Optics: eye examining, vision testing and correcting inventions 10/08

20080259269 - Decorative magnetic attachments to enhance eyewear: Decorative elements magnetically attachable to, removable from and/or interchangeable with eyewear frames comprise decorative element mounting means having a recess for receiving a magnet and cooperating with a recess on the eyewear frame which receives the mounting means. The two recesses are generally opposed in direction such that the recess... Agent: Stoll, Stoll & Hoffman

20080259270 - Eyewear for redirected viewing with auxiliary lenses: A pair of spectacles for providing a redirected view includes a visor configured to support a pair of triangular optical prisms attached to the bottom surface of the visor in front of a wearer's eyes. The prisms provide an internally reflected and refracted path approximately normal to the forward vision... Agent: Hansen Huang Technology Law Group, LLP

20080259271 - Eyewear item, especially glasses frames, comprising a support provided with a thermoformable foam: The invention relates to an eyewear item, especially glasses frames or an optical mask, comprising a bridge (1) or a browbar (14). According to the invention, the bridge (1) or browbar (14) comprises a support (5) having a thickness (4) consisting of a thermoformable foam (3), and thermally conforming by... Agent: Sturm & Fix LLP

20080259272 - Eyewear for redirected viewing: A pair of spectacles for providing a redirected view includes a visor configured to support a pair of triangular optical prisms attached to the bottom surface of the visor in front of a wearer's eyes. The prisms provide an internally reflected and refracted path approximately normal to the forward vision... Agent: Hansen Huang Technology Law Group, LLP

20080259273 - Method and apparatus improving vision and the resolution of retinal images: A method of and apparatus for improving vision and the resolution of retinal images is described in which a point source produced on the retina of a living eye by a laser beam is reflected from the retina and received at a lenslet array of a Hartmann-Shack wavefront sensor such... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080259274 - Portable digital medical camera for capturing images of the retina or the external auditory canal, and methods of use: A hand-held digital camera for obtaining images of a portion of a patient's body and having a hand-held housing, a visible light source located within the housing for providing light along an illumination path from the housing aperture to the patient's body, an image sensor located within the housing that... Agent: Mirick, O'connell, Demallie & Lougee, LLP

20080259275 - Eye movement measuring apparatus, eye movement measuring method and recording medium: An eye movement measuring apparatus comprises: an image forming part configured to obtain data optically to form a fundus oculi image of an eye based on the obtained data; and an image analysis part configured to analyze the formed fundus oculi image to determine eye movement of the eye.... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20080259276 - Method and apparatus for measuring the deformation characteristics of an object: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to apparatus and methods for measuring a deformation characteristic of a deformable target surface. The measurement principles of the invention may be applied to a large variety of organic (e.g., human, animal or plant tissue) and inorganic materials having a surface that can... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20080259277 - Optotype presenting apparatus: An optotype presenting apparatus of a display type with which a polarization red-green test with accuracy can be performed has a display, a polarization optical member including first and second optical regions changing light from the display into light having perpendicular polarizing axes, a selector, regions where optotypes for left... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259278 - Visual acuity testing apparatus: A visual acuity testing apparatus capable of performing visual acuity testing under substantially uniform conditions even when a test distance and an installation distance vary has a projection optical unit including a disk whereon a chart is placed, an illumination light source, and variable projection lenses which are moved so... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259279 - Adaptive wavefront modulation system and method for refractive laser surgery: A method for improving an accuracy of a prescription for laser-ablation corneal treatment includes the step of receiving a set of raw data comprising Hartmann-Shack image data obtained from a plurality of aberrometer measurements of a patient eye. The Hartmann-Shack data can include, for example, a dot pattern image for... Agent: Alcon

20080259269 - Decorative magnetic attachments to enhance eyewear: Decorative elements magnetically attachable to, removable from and/or interchangeable with eyewear frames comprise decorative element mounting means having a recess for receiving a magnet and cooperating with a recess on the eyewear frame which receives the mounting means. The two recesses are generally opposed in direction such that the recess... Agent: Stoll, Stoll & Hoffman

20080259270 - Eyewear for redirected viewing with auxiliary lenses: A pair of spectacles for providing a redirected view includes a visor configured to support a pair of triangular optical prisms attached to the bottom surface of the visor in front of a wearer's eyes. The prisms provide an internally reflected and refracted path approximately normal to the forward vision... Agent: Hansen Huang Technology Law Group, LLP

20080259271 - Eyewear item, especially glasses frames, comprising a support provided with a thermoformable foam: The invention relates to an eyewear item, especially glasses frames or an optical mask, comprising a bridge (1) or a browbar (14). According to the invention, the bridge (1) or browbar (14) comprises a support (5) having a thickness (4) consisting of a thermoformable foam (3), and thermally conforming by... Agent: Sturm & Fix LLP

20080259272 - Eyewear for redirected viewing: A pair of spectacles for providing a redirected view includes a visor configured to support a pair of triangular optical prisms attached to the bottom surface of the visor in front of a wearer's eyes. The prisms provide an internally reflected and refracted path approximately normal to the forward vision... Agent: Hansen Huang Technology Law Group, LLP

20080259273 - Method and apparatus improving vision and the resolution of retinal images: A method of and apparatus for improving vision and the resolution of retinal images is described in which a point source produced on the retina of a living eye by a laser beam is reflected from the retina and received at a lenslet array of a Hartmann-Shack wavefront sensor such... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080259274 - Portable digital medical camera for capturing images of the retina or the external auditory canal, and methods of use: A hand-held digital camera for obtaining images of a portion of a patient's body and having a hand-held housing, a visible light source located within the housing for providing light along an illumination path from the housing aperture to the patient's body, an image sensor located within the housing that... Agent: Mirick, O'connell, Demallie & Lougee, LLP

20080259275 - Eye movement measuring apparatus, eye movement measuring method and recording medium: An eye movement measuring apparatus comprises: an image forming part configured to obtain data optically to form a fundus oculi image of an eye based on the obtained data; and an image analysis part configured to analyze the formed fundus oculi image to determine eye movement of the eye.... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20080259276 - Method and apparatus for measuring the deformation characteristics of an object: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to apparatus and methods for measuring a deformation characteristic of a deformable target surface. The measurement principles of the invention may be applied to a large variety of organic (e.g., human, animal or plant tissue) and inorganic materials having a surface that can... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20080259277 - Optotype presenting apparatus: An optotype presenting apparatus of a display type with which a polarization red-green test with accuracy can be performed has a display, a polarization optical member including first and second optical regions changing light from the display into light having perpendicular polarizing axes, a selector, regions where optotypes for left... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259278 - Visual acuity testing apparatus: A visual acuity testing apparatus capable of performing visual acuity testing under substantially uniform conditions even when a test distance and an installation distance vary has a projection optical unit including a disk whereon a chart is placed, an illumination light source, and variable projection lenses which are moved so... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259279 - Adaptive wavefront modulation system and method for refractive laser surgery: A method for improving an accuracy of a prescription for laser-ablation corneal treatment includes the step of receiving a set of raw data comprising Hartmann-Shack image data obtained from a plurality of aberrometer measurements of a patient eye. The Hartmann-Shack data can include, for example, a dot pattern image for... Agent: Alcon

20080252844 - Detachable shelter frame for spectacles: A spectacle set includes a primary spectacle and a detachable shelter frame. The primary spectacle includes two lenses, a primary bridge extended between two inner sides of the lenses respectively. The detachable shelter frame includes two shelter lenses, a shelter bridge extended between two inner sides of the shelter lenses,... Agent: Raymond Y. Chan

20080252845 - Apparatus and method of correcting higher-order aberrations of the human eye: The wavefront aberrator is applicable to correct aberrations of the human eye. In one embodiment, the aberrator device comprises a pair of transparent lenses separated by a layer of curable resin comprising monomers and polymerization initiators. By controlling the extent of its curing, this monomer layer provides an adjustable index... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080252846 - Polarizing ophthalmic lens adapted to a wearer's eye/head behavior: The invention relates to a method for producing a polarising ophthalmic lens adapted to the eye/head behaviour of the wearer thereof and to said lens. The inventive ophthalmic lens comprises several areas associated to differently oriented polarising filters. The size and position of at least certain areas are determined according... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20080252847 - Sunglass lens: A polarized tinted lens for sunglasses includes a first polarizing tinting member and a second tinting member. The first polarizing tinting member is capable of reducing the transmission of glare through the lens. The second tinting member at least partially overlays the first tinting member so that light passing through... Agent: Indiano Vaughan LLP

20080252848 - Transformation methods of wavefront maps from one vertex distance to another: The present invention provides methods, systems and software for scaling optical aberration measurements of optical systems. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method of reconstructing optical tissues of an eye. The method comprises transmitting an image through the optical tissues of the eye. Aberration data from the transmitted... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080252849 - Limbal-based eye tracking: A method of determining and/or tracking the position of an eye, includes utilising at least two wavelength components of a plural wavelength zone that traverses the limbus of the eye to obtain a profile of whiteness and/or redness across the zone, and identifying from the profile at least one predetermined... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080252850 - Device and method for the contactless determination of the direction of viewing: The invention is directed to a device and a method for the contactless determination of the actual gaze direction of the human eye. They are applied in examinations of eye movements, in psychophysiological examinations of attentiveness to the environment (e.g., cockpit design), in the design and marketing fields, e.g., advertising,... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20080252851 - Binocular indirect ophthalmoscope generating erect ocular fundus image: This invention relates to equipment indirectly visualizing the fundus of the eye through a condensing lens. It is characterized with light weight and relatively of simple structure, contrary to the common indirect opthalmoscopes, whereby the image of the back of the eye can be seen upright. Thus, many complications presented... Agent: Swanson & Bratschun, L.L.C.

20080252852 - Method and arrangement for the measurement of the anterior segment of the eye: The invention is directed to an arrangement and a method for measuring the anterior segment of the eye using interferometric means. The eye is illuminated by a convergent beam bundle and aligned with the optical axis of the measuring device by generating directional stimuli and accommodation stimuli by means of... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20080246913 - Hook components with nylon strings elasticity mechanism for eyeglasses: A detachable eyewear is designed for eyeglasses. The detachable eyewear is designed similar to an eyeglass frame without temples, which comprises lenses, a rim and two tension adjustment stoppers with hooks each positioned to the respective extensions at the two ends of the rim and each of the tension adjustment... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080246914 - Ophthalmic lens: The invention concerns an ophthalmic lens having a complex surface, with a substantially umbilic meridian and an average sphere progression ranging between 0.50 diopter and 0.75 diopter. The lens is prescribed for esophoric and non-presbyopic users. The lens is prescribed as a standard unifocal lens. Through the presence of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080246915 - 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)

20080246916 - Method and apparatus for determining the visual acuity of an eye: The invention relates to a method for determining the visual acuity of an eye and a respective apparatus. The method comprises the steps of: providing the wavefront information of the eye, generating a point spread function based on the wavefront information of the eye, said point spread function representing a... Agent: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated

20080246917 - Common face and iris imaging optics: A duplex camera with common face and iris imaging optics locates an iris in a scene and images the iris without requiring multiple camera alignment or a rapid zoom capability. A wavelength selective mirror separates the light from an imaged scene into visible and infrared components. The visible component supplies... Agent: Kris T. Fredrick Honeywell International Inc.

20080246918 - Optical coherence tomography for eye-length measurement: An accurate measure of eye length can be obtained using concurrent OCT measurements. A position OCT device can be used to continually monitor the position of the front surface of the cornea, while a distance OCT device can determine the apparent distance between the front surface of the cornea and... Agent: Stallman & Pollock LLP

20080246919 - Ophthalmic endoilluminator with hybrid lens: An ophthalmic endoilluminator has a light source, a collimating lens for collimating the light produced by the light source, a filter for filtering the collimated light, an attenuator for attenuating the filtered light, a hybrid condensing lens for focusing the attenuated light, and an optical fiber for carrying the focused... Agent: Alcon

20080246921 - Device and method for optometry: To provide an eye examination apparatus and an eye examination method that make it possible to measure eyesight or contrast sensitivity in the binocular viewing state and further make it possible to measure optical characteristics in such an appropriate binocular viewing state. An eye examination apparatus 100 of the present... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080246920 - Multi-led ophthalmic illuminator: An ophthalmic endoilluminator has a power supply coupled to a light source, a controller, a collimation device, an alignment device, a lens, and an optical fiber. The light source has three light emitting diodes. Each of the three light emitting diodes produces a different color light. The controller controls the... Agent: Alcon

20080246922 - Method and apparatus for correcting vision using an electro-active phoropter: An electro-active phoropter and a method of using the electro-active phoropter to measure a patient's vision prescription is disclosed. The electro-active phoropter includes a series of individually addressable electro-active lenses. The lenses have either a positive or negative optical power when an electrical potential is applied across the lens and... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080239232 - Eyewear frame adornment attaching device: A new interchangeable eyewear adornment accessory and attachment method is disclosed. The present invention provides the method of attaching eyewear decorative features so that only the decorative feature is visible, maintains proper orientation, it is held securely in place, it can be easily removed quickly, and it may be easily... Agent: Loen Patent Services

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20080239234 - Fly-wing rotating lens eyeglasses: A spectacle frame and lens arrangement whereby each lens rotates up and out of the field of vision by pivoting about a central pivot mechanism in the frame which keeps the lenses within the same plane both in the park and use positions. This differs from traditional flip-up spectacles that... Agent: Chang Yu

20080239235 - Eyewear with integrated bottle cap opener: Eyewear has a frame front and a temple connected to the frame front at a corner. The temple has an earpiece and a tip, one of which has a mechanism integrated therein for removing bottle caps. In another embodiment, the bottle cap removing mechanism is embedded in the temple between... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080239236 - 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

20080239237 - Molds with thermoplastic elastomers for producing ophthalmic lenses: This invention discloses improved mold parts fashioned from a thermoplastic resin compounded with a thermoplastic elastomers. The mold parts can be used in manufacturing processes, such as, for example: continuous, in-line or batched processes to obtain a high degree of precision and accuracy, such as those necessary in the manufacture... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20080239238 - Optical image measurement device and optical image measurement method: An optical image measurement device comprises: an interference-light generator configured to generate an interference light by splitting a low-coherence light into a signal light and a reference light and superimposing the signal light having passed through an eye and the reference light having passed through a reference object; a detector... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20080239239 - Ophthalmic apparatus: An ophthalmic apparatus capable of observing an examinee's eye even during switching of measurement modes comprises a first measurement unit, a second measurement unit, an up-and-down movement mechanism, a display device, mode switching means which generates a mode switching signal for switching between a first measurement mode and a second... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080239240 - Optical image measurement device: An optical image measurement device has: an interference-light generator configured to generate an interference light by splitting a low-coherence light into a signal light and a reference light and superimposing the signal light having passed through an eye and the reference light having passed through a reference object; a detector... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20080239241 - Designing method of optical system: A performance of the optical system is evaluated based on a correlation between a visual acuity when looking through the optical system and the chromatic aberration of magnification of the optical system, the correlation being a proportional relation such that, when the visual acuity is expressed by a logarithmic visual... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC