Patents by Inventor Cyril Guilloux
Cyril Guilloux has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20120300172Abstract: A process for designing an ophthalmic progressive eyeglass comprises providing an initial front surface and an initial back surface. Respective addition values of front and back surfaces of the eyeglass are varied based on said initial front and back surfaces using a surface derivation tool. These surface addition values are selected so that the eyeglass exhibits an eyeglass addition value which matches a wearer's prescription and a value for a design feature which matches a target value. Said target value may be used for customizing the ophthalmic progressive eyeglass. The process does not require point-to-point surface optimization.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2010Publication date: November 29, 2012Inventors: Marie-Anne Berthezene, Bernard Bourdoncle, Laurent Calixte, Cyril Guilloux, Jérôme Moine, Soazic Mousset, Damien Paille
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Patent number: 8303114Abstract: A method for the determination of a progressive ophthalmic lens for a given wearer comprises the states of: determining the axial length (LA) of the wearer's eye, determining an ergorama associating a sight point with each direction of viewing under wearing conditions, determining power and resulting astigmatism defect targets for each direction of viewing under wearing conditions, the targets being a function of the axial length of the wearer's eye, calculating the power required on the lens for each direction of viewing by successive iterations in order to obtain the target power defect and the target resulting astigmatism.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2009Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Essilor International (Compagnie Générale d'Optique)Inventors: Marie-Anne Berthezene, Celine Carimalo, Diane DeGaudemaris, Cyril Guilloux
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Publication number: 20120268713Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining an ophthalmic lens for a person (i1, i2, i3) to wear said lens, comprising the following steps: i) determination of the size (T1, T2, T3) or height of the eyes (H1, H2, H3) of the person to wear the lens; and ii) calculation of at least one characteristic of the ophthalmic lens according to the size (T1, T2, T3) or the height of the eyes (H1, H2, H3) of the person to wear the lens. The ophthalmic lens can be progressive strength or unifocal. The invention also relates to an optimisation method and a method for producing an ophthalmic lens implementing such a definition method. The invention further relates to a set of lenses having at least one characteristic that depends on the size and the height of the eyes of the person to wear the lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2010Publication date: October 25, 2012Applicant: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'OptiquInventors: Cyril Guilloux, Soazic Mousset, Isabelle Poulain
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Publication number: 20120212705Abstract: A method implemented by computer means for determining a virtual wearer-ophthalmic lens-ergorama system associated with an optical function of an ophthalmic lens for a given wearer, comprising: a prescription data providing step, an optical reference surface data providing step, a virtual wearer-ophthalmic lens-ergorama system determining step, a criteria selecting step, a target value defining step, an evaluation step, and a modification step, in which at least one parameter of the virtual wearer-ophthalmic lens-ergorama system different from the base curve of the ophthalmic lens is modified, in order to minimize the difference between the target value and the evaluation criterion value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2010Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale D'Optique)Inventors: Laurent Calixte, Cyril Guilloux
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Publication number: 20120176583Abstract: An ophthalmic lens (1) for a given wearer (2), intended to be worn in an eyeglass frame, comprising: a prescription control point P corresponding to a downward gaze ?P of between ?10° and +25° and a lateral gaze displacement ?P of between ?10° and +10°; an upper area (11) defined by downward gaze values, ?, for the wearer (2), of between ?P?30° and ?P, along a downward gaze path, and by lateral gaze displacement values, ?, for the wearer (2), of between ?P?30° and ?P+30°, parallel to a lateral gaze displacement axis, a lower area (12) defined by downward gaze values, ?, for the wearer (2), of between ?P and ?P+30°, along a downward gaze path, and by lateral gaze displacement values, ?, for the wearer (2), of between ?P?30° and ?P+30°, parallel to a lateral gaze displacement axis; wherein: the power of the lens at point P is substantially equal to the prescription of the wearer, the upper area has, relative to the point P, along the downward gaze path, a continuous average power variation ?PuiSup, monotonic beType: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2010Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale D'Optique)Inventors: Laurent Calixte, Cyril Guilloux, Isabelle Poulain
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Publication number: 20120105800Abstract: A method and an apparatus for designing an optical lens surface for the manufacture of the optical lens, the method comprising the steps of providing a reference surface Sref, the reference surface Sref being defined by a plurality of surface points Pi each surface point Pi having a mean sphere Sph(Pi) and a cylinder Cyl(Pi); providing at least one modifying surface layer SLmod(?1, . . . , ?N, x, y) the modifying surface layer SLmod being determined as a function of N adjustment parameters ?1, ? . . . , ?N; wherein N?1 and the N adjustment parameters ?1, ?4, . . . , ?N are selected according to the desired optical properties of the optical target; combining the modifying surface layer SLmod with the reference surface Sref to obtain a target optical surface Star(x,y) according to the expression: Star(x,y)=Sref(x,y)+SLmod(?1, . . .Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2010Publication date: May 3, 2012Applicant: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUInventors: Pascal Allione, Laurent Calixte, Cyril Guilloux
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Patent number: 8128226Abstract: A method for the determination by optical optimization of a personalized progressive ophthalmic lens intended to be inserted into a frame chosen by a given wearer for whom a power addition has been prescribed in near vision, the method comprising the stages of: measuring parameters representing the frame chosen by the wearer; choosing an initial distribution of power and resulting astigmatism defect targets for each direction of viewing under wearing conditions in an ordinary frame; calculating transformation coefficients using the measured parameters representing the chosen frame and standard parameters; calculating a personalized distribution of the power and resulting astigmatism defect targets on the lens by applying the calculated transformation coefficients to the initial distribution. The method makes it possible to retain the proportion of the distribution between the far-vision, near-vision and intermediate-vision zones whatever the size and the shape of the frame chosen.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2007Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)Inventors: Cyril Guilloux, Diane De Gaudemaris, Marie-Anne Berthezene, Céline Carimalo
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Patent number: 8109631Abstract: A method for manufacturing an ophthalmic progressive addition lens (100) with customized design features adapted to a wearer, the method comprising the following steps: /a/ a providing step of a lens substrate; /b/ a modifying step in which a first target virtual lens is provided and modified so as to obtain a second target virtual lens, the second target virtual lens having a design feature parameter substantially equal to a customized design feature parameter; /c/ an optimizing step in which an optimized trial virtual lens is obtained by optimizing a trial virtual lens in such a manner that the optimized trial virtual lens has optical characteristics which are substantially equal to the characteristics of the second target virtual lens; and /d/ a manufacturing step of the ophthalmic progressive addition lens from the lens substrate according to the trial virtual lens. Method for the determination of a customized ophthalmic progressive addition lens with customized design features.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2008Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Essilor International, (Compagnie Générale d'Optique)Inventors: Cyril Guilloux, Bruno Decreton, Diane De Gaude-Maris, Marie-Anne Berthezene, Celine Carimalo
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Publication number: 20110317128Abstract: A spectacle eyeglass of progressive addition type has been designed for myopic children. To this purpose, an ergorama has been constructed, taking into account vision conditions encountered by the children in their everyday life. In particular, the eyeglass has a limited optical power increase between two reference eye directions (D1, D2), a start (D0) of the optical power increase which is located quite low in the eyeglass, and an offset value (OS) for a meridian line (ML) which is higher than that of eyeglasses designed for adults.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2009Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)Inventors: Cyril Guilloux, Helene De Rossi
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Publication number: 20110273664Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining an aspherization layer for an ophthalmic lens for a wearer for whom a power and an astigmatism have been prescribed. The method can be used equally satisfactorily on a unifocal or a multifocal lens. The invention also extends to the method for determining an ophthalmic lens from an aspoherization layer obtained by the method. The invention improves the optical performance of lenses obtained from semi-finished lenses in which the complex surface is unknown.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2010Publication date: November 10, 2011Applicant: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (Compagne Generale of OptiquInventors: Cyril Guilloux, Soazic Mousset
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Patent number: 8007102Abstract: A method for determining an ophthalmic lens includes choosing an initial lens with a first face and a second face and defining an initial surface for the second face of the lens with a central zone of diameter Dini and a peripheral zone of inner diameter Drac greater than the diameter Dini of the central zone, each point of the central zone and the peripheral zone having an altitude defined with respect to an axis (Z) normal to the second face of the lens and having the centre of the central zone as its origin, the altitude of the peripheral zone being defined as the minimum of the points situated on the diameter Drac; the peripheral zone having a maximum radius of curvature comprised between the maximum radius of curvature of the first face and the maximum radius of curvature of the central zone.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2007Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Essilor International (Compagnie Générale d'Optique)Inventors: Diane De Gaudemaris, Cyril Guilloux, Fabien Muradore
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Publication number: 20110184830Abstract: A method for determining the value of the inset of a progressive addition lens according to a wearer comprising the steps of: providing convergence data, determining from the convergence data the inset of the progressive addition lens considering at least the convergence data and the prismatic effect of the progressive addition lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2009Publication date: July 28, 2011Applicant: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale D'Optique)Inventors: Cyril Guilloux, Isabelle Poulain, Soazic Mousset, Aude Contet
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Publication number: 20100283967Abstract: A method of calculating an optical system (OS) of an ophthalmic lens according to a given spectacle frame comprising the steps of: providing geometrical data of the spectacle frame, providing wearer data, and optimization of the optical system (OS) according to at least the criteria consisting of the geometrical data of the spectacle frame, the wearer data and at least one positioning data, so as to generate at least two optical surfaces (S1, S2).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2008Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicant: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUInventors: Frédéric Dubois, Cyril Guilloux, Pascal Allione, Cécile Pietri, David Freson, Christian Joncour
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Patent number: 7806526Abstract: The invention relates to a progressive ophthalmic lens and to a method of producing one such lens. Variations in the optical power and the astigmatism of a progressive ophthalmic lens (10) result from (i) spherical and cylindrical variations in the anterior face (2) of the lens and (ii) variations in another physical unit of the lens. In this way, it is possible to customise the design of the progressive lens as a function of at least one behavioural characteristic of the lens wearer. Said customisation can be repeated by modulating the values of the physical unit between the different points of the lens. As a result, progressive lenses with different designs can be obtained from identical semi-finished lenses. The physical unit can comprise the sphere and the cylinder of the posterior face of the lens (3).Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2005Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)Inventors: Bernard Bourdoncle, Bruno Decreton, Cyril Guilloux
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Patent number: 7775657Abstract: A method for defining a supplementary face for spectacles (or clip-on), comprising the steps of: i) choice of a lens suited to the wearer's prescription; ii) modelization of the position of the chosen lens and of the position of a supplementary face in front of the chosen lens; iii) choice of an optical function for the assembly of the chosen lens and supplementary face; iv) calculation of the characteristics of the supplementary face by optical optimization for a standard wearer, using the chosen optical function as optimization target. A supplementary face for spectacles, having: i) a detachable mounting device, suited to the detachable mounting of the supplementary face in front of a lens mounted in the spectacles; ii) a surface at least equal to the surface of the lens and iii) a continuous optical power variation over this surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2007Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Essilor International (Compagnie Générale d'Optique)Inventor: Cyril Guilloux
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Publication number: 20100149484Abstract: A method for the determination of a progressive ophthalmic lens for a given wearer comprises the states of: determining the axial length (LA) of the wearer's eye, determining an ergorama associating a sight point with each direction of viewing under wearing conditions, determining power and resulting astigmatism defect targets for each direction of viewing under wearing conditions, the targets being a function of the axial length of the wearer's eye, calculating the power required on the lens for each direction of viewing by successive iterations in order to obtain the target power defect and the target resulting astigmatism.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2009Publication date: June 17, 2010Applicant: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)Inventors: Marie-Anne Berthezene, Céline Carimalo, Diane De Gaudemaris, Cyril Guilloux
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Patent number: 7731359Abstract: A method for the determination by optical optimization of a personalized progressive ophthalmic lens intended to be inserted into a frame chosen by a given wearer for whom a power addition has been prescribed in near vision, the method comprising the stages of: determining at least one parameter representing the frame chosen by the wearer; measuring parameters representing the wearer's head-eye behavior; weighting the parameters representing the wearer's head-eye behavior with the parameter representing the frame chosen by the wearer; determining power and resulting astigmatism defect targets for each direction of viewing under wearing conditions, the targets being associated with an individual merit function taking into account the weighted head-eye coordination parameters. The method allows the design of the lens to be adapted to the size and the shape of the frame chosen.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2007Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Essilor International (Compagnie d'Optique)Inventors: Cyril Guilloux, Diane De Gaudemaris, Céline Carimalo
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Publication number: 20100079722Abstract: A method for manufacturing an ophthalmic progressive addition lens (100) with customized design features adapted to a wearer, the method comprising the following steps: /a/ a providing step of a lens substrate; /b/ a modifying step in which a first target virtual lens is provided and modified so as to obtain a second target virtual lens, the second target virtual lens having a design feature parameter substantially equal to a customized design feature parameter; /c/ an optimizing step in which an optimized trial virtual lens is obtained by optimizing a trial virtual lens in such a manner that the optimized trial virtual lens has optical characteristics which are substantially equal to the characteristics of the second target virtual lens; and /d/ a manufacturing step of the ophthalmic progressive addition lens from the lens substrate according to the trial virtual lens. Method for the determination of a customized ophthalmic progressive addition lens with customized design features.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2008Publication date: April 1, 2010Applicant: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)Inventors: Cyril Guilloux, Bruno Decreton, Diane De Gaude-Maris, Marie-Anne Berthezene, Celine Carimalo
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Patent number: 7637614Abstract: A method for the determination of a progressive ophthalmic lens for a given wearer comprises the stages of: determining the axial length (LA) of the wearer's eye, determining an ergorama associating a sight point with each direction of viewing under wearing conditions, determining power and resulting astigmatism defect targets for each direction of viewing under wearing conditions, the targets being a function of the axial length of the wearer's eye, calculating the power required on the lens for each direction of viewing by successive iterations in order to obtain the target power defect and the target resulting astigmatism.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2007Date of Patent: December 29, 2009Assignee: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)Inventors: Marie-Anne Berthezene, Celine Carimalo, Diane De Gaudemaris, Cyril Guilloux
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Publication number: 20090244480Abstract: A method for determining an ophthalmic lens includes choosing an initial lens with a first face and a second face and defining an initial surface for the second face of the lens with a central zone of diameter Dini and a peripheral zone of inner diameter Drac greater than the diameter Dini of the central zone, each point of the central zone and the peripheral zone having an altitude defined with respect to an axis (Z) normal to the second face of the lens and having the centre of the central zone as its origin, the altitude of the peripheral zone being defined as the minimum of the points situated on the diameter Drac; the peripheral zone having a maximum radius of curvature comprised between the maximum radius of curvature of the first face and the maximum radius of curvature of the central zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2007Publication date: October 1, 2009Inventors: Diane De Gaudemaris, Cyril Guilloux, Fabien Muradore