Optics: eye examining, vision testing and correcting inventions 02/09

20090051865 - Coupling device with breakaway and methods of using the same: A coupling device with a breakaway tab and methods of using the same for operably coupling an ornament to a joint or hinge. The coupling device comprises an elongated body having openings at each end. One opening has been adapted to receive a screw of a joint or hinge, the... Agent: Gfd Patents, LLC

20090051866 - Adaptor for securing eyewear lenses to a frame and a method of using the same: An adaptor to be affixed to an eyeglass lens and received in an eyeglass frame, to facilitate the fitting and replacement of various shapes of lenses into a variety of eyeglass frames, particularly, rimless and partial rim frames, wing frames, three-piece frames and frames with complex shapes.... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090051867 - Nose pad: A nose pad capable of achieving a comfortable wearing sensation, which has no possibility of forming an indentation on side surfaces of a nose resulting in discomfort, is provided. The nose pad is provided with a pad body and a pad core that is integrally provided at a center portion... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090051868 - Spectacle frame: A spectacle frame is disclosed as including a pair of mounting frames each for releasably holding a piece of optical lens, and a nose pad engaged with each respective mounting frame, in which the nose pad is swivellable about the respective mounting frame about a respective axis which lies generally... Agent: William J. Sapone Coleman Sudol Sapone P.C.

20090051869 - Elastic band for use with eyeglasses: An elastic band includes a fastening band, and a protective member; the fastening band is elastic, and includes a band body, and two connecting sleeve parts, which are joined to two ends of the band body, and intended for connection with temples of a pair of eyeglasses; the protective member... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090051870 - Presbyopic treatment system: A method and system for treating Presbyopia and pre-Presbyopia are provided that do not compromise the wearer's intermediate or distance vision. The system is a lens and a lens series, wherein the power profiles of the lenses are tailored to provide an amount of positive ADD power in the near... Agent: Ciba Vision Corporation Patent Department

20090051871 - Custom eyeglass manufacturing method: Two or more images captured from digital cameras record an image of spectacle frames on a subject. The image is analyzed using automated image-processing techniques to identify the relation of specific points of interest on the frame to the location of each of the subject's eyes allowing the optical center... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090051872 - Real image forming eye examination lens utilizing two reflecting surfaces: A diagnostic and therapeutic contact lens is provided for use with the slit lamp or other biomicroscope for the examination and treatment of the structures of the eye including that of the fundus and anterior chamber. The lens comprises a contacting portion adapted for placement on the cornea of an... Agent: Donald A. Volk

20090051874 - Deformable mirror device and apparatus for observing retina of eye using the same: A deformable mirror device includes a substrate; a plurality of electrodes provided on the substrate; a spacer disposed on the substrate; a support member disposed above the spacer and having an opening passing through from a first face of the support member facing to the substrate to a second face... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090051873 - Eye illumination apparatus and method: An ophthalmic apparatus adapted to project a waist of a beam of the light, such that a portion of the confocal region of the waist is projected onto the cornea. The source can be at least partially coherent and/or monochromatic. The source may be a laser or a laser diode.... Agent: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated

20090051875 - Diagnostic and corrective apparatus and method: This disclosure describes systems and methods which utilize outcomes analysis, empirical and on-eye diagnostic fitting outcomes, and similar patient data to determine and provide a relatively optimal corrective device for the patient, in a single-use and disposable set of devices.... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20090051877 - Cognitive training using guided eye movements: Computer-implemented method for enhancing a participant's cognition, including, e.g., visual memory, utilizing a computing device to present visual stimuli for training, and to record responses from the participant. Multiple graphical elements are provided for visual presentation to the participant. A temporal sequence of a plurality of the graphical elements is... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20090051876 - Presbyopia correction program: m

20090046242 - Extended wear ophthalmic lens: An ophthalmic lens suited for extended-wear periods of at least one day on the eye without a clinically significant amount of corneal swelling and without substantial wearer discomfort. In one embodiment, an opthalmic lens is a copolymerization product of at least one oxyperm, at least one ionoperm, and a crosslinker.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090046243 - Colored contact lens with a more natural appearance: A colored contact lens (10) having a non-opaque pupil section (20), an iris section (22) surrounding the pupil section (20), and a colored, opaque intermittent pattern made up of a plurality of elements located over the entire iris section (22) that leaves a substantial portion within the interstices of the... Agent: Gardner Groff Greenwald & Villanueva. PC

20090046244 - Safety helmet visor with a treated surface for eye protection and therapy: c

20090046245 - Tilted prism for the treatment of cyclo deviation: A system for treatment of cyclo deviation of one or both eyes of a patient and related methods are disclosed. The system for treatment of cyclo deviation may include eyeglasses with lenses and a frame wherein at least one of the lenses is a prism. The prism may be disposed... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20090046246 - Electromagnetic beam detection system: The present invention provides for a Line of Sight (LOS) electromagnetic beam (EM) detection system configured with an enclosure, a detection device, a processing device, a storage device, and a communication device. The enclosure may or may not be electromagnetically shielded from the surrounding environment. The enclosure may contain one... Agent: Carr LLP

20090046247 - Vision recovery training device: The vision recovery training device of the present invention includes a target 2 to be watched; a driving device 3 that moves the target 2 and a visual field plate 13 having three peep windows 5a to 5c through which the target 2 is peeped; and is characterized in that... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090046248 - Ocular scanning device with programmable patterns for scanning: A device that projects light rays and beams onto the eye in a predetermined pattern or arrangement of patterns, wherein the light rays or beams scatter in the eye tissues and which images of scatter are captured by video scanning cameras. The images are transferred into digital information for processing,... Agent: Grant R Clayton Clayton Howarth & Cannon, PC

20090046249 - Iris imaging using reflection from the eye: A rapid iris acquisition, tracking, and imaging system can be used at longer standoff distances and over larger capture volumes, without the active cooperation of subjects. The captured iris images can be used for biometric identification. Light illuminates the subjects' eyes. Reflections from the eyes are used to steer a... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090046250 - Multi-purpose ophtalmological apparatus: The present invention relates to a multi-purpose opthalmological apparatus, comprising first optical means, provided with one or more first mires, and sensing means for acquiring along a first optical path an image comprising said one or more first mires reflected by a patient's eye, characterised in that it comprises separating... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20090046251 - Method of detecting glaucoma: The present invention relates to a method, including the steps of mapping at least a portion of the fundus of the eye by forming a plurality of pixels, estimating the oxygen saturation level at each of the plurality of pixels, superimposing the fundus maps on maps of anatomic borderlines, and... Agent: Bell, Boyd, & Lloyd LLP

20090040455 - System and method for enhancing eyeglass positioning: A system and method for enhancing eyeglass positioning and thereby improving user comfort, wherein additional masses are connectively suspended from the ends of glasses arms allowing both added weights to retain the glasses, and also in an alternative embodiment via the suspending means providing additional friction contact on the surfaces... Agent: Lackenbach Siegel, LLP

20090040456 - Eyeglasses structure: An eyeglasses structure, structured from eyeglasses and a soft portion, wherein the eyeglasses include a pair of lenses respectively embedded in two frames, a bridge connected between the two frames and hinges respectively located on outer sides of the two frames. The two hinges are respectively outwardly pin connected to... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20090040457 - Plastic lens and manufacturing method of plastic lens: A plastic lens includes: a plastic lens base material; a hard coat layer formed on the plastic lens base material; an organic antireflection film formed on the hard coat layer; and a primer layer between the plastic lens base material and the hard coat layer. The plastic lens base material... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090040458 - Toric contact lens with improved posterior surface design: Ophthalmic lenses for correcting astigmatism having a posterior surface with a central optic zone, a peripheral zone, and a blending zone therebetween. The surface of the central zone may be asphero-toric and the surface of the peripheral zone aspheric, with these flatter slopes smoothening out the transition between the central... Agent: Ciba Vision Corporation Patent Department

20090040459 - Device for preventing and treating myopia: A device for preventing and treating myopia includes a base, a spectacles frame (1), a holder (3) and a lens (2). The holder (3) is mounted on the base; a visual target (4) is placed on the base. The spectacles frame (1) is connected to the holder (3) by adjustable... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090040460 - Method and device for determining the eye's rotation center: The invention relates to a device for determining the center of rotation of an eye of a person relative to a frame of reference associated with the person or with said person's eyeglasses, making it possible to determine the visual axis of the person along at least two non-parallel directions... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20090040461 - Low vision aid device: There is provided a low-vision aid device, including a scene-display imager producing a signal pattern composed of an array of pixels, a near IR illuminator for illuminating the retina of the eye with radiation for eye tracking, to be reflected from the retina of the eye, an eye-retina tracking imager,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090040462 - Deformable mirror device and apparatus for observing retina of eye using the same: A deformable mirror device includes a substrate; a plurality of electrodes provided on the substrate; a spacer disposed on the substrate; a support member disposed above the spacer and having an opening passing through from a first face of the support member facing to the substrate to a second face... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090033862 - Apparatus and method of manufacture for paper framed reading glasses: A pair of glasses includes a paper frame having at least one aperture and a substrate arranged with each of said at least one aperture to magnify objects for a user when viewing through each of said at least one aperture.... Agent: Rainbow Symphony Inc. Mark S. Margolis

20090033863 - Ophthalmic dynamic aperture: Embodiments of the present invention relate to an electro-active element having a dynamic aperture. The electro-active element provides increased depth of field and may be used in a non-focusing ophthalmic device that that is spaced apart from but in optical communication with an intraocular lens, a corneal inlay, a corneal... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090033864 - Multifocal contact lenses and methods for improving vision and for producing multifocal contact lenses: Pairs of multifocal contact lenses are described. Each contact lens of the pair includes a central area that provides substantially all of the distance vision correction of the lens, and an annular area surrounding the central area and providing intermediate vision correction and near vision correction. A pair of contact... Agent: Klein, O'neil & Singh, LLP

20090033865 - Contact lens: A contact lens includes an optical area and a circumferential area. The circumferential area is disposed at the circumference of the optical area. The optical area has a minimum thickness and the circumferential area has a circumferential thickness. The minimum thickness of the optical area is greater than the circumferential... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090033866 - System, apparatus, and method for correcting vision using an electro-active lens: A spectacle lens is disclosed. The disclosed lens provides a vision correcting area for the correction of a wearer's refractive error. The viewing correction area provides correction for non-conventional refractive error to provide at least a part of the wearer's vision correction. The lens has a prescription based on a... Agent: Pearl, Cohen, Zedek & Latzer, LLP

20090033868 - Characterization of the retinal nerve fiber layer: Disclosed are method and apparatus for characterizing the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL). An advantageous diagnostic parameter for characterizing the RNFL is a function of the product of the local RNFL thickness at a measurement locus×the distance of the measurement locus from a base point. The value of the diagnostic... Agent: Weinick & Associates, LLC

20090033869 - Ophthalmic ultrasonic measurement apparatus, and an ophthalmic measurement method: An ophthalmic ultrasonic measurement apparatus capable of narrowing differences in measurement results obtained by the apparatus which are made because of differences among examiners who operate the apparatus comprises an ultrasonic probe arranged to be brought into contact with a cornea of an examinee's eye, a calculation unit arranged to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090033867 - Wavefront refractions and high order aberration correction when wavefront maps involve geometrical transformations: Wavefront measurements of eyes are typically taken when the pupil is in a first configuration in an evaluation context. The results can be represented by a set of basis function coefficients. Prescriptive treatments are often applied in a treatment context, which is different from the evaluation context. Hence, the patient... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090033870 - Ophthalmologic information processing apparatus and ophthalmologic examination apparatus: An ophthalmologic examination apparatus 1 projects a light onto a fundus oculi, detects the reflected light thereof, and forms a 3-dimensional image that represents the morphology of a retina based on the detected results. A stimulation-position specifying part 233 specifies, in the 3-dimensional image, a plurality of stimulation positions that... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090033871 - Opthalmic optical coherence tomography (oct) test station using a 1um fiber ase source: A phosphate glass 1-μm fiber ASE source provides high power and broadband emission that covers wavelengths on the short side of Yb-doped silica. A single-mode fiber formed from phosphate glass is doped with highly elevated concentrations of Yb dopants 0.5-30 wt. % and typically 2-10 wt. %, far higher than... Agent: Np Photonics, Inc.