Abstract: There is provided a polarized plastic lens for spectacles configured to be thin having almost the same thickness as the thickness of a normal plastic lens for spectacles, and a method for manufacturing the polarized plastic lens for spectacles, the plastic lens including a first lens base material having an object-side surface; a second lens base material having an eyeball-side surface; and a polarized film provided between the first lens base material and the second lens base material so that a minimum value of a distance between the polarized film and the object-side surface is 0.3 mm or more and 0.7 mm or less.

Abstract: A method for designing a spectacle lens includes: a determination step of determining at least one optimization condition to be used in optimization design of a spectacle lens in accordance with a prescription condition for the spectacle lens; a design step of designing at least one prototype lens by the optimization design corresponding to the at least one optimization condition determined in the determination step; a selection step of selecting a prototype lens to be provided as the spectacle lens from the at least one prototype lens designed in the design step; and a recording step of performing update recording, at a database in which a plurality of optimization conditions respectively correlated with a plurality of prescription conditions are recorded, an optimization condition that is correlated with the prescription condition for the spectacle lens to an optimization condition used in the optimization design of the prototype lens selected in the selection step.

Abstract: A method for providing a personalized optical system for a wearer wherein the optical system characterizes a spectacle ophthalmic lens comprising the following steps: a) providing a visual performance level (VPL) value of at least one eye of the wearer; b) providing a set of rules linking at least the visual performance level of step a) with at least one optical criterion chosen among one or both of the two following optical criteria groups consisting of central vision optical criterion (CVOC) group and peripheral vision optical criterion (PVOC) group; c) calculating the physical and geometrical parameters of the personalized optical system or selecting the personalized optical system in an optical systems data base comprising a plurality of optical systems, so that to meet the set of rules of step b) according to the visual performance level data provided in step a).

Abstract: A method of processing an unfinished optical lens member having a finished surface with a center reference point, and first and second surfaces, includes providing contour data defining the contour of the first surface in a finished cut state, the maximum distance between two points of the contour defined by Cmax; determining, an optical reference point of the first surface with respect to the contour, the optical reference point corresponding to a user's line of sight in the finished cut state, the maximum distance between the optical reference point and the contour defined by Mmax, providing a first surface dataset defining the second surface with respect to the optical reference point; and providing an unfinished optical lens member having a minimum distance RSF between the center reference point and the boundary of the unfinished lens member such that 2 RSF?Cmax and RSF<Mmax.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an intracorneal lens (1), comprising a circular main body having a convex front surface and a convex rear surface, characterized in that the convex front surface has a single uniform radius of curvature (Rcv) and the concave rear surface has a radius of curvature (Rcci). The radius of curvature (Rcci) of the concave rear surface is greater than the average radius of the cornea by 0.1 mm to 2 mm, preferably 0.2 to 1.5 mm, in particular preferably 0.5 to 1 mm. The present invention further relates to a kit, comprising a storage unit (15) and a pre-load unit (P) inside the storage unit (15). The storage unit (15) is made of a watertight material and can be closed watertight by means of a plug (16). The pre-load unit (P) is fitted with the intracorneal lens according to the invention.

Abstract: An eyeglass lens processing apparatus configured to form, on a peripheral edge of a lens, a bevel or a groove for fitting the lens to a frame of an eyeglass, includes: a data calculating unit for calculating data of the bevel or the groove to be formed on the peripheral edge of the lens based on frame shape data of the frame or demonstration lens shape data which is shape data of a demonstration lens having the bevel or the groove fitted to the shape of the frame; and a correction unit for approximating a front-side foot width, which is a width between a position of the bevel or the groove to be formed on the lens and a position of a front edge of the lens, to a target value by correcting the data of the bevel or the groove calculated by the data calculating unit.

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.

Abstract: A method and device for calculating design parameters of a design of a progressive spectacle lens on the basis of a predetermined design polygon. The design parameters are calculated by specifying a point within the design polygon, in which the specified point defines the progressive spectacle lens design, and then determining a value of each design parameter at the specified point by an interpolation of at least part of the predetermined values at the corner points and, optionally, of at least part of the predetermined values of the design parameter at the at least one additional point.

Abstract: A lens for distribution of light from a light emitter having an emitter axis and defining an emitter plane. The lens including an emitter-adjacent base end forming an opening to an inner cavity surrounding the emitter. An inner-cavity surface includes an axis-adjacent first inner region configured for refracting emitter light rays away from the axis, a second inner region spaced from the first inner region and configured for refracting emitter light rays toward the axis, and a middle inner region joining and substantially cross-sectionally asymptotical to the first and second inner regions. The middle inner region is positioned with respect to the emitter to refract light away from the axis by progressively lesser amounts at positions progressively closer to the second inner region.

Abstract: Swimming goggles that are shaped by approximately profiling the goggles to the swimmer's head resulting in the goggles having a minimal tendency to be pulled off or pulled ajar from the swimmer's head by hydrodynamic forces while exhibiting minimal hydrodynamic drag. Optical arrays molded into the lenses of the goggles permit standard vision both underwater and above the water.

Abstract: A system for the supply of ophthalmic lenses and related methods for providing ophthalmic lenses for enhanced experience based on right-handedness and left-handedness.

Abstract: Lenses are designed using wavefront measurements amenable to correction factors for near and far vision as well as pupil size to slow or stop myopia progression.

Abstract: Ophthalmic lenses for the treatment of presbyopia may be improved to enhance the visual experience of the patient. By adjusting the optical design of presbyopic lenses to account for changes in pupil size due to the degree of myopia or hyperopia, an enhanced visual experience may be achieved independent of the level of ametropia.

Abstract: The visual perception of a lens wearer is not only along the gaze direction, but also has a non-zero transverse extension, which is called perceptual span. Perceptual span is skewed to extend further in the reading direction, i.e., the line portion to be read next relative to the line portion that was just read. A technique is provided that determines a pair of progressive ophthalmic lenses that take such perceptual span into account.

Abstract: A process for determining a pair of personalized progressive ophthalmic lenses. and a computer program product associated to these processes. Right-handed persons and left-handed persons behave very differently when executing certain near vision tasks, such as writing on a sheet of paper. However, current lens designs do not take into account these behaviour differences. The comfort of wearing a pair of ophthalmic lenses can be improved for the wearer for whom the lenses are intended by adapting his near vision according to his handedness.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for creating a progressive spectacle lens design by transforming a starting design. The starting design is defined to include specification of a principal line, specifications for target astigmatism values A(u=0,y) along the principal line, and specifications for the course of a base target isoastigmatism line, which is described by a one-dimensional function of the form uG(y)=ƒ(y). The method and apparatus transform the starting design by modifying the course of the base target isoastigmatism line uG(y)?u?G(y), and calculating the target astigmatism values A(u,y) of the spectacle lens design by an interpolation between the target astigmatism values A(u=0,y) on the principal line and the target astigmatism values A(u?G(y),y) on the modified base target isoastigmatism line. Furthermore, the method and apparatus are provided to create the spectacle lens for the wearer on the basis of the progressive spectacle lens design.

Abstract: A progressive addition lens for a wearer, the optical lens having an addition lower by at least 0.5 diopter to the prescribed addition value of the wearer, wherein for a pupil diameter of 4 mm the modulation transfer function is greater or equal to 0.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention pertain to a method for producing a spectacle lens with optimal correction across the entire lens taking into account the patient's complete measured wavefront. Specific embodiments can also take into account one or more additional factors such as vertex distance, segmental fitting height, pantoscopic tilt, and use conditions. The lens wavefront can be achieved by optimizing a corrected wavefront, where the corrected wavefront is the combined effect of the patient's measured wavefront and the lens wavefront. The optimization of the corrected wavefront can involve representing the measured wavefront and the lens wavefront on a grid. In an embodiment, the grid can lie in a plane. During the optimization, a subset of the grid can be used for the representation of the measured wavefront at a point on the grid so as to take into account the portions of the measured wavefront that contribute to the corrected wavefront at that point on the grid.

Abstract: Contact lenses and methods of manufacturing contact lenses are provided. In one aspect, a method includes: forming a substrate having an uneven surface; providing a sensor at a first region of the substrate; providing a chip at a second region of the substrate; and encapsulating the substrate, sensor and chip in a polymer. The method also includes: patterning interconnections from the first region of the substrate to the second region of the substrate; and patterning metal pads proximate to the second region of the substrate. The chip can be provided on a metal pad. The uneven surface can be a sloped surface or one or more sloped channels in the substrate, and the channels can be wide enough to receive interconnections for the chip and to receive the chip. Further, the substrate can be ring-shaped and curved prior to encapsulation.

Abstract: A plurality of to-be-evaluated lenses that differ in lens surface design from one another is prepared in an evaluation-value calculating step. Thereafter, a subject's predetermined biological information, e.g., brain waves, is measured for each of the to-be-evaluated lenses by allowing the subject to wear each of the lenses, and an evaluation value for each of the lenses is calculated relative to a predetermined index in the brain waves, for example, relative to a “state of being under stress.” Thereafter, a correlation between the calculated evaluation value and a lens surface shape is calculated as an index characteristic in a lens-surface-shape determining step. Thereafter, a lens surface shape of a suitable spectacle lens in the index is determined based on the index characteristic, and the lens surface shape is fed back as a shape of a to-be-evaluated lens of the evaluation-value calculating step.

Abstract: A method for designing a progressive lens is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a wavefront measurement of an eye, determining an initial design for the progressive lens based on the wavefront measurement, determining information about how changes in one or more higher order aberrations of the eye affect a second order correction for the aberrations of the eye based on information derived from the wavefront measurement, modifying the initial design of the progressive lens to provide a final progressive lens design, and outputting the final lens design.

Abstract: A method for adjusting an original prescription to be used in manufacturing an ophthalmic lens for correcting vision of a patient, the method comprising: obtaining an original prescription based on an eye vision measurement performed by virtue of a real optical system; obtaining supplementary input data associated with the eye vision measurement; calculating a simulated optical system simulating the real optical system, by using at least the original prescription and the supplementary input data; and calculating an adjusted prescription by using at least the original prescription and the simulated optical system, to reflect the effect of the supplementary input data on the eye vision measurement.

Abstract: There is provided a progressive addition lens, including: a distance portion and a near portion; an object side surface including a first toric surface element; and an eyeball side surface including a second toric surface element that cancels the first toric surface element, wherein the first toric surface element is the element in which a vertical surface power OVPf1 at a distance reference point which is previously defined in the distance portion on the object side surface, is larger than a horizontal surface power OHPf1 at the distance reference point, and OVPf1 is not less than a vertical surface power OVPn1 at a near reference point which is previously defined in the near potion on the object side surface.

Abstract: A progressive lens comprising a progressive ophthalmic surface including a main progression meridian dividing the surface into a nasal portion and a temporal portion and passing through at least one fitting point Py of ordinate Yp in a coordinate system centered on a reference point O(0; 0). For the points located at an ordinate Yp on either side of said fitting point Py, the points of ordinate Yp being contained inside a 50 mm diameter disc centered on the reference point O: 0.5 ? ? MaxgradCyl Ny ? ? 1 - MaxgradCyl Ty ? ? 1 MaxgradCyl Ny ? ? 1 + MaxgradCyl Ty ? ? 1 ? ? 0.2 where: MaxgradCylNy1 is the absolute value of the maximum cylinder gradient of all the points located at said ordinate Yp in the nasal portion of the surface; and MaxgradCylTy1 is the absolute value of the maximum cylinder gradient of all the points located at said ordinate Yp in the temporal portion of the surface.

Abstract: Lenses are designed using wavefront measurements amenable to correction factors for near and far vision as well as pupil size to slow or stop myopia progression.

Abstract: The invention provides an ophthalmic lens comprising one or more oblique prismatic component, wherein the lens slows myopia progression and/or treats or prevents myopia or a disease or condition associated with myopia. The one or more oblique prismatic components may be base-down or base-down and base-in or base up and base-in. The one or more oblique prismatic components may be central and/or in a distance and/or near zone of the ophthalmic lens. The invention also provides an ophthalmic lens comprising a central base-down prism in a distance zone wherein the lens slows myopia progression and/or treats or prevents myopia or a disease or condition associated with myopia. Also provided is an optical device comprising one or more ophthalmic lenses and a method of slowing myopia progression and/or treating or preventing myopia or a disease or condition associated with myopia including using one or more ophthalmic lenses.

Abstract: Embodiments include methods, systems, and/or devices that may be used to create aberration-corrected gradient index lenses. In some embodiments, data related to aberration measurements is received. This data is processed and an inverse map is generated to compensate for the aberration measurements. An intensity pattern corresponding to the inverse map is then projected onto a blank lens (e.g., to locally polymerize a mobile monomer) to create an exposed lens with a gradient index to correct for the aberration measurement. For example, in some embodiments, the lens may be an intraocular lens and the data can be generated by using a wavefront sensor to measure aberrations (e.g., an optical phase profile to correct defocus or astigmatism) in a patient's eye.

Abstract: In order to reduce halos that occur in multifocal ophthalmic lenses, the mechanism of the phenomenon was elucidated and a solution was found based on the results. Thus provided are a multifocal ophthalmic lens having a structure and a manufacturing method for the same which can effectively reduce halos. A multifocal ophthalmic lens having a focal point formation region provided to an optical portion of a lens, which forms at least two focal points, wherein a cancellation region is provided to the optical portion, the cancellation region providing diffracted light of an amplitude distribution that reduces, on the image plane of the first focal point among the focal points, the amplitudes of light other than the light that forms the first focal point.

Abstract: A system and method for updating a generic ophthalmic lens design is described. The method includes the steps of selecting a generic ophthalmic lens design from a generic ophthalmic lens design database and receiving, over a data-communication network, lens order data associated with at least one individual lens wearer. The method also includes the steps of creating, using the generic ophthalmic lens design and the lens order data, at least one customized ophthalmic lens design being customized for the respective at least one individual lens wearer and updating the generic ophthalmic lens design in the generic ophthalmic lens design database using the at least one customized ophthalmic lens design.

Abstract: An eye covering such as a contact lens may comprise one or more structures to pump tear liquid under the covering such that the covering can remain in the eye and correct vision for an extended amount of time. In many embodiments, the covering comprises a material having fenestrations to draw tear liquid under the covering and an outer portion shaped to contact the conjunctiva over the sclera, such that when the eye closes pressure of one or more eyelids urges tear liquid through one or more fenestrations and under the outer portion shaped to contact the conjunctiva. When the eye blinks, the pressure of the one or more eyelids can urge the covering toward the cornea such that tear liquid can pass through the fenestrations.

Abstract: The design of a corrective lens combines the measured aberration with decentration and rotation of the lens to design customized optical surface profiles to reliably achieve vision correction.

Abstract: A method for determining a progressive ophthalmic lens, comprising determining first, second and third intermediate values of regression as the strongest regression that can be applied on the front surface of the lens while keeping a mean sphere value in at least a portion of the lower part of the rear surface of the lens less or equal to, respectively, first, second and third predetermined values; and determining a value of regression (d) for the front surface as the maximum value among the first, second and third intermediate values of regression.

Abstract: Method for providing an optical system (OS) of an ophthalmic spectacle lens according to wearer's prescription data and wearer's optical needs with the provision that a wearer's optical need is not related to prescription data, where said optical system (OS) is defined by at least a front and a back surfaces (S1, S2) and their relative position, comprising the steps of: a) providing a semi-finished lens blank (SB); b) providing contour data (CD); c) choosing at least one localized optical feature (LOFi) suitable for the wearer's needs; d) positioning the contour data (CD) wherein the semi-finished lens blank (SB) comprises: a first surface (SB1) having in each point a mean sphere value (SPHmean) and a cylinder value (CYL), a second unfinished surface, the first surface (SB1) comprising: a plurality of primary areas (Ai); border areas (Bi); and a secondary area.

Abstract: Lenses are designed using the corneal topography or wavefront measurements of the eye derived by subtracting the optical power of the eye after orthokeratology treatment from the optical power before orthokeratology treatment.

Abstract: Systems and methods for rewritable aberration-corrected gradient-index intraocular lenses are provided. Various embodiments relate to rewritable aberration-corrected gradient-index intraocular lenses. Some embodiments provide for polymer materials and processing to create full or partial rewritable phakic or pseudophakic intraocular lenses which allow for adjustable visual performance by doctors. Various methods to fabricate and adjust the lenses with optical and/or mechanical properties customized to the individual patient are also disclosed.

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.

Abstract: The invention relates to a lens which has an extended range of focus, wherein the lens consists of a solid material, the optical surfaces of the lens are transparent and the lens has a focal power distribution. According to the invention, the focal power distribution FG of the lens (1), in relation to a plane perpendicular to the optical axis (10), changes as a function of the radial height r and of the azimuth angle phi of the aperture between a base value of the focal power FL not equal to zero and a maximum value FSmax. Hence, the focal power distribution emerges as FG(r,phi)=FL+FS(r,phi), with the spiral focal power component FS(r,phi)=FSmax(r)*w(phi), where FSmax(r) depends nonlinearly on the radius and w(phi) is a factor for the focal power component with a spiral profile.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining an ophthalmic lens wherein: a first and a second reference axes (?1, ?2) are determined, the first reference axis being set to a value comprised between [???20°, ??+20°] with ?? being the mean axis of astigmatism over a first temporal portion (Portion 1), and the second reference axis being set to a value comprised between [yN?20°, YN+20°] with YN being the mean axis of astigmatism over a second nasal portion (Portion 2); a combined reference axis (?) is determined as a linear combination of the first and second reference axes; over the first portion, the sphere value along the combined reference axis is superior to the sphere value along a perpendicular axis to the combined reference axis (Formula I); and over the second portion, the sphere value along the combined reference axis is superior to the sphere value along a perpendicular axis to the combined reference axis (Formula I).

Abstract: Method of supplying an optical lens adapted to a wearer, includes: a) receiving, directly or indirectly via a manufacturing side, from a first networked computer entity located at a lens ordering side, a first set of data including at least wearer's prescription data, b) sending a second set of data including at least an optical lens design information and the wearer's prescription data to a second networked computer entity located at a lens designing side, and receiving from the second networked computer entity a third set of data including at least optical lens data calculated from the second set, and c) sending at least to a third networked computer entity, at a lens manufacturing side, a fourth set of data including at least part of the optical lens data, the at least optical lens data of the fourth set of data being at least partially modified by a masking function.

Abstract: Method for determining the edge contour of an uncut spectacle lens comprises: a spectacle frame data providing step, a minimum edge thickness providing step, an initial contour providing step, a thickness determining step, an optimized point selecting step, a repeating step, and a edge contour determining step.

Abstract: Ophthalmic lenses for the treatment of presbyopia may be improved to enhance the visual experience of the patient. By adjusting the optical design of presbyopic lenses to account for changes in pupil size due to the degree of myopia or hyperopia, an enhanced visual experience may be achieved independent of the level of ametropia.

Abstract: Wavefront measurements of eyes are typically taken when the pupil is in a first configuration in an evaluation context. The results can be represented by a set of basis function coefficients. Prescriptive treatments are often applied in a treatment context, which is different from the evaluation context. Hence, the patient pupil can be in a different, second configuration, during treatment. Systems and methods are provided for determining a transformed set of basis function coefficients, based on a difference between the first and second configurations, which can be used to establish the vision treatment.

Abstract: A process for designing an ophthalmic progressive eyeglass comprises providing an initial front surface and an initial back surface. Respective addition values of front and back surfaces of the eyeglass are varied based on said initial front and back surfaces using a surface derivation tool. These surface addition values are selected so that the eyeglass exhibits an eyeglass addition value which matches a wearer's prescription and a value for a design feature which matches a target value. Said target value may be used for customizing the ophthalmic progressive eyeglass. The process does not require point-to-point surface optimization.

Abstract: In exemplary embodiments, this invention comprises a method for communicating the geometry of a contact lens to a manufacturer. The method includes describing the shape of a first zone of a contact lens and describing the shape of a second zone of the contact lens by providing an angle of orientation from a reference point located on the first zone. The method may further include describing the shape of one or more additional zones by providing angles of orientation from a reference point on another zone.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a contact lens design and methods of manufacturing, fitting and using such lenses. The contact lens may be designed for use in a corneal refractive therapy (CRT) program. The lens provides a design which allows proper fitting of a patient, whether for corrective contact lenses or for a CRT program. Due to the rational design of the lenses according to the present invention, a minimal number of lens parameter increments can be identified to cover the range of common corneas. It is therefore possible to provide pre-formed lens buttons or blanks which are easily formed into a final design, thereby simplifying and speeding up the treatment process. Further, any adjustment of the lens design which may be required based upon trial fitting or the like, is easily envisioned and implemented by the fitter.

Abstract: The present invention, in some embodiments thereof, provides a method and device for automatically calculating, prior to an IOL (intraocular lens) implantation procedure in a patient, a power and an axis location of the IOL in the implantation procedure, the method comprising: inputting to an electronic device keratometry parameters of the patient; inputting to the electronic device surgical parameters of the IOL implantation procedure on the patient; analyzing the patient keratometry parameters and the surgical parameters by the electronic device; and automatically determining by the electronic device the power and the axis location of the IOL in the implantation procedure in response to the inputs.

Abstract: A method of making a lens having adjustable optical power is disclosed. The lens is adjustable by relative lateral translation of at least two lens elements. The method may comprise providing a function yielding optical properties of the lens from starting geometries for the lens elements; refining the function to approximate required gaze angle optical performance over a range of said lateral translation; and using the refined function to derive geometries for making the lens elements. The function may comprise first and second functional parts respectively for the lens elements, and the method comprises using the function to derive geometries for making the lens elements, wherein the function relates optical path difference to a position across the lens elements, and the rate of change of curvature of the first functional part with position is different to the rate of change of curvature of the second functional part with position. There is also disclosed a lens having adjustable optical power.

Abstract: Lenses are designed using the corneal topography or wavefront measurements of the eye derived by subtracting the optical power of the eye after orthokeratology treatment from the optical power before orthokeratology treatment.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method, a system and a computer program product, in particular for designing or producing a lens having a prismatic effect, and to a lens having a prismatic effect. Said method consists of the following steps: individual data of the spectacle wearer is obtained, said individual user data comprising prismatic prescription data; the prismatic lens is designed taking into account the individual user data; centration data for the prismatic lens is determined in accordance with the prismatic prescription data.