Contact Lens-Based Display Technology for Low Vision

 描述（由申请人提供）：据估计，至少有300万美国人有视力障碍。技术不断增加视障人士的选择范围，包括头戴式设备和可穿戴技术。Innovega设计了一种基于先进隐形眼镜的高分辨率显示器：iOptik。这些隐形眼镜能够观看放置在眼睛附近的微型显示器，而不会干扰佩戴者的正常视力。这项新技术使头戴式显示器的发展成为可能，既可以透视，也可以遮挡，它们包含在标准眼镜中，但提供电子图像，可以提供极大的视野，从而提供虚拟和增强现实。在该项目中，Innovega将为低视力患者构建一个iOpti原型：这些原型将包含安装在眼镜中的高分辨率、宽视场显示器，并与安装在桥梁上方的低重量摄像头相连。Innovega将在驾驶模拟器和智能手机上对视力受损者的原型iOptik进行阅读评估。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): It is estimated that there are at least three million Americans with visual impairment. Technology continues to increase the range of options available for the visually impaired including head mounted devices and wearable technology. Innovega has designed a high-resolution spectacle-mounted display based on advanced contact lenses: the iOptik. These contact lenses enable viewing micro-displays placed near to the eye without interfering with the wearer's normal vision. This new technology enables the development of head mounted displays, both see-through and occluded, which are contained in standard eyewear yet offer electronic imagery that can provide an extremely large field of view affording virtual and augmented reality. In this project, Innovega will construct a prototype iOpti for low vision patients: these will incorporate high resolution, wide field displays mounted in spectacles, interfaced to a low weight camera mounted above the bridge. Innovega will evaluate the prototype iOptik in visually impaired individuals for reading, on a driving simulator, and usin smart-phones.