Simulation system for wearing spectacles, a simulation device for wearing spectacles and a simulation program for wearing spectacles

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9772513-B2
Application number	US-201313770218-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 19, 2013
Priority date	Feb 16, 2012
Publication date	Sep 26, 2017
Grant date	Sep 26, 2017

Abstract

A simulation system for simulating an appearance of a wearer's face wearing spectacles with accurate eye scaling includes a spherical component calculator that calculates a spherical component of a lens of the spectacles, the lens having an aspherical optical surface. The system further includes a simulation image generator that generates a simulation image of the wearer's face wearing the spectacles including accurately scaled eyes based on lens location information of the spectacles when worn and the spherical component. The system further includes a simulation image displaying unit that displays the simulation image. The lens location information includes a distance between a portion of an eye of the wearer and an eye-side surface of the lens.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A simulation system for simulating an appearance of a wearer's face wearing spectacles with accurate eye scaling, comprising:
a processor configured to:
calculate a spherical component of a lens of the spectacles, the lens having an aspherical optical surface;
calculate an aspherical component of the lens based on: origination information indicating an incident point and/or an exiting point of light passing through lens, and gradient information indicating a tilt of a ray of light when the light exits from the lens in an optical axis direction; and
generate a simulation image of the wearer's face wearing the spectacles, including eyes, based on: the spherical component, the aspherical component, and lens location information of the spectacles when worn, the lens location information including a distance in the optical axis direction between a portion of an eye of the wearer and an eye-side surface of the lens; and

a display that displays the simulation image.

2. The simulation system according to claim 1 , wherein the lens location information is obtained by measuring the distance between the portion of the eye of the wearer and the eye-side surface of the lens.

3. The simulation system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an order-receiving device comprising the processor; and
a location information measuring device measuring the lens location information transmitted to the processor.

4. A simulation system for simulating an appearance of a wearer's face wearing spectacles with accurate eye scaling, comprising:
a processor configured to:
calculate a spherical component of a lens of the spectacles caused by a spherical element constituting at least either of determined spherical power or cylinder power in the lens caused by an optical surface having a spherical shape or toric shape, the lens having an aspherical optical surface, the spherical component including: origination information that indicates an incident point and/or an exiting point of light passing through lens, and gradient information that indicates a tilt of a ray of light when the light exits from the lens in an optical axis direction;
calculate a correcting component that adds correction to the spherical component, the correcting component including an origination information correcting value and a gradient information correcting value caused by an aspherical element excluding the spherical element;
calculate an aspherical component of the lens that is a corrected origination information and a corrected gradient information, based on: the origination information, the gradient information, the origination information correcting value, and the gradient information correcting value; and
generate a simulation image of the wearer's face wearing the spectacles, including eyes, based on: the spherical component, the aspherical component, and lens location information of the spectacles when worn, the lens location information including a distance in the optical axis direction between a portion of an eye of the wearer and an eye-side surface of the lens; and

a display that displays the simulation image.

5. The simulation system according to claim 4 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
determine sample points on an optical surface of the lens;
calculate the origination information correcting value and the gradient information correcting value on the sample points by using a ray trace method;
calculate a spline interpolation coefficient by using the origination information correcting value and the gradient information correcting value on the sample points; and
calculate an origination information correcting value and a gradient information correcting value on any point by using the spline interpolation coefficient.

6. A simulation device for simulating an appearance of a wearer's face wearing spectacles with accurate eye scaling, comprising:
a processor configured to:
calculate a spherical component of a lens of the spectacles, the lens having an aspherical optical surface;
calculate an aspherical component of the lens, the aspherical component being based on: origination information indicating an incident point and/or an exiting point of light passing through lens, and gradient information indicating a tilt of a ray of light when the light exits from the lens in an optical axis direction; and
generate a simulation image of the wearer's face wearing the spectacles, including eyes, based on: the spherical component, the aspherical component, and lens location information of the spectacles when worn, the lens location information including a distance in the optical axis direction between a portion of an eye of the wearer and an eyeball-side surface of the lens; and

a display that displays the simulation image.

Assignees

• Hoya Corp

Inventors

• Qi Hua

Classifications

• G02C13/003 Primary

  Measuring during assembly or fitting of spectacles · CPC title

• G02C13/00

  Assembling (producing spectacle frames from plastics or from substances in a plastic state B29D12/02); Repairing; Cleaning (disinfection or sterilisation of contact lenses A61L12/00) · CPC title