System and method self enabling customers to obtain refraction specifications for, and purchase of, previous or new fitted eyeglasses
First Claim
1. A system enabling a customer to obtain a sight screening as well as a fitting and optical prescription for glasses or contact lenses through digital instruments and optical equipment utilized by the customer through voice-activated response, or a technician/optician which provides a virtual refraction and try-on fitting for frames and lenses, and/or an on-line, remote eye doctor (ophthalmologist or optometrist), and information to purchase glasses or contact lenses from a convenient optical store location or at home through a PC, the system comprising:
- A) at least one customer diagnostic location to determine a screening for sight and for the optical specifications or prescription using electronic and/or wave-front, refracting ophthalmic instruments, and also to determine a correct fitting for frames and lenses through a virtual try-on, electronic, digital-imager that provides proportionate, to-scale facial, head, eye, and pupil images, and frame and lens color, style, and size choice changes, along with customer ID, data stored on CD, and ordering information to purchase eyeglasses and contact lenses;
B) a remote, on-line eye doctor, who through an interfaced, tele-health system, has means to consult, diagnose, interpret, treat, and transfer health, optical, or medical data and provide results of sight and vision screening, refractive error, and lens prescription and specifications obtained through digital imaging devices, electronic and/or wave-front auto-lensometer, so that the customer may choose and purchase eyeglasses;
or, a voice-activated, computerized response self-refracting system unassisted by technician and/or eye doctor. The system interfaces an auto-refractometer and auto-phoropter instruments to provide data to the remote eye doctor to determine specifications for new prescription eyeglasses, and is responsive to said information for providing the customer with the eye doctor'"'"'s electronic signature and specifications for purchases of prescription optical lenses.C) without an on-line eye doctor where the customer interacts directly with interfaced auto-refractometer, auto-lensometer, and auto-phoropter instruments through a voice-activated system that drives an integrated, interfaced computer based on the customer'"'"'s subjective refractive responses and also findings of objective auto-phoropter, auto-lensometer, and auto-refractometer instruments findings, in order to provide specifications for previous specifications for eyeglasses, and/or current refraction or new specifications for eyeglasses or contact lenses, and where the customer interacts with digital imaging devices, with or without an interrogator, so that the customer may choose and purchase eyeglasses and contact lenses, either from a convenient location or elsewhere on a PC.
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Abstract
A system and method for obtaining a sight screening as well as previous and current optical prescriptions (specifications) for virtual try-on and purchase of glasses and contact lenses operated by one'"'"'s self, through a voice-activated response self-refraction, or a technician/optician assisted refraction, at a convenient location or possibly several different customer diagnostic, electronic store locations where digital instruments interface and may transfer either directly back to the customer, or to a remote, interactive audio-video diagnosing and assisting, consulting eye doctor (ophthalmologist or optometrist) who interprets the digital data, diagnoses, consults, delivers health care, and authorizes the specifications, whereby the store technician/optician gathers data for purchase and electronically sends the data to a lens lab for fabrication and delivery of glasses or contact lenses to the store or directly to the customer; and, the customer can purchase selected glasses or contact lenses from any internet PC address, whereby the technician provides the customer with a CD containing customer data and digital imaging for reorders either through a PC or a selected retail location.
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4 Claims
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1. A system enabling a customer to obtain a sight screening as well as a fitting and optical prescription for glasses or contact lenses through digital instruments and optical equipment utilized by the customer through voice-activated response, or a technician/optician which provides a virtual refraction and try-on fitting for frames and lenses, and/or an on-line, remote eye doctor (ophthalmologist or optometrist), and information to purchase glasses or contact lenses from a convenient optical store location or at home through a PC, the system comprising:
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A) at least one customer diagnostic location to determine a screening for sight and for the optical specifications or prescription using electronic and/or wave-front, refracting ophthalmic instruments, and also to determine a correct fitting for frames and lenses through a virtual try-on, electronic, digital-imager that provides proportionate, to-scale facial, head, eye, and pupil images, and frame and lens color, style, and size choice changes, along with customer ID, data stored on CD, and ordering information to purchase eyeglasses and contact lenses; B) a remote, on-line eye doctor, who through an interfaced, tele-health system, has means to consult, diagnose, interpret, treat, and transfer health, optical, or medical data and provide results of sight and vision screening, refractive error, and lens prescription and specifications obtained through digital imaging devices, electronic and/or wave-front auto-lensometer, so that the customer may choose and purchase eyeglasses;
or, a voice-activated, computerized response self-refracting system unassisted by technician and/or eye doctor. The system interfaces an auto-refractometer and auto-phoropter instruments to provide data to the remote eye doctor to determine specifications for new prescription eyeglasses, and is responsive to said information for providing the customer with the eye doctor'"'"'s electronic signature and specifications for purchases of prescription optical lenses.C) without an on-line eye doctor where the customer interacts directly with interfaced auto-refractometer, auto-lensometer, and auto-phoropter instruments through a voice-activated system that drives an integrated, interfaced computer based on the customer'"'"'s subjective refractive responses and also findings of objective auto-phoropter, auto-lensometer, and auto-refractometer instruments findings, in order to provide specifications for previous specifications for eyeglasses, and/or current refraction or new specifications for eyeglasses or contact lenses, and where the customer interacts with digital imaging devices, with or without an interrogator, so that the customer may choose and purchase eyeglasses and contact lenses, either from a convenient location or elsewhere on a PC. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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