Embodiments of the invention provide patients with premium progressive lenses that are tailor-made to his or her specific and unique requirements and preferences. An interactive progressive lens optical design determining provides design technology that allows patients or eye care professionals to alter a progressive lens optical design in real-time, while continually displaying the selected lens' optical performance, until the most suitable lens has been designed. The progressive lens optical design determining software mixes and blends a number of cornerstone designs in varying ratios to achieve the desired lens.

The present disclosure relates to an apparatus (100) for customising an optical lens which comprises an observation unit (130) adapted to acquire at least one of visual activities of a user and viewing distance profiles of the visual activities, a processor (170) adapted to calculate a personal distance profile based on at least one of the acquired visual activities and the acquired viewing distance profiles, and an implementation unit (190) adapted to customise the optical lens based on at least one of the acquired visual activities and the acquired personal distance profile.

Methods for ophthalmic lens design incorporating a visual acuity profile are disclosed. The methods include applying rules and functions to visual acuity profile data and an ophthalmic prescription to generate ophthalmic lens parameters for a subject. The visual acuity profile data includes a maximum visual acuity for the subject. The visual acuity profile data may also include a focus tolerance or tolerable blur. Tolerable blur may be measured by an ophthalmic professional or extrapolated. The visual acuity profile data may also include eye physical data such as pupil diameter and eye size, accommodation, retinal photoreceptor cell packing information and neural processing information. The visual acuity profile data may also include personal biographic and/or medical information for the subject.

A technique capable of easily and highly accurately perform positioning of a lens member having a convex optical surface. A lens positioning mechanism is configured to include: a member holding unit that has a function of holding a lens member via an auxiliary tool attached to a second surface of the lens member having a first surface, which is a convex optical surface, and the second surface, which is an optical surface facing the first surface, and biasing the held lens member toward a side of the first surface; and an attitude control unit that abuts on a predetermined portion on the first surface of the lens member biased on the member holding unit to regulate a position of the predetermined portion and positions the lens member in a predetermined attitude.

A method for determining an optical design criterion for designing an optical lens adapted to a sport practice, the method including: defining an evaluation axis for evaluating sensory/motor/cognitive requirement of a sport practice, for each of a plurality of sports; attributing a score to the sport practice on each evaluation axis; determining clusters of sports in which practices have similar score; determining at least one visual need corresponding to each cluster of sports; determining, for each cluster, at least one optical design criterion as a function of the associated visual need; and storing in a memory a record for each cluster, along with each optical design criterion associated with the cluster.

A method for determining an optical system of a personalized progressive lens for a given wearer including: a) providing a mean direction of gaze determined for the wearer in a reference frame tied to the head of the wearer; b) determining a target value for at least one optical design parameter as a function of the mean direction of gaze determined in a); c) calculating the optical system of the progressive lens by an optical optimization procedure on the basis of target values, wherein the target value of each optical design parameter as a function of the mean direction of gaze determined in b) is a target value.

An image creation device includes: a storage unit in which target scene three-dimensional information related to a position, a shape and optical characteristics of a structural object present in a virtual target scene, eyeglass lens three-dimensional information related to a position, a shape and optical characteristics of an eyeglass lens and eyeball three-dimensional information related to a position, a shape and optical characteristics of an eye of a wearer viewing the target scene through the eyeglass lens used as a virtual lens; and a retina image creation unit that creates a retina image based upon the target scene three-dimensional information, the eyeglass lens three-dimensional information and the eyeball three-dimensional information, wherein: the retina image is a virtual image projected onto a retina of the eye of the wearer viewing the target scene through the eyeglass lens.

A method implemented by a computer for determining a single vision ophthalmic lens that is adapted to a wearer, the method including awearer prescription data providing step during which wearer prescription data indicative at least of the prescribed optical power of the wearer are provided, a wearing data providing step during which wearing data indicative of the wearing parameters of the single vision ophthalmic lens by the wearer are provided, a single vision ophthalmic lens determining step during which the single vision ophthalmic lens is determined so that in wearing conditions corresponding to the wearing parameters, the single vision ophthalmic lens provides to the wearer the prescribed optical power in at least a first gazing direction when gazing at a first distance and second gazing direction when gazing at a second distance, wherein the first and second distances are different and the first and second gazing directions are different.

Provided are stereoscopic eyeglasses capable of reducing visual fatigue in binocular stereoscopic display by a simple configuration. In stereoscopic eyeglasses, in order to expand a tolerance of match between vergence and accommodation enabling comfortable stereovision in eyeglasses-using stereoscopic display, wide-focus lenses ranging in focal length are incorporated so as to overlap optical filters in light transmission directions, and accordingly, visual fatigue to be caused by vergence-accommodation conflict during stereoscopic image observation is reduced.

A device for testing visual behavior of a person, including: an active display configured to display at least one visually predominant target in a plurality of positions that are variable over time and that are aligned along at least one line or column, and a unit for controlling the display. The unit is programmed so that consecutive display positions of the target follow, over time, a visual tracking protocol.