Transparent Support Filter Selection Using Individual Light Sensitivity

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for determining light filters are either subjective and user-dependent or objective but limited, failing to account for the full spectrum of light sensitivity factors, leading to filters that do not adequately meet individual user needs.

Innovation Solution

A method that combines objective light sensitivity measurements with subjective user feedback to determine a filter by considering light environments' intensity, spatial, temporal, and spectral components, using a dedicated device to assess discomfort and requiring user input on light environments, calculating scores for filter compliance, and ranking filters based on these scores.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If subjective methods are used to determine filters, then user perception is considered, but the method is too dependent on user judgment and lacks objectivity

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser perception considerationVSAvoidmeasurement objectivity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines subjective user feedback with objective light sensitivity measurements to determine filter characteristics. The system integrates both user perception data (subjective) and measured light sensitivity thresholds (objective) to comprehensively determine the filter that best meets individual user needs, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and measurement precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Measurement precision

If objective methods are used to determine filters, then measurement precision is improved, but the method is limited to measurements and does not account for user perception

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemeasurement accuracyVSAvoiduser perception coverage
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges objective light sensitivity measurements with subjective user perception feedback to determine filter characteristics. This combination allows the method to maintain measurement precision while also accounting for user perception, thereby resolving the contradiction between these two features.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Device complexity

If known methods are used to determine filters, then the process is simplified, but the determined filter does not fully fit individual user needs

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedetermination process simplicityVSAvoidfilter fit precision
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary measurements of light sensitivity thresholds and collects user feedback before determining the final filter characteristics. This preliminary action enables the system to customize filters to individual user needs while maintaining a relatively simple determination process through automated measurement and calculation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP3753475B1Method for determining a filter for a transparent support based on a determined individual light sensitivity
Publication Date: 2025.08.06 ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL(COMPAGNIE GENERALE D OPTIQUE)
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AI summary

The invention provides a method for determining at least one filter for a transparent support, the method comprising the following steps: - determining a quantity representative of a light sensitivity threshold of the user; - determining, for each light environment among a group of light environments, an index representative of the level of protection required by the user; - determining a score for each light environment among the group of light environments (40) and for each filter among a group of filters, said score being representative of the capacity of the filter to reach the level of protection required by the user; - determining at least one filter among the group of filters based on the scores of said at least one filter in a plurality of light environments (40) among the group of light environments.