Optics: eye examining, vision testing and correcting inventions 03/09

20090079930 - Eyeframe with interchangeable lenspieces held by a magnetic closure and interchangeable lens system: An eyeframe system includes a rimwire and an interchangeable lenspiece. A hinged closure on the rimwire fastens the lenspiece to the rimwire. The closure includes a magnetic closure that slides beneath a nose bridge of the rimwire. The closure is held closed by mechanical and magnetic forces. The system can... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090079931 - Eyeglasses with a detachable auxiliary support: A pair of eyeglasses includes a frame and an auxiliary support. The frame has a pair of lens holders and a bridge interconnecting the lens holders. The bridge is formed with a slot. The auxiliary support is detachably mounted on the frame. The frame is formed with a recess and... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090079932 - Eyeglasses having quick lens release feature: Eyeglasses include a frame: a pair of lenses mounted detachably on the frame; and a pair of temples, each of which is pivoted to the frame so as to be rotatable relative to the frame between folded and extended positions, and each of which is provided with an abutting part... Agent: Curatolo Sidoti Co., Lpa

20090079933 - Spectacle frame assembly: A spectacle frame assembly is disclosed as including a pair of arm members, a spectacle frame for holding two pieces of optical lenses, and two nose pads engaged with the spectacle frame each via a ball and socket joint.... Agent: William J. Sapone Coleman Sudol Sapone P.C.

20090079934 - Method for manufacturing polarized ophthalmic lenses: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a polarized lens. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of treating a polarized film with a composition to form a treated polarized film, providing a front lens mold having a concave surface with a curvature, spin-coating a hard coat... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20090079935 - Method of calculating the required power of a toric implant: A method for calculating the required power of a toric implant by using both the measured pre-operative corneal astigmatism and the predicted surgically-induced post-operative astigmatism. The surgically-induced post-operative astigmatism is predicted using power vector analysis of the surgical technique employed by the surgeon. Such a method provides a more accurate... Agent: Alcon

20090079936 - Device for taking photographs of the fundus of the eye (fundus oculi): The device is used for taking photographs of the fundus of the eye (fundus oculi). It comprises: A) an illumination source (1); B) illumination optics (1; 2; 4; 8; 9; 10), which generate light in at least two different frequency bands and which can sequentially direct the light onto the... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20090079937 - Adaptive photoscreening system: Briefly described, one embodiment of the system, among others, can be implemented as follows. The system includes a computer control system and an environmental light source that is controlled by the computer control system such that an amount of light provided by the environmental light source is adjusted by the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090079938 - System, apparatus and method for correcting vision with an adaptive optic: An electro-active spectacle lens is disclosed. The disclosed lens includes a first lens optic. The disclosed lens also includes a first electro-active zone positioned in a cooperative relationship with the first lens optic. In certain embodiments, the electro-active lens includes a range finder positioned in a cooperative relationship with the... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090079939 - Electric joystick mechanism for an ophthalmic apparatus: An electric joystick mechanism for an ophthalmic apparatus which is capable of improving manipulation performance of a joystick and is simple in structure comprises a base, a joystick having a shaft, a driving unit having a motor for moving an ophthalmic examination unit horizontally, and a control unit for controlling... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090079940 - Presbyopia correction using patient data: Methods, devices, and systems establish an optical surface shape that mitigates or treats presbyopia in a particular patient. The combination of distance vision and near vision in a patient can be improved, often based on input patient parameters such as pupil size, residual accommodation, and power need. Iterative optimization may... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090073375 - Methods and devices for prevention and treatment of myopia and fatigue: An electronic image shown on a display can be shifted to the left for left eye viewing and shifted to the right for right eye viewing. A left eye shutter can be positioned over the left eye and a right eye shutter positioned over the right eye. The left eye... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090073376 - Flip up safety, magnificaition or reading glasses: The invention relates generally to the field of reading glasses with safety as a factor in many cases where these glasses are used during the work day. The lenses are attached to a frame which is not a typical frame for glasses and frame and lenses are attached to each... Agent: Tom Swift

20090073377 - Eyeglasses: This invention relates to a nose pad of eyeglasses, an eyeglass assembly, and a method of fabricating the same. An eyeglass assembly comprises a frame, lenses inlaid in the frame, a nose bridge near a center of the frame and corresponding to a user's nose ridge, wing portions below the... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20090073378 - Device for fixing mount members to spectacle lenses, and spectacles, particularly of the type devoid of lens-holding rims, including said fixing device: A device for spectacles, such as a lug for the articulation of a spectacle arm or a central nasal support bridge, to a lens, the lens has a pair of holes for the locking of the mount member, has a pair of bush members rigidly connected to each other and... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090073379 - Adjustable tensioning system for rimless eyewear: Eyewear has a wire that encircles each of a pair of lenses respectively. A tensioning assembly can adjust and tension the wire. Two variations of tensioning assemblies are shown. One tensioning assembly has a spool on which a portion of the wire is wound. Another tensioning assembly has an insert... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090073380 - 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

20090073381 - Iris imaging system and method for the same: An iris imaging system is provided. The iris imaging system includes at least one light source configured to illuminate an iris at a spectrum of light. The iris imaging system also includes at least one image capturing device including at least one of an indium-gallium-arsenide, lead sulphide, and lead selenide... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090073382 - Devices and methods for defined orientation of an eye: The present solution is directed to the orientation of an eye for diagnostic and/or therapeutic purposes, wherein the line of sight need not coincide with the optical axis of the examination apparatus or treatment apparatus. The invention includes a fixating light source for generating a positionable fixating mark, a device... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20090073383 - Ophthalmoscope utilizing a stenopeic aperture: An opthalmoscope comprising an attachment portion, capable of being clipped onto a commonly available light source, such as a penlight; a light deflector, such as a mirror or prism, for deflecting light from the light source into a subject eye; a housing, for holding the deflector in fixed relation to... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090073384 - Ophthalmic diagnostic instrument: Diagnostic instruments, systems and methods for performing measurements on eyes are disclosed. In one embodiment of the instrument, a left ocular is disposed in a portion of a left visual path for the left eye, the left ocular positioned to permit the left eye to view a target, a right... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090073385 - Anomaloscope: An anomaloscope for measuring and monitoring color vision, whereby gross and subtle color vision changes due to a disease process may be readily monitored over time. The device has a series of bicolor or red/green light sources presented in pairs with amber/yellow light sources, for comparison with the red/green light... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090073386 - Enhanced head mounted display: This invention discloses methods and apparatus for generating an ophthalmic lens with at least a portion of one surface free formed from a reaction monomer mix.... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20090073387 - Rnfl measurement analysis: One embodiment of the present invention accounts for individual anatomical variation when evaluating optical nerve fiber measurements. In one aspect, contextual information is used to compensate or correct measurement data. In another aspect, reference coordinates are remapped for improved comparison or visualization. In one embodiment of this latter aspect, the... Agent: Stallman & Pollock LLP

20090066906 - Eyeglasses structure: An eyeglasses structure includes an eyeglasses main body, and an eyeglasses accessory; the eyeglasses main body has several detainment holes on a rim thereof; the eyeglasses accessory has several embedded posts corresponding to the detainment holes of the rim of the eyeglasses main body to be embedded in the detainment... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090066907 - Sports vision training device and method: A sports vision training device includes a pair of glasses with a frame supporting a left lens and a right lens. The right lens carries a right reticle, and the left lens carries a left reticle. The reticles provide visual references within the field of view of the player. The... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090066908 - Eyeglass frames with detachable ornaments: Ornamental eyewear with detachably mounted interchangeable ornaments mounted to at least one of the temple arms of an eyeglass frame. The eyeglass frame includes a pair of temple arms thereon; wherein each of the temple arms includes a temple arm wall. The temple arms include at least one hole opening... Agent: Ezra Sutton

20090066909 - Clip-on spectacles having elastic u-shaped bridge: A pair of clip-on spectacles for fastening on another pair of spectacles, where the clip-on spectacles includes a pair of glasses which are interconnected by an resiliently bendable bridge with a hook at the middle of the bridge for fastening behind the bridge of the other spectacles, where the bridge... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20090066910 - Telecommunications enabled eyeglass: Disclosed is an eyewear retention system, which may include any of a variety of electronics, including telecommunications receivers, transmitters, electronic storage devices, and head-up display driving circuitry.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090066911 - Primer composition, plastic lens having primer layer employing the same, and method for manufacturing primer composition: Disclosed is a primer composition that comprises (A) polyurethane resin particles, (B) a urethane-forming monomer and/or oligomer, and (C) oxide microparticles. A method of manufacturing a plastic lens is also disclosed. The method comprises: forming a primer layer using a primer-forming composition comprising (A) polyurethane resin particles, (B) a urethane-forming... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090066912 - Progressive power lens and manufacturing method therefor: In a progressive power lens in which a progressive refracting surface provided with a first region arranged at an upper part of the lens for viewing relatively far, a second region arranged lower than the first region and having a larger refracting power than that of the first region, and... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20090066913 - Presbyopia correction using patient data: Methods, devices, and systems establish an optical surface shape that mitigates or treats presbyopia in a particular patient. The combination of distance vision and near vision in a patient can be improved, often based on input patient parameters such as pupil size, residual accommodation, and power need. Iterative optimization may... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090066914 - Method of centering an ophthalmic lens on a rimless frame: A method of centering a target ophthalmic lens presenting a known shape on a target rimless frame, includes identifying the pupillary point on the presentation lens of a presentation frame identical to the target frame, measuring the pupillary height and the pupillary half-distances of the pupillary points, identifying the optical... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090066915 - Apparatus and method for determining sphere and cylinder components of subjective refraction using objective wavefront measurement: An apparatus for determining spherical and cylinder components of subjective refraction of a patient's vision includes a wavefront measurement device that can produce a measure of quality of vision in a return beam from the patient's eye viewing a target through a corrective test lens in the apparatus. The corrective... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090059159 - Eyewear with radiation detection system: Eyewear having radiation monitoring capability is disclosed. Radiation, such as ultraviolet (UV) radiation, infrared (IR) radiation or light, can be measured by a detector. The measured radiation can then be used in providing radiation-related information to a user of the eyewear. Advantageously, the user of the eyewear is able to... Agent: Ipventure, Inc.

20090059160 - Eyeglasses structure: A pair of eyeglasses includes a frame, lenses embedded in the frame, two coupling pieces pivoted to two ends of the frame respectively, and two temples joined to the coupling pieces respectively; the coupling pieces are flexible and resilient; each of the coupling pieces has a holding hole on a... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090059161 - Ear shield: An apparatus for providing a protective covering for ears when riding a motorcycle. The apparatus comprises a disc shaped member for covering an ear of a user, such disc shaped member being formed of a first predetermined material for engagement with an arm of a pair of glasses worn by... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20090059162 - Methods of releasing and hydrating ophthalmic lenses: Methods of releasing and hydrating ophthalmic lenses are described herein.... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20090059163 - Ophthalmic lens having selected spherochromatic control and methods: An aspect of the invention is directed to an ophthalmic lens, comprising at least one optic having at least one aspheric surface, the lens configured such that, when applied to an average eye, for a bandwidth between a wavelength of 656 nm and a wavelength of 486 nm, at a... Agent: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated

20090059164 - Soft contact lenses displaying superior on-eye comfort: The present invention relates to soft contact lenses having an overall comfort preference of at least about 2 to 1 as compared to an Acuvue® contact lens and measured after one week of daily wear. The present invention further relates to a soft contact lens comprising an oxygen transmissibility greater... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20090059166 - Contact lens and method of manufacturing the same: A contact lens having a mark on at least one of an anterior face and a posterior face thereof, wherein the improvement including: the mark being defined by a concave annular section having inside and outside peripheral borders of circular shape, and a center projection situated in a center of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090059165 - Contact lens products: The present invention relates to improved contact lens products which not only have initial insertion comfort but also are comfortable to wear for more than about 6 hours. The invention is achieved by packaging and storing a hydrogel lens with two or more leachable polymeric lubricants incorporated therein in a... Agent: Ciba Vision Corporation Patent Department

20090059167 - Method of designing multifocal contact lenses: The invention provides methods for designing contact lenses that provides improved efficiency in lens design compared to conventional methods. It is a discovery of the invention that improved performance and reduced design time can be obtained by utilizing a visual performance prediction model as a part of the design process.... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20090059168 - System and method for increasing the depth focus of the human eye: A method and apparatus for increasing the depth of focus of the human eye is comprised of a lens body, an optic in the lens body configured to produce light interference, and a pinhole-like optical aperture substantially in the center of the optic. The optic may be configured to produce... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090059169 - Eye refractive power measurement apparatus: An eye refractive power measurement apparatus capable of performing analysis of an examinee's eye for irregular astigmatism with accuracy comprises a measurement optical system comprising an optical system projecting measurement light onto an examinee's fundus and an optical system photo-receiving the measurement light as a ring or substantially-ring fundus reflection... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090059170 - Microscope: The present invention concerns a microscope with at least one optical element (21a, 21b) for optional deflection and/or splitting of a beam path passing through the microscope, wherein the at least one optical element (21a, 21b) is fashioned as a micro-mirror array (80) having a number of individually controllable and... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP The Guaranty Building