WEARABLE DEVICES SUCH AS EYEWEAR CUSTOMIZED TO INDIVIDUAL WEARER PARAMETERS

• US 20180017815A1
• Filed: 09/26/2017
• Published: 01/18/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oakley, Inc. (EssilorLuxottica SA)
• Original Assignee: Oakley, Inc. (EssilorLuxottica SA)
• Inventors: Chumbley, Wayne, Belbey, Jason, Meunier, Benjamin John, Saylor, Ryan
• Granted Patent: US 11,042,046 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 12/02 Spectacle frames constructional form G02C
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 13/003 Measuring during assembly or fitting of spectacles
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 5/12 Nose pads; Nose-engaging surfaces of bridges or rims
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 7/027 considering wearer's parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 7/028 Special mathematical design techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/01 Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer G06F3/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/00 Computer-aided design [CAD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/20 Editing of 3D images, e.g. changing shapes or colours, aligning objects or positioning parts
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2219/2004 Aligning objects, relative positioning of parts

Abstract

Features are disclosed relating to an article such as eyewear customized to individual wearer parameters (e.g., measurements, preferences, etc.), and to systems and methods for customizing eyewear to individual wearer parameters. The system includes an input for receiving data representative of a three dimensional configuration of a portion of a wearer'"'"'s face and an input for receiving data representative of a desired position where the wearer would like an eyewear frame to reside on the wearer'"'"'s face. One system also includes a processor for determining a change in configuration of an eyewear component blank to allow the eyewear frame to reside in the desired position, and an eyewear component modifier for modifying the eyewear component blank so that the frame will reside in the desired position.

Claims

1-23. -23. (canceled)

24. A three dimensional orientationally corrected eyeglass comprising:

a frame;

at least one lens;

a left earstem;

a right earstem; and

a nonadjustable nosepiece,

wherein the nosepiece comprises bilateral asymmetry configured to complement a bilateral asymmetry of a wearer'"'"'s face, to position the eyeglass in a preselected orientation with respect to the wearer'"'"'s face.

25. A three dimensional orientationally corrected eyeglass as in claim 24, wherein at least a portion of the eyeglass conforms to a surface of a wearer model representative of a three-dimensional configuration of at least a portion of the wearer'"'"'s head.

26. A three dimensional orientationally corrected eyeglass as in claim 25,

wherein the wearer model defines a calculated straight-ahead line of sight crossing the center of a pupil and extending in an anterior-posterior direction along a horizontal plane parallel to the wearer model'"'"'s central transverse plane, and

wherein at least a portion of an eyeglass model representative of a three-dimensional configuration of the eyeglass is deflected, with respect to a default configuration, when the eyeglass model is placed in an as-worn configuration on the wearer model such that the optical centerline of the lens is substantially parallel to the calculated straight ahead line of sight.

27. A nosepiece for eyeglasses, the nosepiece having left and right dermal contact surfaces having a total dermal contact surface area, wherein at least 85% of the total dermal contact surface area conforms to the three dimensional configuration of a corresponding surface of a wearer'"'"'s nose.

28. A nosepiece as in claim 27, wherein at least 95% of the total dermal contact surface area conforms to the three dimensional configuration of the corresponding surface of the wearer'"'"'s nose.

29-35. -35. (canceled)

36. An eyeglass comprising a frame, a first lens having a first optical centerline, and a second lens having a second optical centerline, wherein the first optical centerline and the second optical centerline form an angle of at least 2 degrees when the eyeglass is in an undeflected state.

37. An eyeglass as in claim 36, wherein the first optical centerline and the second optical centerline form an angle of at least 15 degrees when the eyeglass is in an undeflected state.

38. An eyeglass as in claim 36,

wherein a wearer model corresponding to a three dimensional model of at least a portion of a wearer'"'"'s head defines a calculated straight ahead line of sight which crosses a center of a pupil and extends in an anterior posterior direction along a horizontal plane parallel to the wearer model'"'"'s central transverse plane, and

wherein the first optical centerline is substantially parallel to the calculated straight ahead line of sight when a three dimensional configuration of the eyeglass is positioned in an as-worn configuration on the wearer model.

39. An eyeglass as in claim 38, wherein the angle formed by the first optical centerline and the second optical centerline is reduced by at least 50% in the as-worn configuration as compared to the undeflected state.

40. An eyeglass as in claim 38, wherein the angle formed by the first optical centerline and the second optical centerline is reduced by at least 90% in the as-worn configuration as compared to the undeflected state.

41. An eyeglass comprising a frame and at least one lens having at least a first power and a second power,

wherein a wearer model corresponding to a three dimensional model of at least a portion of a wearer'"'"'s head defines at least a first line of sight corresponding to the first power and a second line of sight corresponding to the second power, and

wherein the at least one lens is configured such that the first line of sight is aligned with a first portion of the lens corresponding to the first power and the second line of sight is aligned with a second portion of the lens corresponding to the second power when a three dimensional configuration of the eyeglass is positioned in an as-worn orientation on the wearer model.

42. An eyeglass as in claim 41, wherein the at least one lens comprises a progressive lens power transition corridor extending between the first portion and the second portion.