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US 10,379,385 B2Granted
Head alignment eyewear devices for sports applications and methods of using the same
AssigneeEyeloc Head Gear LLC
InventorsVincent Lamorte, Mark Zander, Anthony Vos, Vito Lamorte
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Abstract
An optical viewing device, consisting of glasses, goggles, visor or other head-worn device, comprised of a vertical aperture, or apertures, designed to limit an athlete's visual field of view and increase the user's focus on the ball position. In this manner, the athlete's eye to ball alignment is enhanced, leading to reduced head movements during use. The improved performance is directly enhanced by the improved eye-ball alignment and reduced head movement during the sporting activity.
Claims16
An eyewear device comprising:
- an eyewear frame;
- a right lens and a left lens attached to the eyewear frame;
- and
- an adjustment assembly, wherein the right lens and the left lens each comprise at least one transparent region within the lens providing an optically differentiated field of view there through, wherein each lens of the right lens and the left lens are in an initial position, wherein the adjustment assembly is adapted to separately horizontally adjust each of the at least one transparent region to align with a user's eye pupils and inter-pupillary distance based on moving one or more or the right lens and the left lens from the initial position to a new position, wherein the adjustment assembly comprises a first gear with teeth coupled to the right lens via a first lens attachment component and a second gear with teeth coupled to the left lens via a second lens attachment component, wherein the first gear and the second gear can each be turned separately, by the user, to move the right lens and the left lens, respectively, individually, in a horizontal direction from the right lens to the left lens or from the left lens to the right lens, wherein turning the first gear moves the right lens from the initial position to the new position, and wherein turning the first gear does not move the left lens from the initial position.
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A method of using an eyewear device, comprising:
- positioning, by a user, the eyewear device on a face of the user such that the user is wearing the eyewear device as a pair of glasses, the eyewear device comprising:
- an eyewear frame;
- a right lens and a left lens attached to the eyewear frame;
- and
- an adjustment assembly, wherein the right lens and the left lens each comprise at least one transparent region within the lens providing an optically differentiated field of view there through, wherein each lens of the right lens and the left lens are in an initial position, wherein the adjustment assembly is adapted to separately horizontally adjust each of the at least one transparent region to align with a user's eye pupils and inter-pupillary distance based on moving one or more or the right lens and the left lens from the initial position to a new position, wherein the adjustment assembly comprises a first gear with teeth coupled to the right lens via a first lens attachment component and a second gear with teeth coupled to the left lens via a second lens attachment component, wherein the first gear and the second gear can each be turned separately, by the user, to move the right lens and the left lens, respectively, individually, in a horizontal direction from the right lens to the left lens or from the left lens to the right lens, wherein turning the first gear moves the right lens from the initial position to the new position, and wherein turning the first gear does not move the left lens from the initial position;
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- adjusting, by the user, the distance between the at least one transparent region of the right lens and the left lens to align with the inter-pupillary distance of the user;
- and
- engaging, by the user, in a sporting activity involving a ball with improved eye-to-ball alignment using the eyewear device.
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An eyewear device comprising:
- an eyewear frame;
- a right lens and a left lens attached to the eyewear frame;
- and
- an adjustment assembly, wherein the right lens and the left lens each comprise a transparent vertical slit aperture within each lens providing an optically differentiated field of view there through, wherein each lens of the right lens and the left lens are in an initial position, wherein the adjustment assembly is adapted to enable a user wearing the eyewear device to horizontally adjust each of the transparent vertical slit apertures, while wearing the device, to align with the user's eye pupils and inter-pupillary distance by moving the vertical split apertures to align to improve the user's focus on an object based on moving one or more or the right lens and the left lens from the initial position to a new position, wherein the adjustment assembly comprises at least one adjustment turning dial coupled to each lens of the right lens and the left lens to enable the user to move each lens of the right lens and the left lens, separately, horizontally, wherein horizontally comprises a horizontal direction when the eyewear device is worn by the user, from the left lens to the right lens or from the right lens to the left lens, wherein turning an adjustment dial of the at least one adjustment turning dial coupled to the right lens moves the right lens from the initial position to the new position and does not move the left lens from the initial position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.