2016 results about "Uses eyeglasses" patented technology

The invention relates to a display head-set device that includes a support member and a display-optics interface pod coupled to one of a left handle portion and a right handle portion of the support member. The display-optics interface pod houses an image display for viewing by a user. In one embodiment, the display head-set resembles a pair of eye glasses with the interface pod attached to one of the left handle portion and the right handle portion of the support member by an arm clip and extending into the field of vision to offer a monocular viewing sight to the user.

Embodiments of the present invention relate to an electro-active element having a dynamic aperture. The electro-active element provides increased depth of field and may be used in a non-focusing ophthalmic device that that is spaced apart from but in optical communication with an intraocular lens, a corneal inlay, a corneal onlay, a contact lens, or a spectacle lens that provide an optical power. The electro-active element provides increased depth of field and may also be used in a focusing or non-focusing device such as an intraocular optic, an intraocular lens, a corneal inlay, a corneal onlay, or a contact lens which may or may not have an optical power. By changing the diameter of dynamic aperture either increased depth of field or increased light reaching the retina may be achieved.

Autonomous personal service robot to monitor its owner for symptoms of distress and provide assistance. The system may include sensors to detect situations before they affect people such as smoke, heat, temperature and carbon monoxide sensors. The system can provide security for the home. The PRA may comprise features such as a medicine dispenser and blood pressure cuff. Features such as broadband internet, MP3 player, reading lights and eye glass tracker provide butler type capabilities that enable the system to appeal to markets beyond the elderly and infirmed. The system may also include an X10 transmitter/receiver to automatically control various household lights and appliances. Equipping the system with a robot arm enables the robot to fetch items, turn on and off wall switches and open the refrigerator.

A pair of glasses with one or more electrical components partially or fully embedded in the glasses is disclosed. In one embodiment, a pair of glasses includes a speaker and an electrical connector, both at least partially embedded in the glasses, with the speaker and the connector electrically coupled together by an electrical conductor. In another embodiment, a pair of glasses includes a storage medium and an electrical connector. In yet another embodiment, a pair of glasses includes a speaker, a coder/decoder, a processor and a storage medium. The glasses can serve as a multimedia asset player. In a further embodiment, some of the electrical components are in a base tethered to a pair of glasses. Instead of just receiving signals, in one embodiment, a pair of glasses also has a microphone and a wireless transceiver. In another embodiment, a pair of glasses includes a preference indicator that allows a user to indicate the user's preference regarding, for example, what is being output by the glasses. In yet another embodiment, there can be one or more control knobs on the glasses. In a further embodiment, a pair of glasses includes a camera and electrical components for wireless connection. In yet a further embodiment, a pair of glasses includes a sensor.

Eye glasses with a lightened frame are made using a process in which at least one part of the eye glass frame is made lighter by making at least one cavity in it.

A pair of eyewear has transparent waveguides in each eyewear lens. An illumination subsystem directs a beam of light through the waveguides onto a wearer's eyes. A First Purkinje point imaging subsystem for each lens uses light reflected from the eyes through the waveguides. A controller calculates from the positions of the First Purkinje points the wearer's gaze parallax angle and/or the distance to an object of interest on which the gaze of the wearer's eyes converges. The output of the controller may drive variable-focus eyeglass lenses to enable a presbyopic wearer to focus on the object. Modified Alvarez variable-focus lenses are described.

Eyeglasses including video displays that may be pivoted forwardly and outwardly to an open position for viewing through the lenses of the eyeglasses, and may be folded rearwardly and inwardly to a stored position for retention by the temple members of the eyeglasses when not in use, are described. The eyeglasses further include cameras facing forward of the eyeglasses and disposed opposite the video displays. Telescoping arms permit adjustment of the distance between the video displays and the lenses to suit a user. The video displays may be mildly concave in shape such that when in the closed position against the temple members, the eyeglasses present the appearance and function of conventional eyewear.

This invention provides an electronic reading device which comprises an eye glass frame and a camera-projection component mounted on the eye glass frame comprising a projection unit to project an image onto a projection surface and an optical sensor unit to perform a scan of a region near the projection surface, wherein the optical sensor unit is configured to operate as a user interface by detecting a user input based on the scan. The electronic reading device could create the same page-reading experience as well as page-turning experience on to every surface such as walls, tables, or other kinds of panels as reading a conventional book, i.e. simulating “page turning like a real paper book”.

A gaze-point detection system includes at least one infrared (IR) signal source to be placed in a test scene as a reference point, a pair of eye glasses to be worn by a person, and a data processing and storage unit for calculating a gaze point of the person wearing the pair of eye glasses. The pair of eye glasses includes an image sensor, an eye-tracking unit and a camera. The image sensor detects IR signals from the at least one IR signal source and generates an IR signal source tracking signal. The eye-tracking unit determines adapted to determine the gaze direction of the person and generates an eye-tracking signal, and the camera acquires a test scene picture. The data processing and storage unit communicates with the pair of eye glasses and calculates the gaze point relative to the test scene picture.

A cap having a versatile sunglass retainer and retainer enable retention of glasses of all sorts having temples and end pieces that can be passed into and held between the cap-retainer enclosure. The retention patch may be generally square and flat in shape and sized appropriately for use with a cap, such as a baseball cap. The top edge of the patch may be indented to give it a convex shape at the bottom of which a fifth fastener may be set in conjunction with the other four fasteners at the corners of the patch. Five openings are then defined between the fasteners through which the end piece of the glasses may pass. Engagement of the end pieces and temples of the glasses by the cap-patch enclosure serves to retain the glasses on the head of the wearer when the cap is worn. The retention patches are generally used in pairs so that both end pieces and temples of a pair of glasses may be engaged and better retained on the head of the wearer. Frictional engagement of the glasses via its frame and the engagement with the cap-patch enclosure serves to retain the glasses on the head of the wearer while the configuration and location of the patch and its fasteners serve to provide versatile means for glasses retention that enable many different configurations of glasses retention to be achieved.

This invention relates to an optical device such as a soft or rigid contact lens, intra ocular lens (IOL), ocular insert, or spectacle lens that improves visual acuity by reducing chromatic aberration. Chromatic aberration is reduced by filtering or blocking ultraviolet and high energy blue/violet light below about 455 nm and red and infrared light above about 655 nm. This is accomplished by including in the polymer formulations blue/violet absorbing colorants and ultraviolet light absorbers to filter or block light below about 455 nm; and red absorbing colorants and infrared absorbers to filter or block light above about 655 nm. When these materials are used for wavefront designed lenses, vision better than 20/20 is attainable.

A special method is provided for more uniformly and quickly curing products with a scratch-resistant UV curable coating or UV curable printing thereon with high intensity UV light, such as for wires, cables, tubes, tubing, hoses, pipes, CDs, DVDs, golf balls, golf tees, eye glass lenses, contact lenses, string instruments, decorative labels, peelable labels, peelable stamps, doors, countertops, etc. The method can also be operated with one or more special UV curing apparatus equipped with a controller and one or more super high power UV-LED modules.