A family of spectacle lenses is provided in which each spectacle lens is configured to achieve a specified prescriptive spherical power from among a number of prescriptive spherical powers and a specified prescriptive astigmatic power from among a number of prescriptive astigmatic powers. Each spectacle lens has a specified rotationally symmetrical spectacle-lens front face, a specified atoric spectacle-lens rear face, and in at least one principal section, such a deviation in the curvature from the circular form that, for a value for the distance between the vertex of the spectacle lens rear face and the pivot point of the eye, which lies in a range between 15 and 40 mm, at any point in a spectacle lens region within a radius of 25 mm about the geometrical center of the spectacle lens, an upper limit of the total deviation of the power is not exceeded.

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 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.

A progressive spectacle lens has a front face and a rear face and a uniform substrate with a locally varying refractive index. The front face and/or the rear face of the substrate is formed as a free-form surface and carries only functional coatings, if any. The refractive index varies (a) only in a first spatial dimension and in a second spatial dimension and is constant in a third spatial dimension, a distribution of the refractive being neither point-symmetrical nor axis symmetrical, or (b) in a first spatial dimension and in a second spatial dimension and in a third spatial dimension, a distribution of the refractive index being neither point-symmetrical nor axis symmetrical, or (c) in a first spatial dimension and in a second spatial dimension and in a third spatial dimension, a distribution of the refractive index not being point-symmetrical or axis symmetrical at all.

A product includes a progressive power spectacle lens or a representation, stored on a data storage medium, of the progressive power spectacle lens. The progressive power spectacle lens has a front surface and a back surface and a spatially varying refractive index, wherein the front surface and/or the back surface is embodied as a progressive surface. The front surface is formed as a free-form surface in such a way that the maximum of the absolute value of the mean curvature of the front surface lies in the intermediate corridor and/or the back surface is formed as a free-form surface in such a way that the minimum of the absolute value of the mean curvature of the back surface lies in the intermediate corridor. Further, a computer-implemented method for planning a progressive power spectacle lens with a spatially varying refractive index and a progressive surface is disclosed.

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.

A series of spectacle lenses is disclosed, wherein each lens has a spherical front surface and an aspheric, atoric, or freeform back surface. Further, each lens of the series provides a focal power P.sub.x between 6 D and +4 D; and at least one lens of the series provides a focal power P.sub.x between at least one of (a) 0.75 D and +2.25 D and (b) 0.5 D and +2.00 D. For an upper range of focal powers, lenses having the same nominal front surface power are provided; and for a lower range of trough powers, lenses having the same minimum nominal back surface power are provided. The spherical front surface has a nominal front surface power P.sub.f and the back surface has a minimum nominal back surface power P.sub.b; wherein 15.5 D|P.sub.f|+|P.sub.b|+|P.sub.x|31.5 D applies for each spectacle lens of the series.

A convergence-reducing lens, wherein a central normal defines a z-axis, and a central region defines an x-y plane, together defining an x-y-z coordinate system, the convergence-reducing lens comprising a distance-vision region with a negative distance-vision optical power, having a distance-vision front surface with a center of distance-vision front curvature, and a distance-vision rear surface with a center of distance-vision rear curvature; and a near-vision region with an optical power within 0.5 D of the distance-vision optical power, having a near-vision front surface with a center of near-vision front curvature, and a near-vision rear surface with a center of near-vision rear curvature; wherein at least one of an x-coordinate of the center of near-vision front curvature is nasal relative to an x-coordinate of the center of distance-vision front curvature, and an x-coordinate of the center of near-vision rear curvature is temporal relative to an x-coordinate of the center of distance-vision rear curvature.

A method is implemented by a computer for modifying a non-dioptric parameter of an optical system including a first and a second surface. The method includes a modifying step during which the first surface and second surface are modified so as to obtain a modified optical system such that the dioptric function of the modified optical system is substantially the same as the dioptric function of the optical system.

A product includes a progressive power spectacle lens or a representation, stored on a data storage medium, of the progressive power spectacle lens. The progressive power spectacle lens has a front surface and a back surface and a spatially varying refractive index, wherein the front surface and/or the back surface is embodied as a progressive surface. The front surface is formed as a free-form surface in such a way that the maximum of the absolute value of the mean curvature of the front surface lies in the intermediate corridor and/or the back surface is formed as a free-form surface in such a way that the minimum of the absolute value of the mean curvature of the back surface lies in the intermediate corridor. Further, a computer-implemented method for planning a progressive power spectacle lens with a spatially varying refractive index and a progressive surface is disclosed.