Eyeglass lens evaluation method, eyeglass lens design method, eyeglass lens manufacturing method, eyeglass lens manufacturing system, and eyeglass lens

• US 9,664,591 B2
• Filed: 08/03/2011
• Issued: 05/30/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hoya Corporation
• Original Assignee: Hoya Corporation
• Inventors: Yamakaji, Tetsuma
• Primary Examiner(s): Sugarman, Scott J
• Application Number:
  US13/197,346
• Publication Number:
  US 20120081661A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,127 Days
• Field of Search: 35115974-15977
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 11/0257 by analyzing the image formed by the object to be tested
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 2202/06 Special ophthalmologic or optometric aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 7/027 considering wearer's parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 7/061 Spectacle lenses with progressively varying focal power

Abstract

With respect to the evaluation of custom-made eyeglass lenses using a binocular visual acuity function, a measurement value including essentially at least one of or both of a positive relative convergence or a negative relative convergence of the positive relative convergence, the negative relative convergence, a positive relative accommodation, a negative relative accommodation and a vertical fusional vergence is provided as a factor.

Claims

1. An eyeglass lens manufacturing method, comprising:

selecting relative measurement values from individual measurement values related to binocular vision of a wearer of eyeglasses, including;

a positive relative convergence, a negative relative convergence, a positive relative accommodation, a negative relative accommodation and a vertical fusional vergence, using at least one of or both of the positive relative convergence and the negative relative convergence in the relative measurement values;

optimizing the binocular vision while using, as an evaluation function for calculation of the optimizing, a function obtained by adding binocular visual acuity functions including the relative measurement values as factors at respective evaluation points; and

manufacturing eyeglass lenses based on optical design values obtained by the calculation for the optimizing.

2. The eyeglass lens manufacturing method according to claim 1,

wherein the relative measurement values include at least one of or both of the positive relative accommodation and the negative relative accommodation.

3. The eyeglass lens manufacturing method according to claim 1, wherein the relative measurement values include the vertical fusional vergence.

4. The eyeglass lens manufacturing method according to claim 1, further comprising:

classifying a fusion disabled area and a fusional area as threshold values for the binocular visual acuity functions;

defining a smaller value of visual functions of left and right eyeballs, as the binocular visual acuity function in the fusion disabled area; and

defining a value obtained by subtracting a binocular visual acuity improvement value from the smaller value of the visual functions of the left and right eyeballs, as the binocular visual acuity function in the fusional area.

5. The eyeglass lens manufacturing method according to claim 4, wherein when a three-dimensional space in which a horizontal axis represents an angle of convergence, a vertical axis represents the vertical fusional vergence of motor fusion and a depth axis represents an accommodation axis is considered for the classifying the fusion disabled area and the fusional area, the classifying the fusion disabled area and the fusional area is executed by using, as criteria, an inside and an outside of a closed surface defined by using the relative measurement values as thresholds.

6. The eyeglass lens manufacturing method according to claim 5, further comprising:

defining, as a motor fusion threshold, ⅓

of the positive relative convergence or the negative relative convergence of the relative measurement values on the axis of the angle of convergence;

obtaining a convergence aberration defined as a difference between the angle of convergence at the evaluation point and a convergence angle reference value which is the angle of convergence of a fixation line passing through design reference points of the eyeglass lenses;

obtaining a plane parallel component which includes a median line of the fixation line by which the angle of convergence at the evaluation point is obtained and which is a projection to a plane perpendicular to a median plane;

defining, as a judgment criterion of motor fusion of relative convergence, a compared value between a plane parallel component value of the convergence aberration and a motor fusion threshold of the angle of convergence;

defining, as a motor fusion threshold of accommodation, ⅓

of the positive relative accommodation or the negative relative accommodation of the relative measurement values on the accommodation axis;

defining, as a judgment criterion of the motor fusion of relative accommodation, a compared value between an average dioptric error obtained at the evaluation point and the motor fusion threshold of accommodation;

defining, as a motor fusion threshold of vertical fusional vergence, ⅓

of the vertical fusional vergence of the relative measurement values on the axis of the vertical fusional vergence of motor fusion;

obtaining a plane vertical component which includes a median line of the fixation line for which the angle of convergence of the evaluation point is obtained and which is a projection to a plane parallel with the median plane;

defining, as a judgment criterion of motor fusion of vertical fusional vergence, a compared value between a value of the plane vertical component of the convergence aberration and the motor fusion threshold of vertical fusional vergence;

classifying into an inside of a motor fusional area satisfying a criterion of motor fusion when all the judgment criteria of the motor fusions of relative convergence, relative accommodation and vertical fusional vergence are satisfied simultaneously; and

classifying into a motor fusion disabled area when at least one of the judgment criteria of the motor fusions is not satisfied.

7. The eyeglass lens manufacturing method according to claim 5, further comprising:

defining, as a sensory fusion threshold of the angle of convergence, a plane parallel component perpendicular to a median plane of a Panum'"'"'s fusional area on the axis of the angle of convergence;

obtaining a convergence aberration defined as a difference between the angle of convergence of the evaluation point and a convergence angle reference value which is the angle of convergence of a fixation line passing through design reference points of the eyeglass lenses;

obtaining, for the convergence aberration, a plane parallel component which includes a median line of the fixation line for which the angle of convergence of the evaluation point is obtained and which is a projection to a plane perpendicular to a median plane;

defining, as a judgment criterion of sensory fusion of relative convergence, a compared value between a plane parallel component value of the convergence aberration and the sensory fusion threshold of the angle of convergence;

defining a focal depth as a sensory fusion threshold of accommodation, on the accommodation axis;

defining, as a judgment criterion of sensory fusion of relative accommodation, a compared value between an average dioptric error at the evaluation point and the sensory fusion threshold of accommodation;

defining, as a sensory fusion threshold of vertical fusional vergence, a plane vertical component parallel with the median plane of the Panum'"'"'s fusional area on the axis of the vertical fusional vergence of motor fusion;

obtaining, for the convergence aberration, a plane vertical component which includes the median line of the fixation line for which the angle of convergence of the evaluation point is obtained and which is a projection to a plane parallel with the median plane;

defining, as a judgment criterion of sensory fusion of vertical fusional vergence, a compared value between a value of the plane vertical component of the convergence aberration and the sensory fusion threshold of vertical fusional vergence;

classifying inot an inside of a sensory fusional area when all the judgment criteria of the sensory fusions of relative convergence, relative accommodation and vertical fusional vergence are satisfied simultaneously; and

classifying into an inside of a sensory fusion disabled area when at least one of the judgment criteria of the sensory fusions is not satisfied.

8. The eyeglass lens manufacturing method according to claim 1, wherein each of the evaluation function and the binocular visual acuity function has a following relationships defined by equations (1) and (2):

evaluation function=Σ

ⁿ_i=1[W_i×

(B_i−

min B)]² 

 

(1)

where W_i represents a weight at an i-th evaluation point of an object represented in a binocular view direction, the weight represents a coefficient which varies depending on importance of a usage condition of an area including the i-th evaluation point within the eyeglass lens, B_i is an i-th binocular visual acuity function, and minB is an arbitrary constant which is smaller than a minimum value of n pieces of binocular visual acuity functions, and

B_i=min(AVR_i, AVL_i)+C 

 

(2)

where AVR_i and AVL_i represent right and left visual functions at the i-the evaluation point, C is a value such that, if a tolerance is satisfied, then fusion is possible and a value of C becomes minB, and if the tolerances is not satisfied, the value of C becomes 0.

9. An eyeglass lens manufacturing system in which an ordering side computer having a function of executing a process for ordering eyeglass lenses and is installed on an eyeglass lens ordering side, a manufacturing side computer having a function of receiving information from the ordering side computer and executing a process necessary for receiving an order for the eyeglass lenses are connected via a network,

wherein the ordering side computer transmits information necessary for designing the eyeglass lenses including at least one of or both of a positive relative convergence and a negative relative convergence, to the manufacturing side computer;

wherein the manufacturing side computer includes;

a data input unit to which data including the information necessary for designing the eyeglass lenses value transmitted from the ordering side computer is inputted;

a binocular visual acuity function calculation unit that calculates optical performance values at a plurality of evaluation points of the eyeglass lenses based on the inputted data;

an evaluation value optimization unit that optimizes the optical performance values by using, as an evaluation function, a function obtained by adding binocular visual acuity functions including, as factors, the information necessary for designing the eyeglass lenses;

an evaluation function evaluating unit that evaluates the optical performance values by comparing the evaluation function with a predetermined threshold;

a design data correction unit that corrects design data when values of the binocular visual acuity functions do not reach a predetermined convergence condition as a result of the evaluation by the evaluation function evaluating unit;

an optical design value determination unit that determines the design data based on a result of evaluation finished for each evaluation point by the evaluation function evaluating unit;

a design data output unit that supplies final design data obtained by the optical design value determination unit; and

a lens processing device that manufactures the eyeglass lenses based on the final design data supplied by the design data output unit.

10. Eyeglass lenses manufactured by executing the steps of:

selecting relative measurement values from individual measurement values related to binocular vision of a wearer of eyeglasses, including;

a positive relative convergence, a negative relative convergence, a positive relative accommodation, a negative relative accommodation and a vertical fusional vergence, using at least one of or both of the positive relative convergence and the negative relative convergence in the relative measurement values; and

executing optimization while using an evaluation function obtained by adding binocular visual acuity functions including the relative measurement values as factors at respective evaluation points; and

manufacturing the eyeglass lenses based on optical design values obtained by calculation of the optimizing.