Method for improving progressive lens designs and resulting arti

Optics: eye examining – vision testing and correcting – Spectacles and eyeglasses – Ophthalmic lenses or blanks

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351168, G02C 706

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ABSTRACT:
A method for optimizing the performance of an ophthalmic progressive lens having a distance viewing zone, a near viewing zone, and an intermediate zone, and the resulting optimized lens are provided. The surface of the lens to be optimized, which has at least one quantitative performance characteristic, is represented by a mathematical base function which is com=bined with a selected optimization function. The optimization function includes at least one adjustable parameter and may have at least one boundary condition imposed on it along the boundary of a selected subregion of the lens surface. A quantitative merit figure of the combination of the base and optimization functions, which is related to the at least one performance characteristic by a selected merit function, is optimized through the at least one adjustable parameter of the optimization function. Through the optimization, there is obtained an improved surface function which represents the surface of the improved progressive lens. A lens surface responsive to the improved surface function is then formed.

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