Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium for determining at least one feature of at least one lens mounted in a spectacle frame. The system includes a non-point light pattern generating device configured to generate a predefined non-point light pattern, and arranged to have the predefined non-point light pattern reflected on the at least one lens, an image acquisition device configured to acquire an image of the spectacle frame including an image of the reflected non-point light pattern, and a processing unit configured to determine at least the contour of the at least one lens in function of at least one feature of the image of the reflected non-point light pattern.

Abstract: A method for determining an optical design criterion for designing an optical lens adapted to a sport practice, the method including: defining an evaluation axis for evaluating sensory/motor/cognitive requirement of a sport practice, for each of a plurality of sports; attributing a score to the sport practice on each evaluation axis; determining clusters of sports in which practices have similar score; determining at least one visual need corresponding to each cluster of sports; determining, for each cluster, at least one optical design criterion as a function of the associated visual need; and storing in a memory a record for each cluster, along with each optical design criterion associated with the cluster.

Abstract: A method for determining an optical system intended to equip a person on the basis of the adaptability of the person to a visual and/or proprioceptive modification of his environment, the method including a person visual behaviour parameter providing, during which a person visual behaviour parameter indicative of the visual behaviour of the person relative to a given state of the environment is provided; a reference value providing, during which a first value of the person visual behaviour parameter corresponding to a reference state of the environment is provided; a visual and/or proprioceptive modification providing, during which a visual and/or proprioceptive modification of the reference state of the environment is provided so as to define a modified state of the environment; and determining, during which an optical parameter of the optical system is determined based on the first value of the person visual behaviour parameter and on a second value of the person visual behaviour parameter associated with t

Abstract: A calibration method for determining angles between an image acquisition module reference frame and an accelerometer reference frame of a portable electronic device.

Abstract: A photography and thermography combining method of obtaining, for a chosen spectacle frame model of a spectacle wearer, at least one fitting parameter to fit an ophthalmic lens into the spectacle frame model. The method includes taking a photograph of the wearer's face with spectacles having the chosen spectacle frame model, taking a thermogram of the wearer's face with the spectacles, identifying the spectacles' contour in the thermogram, overlaying the identified contour or a boxing shape derived from the identified contour onto the photograph, thus obtaining a composite image, and obtaining the at least one fitting parameter from the composite image.

Abstract: A method for estimating refraction of an eye of an individual, including: a) providing a set of N acquired eccentric photorefraction images of the eye, b) setting values for a set of parameters including at least sphere, c) providing a set of N simulated eccentric photorefraction images, d) determining an estimator of a difference between the set of N acquired eccentric photorefraction images and the set of N simulated eccentric photorefraction images, e) performing an optimization using an optimization algorithm so as to optimize the estimator by adjusting values for the set of parameters and iterating steps c) and d), and f) deducing an estimation of at least one refraction parameter of the eye.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to primer compositions for increasing the adhesion between a polarizing film laminate to a cast-polymerized lens. The chemisorptive primers may react with cast-polymerized lens monomers and/or interact with the polarizing film laminate to provide exceptionally strong adhesion between the film laminate and the ophthalmic lens.

Abstract: Systems and methods for cleaning a hard-coated ophthalmic lens and stripping the hard-coating of the hard coated ophthalmic lens in a single pass process are disclosed. The hard-coated ophthalmic lens is sequentially treated with a cleaning solution, an alkaline solution, and a stripping solution. Ultrasonic power is applied to the solutions and the ophthalmic lens during the process. The resulted ophthalmic lens has substantially no sign of chemical attack or residual hard coating or varnishes thereon.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical element (100) from a curable material (50) using an additive manufacturing technology comprising steps of: providing a first portion of curable material (50), forming a first part of the optical element by irradiating the surface (55) of the curable material with a first curing surface energy, the first curing surface energy being strictly lower than a first predetermined energy threshold and higher than a second predetermined threshold, and forming, after the irradiation of the first part with the first curing surface energy, at least a second part of the optical element, distinct from the first part of the optical element, by irradiating, with at least a second curing surface energy, the surface of the curable material, the second curing surface energy irradiating both the second part of the optical element (100) and at least a portion of the first part of the optical element, the sum of the first curing surface energy and the at least second curing surface energy being

Abstract: An optometric testing device comprising a first shutter and a second shutter placed in front of two eyes of a patient and configured to present an activated state in which a shutter blocks the propagation of light and a deactivated state in which the shutter allows the propagation of light, a communication unit configured to communicate with a display system in order to send and/or receive a synchronization signal, and a control unit configured to command each shutter as a function of the synchronization signal so that the first shutter and the second shutter change state with a first frequency and a second frequency, wherein the control unit is configured to command each shutter so that the first frequency is different from the second frequency and/or so that a duty cycle of activation of the first shutter is different from a duty cycle of activation of the second shutter.

Abstract: A semi-finished optical element for manufacturing an ophthalmic article for vision-correction including at least one blank having a front diopter and a rear diopter, the blank being configured to present a first optical power distribution, one of the diopters being unfinished and the other being finished, an optical component layer including a periodic or pseudo-periodic arrangement of optical wave-front shaping elements that are smaller than 10 ?m and configured to control incoming light at least in a part of the visible spectrum and providing a second optical power distribution, wherein the optical component layer is transparent in transmission in the visible wavelength and is disposed on the finished diopter of the blank for cooperating together to achieve a third optical power distribution.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an ophthalmic lens using an additive manufacturing technology, based on an optical element and initial manufacturing data, the initial manufacturing data including data defining a complementary portion to deposit on the optical element to form the ophthalmic lens from the optical element, includes the steps of: positioning the optical element on a support; determining a positioning error between the position of the optical element and a reference position on the support using a measurement directed to the optical element; determining a deterioration on the optical element; calculating updated manufacturing data taking into account initial manufacturing data and the determined positioning error; and manufacturing the ophthalmic lens using the updated manufacturing data by the additive manufacturing technology by depositing the complementary portion on the optical element to form the ophthalmic lens from the optical element.

Abstract: The object of this invention is to provide optical articles having one or more transmittance-attenuating dyes. Each dye attenuates transmission of a certain wavelength range. Different dyes can be combined in different concentrations to tune the transmittance spectrum through a lens. The transmittance-attenuating dyes can be incorporated into different optical articles using different production methods.

Abstract: A method using an optometry device having a refraction test unit with a first optical refraction element adapted to provide different vision correction powers to a first eye of the subject along a first optical axis and a second optical refraction element adapted to provide different vision correction powers to the second eye of the subject along a second optical axis. The method includes adjusting the relative position of the subject and the refraction test unit, determining a vertex distance between the first or second optical refraction element and the first or second eye of the subject, determining a value of a parameter representative of an accommodation feature of the eyes of the subject, determining preliminary values of the refractive features of the eyes of the subject in near and/or intermediary vision conditions, checking binocular visual perception of the subject, and determining a final visual acuity of the subject.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a lens element intended to be worn in front of an eye of a wearer, the method comprising obtaining a lens member comprising a holographic recording medium disposed on a first surface of the lens member, the holographic recording medium being configured to be able to convert an interference pattern into a holographic optical element, obtaining wearer prescription data relating at least to the prescription of the wearer, manufacturing a second surface of the lens member based on the wearer prescription data, and recording a holographic optical element within the holographic recording medium so as to provide an additional optical power of opposite sign to the prescribed optical power so as to slow down the progression of the abnormal refraction of the eye.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for detecting a probable error in a set of data relative to a wearer and/or to a frame chosen by the wearer, at least one of these data being used for ordering an ophthalmic lens to be fitted into the frame for the wearer, the set of data including at least a value of a first parameter and a value of a second parameter different from the first parameter, the first and second parameters being relative to the wearer and/or a frame chosen by the wearer, the method including: a) determining a level of consistency of the values of the first and second parameter with each other, based on a predetermined statistical consistency rule linking the first and second parameters; and b) emitting, based on this level of consistency, an alert signal in order to report a probable error.

Abstract: A system for determining a personalized value of an optical feature of a corrective ophthalmic lens which is intended to be worn in front of an eye of an individual for correcting his vision, the system including: a trial optical corrective device adapted to be place in front of an eye of an individual, the trial optical corrective device providing a correction to an individual complying with an initial value of an optical feature; an eyewear adapted to be placed in front of the trial optical corrective device worn by the individual and adapted to immerse the individual in a virtual environment, the eyewear being designed to present, in the virtual environment, a visual task to the individual adapted to determine an adjustment value; a processing unit programmed calculate a personalized value of the optical feature based at least on the initial value and the adjustment value.

Abstract: An optometry device for binocular testing of the eyes of a subject, including a binocular refraction test unit with a first optical refraction element adapted to provide different vision correction powers along a first optical axis and a second optical refraction element adapted to provide different vision correction powers along a second optical axis, and a display system for providing a first and a second test images, the first test image being conveyed to the first optical refraction element along a first optical pathway and the second test image being conveyed to the second optical refraction element along a second optical pathway. The first and second test image being provided with details smaller than 1 arc minute, over a field of view of at least 8° in horizontal directions, the first and second optical pathways having a length between 25 and 100 centimeters.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for selecting a color filter intended to be worn by a subject in order to improve his visual performance for a given visual task to be realized in a given environment. According to the invention, said method comprises the steps of: —submitting said subject to a colored spatio-temporal visual stimulus adapted to evaluate said visual performance for said given visual task, said stimulus being designed so that its chromaticity may be modified; —evaluating the visual performance of the subject based on his visual perception of said visual stimulus, the chromaticity of the visual stimulus taking at least two distinct values, each chromaticity being uniform; and —selecting said color filter based on the results of said evaluation. The invention further proposes an optical article comprising such a color filter. The invention finally provides a system for selecting a color filter using said method.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to the use of dyes that impart localized regions of reduced transmittance across specific wavelength ranges. The inclusion of transmittance-attenuating dyes into a lens provides enhanced color contrast by tuning the spectrum of visible light transmission through the lens.