Patent ID: 8770747
Filing Date: 2014-07-08
Classification: G02C

Abstract:
1. A colored contact lens, comprising: a non-opaque pupil section, a generally annular iris section surrounding the pupil section, the iris section having a colored, printed, opaque, intermittent pattern, said pattern comprising: a) an annular pattern of a color having a first shade, wherein the annular pattern is composed of colored dots which are opaque, and the annular pattern has a substantially even outer peripheral edge and a substantially even inner peripheral edge, and the outer peripheral edge can have a diameter of from about 13.5 mm to about 12.5 mm and the inner peripheral edge can have a diameter of from about 5 mm to about 7 mm, and b) at least two other colored patterns extending across a portion of the iris section selected from a group of patterns consisting of outermost starburst pattern, outer starburst pattern and inner starburst pattern, wherein the outermost starburst pattern comprising dots of a second shade, the outer starburst pattern comprising dots of a third shade and inner starburst pattern comprising dots of a fourth shade, wherein the fourth shade is different from the third shade and either the same or different from the second shade, wherein sizes of the colored dots and/or amounts of space between the colored dots of the annular colored pattern are varied in a radially-controlled manner so that local colored dot coverage increases in a radial direction from the inner perimeter of the annular iris section to the outer perimeter of the annular iris section, wherein annular colored pattern has a size sufficient to cover the most or the whole iris of an eye to make changes to the color of the eye or enhance the color of the eye, and wherein the combination of the substantially-annular colored pattern and the other color patterns to change the apparent color of the iris of the wearer of the lens.