IOT Digital Ray-Path 2
IOT Digital Ray-Path 2 is IOT’s foundational technology for minimizing oblique aberrations in personalized and compensated free-form lenses.
Oblique aberrations, found in any lens, include astigmatic and spherical power errors. These errors create an out-of-focus image as the wearer’s gaze moves away from the optical center of the lens. Eliminating them completely is not mathematically possible. Some residual power error remains, causing a slight blur.
The relationship between eye accommodation, the accommodative object space, and compensated power has long been understood. Until now, lens calculation technology has not been sophisticated enough to create free-form digital lenses that take full advantage of this knowledge.
Accommodation is the wearer’s natural ability to focus on different distances, without moving their eyes or head, by stimulating or relaxing the lens within the eye. IOT Digital Ray-Path 2 incorporates this factor into each individual lens calculation. IOT Digital Ray-Path 2 also considers the accommodative object space, the volume defined by the points within the clear visual range, for each direction of gaze.
IOT Digital Ray-Path 2 mathematical methods take advantage of the natural ability of the visual system to compensate for a portion of the spherical component of oblique aberration.
IOT Digital Ray-Path 2 considers small power adjustments wearers can naturally make at each fixation point. Oblique aberrations are minimized, in a more effective way, offering wearers impeccable visual quality.
First, it creates a simulation of the complete system that includes the eye and considers all available information on the wearer, frame, and lens blank.
Next, it incorporates the wearer’s natural ability to accommodate including the accommodative object space, the visual range associated with each direction of gaze.
Finally, it analyzes and minimizes oblique aberrations at various distances and for each direction of gaze over the entire accommodative object space. The result: extremely clear vision and precise focus.
Lens personalization
11% of gaze directions are now optimized* taking into account the wearer´s accommodation capacity.
43% of gaze directions are now optimized* taking into account the wearer´s accommodation capacity.
99.5% of gaze directions are now optimized* taking into account the wearer´s accommodation capacity.
Theoretical study carried out on a single vision lens.
[+3.00 +1.00 × 45°], 6 D base, index 1.5.
* Blur <0.18 D.
Benefits
The design is further enhanced, when desired, by a complete set of individualization parameters that take into consideration the unique attributes of the frame and the preferences of the wearer. If no parameters are provided, IOT Digital Ray-Path 2 will utilize default values.
Lens power differs from prescribed power. The design is calculated, point by point, to ensure wearers perceive the proper power when looking through their lenses at every distance and direction of gaze, including near distances for viewing electronic devices.
IOT Digital Ray-Path 2 incorporates the intelligent use of the wearer’s accommodation into the traditional calculations for reducing oblique aberrations, resulting in a superior personalized lens. Oblique aberrations are minimized more effectively than ever before.
The perceived power distribution remains stable, regardless of the prescription or base curve. This is especially beneficial for high prescriptions and large or wrapped frames.
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