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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8157373 | Free form ophthalmic lens This invention provides for an ophthalmic lens with at least one portion of the lens including multiple voxels of polymerized crosslinkable material. In addition, the present invention provides for apparatus for generating an ophthalmic lens with at least one portio... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8128225 | Optical article and process for producing the same A process for producing an optical article having an antireflection layer formed directly or via another layer on an optical base material, includes: forming a primary layer contained in the antireflection layer; and forming a light transmissive conductive layer con... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8128224 | Injection molding of lens A flat or curved photochromic laminate structure and a plastic photochromic lens blank can be produced in a simple and efficient manner from relatively low-cost polymeric sheet materials. These laminates can be used to provide goggles, face shields, windows, window ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8092014 | Plastic lens and manufacturing method thereof A plastic lens plastic includes a plastic substrate (1) having a first main surface that is a convex surface (1A) and a second main surface that is a concave surface (1B), a photochromic compound-containing photochromic layer formed on the conve... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8092015 | Honeycomb coating melanin lens and manufacturing process thereof The present invention provides a honeycomb coating melanin lens and a manufacturing process thereof, wherein, it is an optical lens that has honeycomb pattern printed on a surface of a melanin lens and the two sides of the lens are respectively coated with a blue co... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8083349 | Aliphatic polyesterpolyol-based urethane methacrylate edge coated glass polarized lens An edge coated glass polarized lens includes a lens body and an edge coating made from a UV curable material having a composition including: an aliphatic polyesterpolyol based urethane methacrylate formed by reaction of reactants including an aliphatic polyesterpoly... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8061837 | Progressive chromatic aberration corrected ocular lens A method to reduce ocular chromatic aberrations using a lens or other spatial structure to selectively band-pass filter transmitted light of certain wavelengths. The ocular lens overcomes the negative effects of the wavelength band pass filter lenses while maintaini... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7984989 | Retinal melatonin suppressor comprising a filter layer This disclosure relates to the application of a photoluminescent material with a plurality of nanocrystals, such as quantum dots or Cornell dots, each capable of absorbing electromagnetic energy at a first wavelength and emitting the absorbed energy as a desired wav... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7967434 | Plastic polarized lens and method of producing the same According to the present invention, there are provided a plastic polarized lens with excellent processability and the like, and a method of producing the same. The plastic polarized lens is obtained by injecting a mixture of a specified isocyanate compound and a spe... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7931369 | Tinted lens and method of making same A lens and a method of making lenses suitable for color blindness correction are disclosed. The corrective lens may be formed of an optically transparent base material, which is tinted to the desired color for correction by immersion in a colorant dye. The color tin... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7926940 | Advanced electro-active optic device Optical devices having a dynamic aperture and/or an apodization mask are provided. The aperture and/or mask may be provided by one or more electro-active elements, and may be used in an ophthalmic device that that is spaced apart from but in optical communication wi... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926939 | Spectacle lens and spectacle A spectacle lens is provided with a lens base material and an antireflection film provided on the lens base material (an inner surface and an outer surface seen from a spectacle wearing person). The lens base material is colored with a dye. The antireflection film (... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7922324 | Synthetic resin lens and eye lens article thereof The synthetic resin lens has a function to generate heat by selectively absorbing infrared rays with wavelengths of 780 to 3000 nm. The synthetic resin lens includes an infrared absorber. Selective absorption of infrared rays allows the synthetic resin lens itself t... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7922325 | Optical article and method for producing the same An optical article includes: an optical substrate, and a functional layer that is light-transmissive and is laminated to the surface of the optical substrate, the period Pk (nm−1) of reflectance of the functional layer in the k-space being not more than... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7905594 | Free form ophthalmic lens This invention provides for an ophthalmic lens with at least one portion of the lens including multiple voxels of polymerized crosslinkable material. In addition, the present invention provides for apparatus for generating an ophthalmic lens with at least one portio... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7901074 | Lens for safety glasses In a lens for safety glasses of the present invention, a first lens element which shields a laser beam is laid on a second lens element for antiglare. The first and the second lens element may be affixed together. In the lens for safety glasses, the first lens eleme... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7841714 | Retinal melatonin suppressor This disclosure relates to the application of a photoluminescent material with a plurality of nanocrystals, such as quantum dots or Cornell dots, each capable of absorbing electromagnetic energy at a first wavelength and emitting the absorbed energy as a desired wav... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7815308 | Ophthalmic lenses comprising a photodegradation protection coating and a process for producing such lenses The present invention relates to an optical article, in particular an ophthalmic lens comprising a substrate, a coating that includes at least one photodegradation-sensitive dye, and a photodegradation protection (anti-UV) coating for protecting the coating containi... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7784938 | Method and system for shaped glasses and viewing 3D images Shaped glasses have curved surface lenses and spectrally complementary filters disposed on the curved surface lenses configured to compensate for wavelength shifts occurring due to viewing angles and other sources. The spectrally complementary filters include guard ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7784939 | Polarizing lens for sunglasses and method of shaping the same There is provided a polarizing lens for sunglasses capable of effectively preventing light from falling on eyes outside the lens at the side of the eyes in the polarizing lens for sunglasses of spherical shape. The polarizing lens for sunglasses is made up of a pola... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7748845 | Method and device for preventing alterations in circadian rhythm A method of maintaining circadian rhythm of a subject comprising selectively substantially blocking retinal exposure of the subject to light having a wavelength shorter than a specified wavelength during the night, and an apparatus for carrying out the claimed metho... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7717557 | Lens system and method with antireflective coating An improved method is provided for applying an antireflective high contrast coating to a lens, as well as a lens system made with said method. By coating the lenses with a mixture of an oxide and fluoride, the transmission of undesirable visible light wavelengths is... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7703916 | Polarizing plate with melanin The present invention is directed to the incorporation of melanin in an optical article with polarization properties. Such an article includes a first polymer layer containing a polarizing agent, a second polymer layer containing melanin and wherein the second polym... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7651220 | Selective system for blocking glare in a specific location of a user's field of vision A glare blocking system for selectively blocking specified glare spots. The system includes a transmission control material for selectively darkening a portion of the material and an electronics module for commanding the transmission control material to darken a spe... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7597441 | Polarized contrast enhancing sunglass lens The invention is a polarized sunglass lens that utilizes a multiband contrast enhancer comprised of three rare-earth oxides to provide relatively high peak transmittance in portions of the red and green spectrum, relatively lower transmittance for the blue spectrum,... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7578592 | Ophthalmic lens with an optically transparent composite film exhibiting both impact-resistance property and polarizing property, and a process for its manufacture The present invention relates to a light polarizing ophthalmic lens comprising a substrate made of organic glass and an optically transparent composite film deposited on the front main face of the substrate, said transparent composite film comprising a latex layer h... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7572006 | Transparent and polarizing vision element having areas which are associated with polarization filters that are respectively vertically and horizontally oriented A transparent and polarizing vision element (2) divided into several areas. At least two of said areas are associated with a luminous polarization filter. The light flowing through the element is allocated differently for two the areas according to a directio... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7556376 | System and method for selective light inhibition A film suitable for use in an ophthalmic system is provided. The film may selectively inhibit blue light within the wavelength range of 400 nm to 460 nm to reduce phototoxic light to the eye while maintaining photopic vision, and may be color balanced to allow for t... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7520607 | Device for the prevention of melationin suppression by light at night The present invention provides a device for inhibiting melatonin suppressing light from reaching the retina. The device having means for selectively blocking light having a wavelength capable of suppressing melatonin production in a human. ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7520608 | Color balanced ophthalmic system with selective light inhibition An ophthalmic system is provided. The system includes an ophthalmic material doped with a dye that absorbs light in a wavelength range and a layer that corrects a color imbalance caused by absorption of light by the dye. The dye can absorb light in a harmful spectra... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7506977 | Plastic spectacles lens A plastic spectacles lens containing an organic dye instead of a neodymium compound and having an optical transmission equivalent to a plastic spectacles lens containing a neodymium compound is provided. The plastic spectacles lens comprises a plastic lens wafer for... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7452076 | Collection of ophthalmic lens pairs and ophthalmic lenses having residual reflections exhibiting colors of different intensity Each lens of a pair of lenses is provided on at least one of its faces with an antireflection coating having a luminous reflection factor Rv that is 2.5% or less, having residual reflections exhibiting the same perceived color, the hue angle (h) for the a... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7441893 | Layered product and method of producing the same A layered product comprising an optical substrate having, on at least one surface thereof, a photochromic surface layer constituted by a resin in which a photochromic compound is dispersed, and an ultraviolet ray-absorbing film of a thickness of 0.1 to 100 μm forme... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7438411 | Plasmon resonant based eye protection A contact lens is provided in which tunable nanoparticles are embedded or otherwise coated on the lens to extinguish near-infrared energy. In one preferred embodiment, the tunable nanoparticles are nanoshells consisting of a dielectric core and a metal shell, wherei... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7429105 | Polarizing, photochromic devices and methods of making the same A method of making an optical element including overmolding an at least partial coating of an at least partially ordered liquid crystal material and at least one at least partially aligned photochromic-dichroic compound on at least a portion of an optical substrate.... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7407284 | Methods for coating lenses Methods of coating at least a portion of a curved surface of a lens with a polarizing liquid. One method includes providing a lens having a curved surface and a lens axis; and rotating the lens about a rotation axis such that a polarizing liquid flows over at least ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7404638 | System and method for increasing the depth of focus of the human eye 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 ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7404637 | System and method for increasing the depth of focus of the human eye 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 ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7393100 | Eyewear for viewing liquid crystal displays Eyewear which preferentially transmits light from a liquid crystal display screen using spectral filtering, polarization filtering and/or spatial filtering. The eyewear transmits the relatively narrow red, green, and blue bands of light emitted by the display's fluo... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7377639 | Laminated functional wafer for plastic optical elements A functional wafer of the present invention is disclosed to solve manufacturing difficulties involved in the production of optical elements such as polycarbonate ophthalmic lenses. The functional wafer may include a front layer, a functional layer, and a back layer,... | 05/27/2008 |
