Optics: eye examining, vision testing and correcting inventions 04/09

20090109394 - Eyeglasses of the rimless type with wire branches: The invention relates to eyeglasses of the rimless type comprising a bridge interconnecting the two eyeglass lenses, and two side branches of wire structure connected to respective side zones of the corresponding lenses, each side branch having a main portion together with a distal end extending said main portion and... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20090109395 - Eyeglasses with integrated telescoping video display: Eyeglasses having at least one video display with a surface substantially equal in area to that of a lens of the eyeglasses, that may be pivoted forwardly and outwardly to an open position for viewing, and may be folded rearwardly and inwardly to a stored position for retention by the... Agent: Cochran Freund & Young LLC

20090109396 - Method for designing group of bi-aspherical type progressive-power lenses, and group of bi-aspherical type progressive-power lenses: There is provided a group of bi-aspherical type progressive-power lenses for which the processing costs are reduced. In a bi-aspherical type progressive-power lens(es), the relationships DHf+DHn<DVf+DVn and DHn<DVn or further, DVn−DVf>ADD/2 and DHn−DHf<ADD/2 are satisfied; DHf and DVf are designated respectively as a surface refractive power in a horizontal direction... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090109397 - System and method for manufacturing a lens, such as an ophthalmic lens: A system and method for manufacturing an ophthalmic lens is described. In some examples, the system applies a back surface to a lens blank that includes an aspherical curve having two radii of curvature. In some examples, a back surface of a peripheral portion of the lens follows the curvature... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090109398 - Apparatus for improving visual perception: Apparatus for improving the visual perception ability of a person with respect to a particular eye condition of at least one eye, includes a client terminal including display device for displaying images to the person, and an input device for inputting responses by the person to images displayed in said... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090109400 - Gaze direction measuring method and gaze direction measuring device: A face horizontal direction measuring unit measures the angle of the face horizontal direction for a face image obtained by an imaging unit. By using information on the radius of the head and information on the shoulder position of the person obtained by the aforementioned measurement, a face vertical displacement... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090109399 - Macular function tester: A device to carry out tests of the macula of a subject's eye to identify disease such as age related macular degeneration. The device includes a stimulus light source comprising a stimulus spheroidal chamber with a stimulus light located therein to emit light through an aperture in the stimulus spheroidal... Agent: Roger M. Rathbun

20090109402 - Light reflex testing device: A calorimetric pupil light reflex testing device for diagnostic assessment of the ocular and central nervous system diseases based on melanopsin and non-melanopsin spectral light properties. The device employs blue and red light emitting diodes emitting light at wavelengths of approximately 472 nanometers and 630 respectively to elicit pupillary constriction.... Agent: Brett J. Trout, PC

20090109403 - Systems and software for wavefront data processing, vision correction, and other applications: A system for providing vision contains an aberrometer, a wavefront sensor, and a transfer optical system. The aberrometer is configured to measure a received wavefront. The aberrometer includes a wavefront sensor and a transfer optical system for transferring an input wavefront so as to the provide the received wavefront at... Agent: Advanced Medical Optics, Inc.

20090109401 - Wavefront sensor: The present invention relates to a wavefront sensor using a pair of screens, each having a two-dimensional array of circular apertures, to achieve Moiré effects, and its use to measure the slope of a wavefront.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090103043 - Eyeglass retaining device: A retaining device for retaining eyeglasses on headgear while covering the head of a person, including at least one tethering element for holding the temples of an eyeglass frame and at least one retaining element coupled to the tethering element. The retaining element is adapted to hold the tethering element... Agent: Ganz Law, P.C.

20090103044 - Spectacle frame bridge housing electronics for electro-active spectacle lenses: A nose bridge for a fashion spectacle lens frame adapted for housing electro-active lenses is presented. The nose bridge may include a body which may further include electronic components. The nose bridge may further include a connecting element for connecting the electronic components with the electro-active lenses for altering optical... Agent: Pearl, Cohen, Zedek & Latzer, LLP

20090103045 - Silicone hydrogels with amino surface groups: n

20090103046 - Method and device for manufacturing a spectacle lens; system and computer program product for manufacturing a spectacle lens: The invention relates to a method comprising the following steps:—a bridge width (b), a glass length (I), and a frame glass angle (fF) are predefined as eyeglass frame data;—a base curve (BK) as well as a nasal and a temporal facet position (aFn, aFt) are predefined as eyeglass lens data;—a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090103047 - Tonometer using camera and ambient light: A tonometer uses ambient light available in an eye examining room, rather than a dedicated source of light, to examine a characteristic of an eye. A digital camera in the tonometer views an image of the eye as it is engaged by a contactor that applanates or indents the cornea.... Agent: Brown & Michaels, PC 400 M & T Bank Building

20090103048 - Method and system for pupil detection: A method for detecting a location of a pupil. The method involves projecting a modulated light at a first phase towards a face from a lighting source located near an optical axis of a modulated light camera, concurrently projecting a modulated light at a second phase towards the face from... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090103049 - Method for correcting patient motion when obtaining retina volume using optical coherence tomography: A computer-implemented method of correcting for motion of a sample during OCT imaging obtains a series of cross-sectional volume scans through the sample at different positions on a first coordinate axis, obtains at least two cross-sectional alignment scans in planes intersecting said volume scans at an angle, and stores the... Agent: Marks & Clerk

20090103050 - Optical instrument alignment system: An ophthalmic apparatus for precisely positioning an optical instrument, such as a wavefront aberrometer, in three dimensions with respect to a patient's eye. The ophthalmic apparatus may include an optical instrument directed in a first direction toward a target area to receive light therefrom and a camera directed in a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090096982 - Interchangeable charm system for glasses: Glasses for receiving interchangeable charms are disclosed. The glasses are adaptable for releasably and interchangeably attaching and securing a variety of charms such that the plane of the backside of the charm is flush against a convex or smooth outwardly facing surface on a pair of glasses. In a preferred... Agent: Mathew J. Temmerman

20090096984 - Combined sunglasses and opener: Sunglasses have a frame with a front section containing lenses, and, temple bars having proximal portions hinged to the frame and distal end portions, at least one of the temple bars provided with an opener, preferably at the temple bar distal end portion.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20090096983 - Enhancement of visual perception iv: A device and method for enhancement of a viewer's visual perception in a real physical (three spatial dimension) scene and/or a single two-dimensional image, which includes enhancement of a viewer's depth perception and perception of clarity in the real physical scene and/or the two-dimensional image, by alteration of a viewer's... Agent: Anthony I. Provitola

20090096985 - Tinted, high dk ophthalmic molding and a method for making same: The invention relates to ophthalmic molding formulations and to tinted, high Dk ophthalmic moldings. This invention also relates to a method for making a tinted ophthalmic molding, particularly edge-to-edge soft, tinted contact lenses having improved properties, are prepared with an improved efficiency.... Agent: Ciba Vision Corporation Patent Department

20090096987 - Eye measurement apparatus and a method of using same: An apparatus for measuring a subject's eye having an instrument axis, comprising an eye tracker apparatus comprising a first projector and a first camera, a slit projector rotatable about the instrument axis independent of the eye tracker apparatus, and a second camera rotatable about the instrument axis independent of the... Agent: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated

20090096988 - Optomechanical and digital ocular sensor reader systems: System, methods, and devices are described for eye self-exam. In particular, optomechanical and digital ocular sensor reader systems are provided. The optomechanical system provides a device for viewing an ocular sensor implanted in one eye with the other eye. The digital ocular sensor system is a digital camera system for... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20090096986 - Unit and method for internally guiding vision in fundus cameras: The present invention is directed to an optoelectronic unit for directing the eye gaze of the patient during examination or documentation of the fundus of the eye. The solution according to the invention for internal eye gaze guidance in fundus cameras provides a spatial light modulator for generating the fixation... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20090096989 - Binocular indirect ophthalmoscope: A binocular indirect opthalmoscope has a light source for producing an illumination beam and an illumination mirror (7) for directing the illumination beam to an eye to be viewed. The opthalmoscope also has, viewing optics including left-hand and right-hand eyepieces (12,13) and an optical splitter (9,10) for directing light along... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090091704 - Contact lenses: The invention provides silicone hydrogel contact lenses that exhibit reduced back surface debris and reduced incidence of superior epithelial arcurate lesions.... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20090091705 - Bifocal plastic lens: A bifocal plastic lens having a bench lens and a small lens with different refractive powers. The small lens not protruding above a surface of the bench lens, a boundary between the constituent lenses being difficult to see. The small lens may be provided on a preparatory lens member including... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20090091706 - Simultaneously multi-temporal visual test and method and apparatus therefor: A method for determining a likelihood of a visual deficit in a subject uses a simultaneously multi-temporal visual test. At least two visual patterns are simultaneously displayed to the subject. Each pattern reverses in contrast or color at a different display frequency, and each pattern is displayed to a different... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20090091707 - Eye-administered, moving-image physiologic test system and method: A physiologic test, and a system for implementing this test, including, from a methodologic point of view, (a) illuminating the central field in a test subject's eye with a relative-motion test image produced on an image display structure by a motion-image-creation structure, (b) by such illuminating, creating a related, subject-perception... Agent: Robert D. Varitz, P.C.

20090086154 - Uniform diffuse omni-directional reflecting lens: A transparent multi-layer lens construction to be worn as a sunglass lens, or a fashion lens, that reflects light in a diffuse manner. The multi-layer lens construction is, in part, a combination of surface form and surface texture combined with a reflective medium and an anti-reflective coating. The present invention... Agent: William E Hein

20090086155 - Printed glasses: A pair of glasses where some form of artwork printed on the lens or lenses with a transparent ink. For advertising a person or place or object of personal choice.... Agent: Donald Eugene Hodgson

20090086156 - Clip for releasably attaching clip-on accessory to eyeglasses: A customizable clip-on accessory for spectacles includes a pair of auxiliary lenses, and clasps for engaging the lenses to join them to a bridge member and to releasably engage the spectacles. The clasps include a pair of parallel posts engagable by a fastener member having a pair of cylindrical lugs... Agent: Zimmerman & Cronen, LLP

20090086157 - Nose support for a pair of spectacles: A nose support for a pair of spectacles having a nose rest (2) and having a retainer (1), comprising a wire part (3), for the nose rest (2) is described, which has an undercut pocket (8) for the plug reception of an eye bent out of one end of the... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20090086158 - Hinge for glasses with closing block and method to obtain said hinge: A glasses hinge and method to obtain said hinge is disclosed, of the type comprising a male portion (M) and a female portion (F), mutually connected by a small articulated pin (P), equipped with coupling surfaces, apt to define blocking positions while opening and closing, which are radial and, at... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090086159 - Eyeglasses with detachable adjustable electronics module: A detachable adjustable electronics module may be removably or permanently connected to eyewear. The module may include electronics for processing audio and/or video signals. The module may be provided with an adjustable arm, for adjustably carrying a speaker. The module and/or the speaker may be adjusted relative to the wearer... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090086160 - Methods of sterilizing ophthalmic lenses: Methods of sterilizing ophthalmic lenses are disclosed.... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20090086161 - Method for manufacturing bifocal lens: This invention is to provide an inexpensive lens can be worn without attention to the existence of the addition power segment of conventional polarizing lens, it and a bench lens are formed integrally on the rear surface of a polarizing member 6. The present inventors constituent a polarizing member 9... Agent: Judge Patent Associates

20090086162 - Method for designing spectacle lens, and spectacles: A method for designing a spectacle lens that includes an optical convex surface on an object side of the spectacle lens and an optical concave surface on an eye side of the spectacle lens and is mounted in a spectacle frame in a manner tilting with respect to a forward... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090086163 - Compound modulation transfer function for laser surgery and other optical applications: Methods, devices, and systems establish an optical surface shape that mitigates or treats a vision condition in a patient. An optical surface shape for a particular patient can be determined using a set of patient parameters for the specific patient by using a compound modulation transfer function (CMTF). The compound... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090086164 - Fundus imaging apparatus: A fundus imaging apparatus comprises: an irradiation optical system comprising a light source which emits a laser beam and a scanner which two-dimensionally scans the laser beam on a fundus of an examinee's eye, the irradiation optical system being adapted to focus the laser beam emitted from the light source... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090086165 - System and method of detecting eye fixations using adaptive thresholds: A system and method of adaptively establishing fixation thresholds for eye-gaze tracking data and identifying fixations within the eye-gaze tracking data are disclosed. Eye-gaze tracking data is collected. A saccade estimate may be calculated using a percentile statistic of the changes in eye-gaze position. Fixations may be determined by comparing... Agent: Ibm - Arc Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20090086166 - Optotype presenting apparatus: An optotype presenting apparatus, by which red and green optotypes can be visually perceived independently by right and left eyes even if red filters and/or green filters have different wavelength transmission characteristics, comprises a color display, a unit having a switch for selecting a test chart including visual acuity and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC