Abstract: A method to select or to conceive/design lenses is provided. The method may be applied to lenses having effect of myopia control, visual fatigue relief, etc. In one aspect, a predictive model that ranks myopia control solutions according to visual, behavioral, and biometric parameter is provided. The predictive model may be built based on the myopic eye characteristics, the behavior of the wearers, and the defocus induced by the myopia control solution. In another aspect, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus for evaluating the efficacy of an ophthalmic lens in controlling at least one sightedness impairment (e.g., myopia) of at least one wearer of the ophthalmic lens are provided. The apparatus may determine, based on a predetermined relationship model, the efficacy of the ophthalmic lens for at least one wearer from representative data corresponding to the at least one wearer.

Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) mirror is provided that includes a glass substrate with a first major surface, a second major surface opposite to the first major surface, and a minor surface connecting the first and second major surfaces. The 3D mirror also includes a reflective layer on the first major surface of the glass substrate. The first major surface comprises an aspheric curvature and a reverse curvature that is disposed in a reverse curve region of the glass substrate. The first major surface has a surface roughness Ra in the reverse curve region of about 3 nm or less, and a peak to valley (PV) surface roughness in the reverse curve region of about 30 nm or less.

Abstract: An optical system comprising an optical lens •—the optical lens comprising a substrate (2) and a self-healing coating (3) extending along at least part of a surface of the substrate, the self-healing coating having a glass-transition temperature equal to or greater than 40° C. and equal to or smaller than 60° C., and •—the optical system comprising a heating component (4) adapted to heat the self-healing coating at a temperature above the glass-transition temperature of the self-healing coating.

Abstract: A device for supplying power to an active ocular implant in an eye of a user can include a spectacle lens with a first main surface and a second main surface, a light source, and an optical arrangement which is configured to input couple light from the light source into the spectacle lens and output couple said light from the first main surface of the spectacle lens to the user. The optical arrangement can include at least one diffractive element which is arranged in the spectacle lens. Each of the at least one diffractive element can have an associated first end and an associated second end. The associated first end and the associated second end each can have a different distance from the first main surface and/or each have a different distance from the second main surface.

Abstract: A zoom optical system consists of a first lens group having negative refractive power, a second lens group having positive refractive power, and a rear lens group which are disposed in order from an object. The rear lens group comprises a last lens group and an F lens group in order from a side closest to an image. Lens groups forming the first lens group, the second lens group, and the rear lens group are configured in such a manner that, upon zooming, the respective lens groups move and a distance between the lens groups adjacent to each other changes. At least a part of the F lens group is configured to move upon focusing. Further, the following conditional expression is satisfied. ?0.220<f1/fE<0.280 where f1: a focal length of the first lens group, and fE: a focal length of the last lens group.

Abstract: Provided is a pair of smart glasses. The smart glasses include a front frame, and legs rotatably connected to the front frame through a rotating module. A heat conducting structure is housed in the rotating module. The heat conducting structure includes an upper flange and a lower flange that are closely fitted in an up and down direction and rotatable relative to each other. The upper flange is connected to a front frame heat pipe provided in the front frame, and the lower flange is connected to a leg heat pipe provided in the legs and rotates with the leg heat pipe.

Abstract: An optical lens and a head-mounted display device are provided. The optical lens includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens sequentially arranged from a light exit side to a light incident side. Refractive powers of the first lens, the second lens, the third lens and the fourth lens are sequentially positive, negative, positive and positive. An image generator is disposed at the light incident side. The optical lens is configured to receive an image beam provided by the image generator. The image beam forms a stop at the light exit side. The stop has the minimum cross-sectional area of beam convergence of the image beam. The optical lens and the head-mounted display device of the disclosure have advantages of smaller size, light weight, large viewing angle and high resolution.

Abstract: An optical driving assembly includes an optical element having an optical axis, an optical sensor, and a driving module driving optical sensor to translate along a direction perpendicular to the optical axis. The driving module includes a fixation member provided with a moving cavity, a moving member provided in the first moving cavity and movably connected to the fixation member along a first direction and provided with a second moving cavity, a supporting member provided in the second moving cavity and movably connected to the moving member along a second direction and supporting the optical sensor, and first and second driving assemblies. The first and second driving assemblies include first and second shape memory alloy wires. The optical sensor can linearly move in two directions perpendicular to the optical axis, achieving optical image stabilization and independent movements in two directions that are not affected by each other.

Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, and a rear group, sequentially from an object side. Intervals between lens groups varies when changing magnification. A lens group having a highest negative refractive power among a lens group having a negative refractive power in the rear group is a focusing lens group GF configured to move toward an image side when focusing from infinity to a close range. A lens group GFF having a positive refractive power and arranged adjacent to an object side of the focusing lens group GF among a lens group having a positive refractive power included in the rear group includes a positive lens component L1 positioned on a most image side, which includes a positive lens L1P having a refractive index NdL1P, and a conditional expression (1) 1.85<NdL1P is satisfied.

Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens sequentially disposed from an object side to an imaging plane. The second lens has a concave image-side surface, the third lens comprises a positive refractive power, a radius of curvature of an object-side surface of the fifth lens is greater than a radius of curvature of an image-side surface of the fifth lens and a radius of curvature of an object-side surface of the sixth lens, and TTL/2lmgHT<0.695 in which TTL represents a distance from an object-side surface of a lens closest to the object side among the plurality of lenses to an imaging plane and 2lmgHT represents a diagonal length of an imaging plane.

Abstract: A lens driving apparatus includes a base, a housing disposed on the base, a bobbin disposed inside the housing, a first coil disposed on the bobbin, a magnet disposed on the housing, a second coil disposed on the base, an upper elastic member connecting the housing and the bobbin, and a support member electrically connected with the upper elastic member. The housing includes an upper surface facing the upper elastic member. The upper surface of the housing includes a first surface, a second surface disposed lower than the first surface and a third surface disposed lower than the second surface. A portion of the upper elastic member is disposed on the first surface of the housing. The housing includes a hole formed on the third surface. The support member passes through the hole of the housing.

Abstract: Eyewear includes a lens (31) including left and right curved, concave protuberances (33) with a connecting structure (37) for sitting on a nose of a user. A peak point (63) of each protuberance (33), which is at a point of maximum distance from a user's eye, is not aligned with a centerline of the user's eye but is offset from the centerline of the user's eye by an offset distance.

Abstract: A diffractive optical element includes: a diffraction unit; and a lens unit disposed on a light incident side of the diffraction unit. The lens unit includes: a substrate; and a protrusion and recess portion disposed on a side opposite to a light incident side of the substrate. The protrusion and recess portion includes: a periodic structure of a relief-protrusion portion disposed in a central part, a periodic structure of a stepwise grating disposed in a central part simulating the relief-protrusion portion, or a combination thereof; and a grating disposed in a portion other than the central part. The number of steps of the stepwise grating disposed in the central part is larger than the number of steps of the grating disposed in the portion other than the central part.

Abstract: A head-mounted device may have optical modules that present images to a user's left and right eyes. Each optical module may have a lens barrel with a low-reflectance coating, a display coupled to the lens barrel that generates a visible-light image, a lens mounted to the lens barrel through which the image is viewable from an eye box, an infrared light-emitting diode that emits infrared light that illuminates an eye box at an infrared wavelength through the lens, and an infrared camera that captures an image from the eye box at the infrared wavelength. The low-reflectance coating may be a low-visible-reflectance-and-low-infrared-reflectance coating that exhibits low-reflectance for visible light from the display and for infrared light at the infrared wavelength that is generated by the light-emitting diode.

Abstract: An optical system includes, successively in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens, an object side surface thereof being concave at a paraxial area, and an image side surface thereof being convex at the paraxial area thereof; a second lens having a positive refractive power, an object side surface thereof being convex at a paraxial area, and an image side surface thereof being concave at the paraxial area; a third lens having a positive refractive power, and an image side surface thereof being convex at a paraxial area; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; a sixth lens; a seventh lens; and an eighth lens having a negative refractive power, an object side surface thereof being convex at a paraxial area, and an image side surface thereof being concave at the paraxial area.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include eyewear that provides controlled variable light attenuation and color enhancement based on an input received from a user, a sensor and/or a signal from a control circuit. In some embodiments, the eyewear includes an optical filter system with two or more defined filter states that are adapted to improve color vision in different environments. The optical filter system can be incorporated into a lens having any desired curvature, including, for example, cylindrical, spherical or toroidal. The lens can include one or more functional components. Examples of functional components include color enhancement filters, chroma enhancement filters, a laser attenuation filter, electrochromic filters, photoelectrochromic filters, variable attenuation filters, anti-reflection coatings, interference stacks, hard coatings, flash mirrors, anti-static coatings, anti-fog coatings, other functional layers, or a combination of functional layers.

Abstract: A method for designing a progressive addition lens and the related technology, the lens including a near portion for viewing a near distance, a distance portion for viewing a farther distance, and an intermediate portion between the near and distance portions and having a progressive refraction function, wherein transmission astigmatism is added to the near and intermediate portions out of the distance portion, the near portion, and the intermediate portion, the method including a mode selection step of determining, according to a prescription power, whether to select an AS-oriented mode wherein the amount of transmission astigmatism to be added is set so the amount of horizontal refractive power is larger than the vertical refractive power, or select a PW-oriented mode in which the amount of transmission astigmatism to be added is set so the amount of vertical refractive power is larger than the horizontal refractive power.

Abstract: An electrically-controlled optical device intended to be placed in front of a user's eye, the electrically-controlled optical device being an ophthalmic device, the electrically-controlled optical device comprising: a front shell defining a front surface and a back surface opposed to the front surface, the front shell comprising a slab, at least one functional layer arranged on the back surface and one primer layer, said primer layer being arranged between the at least one functional layer and the slab; and an electrically-controlled object facing the back surface of the front shell wherein the primer layer is conformed such that the electrically-controlled optical device is mechanically resistant to an impact energy of at least 200 mJ.

Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens, arranged in order from an object side. The first lens is shaped such that a length of a first axis, which intersects an optical axis, is greater than a length of a second axis, which intersects the optical axis and is perpendicular to the first axis. The optical imaging system satisfies 4.5<TTL/IMG HT<6.5; 0.87<TTL/f<1.31; and 0.65<L1S1es/L1S1el<0.9.

Abstract: The optical articles disclosed herein render polarized glare in a certain tunable color that is visually more perceptive than a regular tinted lens or a regular polarized lens. Optical articles, including sunglass lenses, that are configured to color plane-polarized light transmitted through the lens will draw the wearer's attention and help identify the contours or dangers on surfaces in the wearer's field of vision.