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US 12,668,034 B2Granted
Concealing non-optically transparent components of optical articles
AssigneeEssilor International
InventorsMaxime Lecompere, Mathieu Feuillade
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Abstract
The disclosure relates to a method of concealing a non-optically transparent component of an optical article. The method comprises—providing (S7) an optical article comprising: —an optical lens comprising an eyeball side facing an eye of a person when the optical article is worn by the person and an object side opposing the eyeball side, the optical lens comprising on the object side an eyewear shape section extending from an outer contour of the optical lens to an inner contour, and—a non-optically transparent component extending at least partly over the eyewear shape section, and—concealing (S8) the non-optically transparent component by covering at least part of the eyewear shape section of the optical lens using an opaque material.
Claims12
A method of concealing a non-optically transparent component of an optical article, the method comprising:
- providing an optical article comprising:
- an optical lens comprising an eyeball side facing an eye of a person when the optical article is worn by the person and an object side opposing the eyeball side, the optical lens comprising on the object side an eyewear shape section extending from an outer contour of the optical lens to an inner contour, wherein the outer contour lies at no greater than an edge of the optical lens and the eyewear shape section lies within a visible region of a surface of the optical lens, and
- a non-optically transparent component extending at least partly over the eyewear shape section, and
- concealing the non-optically transparent component by covering at least part of the eyewear shape section of the optical lens using an opaque material,
- wherein the eyewear shape section comprises a component section being the part of the eyewear shape section faced by the non-optically transparent component upon concealing, and a neighboring section neighboring the component section, and the method further comprising:
- covering at least part of the eyewear shape section of the optical lens using an opaque material comprises covering the neighboring section using said opaque material while keeping the component section uncovered by said opaque material, and wherein the opaque material has a substantially similar visual appearance as the non-optically transparent component.
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A system comprising:
- processing circuitry connected to a memory and to a communication interface with a concealing device, the processing circuitry being configured instruct the concealing device to cover at least part of an eyewear shape section of an optical lens of an optical article using an opaque material,
- wherein the optical lens includes an eyeball side facing an eye of a person when the optical article is worn by the person and an object side opposing the eyeball side, the optical lens comprising on the object side an eyewear shape section extending from an outer contour of the optical lens to an inner contour, wherein the outer contour lies at no greater than an edge of the optical lens and the eyewear shape section lies within a visible region of a surface of the optical lens, and a non-optically transparent component extends at least partly over the eyewear shape section,
- wherein the evewear shape section comprises a component section being the part of the eyewear shape section faced by the non-optically transparent component, and a neighboring section neighboring the component section,
- wherein the processing circuitry is configured to instruct the concealing device to cover the neighboring section using an opaque material while keeping the component section uncovered by said opaque material, and
- wherein the opaque material has a substantially similar visual appearance as the non-optically transparent component.
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An optical article comprising:
- an optical lens comprising an eyeball side facing an eye of a person when the optical article is worn by the person and an object side opposing the eyeball side, the optical lens comprising on the object side an eyewear shape section extending from an outer contour of the optical lens to an inner contour, wherein the outer contour lies at no greater than an edge of the optical lens and the eyewear shape section lies within a visible region of a surface of the optical lens, and
- a non-optically transparent component extending at least partly over the eyewear shape section,
- wherein at least part of the eyewear shape section of the optical lens is covered with opaque material such that the non-optically transparent component is concealed,
- wherein the eyewear shape section comprises a component section being the part of the eyewear shape section faced by the non-optically transparent component, and a neighboring section neighboring the component section,
- wherein the neighboring section is covered with an opaque material while the component section is kept uncovered by said opaque material, and
- wherein the opaque material has a substantially similar visual appearance as the non-optically transparent component, such that the non-optically transparent component is concealed.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.