Patent ID: 7980692

Claim:
A process of selecting and/or designing ophthalmic lenses for a wearer, the process including the steps of: (a) obtaining lens usage information from the wearer, wherein the lens usage information includes: (i) a list of activities for which the wearer intends to wear the ophthalmic lenses; and (ii) for each listed activity, a lens usage factor which is indicative of a proportion of time that the wearer intends to use the ophthalmic lenses for each of the listed activities; (b) entering the lens usage information into a programmed computer; (c) the programmed computer processing the lens usage information to provide a separate weighted lifestyle score for each of one or more respective lifestyle score categories, each weighted lifestyle score being a function of a predetermined relationship between the respective lifestyle score category and at least one ophthalmic lens design feature, wherein the processing of the lens usage information to provide a weighted lifestyle score for a respective lifestyle score category includes the steps of: (i) obtaining a separate activity score for each activity in the list of activities; (ii) calculating a separate proportional score for each activity, wherein each proportional score is calculated using the product of the activity score and the respective lens usage factor; and (iii) calculating the weighted lifestyle score for the list of activities, wherein the weighted lifestyle score is calculated using the sum of the separate proportional scores; and (d) the programmed computer selecting or designing an ophthalmic lens design using one or more of the weighted lifestyle scores; wherein the selected or designed ophthalmic lens has at least one lens design feature which has been customized using one or more of the weighted lifestyle scores.