The disclosure relates to an optical element intended to be worn in front of an eye of a human wearer. The optical element includes a dye composition configured so that, when the optical element is worn by a wearer having a given skin reflectance and is illuminated by a light source from a scene: —a first light beam is transmitted by the optical element towards the wearer, the first light beam having a first chroma; —a second light beam is transmitted by the optical element towards the scene after being reflected by the skin of the wearer, the second light beam having a second chroma; and —the absolute difference between the second chroma and the first chroma is greater than 6.

One embodiment according to the present disclosure relates to a spectacle lens containing a compound having a maximum absorption wavelength of 350 nm or more and 365 nm or less and a molar extinction coefficient of 20,000 l/mol.Math.cm or more.

One embodiment according to the present disclosure relates to a spectacle lens comprising a compound represented by formula (1):

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An optical filtering apparatus fashioned as a pair of glasses; that enhance the contrast and visibility of objects with specified colors. A set of distinct attenuations are combined to produce an optical filter that promotes a specified color.

An ophthalmic tinted lens has a visual transmission value TV for quantifying a first light intensity ratio which relates to light effective for human vision and transmitted through the lens in daylight condition, and also has a value of a chronobiological factor FC for quantifying a second light amount ratio which relates to light effective for a non-visual physiological effect and also transmitted through the lens in daylight condition. The TV-value and the FC-value expressed as percentage values meet the following condition: FC>1.1×TV+13.0 with 3%≤TV≤43%, or FC>0.7×TV+32 with 43%<TV≤92%, for the ophthalmic tinted lens to combine solar protection and maintenance of circadian rhythms and better pupil constriction which are based on the non-visual physiological effect.

This disclosure provides a blue light filtering ophthalmic lens, which is provided with db* value smaller than or equaled to 2. The ophthalmic lens includes a blue light filtering compound and a base material, wherein db*=(b*).sub.1−(b*).sub.0, (b*).sub.1 is a b* value of the ophthalmic lens and (b*).sub.0 is a b* value of a control group lens.

An ophthalmic lens operable to protect the eye from harmful ultraviolet and high energy visible wavelengths of light and methods for producing the same.

Some embodiments provide a lens including a lens body and an optical filter configured to attenuate visible light in certain spectral bands. At least some of the spectral bands can include spectral features that tend to substantially increase the colorfulness, clarity, and/or vividness of a scene. In certain embodiments, eyewear incorporates an optical filter that enhances chroma within one or more spectral bands. In some embodiments, a wearer of the eyewear can perceive the increase in chroma when viewing at least certain types of scenes.

The present invention provides a functional sheet including a functional layer provided between protective layers. The functional layer is a polarizing film layer, a photochromic layer, or a combination of the polarizing film layer and the photochromic layer. At least one of the protective layers includes a layer formed of a resin (C) containing a polyester resin (A) obtained as a result of polycondensation of 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol and 1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid and an aromatic polycarbonate resin (B), the polyester resin (A) being contained at a content of 10 to 100 parts by mass and the aromatic polycarbonate resin (B) being contained at a content of 0 to 90 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass as a total of the polyester resin (A) and the aromatic polycarbonate resin (B). A lens is provided with such a functional sheet.

In general, the disclosure relates to methods and compositions for preparing colorants useful for preparing pigmented hydrogels. The disclosure further relates to pigmented hydrogels comprising the disclosed colorants. In some instances, the colorant is an alcohol extract of an agro-material, such as turmeric, paprika, spinach, and/or woad or the colorants comprise one or more of: a carotenoid, chlorophyll-a, chlorophyll-b, a curcumoid, or indigorubin. Alternatively, the colorant can be carbon black. The disclosure further relates to contact lenses comprising the disclosed pigmented hydrogels.