on a patient's cornea and methods for prescribing the same. The contact lens comprises a parabolic lens having an inner surface configured to face an epithelium of the patient's cornea, wherein the parabolic lens is adapted to reshape the... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20080212022 - Series of aspherical contact lenses: The present invention provides a series of aspherical contact lenses, each lens having a first central optical zone on its anterior surface and a second central optical zone on its posterior surface. Both central optical zones are aspherical surfaces. The first central optical zone is designed to have a surface... Agent: Gardner Groff Greenwald & Villanueva. PC

20080212023 - Pixellized optical component with apodized walls, method for making same and use thereof in making a transparent optical element: The invention concerns a transparent optical component (10) comprising at least one transparent set of cells (15) juxtaposed parallel to a surface of the component, each cell being separated by walls (18) with apodized profile parallel to the surface of the component, and each cell being hermetically sealed and containing... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20080212024 - Customized contact lenses for reducing aberrations of the eye: Higher order aberrations of an eye are reduced. Wavefront aberrations of the eye are measured, providing wavefront information and/or a wavefront map. A mask is derived from the wavefront information and/or wavefront map based on the measured wavefront aberrations. A customized contact lens is formed including the mask. The deriving... Agent: Sf Bay Area Patents, LLC Attn: Andrew V. Smith, Ph.d.

20080212025 - Optical observation instrument and a method of controllably adjusting a refractive power in such instrument: An optical observation instrument, in particular a spectacle, a reading aid or a telescope, comprises an optical element, in particular a spectacle lens, adapted to be controllably adjustable in its refractive power, a sensor, and a control unit for adjusting the refractive power as a function of signals from the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080212026 - Noninvasive ocular monitor and method for measuring and analyzing physiological data: A non-invasive device and methods for acquiring and analyzing ocular images from a subject is presented. Aspects of the method comprise of the acquisition of ocular image(s) and subsequent evaluation, classification and/or interpretation of these image(s). The ocular image(s) are acquired using ocular scanning instruments or suitable substitutes. Evaluation, classification,... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20080212027 - Ophthalmologic photographing apparatus: An ophthalmologic photographing apparatus includes a light source having two or more types of light-emitting-diode (LED) light emitting elements configured to emit light of different wavelengths, an illumination optical system configured to illuminate a fundus of a subject's eye with light emitted by the light source, an imaging optical system... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080212028 - Fundus camera: A fundus camera of which the operability in alignment when photographing a fundus is enhanced includes a photographing optical system having a photographing optical axis which photographs the fundus, a fundus observation optical system picking up a fundus observation image, an anterior-segment observation optical system picking up an anterior-segment observation... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080212029 - Fundus camera: A fundus camera capable of preferably photographing the periphery of a fundus irrespective of the state of an eye includes a photographing optical system having a photographing optical axis for photographing the fundus, a fundus observation optical system for picking up a fundus observation image, an alignment target projection optical... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080212030 - Corneal measurement apparatus and a method of using the same: An apparatus for measuring a subject's cornea, comprising (A.) a slit projection subsystem comprising a light source, (B.) a mask subsystem disposed in a path of light from the light source, comprising a first slit mask defining a plurality of apertures, (C.) a movement apparatus adapted to move at least... Agent: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated

20080212031 - Iterative fourier reconstruction for laser surgery and other optical applications: Methods, systems and software for determining an optical surface model for an optical tissue system using Fourier transformation algorithms. A method of reconstructing optical tissues of an eye comprises transmitting an image through the optical tissues of the eye. The surface gradients from the transmitted image are measured across the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080212032 - Visual skill diagnostic and therapeutic system and process: A system and method for diagnosing a user's visual skills and for therapy is provided. The method disclosed determines the user's visual skill diagnostic score. The visual skill diagnostic score allows the user or the supervising professional to ascertain the user's visual ability. The method is designed to be executed... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP