Progressive Patents (Class 351/159.42)
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Patent number: 12210223Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining an optical function of a progressive ophthalmic lens for a wearer, including: providing a prescription of the wearer; providing wearing data including at least a numerical parameter; providing by at least one processor a set of predefined optical functions including at least a first predefined optical function adapted to the prescription of the wearer and to a first predefined wearing parameter and a second predefined optical function for the prescription of the wearer and to at least a second predefined wearing data parameter, the second predefined optical function being different from the first; and determining an optical function of the progressive ophthalmic lens, so: when the wearing data parameter?a threshold value, the optical function of the lens=first predefined optical function, and when the wearing data parameter<the threshold value, the optical function=the second predefined optical function.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2020Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Cécile Petignaud, Marie-Gaelle Froeliger, Nacer Lakhchaf, Bénédicte Deldalle
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Patent number: 12210227Abstract: An exemplary method and apparatus are disclosed to perform myopia control using an ophthalmic device (contact lens) comprising a center region configured to correct vision at a first correction power (spherical or sphero-cylindrical) and a peripheral region that surrounds the central region, wherein the peripheral region comprises a plurality of distinct facet surfaces configured to under correct (or overcorrect) the vision at a second correction power, each of the plurality of distinct facet surfaces having a varying power in both (i) a first direction radially extending from a central location of the center region to a perimeter of the ophthalmic device and (ii) a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2024Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Ohio State Innovation FoundationInventor: Thomas Raasch
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Patent number: 12197045Abstract: The present invention relates to a progressive addition lens and to a method for manufacturing the same. A lens comprises a rear surface intended to face an eye of the user and a front surface opposite to the rear surface. The present invention is particularly related to defining the rear surface of the lens. The present invention shows that it is possible to enhance image quality by using rotational symmetry in combination with a predefined progression curve to thereby avoid astigmatic imaging and also substantially reducing the effects of spherical aberration, coma, curvature of field and distortion.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignees: Cartesian Optics B.V.Inventors: Georgius Jozephus Cyrillus Ludovicus Bruls, Nikolas Martin Scholz
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Patent number: 12144545Abstract: A system and method for an eye test application for mobile devices and in particular to applications for self-determination of eyeglass prescription via mobile computing devices comprising Simultaneous Split Point Focus (SSPF) and Low Latency Dynamic Distance Monitoring (LLDDM) for enabling self-determination of eyeglass prescription for a user via a mobile computing device, the device comprising: volatile and non-volatile memory for storing data; a processor configured for executing program instructions stored in the non-volatile memory; a visual display screen adapted to receive image information from the processor to present instructions and images to a user; and a camera configured to receive images of the user's pupils during a test situation; wherein the system comprises application program instructions for directing the processor to undertake a method for determining an eyeglass prescription, the method comprising: determining if an eye of the user is myopic, and if the user's eye is myopic; determininType: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: SPEQS LIMITEDInventor: David Stuart Coveney
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Patent number: 12124114Abstract: A design system of a progressive addition lens including a near portion for viewing a near distance, a distance portion for viewing a distance farther than the near distance, and an intermediate portion provided between the near portion and the distance portion and having a progressive refraction function, the design system of a progressive addition lens includes an aberration amount setting unit that sets an amount of transmission astigmatism ??[D] added to a progressive addition lens in such a way that when a wearer of the progressive addition lens ? to which transmission astigmatism of an aberration amount ??[D] is added is provided with the progressive addition lens ? having different parameters, visual performance when the progressive addition lens ? is worn approaches visual performance when the progressive addition lens ? is worn.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.Inventor: Tadashi Kaga
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Patent number: 12124112Abstract: Provided is technology that makes it possible to design a progressive power lens appropriate for visual behavior of a subject. A method for designing a progressive power lens includes: a step (a) of determining a relationship between a line-of-sight passage position on a surface of a progressive power lens through which a line of sight of a subject wearing the progressive power lens passes and a reactive accommodation amount that the subject exhibits when the line of sight passes through the line-of-sight passage position, based on visual behavior of the subject; a step (b) of judging whether or not the reactive accommodation amount is within an appropriate range; a step (c) of determining a correction method for correcting the progressive power lens based on a result of judgement made in the step (b); and a step (d) of correcting a design of the progressive power lens based on the correction method determined in the step (c).Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.Inventors: Eiichiro Yamaguchi, Toshiaki Sonehara, Ayumu Ito
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Patent number: 12111516Abstract: An optical zone forms a base surface of a spectacle lens and has a refractive power per a prescription. A functional zone surrounds a central optical zone of the spectacle lens and includes a plurality of functional sub-elements fitting with one another. Each of the functional sub-elements includes a first lens located in a central position and a plurality of second lenses around the first lens. Each of the second lenses has a surface shape of a regular polygon. The second lenses are in surface contact with one another via a surface where sides of the regular polygons are located. Wavefronts formed by the functional sub-elements can be superimposed on a working focal plane of the optical zone to form a uniform difussion circle that can form a blurred peripheral vision image. The spectacle lens can perform deep modulation for the imaging quality of the image plane on the retina.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2022Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: SHANGHAI ISPARX MEDICAL CO., LTDInventors: Risheng Xia, Yiyu Li, Hao Chen, Jia Qu
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Patent number: 12019313Abstract: An ophthalmic lens element includes an upper distance viewing zone and a lower near viewing zone. The upper distance viewing zone includes a central region with a first refractive power for clear distance vision and peripheral regions that are relatively positive in power compared to the first refractive power. The lower near viewing zone has a central region that is relatively positive in power compared to the first refractive power to account for accommodative lag. The powers of the peripheral regions of the lower near viewing zone are one of: i) equal to the power of the central region of the lower near viewing zone, ii) relatively positive in comparison to the power of the central region of the lower near viewing zone.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2020Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Brien Holden Vision Institute LimitedInventors: Padmaja Rajagopal Sankaridurg, Cathleen Fedtke, Leslie Alan Donovan, Earl Leo Smith, III, Arthur Ho, Brien Anthony Holden
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Patent number: 12007627Abstract: A progressive addition lens design method includes adjusting a lens surface shape to bring a difference between a first state when an object at a first location in a wearer's front and on the wearer's medial plane is visually recognized and a second state when an object at a second location positioned on the first location side in the horizontal direction at a constant height in the vertical direction is visually recognized in a plane parallel to a frontal plane and includes the first location at the time the lens is worn closer to a difference between a third state when an object at the first location is visually recognized and a fourth state when an object at the second location is visually recognized at the time a reference single focal lens corresponding to the progressive addition lens is worn or at the time equivalent to a naked eye.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.Inventor: Kazuma Kozu
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Patent number: 11960153Abstract: A folding lens system includes: a polarization-dependence device, a first optical device, a first polarization controller, a second optical device and a second polarization controller. The polarization-dependence device has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first optical device is located at a side facing toward the first surface of the polarization-dependence device. The first polarization controller is located between the polarization-dependence device and the first optical device. The first polarization controller has the same curvature as the first surface of the polarization-dependence device. The second optical device is located at a side facing toward the second surface of the polarization-dependence device. The second polarization controller is located between the polarization-dependence device and the second optical device. The second polarization controller has the same curvature as the second surface of the polarization-dependence device.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignees: Interface Technology (ChengDu) Co., Ltd., Interface Optoelectronics (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., General Interface Solution LimitedInventors: Po Lun Chen, Yun Pei Chen, Hui-Ping Shen, Ting-Huei Chen, Wei-Hung Tsay
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Patent number: 11914230Abstract: Disclosed is a wearable optical devices for a human subject, comprising: a transparent lens; a wearable frame configured to maintain the lens in front of an eye of a human subject; a transparent pixelated active optical element where the pixels of the active optical element have an optical property with a changeable value; an eye tracker; and a controller configured to set a value for an optical property of the pixels of the active optical element so as to create an image mask through which at least some of the light reaching the feye passes through, thereby modifying the image formed on the retina of the first eye.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: NOVASIGHT LTD.Inventors: Ran Yam, Oren Yehezkel, Dan Oz, Tal Samet
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Patent number: 11892712Abstract: A progressive spectacle lens has a front face and a rear face and a uniform substrate with a locally varying refractive index. The front face and/or the rear face of the substrate is formed as a free-form surface and carries only functional coatings, if any. The refractive index varies (a) only in a first spatial dimension and in a second spatial dimension and is constant in a third spatial dimension, a distribution of the refractive being neither point-symmetrical nor axis symmetrical, or (b) in a first spatial dimension and in a second spatial dimension and in a third spatial dimension, a distribution of the refractive index being neither point-symmetrical nor axis symmetrical, or (c) in a first spatial dimension and in a second spatial dimension and in a third spatial dimension, a distribution of the refractive index not being point-symmetrical or axis symmetrical at all.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Gerhard Kelch, Christoph Menke, Helmut Wietschorke
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Patent number: 11886048Abstract: A lens that includes an electroactive region where an optical characteristic changes by electric control comprises: a transparent substrate; a second transparent substrate disposed facing the first transparent substrate; and an intermediate layer disposed between the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate; and including a mark including information.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kamibeppu, Hirofumi Asada, Akifumi Aono, Akihiro Muramatsu, Toshifumi Hino
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Patent number: 11886047Abstract: A lens, system for designing, computer program for designing and a method for designing, with a computer, a progressive addition lens including a distance vision region, a near vision region, and an intermediate vision region, wherein a power gradually changes between the distance vision region and the near vision region, and wherein the progressive addition lens is based on prescription data, the method including: determining a transmission astigmatic performance parameter corresponding to a sum of a prescribed astigmatism included in the prescription data and of a predetermined amount of extra astigmatism; determining lens surface data corresponding to the determined transmission performance parameter.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Asami, Yasunori Izawa
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Patent number: 11782293Abstract: A progressive addition lens contains a plurality of microlenses for providing simultaneous myopic defocus. The microlenses are superimposed on a power variation surface of the lens, which includes a designated distance portion in the upper section of the lens adapted for distance vision and a fitting cross; a designated near portion located in the lower section of the lens, the near portion including a near reference point having a near dioptric power adapted for near vision; and a designated intermediate corridor extending between the designated distance portion and near portions. Microlenses are excluded from all areas of the surface located below a notional line extending from nasal to temporal limits of the lens at a vertical coordinate above the near reference point where the vertical coordinate lies at a distance above the near reference point with the distance being in a range between 1.5 mm and 3 mm.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2023Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Saulius Raymond Varnas, Ray Steven Spratt, Timo Kratzer, Gerhard Kelch, Siegfried Wahl
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Patent number: 11754856Abstract: A method for designing an eyeglass lens includes: displaying an image upon a display device while maintaining a positional relationship of a face of a subject and the display device; acquiring information in which visual sensitivity of the subject is evaluated on the basis of an impression received by the subject who has viewed the image; and designing an eyeglass lens on the basis of the information in which the sensitivity is evaluated.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2019Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: NIKON-ESSILOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoshinori Yoshida
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Patent number: 11726350Abstract: A progressive addition lens includes a first fitting point, a near vision reference point and a first optical spherical power variation between the first fitting point and the near vision reference point. The lens further includes a second fitting point and a night vision reference point located on a same face of the lens, the night vision reference point being positioned on an eye gaze direction inclined by an upward eye gaze declination angle when the user wears the progressive addition lens mounted in a frame with a downward head declination angle opposite to the upward eye gaze declination angle without moving the frame relatively to the user's face, the progressive addition lens presenting a second optical spherical power variation between the second fitting point and the night vision reference point, the night vision reference point having a lower optical spherical power than the second fitting point.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2018Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: RUPP + HUBRACH OPTIK GMBHInventors: Roman Sturm, Thorsten Stein, Martin Bissinger
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Patent number: 11630325Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for augmented reality devices with prescription lenses. An example augmented reality device may include a frame and a lens coupled to the frame. The lens may include a prescription lens configured to refract light, the prescription lens having a first index of refraction value, a waveguide encapsulated in the prescription lens, the waveguide having a second index of refraction value, and a first coating layer disposed on a first side of the waveguide, the first coating layer having a third index of refraction value. The third index of refraction value may be less than the first index of refraction value, and the first index of refraction value may be less than the second index of refraction value.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Angeles Marcia Almanza-Workman, Robert Waverly Zehner, Suchit Shah, Kibyung Seong, Jon H. Appleby
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Patent number: 11598977Abstract: A lens, system for designing, computer program for designing and a method for designing, with a computer, a progressive addition lens including a distance vision region, a near vision region, and an intermediate vision region, wherein a power gradually changes between the distance vision region and the near vision region, and wherein the progressive addition lens is based on prescription data, the method including: determining a transmission astigmatic performance parameter corresponding to a sum of a prescribed astigmatism included in the prescription data and of a predetermined amount of extra astigmatism; determining lens surface data corresponding to the determined transmission performance parameter.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Asami, Yasunori Izawa
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Patent number: 11567344Abstract: A lens element worn in front of an eye of a person includes a refraction area having a first refractive power based on a prescription for correcting an abnormal refraction of the eye of the person and a second refractive power different from the first refractive power and a plurality of at least three optical elements, at least one optical element having an optical function of not focusing an image on the retina of the eye so as to slow down the progression of the abnormal refraction of the eye.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Matthieu Guillot, Björn Drobe
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Patent number: 11452595Abstract: An intraocular lens for providing enhanced vision includes an optic having a clear aperture having an outer diameter. The optic has opposing first and second surfaces disposed about an optical axis, the first surface including a cross-sectional profile. The optic further includes central and outer zones that fill the entire clear aperture of the optic. The central zone is disposed about the optical axis having an outer diameter, the profile in the vicinity of the central zone having a constant radius of curvature or a radius of curvature that increases with increasing radius from the optical axis. The outer zone is disposed about the central zone, the profile in the outer zone having a base curvature with a base radius of curvature and a center of curvature, the profile in the outer zone characterized in that, as the distance from the optical axis increases, the distance from the center of curvature of the base curvature also increases. The central zone and the outer zone.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2019Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: AMO Groningen B.V.Inventor: Theophilus Bogaert
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Patent number: 11454824Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining a progressive ophthalmic device for personalised visual compensation for an individual, according to which the following steps are performed: a) in a first data acquisition phase, determining at least at a first time preceding the appearance of the presbyopia of this individual, at least one value of at least one individual parameter of said individual, and recording each value of the individual parameter of the wearer in a database, in correlation with an associated temporal indicator, b) in a second determination step of the progressive ophthalmic device for personalised visual compensation, determining a desired value of at least one geometric or optical parameter of said progressive ophthalmic device for visual compensation, taking account of said at least one value of the individual parameter determined in step a) and the associated temporal indicator.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2017Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Thierry Bonnin, Delphine Tranvouez-Bernardin, Laurent Calixte, Isabelle Poulain
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Patent number: 11391966Abstract: In a spectacle lens added with prism thinning, a spherical refractive power of a first refractive portion is positive, and a prism base direction of a prism provided at a prism measurement reference point is set toward a second refractive portion side; a mean value of a difference of a mean curvature in a lens curved surface along a direction passing through a midpoint of a connecting line between two alignment reference marks and orthogonal to the connecting line with respect to a mean curvature in a lens curved surface along a direction of a lens without prism is smaller in a first-refractive-portion-side region from a fitting point than that in a second-refractive-portion-side region from the fitting point.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2017Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.Inventors: Takashi Hatanaka, Tomohiro Odaira
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Patent number: 11385475Abstract: A lens element worn in front of an eye of a person includes a refraction area having a first refractive power based on a prescription for correcting an abnormal refraction of the eye of the person and a second refractive power different from the first refractive power and a plurality of at least three optical elements, at least one optical element having an optical function of not focusing an image on the retina of the eye so as to slow down the progression of the abnormal refraction of the eye.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Matthieu Guillot, Björn Drobe
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Patent number: 11353721Abstract: A lens element worn in front of an eye of a person includes a refraction area having a first refractive power based on a prescription for correcting an abnormal refraction of the eye of the person and a second refractive power different from the first refractive power and a plurality of at least three optical elements, at least one optical element having an optical function of not focusing an image on the retina of the eye so as to slow down the progression of the abnormal refraction of the eye.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Matthieu Guillot, Björn Drobe
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Patent number: 11287673Abstract: An ophthalmic lens apparatus has a visual field of a plurality of horizontal meridians each having constant optical power. The optical power of the visual field continuously varies from a top portion of the lens to a bottom portion of the lens by the horizontal meridians being arranged with their midpoints along a generally vertical focal length deceleration curve across the visual field and at least some adjacent horizontal meridians having different optical powers. widths of the horizontal meridians across the lens decrease from a top end of the focal length deceleration curve toward a bottom end of the focal length deceleration curve, and the lens surface beyond the horizontal ends of the meridians provides visual comfort to a user of the lens by providing smooth gradients of defocus without sharp edges, image jumps, waviness or distortions of image.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2021Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Inventor: Michael Walach
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Patent number: 11249312Abstract: An optical device includes a display that emits light toward a lightguide. Display light reflects from lightguide surfaces by total internal reflection (TIR). The display is mounted proximate to the lightguide. The optical device includes a first surface at an eye-side of the optical device and a second surface at a world-side. The optical device includes a first material having a first Abbe number and a second material having a second Abbe number different from the first Abbe number. The first material and the second material cause a color correction to light from the display or alters a chromatic aberration of the light from the display. A head mountable frame supports the display and the lightguide including the first and second materials.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Ozan Cakmakci, Daniel Corbalan, Benjamin McLaughlin Gallant, Carlin Vieri, Juseok Lee
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Patent number: 11226496Abstract: Various embodiments disclose a quasi progressive lens including a first optical zone capable of providing distance vision, a second optical zone capable of providing near vision and a transition zone connecting the first and second optical zones. Physical dimensions (e.g., length and width) of the transition zone are adjusted to increase the size of the second optical zone in comparison to progressive lenses and to reduce residual cylinder power and aberrations along the convergence path in comparison to bifocal lenses.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Shamir Optical Industry Ltd.Inventors: Yuval Carmon, Yotam Gil, Liron Gleser, Alex Shur
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Patent number: 11221499Abstract: An ophthalmic lens may comprises a main body comprising a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, the main body having a diameter, a base curve, a peripheral thickness, and a center thickness, wherein, one or more of the diameter, the base curve, the peripheral thickness, or the center thickness are configured such that a dsag is less than 1.3% when comparing a first orientation of the main body with at least a portion of the first surface abutting an eye of a wearer and a second orientation of the main body with at least a portion of the second surface abutting the eye of the wearer.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.Inventors: Philippe F. Jubin, Robert Ryan Valdomar, Shahrokh Shawn Zeinali
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Patent number: 11209671Abstract: Progressive lenses designs are disclosed having optical parameters such as the width of a far vision zone, the width of a near vision zone, the width of a corridor, the maximum residual cylinder, the maximum gradient of residual cylinder, that vary with addition. Such lens designs may provide improved performance for individuals requiring different amounts of addition (such as individuals having different ages) who spend more time performing different types of activities such as viewing hand-held devices like smart phones and tablets or reading books.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Shamir Optical Industry Ltd.Inventors: Raanan Moshe Naftalovich, Riki Atias, Alex Shur
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Patent number: 11204511Abstract: Progressive lenses designs are disclosed having optical parameters such as the width of a far vision zone, the width of a near vision zone, the width of a corridor, the maximum residual cylinder, the maximum gradient of residual cylinder, that vary with addition. Such lens designs may provide improved performance for individuals requiring different amounts of addition (such as individuals having different ages) who spend more time performing different types of activities such as viewing hand-held devices like smart phones and tablets or reading books.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2020Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: Shamir Optical Industry Ltd.Inventors: Raanan Moshe Naftalovich, Riki Atias, Alex Shur
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Patent number: 11199726Abstract: A family of spectacle lenses is provided in which each spectacle lens is configured to achieve a specified prescriptive spherical power from among a number of prescriptive spherical powers and a specified prescriptive astigmatic power from among a number of prescriptive astigmatic powers. Each spectacle lens has a specified rotationally symmetrical spectacle-lens front face, a specified atoric spectacle-lens rear face, and in at least one principal section, such a deviation in the curvature from the circular form that, for a value for the distance between the vertex of the spectacle lens rear face and the pivot point of the eye, which lies in a range between 15 and 40 mm, at any point in a spectacle lens region within a radius of 25 mm about the geometrical center of the spectacle lens, an upper limit of the total deviation of the power is not exceeded.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventor: Markus Welscher
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Patent number: 11156854Abstract: A progressive ophthalmic lens includes at least one multifocal surface, in which at each point of its surface, an astigmatism value and a gradient of astigmatism value can be measured, the lens including: a far-vision zone with a reference point (FV), a near-vision zone with a reference point (NV), an intermediate vision zone with a progression path that connects the far vision zone and the near vision zone, a foveal projection, and a para-foveal projection, and said lens defining a lens addition. When the lens addition is different than 2.00 D, the astigmatism value is k*Add*0.41 D, where Add indicates the lens addition and k is 0.5 and, if the progression path is shorter than 15 mm, the maximum astigmatism value of the foveal projection is (?0.03*d) D/mm+0.86 D, and when the lens progression path is larger than 15 mm, the maximum astigmatism value of the foveal projection is (?0.02*d) D/mm+0.71 D.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: HORIZONS OPTICAL, S.L.U.Inventors: Pau Artus Colomer, Gloria Casanellas Peñalver, Rafael Perpiñan Blasco
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Patent number: 11131867Abstract: A lens element adapted for a person including a holder including a refraction area having a refractive power based on a prescription for correcting an abnormal refraction of the person, a plurality of optical elements placed on at least one surface of the holder to at least one of: slow down, retard, or prevent a progress of the abnormal refraction of an eye of the person, and at least one layer of at least one coating element covering at least a zone of at least one optical element and at least a zone of the holder on which the optical elements are placed, wherein said at least one layer of at least one coating element adds an optical power of 0.1 diopter in absolute value in specific wearing conditions when measured over said zone of the optical element covered by said at least one layer of at least one coating element.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Matthieu Guillot, Helene Guillou, Carlos Rego, Eric Gacoin
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Patent number: 11126012Abstract: An ophthalmic lens apparatus has a visual field of a plurality of horizontal meridians each having constant optical power. The optical power of the visual field continuously varies from a top portion of the lens to a bottom portion of the lens by the horizontal meridians being arranged with their midpoints along a generally vertical focal length deceleration curve across the visual field and at least some adjacent horizontal meridians having different optical powers. The focal length deceleration curve across the visual field is at least 20 millimeters (mm) long.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Inventor: Michael Walach
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Patent number: 11099388Abstract: A display managing method for managing the display of an image to a user of an optical system comprising at least a see-through displaying device arranged and configured to display the image towards an eye of the user and an optical lens designed to be placed in front of the eye of the user and having an optical function. The method includes: an optical function data providing step, during which optical function data relating to the optical function of the optical lens are provided; and a display parameter determining step, during which a value of at least one display parameter is determined based at least on the optical function data.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2017Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Denis Rousseau, Benoit Callier, Marion Swital
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Patent number: 11086142Abstract: A progressive spectacle lens includes a substrate which has a front face and a rear face and is made from a material with a regionally varying refractive index, wherein the front face and/or the rear face has/have a free-form surface geometry. The progressive spectacle lens complies with the following optical requirements: (1) a prescribed dioptric power in the distance reference point within the permissible limit deviations in accordance with EN ISO 8980-2:2004 and a prescribed dioptric power in the near reference point within the permissible limit deviations in accordance with EN ISO 8980-2:2004, (2) a monotonically steady increase in the dioptric power between the distance reference point and near reference point along a principal line of vision, and (3) a progression channel. The progressive spectacle lens has a free-form surface geometry of the front face and/or rear face.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2021Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Gerhard Kelch, Christoph Menke, Helmut Wietschorke
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Patent number: 11073704Abstract: A lens element worn in front of an eye of a person includes a refraction area having a first refractive power based on a prescription for correcting an abnormal refraction of the eye of the person and a second refractive power different from the first refractive power and a plurality of at least three optical elements, at least one optical element having an optical function of not focusing an image on the retina of the eye so as to slow down the progression of the abnormal refraction of the eye.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Matthieu Guillot, Björn Drobe
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Patent number: 11067830Abstract: An ophthalmic progressive addition lens for a farsighted and presbyopic wearer having a mean refractive power, PPO(?, ?), a module of resulting astigmatism, ASR(?, ?), an acuity loss value ACU(?, ?), wherein the (?, ?) functions are determined in as-worn conditions of the lens by the wearer, and a first acuity criterion, AcuityCriterion1 which fulfils following requirement: AcuityCriterion1?44 D2.deg, and wherein: AcuityCriterion1 is defined as a combination of PPO(?, ?), ASR(?, ?), ADDp, and ACU(?, ?).Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2016Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Melanie Heslouis, Benjamin Rousseau, Sebastien Fricker
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Patent number: 11022732Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical film for eyewear that allows, when used by a person feeling stressed, easy of production of a space having a color tone that the person psychologically feels healing, and a functional film for eyewear, an optical laminate, and eyewear that each include the optical film. The optical film for eyewear including an optical functional layer, and has that transmitted light from a light source of white light has a pale tone, is provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Saki Abe, Yoshiyuki Yahagi, Kouichi Tanaka
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Patent number: 11016310Abstract: A method for determining a three dimensional performance of an ophthalmic lens including: calculating a domain in which a condition between a local optical criterion and at a threshold value is fulfilled; determining the three dimensional performance of the ophthalmic lens according to the domain. A method of calculating an ophthalmic lens includes the method.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2016Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Melanie Heslouis, Sebastien Fricker, Cyril Guilloux, Benjamin Rousseau
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Patent number: 10962802Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to lens, methods of making, designing lens and/or methods using lens in which performance may be improved by providing one or more steps in the central portion of the optical zone and one or more steps in the peripheral portion of the optic zone. In some embodiments, such lens may be useful for correcting refractive error of an eye and/or for controlling eye growth.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: BRIEN HOLDEN VISION INSTITUTE LIMITEDInventors: Brien Anthony Holden, Padmaja Rajagopal Sakaridurg, Klaus Ehrmann, Fabian Conrad, Arthur Ho
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Patent number: 10935705Abstract: Provided is an observation optical system used for observing an image displayed on an image display surface. The observation optical system includes, in order from an observation surface side to the image display surface side, a first lens having a positive refractive power, and a second lens having a positive refractive power. The first lens is a Fresnel lens, and a focal length f1 of the first lens and a focal length f2 of the second lens are each appropriately set.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroki Ebe
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Patent number: 10921614Abstract: A convergence-reducing lens, wherein a central normal of the convergence-reducing lens defines a z-axis, and a center of the convergence-reducing lens defines a tangential, centered x-y plane, together defining a coordinate system, the convergence-reducing lens comprising a distance-vision region, having a negative distance-vision optical power, to refract a light ray, directed parallel to the z-axis at a distance-vision region point at an x-distance from a y-z plane of the coordinate system, so that its extension intersects the y-z plane at a distance-vision intersection z-distance; and a near-vision region, having a near-vision optical power that matches the distance-vision optical power within 0.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2017Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Neurolens, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey P. Krall, Aric Plumley, Gergely T. Zimanyi
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Patent number: 10890784Abstract: Methods, devices, and computer programs for determining a near-vision point of a person are disclosed. The person under examination looks at a movable near-vision target, and an image of the person is captured with a camera device incorporated into the near-vision target. The orientation and/or position of the near-vision target is determined. The near-vision point is then determined from the orientation and/or position of the near-vision target.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Michael Gamperling, Cristina Alvarez Diez, Carsten Glasenapp
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Patent number: 10838231Abstract: A product includes a progressive power spectacle lens or a representation, stored on a data storage medium, of the progressive power spectacle lens. The progressive power spectacle lens has a front surface and a back surface and a spatially varying refractive index, wherein the front surface and/or the back surface is embodied as a progressive surface. The front surface is formed as a free-form surface in such a way that the maximum of the absolute value of the mean curvature of the front surface lies in the intermediate corridor and/or the back surface is formed as a free-form surface in such a way that the minimum of the absolute value of the mean curvature of the back surface lies in the intermediate corridor. Further, a computer-implemented method for planning a progressive power spectacle lens with a spatially varying refractive index and a progressive surface is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Gerhard Kelch, Christoph Menke, Helmut Wietschorke
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Patent number: 10712589Abstract: The embodiments disclosed herein include improved toric lenses and other ophthalmic apparatuses (including, for example, contact lens, intraocular lenses (IOLs), and the like) and associated method for their design and use. The apparatus includes one or more optical zones, including an optical zone defined by a polynomial-based surface coincident at a plurality of meridians having distinct cylinder powers, wherein light incident to a given region of each of the plurality of meridians, and respective regions nearby, is directed to a given point of focus such that the regions nearby to the given region direct light to the given point of focus when the given meridian is rotationally offset from the given region, thereby establishing an extended band of operation, and wherein each of the plurality of meridians is uniformly arranged on the optical zone for a same given added power (in diopters) up to 1.0 D (diopters).Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.Inventor: Huawei Zhao
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Patent number: 10656439Abstract: Ophthalmic lenses intended to be worn by non-presbyopic wearers, such as single-vision ophthalmic lenses. The lenses exhibit reduced distortion as perceived by the wearer.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2016Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Helene De Rossi, Fabien Muradore
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Patent number: 10653312Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining at least one visual behavior parameter of a person. The method includes the following steps: a step of encouraging the person to perform a visual test during which he observes at least one target position, a step of measuring an item of data that is representative of at least one viewing direction of the person during the visual test, a step of determining a reference viewing direction on the basis of the representative data measured, and a step of positioning, relative to the reference viewing direction, at least one measured target position that is determined, in a reference marker associated with the head of the person, on the basis of the data that is representative of the viewing direction of the person measured during the visual test.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2016Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Guilhem Escalier, Isabelle Poulain, Amandine Debieuvre, Damien Paille, Delphine Tranvouez-Bernardin, Konogan Baranton, Benjamin Rousseau
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Patent number: 10646329Abstract: The embodiments disclosed herein include improved toric lenses and other ophthalmic apparatuses (including, for example, contact lens, intraocular lenses (IOLs), and the like) and associated method for their design and use. In an embodiment, an ophthalmic apparatus (e.g., a toric lens) includes one or more angularly-varying phase members comprising a diffractive or refractive structure, each varying the depths of focus of the apparatus so as to provide an extended tolerance to misalignment of the apparatus when implanted in an eye. That is, the ophthalmic apparatus establishes an extended band of operational meridian over the intended correction meridian.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.Inventor: Huawei Zhao