Eyewear including a camera or display
Assigneee-Vision Smart Optics, Inc.
InventorsRonald D. Blum, William Kokonaski, Dwight P. Duston
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Abstract
Eyewear is provided including a frame, and a camera connected with the frame, in which the camera is configured to be controlled by a remote controller. The camera may be configured to capture video and/or a photo. The eyewear may include data storage, and the camera may be connected to the data storage. A wrist watch may be configured to act both as a time piece and a controller of the camera. The eyewear may also include a heads up display and/or a video file player. The eyewear may also include an electro-active lens.
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Eyewear comprising:
- a frame having temples connected to a frame front;
- an electro-active lens held by the frame and comprising a first electro-active element to provide variable prismatic power in a first direction and a second electro-active element in optical series with the first electro-active element to provide variable prismatic power in a second direction different than the first direction;
- a camera, located directly on the frame front, to acquire video data and/or image data while the eyewear is worn by a wearer;
- a controller, operably coupled to the camera via an electrical connection disposed within the frame, to control acquisition of the video data and/or image data by the camera;
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- a transceiver, operably coupled to the camera and/or the controller, to transmit the video data and/or image data to a remote controller.
A method of acquiring video data and/or image data of a scene with a camera located directly on a frame front of an eyewear, the method comprising:
- acquiring video data and/or image data with the camera located directly on the frame front while the eyewear is worn by a wearer;
- transmitting the video data and/or image data to a controller operably coupled to the camera via an electrical connection between the frame front and a temple of the frame;
- providing variable prismatic power in a first direction with a first electro-active element held in place by the frame front;
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- providing variable prismatic power in a second direction different than the first direction with a second electro-active element in optical series with the first electro-active element.
Eyewear comprising:
- a frame comprising a frame front and a temple coupled to the frame front;
- a lens coupled to the frame and having a rear surface facing an eye of a wearer of the eyewear;
- a controller, operably coupled to the lens via an electrical connection between the frame front and the temple, to control display of video data and/or image data via the lens;
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- a transceiver, operably coupled to the controller, to receive data from an external device,
- wherein the lens is an electro-active lens comprising (i) a first electro-active element having linear electrodes oriented in a first direction and configured to displace an image on a retina of the eye of the wearer in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and (ii) a second electro-active element, in optical series with the first electro-active element, having linear electrodes oriented in the second direction and configured to displace the image on the retina of the eye of the wearer in the first direction.
A method of displaying video data and/or image data on a display connected to a frame of an eyewear, the eyewear comprising an electro-active lens comprising a first electro-active element in optical series with a second electro-active element, the method comprising:
- controlling display of video data and/or image data on the display via a controller operably coupled to the frame via an electrical connection between a frame front and a temple of the frame;
- displaying, in response to the controlling, the video data and/or image data on the display to a wearer of the eyewear via a path from that traverses a rear surface of a lens of the eyewear;
- displacing an image on a retina of an eye of the wearer in a first direction with the first electro-active element;
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- displacing the image on the retina of the eye of the wearer in second direction different than the first direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.