With Different Light Absorption Sections Patents (Class 351/159.63)
  • Patent number: 11898076
    Abstract: A contact lens includes at least one color changeable region, wherein the color changeable region includes at least one photoluminescence material. When a wavelength of the photoluminescence material having a maximum radiation intensity is WEmMx, an average transmittance in a wavelength range of 400 nm-700 nm of the color changeable region is T4070, a size of a total area of the color changeable region is AC, and a size of a total area of the contact lens is AL, certain conditions relating to WEmMx, T4070 and AC/AL are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: LARGAN MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei-Yuan Chen, Po-Tsun Chen, Wei-Chun Chen, Chun-Hung Teng
  • Patent number: 11892714
    Abstract: An article includes a first ophthalmic lens including a first spectral filter (e.g., a reflective or absorptive spectral filter), and a second ophthalmic lens including a second spectral filter (e.g., a reflective or absorptive spectral filter). The first spectral filter substantially blocks visible light having wavelengths corresponding to a first portion of a spectral sensitivity range of a first type of cone (e.g., S, M, or L cone) and substantially passes visible light having wavelengths in a second, non-overlapping portion of the spectral sensitivity range. The second spectral filter substantially blocks visible light having wavelengths in the second portion of the spectral sensitivity range and substantially passes visible light having wavelengths in the first spectral sensitivity range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: WaveShift LLC
    Inventor: Thomas W. Chalberg, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11874532
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed generally to a lens that provides a stop signal to a myopic eye, over a substantial portion of the spectacle lens that the viewer is using. The present disclosure is directed to devices, methods and/or systems of imposing a stop signal to eye growth, using a spectacle lens in conjunction with a micro lenslet array. The present disclosure is also directed to devices, methods and/or systems of modifying incoming light through spectacle lenses that utilizes chromatic cues to decelerate the rate of myopia progression. The present disclosure is directed to devices, methods and/or systems of imposing a stop signal to eye growth, using a spectacle lens in conjunction with a refractive optical element and/or diffractive optical element that offer conflicting or contradictory optical signals at a wavelength between 510 nm and 610 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Brien Holden Vision Institute Limited
    Inventors: Ravi Chandra Bakaraju, Klaus Ehrmann, Cathleen Fedtke, Padmaja Sankaridurg, Arthur Ho
  • Patent number: 11747649
    Abstract: A method for producing a coating on a surface of a coated or uncoated spectacle lens includes: applying a masking on a partial region of the surface of the coated or uncoated spectacle lens, applying at least one layer on the surface, and removing the masking and the at least one layer applied on the masking from the partial region of the surface. The masking is applied with a matrix printing method. A spectacle lens produced by the method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventor: Jeremias Gromotka
  • Patent number: 11709292
    Abstract: An optical plastic product has an optical multilayer film formed on one or both surfaces of a base made of plastic, directly or via an intermediate film, wherein the optical multilayer film includes a tensile-stress high-refractive-index layer having tensile stress as internal stress and made of a high refractive index material, and a low refractive index layer made of a low refractive index material, and the tensile-stress high-refractive-index layer is disposed with a physical film thickness of not greater than 10 nm, in a first layer as counted from the base side in the optical multilayer film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Tokai Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirotoshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11513367
    Abstract: A scleral contact lens has a core containing an optical filter. The core and/or the optical filter may comprise oxygen impermeable material, such that an overall oxygen permeability of the core is insufficient to oxygenate a user's cornea when wearing the contact lens. To provide oxygenation to the user's cornea, the contact lens further comprises an outer covering, and an inner covering, each corresponding to a thin layer of gas-permeable material shaped to form a respective manifold between the covering and the core. Oxygen from an outside environment passes through the outer covering to reach the outer manifold, through an air path formed within the core to the inner manifold, and through the inner covering to reach the cornea of the user's eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Tectus Corporation
    Inventors: Morrison Ulman, Ritu Raj Singh, Thomas Llewellyn Owens
  • Patent number: 11318226
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a material for preparing an intraocular lens. In particular, it relates to an ophthalmic medical material suitable for manufacture of micro-incision intraocular lens, having suitable water content and a suitable refractive index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: EYEBRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xince Sui, Yongji Wei, Jiangbing Xie
  • Patent number: 11191478
    Abstract: Methods for preventing or treating motor-related neurological conditions include using ocular light therapy in connection with a conventional therapy for a motor-related neurological condition, such as a drug regimen, to adjust levels of melatonin and/or dopamine in the body of a subject. The ocular light therapy may include elevated levels of blue-green light or green light (e.g., light within a wavelength range of 460 nm to 570 nm, 490 nm to 570 nm, about 520 nm to 570 nm, etc.). The ocular light therapy may also include reduced levels of amber, orange and/or red light. Methods for diagnosing motor-related neurological conditions include ocular administration of increased amounts of amber, orange and/or red light to cause a subject to temporarily exhibit one or more symptoms of any motor-related neurological condition to which the subject is predisposed, or which the subject may already be experiencing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: PhotoPharmics, Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory Lynn Willis
  • Patent number: 11113487
    Abstract: A spectacle lens includes a substrate and an anti-reflection or mirror interference coating covering the substrate on the side of the front face, the interference coating forming a one-dimensional or two-dimensional bar code pattern, the marking being formed by a plurality of point holes on a portion of a thickness of the interference coating, the front face having, away from the point holes, a coefficient of reflection of light having a predetermined nominal value and, in each the point hole, a coefficient of reflection of light having a particular predetermined value that is different from the nominal value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Sébastien Maurice, Christophe Hubert, Stéphane Auffray, Daniel Ferreira
  • Patent number: 10962806
    Abstract: Optical lenses are described and include a polymeric interference filter disposed on a curved polymeric substrate. The optical lens has an average light transmission of less than 2% across a band of blue light from 400 nm to at least 420 and up to 440 nm and substantially transmits blue light greater than 450 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Michael F. Weber, James E. Watson, Mark R. Strenger, Stephen A. Johnson, Chad R. Wold
  • Patent number: 10948745
    Abstract: A vision-protecting filter lens, including a multilayer optical film and a neutral-density optical filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Michael E. Hallock, Joy L. Manske, Britton G. Billingsley
  • Patent number: 10814984
    Abstract: A device for waking up a crew member resting on an aircraft includes a processing unit configured to detect current development parameters of the aircraft and/or to detect a state of consciousness of at least one other active crewmember. The processing unit is also configured to activate an apparatus for waking up the resting crew member, when at least one predetermined condition for waking up the resting crew member on one or several current parameters of the aircraft and/or on a parameter representative of the state of consciousness of the at least one other active crew member is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: François-Xavier D'Arbonneau, Patrick Darses, Bruno Ferry, François Salmon-Legagneur, Jean-Christophe Denjean
  • Patent number: 10702374
    Abstract: An intra ocular lens (IOL) for placement in the capsular bag and securing the IOL in an opening in an anterior part of a capsular bag, with an anterior capsular bag flap surrounding said opening. An anterior side, which in use when the IOL is implanted in an eye is directed towards a cornea of the eye. A posterior side, which in use when the IOL is implanted in an eye is directed towards a retina of the eye. The IOL comprises an optical structure, at least two posterior supports to provide support for a posterior surface of an anterior capsular bag flap, and at least two anterior supports to provide support for an anterior surface of an anterior capsular bag flap, when IOL residing inside and outside of the anterior capsular bag flap respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: OCULENTIS HOLDING B.V.
    Inventor: Bernardus Franciscus Maria Wanders
  • Patent number: 10705272
    Abstract: Systems and methods for optical imaging are disclosed. The optical fingerprint sensor includes an image sensor array; a collimator filter layer disposed above the image sensor array, the collimator filter layer having an array of apertures; and an illumination layer disposed above the collimator filter layer. The collimator filter layer filters reflected light such that only certain of the reflected light beams reach optical sensing elements in the image sensor array. Employing the collimator filter layer prevents blurring while allowing for a lower-profile image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: WILL SEMICONDUCTOR (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Patrick Smith, Paul Wickboldt, Patrick A. Worfolk, Steven Molesa, Young Lee, Richard Klenkler
  • Patent number: 10684687
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to providing see-through computer display optics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
    Inventors: Ralph F. Osterhout, Robert Michael Lohse, Nima L. Shams, John D. Haddick, John N. Border
  • Patent number: 10620361
    Abstract: Provided is a back light unit for a display device that has a light guide film. The light guide film includes, for example, a light entering part at a first side; a light reflecting part disposed at a second side; and a light guiding part between the light entering part and the light reflecting part, wherein the light entering part selectively sends an incident light of an expanded light provided from a light source that satisfies a total reflection condition toward the light guiding part, and wherein the light reflecting part converts the incident light provided from the light guiding part into a collimated light and sends it to the light guiding part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignees: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD., COVESTRO DEUTSCHLAND AG.
    Inventors: Hyungseok Bang, Seungman Ryu, Friedrich-Karl Bruder
  • Patent number: 10551248
    Abstract: In one aspect, a hyperspectral image measurement device is provided to include: a main body; an illumination module disposed in the main body and including LEDs having different peak wavelengths to irradiate light to a subject; a camera disposed on the main body and receiving light reflected from the subject to acquire an image of the subject; a barrel having a contact surface contacting the subject, the contact surface located to be spaced apart from the illumination module and the camera module by a predetermined distance; and a reference cover located on the contact surface and including a standard reflection layer for reflecting light irradiated from the illumination module toward the camera module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: SEOUL VIOSYS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seong Tae Jang, Stella Park, Sung Il Park, Ji Ye Song, Woong Ki Jeong
  • Patent number: 10441379
    Abstract: The disclosure demonstrates a multipurpose illuminator used in medical examinations. The multipurpose illuminator described herein employs a housing incorporating two magnification viewing lenses each having different powered magnification that allows medical practitioners to view patient tissue and structures using two different magnifications. A battery power source is also contained in the housing to provide power to an illumination source. The illumination source may include an array of LEDs to provide light for viewing the patient tissue and matter. The illumination source and the lenses may be cross polarized relative to each other to provide enhanced viewing of the patient tissues and structures. A switch is provided to initiate the LED illumination source or to provide modes of operation that provide certain of the LEDs being illuminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: 3GEN, INC.
    Inventor: Nizar Mullani
  • Patent number: 10401652
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a lens including a lens body and an optical filter configured to attenuate visible light in a plurality of spectral bands. Each of the plurality of spectral bands can include an absorptance peak with a spectral bandwidth, a maximum absorptance, and an integrated absorptance peak area within the spectral bandwidth. An attenuation factor obtained by dividing the integrated absorptance peak area within the spectral bandwidth by the spectral bandwidth of the absorptance peak can be greater than or equal to about 0.8 for the absorptance peak in each of the plurality of spectral bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Oakley, Inc.
    Inventors: Brock Scott McCabe, Ryan Saylor, Carlos D. Reyes
  • Patent number: 10212766
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems for illumination, including wide area lighting applications. In one embodiment, a method of illumination comprises: comparing metamers at a known and similar CCT with at least one metamer having a higher M/P or S/P ratio; selecting at least one of said metamers for improved perceived brightness; evaluating the selected metamer(s) for desired CCT and acceptable CRI; manufacturing a lighting apparatus which emits light of a given CCT having increased melanopic content compared to one or more extant metameric variations of the same or similar CCT; wherein said light has an acceptable CRI. The method can be applied in various apparatus and systems. In one example, the methods, apparatus, and systems can be used to illuminate a wide area target area with increased perceived brightness compared to typical similar lighting. In some cases, this allows energy savings and/or less lighting sources or fixtures than typical lighting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Musco Corporation
    Inventors: Myron Gordin, Bradley D. Schlesselman
  • Patent number: 10172705
    Abstract: A method for reducing the transmittance of ultraviolet radiation through an intraocular lens to 10% or less at 370 nm by (a) polymerizing a mixture comprising: at least one first monomer and a second monomer comprising a trisaryl-1,3,5-triazine moiety, (b) forming an optic portion from the copolymer wherein the second monomer is present in about 0.10 to about 0.20 percent by weight of the overall polymer and wherein the optic portion of the intraocular lens displays essentially the same physical properties such as, for example, refractive index as the optic portion of the intraocular lens formed from the polymerized mixture of (a) without the second monomer, but otherwise identical conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Benz Research and Development Corp.
    Inventors: Patrick H. Benz, Adam Reboul
  • Patent number: 10146068
    Abstract: A lens for eyewear, the lens having a transmittance in a spectral range at least between 400 and 780 nm. The spectral range includes a first and a second color range which are different from each other. The first and second color ranges are each at least 50 nm broad. A first medium transmittance in the first range is higher than a second medium transmittance in the second range. A medium transmittance in the spectral range is above 35%. A maximum transmittance value in the spectral range is above 70%. The second medium transmittance is below 20%. A maximum value of transmittance within the second range is below 30%. The first medium transmittance is at least 15% higher than the second medium transmittance. Further, a method for providing a lens for eyewear for sports archery is provided. In particular, this may enhance visually targeting a sports archery target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision Italia S.p.A.
    Inventors: Philip Pilla, Carlo Pilla, Sabrina Malnati, Massimiliano Disconzi
  • Patent number: 10101502
    Abstract: An optical product (spectacle lens) according to the present invention includes a base having a convex surface and a concave surface, and an optical multilayer film formed on at least the concave surface of the base. The optical multilayer film has, in total, six layers in which a first layer is closest to the base, and a layer formed of zirconium dioxide and a layer formed of silicon dioxide are alternately layered such that the first layer is the layer formed of zirconium dioxide. A physical film thickness of a fourth layer formed of silicon dioxide is greater than or equal to 10 nm and not greater than 22 nm. A sum of physical film thicknesses of the first layer formed of zirconium dioxide and a second layer formed of silicon dioxide is greater than or equal to 35 nm and not greater than 45 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Tokai Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirotoshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10031349
    Abstract: An optical product has, on one or both of surfaces of a base, an optical multilayer film that has a seven-layer structure where low refractive index layers and high refractive index layers are alternately layered. The low refractive index layers are formed by using SiO2. The high refractive index layers are formed by using a material where a refractive index for light having a wavelength of 500 nm is greater than or equal to 2.145. When a layer closest to the base is a first layer, a fifth layer is one of the low refractive index layers, and a physical film thickness of the fifth layer is greater than or equal to 145 nm and not greater than 165 nm. A total of optical film thicknesses of a fourth layer, the fifth layer, and a sixth layer is greater than or equal to 1.3 ? and not greater than 1.5 ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Tokai Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirotoshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9946093
    Abstract: Ophthalmic lens including a base of polymeric material with a coating having an interferential, anti-reflective, anti-iridescent and infrared filter multiple layer structure. An interphase, a first layer (of 91-169 nm) with a refraction index higher than 1.8, a second layer (of 128-248 nm) with a refraction index lower than 1.65, a third layer (of 73-159 nm) with a refraction index higher than 1.8 and a fourth layer (of 40-138 nm) with a refraction index lower than 1.8. A total thickness of the multiple layer structure is less than 600 nm. The structure can have intermediate layers with intermediate refraction indices, in which case a doublet of two adjacent layers that fulfill the thicknesses above is replaced by a triplet so that the thickness and an optical thickness of the triplet differ from those of the doublet by less than 5%, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: HORIZONS OPTICAL S.L.U.
    Inventors: Franco Rigato, Glòria Casanellas Peñalver, Pau Artús Colomer, Antoni Vilajoana Mas, Juan Carlos Dürsteler López
  • Patent number: 9798163
    Abstract: A system is provided that selectively blocks blue light in addition to having low overall transmittance values. The average value of the transmission spectrum of the system across the wavelength range 400 nm-470 nm is between 0% and 30% and the average value of the transmission spectrum across the wavelength range 470 nm-700 nm is between 0% and 70%. The transmission spectrum of the system has a first local minimum in transmission between 400 nm-470 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: High Performance Optics, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Ishak, Ronald Blum, Anita Trajkovska-Broach
  • Patent number: 9774765
    Abstract: An image acquisition system is operated to provide an image that is relatively free of the effect of longitudinal chromatic aberration. The system includes a variable focal length lens (e.g., a tunable acoustic gradient index of refraction lens) that is operated to periodically modulate a focus position. First, second, third, etc., wavelength image exposure contributions are provided by operating an illumination system to provide instances of strobed illumination of first, second, third, etc., wavelengths (e.g., green, blue, red, etc.) timed to correspond with respective phase timings of the periodically modulated focus position which focus the respective wavelength image exposure contributions at the same focus plane. The respective phase timings of the periodically modulated focus position compensate for longitudinal chromatic aberration of at least the variable focal length lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Mitutoyo Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Kamil Bryll, Mark Lawrence Delaney
  • Patent number: 9750918
    Abstract: A method and device for improving sleep performance of a subject exposed to an artificially lighted environment at night are provided, which involve selectively substantially blocking retinal exposure of the subject to light of specified wavelengths during the night.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Circadian Zirclight Inc.
    Inventors: Robert F. Casper, Shadab A. Rahman
  • Patent number: 9746696
    Abstract: An optical filter for eye glasses, in particular suitable for spectacle lenses or ski goggles, has a spectral power transmission curve of optical radiations. The spectral power transmission curve exhibits a local maximum spectral transmission (Tmax) of radiations in a first wavelength range (??max). The first wavelength range (??max) is between 380 nm and 420 nm. The spectral power transmission curve exhibits spectral transmissions (T) of radiation in a second wavelength range (??th) which are lower than an upper threshold spectral transmission (Tth,u). The second wavelength range (??th) is between 420 nm and 500 nm and the upper threshold spectral transmission (Tth,u) is smaller than the maximum spectral transmission (Tmax). The maximum spectral transmission (Tmax) is larger than 21%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision Italia S.P.A.
    Inventor: Bernd Lingelbach
  • Patent number: 9645414
    Abstract: A laser protection lens include an optically transparent material having a perimeter shape that follows a contour of a user's eye socket ridge, a horizontal shape, and a vertical shape. A multilayer interference coating is applied to at least one of an inside and outside surface of the optically transparent material. The multilayer interference coating has at least a 20 dB reduction of optical transmission for at least one of 445 nm, 532 nm, and 610 nm wavelengths and has at least 10 dB optical reduction over a wavelength band from at least one of 445 nm to the ultraviolet region and 610 nm the infrared region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: PerriQuest Defense Research Enterprises, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Perricone, Kristin Rauschenbach
  • Patent number: 9022562
    Abstract: Described herein are devices, compositions, and methods for improving color discernment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Brett T. Harding, Sheng Li, Amane Mochizuki, Eugene Dantsker
  • Publication number: 20150002809
    Abstract: An optical device including an optical substrate including a first surface having a first zone provided with first selective interferential filtering element for selectively inhibiting transmission of incident light based on the wavelength spectrum of the incident light, the first selective interferential filtering being configured to inhibit, at a first rate of rejection, transmission of a first selected range of wavelengths of incident light, incident on the first zone within a first selected range of angles of incidence, wherein the first selected range of angles of incidence is determined based on at least one main line of sight of a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicants: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE), UNIVERSITE PARIS 6 PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE
    Inventors: Denis Cohen-Tannoudji, Coralie Barrau, Thierry Pierre Villette, Jose-Alain Sahel, Serge Picaud, Emilie Arnault
  • Patent number: 8888279
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and processes for constructing a contact lens. In one embodiment, a contact lens assembly is provided, comprising: a curved polymer polarizer with an aperture; a lenslet disposed inside the aperture, wherein the lenslet enables imaging near objects; and a filter attached to the lenslet. In further embodiments, a method for fabricating a flexible contact lens is provided, comprising: fabricating an element having an extrusion; providing a front concave mold, wherein the front mold has an intrusion to accommodate the extrusion of the optical element; affixing the extrusion of the optical element to the intrusion of the front mold; attaching a back convex mold to the front concave mold, thereby forming a mold cavity; and filling the mold cavity with a pre-polymerized liquid, whereby upon polymerization, the pre-polymerized liquid forms the flexible contact lens and the optical element is partially encapsulated within the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Innovega, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Legerton, Randall Sprague
  • Publication number: 20140300857
    Abstract: An optical device including: an optical substrate provided with selective optical filtering element configured to selectively inhibit transmission, through the optical substrate of at least one selected range of wavelengths of incident light in the visible light spectrum at an inhibition rate of at least 5%, the selective optical filtering element being further configured to transmit at least 8% of incident light of the visible spectrum outside the at least one selected range of wavelengths; wherein the at least one selected range of wavelengths has a bandwidth in a range of from 10 nm to 70 nm, preferably 10 nm to 60 nm centered on a wavelength within a range of between 430 nm and 465 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicants: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQU E), UNIVERSITE PARIS 6 PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE
    Inventors: Denis Cohen-Tannoudji, Coralie Barrau, Thierry Pierre Villette, Jose-Alain Sahel, Serge Picaud, Emilie Arnault, Christophe Plessis, Dominique Conte
  • Publication number: 20140247423
    Abstract: An optical system having a transmission pattern comprising at least a first zone Z1 extending from at or about 380 nm to a first limit L1 between Z1, and a second zone Z2. A third zone Z3 extends from a second limit L2 between Z2 and Z3 to about 780 nm. L1 may be greater than or equal to or about 436 nm. Second limit L2 may be greater than L1 and smaller than or equal to or about 487 nm. The average transmission values T1, T2, T3, in each zone Z1, Z2, Z3 may be: T2>5*(T1+T3)/2, with T1 the average transmission over Z1, T2 the average transmission over Z2, T3 the average transmission over Z3. T1 and T3 may be greater than or equal to or about 3% and smaller than or equal to or about 70%. T2 may be greater than or equal to or about 75%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale D'Optique) S.A.
    Inventor: Björn Drobe
  • Patent number: 8752958
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for increasing the depth of focus of the human eye is comprised of a lens body, an optic in the lens body configured to produce light interference, and a pinhole-like optical aperture substantially in the center of the optic. The optic may be configured to produce light scattering or composed of a light reflective material. Alternatively, the optic may increase the depth of focus via a combination of light interference, light scattering, light reflection and/or light absorption. The optic may also be configured as a series of concentric circles, a weave, a pattern of particles, or a pattern of curvatures. One method involves screening a patient for an ophthalmic lens using a pinhole screening device in the lens to increase the patient's depth of focus. Another method comprises surgically implanting a mask in the patient's eye to increase the depth of focus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Boston Innovative Optics, Inc.
    Inventors: David Miller, Ernesto Blanco
  • Patent number: 8678834
    Abstract: A device for demonstrating and comparatively testing the effectiveness of an antireflection treatment for an ophthalmic lens, the device comprising an image (2, 20) and a mirror (3, 30). According to the invention, the device further comprises a part (1, 10) having a first face (1A, 10A) for supporting said image (2, 20), a second face (1B, 10B) for supporting said mirror (3, 30) substantially perpendicularly to said first face, and a third face (1C, 10C) for positioning at least one ophthalmic lens, the third face being situated. facing said second face and being provided with a positioning arrangement for positioning said lens (4?, 4?, 40), the arrangement comprising at least one orifice (4A, 4B, 40A) arranged in said third face facing said mirror, in such a manner that when a user looks through said orifice, the user can see the resulting reflection of said image on said lens by means of said mirror (3, 30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)
    Inventors: Fabien Calandrini, Carole Nadolny, Catherine Fauquier
  • Patent number: 8662666
    Abstract: A method and device for improving the perceived vision of a person having macular degeneration wherein, a plurality of means is employed externally to the eye to selectively block the reception of a distorted image caused by the impaired eye whereby overall vision is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Inventor: Donald M. Cislo
  • Patent number: 8602554
    Abstract: A filter or lens for common optical apparatus includes a clear center portion and an attenuating peripheral portion where the peripheral portion attenuates off-axis images and passes on-axis images with high signal to noise ratios yet not completely blocking the off-axis images, which lens is well suited for reducing off-axis glare in the optical apparatus that may be handheld optical apparatus such as binoculars, telescopes, cameras, and eyeglasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: The Aerospace Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth H. Lau, Ronald L. Williams
  • Patent number: 8454159
    Abstract: A method and device for improving the perceived vision of a person having macular degeneration wherein, a plurality of means is employed to selectively block the reception of a distorted image caused by the impaired eye whereby overall vision is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Inventor: Donald M. Cislo
  • Patent number: 8360574
    Abstract: The present invention relates to ophthalmic systems comprising a selective light wavelength filter, wherein said selective filter provides improved contrast sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: High Performance Optics, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew W. Ishak, Joshua N. Haddock, William Kokonaski, Dwight P. Duston, Venkatramani S. Iyer, Ronald D. Blum, Sean P. McGinnis, Michael B. Packard