Method for determining measurement parameters for a spectacle wearer

• US 5,617,155 A
• Filed: 04/27/1995
• Issued: 04/01/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Essilor International SA
• Original Assignee: Essilor International SA
• Inventors: Chansavoir, Alain, Giraud, Nicholas, Grisel, Richard, Ducarouge, Christian, Sottocasa, Helene, Haddadi, Ahmed
• Primary Examiner(s): DANG, HUNG XUAN
• Application Number:
  US08/429,971
• Time in Patent Office: 705 Days
• Field of Search: 351/204, 351/200, 351/246, 33/200, 356/124, 356/127, 364/560
• US Class Current: 351/204
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/11 for measuring interpupillary distance or diameter of pupils
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 13/005 Measuring geometric parameters required to locate ophtalmic lenses in spectacles frames apparatus for testing or instruments for examining the eyes per se A61B3/00; machines or devices and accessories for grinding the edges of lenses using spectacles as a template B24B9/144

Abstract

A method for determining measurement parameters from the image of a spectacle wearer wearing a spectacle frame is disclosed in which the position of the center of the pupil of each eye is obtained automatically by analyzing the luminance gradient in the region of the pupils and the positions of the horizontal and vertical straight lines tangential to the frame are also obtained automatically by luminance gradient analysis and extraction of the contours of the frame, enabling said parameters to be calculated accurately.

Claims

1. A method for determining measurement parameters for a spectacle wearer comprising the steps of:

generating an image of a spectacle wearer provided with a spectacle frame;

determining automatically, on said image, by luminance gradient analysis, where a plurality of horizontal and vertical straight lines tangential to said frame would be positioned;

determining automatically, on said image, by luminance gradient analysis, where the center of each pupil of the eyes of said wearer would be positioned; and

calculating the values of said measurement parameters from said positions.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the positions of the tangential horizontal and vertical straight lines are determined at an inside contour of each half-frame on said image and which further comprises extracting a contour of said frame from said image.

3. A method according to claim 1, which comprises the steps of:

supplying at least a real contour of said frame, and the angles of inclination of said frame;

calculating, as a function of said angles of inclination, a projection of said real contour on said image;

comparing said projection with the contours extracted from said image by sweeping said projection over said image and calculating therefrom, for each position of said projection, the correlation between said projection and said contours extracted from said image;

determining the positions of the horizontal and vertical straight lines tangential to said frame, using the position of said projection for which said correlation is at a maximum.

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein the step of calculating the values of said measurement parameters from said positions is achieved by comparing the relative positions of the centers of the pupils of the eyes of said spectacle wearer and the straight lines tangential to the inside contours of said frame.

5. A method according to claim 1 which further comprises defining contours of the frame using the position measurements associated with the horizontal and vertical lines which are tangential to the frame.

6. A method for determining measurement parameters for a spectacle wearer comprising the steps of:

generating an image of a spectacle wearer provided with a spectacle frame;

determining automatically, on said image, by luminance gradient analysis, where a plurality of horizontal and vertical straight lines tangential to said frame would be positioned;

determining automatically, on said image, by luminance gradient analysis, where the center of each pupil of the eyes of said wearer would be positioned;

defining four windows of predetermined size around the center of each pupil, each window containing one straight line tangential to an inside contour of each half-frame; and

calculating the values of said measurement parameters from said positions.

7. A method according to claim 6, wherein the step of determining the positions of the horizontal and vertical straight lines tangential to said frame comprises the steps, within each of said windows, of:

determining, within said window, those points on the image for which the norm of the luminance gradient is higher than a threshold value in order to obtain the inside and outside contours of said frame within said window;

determining the shape of said frame within said window, from said contours;

determining, as a function of said window, a tangent to the inside contour of said frame.

8. A method according to claim 7, wherein said threshold value is selected whereby a predetermined number of said points on the image have a value of the norm of their luminance gradient above said threshold value.

9. A method according to claim 8, which includes a step of calculating angles of inclination comprising the steps of:

supplying at least a real contour of said frame;

calculating, for the various possible values of angles of inclination, a projection of said real contour on said image;

comparing said projection with the contours extracted from said image by calculating, for said values of angles of inclination, the correlation between said projection and said contours extracted from said image;

the values of said angles of inclination being those values for which said correlation is at a maximum.

10. A method according to claim 9, which further comprises the steps of:

supplying at least a real contour of said frame, and the angles of inclination of said frame;

calculating, as a function of said angles of inclination, the projection of said real contour on said image;

comparing said projection with the contours extracted from said image by sweeping said projection over said image and calculating therefrom, for each position of said projection, the correlation between said projection and said contours extracted from said image;

determining the positions of the horizontal and vertical straight lines tangential to said frame, using the position of said projection for which said correlation is at a maximum.

11. A method according to claim 10, wherein the step of calculating the values of said measurement parameters from said positions is achieved by comparing the relative positions of the centers of the pupils of the eyes of said spectacle wearer and the straight lines tangential to the inside contours of said frame.

12. A method according to claim 6 which further comprises defining contours of the frame using the position measurements associated with the horizontal and vertical lines which are tangential to the frame.

13. A method for determining measurement parameters for a spectacle wearer comprising the steps of:

generating an image of a spectacle wearer provided with a spectacle frame;

determining automatically, on said image, by luminance gradient analysis, where a plurality of horizontal and vertical straight lines tangential to said frame would be positioned;

determining automatically, on said image, by luminance gradient analysis, where the center of each pupil of the eyes of said wearer would be positioned by;

determining a window covering the region of the pupil;

determining, within said window, those points on the image having a luminance that is higher than a threshold value; and

calculating the position of the centroid of said points; and

calculating the values of said measurement parameters from said positions.

14. A method according to claim 13, wherein the step of determining said window is done by seeking, in the region of each pupil, that point in the image for which a norm of the gradient is a maximum, and then centering a window of a predetermined size on said point.

15. A method according to claim 14, which includes a step of defining four windows of predetermined size around the position of the center of each pupil, each containing one straight line tangential to the inside contour of each half-frame.

16. A method according to claim 15, wherein the step of determining the positions of the horizontal and vertical straight lines tangential to said frame automatically comprises the steps, within each of said windows, of:

determining, within said window, those points on the image for which the norm of the luminance gradient is higher than the threshold value in order to obtain the inside and outside contours of said frame within said window;

determining the shape of said frame within said window, from said contours;

determining, as a function of said window, the tangent to the inside contour of said frame.

17. A method according to claim 16, wherein said threshold value is selected whereby a predetermined number of said points on the image have a value of the norm of their luminance gradient above said threshold value.

18. A method according to claim 17, which includes a step of calculating angles of inclination comprising the steps of:

supplying at least a real contour of said frame;

calculating, for the various possible values of angles of inclination, a projection of said real contour on said image;

comparing said projection with the contours extracted from said image by calculating, for said values of angles of inclination, the correlation between said projection and said contours extracted from said image;

the values of said angles of inclination being those values for which said correlation is at a maximum.

19. A method according to claim 18, which comprises the steps of:

supplying at least a real contour of said frame, and the angles of inclination of said frame;

calculating, as a function of said angles of inclination, the projection of said real contour on said image;

comparing said projection with the contours extracted from said image by sweeping said projection over said image and calculating therefrom, for each position of said projection, the correlation between said projection and said contours extracted from said image;

determining the positions of the horizontal and vertical straight lines tangential to said frame, using the position of said projection for which said correlation is at a maximum.

20. A method according to claim 19, wherein the step of calculating the values of said measurement parameters from said positions is achieved by comparing the relative positions of the centers of the pupils of the eyes of said spectacle wearer and the straight lines tangential to the inside contours of said frame.