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Optics: eye examining, vision testing and correcting July category listing 07/11

20110181828 - Attachable/detachable covering lens: An attachable/detachable covering lens for covering eyeglass lenses is disclosed. A transparent optical material is suitably shaped to cover at least a portion of an eyeglass lens. The transparent optical material is coupled to the eyeglass lens by adhering means. The adhering means may comprise a viscosity of the transparent... Agent:

20110181829 - Temple and pair of eyeglasses with the same: [Solving Means] In a temple (A) for a pair of eyeglasses including an elastic compression portion between a hinge portion (3) to a lens portion and an ear pad portion (2), the elastic compression portion (1) is provided with a plurality of linear arch portions (11) and the linear arch... Agent:

20110181830 - Eyeglass frame: An eyeglass frame includes a front portion, a hinge provided on each of both ends of the front portion, and a temple connected to the front portion via the hinge. The hinge has a hinge piece, the temple has a metal connection part integrally formed with the hinge piece, and... Agent:

20110181831 - Detachable lens for variable focus spectacles: A detachable lens for variable focus spectacles, the lens including a plurality of magnets in a groove on its rear surface for holding the lens to the spectacles. An interlocking boss keeps the lens from sliding off the spectacles, and a locating tab provides a means for assuring that the... Agent: Lane Research, LLC

20110181832 - Eyewear system for the treatment of unilateral neglect syndrome: An eyewear system for the treatment of unilateral neglect syndrome is disclosed. The eyewear system includes an eyewear device, a lens system, flashcards, an LED/light emitting source system integrated into the eyewear device, a remote control for selective activation of the LED/light emitting source system, and instructional media on the... Agent:

20110181833 - Hydrophilic silicone monomers, process for their preparation and thin films containing the same: There is provided a mono-(meth)acrylate functionalized hydrophilic silicone monomers containing a polyether with branched linking group, useful in making water absorbing silicone-hydrogel films for contact lens applications. This invention also provides homo-polymers and copolymers made from the mono-(meth)acrylate functionalized hydrophilic silicone monomers described herein. Also provided is a process for... Agent:

20110181834 - Ophthalmic lens and spectacles comprising at least such one lens: Ophthalmic lens including at least one spherical face with an optical centre and a geometrical centre, and having in succession a top vision region, an intermediate vision region and a bottom vision region, with a principal meridian of progression traversing the three vision regions of the aspherical face, the lens... Agent: Ice Foster Ltd.

20110181835 - Laser enhanced lens: This invention discloses methods and apparatus for modifying a silicone contact lens via laser ablation and a resulting modified lens. In some embodiments a lens is ablated in a hydrated state. A lens may also be ablated in an environment of decreased oxygen content.... Agent:

20110181836 - Phantom for rendering biological tissue regions: Models of anatomical parts and methods utilizing and fabricating such anatomical models are provided. The model can include an assembly of one or more optically transmissive media having a first portion and a second portion. The one or more optically transmissive media can be configured to provide similar optical properties... Agent:

20110176101 - Shapeable eyewear: This invention relates to eyewear capable of retaining its shape after being manipulated into a new position. This invention also relates to eyewear that is capable of being reshaped to the proper position after manipulation into an undesired position. The invention has independently adaptive components that may be manipulated into... Agent:

20110176102 - Series of progressive ophthalmic lenses: A series of progressive ophthalmic lenses is proposed, which is indexed by optical power addition values of eyeglasses of spectacles to be made from these lenses. Each lens of the series determines a further gap between a value of the optical power for the near vision direction and a maximum... Agent: Essilor International (compagnie Generale D'optiqu E)

20110176103 - Refractive-diffractive multifocal lens: Aspects of the present invention provide multifocal lenses having one or more multifocal inserts comprising one or more diffractive regions. A diffractive region of a multifocal insert of the present invention can provide a constant optical power or can provide a progression of optical power, or any combination thereof. A... Agent: Pixeloptics, Inc.

20110176105 - Method of making and prescribing tinted lenses: Methods of fabricating and prescribing lenses suitable for color blindness and dyslexia correction are disclosed. The corrective lens may be formed of an optically transparent base material, which is tinted to a desired color for correction by immersion in a colorant dye. The color tinted lens is then tinted by... Agent: Chromagen Vision LLC

20110176104 - Method of manufacturing eyeglass lens: An aspect of the present invention relates to a method of manufacturing an eyeglass lens of multilayered structure having plural films including a polarizing film.... Agent: Hoya Corporation

20110176110 - Arrangements and method for measuring an eye movement, particularly a movement of the fundus of the eye: In addition to a first detector for capturing a potential movement field of the eye in overview images, a second detector is used to capture a particular section of the eye in sectional images. From a displacement between two overview images and an intermediate displacement between two sectional images taken... Agent: Carl Zeiss Meditec Ag

20110176109 - Fundus camera: A hand camera for photographing an eye fundus is provided. The camera consists of a tube (3c), a camera housing (3a, 3b), which camera housing is attached to one end (3d) of the tube in a light-tight way, a camera device (4) that is able to record images by means... Agent: Dieter Mann Gmbh

20110176108 - Image processing method and image processing device: An ocular fundus image is captured by a fundus camera. Blood vessel regions are erased from the ocular fundus image, and a luminance region greater than a prescribed luminance threshold value and having an area equivalent to a predetermined standard disc area is extracted as a region having a standard... Agent: Kowa Company Ltd.

20110176107 - Optical tomographic imaging apparatus and control method for the same: There is provided an optical tomographic imaging apparatus for imaging a tomographic image capable of setting characteristics of an optical system to accommodate to different positions on an object. The apparatus using an OCT system, includes: a scanning device for scanning measuring beams, an irradiating device for irradiating a different... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20110176106 - Portable eye monitoring device and methods for using the same: A portable device in the form of a mask (10) that can be worn over a user's eyes (22) is provided with a non-visible light source to illuminate the user's eyes (22), and a lens arrangement (30) and image capturing means to capture digital images eyes (22) that can then... Agent:

20110176111 - Ophthalmic photographing apparatus: An ophthalmic photographing apparatus includes: an interference optical system including a splitter that splits light, emitted from a measurement light source, into measurement light and reference light, and synthesizing the measurement light reflected on an eye with the reference light to guide the synthesized light to a detector; a driving... Agent: Nidek Co., Ltd.

20110176112 - Method of kinetic perimeter: A method for kinetic perimeter of the present invention including: a step of visual field scanning screen generating means; a step of fixation image scan line setting means; a step of fixation image displaying and controlling means; a step of visual target scan line orthogonally setting means; a step of... Agent:

20110176113 - Characterising eye-related optical systems: An instrument and method for characterising eye-related optical systems, including the live human eye (18) involves scanning an illuminating light beam (22) from a light source and light detector unit (20) from element to element of a beam deflector array (12) of elements (14) arranged laterally across the optical axis... Agent:

20110170047 - 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:

20110170048 - Vision assist device with an integral carabiner and optional light: A vision assist device without side temples comprises a frame for holding a first vision assisting lens with a carabiner clip that extends from the frame for use as a handle. The carabiner clip has at least 3 sides, at least one of said sides including a bar with spring... Agent: Eyewear Inventions And Licensing, L.L.C.

20110170049 - Eyeglasses: The invention relates to a pair of eyeglasses which include a lens stand and a pair of gaskets. Each gasket can be detachably connected to the lens stand. Each gasket has an inner edge that protrudes forwards to accommodate the lens. The degree of the curve of the lens is... Agent:

20110170050 - Locking bridge: An arrangement for, but not limited to, a built-in or mounted eyewear nose-bridge, to allow folded and unfolded positions of two bodies or three bodies wherein one of them is the connecting body of the other two, in which those positions are independently locked by the force of a compression... Agent:

20110170051 - Hingeless flexible spectacle arm: An elastically deformable, hingeless spectacle arm is made exclusively of composite materials which have at least one layer of a reinforcing cloth and a coating or matrix made of a thermoplastic or heat-curable material.... Agent: Logo Sa

20110170052 - Eyewear earstem devices and methods: An earstem for eyeglasses is provided that can incorporate an interchangeable elastomeric traction member disposed in a recessed seat which extends along a length of the earstem to provide a contact area between the earstem and the head. The traction member can be disposed along the bottom portion of the... Agent:

20110170053 - Nose bearing assembly for spectacles, and spectacles including same: A nose bearing assembly is secured onto a central area of the spectacles, directly on the optical or sun lenses, or on the bridge connecting the lenses or on a rim frame of the latter, each of the two nose bearing assemblies having a pad intended to contact the nose... Agent: Logo Sa

20110170054 - Eyewear with removable audio system: Eyewear includes a left temple and a right temple. Each of the temples has a cavity sized to receive an audio device such as a BlueTooth transceiver configured to communicate wirelessly with a remote device like a cell phone or a digital sound device. The BlueTooth transceiver may be placed... Agent: Zeal Optics, Inc.

20110170055 - Contact lens with visual indicator: A contact lens is provided with an indicator that is visible when placed in contact with a solution, but substantially transparent when removed from that solution. The indicator may be of the type to designate whether the contact lens is to be worn on the right or left eye.... Agent:

20110170056 - 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:

20110170057 - Toric intraocular lens with spatially-variant astigmatism: An intraocular lens for correcting or reducing the astigmatism of a cornea includes a pupil that is spatially divided into discrete zones, with each zone having a particular astigmatism magnitude and astigmatism orientation. In one embodiment, the zones all have the same astigmatism magnitude, which is equal and opposite the... Agent: Abbott Medical Optics Inc.

20110170058 - Method for designing spectacle lenses: A plurality of to-be-evaluated lenses that differ in lens surface design from one another is prepared in an evaluation-value calculating step. Thereafter, a subject's predetermined biological information, e.g., brain waves, is measured for each of the to-be-evaluated lenses by allowing the subject to wear each of the lenses, and an... Agent:

20110170059 - Physical model eye systems and methods: An optically realistic model eye is described. The optically realistic eye model has an optical axis and includes: an anterior replaceable module comprising a model cornea, model iris and model lens rotatably mounted for rotation about said axis, said module being representative of an emmetropic or pathological natural eye; an... Agent:

20110170062 - Fundus observation apparatus: A fundus observation apparatus that is capable of assisting an examiner in judging the presence or absence of abnormality in an examinee's eye based on a fundus tomographic image. The fundus observation apparatus includes an optical coherence tomography device that has an optical scanner for setting an image pickup position... Agent: Nidek Co., Ltd.

20110170061 - Gaze point tracking using polarized light: A process and a system that determine a glint position and a pupil position are disclosed. The process includes illuminating one eye to produce a glint on that eye, and obtaining a glint image of that eye showing that glint on that eye. A glint position is determined at least... Agent:

20110170060 - Gaze tracking using polarized light: A gaze-tracking system uses separate “glint” and “pupil” images to determine the position of the pupil relative to the position of the glint. Since separate images are obtained, the exposures can be independently optimized for each image's intended purpose (e.g., locating the glint or locating the pupil, respectively). Polarizers are... Agent:

20110170063 - Ophthalmologic imaging apparatus and ophthalmologic imaging method: An ophthalmologic imaging apparatus that captures an image of a subject's eye is provided. The apparatus includes a focusing unit configured to focus light returned from the subject's eye that is illuminated by the light of a first wavelength, onto an imaging unit, and a moving unit configured to move... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20110170064 - Binocular pupillometers: A binocular pupillometer apparatus is provided with processing means to calculate the relative afferent pupillary defect (RAPD) in a subject. The RAPD is calculated as the shift required to bring the two pupillary responses of the left and right eyes into coincidence. Where the responses are not parallel, modified pupillary... Agent: Procyon Instruments Limited

20110170065 - Electro-oculography measuring device, ophthalmological diagnosis device, eye-gaze tracking device, wearable camera, head-mounted display, electronic eyeglasses, electro-oculography measuring method, and recording medium: An electro-oculography measuring device includes: an electro-oculography measuring unit configured to measure an electro-oculography original signal; a view capturing unit configured to capture a view picture; a drift estimation processing unit configured to estimate a drift signal; and a subtractor which subtracts the drift signal from the electro-oculography original signal... Agent:

20110170067 - Eye-gaze tracking device, eye-gaze tracking method, electro-oculography measuring device, wearable camera, head-mounted display, electronic eyeglasses, and ophthalmological diagnosis device: An eye-gaze tracking device, which detects a gaze direction of a user based on an electro-oculogram, includes: a drift estimating unit which estimates drift noise included in a set of observation voltages among observation voltages that are electro-oculograms generated in a living body and observed at the plurality of electrodes,... Agent:

20110170066 - Noise reduction device, electro-oculography measuring device, ophthalmological diagnosis device, eye-gaze tracking device, wearable camera, head-mounted display, electronic eyeglasses, noise reduction method, and recording medium: A noise reduction device includes: a saccade information obtaining unit that obtains saccade information from an electro-oculography original signal that indicates an electro-oculogram resulting from an eye movement of a user, the saccade information relating to a saccadic movement which is a rapid eyeball movement; a control unit that determines... Agent:

20110170068 - Method and apparatus for self-examination of the eye: A method to enable the use of hand-held mobile devices for self-examination of opacities in the eye. Specifically, an image of a pinhole light source is created on the screen of a mobile device. The user then holds the screen of the mobile device close to the eye such that... Agent: Opticom Data Research

20110164215 - Device for assisting and protecting vision: The invention relates to a device comprising one left electrochromic filter (3) and one right electrochromic filter (4) controlled by an electronic device (12). Said electronic device has means for controlling at least one filtering parameter, said means being actuatable by the user and programmed by a professional ophthalmologist, or... Agent:

20110164216 - Resilient hinge for eyeglasses: The present invention relates to a hinge assembly for use with eyeglasses. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a hinge assembly to attach a temple to a main frame of a pair of eyeglasses. The hinge assembly of this embodiment may include a pair of hinge members (formed as... Agent: Aspex Group Inc.

20110164217 - Peripheral vision training and/or testing during central vision fixation: Systems and methods may test and/or train the peripheral visual abilities of an individual. Peripheral visual abilities may be tested and/or trained while maintaining a central visual focus by the individual. A central display element may display central visual indicia, while a peripheral display element may display peripheral visual indicia.... Agent: Nike, Inc.

20110164218 - Method and apparatus for ocular surface imaging: The invention provides apparatuses and methods for detecting ocular surface defects. The methods and/or an apparatus of the invention can be used to detect ocular surface diseases, such as dry eye, uveitis, conjunctivitis, keratitis, keratoconjunctivitis, vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC), atopic keratoconjunctivitis (AKC), autoimmune disorders of the ocular surface, meibomianitis, conjunctival hyperemia,... Agent: Alcon Research, Ltd.

20110164219 - Opthalmologic imaging apparatus and opthalmologic imaging method: An ophthalmologic imaging apparatus that captures a fundus image of a subject's eye includes a first extraction unit configured to extract, from a first fundus image photographed with a first light quantity, an image of a first area having intensity not less than predetermined intensity and an image of a... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20110164220 - Adaptive sequential wavefront sensor with variable aperture: One embodiment is a machine comprising a sequential wavefront scanner, a variable aperture, a position sensing device and a controller. The controller is coupled to the variable aperture and sequential wavefront scanning device and configured to coordinate the operation of the variable aperture and the sequential wavefront scanning device.... Agent: Clarity Medical Systems, Inc.