Eyewear that simulates bodily impairments
OwnerCurtis S. Kindschuhinventor
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Abstract
The eyewear of the invention causes a person to perceive nearby objects as being distorted such that the person cannot perform simple tasks. The eyewear comprises a goggle with an opening that spans both eyes of the person. A fresnel lens is used to produce an eyepiece that fills the goggle opening. Different distortion effects are perceived depending on the particular area of the fresnel lens from which the eyepiece is produced. The eyewear is particularly useful as an educational tool that simulates intoxication and other bodily impairments.
Claims22
Eyewear that simulates selected bodily impairments comprising:
- a. a goggle worn over a person's face comprising:
- i. a frame that defines an opening having mutually perpendicular transverse and longitudinal centerlines, the opening spanning the distance between the eyes of the person;
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- ii. an eyepiece retained in and filling the frame opening, the eyepiece having transverse and longitudinal centerlines that coincide with the frame opening transverse and longitudinal centerlines, respectively, the eyepiece being produced from a fresnel lens having a multiplicity of light refracting prisms arranged in concentric circles around a center, the eyepiece causing a person to perceive objects as being distorted when he wears the eyewear on his face;
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- b. a band that removably holds the goggle to the person's face.
Apparatus that causes a person to temporarily perceive objects as being distorted comprising:
- a. a goggle worn on the face of the person and having an opening therein with a length sufficient to span both eyes of the person, the opening defining transverse and longitudinal centerlines and having a nose cutout;
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- b. an eyepiece retained in the goggle that fills the goggle opening and has transverse and longitudinal centerlines and a nose cutout coincident with the goggle opening transverse and longitudinal centerlines and nose cutout, respectively, the eyepiece being produced from a selected area of a fresnel lens having a multiplicity of refracting prisms arranged in concentric circles about a center, the eyepiece producing visual images to the person's brain that are displaced and misshapen relative to their true locations and shapes, respectively.
A method of simulating impairment of a person comprising the steps of:
- a. providing a fresnel lens having a multiplicity of light refracting prisms arranged in concentric circles about a center;
- b. providing a goggle with an opening that spans both eyes of a person and that defines transverse and longitudinal centerlines;
- c. producing an eyepiece from a selected area of the fresnel lens that has the same shape and size as the goggle opening;
- d. retaining the eyepiece in the goggle opening;
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- e. wearing the goggle and eyepiece and thereby causing the person to perceive nearby objects as being displaced and misshapen relative to their true locations and shapes, respectively.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.