Did You Know...
...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8152297 | Safety eyewear The present invention relates generally to safety eyewear and more particularly to a safety eyewear that includes a coloration or tinting of an outer peripheral edge of the lens for indicating a performance characteristic of the safety eyewear or the lens and select... | 04/10/2012 |
| 7901070 | Personalizeable wearable and displayable items Wearable or displayable products which can be individualized and accessorized according to the wearer's or user's mood or desires. A wearable product, such as a pair of glasses, has a plurality of holes or openings in which decorative pin members can be positioned a... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7891807 | Decorative eyeglass temples Eyeglasses having temples with detachable decorative pieces. The decorative pieces generally comprise an inner piece and outer piece which connect to one another through and/or around the eyeglass temples. When attached together, the outer decorative piece and the i... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7621633 | Reversible eyewear and associated method A modular eyeglass frame may include a lens frame and a plurality of handles with oppositely facing first and second sides. Each side may include unique surface indicia. A mechanism for interchangeably connecting the handles to the lens frame may further be included... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7597440 | Eyeglass frame with slidable feature A frame for eyeglasses includes a rim portion, a track provided on at least a portion of the rim portion and a sliding element movable on the track. The track preferably has the appearance of a zipper and the sliding element is preferably a zipper slide movable on t... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7588331 | Personalizeable wearable and displayable items Wearable or displayable products which can be individualized and accessorized according to the wearer's or user's mood or desires. A wearable product, such as a pair of glasses, has a plurality of holes or openings in which decorative pin members can be positioned a... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7559644 | Eyeglass frame incorporating ornamented temple members An eyeglass frame incorporates coupled temple frame members that are adapted to receive interchangeable ornamental trim members. Each trim member comprises an elongated, flexible ornamental assembly that is spirally mounted about each temple frame member between opp... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7364288 | Lens structure of safety glasses A lens structure of safety glasses consists of a lens part, and a warning sticker; the lens part consists of a main body, and a rim formed on a border of the main body; the rim has a strip-shaped recess on an upper portion, extending along an upper border thereof; t... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7347544 | Hingeless eyeglasses as collar or headband Hingeless eyeglasses as collar or headband comprises a pair of reading glass or sunglass lenses framed by a lightweight, horseshoe shaped, single piece of narrow band. The narrow band containing eyeglass lenses is specifically shaped to fit around the neck or on top... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7341342 | Eyeglasses The eyeglasses have a lens frame in which lenses are mounted. Proximal ends of flexible temple members are removably attachable to opposite sides of the lens frame. The temple members are sized to extend over and behind the ears to the vicinity of the ear lobe. A co... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7331666 | Eyewear with a mounted radio frequency transceiver An eyewear having a frame, at least one temple attached to the frame, and a radio frequency transceiver for short-distance wireless communication. The radio frequency transceiver is mounted on either the frame or the temple and is configured to form an ad hoc wirele... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7308922 | Key locator A key locator includes first and second members. The first member has opposed ends and an intermediate u-shaped region. One of the ends of the first member comprises a hook for engaging the second member which includes a clasp while the other end comprises an enlarg... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7301485 | Decoding device or encoding device having intermediate buffer interposed between an arithmetic code decoder or encoder and a reverse binarization device or binarization device In the decoder of binary arithmetic code of the present invention, the decoding and reverse binarization of arithmetic code are separated and a large intermediate buffer is interposed. The decoding of arithmetic code is first carried out at the time of input of a st... | 11/27/2007 |
| RE39864 | Controlled diffraction efficiency far field viewing devices This invention pertains to the design of optimized far field viewing devices that simultaneously produce bright far field holographic light patterns and achieve good see-through performance to present a well focused scene. A far field transmission hologram recorded ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7261409 | Eyeglass frame with integral channel to receive decorative inserts A decorative eyeglass having a pair of temple frames adapted to receive an interchangeable temple insert with a decorative insert attached thereon. A flanged channel disposed in the temple bar of the temple frame is adapted to receive the temple insert through an en... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7249842 | Safety eyewear with snap-in replaceable lens and over-molded bumpers and decorative trim The safety eyewear includes a one-piece molded lens frame, and left and right temple bar assemblies. The one-piece lens frame includes a brow bar portion, a central bridge portion, a nose piece portion, and left and right lens frame eyewires that cooperate with the ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7249840 | Accessory An accessory comprises an insertion part, which is inserted into a through hole provided in the direction of thickness of a lens of eyeglasses and configured by combining an insertion core part with a sheathing member made of an elastic material, and a basic accesso... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7210776 | Eyeglass frames An eyeglass frame that includes a frame body having a lens support portion, and first and second earstem portions, which extend rearwardly from first and second lateral sides of the lens support portion, respectively. The frame body includes a first member and a sec... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7195351 | Photochromic eyeglass frames and their method of making An transparent or semitransparent plastic eyeglass frame contains a photochromic moiety and has photochromic properties. ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7188945 | Eyeglass system having spinning bezels A pair of eyeglasses comprises a frame and at least one ear extension support pivotably connected to one end of the frame. At least one lens is rotatably affixed to the frame. At least one bezel is also rotatably affixed to the lens. A means for rotating the lens an... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7175271 | Tan-thru glasses Sunglasses with securement bows which are somewhat transmissive to ultraviolet light are taught which allow outdoor exposure without the sharp untanned lines normally seen on the side of the wearer's head. Eyeglasses with securement bows which are somewhat transmiss... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7175273 | Eyeglasses having light emitting function A pair of eyeglasses includes a rim, two temples, and a light emitting device; the rim has a groove thereon while each of the temple has a groove thereon; the light emitting device has several light emitting elements positioned in the grooves of the rim and the temp... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7165272 | Novelty head gear and method of making same Decorative novelty head wear is provided including a head engaging member adapted to be worn on a user's head and at least one decorative member mounted to the head engaging member and including a generally flat substrate having a decorative surface. The decorative ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7147319 | Eyewear providing colored light therapy An eyewear for administering colored light therapy comprising an eyepiece; a frame element for supporting said eyepiece in a position exposing the inner surface thereof to the wearer of said eyewear; and a plurality of light-generating units on said frame element ea... | 12/12/2006 |
| 6997552 | Light-emitting eyeglasses structure The present invention provides a light-emitting eyeglasses structure. The light-emitting eyeglasses structure comprises a frame and light-emitting devices. The frame has two transparent arms on two sides respectively, and each arm has a trench on the outside and a c... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6982840 | Magnifier and glasses In a preferred embodiment, a magnifier for a menu or the like, including: the magnifier and the menu or the like; and the magnifier being disposed in a pocket associated with the menu or the like. A pair of glasses that has both upper and lower lenses of different s... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6957890 | Convertible eyeglasses Eyeglasses are converted in appearance by a cover clip-on for part of the front portion of the frame of the eyeglasses. A set of eyewear combines the eyeglasses with the cover clip-on. The set may be enlarged by provision of a sunglasses clip-on and/or temple coverl... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6948808 | Decorative eyeglass lens, method and related eyewear Decorative glitter is embedded in at least a portion of lens used for eyewear, and is particularly suited for use as sunglasses. The glitter may be dispersed throughout the lens, through only a portion of the lens, or in a decorative pattern or verbal message in the... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6825959 | Holographic viewing device, and computer-generated hologram for the same The invention relates to a holographic viewing device that has a high diffraction efficiency, enables bright patterns with less noticeable conjugate or higher-order images to be viewed in place of light sources in a scene and is easy to fabricate with consistent cha... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6793339 | Coated sunglass lens An optical lens including an optically clear lens element; and a light absorbing coating on a surface of the lens that attenuates transmitted light; has a coloured or colourless reflection as seen from the front of the sunglass lens; and is anti-reflective as seen f... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6789897 | Binocular glasses Sports theme hands-free binocular glasses having an eyeglass frame, a binocular device, and an ornamental device, where the ornamental device has an overall shape which is substantially the shape of a sports-related device, and where the ornamental device has an ope... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6678976 | Eyeglass identification device An identification device for eyeglass frames is provided. The identification device includes an identification sleeve adapted to couple with an eyeglass frame. This identification sleeve includes an identification marking. A non-toxic protective sleeve is... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6652093 | Variable eyeglass frame A variable eyeglass frame having sidepieces, each sidepiece including a fixed part having a pin, at least one pivotable decorative element movable between two positions on the pin, and a lock, the decorative element being articulated on the pin at least o... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6641262 | Eyeglasses with diamond-shining effect A pair of eyeglasses in the present invention are provided with a plurality of spaced cavities in the surfaces of the eyeglass frame and both temples, and the surface of each cavity will produce the diamond-shining effect after being treated by vacuum gil... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6520635 | Ornamental eyewear Ornamental eyewear includes a jewelry article adapted for attachment as an extension of the temple arm on conventional eyeglasses. The jewelry extension grips the temple arm with a quick-release spring-biased clamp and in turn supports one or more elongat... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6452699 | Controlled diffraction efficiency far field viewing devices This invention pertains to the design of optimized far field viewing devices that simultaneously produce bright far field holographic light patterns and achieve good see-through performance to present a well focused scene. A far field transmission hologra... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6264324 | Spectacle frame A spectacle frame having an esthetic or amusing character because of a mobile decorative part includes at least one mobile element having a decorative part and a transparent optical part covering an opening and the mobile element is rotatably mounted in f... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6226232 | Article comprising at least a mobile decorative element An article, which can be a watch, a piece of jewelry, a spectacle frame or a leather-ware item, for example, comprising at least one movable decorative element contained inside a housing (15) defined between two walls (5, 10) whose inner faces (5a, 10a) a... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6224208 | Color changing sunglass frames Color Changing Sunglass Frames include two temple support members hingedly attached to a frame assembly. The frame assembly includes a left lens frame and a right lens frame which are identically shaped and attached in the middle by a center support struc... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6196680 | Chemiluminescent eyeglass frame A chemiluminescent novelty eyeglass frame has curved portions which will extend proximate the eyes of the user. The curved portions are formed with channels which are adapted to receive compartmented ampules containing a chemiluminescent solution separate... | 03/06/2001 |
