Contact lenses comprising designs/colorants may be utilized to enhance and/or highlight the appearance of the eyes upon which the contact lenses are positioned. These contact lenses comprise a substantially annular shaped clear layer on the front curve surface to completely encapsulate the designs/colorants within the contact lens. The annular shape provides no clear coat over the optic region thereby ensuring high optical quality.

Contact lenses that comprise a multi-layer design may be utilized to enhance and/or highlight the appearance of the eyes upon which the contact lenses are positioned while maintaining a natural look. These exemplary designs each comprise three layers; namely, a unique limbal design graphic, a unique inner effect graphic and a unique outer effect graphic. The layers may be formed utilizing any number of design elements and design principles. Pearlescent pigments may be incorporated into one or more regions of a cosmetic contact lens to add a shiny, radiant and iridescent appearance thereto. More particularly, mica based pearlescent pigments coated with an oxide, for example, titanium dioxide or iron oxide, incorporated into one or more regions of the contact lens will result in the one or more regions having a natural, wet reflective appearance. Contact lenses comprising designs/colorants/pigments may be utilized to enhance and/or highlight the appearance of the eyes upon which the contact lenses are positioned. These contact lenses comprise a substantially annular shaped clear layer on the front curve surface to completely encapsulate the designs/colorants/pigments within the contact lens. The annular shape provides no clear coat over the optic region thereby ensuring high optical quality.

A method of manufacturing a colored contact lens including the steps of providing a transparent contact lens having a pupil section and an iris section, the iris section surrounding the pupil section and applying a colorant to the surface of the contact lens. The colorant is applied to the contact lens as an amorphous pattern and covers an effective amount of the iris section of the same. The amorphous pattern provides a lens capable of changing the apparent color of the iris of a person wearing the lens while imparting a very natural appearance.

Eye enhancement contact lenses are disclosed having patterns configured to change the cosmetic appearance of the wearer's iris and limbus, made using inks containing special effect pigments in sufficient amounts to render the patterns less visible when positioned over the sclera, because of placement or normal lens movement on eye, than the same pattern free of interference pigments, thereby providing a more natural appearance. The special effect pigments comprise muscovite mica, synthetic fluorphlogopite, synthetic aluminum oxides, borosilicates, calcium aluminum borosilicates, silicon dioxide platelets, metal oxide coated muscovite mica, metal oxide coated synthetic fluorphologopite, metal oxide coated synthetic aluminum oxides, metal oxide coated borosilicates, metal coated calcium aluminum borosilicates, metal oxide coated silicon dioxide platelets and combinations thereof. In some patterns, the special effect pigments are more concentrated in the periphery which is most likely portion of the pattern move over the sclera during wear.

Eyewear dynamically adjusts viewing effects to match the wearer, the object or scene being viewed (luminance, color prominence, glare, visual blur/noise), other conditions: sensory parameters (gaze direction, focal length, eye gestures, other eye activity, other senses, wearer inputs), medical conditions, wearer location, environmental parameters, wearer activity, use by the wearer, the wearer's field of view. The eyewear can adjust visual features presented to the wearer, such as changes in refraction, polarization/shading, color, prismatic angles/functions, 3D displays. Eyewear can be tailored to form factor: glasses, contacts, RID, IOL, facemask/helmet, vehicles, windows, screens, scopes, AR/VR devices, nerve sensors, external devices. Eyewear can adjust refraction, polarization/shading, color filtering/injection, false coloring, color change; prismatic angles/functions. Eyewear can respond to wearer activity: police, military, firefighter, emergency responder, search and rescue, vehicle operation, sporting/theme-park events, viewing advertising/storefronts, conversation. Hybrid optimization of eyewear can be personalized to users.

The disclosure is related to a new soft contact lens with edge to edge photochromic material where geometry of the optical region and the peripheral region of the lens are optimized to give the best cosmetic effect on eye. The vision correction component and the mechanical component of that soft contact lens are designed independently from each other. The design of each component, vision and mechanical, is achieved by the mean of using diffractive optics.

In various embodiments, the present invention is directed to contact lenses that utilize a multilayer coating of alternating high RI materials, such as melanin or polydopamine (PDA) and other low RI materials to create tunable iridescent colors and contain melanin or similar materials that impart photoprotection due to their broadband UV-vis absorption spectrum and ability to quench radicals.

The invention is directed to a cosmetic functional contact lens having a pupil section, a generally annular iris section surrounding the pupil section for detecting at least one target analyte or physical attribute, comprising: a substrate for supporting electronic components and providing structural support for the functional contact lens; at least one sensing element disposed on the substrate for sensing the at least one target analyte or physical attribute and undergoing a physical change representing a sensed signal; an antenna disposed on the substrate for transmitting the sensed signal to an external device, the antenna being coupled to the at least one sensing element; a colored, printed, opaque, intermittent cosmetic pattern to mask the embedded electronic components.

Provided is a colored contact lens having: a lens; and a colored region formed in the lens, at least a part of the colored region is arranged at a position overlapping an iris of a wearer when the colored contact lens is worn, and the colored region has infrared transparency.

A photochromic ophthalmic lens may comprise a main body comprising an optical zone and a peripheral zone disposed adjacent the optical zone, wherein one or more of the optical zone and the peripheral zone comprises a photochromic dye, wherein the ophthalmic lens has a thickness profile that is configured based on cosmetic appearance associated with a target level of transmission (% T), and wherein at least a portion of the thickness profile is the same across two or more stock keeping units (SKU), each of the two or more SKU having a different target prescription.