The invention is related to a hydrated silicone hydrogel contact lens having a layered structural configuration: a lower water content silicone hydrogel core (or bulk material) completely covered with a layer of a higher water content hydrogel totally or substantially free of silicone. A hydrated silicone hydrogel contact lens of the invention possesses high oxygen permeability for maintaining the corneal health and a soft, water-rich, lubricious surface for wearing comfort.

The present disclosure describes a non-pharmacological analgesic approach using pain relieving effects of exposure to green-biased light spectrum. This green light effect is visually mediated and can be administered by exposing patients to the green-biased light spectrum by filtering ambient light. A therapeutic device is described in the form of green lensed eyeglasses and contact lenses that filter in the specific spectrum.

A lens ordering system includes: a computer, the computer being provided with a CPU, a storage unit, and a selection unit that is configured to be controlled by the CPU. The storage unit stores data, configured to enable determination of lens information that includes a resin material type, a pigment type, and a coating type that are used for a lens material, based on user information that includes basic information pertaining to a user, and at least one of usage information pertaining to lens usage desired by the user or psychosomatic information including psychosomatic symptoms and conditions including the eyes of the user. The selection unit determines and outputs the lens information based on the user information acquired pertaining to the user and the data stored in the storage unit.

Configuring ophthalmic lenses that reduce oblique aberrations based on a wearer's accommodative demand values is disclosed. The accommodative demand values include A_(rel−) and A_(rel+) depend on object vergence L. The accommodative demand values are considered to and ensure no or reduced eye strain to the wearer. An improved merit function Φ′ is calculated based on the accommodative demand values. In the calculation, accommodative term A is a smooth and continuous function of both the object distance L and the spherical component of the power error. This ensures the accommodative demand values are well below maximum relative accommodations available to the wearer to prevent eye fatigue. The calculation may also include a smooth and continuous thresholding function ƒ that optimizes the merit function. The calculation may also include evaluation of the power error associated with various object vergencies for every direction of sight.

The disclosure relates to a self-accommodating lens, which is formed in particular as contact lens. A plurality of actuators are arranged in a star-shaped manner on the front side of the lens body. The angle to the adjacent lens is determined by detection of a directional radio signal.

A kit of eyewear that comprises a plurality of eyewear elements, each having a frame and a lens associated with each eye. Each of the eyewear elements have an occluded portion of at least one lens; at least some of the eyewear elements having different occlusion areas on the left and right lenses; and the eyewear elements having different occlusions patterns from each other.

An electronic device comprises a distance detecting sensor for detecting a distance from a user to a target object, a light detecting sensor for detecting light intensity of external environment, a nine-axis sensor for detecting the user's motion, a control unit for determining whether the user is at high risk of vision loss based on the distance information output from the distance detecting sensor, the light intensity information output from the light detecting sensor, and the motion information output from the nine-axis sensor, and generating an alert command when it is determined that the user is at high risk of vision loss; and a vibrator for providing an alert based on the alert command output from a control unit.

The embodiments disclosed herein include improved toric lenses and other ophthalmic apparatuses (including, for example, contact lens, intraocular lenses (IOLs), and the like) that includes a freeform-polynomial surface area that establishes a band of operational meridian for the apparatus to an intended correction meridian. The freeform-polynomial surface area is defined by a mathematical expression comprising a combination of one or more polynomial expressions (e.g., Chebyshev-based polynomial expression, Zernike-based polynomial expression, etc.) each having a distinct complex orders.

The invention provides a method for determining a first filter intended to be placed in front of an eye of a wearer and a second filter, different from the first filter, intended to be placed in front of an eye of a wearer, the method comprising the following steps: —providing a first transmission spectrum; —determining metameric transmission spectra of said first transmission spectrum; —determining said first filter based on said first transmission spectrum or based on a first metameric transmission spectrum selected from the metameric transmission spectra; and —determining said second filter based on a second metameric transmission spectrum selected from the metameric transmission spectra.

The invention is related to a cost-effective method for making a silicone hydrogel contact lens having a crosslinked hydrophilic coating thereon. A method of the invention involves heating a silicone hydrogel contact lens in an aqueous solution in the presence of a water-soluble, highly branched, thermally-crosslinkable hydrophilic polymeric material having positively-charged azetidinium groups, to and at a temperature from about 40° C. to about 140° C. for a period of time sufficient to covalently attach the thermally-crosslinkable hydrophilic polymeric material onto the surface of the silicone hydrogel contact lens through covalent linkages each formed between one azetidinium group and one of the reactive functional groups on and/or near the surface of the silicone hydrogel contact lens, thereby forming a crosslinked hydrophilic coating on the silicone hydrogel contact lens. Such method can be advantageously implemented directly in a sealed lens package during autoclave.