A method for determining at least one optimized visual equipment to be worn by a human wearer includes: obtaining a wearer model as a virtual model of the human wearer; obtaining a model of at least one environment for which the at least one optimized visual equipment is to be determined, the at least one environment comprising tridimensional positions of objects to be viewed by the wearer model; determining at least one evaluation function related to the visual equipment, as a function of at least optical performance of the visual equipment and postural performance of the wearer model in the model of the at least one environment; optimizing the at least one evaluation function, so as to determine the at least one optimized visual equipment.

The invention relates to a method for determining an ophthalmic lens intended to be worn by an individual, said ophthalmic lens being adapted to provide to the individual a vision correction at at least one given vision gaze direction, said vision correction being based on wearer data including prescription data of the individual,

wherein the method comprises the steps of: determining a parameter pertaining to the accommodative dynamics of an eye of the individual, determining said ophthalmic lens based on said wearer data and on the parameter pertaining to the accommodative dynamics of an eye of the individual.

The invention also relates to a device for determining the parameter pertaining to the accommodative dynamics of an eye of an individual in the method according to the invention.

Disclosed is a method for optical design of a pair of ophthalmic lenses for correcting spherical and cylindrical refractive errors of the eyes of a wearer, including a step of defining the need for spherical and cylindrical correction of the wearer for various viewing distances, and a step of determining the spherical and cylindrical power of the ophthalmic lenses at viewing points with various proximities, in accordance with the correction needs of the wearer. The power of at least one of the two ophthalmic lenses is determined such as to limit the deviation obtained therebetween upon adding equivalent spherical power between the viewing points with various proximities and/or varying the cylindrical power vector between the viewing points with various proximities. Also disclosed is a pair of ophthalmic lenses designed according to such a method.

A method for determining at least one optical design parameter for a progressive ophthalmic lens intended to be fitted in a frame of a wearer, depending on the wearer's visual behaviour, includes: a) placing the wearer in a situation in which he carries out a visual task at a first working distance; b) during this task, determining at least two gaze directions of the wearer at this first working distance in a frame of reference of the wearer's head; c) determining a relative position of a surface related to the frame or to an ophthalmic lens intended to be fitted in the frame; d) determining for each gaze direction at the first working distance the intersection between this gaze direction and the surface so as to establish a map of these points of intersection on this surface; and e) deducing the sought-after optical design parameter from this map.

A multifocal ophthalmic spectacle lens (10) capable of correcting a wearer's ophthalmic vision and having a back surface (BS) and a front surface (FS), said lens comprising a light guide optical element arranged to output a supplementary image (SI) to the wearer through an exit surface (ES) of said light guide optical element, where the exit surface (ES), the back surface (BS) and an optical material located between said exit surface (ES) and said back surface (BS) form an optical device (OD) and wherein said optical device (OD) comprises an area of stabilized optical power.

A pair of progressive power lenses and related techniques thereof are provided, wherein a power distribution on a horizontal cross-section of the right eye lens has a peak at a position that is away from a main gaze line, and a power distribution on a horizontal cross-section of the left eye lens has a peak at a position that is away from a main gaze line in a direction opposite to that of the right eye lens.

Disclosed is a method for comparing first and second ophthalmic lenses, including: —a first optical function providing step, during which a first optical function of a first ophthalmic lens LI is provided, the first optical function including at least a first set of values of an optical parameter Gj, the values of the first set of values corresponding to the values of the optical parameter of the first ophthalmic lens in a set of gaze directions, —a similar second optical function providing step directed to a second ophthalmic lens L2, —a subsets determining step, during which at least a first and a second subset of gaze directions are selected, —a comparison step for each subset of gaze directions, —an assignment step, during which a subset status is assigned to each subset of gaze directions, the subset status being selected among at least three levels.

A technology concerns a spectacle lens to suppress unnecessary convergence. In the spectacle lens, when an inner horizontal direction of the spectacle lens is a direction toward the nose of a user who wears the spectacle lens, and an outer horizontal direction of the spectacle lens is a direction toward an ear of the user, a shape of a base in prism is formed in a portion in which power continuously changes and through which a main line of sight, influenced by convergence of the user of the spectacle lens, passes such that at least a part of a base out prism, which may be generated in the portion, is cancelled.

The invention relates to a lens element (1) intended to be worn by a wearer, comprising at least one prescription portion (2) having a first optical function configured to provide a dioptric correction of an eye of the wearer when the lens element (1) is worn by said wearer based on a prescription of the wearer, and a plurality of lenslets (3), each lenslet (3) of said plurality of lenslets being configured to provide at least one second optical function which differs from the first optical function,

wherein each lenslet (3) has a shape, a size and a position such that at least one portion of said lens element (1) has a modulation transfer function (MTF) whose values are configured so that the modulation transfer function of said lens element 1 over a range of spatial frequencies comprised between 1 and 5 cycles per degree are lower or equal to 0.6.

The invention relates to an ophthalmic device (1) satisfying a prescription for at least one power correction for a wearer, to a method for manufacturing it and to a use of a semi-finished hybrid ophthalmic lens.

The device comprises at least one electro-active cell (3) which comprises a rear shell (4) and a front shell (5) defining for the device a backside surface and an opposite front surface, the shells (4 and 5) being provided with transparent electrodes and delimiting a sealed cavity.

According to the invention, the rear shell (4) derives from a semi-finished hybrid ophthalmic lens comprising: a front mineral part having a first mineral face proximal to the front shell (5) and a second mineral face opposite to the first mineral face, and a rear plastic part attached to the front mineral part, the rear plastic part having a front plastic face bonded to said second mineral face and an unsurfaced rear plastic face which defines said backside surface and is configured to impart said prescription to the ophthalmic device, after surfacing said semi-finished hybrid ophthalmic lens.