An ophthalmic lens apparatus has a visual field of a plurality of horizontal meridians each having constant optical power. The optical power of the visual field continuously varies from a top portion of the lens to a bottom portion of the lens by the horizontal meridians being arranged with their midpoints along a generally vertical focal length deceleration curve across the visual field and at least some adjacent horizontal meridians having different optical powers. widths of the horizontal meridians across the lens decrease from a top end of the focal length deceleration curve toward a bottom end of the focal length deceleration curve, and the lens surface beyond the horizontal ends of the meridians provides visual comfort to a user of the lens by providing smooth gradients of defocus without sharp edges, image jumps, waviness or distortions of image.

A progressive ophthalmic lens includes at least one multifocal surface, in which at each point of its surface, an astigmatism value and a gradient of astigmatism value can be measured, the lens including: a far-vision zone with a reference point (FV), a near-vision zone with a reference point (NV), an intermediate vision zone with a progression path that connects the far vision zone and the near vision zone, a foveal projection, and a para-foveal projection, and said lens defining a lens addition. When the lens addition is different than 2.00 D, the astigmatism value is k*Add*0.41 D, where Add indicates the lens addition and k is 0.5 and, if the progression path is shorter than 15 mm, the maximum astigmatism value of the foveal projection is (−0.03*d) D/mm+0.86 D, and when the lens progression path is larger than 15 mm, the maximum astigmatism value of the foveal projection is (−0.02*d) D/mm+0.71 D.

A contact lens and a method for treating an eye with myopia is described. The contact lens includes an inner optic zone and an outer optic zone. The outer optic zone includes at least a portion with a first power, selected to correct distance vision. The inner optic zone has a relatively more positive power (an add power). In some embodiments the add power is substantially constant across the inner optic zone. In other embodiments the add power is variable across the inner optic zone. While in some embodiments the inner optic zone has a power designed to substantially eliminate lag of accommodation in the eye with myopia, in other embodiments, the add power may be higher.

The present disclosure includes optical articles comprising a film layer that has first and second film surfaces and is embossed such that the first film surface defines a plurality of concave optical elements and the second film surface defines a plurality of convex optical elements. The present optical articles can include one or more optical layers coupled to the film layer. Each of the optical layer(s) can encapsulate the concave optical elements or the convex optical elements.

A progressive addition lens design method includes adjusting a lens surface shape to bring a difference between a first state when an object at a first location in a wearer's front and on the wearer's medial plane is visually recognized and a second state when an object at a second location positioned on the first location side in the horizontal direction at a constant height in the vertical direction is visually recognized in a plane parallel to a frontal plane and includes the first location at the time the lens is worn closer to a difference between a third state when an object at the first location is visually recognized and a fourth state when an object at the second location is visually recognized at the time a reference single focal lens corresponding to the progressive addition lens is worn or at the time equivalent to a naked eye.

A progressive addition lens and the related technology, the progressive addition lens including: a near portion for viewing a near distance, a distance portion for viewing a distance farther than the near distance, and an intermediate portion between the near portion and the distance portion and having a progressive refraction function, in which the transmission astigmatism is added to the near portion and the intermediate portion of the distance portion, the near portion, and the intermediate portion, and in the near portion and the intermediate portion to which the transmission astigmatism is added, after subtracting the refractive power for astigmatism correction, the progressive addition lens further includes a portion where the amount of vertical refractive power is greater than the amount of horizontal refractive power.

An adjustable spectacle lens has a first lens element and a second lens element arranged one behind the other along an optical axis of the lens. The first and second lens element are configured to vary their combined optical properties when moved relative to each other in a direction transverse to the optical axis. The adjustable lens element is an adjustable progressive lens element. The first and second lens element are configured to vary at least one of a size and a power of the near, the distance, and the intermediate portion relative to each other, when the first lens element and the second lens element are moved relative to each other in the direction transverse to the optical axis. The first and second lens elements can be configured to conjointly provide a near, a distance and an intermediate portion that can be changed depending on the visual task.

A progressive spectacle lens includes a substrate which has a front face and a rear face and is made from a material with a regionally varying refractive index, wherein the front face and/or the rear face has/have a free-form surface geometry. The progressive spectacle lens complies with the following optical requirements: (1) a prescribed dioptric power in the distance reference point within the permissible limit deviations in accordance with EN ISO 8980-2:2004 and a prescribed dioptric power in the near reference point within the permissible limit deviations in accordance with EN ISO 8980-2:2004, (2) a monotonically steady increase in the dioptric power between the distance reference point and near reference point along a principal line of vision, and (3) a progression channel. The progressive spectacle lens has a free-form surface geometry of the front face and/or rear face.

An ophthalmic lens apparatus has a visual field of a plurality of horizontal meridians each having constant optical power. The optical power of the visual field continuously varies from a top portion of the lens to a bottom portion of the lens by the horizontal meridians being arranged with their midpoints along a generally vertical focal length deceleration curve across the visual field and at least some adjacent horizontal meridians having different optical powers. The focal length deceleration curve across the visual field is at least 20 millimeters (mm) long.

A spectacle lens has a body containing at least one diffraction structure, which is made to extend in the body on a body surface. The diffraction structure is formed by a spatial modulation of the refractive index n(x, y) dependent on the location in the body surface. The spatial modulation of the refractive index n(x, y) in the body is continuous. The continuity of the spatial modulation of the refractive index n(x, y) in the body typically exists over a contiguous area B of the body surface, for the diameter D of which, defined as the supremum of the metric distance d(x, y) between two arbitrary points x, y arranged in the area of the body surface, with

D:=sup{d(x, y): x, y ∈ B},

the following applies:

D≥1 mm, preferably D≥10 mm, particularly preferably D≥20 mm.