Patent ID: 9033497
Filing Date: 2015-05-19
Classification: A61B,G02B,G02C

Abstract:
1. A method for customized replacement of optical elements in a direct-viewing optical device, comprising: providing two or more prefabricated corrective optical elements that include customized corrective parameters correlated with two or more users of the direct-viewing optical device, the direct-viewing optical device comprising one or more of a microscope, a telescope, binoculars, a weapon sight, a gun sight, a diagnostic tool, a manufacturing inspection device, and a hand-held device; confirming identity of a current user via a user-interface module; responsive to confirming the identity, enabling automated installation and withdrawal of at least one of the two or more prefabricated corrective optical elements as a replaceable operative component in the direct-viewing optical device to produce a specified wavefront change applicable to the current user at an exit pupil of the direct-viewing optical device; and activating an optical disablement component to cause partial or complete optical malfunction to mechanically disable usage of the direct-viewing optical device in response to one or more of the following: