Stabilized electro-active contact lens
AssigneeE-Vision, LLC
InventorsRonald D. Blum, William Kokonaski
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Abstract
An electro-active contact lens system and a method for making the electro-active contact lens system is disclosed. The system includes a contact lens, an electro-active element attached to the contact lens, a view detector attached to the contact lens and in electronic communication with the electro-active element, and a power source attached to the contact lens. In certain embodiments, the view detector may be a rangefinder which determines the distance of an object being viewed and these embodiments further include a means to stabilize the rangefinder between the opening of the eyelids when the electro-active contact lens system is worn by a wearer. The electro-active contact lens system provides electro-active vision correction of one or more focal lengths.
Claims21
An electro-active contact lens system that includes a contact lens, an electro-active element, a view detector stabilized at a predetermined orientation relative to a wearer's eye, and a power source attached to the contact lens to provide power to the electro-active element and the view detector, wherein the power source is a conformal battery.
An electro-active contact lens system that includes a contact lens, an electro-active element, a view detector stabilized at a predetermined orientation relative to a wearer's eye, and a power source attached to the contact lens to provide power to the electro-active element and the view detector, wherein the power source is adapted to convert kinetic energy from movement of a patient's eye into electric energy.
An electro-active contact lens system that includes a contact lens, an electro-active element, a view detector stabilized at a predetermined orientation relative to a wearer's eye, and at least one prism adapted to stabilize the view detector.
An electro-active contact lens that includes an electro-active element encapsulated within a rigid material, wherein the rigid material is surrounded by a hydrophilic material.
An electro-active contact lens system that includes a contact lens, an electro-active element, and a view detector stabilized at a predetermined orientation relative to a wearer's eye and further stabilized at a predetermined orientation relative to a wearer's eyelid.
An electro-active contact lens system that includes a contact lens, an electro-active element, and a view detector stabilized at a predetermined orientation relative to a wearer's eye and further stabilized at a predetermined orientation relative to a wearer's pupil.
An electro-active contact lens system that includes a contact lens, an electro-active element, and a view detector stabilized at a predetermined orientation relative to a wearer's eye and wherein the view detector comprises a radar range finder.
An electro-active contact lens system that includes a contact lens, an electro-active element, and a view detector stabilized at a predetermined orientation relative to a wearer's eye and wherein the view detector comprises a laser range finder.
An electro-active contact lens system that includes a contact lens, an electro-active element, and a view detector, wherein the view detector is stabilized at a predetermined orientation relative to a horizontal meridian of of the contact lens system.
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