Three Or More Foci Patents (Class 351/159.43)
  • Patent number: 12259596
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an ophthalmic lens with an extended depth of field including an optical unit that includes a first surface and a second surface both centered by an optical axis and opposite to each other. At least one of the first and second surfaces is defined by a superposition of a base sag profile and a feature sag profile and includes in sequence a first zone, a second zone, and a third zone along a radial direction away from the optical axis. The first zone is designed as a freeform surface zone, and the second zone is designed as a phase transition zone. The ophthalmic lens enables patients to acquire a continuous range of vision from intermediate to far distances and also optimizes their far vision without visual interference, such that the resulting far vision correction is equivalent to that of existing monofocal ophthalmic lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: MDCO TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Xin Wei
  • Patent number: 12251302
    Abstract: An ophthalmic lens comprising an anterior surface and a posterior surface, at least one of the anterior surface and posterior surface including a first surface region corresponding to a photopic aperture of a pupil and a second surface region corresponding to a difference between the photopic aperture and a mesopic aperture of the pupil. A first microstructure pattern formed in a the first surface region, the first microstructure pattern introducing a phase perturbation into an optical path of incoming light such that a full depth of focus for photopic vision is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventor: Yueai Liu
  • Patent number: 11751990
    Abstract: An ophthalmic lens comprising an anterior surface and a posterior surface, at least one of the anterior surface and posterior surface including a first surface region corresponding to a photopic aperture of a pupil and a second surface region corresponding to a difference between the photopic aperture and a mesopic aperture of the pupil. A first microstructure pattern formed in a the first surface region, the first microstructure pattern introducing a phase perturbation into an optical path of incoming light such that a full depth of focus for photopic vision is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventor: Yueai Liu
  • Patent number: 11426271
    Abstract: The invention relates to a trifocal artificial ophthalmic lens (20), which contains an anterior side optical surface (21), a posterior side optical surface (22) and an optical axis (23), at least one of the anterior side optical surface (21) and the posterior side optical surface (22) contains an optics having three useful focal points and having an at least partially diffractive profile. The three useful focal points correspond to focal points (31, 32) belonging to the 0th and 1st diffraction orders of the diffractive profile, and to a focal point (33) belonging to an enhanced diffractive secondary peaks between the 0th and the 1st diffraction orders. The invention also relates to a method of producing the aforementioned trifocal artificial ophthalmic lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Inventors: Laszlo Ferenc Kontur, Daniel Bercsenyi, Gabor Erdei, Bence Papdi
  • Patent number: 10416476
    Abstract: A contact lens product includes a multifocal contact lens and a buffer solution. The multifocal contact lens includes a central region and at least one annular region. The annular region concentrically surrounds the central region. A diopter of the annular region is different from a diopter of the central region. The multifocal contact lens is immersed in the buffer solution, and the buffer solution includes a cycloplegic agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: LARGAN MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: En-Ping Lin, Wei-Yuan Chen, Chun-Hung Teng
  • Patent number: 9952449
    Abstract: A presbyopia contact lens set especially for a user who has worn spherical contact lenses, a designing method for a presbyopia contact lens, and a manufacturing method for a presbyopia contact lens that uses such design method. The presbyopia contact lens set configured by combining a plurality of types of presbyopia contact lens having different specifications lens powers, includes the plurality of types of presbyopia contact lenses in which the radial lens power profile in a near-use region and that in a far-use region are defined using mutually different functions, the function for defining the radial lens power profile in the far-use region is set in accordance with a specifications lens power, and the radial lens power rate-of-change in the far-use region is made larger for lenses having a small specifications lens power than for lenses having a large specifications lens power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: MENICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Goto, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9465235
    Abstract: Dental/medical/surgical loupes have an improved declination angle to reduce neck and back strain. Eyeglass frames are provided with carrier lenses having bottom edges. A hole is provided in each carrier lens, each hole having an outer periphery that extends below the bottom edge of the carrier lens, resulting in a pair of opposing pointed ends. A pair of ocular devices are cemented in a respective one of the holes, such that a portion of the ocular body also extends below the bottom edge of the carrier lens. Each ocular is then cemented or otherwise permanently affixed into position to achieve a desired declination angle. For added stability, a pair of holes may be formed into the body of each ocular, each pair of holes being physically aligned with the two opposing pointed ends of the carrier lens associated with that ocular.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: General Scientific Corporation
    Inventor: Byung J. Chang
  • Publication number: 20150146164
    Abstract: Ophthalmic lenses and spectacles for enhanced experience due to right-handedness or left-handedness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Aude Contet, Cyril Guilloux
  • Patent number: 8944593
    Abstract: A method comprising: performing eye exam to a subject having a first and second eye; determining a prescription for the first and second eyes, the prescription describing focal power for each of the first eye and the second eye for at least three distances; and providing the prescription to a machine that produces progressive glasses that comprise a first and second lenses, wherein the first and second lenses each having at least three focal portions associated with the at least three distances that are located in a same height in the glasses thereby enabling clear vision for the subject in the first eye and the second eye with respect to the at least three distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Inventor: Shmuel Ur
  • Publication number: 20150029460
    Abstract: This invention describes strategies and devices for improving the visual experience while expanding the depth of field of presbyopic and pseudophakic patients. The invention describes strategies and devices for providing improved image quality and improved visual quality of patients employing simultaneous vision bifocal, trifocal or multifocal corrections or monovision. The invention describes strategies and devices for reducing the visibility of the defocused part of the retinal image generated by simultaneous vision bifocal and multifocal ophthalmic corrections and monovision. The invention describes strategies and devices that employ control of spherical aberration or other similar asphericities to reduce the visibility of defocused ghost images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Arthur Bradley, Peter S. Kollbaum, Larry N. Thibos
  • Publication number: 20140347622
    Abstract: A lens for correcting vision of a user includes a central zone and an outer zone. The central zone is configured to cause light passing therethrough to form an image on a retina of an eye of the user. The outer zone surrounds the central zone and has a plurality of different aspherical coefficients for respectively causing light passing therethrough to form images spaced apart from the retina.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: HILINE OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Richard WU
  • Patent number: 8807746
    Abstract: Spectacle lenses that allow a wearer to view an object in a more comfortable manner include a pair of lenses for the left and right eyes. The power of one of the pair of lenses is shifted toward the positive side with respect to the power of the other lens, and object-side average surface power (base curve) of the one lens is smaller than object-side average surface power (base curve) of the other lens. The power (dioptric power) is principal meridian power along a principal meridian of each of the lenses, and the base curve is in the direction along the principal meridian.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Hoya Lens Manufacturing Philippines Inc.
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Kato, Ayumu Ito
  • Patent number: 8757799
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide a complex surface of a progressive multifocal ophthalmic lens. In one implementation, the complex surface includes: a difference in ratio between cylinder value and surface addition less than 0.2 in absolute value; a first ratio between a maximum cylinder value for all points in a grouping circle and a surface addition; and a second ratio between a maximum cylinder value for all points on a disc and a surface addition. In another implementation, the complex surface includes: a difference in ratio between resultant astigmatism value and prescribed addition less than 0.3 in absolute value; a first ratio between a value of resultant astigmatism for all directions of gaze passing through an angular circle and a surface addition; and a second ration between a value of resultant astigmatism for all directions of gaze passing inside the angular circle and a prescribed addition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Marie-Anne Berthezene, Bernard Bourdoncle, Laurent Calixte, Cyril Guilloux, Souazic Mousset, Damien Paille
  • Publication number: 20130182216
    Abstract: A lens for an eye that includes a zone with a first power profile for images received by the retina on the fovea, a zone with a second power profile for images received by the peripheral retina on the nasal side and a zone with a third power profile for images received by the peripheral retina on the temporal side. The first power profile is selected to provide clear or acceptable vision and the second and third power profiles are selected to affect the peripheral image position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Inventors: Arthur Ho, Padmaja Rajagopal Sankaridurg, Earl Leo Smith, III, Brien Anthony Holden
  • Publication number: 20130050640
    Abstract: A multifocal lens has a number n>2 of principal powers, of which at least one principal power is refractive and at least one principal power is diffractive. The multifocal lens includes a first lens portion having at least one first annular zone and at least a second lens portion having at least one second annular zone, wherein the zones each have at least one main sub-zone and at least one phase sub-zone. For forming the n principal powers, a maximum of n?1 lens portions are combined, and an averaged refractive power of a zone of the first lens portion is equal to an averaged refractive power of a zone of the second lens portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
    Inventor: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
  • Publication number: 20120257161
    Abstract: A progressive ophthalmic lens element is disclosed. The progressive ophthalmic lens element includes an upper viewing zone, a lower viewing zone, a corridor, and a peripheral region disposed on each side of the lower viewing zone. The upper viewing zone includes a distance reference point (DRP) and a fitting cross, and provides a first refractive power for distance vision. The lower viewing zone, which is for near vision, provides an addition power relative to the first refractive power. The corridor connects the upper and lower zones and provides a refractive power varying from that of the upper viewing zone to that of the lower viewing zone. Each peripheral region includes a zone of positive power relative to the addition power which provides therein a positive refractive power relative to the refractive power of the lower viewing zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: CARL ZEISS VISION INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventor: Saulius Raymond Varnas
  • Patent number: 8272734
    Abstract: A non-progressive ophthalmic lens used in eye frames is provided with at least two distinct viewing areas. A very large lower area (lower relative to the face and eyes of the wearer) is provided with near to intermediate range vision correction prescription. A smaller, top portion of the lens is provided with distance range viewing correction prescription or zero power. In order to reduce image jump, the lenses are positioned such that the major axis of the base lens intersects and ends on the major axis of the supplementary lens, and both major axes lie in the same vertical plane. The two lens segments meet at a lined or blended intersection to minimize consumption of non-optically viewable space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Essilor International, S.A.
    Inventor: Jon Torrey
  • Publication number: 20120224138
    Abstract: Mutifocal diffractive lenses are generally designed with concentric annular zones comprising blazed steps of equal area. Trifocal diffractive lenses differ in the intensity of light that they diffract into each of their three different powers. Usually, this light distribution has been adjusted by varying the step heights of the blazed steps within the annular zones. This invention discloses a trifocal diffractive lens wherein the equal area annular zones are further subdivided into two sub-zones wherein each sub-zone comprises a discrete blazed step. The sub-zones of this invention may be of unequal area. This allows the light distribution at its focal powers to be adjusted by varying not only the step heights of the blazed steps of the sub-zones, but also the relative areas of the sub-zones. The present invention allows for an increased flexibility in the design of multifocal diffractive lenses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Inventor: Allen Louis Cohen
  • Publication number: 20120154740
    Abstract: This invention describes strategies and devices for improving the visual experience while expanding the depth of field of presbyopic and pseudophakic patients. The invention describes strategies and devices for providing improved image quality and improved visual quality of patients employing simultaneous vision bifocal, trifocal or multifocal corrections or monovision. The invention describes strategies and devices for reducing the visibility of the defocused part of the retinal image generated by simultaneous vision bifocal and multifocal ophthalmic corrections and monovision. The invention describes strategies and devices that employ control of spherical aberration or other similar asphericities to reduce the visibility of defocused ghost images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Inventors: Arthur Bradley, Peter S. Kollbaum, Larry N. Thibos
  • Publication number: 20120147317
    Abstract: Embodiments may provide multifocal eyeglass lenses and eyewear that may comprise multifocal translating eyeglass lenses. The eyewear may comprise a lens housing, a first temple and a second temple coupled to the lens housing, and a first and a second lens supported by the lens housing. The lens may comprise a first optical zone having an optical power corresponding to a wearer's far distance day time optical power need and a second optical zone having an optical power corresponding to a wearer's far distance night time optical power need. The eyewear may further comprise a movable member coupled to the lens housing, the first temple, or the second temple, wherein the movable member may be configured to move between a first position and a second position, where a position of the lens may be based at least in part on the position of the movable member. The eyewear may further include a mechanism adapted to adjust the position of the movable member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Inventors: Jack Loeb, JR., Ronald D. Blum