Optics: eye examining, vision testing and correcting inventions 11/08

20080291391 - Hybrid contact lenses prepared with expansion controlled polymeric materials: A hybrid contact lens includes a substantially rigid center portion and a substantially flexible skirt portion connected to the center portion. The skirt portion is formed using xerogels compatible with diluents comprising at least one selected from polylactic acid, polyglycolic acid, lactide, glycolide, a polyacetal, a cyclic acetal, a polyketal,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080291392 - System and method for marking an ophthalmic lens: A system and method for providing a discernable marking within a contact lens including forming a marking section substantially simultaneously with the formation of a bulk section of said lens. The marking section may be formed entirely during formation of the bulk section or may include preformed elements and may... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20080291393 - Ophthalmic lenses for prevention of myopia progression: The invention provides ophthalmic lenses useful in preventing myopia progression. The lenses of the invention provide substantially constant distance vision power zone in the center of the optic zone surrounded by a zone that provides positive longitudinal spherical aberration.... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20080291394 - Dual-filter ophthalmic lens to reduce risk of macular degeneration: An improved dual-filter lens for protective eyewear that combines a first filter for blocking essentially 100% of UV light, and second filter for filtering blue light. The first filter may comprise a multi-layered dielectric mirror layer 14 or Rugate filter 50, and the second filter may comprise dye-impregnated lens layer(s)... Agent: Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver Attorneys At Law

20080291395 - Accommodation compensation systems and methods: Methods and systems for obtaining an ocular aberration measurement of an eye of a patient are provided. Exemplary techniques involve obtaining a first induced metric for the eye that corresponds to a first accommodation state of the eye, obtaining a second induced metric for the eye that corresponds to a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080291396 - Method and apparatus for obtaining the distance from an optical measurement instrument to an object under test: Systems and methods for measuring a distance from a reference plane of an optical measurement instrument to a reference plane of an optical device under test are disclose. In one embodiment a system for measuring this distance includes an illumination system, an optical system, and optical sensor and a processor.... Agent: Advanced Medical Optics, Inc.

20080291398 - Binocular indirect ophthalmoscope fixation light: A binocular indirect opthalmoscope assembly and fixation light system is disclosed for easily directing the patient's line of sight in a direction that places the optic nerve and surrounding vessels in the center of the examiner's view. The fixation system includes two fixation light assemblies that may be mounted onto... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080291397 - Choroid and retinal imaging and treatment system: The invention provides an apparatus, a device, and methods for imaging vasculature in a subject as well as an apparatus, a device and methods for treating abnormal vasculature in a subject.... Agent: Rissman Jobse Hendricks & Oliverio, LLP

20080284974 - Interchangeable decorative arrangement for spectacles: A spectacle frame includes two lenses, a frame body holding said two lenses in position, and an interchangeable decorative arrangement which includes one or more personalizing elements detachably and interchangeably affixing at a personalizing portion of the frame body, wherein the personalizing element, having a shape corresponding to the personalizing... Agent: David And Raymond Patent Firm

20080284975 - Temple adjustment mechanism for eyewear: A temple adjustment mechanism includes a male side member joined to one side of a lens frame, and a female side member relatively movable to and from the male side member. A temple is hingedly connected to the female side member. The male and female side members are relatively movable... Agent: Carrier, Blackman & Associates, P.C. #100

20080284976 - Spectacle lens and spectacle: A spectacle lens is provided with a lens base material and an antireflection film provided on the lens base material (an inner surface and an outer surface seen from a spectacle wearing person). The lens base material is colored with a dye. The antireflection film (antireflection coating layer) is formed... Agent: Burr & Brown

20080284977 - Progressive multi-focal lens: The narrowest visual corridor (path) has width 18-20 mm, the described lens from central line down to near visual area has length 10 mm. This lens has wider visual corridor in the intermediate area, also has six focci are reasonable located in the corridor, will affect to improve vision of... Agent: Jackson Che-shang Caihong New Village

20080284978 - Spectacle lens design method: A spectacle lens design method for designing a spectacle lens attached to a spectacle frame having a bend angle of 200 degrees or larger includes: setting a distance portion, a near portion having power different from power of the distance portion, and a progressive portion which is disposed between the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080284979 - System and method for illumination and fixation with ophthalmic diagnostic instruments: An eye measurement system may include a target that moves transverse to an optical path from the target to eye, so as to relax accommodation of the lens of the eye. The target may move transverse to the optical path on a display. The patient may be fogged while the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080284980 - Eye tracker having an extended span of operating distances: The present invention relates to automatic registration and tracking of the eyes of at least one subject. An optical system, including a lens structure, a mask and an image sensor, receives incoming light from a scene containing the subject and directs at least a portion of this light towards the... Agent: Moore & Van Allen PLLC

20080284981 - Fourier-domain oct ray-tracing on the eye: The present invention is directed to an ophthalmologic measurement method which can depict three-dimensional structures of the interfaces of an eye by short-coherence interferometry based on reference points. For this purpose, the pupil is illuminated at a plurality of points by a short-coherence illumination source. The measurement beam reflected at... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20080278676 - Eyewear for reducing symptoms of computer vision syndrome: Computer eyewear for reducing the effects of Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS). In one embodiment, the eyewear comprises a frame and two lenses. In some embodiments, the frame and lenses have a wrap-around design to reduce air flow in the vicinity of the eyes. The lenses can have optical power in... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080278677 - Spectacle frame comprising a joint for bending the spectacle bows: An eyeglass frame with a hinge for angling the eyeglass temples, for which, in the middle of the hinge surface, the hinge has excess material, which, depending on the position of the excess material, leads to a bending of the hinge or holds the hinge in one plane.... Agent: Kriegsman & Kriegsman

20080278678 - Eyeglasses with user monitoring: In one embodiment, eyewear having user monitoring capabilities is disclosed. In one example, the user monitoring can pertain to activity monitoring. In another example, the user monitoring can pertain to physical or emotional characteristics monitoring of a user. The measured activity/characteristics can then be used in providing related information to... Agent: Ipventure, Inc.

20080278679 - Contact lens permitting translation: The present invention describes a contact lens of sufficient vertical length when placed on an eye that the lower portion touches the lower formix of the eye when the eye rotates on a vertical axis, permitting the eye to translate through different vertical portions of the lens as it moves... Agent: Kevin W. Grierson Willcox & Savage, P.C.

20080278680 - Colored contact lenses with a more natural appearance: A colored contact lens having a non-opaque pupil section, an iris section surrounding said pupil section, and a colored, opaque, intermittent pattern over the iris section which is indiscernible to the ordinary viewer. The pattern is made up of a first portion having a first shade, a second portion having... Agent: Jeffrey A. Pine Valauska & Pne LLC

20080278681 - Progressive addition lens operating in combination with a multi-order diffractive optic: A multi-focal spectacle lens is presented having far distance, intermediate distance, and near distance vision correction, in which the lens includes a progressive addition surface with a progression of optical power. The lens further includes a multi-order diffractive surface relief structure with an optical add power. The multi-order diffractive structure... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080278682 - Systems and methods for improving visual discrimination: A system and method for retraining the visual system of a subject with damage to the striate and/or extrastriate visual cortex includes displaying a visual stimulus within a first location of an impaired visual field of the subject; and detecting the subject's perception of an attribute of the visual stimulus.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080278683 - Adaptive sequential wavefront sensor and its applications: An adaptive sequential wavefront sensor comprises a sub-wavefront focusing lens, a sequential wavefront scanning device, a variable aperture, a position sensing device, and means for coordinating the operation of the wavefront scanning device, the variable aperture and the position sensing device. An adaptive sequential wavefront sensing method comprises the steps... Agent: Law Office Of Charles E. Krueger

20080278684 - Ophthalmological measuring system and method for determining the biometric data of an eye: An opthalmological measuring system for obtaining biometric data of an eye. with a view to the pre-operative determination of a replacement lens or supplementary lens or refractive operations. The invention includes a combination of a measuring instrument based on ultrasound, an optical measuring instrument, and an evaluation unit, measuring values... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080278685 - Portable modular video oculography system and video occulography system with head position sensor and video occulography system with animated eye display: 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. The VOG system is a modular design whereby the same goggle frame or base is used to build... Agent: Blynn L. Shideler The Blk Law Group

20080278686 - Fundus camera: The components of a fundus camera for observing an eye (11)—namely, an illumination device (1) to illuminate an image field of the eyeground (12) and an image recording device (14) onto which the eyeground (12) is projected by means of a projection device (10)—are positioned to be confocal. The illumination... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20080278687 - Auto-alignment and auto-focus system and method: A patient positioning system for use with a patient comprises an optical image sensor. The optical image sensor measures an optical image of a tissue structure of an eye of the patient. An image sensor support supports the image sensor. A patient support supports the patient. A linkage is coupled... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080278688 - Device for monitoring body functions: A device for non-invasive monitoring of a human or animal subject's bodily functions in vivo, having a first optical system which comprises: a) illumination means (14) for directing illumination light into the eye and for providing the illumination light in one or more pulses; and b) receiving means (17) for... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080273162 - Eyeglass hanging charm holder: A method of attachment for jewelry onto the temple arm or arms of a pair of eyeglasses is provided so that the wearer may adorn the eyeglasses in a purely esthetic manner. The eyeglass hanging charm holder may hold one jewelry article that is easily releasable or several at one... Agent: Barbara Jean Porter

20080273163 - Structure for installing bone conduction device on eyeglasses: In order to provide a mounting structure for a bone conduction device to eyeglasses, wherein the bone conduction device in a communication instrument or an acoustic instrument using the device can be used by being easily mounted on a temple or earpiece of existing eyeglasses regardless of its shape and... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080273166 - Electronic eyeglass frame: The present invention generally relates to integrating electronic components into an electro-active frame for driving electro-active focusing lenses. This is accomplished in a cosmetically pleasing manner that allows a platform of frame systems to be built from a single electronic module. Specifically, the present invention discloses controlling an electro-active lens... Agent: Pearl, Cohen, Zedek & Latzer, LLP

20080273164 - Eyewear with pinhole aperture and lens: Eyewear is equipped with at least one lens and at least one pinhole aperture. Lenses and apertures may be used in place of or in combination with one another, and may be disposed in or on full frame, half frame, wire frame or rimless eyeglasses. The lens may be a... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080273165 - Method and apparatus for reducing exposure to rf energy produced by portable transmitters: Apparatus and methods for reducing the exposure of a human eye to external radio frequency (RF) radiation comprises eyeglass frames and/or a lens, positioned in front of the eye, and a material, intentionally added on or in the frames or lens, which is operative to shield, attenuate, or reflect high-frequency... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080273167 - Surface relief diffractive optical elements providing reduced optical losses in electro-active lenses comprising liquid crystalline materials: An electro-active lens has a first substrate with a surface relief diffractive topological profile and a second substrate positioned opposite to the first substrate having a substantially smooth topological profile. A first electrode is positioned along the surface relief diffractive topological profile of the first substrate, and a second electrode... Agent: Pearl, Cohen, Zedek & Latzer, LLP

20080273168 - Antimicrobial lenses, processes to prepare them and methods of their use: The present invention relates to contact lenses comprising at least one ionizable antimicrobial metal compound and a polymer formed from a reaction mixture comprising at least one hydrophobic component and hydrophilic components in a concentration to provide a hydrophilicity index of at least 42.... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20080273169 - Multifocal lens having a progressive optical power region and a discontinuity: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a multifocal lens having a diffractive optical 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

20080273170 - Manufacturing method for spectacle lens and spectacle lens: To ensure optical performance within a permissible range, making outward appearance excellent, and making binocular vision comfortable. In cases where a difference of prescription including dioptric power between the right and left eyes is equal to or more than prescribed, when curvature of a first refracting surface and a second... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080273171 - Methods and devices for measuring tear film and diagnosing tear disorders: Methods and devices measure eye blinks and tear film lipid and aqueous layer thickness before and following ophthalmic formula application onto the ocular surface, especially wherein the ophthalmic formula is an artificial tear. The methods and devices are suitable for dry eye diagnosis. The methods and devices are suitable for... Agent: Advanced Medical Optics, Inc.

20080273172 - Autofluorescence photography using a fundus camera: Methods and apparatus for taking autofluorescence images with a fundus camera capable of a field of view of at least 30 degrees and preferably 50 degrees or more using high quality thin film optical interference filters. In one embodiment, a filter set is disclosed for achieving this functionality. Using these... Agent: Weinick & Associates, LLC

20080273173 - Iris pattern recognition and alignment: Apparatus and methods are described for aligning diagnostic and therapeutic iris images, via iris pattern recognition, for effecting more accurate laser treatment of the eye. A method for aligning a dilated pupil diagnostic iris image associated with a diagnostic measurement for calculating a laser treatment, with a constricted pupil diagnostic... Agent: Craig E. Larson Law Department

20080273174 - Method for evaluating longitudinal optic disc-retinal health: A computer program for evaluating retina or optic disc disease establishes a threshold level by looking at variation within data collected at a given patient visit and uses that threshold level to evaluate the progression of disease indicated by changes in measurement of the retina or optic disc... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.