Eyewear with chroma enhancement

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11397337-B2
Application number	US-201916554290-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 28, 2019
Priority date	Apr 15, 2010
Publication date	Jul 26, 2022
Grant date	Jul 26, 2022

Abstract

Some embodiments provide a lens including a lens body and an optical filter configured to attenuate visible light in a plurality of spectral bands. Each of the plurality of spectral bands can include an absorptance peak with a spectral bandwidth, a maximum absorptance, and an integrated absorptance peak area within the spectral bandwidth. An attenuation factor obtained by dividing the integrated absorptance peak area within the spectral bandwidth by the spectral bandwidth of the absorptance peak can be greater than or equal to about 0.8 for the absorptance peak in each of the plurality of spectral bands.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An eyewear comprising an optical filter configured to provide a spectral absorptance profile to increase an average chroma value of uniform intensity light stimuli having a bandwidth of 30 nm transmitted through the optical filter at least partially within one or more filtered portions of the visible spectrum by attenuating a portion of the light transmitted by the optical filter in the one or more filtered portions of the visible spectrum, chroma value being the C* attribute of the CIE L*C*h* color space, wherein:
a first filtered portion of the one or more filtered portions of the visible spectrum comprises a spectral range of about 540 nm to about 600 nm;
the increase in the average chroma value comprises an increase compared to a neutral filter that uniformly attenuates the same average percentage of light as the optical filter, within the bandwidth of each light stimulus, and wherein the increase in the average chroma value compared to a neutral filter that uniformly attenuates the same average percentage of light as the optical filter is greater than or equal to about 0.1% within the spectral range of the first filtered portion, when outputs resulting from uniform intensity inputs having a bandwidth of 30 nm and a center wavelength within the spectral range of the first filtered portion are compared; and
a maximum absorptance of the spectral absorptance profile is from about 50% to about 80% within the first filtered portion.

2. The eyewear of claim 1 , wherein a second filtered portion of the one or more filtered portions of the visible spectrum comprises a spectral range of about 440 nm to about 510 nm, wherein the increase in the average chroma value compared to the neutral filter is from about 0.5% to about 15% within the second filtered portion.

3. The eyewear of claim 1 , wherein a second filtered portion of the one or more filtered portions of the visible spectrum comprises a spectral range of about 440 nm to about 480 nm, wherein the increase in the average chroma value compared to the neutral filter is from about 0.5% to about 15% within the second filtered portion.

4. The eyewear of claim 3 , wherein the increase in the average chroma value compared to a neutral filter that uniformly attenuates the same average percentage of light as the optical filter is from about 1% to about 5% within the second filtered portion.

5. The eyewear of claim 1 , wherein the optical filter further comprises a lens body and a functional layer disposed over the lens body.

6. The eyewear of claim 5 , wherein the functional layer comprises an anti-reflection coating layer, a polarizing layer, a photochromic layer, an interference layer, an adhesive layer, a mirror layer, a hydrophobic layer, an anti-static layer, or a scratch resistant layer.

7. An eyewear comprising an optical filter configured to increase an average chroma value of uniform intensity light stimuli having a bandwidth of 30 nm transmitted through the optical filter at least partially within one or more filtered portions of the visible spectrum by attenuating a portion of the light transmitted by the optical filter in the one or more filtered portions of the visible spectrum, chroma value being the C* attribute of the CIE L*C*h* color space, wherein:
the optical filter has an average visible light transmittance from about 25% to about 90%;
a first filtered portion of the one or more filtered portions of the visible spectrum comprises a spectral range of about 540 nm to about 600 nm; and
the increase in the average chroma value comprises an increase compared to a neutral filter that uniformly attenuates the same average percentage of light as the optical filter, within the bandwidth of each light stimulus, and wherein the increase in the average chroma value compared to a neutral filter that uniformly attenuates the same average percentage of light as the optical filter is greater than or equal to about 0.1% within the spectral range of the first filtered portion, when outputs resulting from uniform intensity inputs having a bandwidth of 30 nm and a center wavelength within the spectral range of the first filtered portion are compared.

8. The eyewear of claim 7 , wherein a spectral absorptance profile associated with the optical filter comprises an absorptance peak having a maximum absorptance located at a spectral range of about 440 nm to about 510 nm, wherein the maximum absorptance of the absorptance peak is from about 50% to about 100%.

9. The eyewear of claim 8 , wherein the absorptance peak is associated with a spectral bandwidth equal to the full width of the absorptance peak at 90% of the maximum absorptance of the absorptance peak, wherein the spectral bandwidth is less than or equal to about 38 nm.

10. The eyewear of claim 7 , wherein a second filtered portion of the one or more filtered portions of the visible spectrum comprises a spectral range of about 430 nm to about 460 nm, wherein the increase in the average chroma value compared to the neutral filter is greater than about 0.1% within the second filtered portion.

11. The eyewear of claim 7 , wherein a second filtered portion of the one or more filtered portions of the visible spectrum comprises a spectral range of about 510 nm to about 540 nm; and the increase in the average chroma value compared to the neutral filter is greater than or equal to about 0.1% within the second filtered portion.

12. The eyewear of claim 7 , wherein a spectral absorptance profile associated with the optical filter comprises an absorptance peak having a maximum absorptance located at a spectral range of about 560 nm to about 600 nm.

13. The eyewear of claim 12 , wherein the absorptance peak is associated with a spectral bandwidth equal to the full width of the absorptance peak at 90% of the maximum absorptance of the absorptance peak, wherein the spectral bandwidth is less than or equal to about 18 nm.

14. The eyewear of claim 13 , wherein an attenuation factor of the absorptance peak obtained by dividing an integrated absorptance peak area within the spectral bandwidth of the absorptance peak by the spectral bandwidth of the absorptance peak is greater than or equal to about 0.5 and less than 1.

15. The eyewear of claim 7 , wherein the optical filter comprises a lens body, a first anti-reflection coating disposed over a front side of the lens body, and a second anti-reflection coating disposed over a rear side of the lens body.

16. The eyewear of claim 7 , wherein the optical filter has a CIE chromaticity x value from about 0.30 to about 0.39.

17. The eyewear of claim 7 , wherein the optical filter has a CIE chromaticity y value from about 0.30 to about 0.39.

18. An eyewear comprising an optical filter configured to increase an average chroma value of uniform intensity light stimuli having a bandwidth of 30 nm transmitted through the optical filter at least partially within one or more filtered portions of the visible spectrum by attenuating a portion of the light transmitted by the optical filter in the one or more filtered portions of the visible spectrum, chroma value being the C* attribute of the CIE L*C*h* color space, wherein:
a first filtered portion of the one or more filtered portions of the visible spectrum comprises a spectral range of about 440 nm to about 480 nm;
a second filtered portion of the one or more filtered portions of the visible spectrum comprises a spectral range of about 540 nm to about 600 nm;
the increase in the average chroma value comprises an increase compared to a neutral filter that uniformly attenuates the same

Assignees

• Oakley Inc

Inventors

• Mccabe Brock Scott
• Saylor Ryan
• Reyes Carlos D

Classifications

• G02C7/104 Primary

  having spectral characteristics for purposes other than sun-protection · CPC title

• G02C7/102

  Photochromic filters · CPC title

• G02B5/223

  containing organic substances, e.g. dyes, inks or pigments · CPC title

• G02C7/12

  Polarisers · CPC title

• G02C7/108

  Colouring materials · CPC title