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NULUX EP
With the introduction of Nulux EP Hoya has made sharp vision in all directions of sight a reality. A new evaluation parameter and new calculation methods for this unique bi-aspheric, atoric lens design that has set a new standard in unrestricted natural vision.
These two calculation factors were, however, insufficient for cylindrical correction lenses when it came to achieving an equal and exact calculation of the total field of vision in all directions of sight in areas in which the eyeball moves outside the two main axes (principal meridians), such as when looking in oblique direction. The physiological properties of the eye, the measured visual sharpness (Visual Acuity) and the movements made by the eye in all directions were left out of the equation. Put simply, the available techniques and insights made it impossible to take them into account.
The measured Visual Acuity as a basis parameter for optical accuracy in all sight directions.
The aim is to find the highest clear vision for myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism, where the focused image is on the retina (measured Visual Acuity). It requires spectacle lens corrections retaining the same vision at all directions (Calculated Visual Acuity).
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The theory of Listings Law give us more coordinates to adjust the calculation for all directions of sight. The evaluation function is used in optimising the calculations used in designing a bi-aspherical lens, in addition to the visual acuity evaluation function, derived from a visual acuity measured value of V The Calculated . Visual Acuity should be based on the coordinates of eyeball movements that rotates according to Listings Law.
Listings Law
This next step was achieved by taking into account the movements of the human eye according to Listings Law when calculating the aspherisation of the lens design. Listing studied the movement made by the eye in all directions not just horizontally and vertically but also on the tertiary axes (looking obliquely). When the line of sight moves from the primary position to another position, it is as if the eye rotates about a fixed axis, which is perpendicular to the line of sight in the two positions. As Listings plane is fixed in the X-Z plane (horizontal and vertical respectively), it is perpendicular to the Y plane (visual axes) and carries on through the rotation axes of the eye. The X-Z reference planes determine the erect head position. The head is erect when two planes are vertical.
Integrating Listings Law when designing the nextgeneration Nulux EP bi-aspheric lens. Listings plane is a frontal plane passing through the centre of rotation of the eye.
The human eyes ability to evaluate the performance of a lens in all sight directions forms the basis to define the requested optical performance and calculation parameters for designing Nulux EP.
Rotational movements of the eye in Primary, Secondary and Tertiary positions of gaze, rotating about a fixed point, the centre of rotation, according to Listings Law.
Incorrect result without (A) and correct result with (B) concideration to human eye movement for spectacle lenses, based on Listings Law.
Integrating Listings Law theory calculation provides for correct aspherisation in all directions of sight. Mapping B and illustration 3 show the results - a stable and clear vision area, which is the same in all directions of sight and according to our new definition for improving uncompromised visual field based on calculated Visual Acuity and Listings Law.
OAE = FT - FS. MOP (Mean Oblique Power) = 1/2 (FT+FS). MOE (the amount by which MOP differs from Back Vertex Power FV) = MOP - FV.
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In summary, the material used is no longer the starting point when designing a lens. Now Hoya takes the human eye and in particular the Visual Acuity and movements made by the eyeball as the key reference points in creating a lens that offers an unprecedentedly sharp image field. Nulux EP is the perfection of dynamic vision, an aspheric spectacle lens which takes the measured visual sharpness as the crucial starting point for optimal vision.
Illustration Oblique Astigmatic error and Mean Oblique error from oblique transmitted rays and oblique vertex sphere focal length Ft and Fs and Disk of least confusion (D)